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Post by spartacusmills on Apr 3, 2006 20:36:23 GMT
In terms of sheer brutality, "Life is Hot in Cracktown" by Buddy Giovanazzo (sp?) is amazing. Isn't that the fella who directed 'Combat Shock'?
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Post by drillbitch on Apr 3, 2006 21:41:09 GMT
In terms of sheer brutality, "Life is Hot in Cracktown" by Buddy Giovanazzo (sp?) is amazing. Isn't that the fella who directed 'Combat Shock'? Oooh....Combat Shock...I love that film...I didn't know he'd done a book...
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Post by kristian on Apr 3, 2006 21:59:11 GMT
Jesus,
I have'nt seen "Combat Shock" for years
The bit with the baby is great!
Ha Ha
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Post by traynor on Apr 4, 2006 8:38:05 GMT
"Life Is Hot..." - Amateurish, but I liked it. It's basically an exaggeration of "Last Exit..." by Selby. And speaking of Selby, "The Room" is a brilliant piece of claustrophobic nihilism.
I think the guy who played the protagonist in "Combat Shock" was Buddy's brother. Quite the movie - Taxi Driver meets Eraserhead!
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Post by drillbitch on Apr 7, 2006 8:46:36 GMT
I just read 'Cows'...it's not bad but I still prefer The Wasp Factory...I've noticed a common thread in a lot of novels on my shelf... And The Ass Saw The Angel, American Psycho, The Wasp Factory, The Consumer, Cows...all contain at least one graphic dog-snuff scene, it must be some sort of genre requirement...
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Post by PappaWas1975 on Apr 7, 2006 9:55:18 GMT
Just got a copy of Cows, so will post my thoughts when Ive read it....
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Post by dmcclain on Apr 10, 2006 21:07:04 GMT
I still haven't seen Combat Shock, but really need to. The Room is great, as is the Demon. Classic feel-bad literature.
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Post by Joe Chip on Apr 14, 2006 15:58:39 GMT
Yeah, The Room is a fantastic and overlooked Selby novel. I love Requiem For A Dream's heartbreaking invocation of lost hope and failure too.
Any Kathy Acker fans here? Her best work (Empire Of The Senseless, Pussy King Of The Pirates) really does open new psychic areas via extreme semiotic overload and relentless modernism.
I think any WH fan would enjoy Jake & Dinos Chapman's very unusual 'novel' "Meatphysics" for its lack of compromise - reminds me of a lot of the best semiotext(e) stuff.
Isabelle Eberhardt is one of my favourite writers - her work is still very obscure and almost forgotten. Her subject matter is more interesting than ever right now - she was a kind of 'infiltrator' into the male Islamic world over a hundred years ago.
If you want a hit of absolute 'Buchenwald'-style devastation (and you're able to read mainstream literary fiction without puking) try "The Crossing" by Cormac McCarthy.
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Post by PappaWas1975 on Apr 25, 2006 19:21:38 GMT
Just got a copy of Cows, so will post my thoughts when Ive read it.... And....I enjoyed it. Not exactly earth shattering, but a good read nonetheless, if a little out there....... Currently re-reading Naked Lunch, and its as incredible as always.....
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Post by pissfun on Apr 25, 2006 19:53:03 GMT
Just got a copy of Cows, so will post my thoughts when Ive read it.... how much did you pay for it? seems to be really pricey every place I've checked.
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Post by traynor on Apr 26, 2006 6:01:36 GMT
An incredibly friendly member of the board sent me a copy of "Cows"...Cheers borderland, can't thank you enough! Thought it was great and twisted, as expected. Could definitely turn some weaker stomachs to veganism! Stokoe is brilliant, I haven't been this excited about a writer since Welsh or Ellis.
Currently reading: "Waiting Period" by Selby, which is written in his classic miserable, continuous stream-of-consciousness rant fashion, only this was published in 2002 or so!
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Post by drillbitch on Apr 26, 2006 6:52:43 GMT
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn is worth a look, nowhere near as heavy as some of the other works mentioned here but nicely twisted...
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Post by kristian on Apr 26, 2006 10:31:49 GMT
Has anyone got anything by Slavoj Zizek?
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Post by PappaWas1975 on Apr 26, 2006 10:37:21 GMT
Just got a copy of Cows, so will post my thoughts when Ive read it.... how much did you pay for it? seems to be really pricey every place I've checked. Didnt pay anything for it, merely hired it from the library!Couldnt seem to find it anywhere to buy either though....Id suggest trying your library too!
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Post by lethal on May 25, 2006 10:44:11 GMT
Alice in Wonderland and the World Trade Center Disaster: Why the Official Story of 9/11 Is a Monumental Lie David Icke whether you accept the official bullshit version of events or you love 'conspiracies' or hate them OR you believe something is rotten about the whole 9/11 situation, this book is compelling, compulsive, utterly well researched, packed full of info, challenging and completely thought provoking. You'll never trust a government again !!! and no, i'm not on the Icke payrole
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