Urbanomic (Robin Mackay)

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No. It's not quite the same if they're ebooks. Cos it's probably a big subscription deal or package, with titles moving in and out depending on use.

I think a library's primary responsibility is to it's users.

They don't buy everything I recommend but I'm sure someone else in the area would like it and it's good to have it available.

They already had finnegans wake so no problem there.
 
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william_kent

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No. It's not quite the same if they're ebooks. Cos it's probably a big subscription deal or package, with titles moving in and out depending on use.

I think a library's primary responsibility is to it's users.

They don't buy everything I recommend but I'm sure someone else in the area would like it and it's good to have it available.

They already had finnegans wake so no problem there.

Manchester central library used to have a CD library before it turned into a youth club - they had a suggestions book and someone was continually requesting Current 93 albums - they seemed to have ignored them
 

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That Henry Watson music room there is great, I used to go in and "play" the piano doing weird little jingles as ideas for songs, everyone used to look at me like I was mad. But it's fine, that's what it's there for. And also used to read thd wire in there.

The wiley bio got nicked as soon as it was out, had it on reserve for ages.

Lovely reading room too, one of the best. Not as posh as Liverpool but more functional.

And good stacks as well, there's a penny Slinger original photo book on the top floor.
 

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Finished Fanged Noumena earlier. The stuff toward the end where he starts talking about Qabbala and Tic Xenotation went completely over my head. It wasn't just that I didn't understand what he was saying, I didn't even understand why he was saying it or what he was trying to do. It felt like it was all description and no explanation.

It's a good book though. I enjoyed it. The best bits are when he leans into poetry and fiction, like 'Meltdown' and 'Origins of the Cthulhu Club'. I liked 'Spirit and Teeth' and 'After the Law' a lot too and all the cyberpunk stuff in the middle where he starts going on about Apocalypse Now and ... Terminator and the Barker stuff about Geotrauma and Spinal Catastrophism. The bits at the start about Kant and Heidegger and the stuff about numbers at the end mostly lost me.

I'm gonna reread the intro and see if I can get a better handle on the overall picture now that I've read it.
 

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My eyes moved over this stuff, but that's about all I can say happened.

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