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I'm reading Pavane by Keith Roberts, which is an alternate history where the Catholics assissinated Elizabeth I, thereby paving the way for the Spanish Armada to sack England and set up a Catholic state, keeping all of Europe in the Dark Ages well into the 20th Century.
It's part of a group book read on this Science Fiction message board that I am one of the Admins for. We do the group reads every couple months. |
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fear and loathing in las vegas.
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Highway to Hell: The Bon Scott biography.
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i am reading highway to hell: the bon scott biography
im living in a nightmare shes looking like a wer dremn quote and reply reply page 22 23 norma j what are you read page 23 sonic youth gossip mozzial fire dox |
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jean-paul sartre - the wall
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Sounds like a good one. I need some good sci-fi at the moment. Although I suppose that one isn't really sci-fi. Historical fiction? I suppose it's what you call 'speculative fiction' but that's a term made up by cunts to appeal to pricks. Sci-fi for people who are afraid of liking sci-fi. (ok, rant over) I am reading The Final Journals of William Burroughs then I have Ghost of Chance by Burroughs to read and The White Guard by Bulgakov after that. |
I just finished reading The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.
Its horribly depressing. Have any of you read it? |
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classics;) |
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What the fuck? |
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yes. very depressing. |
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"Speculative fiction" is kind of a broad term to include all of SF, Fantasy, Horror, and all points in between. I don't have the same chip on my shoulder about it that you do, but I do agree that the broadness leads to ambiguity. Pavane, and other alternate history books such as PKD's Man in the High Castle or any number of Harry Turtledove's books, are essentially a sub-set of Science Fiction. However, Pavane in particular borders on Steampunk and Science Fantasy as well. It's pretty good, a look at the thread in our message board will find me having somewhat mixed feelings about it (I use the name ljim2000 therebouts). Overall, it's quite well written, however. I do reccomend the Author Central forum from the Science Fiction board as a great place to get all kinds of conversational reccomendations of SF to read since you say you're looking for that. |
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I'm reading William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury".
Next I'm going to read Ken Kesey's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". |
I'm about to start JA Froude's Life and Letters of Eramus.
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"Howl"
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Thanks... My upset with the speculative fiction term basically boils down to the fact that it seems like a cheap ploy to dress up sci-fi and make it acceptable for people that think sci-fi is for geeks. Same with graphic novels, it's a comic for fuck sake. (although I must admit I will use the term graphic novel...I am a prick) |
The Devil Wears Prada.
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Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami, fuck yes.
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Face of Another by Kobo Abe.
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I'm reading The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene..
about theoretical physics, cosmology ( I love it) and string theory (hmm quite strange..) this book is great! read it ;) ![]() |
That book looks interesting.
I've been looking into String Theory myself, and came across "The Official String Theory website". Mind-boggling stuff. Superstringtheory ps: Nice to see you back Grete. :) |
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The question was, what am i reading....and well that was exactly what i was reading when i was typing it...i was being silly. |
The Last Night Of The Earth Poems-----Charles Bukowski
God and the State --- Bakunin Jean-Michel Basquiat ---- Leonhard Emmerling Austrian Psycho ---- Franzobel |
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I need to read some Kobo Abe. All the films that have been made of his novels are amazing. |
James Blonde dives into Milorad Pavič' "Dictionary of the Khazars".
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This big ass book on world mythology. Can't immediately remember who wrote it.
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Galapagos (for a second time) by Kurt Vonnegut
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techings of don juan (third time) by carlos castaneda
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oh thank you so much..:) so you read something about the superstringtheory (which I personally found quite strange..) in anyway I recommend you this book by Greene > The Elegant Universe ![]() I read it, and I found Greene's writing really clear :cool: |
The Perrenial Philosophy - Aldous Huxley
A great book by a great man. |
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yeah! i've never read any of his books (i think i gotta do it soon) but i really respect him. he's a man |
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You really should. It would probably be easiest to read Brave New World first and then from there choose whichever book catches your fancy. |
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huxley is a genius, antic hay is my fave im reading facing percy grainger |
again... |
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i love that book. presently, i've immersed myself into Dune Messiah and The Road to Dune. |
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