The Books thread.

[Dogmeatlives]

Ok bitches, I need some help... I just finished Snow Crash and while I really enjoyed it, what the hell happened to Hero? Can someone explain what became of him because the last I heard of him (audiobook) he was fighting Raven in the metaverse before Raven set that bomb off.. was the bomb a fake or something? I didn't understand that part.

[johnnygothisgun]

mechanurgist, get your whacky ass a copy of quintus' 'posthomerica', its dope to ten extremes

[Dogmeatlives]

Alright suckas, I'm looking for some really crazy, depressing, wastelandish, deathfilled Postapocalyptic book. I really liked The Road and I don't want some thought provoking shit. Just hopeless wasteland wandering stuff.. please help. I am craving it since I finished The Road.

[Nicolai]

How about Blood Meridian by the same author? It's not post-apoc, but I'm certain you'll find it to be to your liking.

[Dogmeatlives]

Thanks Nicolai, I'll check it out. any post apocalyptic stuff you can think of?

[Nicolai]

Recent reads:

- House of Leaves
- Gravity's Rainbow

^^^Two of the most insanely psychadelic novels I've ever read. And I'm not speaking of that hippy nonsense.

Better check out David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest if you liked Gravity's Rainbow. It's a pretty orgasmic novel about tennis, drug addiction and wheelchair-bound Quebec separatists hellbent on getting their grubby little hands on the master copy of a piece of entertainment so entertaining you'll find that you're unable to stop watching it if you start doing so. And if you liked House of Leaves you'll probably enjoy his use of endnotes to break up the linear narrative flow. Thoroughly entertaining piece of fiction. The utter brill, as Subhuman would have said had he still been among us..

[Nicolai]

Thanks Nicolai, I'll check it out. any post apocalyptic stuff you can think of?

Well, there's always I Am Legend (Richard Matheson), A Canticle for Leibowitz, and Damnation Alley (Roger Zelazny), I guess. You can find some more stuff here, but most of it is probably crap.

[Dogmeatlives]

I Am Legend was good although I didn't really care for the end. I heard Damnation Alley was really good but I can't find it on audiobook..

[Frater Perdurabo]

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[Mandalorian FaLLouT GoD]

Thanks Nicolai, I'll check it out. any post apocalyptic stuff you can think of?

Well, there's always I Am Legend (Richard Matheson), A Canticle for Leibowitz, and Damnation Alley (Roger Zelazny), I guess. You can find some more stuff here, but most of it is probably crap.

Always loved Damnation Alley.

Is gravity's rainbow any good?
I've been hearing random bullshit from the upper class on its legitimacy and that gives me a reason to avoid it.

[Redeye]

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Is gravity's rainbow any good?
I've been hearing random bullshit from the upper class on its legitimacy and that gives me a reason to avoid it.

Gravity's Rainbow is really LONG.

Kind of amusing to see the West discovering the joys of cruise-missile fear.

Plus endless plodding psychedelia.

And so on...

[Nicolai]

Is gravity's rainbow any good?

Gravity's Rainbow is the real deal, one of my all-time favorites. People always go on about how it's horribly dense and, ehue, nigh impenetrable, but you'll be fine if you just ignore the lowbrow fools and keep on trucking. Immensely readable and quite spectacularly well-written.

[fallout ranger]

I heard Damnation Alley was really good but I can't find it on audiobook..

It is.

[Mechanurgist]

mechanurgist, get your whacky ass a copy of quintus' 'posthomerica', its dope to ten extremes

Thanks, but I've already got a stack of 30 books to read. I'll just add it to the bottom...<plop>...like so...and...<crash> agh! the stack fell and crushed my spine...

...but I can still read here on the ground...

[4too]

Gravity's Memory


Of the Thomas Pynchon I can recall reading, V, Crying Of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow,
Gravity's Rainbow *has* [ -- interesting how my mind chooses that tense(*)-- ]
Gravity's Rainbow has the story threads most readily remembered.

[(*) tend to place the FO's in an immediate tense also, not so much -the 'unfinished' - as, -the 'living'- . ]

Perhaps the Rocket-mensch saga had just enough synchronous ... , harmonic resonances,
tuned to the time I was reading 'Rainbow,
flippantly say, nuanced synchronicity,
to the bit role in late '70's street life I discovered that I was playing.
The aging, fading youth; restless, rootless tack i was plying.

Hero cast as walk on, spear carrier adrift in history's opera.

Rocket-mensch: displaced and adrift, then encapsulated by Wagnerian cast away-s,
taking care of business in, Post - Gotterdammerung Germany.
Identifying with the mensch's last seen photo is worth the far arching angst of the trajectory.

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Crying Of Lot 49, ... , wondered, could have been a 'contender' for a screen play.
The rock band would use CGI images of the '60's Beatles with American accents and hilarious inept, British affectations.
The palette would be that past era's Technicolor, better to blend in the CGI cameo characters, with ...
with the drive, panache, and pleasing paranoia of the 1967 film, "The President's Analyst".

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4too

[fallout ranger]

The berzerker series by Saberhagen.

[Redeye]

Never got around to reading these.

Might be good for the "so bad it's good" value.


Gor wiki lol

The world of Gor

lawl

[Tingel Tangel]

I just recently finished reading A Dirty Job by Cristopher Moore - I picked it up in the States without knowing what it was about, really. Turns out it was pretty darn entertaining and even had me chuckling at every second page, which is rare for a book. If you're ever looking for some light entertainment, I'd recommend it.

[Dreadnought]

The Necronomicon.

One can simply not get enough of it...