Books

[Chromatose]

I think I'll buy that Illuminatus! trilogy by Wilson/Shea today...

I think that's a most excellent idea, you're in for a treat!

 

[Dick Sirloin]

HEY: did you finish GR?

 

[Chromatose]

nope :Smug:

between work and school, I haven't had time to get back to that one in a while, or any books

 

[Dick Sirloin]

Sucks. I hear RAW is pretty similar to Pynchon in some ways.

 

[Mormagil]

Joseph Heller - Something Happened

such an awkward book, i love it. probably because it reads the way i think to myself

 

[MajestikMøøse]

Just finished reading Pride and Prejudice for my English class.

This book sucks.

 

[Dick Sirloin]

Um-heh, um-heh!


Read the first 100 pgs of the Illuminatus! trilogy last night. Bad writing, cool story, strangely addicting.

 

[lizard]

been reading Adrian McKinty's 2nd novel...about a junkie ex Irish cop. good writer.

 

[Krilons Resa]

Im finishing up Virtues of War then onto something...after I quit coughing up blood and am free of pain.

 

[Chromatose]

Um-heh, um-heh!


Read the first 100 pgs of the Illuminatus! trilogy last night. Bad writing, cool story, strangely addicting.

I find R.A. Wilson very addicting, even though the writing in his books is not top notch. He covers such a huge range of thought provoking topics in bizarre ways, all of which I find absolutely fascinating.

I have this collection of interviews with RAW and some lectures, a 5 cd set called "Robert Anton Wilson Explains Everything." I can listen to it endlessly. Because of this I haven't read anything of his in the past few years, and just listen to parts of this whenever I need my RAW fix.

 

[Dick Sirloin]

How is Prometheus Rising? That one's always interested me...
RAW is also one of the world's biggest proponents of Finnegans Wake.

 

[J.]

i started the harry potter's. s'alright. at least i dont hate 'em.

 

[Conspicuously Absent]

I love it when a book pulls such a twist as to kill off 90% of your favourite characters (the good guys)

 

[cthulufhtagn]

Oh what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,
Alone and palely loitering?
The sedge has withered from the lake,
And no birds sing.

Oh what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,
So haggard and so woe-begone?
The squirrel's granary is full,
And the harvest's done.

I see a lily on thy brow,
With anguish moist and fever-dew,
And on thy cheeks a fading rose
Fast withereth too.

I met a lady in the meads,
Full beautiful - a faery's child,
Her hair was long, her foot was light,
And her eyes were wild.

I made a garland for her head,
And bracelets too, and fragrant zone;
She looked at me as she did love,
And made sweet moan.

I set her on my pacing steed,
And nothing else saw all day long,
For sidelong would she bend, and sing
A faery's song.

She found me roots of relish sweet,
And honey wild, and manna-dew,
And sure in language strange she said -
'I love thee true'.

She took me to her elfin grot,
And there she wept and sighed full sore,
And there I shut her wild wild eyes
With kisses four.

And there she lulled me asleep
And there I dreamed - Ah! woe betide! -
The latest dream I ever dreamt
On the cold hill side.

I saw pale kings and princes too,
Pale warriors, death-pale were they all;
They cried - 'La Belle Dame sans Merci
Hath thee in thrall!'

I saw their starved lips in the gloam,
With horrid warning gaped wide,
And I awoke and found me here,
On the cold hill's side.

And this is why I sojourn here
Alone and palely loitering,
Though the sedge is withered from the lake,
And no birds sing.


teh w00t

 

[NAD]

I started reading Bukowksi - Tales of Ordinary Madness the other night.

I'm glad I bought some whiskey last week, gonna need it.

 

[Dick Sirloin]

Oh what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,
Alone and palely loitering?
The sedge has withered from the lake,
And no birds sing.

Oh what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,
So haggard and so woe-begone?
The squirrel's granary is full,
And the harvest's done.

I see a lily on thy brow,
With anguish moist and fever-dew,
And on thy cheeks a fading rose
Fast withereth too.

I met a lady in the meads,
Full beautiful - a faery's child,
Her hair was long, her foot was light,
And her eyes were wild.

I made a garland for her head,
And bracelets too, and fragrant zone;
She looked at me as she did love,
And made sweet moan.

I set her on my pacing steed,
And nothing else saw all day long,
For sidelong would she bend, and sing
A faery's song.

She found me roots of relish sweet,
And honey wild, and manna-dew,
And sure in language strange she said -
'I love thee true'.

She took me to her elfin grot,
And there she wept and sighed full sore,
And there I shut her wild wild eyes
With kisses four.

And there she lulled me asleep
And there I dreamed - Ah! woe betide! -
The latest dream I ever dreamt
On the cold hill side.

I saw pale kings and princes too,
Pale warriors, death-pale were they all;
They cried - 'La Belle Dame sans Merci
Hath thee in thrall!'

I saw their starved lips in the gloam,
With horrid warning gaped wide,
And I awoke and found me here,
On the cold hill's side.

And this is why I sojourn here
Alone and palely loitering,
Though the sedge is withered from the lake,
And no birds sing.


teh w00t

Keats is so metal
I love "The Eve of St. Agnes" as well.

 

[Krilons Resa]

I started reading Bukowksi - Tales of Ordinary Madness the other night.

I'm glad I bought some whiskey last week, gonna need it.

Ive seen you posting this more than once. What's your reasoning behind drinking a glass of scoth while reading? Is it just because you like it? lol or do you find yourself immersed more easily, etc etc??? I am pretty interested to hear your reply.

 

[cthulufhtagn]

Keats is so metal
I love "The Eve of St. Agnes" as well.

i'll check it out, i'm not usually one for the classics but i've always loved "la belle dame"


edit: about halfway through julio cortazar's "hopscotch"


wow this book is fucking dense, i don't even know what to make of it

 

[Conspicuously Absent]

Gonna go pick up Feast for Crows or w/e it's called this weekend, almost done A Storm of Swords.

 

[NAD]

Ive seen you posting this more than once. What's your reasoning behind drinking a glass of scoth while reading? Is it just because you like it? lol or do you find yourself immersed more easily, etc etc??? I am pretty interested to hear your reply.

When I'm reading hard drinking authors such as Kerouac or Bukowski it just feels like the right thing to do, and it's only a dram or two so as I'm not fucked up and unable to read or remember. Although once or twice I've read Harry Potter while consuming whiskey as well, that was just boredom / excitement to drink whoopsie.

Or when I'm reading something mindmelting like Rushdie sometimes I have one just to cope, haha.