What are you reading?

[pbt]

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[quote user="DHC"]5 fiction novel suggestions please. And I beseech you not to suggest garbage like the pseudo-intellectual pap of the hack Dan Brown. Forgive me if I'm offending anyone. Just looking for some solid entertainment.
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Here are two fun ones for you: </p>

Libra - Don DeLillo </p>

The Elementary Particles - Michel Houellebecq</p>


----Strong 2nd the Houellebecqu, haven't read the Delillo.</p>

Have you read Spares, by Michael Marshall Smith? From 96, but I imagine it is still in print or a library pick up. Great literary merit, not so much but solid entertainment, definitely. Eat in one bite candy.
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[laika]

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[quote user="Faust"]haha, indeed. And, knowing Jim, I wouldn't be surprised at your assessment, although it seems that since Butler invoked Adorno, he's fair game.
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If you read the JB quote that becoming-intense posted, along with this exceptionally lucid and brief piece from the Times, and if you are pretty well acquainted with Adorno, I think the difference in position between him and Judith is pretty unmistakeable. It's the intentional conflation of this difference by Miller that I take issue with, not the mere fact that he compares the two.</p>

edit: and I swear that no provocation will entice me to mention her name again!!!! [79][86]</p>

[Faust]

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Why Johnny Can't Dissent

[kira]

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went to that Who Knew section again but this time I bought something</p>

Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea</p>

seemed intriguing. hope it is.[^o)]</p>

[mamaboy]

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houellebecq is great--"possibility of the island""---oooooo! "against the world,against the life"--oooo!!! "world as supermarket"--ooooo!!!</P>


but now,boris groys "art power" is tickling me</P>

[mamaboy]

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no offence,but i kinda surprised that fashionish crowd reads..... so f... weard

[mamaboy]

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to read is not cool,nobody reads now

[Chinorlz]

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[quote user="mamaboy"]no offence,but i kinda surprised that fashionish crowd reads..... so f... weird[/quote]</P>


We're a reasonably intelligent group here... unlike tFS (ohhhh burn!) [86]</P>


Juuust kidding. Mamaboy, you'd be surprised. Just read some of the threads and you will see that everyone here is quite learned and impressively well read. Once discussions get deeply philosophic, lots of posters reference authors and people that I previously didn't even know existed. One can learn a lot on this forum both about and not about fashion. </P>


ps- I corrected "weird" for you ;)</P>

[BECOMING-INTENSE]

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I'm re-reading ...</p>

The Parameters Of Postmodernism</p>

Nicholas Zurbrugg </p>

A challenging positive view of postmodern cultur, a demonstration
on how contemporary artistic creativity discredits popular apocalyptic theories,
through artist, writers and performers like Anderson, Baudrillard, Beckett, Cage,
Glass, Rainer, Wilson, Monk, Barthes, Bourdieu, etc.</p>

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[mamaboy]

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..it is not that,its kinda feels weird talking about books like about pair of ccp boots...</P>


i love it--try this,try that-....</P>


somebody mentioned bukowski---he totally fits here, bukowski all about style---it is not even writing, it is almost photografy, "purple fashion " loves him</P>


i have a feel- bukowski is very french,and not russian at all,everything russian is so f... heavy oooo</P>

[matthewhk]

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right now i'm reading William Burroughs' Naked Lunch

[DHC]

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Thanks for the suggestions Faust, AKA and PBT. [75] I actually enjoyed Foucault's Pendulum and a friend had suggested the name of the rose saying it was better, so I think I'll jump in and chase it with some Houellebecq.</p>

[BECOMING-INTENSE]

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^yes, the early Eco is a great read, I also find his short stories quite amusing and clever,
especially Misreadings, is recommendable...</p>

Burroughs and Bukowski, as mentioned above, one should not deny oneself of such pleasure! [64]</p>


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[DHC]

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Early Bukowski is great. South of no north is fantastic. Wish I could say the same for the body of his work produced later in his life.

[mamaboy]

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[quote user="DHC"]Early Bukowski is great. South of no north is fantastic. Wish I could say the same for the body of his work produced later in his life.
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try his letters,he had this period,early,raw,,just letters 3 fu... volumes, "..to keep this little fire..."--</P>