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The Great and Secret Show - Clive Barker
5/10
Too long. Not many interesting characters. Guy sure thinks of some weird shit though. Shit/semen snakes ++

You assholes wouldn't tell me about Mr Dick so I had to get a 4-novel set you xasthur fans

Bret Easton Ellis - The Rules of Attraction 9/10

holy shit I'm in love.

Children of Men - PD James - 6.2

Blegh... That was pretty boring. This book is 150 pages of walking/driving around and talking about how the empty houses look run down, 50 pages of insanely boring flashbacks, 50 pages of Theo whining, 50 pages of annoying rambling about Theo's feelings, and then like 65 pages of story... most of which is pretty boring anyway.

Most of it is just painfully dull.

Now, if I actually compare it to the movie, it's probably closer to a 5. Movie rules. Book is boring, and every character is hateful.

The Cat Who Walks Through Walls - Heinlein - 3
I did NOT like this at all. It's the first 2/3 or so is like a really crappy, unfunny, uninteresting Hitchhiker's Guide. The last part turns it into a retarded action version of Schrodinger's Cat mixed with Doctor Who or some shit, and it's just fucking awful. His dialogue is tiring and stupid in this book. I got really REALLY sick of the sex. Everybody fucks everybody 203582058 times in this book, and every single time there's some monstrously unfunny little "witty" quip as they're about to start or when they finish. Constantly. I don't care about how well thirty people from other universes kiss. All of this stuff was fine in Stranger in a Strange Land (a solid 9 from me at least, I loved it), but there's, you know, a REASON for it in that one.

Has anybody else read this nonsense? At the end, I couldn't even figure out who was who, because they introduced like 20 characters into a book that had like eight up to that point. Fuck, man. This is only my second Heinlein book. The next one had better be fucking amazing.

Why do ALL of the characters talk the same? Fuckkk. Why do the first two books of this think not matter to the story AT ALL, except to introduce the main characters? It wasn't cute. It wasn't clever. It was mostly boring and sometimes horrible. I only finished it because it was a really fast, easy read.

7/10

Fascinating overview of a scene/subculture that irritates me, entertains me and makes me think.

Stephen Fry's The Liar - 7

Anthem by Ayn Rand

8/10 Awesome book but short.

Could very well be the best music related book I've read all year. The day I bought it I stayed up all night reading it and have re-read it a couple of times since just to absorb it more thoroughly. Really makes me miss the late 80's/early 90's even more. 10/10

A Scanner Darkly - 10/10
Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said - 10/10

Arthur Machen - The Great God Pan 6.5/10

Passed the time, but he was no Lovecraft or Poe.

StateScatologist wrote:Arthur Machen - The Great God Pan 6.5/10

Passed the time, but he was no Lovecraft or Poe.

I dug The White People.

Scores for Metamorphosis and Heart of Darkness are coming soon.

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danox3 wrote:The Necronomicon - Donald Tyson -15/10

Must read. I'm basically re-reading it in his Novel "Alhazred", which is a novelization of the Necronomicon. And this isn't the stupid Sumerian paperback you can find in every teenage devil worshipers backpack. Tyson has adapted all of Lovecraft's creations into a sort of "Necromancer's guide to Ancient Middle East".

I must check this out.

I want to check this out, as well. Donald Tyson is the guy that made the Necronomicon tarot deck, which is pretty cool... I think he's the guy that wrote the article about HPL in the Disinfo Book of Lies, but I'm not sure.

Yeah, most of his books are "Practical Magic" crap, he even did a Necronomicon Grimoire, which is pretty silly in my eyes, but whatever.

The Tarot deck is cool as well, if you into that sort of stuff.

Erm... the "search inside" is revealing this book to be rather homosexual: http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0738706 ... eader-link

Maybe your just seeing what you want to see.


Just started The Arabian Nights. Ancient Persians seem to be obsessed with their wives cheating on them.

We started a book group at work where people vote on what we will read next, so I'm not completely in control of my reading choices...which is frustrating but cool since I'm getting exposed to stuff I might not have read otherwise like:

An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England by Brock Clarke 6/10
I give the author credit for taking chances but I don't think all of them worked. There were flashes of decently pitched absurd humor...but not enough.

Reign in Blood by D.X Ferris 9/10 I snuck this in over the weekend. Extremely easy read full of decent details on the recording of RIB. One of the best entries in the 33 and 1/3 series I've yet read.

Just started as our November book: Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Manowarscockonyou wrote:Anthem by Ayn Rand

8/10 Awesome book but short.

Dude, thats not cool...

father of lies wrote:This is only my second Heinlein book. The next one had better be fucking amazing.

Don't read Starship Troopers, then.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K Dick
8.5/10
Way better than I expected. Reading the Thin Man now, Scanner Darkly after that.

Metamorphosis - Kafka - 10

Yep.

This is turning into "the last PKD book you read" thread but I ain't mad atcha

Voices from the Street - 8/10

It was really good, parts of it were engrossing to the point of stupid facial expressions in reaction. Not what I generally look for in Dick's work but I do not regret my choice to read it.

Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
7/10

Fuck, what a bummer of a book. I read it not knowing anything about it, just that it was considered a classic. There were just too many similarities between Holden's thinking and mine for me to not be uncomfortable while reading it. I didn't realize I was that negative until I saw it in print and realized how stupid it sounds. The part where his sister accused Holden of hating everything, then challenged him to name one thing he TRULY enjoyed and he wasn't able to come up with an answer floored me. Fuck.

I think I just read this book at the wrong time in my life. Had I read it as a teenager I would have been all "Fuck yeah, people suck!". Reading it as a 32 year old I thought, "Fuck - do I really sound like that?!". I've been bummed all week while reading it. I'm glad I'm done with it now. Maybe I can start smiling again soon?

Heart of Darkness - Conrad - 10


Burtal. I think I'm going to suicide now.

Slaughterhouse Five audiobook - Vonnegut, as read by... Christian Slater? - 9.5

His voice got really irritating, but the book is pretty rad...

father of lies wrote:
Slaughterhouse Five, ...but the book is pretty rad...

The fucking raddest...

Fuck. Do audiobooks count? I get to have headphones at work, so I'm getting lots of book time in.

Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian - 9

Holy fucking squirting baby brains.

Arthur C. Clarke - 2001: A Space Oddysey - ...Fuck. A THOUSAND.

Jesus. There was definitely a point where the imagery was so nutty, I got a little misty eyed, thinking that I'll never get to go into space.

Admiral Dickfart, if you like Rules of Attraction, go ahead and read The Informers because that's being made into a film and you want to read it first before the movie comes out.

Into the Flesh- clive barker. 10/10 Into the Flesh is just probably the best horror I've ever read hands down in the form of a succinct novella. So imaginative and twisted.

The Forbidden is the novella that is the basis for the Candyman movie. Very fun to read and surprisingly different from the movie. In the book, there's no black people. The candyman is not a black man who was an ex slave. Rather, they leave him mysterious and describe him as having skin like waxy yellow and blue lips, and smelling like cotton candy. It makes you realize how with writing, you can omit details and the imagination fills them in where in the film, you might not be able to get away with it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky - Demons

mithrandir wrote:Fyodor Dostoevsky - Demons

That's also translated as The Possessed, right? What did you think of it? Crime and Punishment(just call me newb) is one of my favourite books and while I wasn't as amazed by Notes from the Underground it raised some interesting ideas. I have a copy of The Possessed but it is a really old shitty translation, and I find Dostoevsky suffers more than a lot of authors from poor, outdated translation.

The Thin Man: 7/10
Wanted to like this more, it was just fluff and the solution to the mystery was unsatisfying. But the man can write, no question, and it was stylish as fuck. Interested to read the Maltese Falcon, I guess it is supposed to be less light-hearted.

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I read it once every couple years. As cliche as it sounds, it's probably my favorite book.

Emailed to the FBI

I am currently reading James A Michener's Space, which I picked up on the discard rack at the library. . I'm about 120 pages in. So far, so good...only about 500 pages to go!

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mithrandir wrote:Fyodor Dostoevsky - Demons

That's also translated as The Possessed, right? What did you think of it? Crime and Punishment(just call me newb) is one of my favourite books and while I wasn't as amazed by Notes from the Underground it raised some interesting ideas. I have a copy of The Possessed but it is a really old shitty translation, and I find Dostoevsky suffers more than a lot of authors from poor, outdated translation.

yeah, its the same book as The Possessed, the recent translations by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, seems to be lauded as the best and most accurate thus far, In the Forward they also lay out a convincing case why they changed the title from The Possessed to Demons,

its my first Dostoevsky and t was a pretty amazing book and a monstrous read, it has all the trappings which I like in a good novel: zillions of characters, complex interweaving plot lines, a multitude of rich contrasting characters which embody varying philosophical/political traits and motivations, another thing great about this new translation is they included the missing chapter which gives much greater depth into Stavrogin's character and more concise glimpse into the reasoning behind is self imposed faith. I also liked the idea of the 'Demons' and how they represent ideals and/or principles that infest and infect an otherwise "pure man" and how he indubitably affects reality(simplest way I can put that), some of the scrutiny on the various personalities bordered on radical 'caricatures' at times, but certain players I absolutely loved: Kirillov - the first ever nihilistic Black Metal head? haha! and Pyotor Stepanovich - who was deviously amazing and possibly my favorite in the book - wasn't a socialist per say but used the radicalism in others to achieve his ends...what those ends were? chaos perhaps? control, power? Stepan Trofimovich was also ended up being a touching character - especially his eye-opening revelations at his end,