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  • MJRH
    Senior Member
    • Nov 2006
    • 418

    Originally posted by Nissim View Post
    I need a couple of books to put on the list for santa, any recommendations?
    Originally posted by Faust View Post
    You'd have to tell us what you like, first
    what's he got to do with it?

    i recommend:





    ain't no beauty queens in this locality

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    • Faust
      kitsch killer
      • Sep 2006
      • 37852

      haha, i see.
      Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

      StyleZeitgeist Magazine

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      • Hazelburn
        Junior Member
        • Aug 2012
        • 10

        David Gates - Jernigan
        Robert Irwin - Satan wants me
        Mattew Stokoe - Empty Mile
        These thanks to the ramblings of Ken Bruen

        Vampyroteuthis Infernalis, A Treatise, with a Report by the Institut Scientifique de Recherche Paranaturaliste
        This one thanks to that very thread.

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        • destroymebaby
          Senior Member
          • Aug 2012
          • 260

          Originally posted by trentk View Post
          Could anyone recommend good 20th/21st century scandinavian/icelandic literature?
          Originally posted by Philipppp View Post
          ‪Pär Lagerkvist‬ - The Dwarf

          ‪Vilhelm Ekelund‬ - (maybe too hard to find in English)

          August Strindberg - Alone

          Harry Martinson- Aimless Journeys

          Björn Larsson - Dreams by the sea

          Maybe you would like some of it.
          The novel itself it from 1890, but I nevertheless also recommend norwegian Knut Hamsuns Hunger.

          And of course Stig Larssons postmodernist The Autists, if only to confuse the feeble mind of your everyday Stieg Larsson reader. Growing up in the same town the both writers in spe actually knew each other. Since they then shared the same name - Stig - they used paper rock scissors, maybe lizard and spock as well, to decide which one had to change his name. Stieg lost.
          The morning is not enough.

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          • destroymebaby
            Senior Member
            • Aug 2012
            • 260

            No. There was some speculations, but it turned out they're two different writers. However from the same place in northern Sweden (hence the suspicion). I'd recommend Teratologen as well, if it weren't for the almost impossible to translate dialect in which he writes. Luckily I was born in the same deep haunted forests of Västerbotten as both Larsson and Teratologen. It makes it easy for me as a reader. I succeed where more southerly swedes fail.
            Last edited by destroymebaby; 11-11-2012, 06:42 PM.
            The morning is not enough.

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            • viv1984viv
              Senior Member
              • Feb 2008
              • 194

              cheers trent - i'll check out lispector

              currently reading neuropath by bakker - amazing, especially as I'm in a neurophilosophy reading group too....
              Notes from the Vomitorium - The Nerve Of It -

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              • droussin
                Member
                • Oct 2011
                • 77

                Just read a short story by DeLilo "Baader Meinhof" a bit about richters october series a bit more about human relationships i think DeLilo has a very interesting way of writing about art in his works good short read fully available here
                what is black?
                an absence, a presence, a mood, a mantle.
                -Martin Margiela

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                • destroymebaby
                  Senior Member
                  • Aug 2012
                  • 260

                  Originally posted by viv1984viv View Post
                  cheers trent - i'll check out lispector

                  currently reading neuropath by bakker - amazing, especially as I'm in a neurophilosophy reading group too....
                  I suggest you start with her short stories, they are dense and amazing. Then move on to The Passion According to G.H. for the cockroach.
                  The morning is not enough.

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                  • galia
                    Senior Member
                    • Jun 2009
                    • 1719

                    Originally posted by Hazelburn View Post
                    Robert Irwin - Satan wants me
                    very fun read

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                    • rajdev00
                      Junior Member
                      • Nov 2012
                      • 1

                      At this time, I am reading novel. I like to read novel.
                      day out near delhi
                      day picnic in delhi

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                      • Faust
                        kitsch killer
                        • Sep 2006
                        • 37852

                        /\ lol. this is so funny that i'm tempted to just leave it here...
                        Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

                        StyleZeitgeist Magazine

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                        • Fuuma
                          Senior Member
                          • Sep 2006
                          • 4050

                          Originally posted by Faust View Post
                          /\ lol. this is so funny that i'm tempted to just leave it here...
                          Why you novel?
                          -Zboss
                          Selling CCP, Harnden, Raf, Rick etc.
                          http://www.stylezeitgeist.com/forums...me-other-stuff

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                          • Atom
                            Senior Member
                            • Sep 2009
                            • 310

                            Originally posted by Cagean
                            Anybody can recommend books about the marginalised working class. Similar stuff to Nelson Algren, Charles Bukowski etc. Briliantly descriptive lit of mundane circumstances/conversations. :)_
                            John Fante, especially Ask the Dust was great. And to some extent his son Dan Fante (altough I don't like him too much).
                            Jack Black's You can't win was fantastic.
                            Of course Charles R Jackson's The Lost Weekend, if you're into the drinking side of Bukowski.

                            Originally posted by rajdev00 View Post
                            I am reading novel. I like to read novel.

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                            • Faust
                              kitsch killer
                              • Sep 2006
                              • 37852

                              Originally posted by Cagean
                              Anybody can recommend books about the marginalised working class. Similar stuff to Nelson Algren, Charles Bukowski etc. Briliantly descriptive lit of mundane circumstances/conversations. :)_
                              George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Peer.
                              Grapes of Wrath, by Steinbeck.
                              Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

                              StyleZeitgeist Magazine

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                              • BECOMING-INTENSE
                                Senior Member
                                • Jan 2008
                                • 1868


                                (1949, 1960)

                                Are you afraid of women, Doctor?
                                Of course.

                                www.becomingmads.com

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