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Ady Cardiac
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getting through this epic fantasy series.....imagine lord of the rings on some seriously bad acid....and your somewhere close.....book 7 of 10 now....
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Another very strange book is the Gods Of Eden by Bramley. He has a similar idea to Keel's ultraterrestrials but takes it even further into the historical arena.
But my all time favorite UFO theory book is Dimensions by Vallee. Edited by dr wu23 - October 28 2013 at 09:51 |
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If Our Haunted Planet hasn't inspired at least one Hawkwind song I'd be genuinely surprised.
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No doubt.....and I have also found many occult/ufo references in Blue Oyster Cult songs....especially the song ETI.
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Both good. The former doubly so. Edited by Equality 7-2521 - November 11 2013 at 13:01 |
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Toaster Mantis
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I'm now reading...
I'm a bit disconcerted that the band themselves don't like this book, but so far it does a pretty good job placing their work into a greater historical context. I especially like the parts explaining Kraftwerk's connections to previous pop/rock traditions, something that's frequently downplayed in favour of stressing their lineage from Stockhausen and other 20th century classical composers. Edited by Toaster Mantis - November 12 2013 at 14:53 |
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Orly Castel-Bloom “Dolly City” loved this one.
""Dolly City--a city without a base, without a past, without an infrastructure. The most demented city in the world." In the midst of a futuristic-primitive metropolis, the accumulation of all our urban nightmares, Doctor Dolly (certified by the University of Katmandu) finds a newborn baby in a black plastic bag, and decides to become a mother. Overcome by unfamiliar maternal urges, Dolly dispenses with her private lab of rare diseases and turns all her surgical passion onto her son. Ceaselessly cutting and sewing, Dolly is the scalpel-wielding version of the all-too-familiar Jewish Mother archetype, forever operating upon her son with destructive, invasive love. In this grotesque satire of war and the defensive measures taken to survive it, Orly Castel-Bloom, one of Israel's most provocative and original writers, turns her own scalpel upon that most holy of institutions, the myth of motherhood--and its implications in the life of a nation" and now moving onto Haruki Murakami's new novel "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage". |
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes . |
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Finished that book about Kraftwerk earlier this week. The band's
notorious secrecy has obviously presented some major obstacles to the
author, so the book frequently ends up being more about KW's impact upon
other music and pop culture in general. It's most illuminating when
covering the pre-Autobahn phase of their career, which they're
very tightlipped about today. I'm also quite surprised to learn that
even after that record, it took quite a while for KW to become more than
just a cult band outside Germany. Looks like their international
mainstream breakthrough required more mainstream-friendly genres (like
synthpop in the UK and disco in the US) to take influence from them
first.
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At the moment:
And borrowed from my girlfriend: I plan on finishing all of these plus Blood Meridian and The Pale King before the end of the New Year.
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This week I've started reading...
Very much in the same hardboiled detective genre tradition as incepted by Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, but nowhere as sleazy or gritty as either. In fact, Macdonald's writing style and overall sensibility as an author is unusually cerebral and introverted for this kind of stuff. He's also got an exceptional eye for attention to characterization and use of physical location in the story. |
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Toaster....you might like these. I read the whole series about 25 years ago.
good fun and has some hard boiled action too......http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_McGee
I also highly recommend the Repairman Jack series...has noir, the occult, action, and an 'anti hero'. My all time favorite 'hard guy' series.
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Started this one yesterday and got through 120 pages so its a page turner. Ecological disaster set in very near future.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Americanah
Right now : Sheila Heti - How should a person be? |
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I've created an atmosphere where I'm friend first, boss second. Probably entertainer third.
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Toaster Mantis
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Current reading material:
Only 40 pages or so into it, however I can already tell I'm in the company of a master writer. Every single sentence just seethes with despair, hate and negativity... yet is incredibly well-crafted and strung together with a narrative finesse that comes across as the work of a singular authorial vision that just can't be faked. |
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dr wu23
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Looks interesting.....I'll ck it out soon. Sounds like Repairman Jack would be something you would really enjoy.
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Don't know if you have seen any previous posts of mine in this thread but I LOVE Kadrey and especially dig his Sandman Slim books,Read them all,they are extremely good! |
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Excellent mix of Raymond Chandler-ish noir and dark urban fantasy,about a fallen angel investigating the murder of the archangel Gabriel.
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Toaster Mantis
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Just read the Wikipedia article about that series, looks pretty interesting. Is it by the same author as the book that the movie The Keep was based on? |
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