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the doc

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3^rd Sept 2010 at 4:11 pm

What's a little sin to see us through?

Would take absolutely ages to relay all the books I've read recently, but amongst other things there's been some really good social history, some sh*t social history, some Norman Mailer and volume 1 of Norman Davies' two-part history of Poland.

Have just finished reading Doctor Rat by William Kotzwinkle and it was grand. It's set in a vivisection lab and is narrated by a rat who's been driven mad in one of the mazes and thinks that he's running the place. Splice that with a subplot about an animal revolution and some rather sweet ideas about mass consciousness and a big dollop of opium and you've got an anarchic, romantic, hilarious and painfully sad Swiftian masterpiece. Swish!

Got your name on it, Alice, this one. It's out of print now but you can get it for a penny off Amazon. Give it a go, I think you'll like it.

Whiskey, painkillers and speed will carry me there.....

Maeby

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3^rd Sept 2010 at 5:12 pm

Marry me?

On it

Ping!

Wife of Amy, Sex Goddess

Puffalump

| 21,916 posts

11^th Sept 2010 at 4:51 pm

Bunny love

Child 44 - Tom Rob Smith

Wife of the lovely Alice

the doc

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13^th Sept 2010 at 7:01 pm

What's a little sin to see us through?

Just read Of A Fire On the Moon by Mailer and then The Case of Comrade Tulayev by Victor Serge.

The latter is highly recommended for anyone even remotely interested in Stalin, espically with reference to to purges and show trials of the 30s.

Whiskey, painkillers and speed will carry me there.....

the doc

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18^th Sept 2010 at 8:53 am

What's a little sin to see us through?

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

The original, Russian version of 1984. Been meaning to read this for years and it's not bad. Got a big collection of Isaac Babel short stories on the go as well.

Finished this and wasn't really having it by the end. It's probably regarded highly cos it was the first dystopian novel but I wasn't much into it. The idea is sound enough but it was developed in a much better way by Huxley and Orwell, I think. I don't like science-fiction as a rule and it needs to be really special for me to be into it (Vonnegut springs to mind) but this just wasn't in that class.

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Whiskey, painkillers and speed will carry me there.....

curly_cow

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21^st Sept 2010 at 12:05 pm

make luv not war!

Mini Shopaholic - Sophie Kinsella

The world is quiet here.

wombat

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21^st Sept 2010 at 12:18 pm

Technically sexy.

I'm reading 'House of Leaves' by Mark Z Danielwski at the moment.

I've heard great things about this book, and it's pretty good so far, but not as terrifying as I'm lead to believe it should be as yet.

Anyone read it?

Southern hemispherical rat boy

Silvan

| 3,776 posts

21^st Sept 2010 at 12:45 pm

Aurals Velupide!

I'm partway through The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes.

As well as Why Don't Penguin's Feet Freeze? and the QI Book Of General Ignorance.

What can I say? I did it all for the Wookies.

the doc

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22^nd Sept 2010 at 8:36 am

What's a little sin to see us through?

Quote: wombat, Sept 2010

I'm reading 'House of Leaves' by Mark Z Danielwski at the moment.

I've heard great things about this book, and it's pretty good so far, but not as terrifying as I'm lead to believe it should be as yet.

Anyone read it?

I thought it was a bag of sh*te, just a haunted house novel trying to be clever. Not much of a fan of all that post-modern, self-referencing stuff, personally.*

*Unless it happens to be by the late, great Robert Anton Wilson, of course.

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Whiskey, painkillers and speed will carry me there.....

Rayanne Graff

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22^nd Sept 2010 at 9:05 am

River Phoenix

David-James, Darren and Tabby have also read it; i know because it says on page 80 and page 81.

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the doc

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22^nd Sept 2010 at 9:35 am

What's a little sin to see us through?

I seem to remember Darren and Tabby raving about it a couple of years back. Can't remember DJ reading it but my memory probably ain't as good as yours, Straws.

Whiskey, painkillers and speed will carry me there.....

Little Blue Fox.

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24^th Sept 2010 at 2:36 pm

Hope is important.

Quote: the doc, Sept 2010

Quote: wombat, Sept 2010
I'm reading 'House of Leaves' by Mark Z Danielwski at the moment.

I've heard great things about this book, and it's pretty good so far, but not as terrifying as I'm lead to believe it should be as yet.

Anyone read it?

I thought it was a bag of sh*te, just a haunted house novel trying to be clever. Not much of a fan of all that post-modern, self-referencing stuff, personally.*

*Unless it happens to be by the late, great Robert Anton Wilson, of course.

It is really cool and different and interesting, I think.
It is not terrifying so much, I think. - It is pretty dark and creepy, and also it is really pretty and poetic too. It is really cool it is like three novels mixed together.
All the characters are pretty cynical and sceptical at the beginning, but they are really obsessive and paranoid at the end, but everything is really fake and psychological, still?
I think it is really different and creative.

It hurts too much not to try.
I will see you in another life when we are both cats.
Quod perditum est, in venietur.*Facebook.

Dr. Harold Shipman

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24^th Sept 2010 at 11:15 pm

Old people CLEARLY need more painkillers.

Dexter By Design by Jeff Lindsay

It's already a damn sight better than the third one.

http://endegrim.blogspot.com

Puffalump

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30^th Sept 2010 at 8:46 pm

Bunny love

Falling Man - Don DeLillo

Wife of the lovely Alice

Delirium Tremens

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30^th Sept 2010 at 10:20 pm

I don't update here often, but I'm taking bloody ages to get through Peter Ackroyd's biography of London.

the doc:

Rayanne Graff: His name is George. Also, he started Spam.

Rayanne Graff: i spoke to him a couple of times and that was in October of 2009.

the doc: Wow, a proper old head

Rayanne Graff: Yeah, he was the 15th person to join.

satansrubberduck: I didn't directly start Spam. Also the proof of that long since disappeared.

Rayanne Graff: No, it didn't; the Spam spam spam you made in 2002 is on page 105 of the Spam board.

satansrubberduck: Oh. I looked for it years ago and couldn't find it. The colour tags are (thankfully) broken.

satansrubberduck: Odd to think it's been over a decade since I first got involved with 'Zine.

Claire: It's not odd to me since I've just had the exact same conversation with you...

I Cunt Spell: YOU'RE ALL OLD

I Cunt Spell: SO VERY VERY OLD

Captain Stupendo: SRD made an appearence holy moly haven't seen him on here for years

Maeby: JIM!

the doc: Wow, event Starws isn't here tonight

the doc: Straws ^

the doc:

the doc: *whistles*

the doc: Ah well, off I go as well then

Rayanne Graff: Sorry, Stu; i was busy tidying things. xx

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