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Post by motownoni on Mar 14, 2007 17:13:17 GMT
dillinger - todd moore the wild party - joseph moncure march
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Post by artdamage on Mar 18, 2007 8:15:21 GMT
On the subject of the origins of Christianity & of religion in general, I highly recommend the works of James Ballantyne Hannay, particularly his Rise, Decline, and Fall of the Roman Religion, and Sex Symbolism in Religion, both of which I've read, and Phallicism the Universal Religion, which I haven't yet read, but which looks promising. Hannay is a bit of a ranter which makes for a far more entertaining read than the usual academic treatment.
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Post by theotherjohn on Mar 18, 2007 12:19:45 GMT
I highly recommend Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Plays. In particular, the play 'Pre-Paradise Sorry Now' would have interest to those who enjoy Come Org era Whitehouse, as it deals heavily with the relationship between Brady and Hindley. In fact, some of the lines seem to be have been used in their lyrics. Very uncompromising readng.
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Post by Joe Chip on Mar 18, 2007 17:37:54 GMT
I don't know if anyone here is into poetry, but I'm looking for some good poetry to read. If someone could point me in the right direction that would be great. It's probably worth mentioning that I'm not too familiar with poetry but I'm open to anything (Ted Hughes' "Birthday Letters" is the only collection I have read and that was about 6 years ago). T S Eliot's 'The Waste Land' is a long poem which pretty much defined modernism and is still a startling/disturbing work 80+ years later. I would recommend this to ANYONE who hasn't read it. I like his later 'Four Quartets' too but they do have the taint of Christianity in em. A contemporary of Ted Hughes whose work I enjoy much more is Philip Larkin. A fantastically morose, very English grumbler. Try 'The Whitsun Weddings'.
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Post by luke on Mar 18, 2007 23:16:50 GMT
T S Eliot's 'The Waste Land' is a long poem which pretty much defined modernism and is still a startling/disturbing work 80+ years later. I would recommend this to ANYONE who hasn't read it. I like his later 'Four Quartets' too but they do have the taint of Christianity in em. A contemporary of Ted Hughes whose work I enjoy much more is Philip Larkin. A fantastically morose, very English grumbler. Try 'The Whitsun Weddings'. Hi Jesse, thanks for the suggestions
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2007 11:37:51 GMT
I highly recommend Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Plays. In particular, the play 'Pre-Paradise Sorry Now' would have interest to those who enjoy Come Org era Whitehouse, as it deals heavily with the relationship between Brady and Hindley. In fact, some of the lines seem to be have been used in their lyrics. Very uncompromising readng. Good recommendation there. I'm going to check this out at some point. If you haven't got it already, I recommend "Chaos As Usual", which features interviews with his troupe of performers and collaborators.
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Post by borderland on Apr 27, 2007 14:28:50 GMT
"To create a great popular myth is to create a ritual that the reader awaits impatiently and to which he can return with mounting pleasure, seduced each time by a different repetition of terms, ever so imperceptibly altered to allow him to reach a new depth of experience."
Michel Houellebecq: H. P. Lovecraft/ Against the world, against life.
seems pertinent on a number of levels.
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Post by luke on Oct 7, 2007 11:31:10 GMT
Recently started reading Nabokov's 'Ada or Ardor' and finding it quite difficult but rewarding. If anyone else has read it I'd really like to know what you think.
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Post by blackacrylic on Feb 13, 2008 11:17:09 GMT
Started reading this book last night on TG's '20 Jazz Funk Greats', and so far I have to say it's pretty good. Drew Daniel (one half of Matmos) takes quite a critical position on the album, saying he felt it a betrayal etcetera, and it's by no means just a puff piece. There's interviews with all the cast too. I would definitely recommended it.
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Post by still cruisin' on Feb 14, 2008 14:39:31 GMT
Recently started reading Nabokov's 'Ada or Ardor' and finding it quite difficult but rewarding. If anyone else has read it I'd really like to know what you think. That's most likely going to be the next one I'm gonna read. Just finished a great collection of Nabokov's short stories (most of them dating right back to the 30s), which struck me as some of the most thrilling, humorous and touching stuff I've read in quite a while.
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Post by luke on Feb 15, 2008 0:18:49 GMT
That's most likely going to be the next one I'm gonna read. Just finished a great collection of Nabokov's short stories (most of them dating right back to the 30s), which struck me as some of the most thrilling, humorous and touching stuff I've read in quite a while. I'll have to check that out; apart from Ada or Ardor the only other Nabokov I've read is Lolita. Having finished Ada I highly recommend it.
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Post by Joe Chip on Feb 15, 2008 15:38:31 GMT
That's most likely going to be the next one I'm gonna read. Just finished a great collection of Nabokov's short stories (most of them dating right back to the 30s), which struck me as some of the most thrilling, humorous and touching stuff I've read in quite a while. I'll have to check that out; apart from Ada or Ardor the only other Nabokov I've read is Lolita. Having finished Ada I highly recommend it. I can highly recommend 'Pale Fire' as the only one of his I've read which is equal (superior even) to Lolita.
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Post by sypha666 on Feb 15, 2008 21:08:26 GMT
blackacrylic, I got that same book on TG just a few days ago. I kind of wish they had done it for "DOA" or "Second Annual Report," but oh well. Still very fascinating. Though it seems that Gen still can't resist bashing Whitehouse and Come Org. And for fuck's sake, 30 pages on the song "Persuasion?"
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Post by theotherjohn on Feb 15, 2008 23:04:19 GMT
I'll have to check that out; apart from Ada or Ardor the only other Nabokov I've read is Lolita. Having finished Ada I highly recommend it. I can highly recommend 'Pale Fire' as the only one of his I've read which is equal (superior even) to Lolita. I've been looking for a cheap second hand copy of Pale Fire for AGES! Good to know it lives up to the hype. Last book I bought was Raymond Queneau's debit novel The Bark-Tree. As a fan of his book 'Exercises in Style' as well as other writers from the OuLiPo, it's well worth checking out.
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Post by still cruisin' on Feb 16, 2008 15:45:40 GMT
That's most likely going to be the next one I'm gonna read. Just finished a great collection of Nabokov's short stories (most of them dating right back to the 30s), which struck me as some of the most thrilling, humorous and touching stuff I've read in quite a while. I'll have to check that out; apart from Ada or Ardor the only other Nabokov I've read is Lolita. Having finished Ada I highly recommend it. It's a German collection called Frühling in Fialta, and since there's an English book by Nabokov called Spring in Fialta I suppose they might be identical in content. It's a rewarding read, not least because you get to know quite a bit about the man himself, especially about his feelings towards being a person living in exile. His sense of tragic is overwhelmingly evident in most of the stories, as is of course his unique sense of humour. Be sure to check out a story of his called Fairy Tale. Another favourite of mine, while not included in said collection, is Wingstroke, which you can quite easily find at Google.
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