fav. books

Elk · Post by **Elk** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 2:26 pm

some old favorites....

marguerite duras: the malady of death
kenneth patchen: the journal of albion moonlight
gerhard roth: the autobiography of albert einstein
werner herzog: of walking on ice
harmony korine: a crack-up at the race riots
georges bataille: on nietzsche / the impossible / guilty

recently, i'm too scattered to finish anything for the most part, so it's a swirling mess of philosophy, random histories, low attention span fiction, randomly browsing book stores and obssessive amazon cross-referencing.

hatta · Post by **hatta** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 3:37 pm

Everybody should read Moby Dick. A fantastic read.

nirav · Post by **nirav** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 5:12 pm

elk wrote: georges bataille: on nietzsche / the impossible / guilty

Favorite quote from "Guilty"

" My true church is a whorehouse - the only one that gives me true satisfaction."

Elk · Post by **Elk** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 10:22 am

icefactory wrote:
elk wrote: georges bataille: on nietzsche / the impossible / guilty
Favorite quote from "Guilty"

" My true church is a whorehouse - the only one that gives me true satisfaction."

i bet the catholic church actually occupied more of his time, though. {in his mind, at least.}
and i bet nothing really gave him "true satisfaction".

user_83 · Post by **user_83** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 7:19 pm

William Blake - Songs of Innocence and Experience
Haruki Murakami - The Wind up Bird Chronicle
William Gaddis - Recognitions
Dostoevksy - Brothers Karamazov
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Bernhard - Correction
Italo Calvino - Invisible Cities

And lots of poetry. That was a weird list.

user_305 · Post by **user_305** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 12:38 pm

philip k dick - VALIS and anything he wrote after it until he died.

nabokov - lolita (i've heard great things about 'pale fire'... i want to pick that up soon)

the obvious sci-fi political commentary really hits home nowadays too (orwell, bradbury, burgess)

user_317 · Post by **user_317** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 4:31 pm

James Joyce- Finnegans Wake
Terry Wilson- 'D' Train
Neal Stephenson-Snow Crash;Cryptonomicon
Mick Farren- DNA Cowboys Trilogy
Michael Moorcock- Corneilius Chronicles
Phillip K. Dick-VALIS; A Scanner Darkly

Post by **mudd** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 4:36 pm

karen eliot wrote: Michael Moorcock- Corneilius Chronicles

i always forget how really wonderful these are. great, great books.

m

user_246 · Post by **user_246** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 11:15 pm

cunnilingus wrote:my favourite writer is pär lagerkvist.

Which is/are your favourite/s?

user_246 · Post by **user_246** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 11:58 pm

Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt - Empire

Post by **grisha** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 2:44 am

engyroz wrote:
cunnilingus wrote:my favourite writer is pär lagerkvist.
Which is/are your favourite/s?

basically everything. i might prefer his works from Barabbas and on, the religion/faith themed ones. to choose one, probably Sibyllan. i think all his ideas and questions that he asks really come together in this one. and i like Mariamne a lot.