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  • gin soaked boy
    Member
    • May 2012
    • 41

    Originally posted by Majax View Post
    If I try to connect "raw" and style I would think
    By the way, if someone can get an idea of why I like to read and advice me a good author I may not know, maybe because very contemporary etc. ; something like "different" in the writing style (or the atmosphere, etc.). I don't know who would be the good (to me, if there are some) contemporary Germans, for example (I know Hanke, also Frisch for the German-speakers).
    Hope it may help to find something that works for you !
    Very late, but...

    What about Rainald Goetz?
    Imagine Bernhards misanthrophy combined with some post-structualism and the anarchy of punk. And maybe some Benn-like pathology.

    'Irre' is a good start.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BEjgp9MAEY
    (for anybody interested in a german writer cutting his forehead with a razor blade, dressed in a terrible 80s-wave/punk-suit. But his books are better than his fit...)

    btw Frisch sucks
    "Das Getöse war absolut geworden, man hörte es nicht mehr."
    (E. Jünger)

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    • Faust
      kitsch killer
      • Sep 2006
      • 37852

      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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      • Fade to Black
        Senior Member
        • Sep 2008
        • 5340

        ah nice, I just started reading a collection of Gore Vidal's essays myself (just one of those 'best ofs' that span several decades). "Pornography" is brilliant.

        These days I find myself reading essays and poems more than anything else. Don't seem to have the dedication to stick through a novel anymore, unless it's the kind short enough to be read in an hour or two front to back.
        www.matthewhk.net

        let me show you a few thangs

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        • Faust
          kitsch killer
          • Sep 2006
          • 37852

          You have ADD! :-) I feel like this about movies - I seem to have lost the capacity to process difficult cinema with slow, long scenes. I reserve the remains of my attention span for books.

          Funny how our tastes change. I was talking to a friend who was an English major in college and devoured literature and now only reads nonfiction, which she finds more interesting than fiction.
          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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          • noise
            Junior Member
            • Oct 2012
            • 21

            the rise of theodore roosevelt
            mathematics and the imagination
            the last days of immanuel kant

            need some fiction :-x

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            • Muzuen
              Junior Member
              • May 2012
              • 29

              I would like to immerse myself in sci-fi novels but don't know where to start. Any recommendations? I really want to understand this subject matter because it will be highly associated with my work since I plan to work at gaming studios for co-op.

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              • Fade to Black
                Senior Member
                • Sep 2008
                • 5340

                about to start -

                www.matthewhk.net

                let me show you a few thangs

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                • Faust
                  kitsch killer
                  • Sep 2006
                  • 37852

                  Originally posted by Muzuen View Post
                  I would like to immerse myself in sci-fi novels but don't know where to start. Any recommendations? I really want to understand this subject matter because it will be highly associated with my work since I plan to work at gaming studios for co-op.
                  It's such a rich field, it's hard to even start. Maybe the best place for what you need would be to read all the novels on which some famous science fiction films were based?

                  Arthur Clarke: Space Odyssey 2001
                  Douglas Adams: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
                  Philip K. Dick: Bladerunner
                  Frank Herbert: Dune
                  Stanislaw Lem: Solaris
                  (I will omit Picnic on the Side of the Road by the Strugatskiy brothers on which The Stalker is based, because it's a rare instance of a film being better than the book, and the script was only very loosely based on it to boot).

                  I would also read The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov.

                  Sounds like it's not exactly what you are looking for, but literature masquerading as sci-fi is really most rewarding, Fahrenheit 451 (also a fantastic old English film) and The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, for example.

                  I am sure there is much more that I have missed. I have not read Sci-Fi for so long, but it was my first love affair with the written word.
                  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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                  • Muzuen
                    Junior Member
                    • May 2012
                    • 29

                    Incredible info, Faust. Thanks!
                    I've read 3001: Final Odyssey ages ago and definitely thought of starting back at 2001: Space Odyssey. I've heard many great things about the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as well! Time to hit the book stores this summer.

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                    • lionlimb
                      Senior Member
                      • Feb 2013
                      • 107







                      A bit swamped. I need to wrap some of these up.
                      Sad to be running out of Ishiguro, though.
                      not baller

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                      • trentk
                        Senior Member
                        • Oct 2010
                        • 709

                        Originally posted by Muzuen View Post
                        I would like to immerse myself in sci-fi novels but don't know where to start. Any recommendations? I really want to understand this subject matter because it will be highly associated with my work since I plan to work at gaming studios for co-op.
                        lovecraft's at the mountains of madness.
                        "He described this initial impetus as like discovering that they both were looking at the same intriguing specific tropical fish, with attempts to understand it leading to a huge ferocious formalism he characterizes as a shark that leapt out of the tank."

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                        • dbwodhks
                          Junior Member
                          • May 2012
                          • 7

                          Last edited by dbwodhks; 05-16-2013, 07:26 AM.

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                          • juansolorzano
                            Member
                            • Oct 2012
                            • 92

                            "El amor en los tiempos del cólera" (Love in the time of cholera)

                            -Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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                            • Dreavan
                              Senior Member
                              • Mar 2012
                              • 121

                              I'm a huge fan of Stephen King and still didn't read one of its better book.
                              So here I am ^^

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                              • MJRH
                                Senior Member
                                • Nov 2006
                                • 418

                                Originally posted by Dreavan View Post
                                I'm a huge fan of Stephen King
                                i'm sorry to hear that

                                "From the earliest days of man there has endured the conviction that there is an order of existence which is entirely strange to him. It does indeed seem that the strict order of the visible world is only a semblance, one providing certain gross materials which become the basis for subtle improvisations of invisible powers. Hence, it may appear to some that a leafless tree is not a tree but a signpost to another realm; that an old house is not a house but a thing possessing a will of its own; that the dead may throw off that heavy blanket of earth to walk in their sleep, and in ours. And these are merely a few of the infinite variations on the themes of the natural order as it is usually conceived."
                                ain't no beauty queens in this locality

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