Books - What are you reading?

I"m catching up of fuff by Jeffery lewis. It's fantastic.

Love his music never really read any of his stuff (apart on the album sleeves).

I've just begun

looks interesting, though lengthy.

^^^^^^^^

Suttree by Cormac Mccarthy, really enjoy his writing although i usually need a dictionary handy. So far Suttree seems alot mellower than his other novels, though still brimming with melancholy.

Baudrillard wrote this (as far as I recall it goes like this anyway) –

When the snow falls with that supernatural slowness that it has, it seems like the reasons for dying are more subtle than the reasons for living; though these latter are, perhaps, more numerous.

Fucking brillyunt.

forget all those noncy studenty books

Just started Anarchism: From Theory To Practice by Daniel Guerin.

Just started Anarchism: From Theory To Practice by Daniel Guerin.

http://www.geocities.com/nestor_mcnab/guerin/contents.html

^Yup, that's the one

just started this

Reading Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut right now and liking it a lot.

Who wants to recommend 3 - 4 other Vonnegut novels to include in my next amazon order?

It seems I won two different copies of Frank Herbert's The Dune. So I guess I have to start with one or the other. Before that I am to finish the last book in Moorcock's Stormbringer saga.

Other than that, still deep in H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith and their ilk. (I like to keep myself surrounded with pulp.)

I've just begun

looks interesting, though lengthy.

Hobo how you getting on with that? i'm most of the way through, though not finding much time to read. fucking loving it

Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius by Borges. Fucking awesome, totally insane.

Also, "i'd rather you lied" by Billy Childish, it's a wonderful selections of poems.

Has anyone read any of Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen series? I'm a bit of a fantasy nerd underneath my hipster facade.

Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius by Borges. Fucking awesome, totally insane.

Also, "i'd rather you lied" by Billy Childish, it's a wonderful selections of poems.

Has anyone read any of Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen series? I'm a bit of a pretentious twat underneath my dull facade.

Wahey!

[

](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tl%C3%B6n,_Uqbar,_Orbis_Tertius)[Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tl%C3%B6n,_Uqbar,_Orbis_Tertius) by Borges. Fucking awesome, totally insane.

Fantastic text indeed...

McCarthy's Bar
Good enjoyable read to make me feel somewhat Irish again.

Yay.

McCarthy's Bar
Good enjoyable read to make me feel somewhat Irish again.

Yay.

ha! have that in my bog right now.
at the pilgramage bit myself now- its no round ireland with a fridge though...

ha! have that in my bog right now.
at the pilgramage bit myself now- its no round ireland with a fridge though...

It seems to have gotten me back into reading, think its a good book to pick up again.

I actually knew someone was going to mention Round Ireland with a fridge, didnt know it was going to be so soon.
I lost it in a field.

This...

And this...

I need to read some fiction, can't remember the last proper book I sat down and read... :/

McCarthy's Bar
Good enjoyable read to make me feel somewhat Irish again.

Yay.

I bet they play really awful music in that bar.

Shut up, Ollie... The Carpenters rule...

Oh, i assumed he was talking about The Coors, or U2.

I didn't want to disagree

Some great stuff being read,
If you like Borges try his "Book of Sand" and you might like Jose Saramargo, Borges really turned me onto Calvino and I've yet to read a dud, although "If on a winter's night..." had to be picked through carefully.
Starfish - for Vonnegut I would point you at "TimeQuake" and "Breakfast of Champions". Top man full of brilliant quotes. "Cats Cradle" too.
Finished recently new Pynchon, was good fun but "Gravity's Rainbow" and "Crying of Lot 49" remain my favourites there.
Liking the look of that Structures book LPG, got some Hobsbawm on the go in the non-fiction at present which is a departure for me, but very interesting.
Ah.. that Muller Brockman looks beautiful Teenslain, I'm a sucker for the grid.
Got this lovely from Austrian gallery over summer:

Love books, shame it doesn't work on the bike to well.

I'm just finishing Night Train to Lisbon, which is one of the best books I've ever read, and I've just started Nausea, which I'm really enjoying. I wish I'd read it when I was a miserable teenager.

I'm just finishing Night Train to Lisbon, which is one of the best books I've ever read, and I've just started Nausea, which I'm really enjoying. I wish I'd read it when I was a miserable teenager.

Glad you enjoying Sartre, check out his trilogy starting with "Age of Reason" these are probably the best examples of his philosophy in novel. As for teenage misery be careful could have just tipped you over the edge!

I bet they play really awful music in that bar.

Oh, i assumed he was talking about The Coors, or U2.

I didn't want to disagree

On the final McCarthy note of the evening- I was at a friends house party the other day, and got chatting to this irish fella, and wouldn't you know it- he was only called Mick McCarthy as well.
our Mick and this Mick and the book made for a very odd weekend.