what are you reading now?

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catalog

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Lol no, probably in thread notifications or something, but I've never used it. What s pain in the arse that must be lol
 
Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

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I'm considering re-reading Gravity's Rainbow, as it's been ages since I read it and it would certainly keep me going for a while.

version, would you be up for a 'personalized' thread where I and others could pick your brains for the substantial store of Pynchoniana you have lodged there?
 
luka

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I got halfway but then decided it was pissing me off too much. Halfway is at least 500 pages deep. It's a long book.
 
version

version

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His longest. It's why I haven't read it yet. I love him, but the thought of starting a thousand page book by anyone isn't particularly appealing.
 
version

version

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I'm really loving these Gaddis essays atm. The current one's called Old Foes With New Faces and is about the writer and religion.
 
luka

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Mr. Tea said:
I recently finished W. G. Hoskins's The Making of the English Landscape. Wonderful book - incredibly scholarly but written with a real sense of poetry too - in fact he quotes an awful lot of poetry. It ends with a heartfelt sort of paeon to how much of the landscape has been ruined, and was in the process of being ruined, when the first edition came out in the 1950s. In those days this was largely down to heavy industry and the takeover of much of rural England by the military because of the Cold War. Today most of the heavy industry is gone and the military presence greatly reduced, but the despoilation continues apace through road construction, low-density housing sprawl and commercial developments. Anyway it made me want to poke around the remains of the iron-age village at Chysauster in Cornwall and wander around Devon (which he pays particular attention to, having grown up here), trying to guess whether each ancient bank and hedge is the remains of mediaeval enclosures, the boundaries of a Saxon abbey or the estate of a wealthy Romano-British farmer. Intoxicating stuff.
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catalog

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I am still reading 'robinson' by Chris petit. I'm going slow. I don't know why, but I'm not taking so much pleasure in reading these days. I think cos I associate it with commuting, which I no longer do. But it's getting pretty juicy in the 2nd part, he's getting into some old stag films featuring A list actors. He's also got a new mate called 'cookie' who I think may be based on robin cook/Derek Raymond, but might be wrong there.

Have also read a newish comic, called 'pantheon' by Hamish someone, it's on nobrow. It's ok, it's about Egyptian origin myths and god's, and it turns out they are even more sexual and crazy than Greek and Roman ones, or at least equal. He's left all this in, so there's a few very funny bits, and the end feeling I had was that I should find out more about Set and Horus, so I guess he's done a good job.

Also started a Moorcock novel, can't remember what it's called, pretty funny and sort of swashbuckling, but with rude bits.

And I've got James Herbert's fog on the go as well, but I've not looked at it in a few days.
 
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catalog

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the one where he explains the stoned ape theory? any good? i've listened to loads of his talks but never actually read owt by him
 
version

version

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Yeah, Food of the Gods. It's alright. He makes some leaps. I just read a bit where he says that a male moon deity's hat is obviously a mushroom because it looks a bit like one...
 
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catalog

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i really like his voice, i think i prefer his weird slow nasal voice to what he actually says. and i like his leaps of the imagination but yeah, when he started talking about these weird machines that you hook yourself up to in the later talks, i stopped listening.
 
luka

luka

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I absolutely love McKenna. First time I heard his voice I couldn't bear it but now it's one of my favourite things about him. He's brilliant. Culture hero.
 
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