Muff's Modules & More

odecahedron · Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 11:21 pm Post subject:

this shit is haaard work, but rad!

iopop · Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 3:59 am Post subject:

Andrea Dworkin - Intercourse
Definitely not the easiest book to read on my shelf...

kroton · Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 4:45 am Post subject:

John le Carré - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Dennis Wheatley - They Used Dark Forces
Ian Marter - The Enemy Of The World (Doctor Who novelisation)
Rob Young - Electric Eden
Dave Tompkins - How To Wreck A Nice Beach
Blair Worden - The English Civil Wars
Bill Bryson - At Home

And a bunch more ... always have at least ten books going at any one time ... bad habit I guess.

cv slime 800 · Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 5:39 am Post subject:

I've been enjoying these:

My favourite so far is a piece by Garrison Keillor called “Jack Schmidt, Arts Administrator,” that can be found here: http://www.thetqr.org/Archives/TQR%201%20Int/jack.htm

It appealed to me on levels other than the humour alone and apparently it's a parody of the Raymond Chandler school of tough, amorous 'private-eye' crime fiction. Anyone have any recommendations on where to start with Chandler?

CJ Miller · Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 7:03 am Post subject:

andeje0 · Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 9:56 am Post subject:

Trying to finish up Eragon so I can start Game of Thrones and then reread Neuromancer as it's been a few years.

bkbirge · Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 10:03 am Post subject:

bartlebooth · Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 10:04 am Post subject:

Technology as Symptom and Dream - Robert Romanyshyn

emdot_ambient · Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 10:58 am Post subject:

cv slime 800 · Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 4:31 pm Post subject:

Reality Checkpoint · Posted: Mon May 28, 2012 9:33 am Post subject:

On the read list:

Douglas Coupland - Girlfriend In A Coma
Douglas Coupland - Generation A

On the to read list:

Douglas Coupland - The Gum Thief
Douglas Coupland - Microserfs
Don DeLillo - Point Omega
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Crime & Punishment
Henry Moore - Sculpture 1950 - 1960
Jacob Epstein - Arts Council Memorial Exhibition 1961.

These should keep me busy for a little while!

Ranxerox · Posted: Mon May 28, 2012 9:54 am Post subject:

Re-reading Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin saga.

"Avast capering there, ye pack of God-damned lubbers! Mr Pullings, set foretop-gallants and stunsils."

synthguru · Posted: Mon May 28, 2012 10:05 am Post subject:

I'm currently reading "The 12th Planet" by Zecharia Sitchen.
So far, I'm loving it.

Zon

philter · Posted: Mon May 28, 2012 7:50 pm Post subject:

Middlemarch by George Eliot. Some of the best English prose I've had the pleasure of reading.

VortexRanger · Posted: Mon May 28, 2012 10:41 pm Post subject:

I'm on try #3 (after a ten-year break) of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. Loving it so far but I'm only about 200 pages in.

Babaluma · Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 2:40 am Post subject:

"Principles Of Digital Audio" by Ken C Pohlmann (Sixth Edition).

Best text I've read on digital audio since finishing Curtis Roads' "The Computer Music Tutorial".

cv slime 800 · Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 4:14 am Post subject:

I just finished reading this 'trialogue':

I'm only just getting into Terence McKenna - what an incredibly nimble mind!! I can't believe I've overlooked him until now. Having been a fan of Alan Moore's work for many years now and having read lots of interviews with Moore, I think it's safe to assume McKenna has been an influence on his theories and world view. Moore has definitely referred to Rupert Sheldrake's theory of morphogenetic fields once or twice anyway.

As much as I like McKenna's writing, I think he was far more captivating in video or audio - and I'm sure even more so in person. Did anyone here ever get to hear him give a lecture?

Babaluma · Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 5:07 am Post subject:

i have friends who knew terence, although unfortunately i never got to meet him in person or hear him speak in public. he was supposed to do a live video feed from his house in hawaii at the brighton conference in 1992, where i also saw robert anton wilson, howard marks, and nicholas saunders, but the link wasn't working.

his brother dennis is currently writing their life story/autobiography. if i was just getting into terence i'd head over to the psychedelic salon and start downloading terence talks. there are 142 for you to start with right away! i've heard them all. wink

http://www.matrixmasters.net/salon/?cat=13

cv slime 800 · Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 6:17 am Post subject:

Aha! Thanks for that. I'd briefly looked at that site recently but I didn't realise how much content was in there - that's just what I need.

emdot_ambient · Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 6:58 am Post subject:

Finished Stephen Baxter's Transcendent.

I think I'm done with Baxter. I've only read one of his novels and a collection of his short stories (set in the same universe as the novel) but I'm not all that impressed. This novel was basically one big data dump after another. He'd have a character ask another character a question, then there would be one sentence of the response, followed by a paragraph to a couple pages of data dump. I got the impression he really just didn't like writing conversation or letting things explain themselves. There were plenty of good ideas, but I disliked the way it was all presented...plus he wrote his characters very one-dimensionally. By that I mean that each had one key psychological flaw or trait that dominated everything else in their lives. If people like that exist, I don't want to know them, let alone read novels about them.

On to Peter F Hamilton's The Evolutionary Void, final book in his Void Trilogy. Good stuff, but probably not a trilogy to jump into w/out reading his previous two books Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained (the start of The Commonwealth Saga)