Reading List Thread

Well since I last posted I've read quite a bit, stand out stuff, Valis By Philip K Dick. Bloody mind blowing stuff that is. For a while I thought I was gonna have some kind of life altering epiphany while reading it, but it never quite got that far thankfully. It also had me wondering if I was insane... But it was written a fair while ago... Maybe then, but not now-a-days. I just seen too much of the television me thinks.

And Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainence. Another eye opener. My mate read it a while ago and was always recommending it. although its not the type of thing I normally go for, it is the type of thing I will go for from now on. It had it's boring moments, but for some reason although "Boring" they were really interesting. I dunno, it got me thinking about my attitude in life and I think just reviewing how I am about things in the way Pirsig suggests has changed me a tad already.

Next Im going to read Olaf Stapeldon - Star Maker
 
william sutcliffe's 'are you experienced?'.

i did love 'bad influence' and i thought that i had been lucky in discovering a good writer by mere chance (buying a random book in an airmport). but this one is way better. laughs aplenty and very pointed insight. go read it.
 
UndoControl said:
You know what story by Philip K. Dick i liked a lot? "The man in the high castle". Pretty realistic (save one or two details) idea on how the world would be had the Axis won WW2.
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I havent actually heard of that one yet... Will check it out. I don't think in all P. K. Dicks years he wrote a bad book.

Well a acouple of weeks ago I read fear and loathing in las vegas, finished it in about one sitting, went out and bought the film (the same day), then went out and got insanely drunk and high. Was a very strange day indeed. The book didn't influence me to go wild and ruin my life for a short while btw, I was planning it before the read, and I did the read because I hoped it would discourage the idea, but it didn't. the book doesn't glamourise drug use, but it does make it seem rather hilarious. Still, was an experience I won't forget and will learn from.

Finally got on to reading Star Maker and it's very inspirational. The opening was insane, but it's going down hill so slightly now. It's just a bit boring, having him explain all these different life forms on different plannets. Seems almost chilidish when he's just going "They have a big toe for a foot, and an eye on their chest, and there skin is green, and they make love by tasting each other, and they have big trumpet noses." (well it's not quite that bad, but kind of). when it's good, it's the best prose I've read. When it's bad, I wish I could skim read faster.
 
wuthering height's one of my favourite books

NR: Dark Angel by Mika Waltari
so far I'm not liking it as much as the egyptian
 
Still reading "Don Quijote de la mancha". Amazing book. :D

I'm getting "The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy" sometime in the second half of december. I'll tell you guys what i think of it. Watched the movie twice and absolutely loved it.
 
i'm actually puzzling over what i wrote in my last post on this thread. whatever did i mean? except for the book, of course. was it the night i was totally drunk?

anyway, i'm finding it kinda hard to progress on the book itself, since i'm getting distracted by fanfiction and the fact that i just got the 8 mile DVD with tons of extra content as a present. :)
 
I just began reading "A Clockwork Orange" but school is slowing my process....and I also need a russian-english dictionary.
 
Bringer: What are you writing?

Rampage: That book is one of my favorites. :D And no, you don't need a russian-english dictionary. Please don't use one for that book. By the end of the book, there'll be at most one or two words you don't understand. And i do hope you have the complete version of the book. There's a version with a nadsat-english dictionary at the end, but that version is missing the last chapter (and, like i said, a dictionary is unnecessary).
 
@UndoControl - I do have the full version and I wasn't really planning on getting a dictionary...Thanks for the info though, about that missing chapter.
 
UndoControl said:
Bringer: What are you writing?
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I have spent the last two years designing a fantasy world full with complete history, it's own races, world map and sketches. Then I spent the same time creating a story based in this world that ties everything together and yet creates more mystery and now I am writing the novel. So it's Fantasy based. :dopey:

I have gotten a lot of feedback from writers and english teachers I know and I've gotten amazing feedback so far.

I figure the main story I am telling right now will be about 100,000 to 125,000 words long. I am just finishing chapters 5 and 6 right now (Because they link together) and it is at 30,000 words. I've spent about 5 months typing right now.

I figure I should have the book half complete by Spring.
 
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