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Top Ten Books
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- alan brazil caligula cool reasons bro corpsey's terrible preoccupation do you want to hurt me? gamergate i am a dead white man myself monocle man nomad's sexy list numerous books about psychopathy stick to your guns john the msm acquires linebaugh's problematic list the telephone book is very good transyuggothian power secrets
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André Pieyre de Mandiargues (14 March 1909 – 13 December 1991) was a French writer born in Paris. He became an associate of the Surrealists and married the Italian painter Bona Tibertelli de Pisis (a niece of the Italian metaphysical painter Count Filippo Tibertelli de Pisis). He was a particularly close friend of the painter Leonor Fini.
André Pieyre de Mandiargues (14 March 1909 – 13 December 1991) was a French writer born in Paris. He became an associate of the Surrealists and married the Italian painter Bona Tibertelli de Pisis (a niece of the Italian metaphysical painter Count Filippo Tibertelli de Pisis). He was a particularly close friend of the painter Leonor Fini.
linebaugh
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Im generally against this practice, particularly for myself as Ive read only so much that my tastes still change every few months and I cant really trust what I used to enjoy, but Ill give it a go.
Gravities Rainbow
Crying of Lot 49
Absalom Absalom
Go Down Moses
Culture of Narcissism
Ulysses
Molloy
Anti Oedipus
Catch 22
And Ill cap it with Vollman's Imperial. Fuck it.
Gravities Rainbow
Crying of Lot 49
Absalom Absalom
Go Down Moses
Culture of Narcissism
Ulysses
Molloy
Anti Oedipus
Catch 22
And Ill cap it with Vollman's Imperial. Fuck it.
WashYourHands
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Blood Meridian
The Brothers Karamazov
Dead Souls
Anna Karenina
Ulysses
Tain Bo Cuailnge and The Mabinogion (they’re like twins from late prehistory)
Valis, A Scanner Darkly or TMITHC
The Crying of the Wind
The Dispossessed
The Futurological Congress and The Star Diaries
Tough calls. Add either Junkie, Cities of the Red Night, The Man of Jasmine or The Process from the teenage TOPY library. Ten is a narrow focus
The Brothers Karamazov
Dead Souls
Anna Karenina
Ulysses
Tain Bo Cuailnge and The Mabinogion (they’re like twins from late prehistory)
Valis, A Scanner Darkly or TMITHC
The Crying of the Wind
The Dispossessed
The Futurological Congress and The Star Diaries
Tough calls. Add either Junkie, Cities of the Red Night, The Man of Jasmine or The Process from the teenage TOPY library. Ten is a narrow focus
linebaugh
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just read him bitch
I did.
I put off reading BM for ages, even said I hated McCarthy without having read him, then, predictably, ended up really enjoying the book.
linebaugh
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guess whose mccarthy's biggest influenceI put off reading BM for ages, even said I hated McCarthy without having read him, then, predictably, ended up really enjoying the book.
Alan Brazil.
In roughly chronological impact order...
1. Sue Townsend, The secret diary of Adrian mole, aged 13 3/4
Big look for me when I was about 11, I remember being worried when I took it to the counter to buy it, in case they said I couldn't have it. Growing pains and true confessions also really good.
2. Anant Pai, Karna (comic)
I don't know exactly who drew this one, but it's the best drawings ever, very flowing style and lots of good high contrast, with deep eyes and a lot of visual storytelling. I must've read this 50 times at least.
3. Bukowski, factotum.
I love all bukowski novels, but this was always my favourite, cos he's just going places and doing all these odd jobs. It never gets boring. Seemed to me at the time I first read it, in my late teens, to be the sort of life that was cool.
4. Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting
I must've read this 5 or 6 times, I love all the different voices in it, what he does with language. Miles better than the film, its like a whole world. All the sub stories, like the 'bad blood' one, or 'granny's old junk'. Just really good storytelling.
5. Larry Clark, Tulsa.
The original classic photobook, the best set of photos he's ever made, I love the way they fit together. Loose. Great mood.
6. Happy like Murderers, Gordon Burn
This had a big impact at the time I read it, in my early 20s. Just such a strange way to write a book, by going inside their heads. I had not read writing like that and it led me to all sorts of other stuff, like 'bloody valentine' about the Cardiff story and 'the streetsweeper' about the ripper. Just this thing of taking apart murder but in an unexpected way.
7. Roberto Bolano, The third reich
Prefer this to the big novels, it's leaner and has this sense of dread going on for ages and ages, ratcheting up the tension. Lots left up to the imagination of the reader. Like a lot of the others, I consider bolano as one big thing, but if I had to pick one...
8. Orbital, Iain Sinclair.
Massive obsession for me for a few years. He's patchy as hell, and there's certain oc his books I find totally unreadable, but this is brilliant. I might reread it soon. Its got everything, sort of simple on one level, but then just the things he comes out with as he does the walk. Just a great read in every way.
9. Alan Moore, From hell.
Another one of those that broke my head open when I read it, mid 20s. That last chapter in particular. And then the notes/interviews around it. Just the scale of thinking behind it. Tried to reread it recently but got bored halfway through, plus really don't like the lettering.
10. Ulysses.
Amazing book. I still have to make a zine of all my notes of that one chapter with all the questions, when it was lockdown 1, hot summer, BLM, and it seemed to contain all of those things. Mad.
1. Sue Townsend, The secret diary of Adrian mole, aged 13 3/4
Big look for me when I was about 11, I remember being worried when I took it to the counter to buy it, in case they said I couldn't have it. Growing pains and true confessions also really good.
2. Anant Pai, Karna (comic)
I don't know exactly who drew this one, but it's the best drawings ever, very flowing style and lots of good high contrast, with deep eyes and a lot of visual storytelling. I must've read this 50 times at least.
3. Bukowski, factotum.
I love all bukowski novels, but this was always my favourite, cos he's just going places and doing all these odd jobs. It never gets boring. Seemed to me at the time I first read it, in my late teens, to be the sort of life that was cool.
4. Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting
I must've read this 5 or 6 times, I love all the different voices in it, what he does with language. Miles better than the film, its like a whole world. All the sub stories, like the 'bad blood' one, or 'granny's old junk'. Just really good storytelling.
5. Larry Clark, Tulsa.
The original classic photobook, the best set of photos he's ever made, I love the way they fit together. Loose. Great mood.
6. Happy like Murderers, Gordon Burn
This had a big impact at the time I read it, in my early 20s. Just such a strange way to write a book, by going inside their heads. I had not read writing like that and it led me to all sorts of other stuff, like 'bloody valentine' about the Cardiff story and 'the streetsweeper' about the ripper. Just this thing of taking apart murder but in an unexpected way.
7. Roberto Bolano, The third reich
Prefer this to the big novels, it's leaner and has this sense of dread going on for ages and ages, ratcheting up the tension. Lots left up to the imagination of the reader. Like a lot of the others, I consider bolano as one big thing, but if I had to pick one...
8. Orbital, Iain Sinclair.
Massive obsession for me for a few years. He's patchy as hell, and there's certain oc his books I find totally unreadable, but this is brilliant. I might reread it soon. Its got everything, sort of simple on one level, but then just the things he comes out with as he does the walk. Just a great read in every way.
9. Alan Moore, From hell.
Another one of those that broke my head open when I read it, mid 20s. That last chapter in particular. And then the notes/interviews around it. Just the scale of thinking behind it. Tried to reread it recently but got bored halfway through, plus really don't like the lettering.
10. Ulysses.
Amazing book. I still have to make a zine of all my notes of that one chapter with all the questions, when it was lockdown 1, hot summer, BLM, and it seemed to contain all of those things. Mad.
I'd like to know @william_kent 's top ten.