"Pharmako/Poeia" Plant powers,Poisons,and Herbcraft" by Dale Pendell and
"Danger On peaks" by Gary Snyder

I have that one as well. One of my favorites.

after rip it up and start again, which is marvelous but it grates me a little wrong being too critic-esque and with some minor that shouldn't be omissions.

From an Amazon reviewer: U.N.C.L.E.'s man in Rumania is found dead, completely drained of blood. Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin discover that THRUSH are using the vampire myth as cover for an operation to smuggle stolen treasure out of Europe.


The U.N.C.L.E. television series went off the rails in its third year, resorting to increasingly desperate self-parody, yet ACE's tie-in books went from strength to strength, possibly because the authors weren't restricted by budgets or network interference. This entry has the same four-act structure and one can almost hear Robert Vaughn and David McCallum saying the lines. Had it been a T.V. episode, it would have shone amongst the dross.
The story is slim but stylish, full of neat touches such as Dracula's descendant turning out to be a good guy, a THRUSH baddie posing as his ancestor and the use of radio-controlled wolves to scare the superstitious locals away from THRUSH's base. Sceptical to a man, Solo plays Scully to Illya's Mulder, the latter clinically cutting a swathe through an ever-deepening mystery. Thankfully we are spared one of those gooey romances between Solo and the scientist's sexy daughter that used to happen on television with tedious regularity.

McDaniel knew what made 'U.N.C.L.E.' tick and seems to have done his vampire homework. There's even a cameo by the legendary horror movie buff Forrest J.Ackerman. Unlike Judith Merill, he had a sense of humour!

that sounds and looks really interesting

I'm only done with the first act so I can't tell you. It is supposed to be really autobiographical. It wasn't published until after he died.

I'm reading Beyond Good And Evil.

Does that make me a pretentious ass?

Dear God no. Just one pretentious book doesn't make you a pretentious arse. Go off and say something inflammatory about Proust's limpid scansion being a mirror to Horace's parody of Seneca's Medea in light of the latter section of Finnegans Wake read through a post-beatnik epedemiology - then you'll be a pretentious arse.

just read the Tom Green biography

"Hollywood Causes Cancer"

was an interesting read

Collected interviews of Tom Waits, from mid-Asylum years to present.

what tom waits like
whats he think like?

What's this book, looks intresting?.

I'm currently reading Koji Suzuki - The Ring, i'm not a devotee of J-Horror or whatever the genre is?, but the book is alot better than the film(s).

open up & bleed:-iggy pop biography by paul trynka

I just brought this one home. Can't wait to start reading.

^^isnt this the one about the gas attacks in the tokyo uderground in the nineties or something, is it?

exactly.

always wanted to read that after a friend of mine told me that it is really good. keep me informed bout that! :)

See signiture.
Also, I got a damn good philosophy book I been picking up on
Also, I bought a William Gibson book called burning chrome.

I've only read two Douglas Coupland books. Hey Nostradamus, which I liked, and Girlfriend in a Coma, which I did not.

anybody read spooky country by gibson yet?

I picked it up at Barnes and Noble, and without even considering buying it, put it down. lol.

haha why?
always liked gibson a lot

I don't know, which is why I thought it was funny. I said to my friend "the only science fiction I've ever really read was Gibson - Neuromancer and Pattern Recognition." and then I just put it down and left.

I liked Neuromancer, really, but I just didn't even think about buying it.

hahahaha, ok thats really funny

I just started reading The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin. I've seen the original PBS film, and will probably watch it again once I get done reading it.

Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe.

I can't bring myself to buy anything by Gibson that takes place in the present day. Not sure why.

It's Spook Country not spooky. I read it. It was awesome. I think I liked it better overall than Pattern Recognition, which is saying a lot.

You are missing out (not that I bought either of them, I read them from the library, but I usually don't buy books). His last two novels are awesome, and they are both actually essentially cyberpunk too, despite the recent past rather than near-future setting.

I wish I had an edition that was as cool as this.

just started it yesterday

I think the book is just okay; Burroughs' prose style is really plain in Junky. But I love the new cover. Wow, I'd buy a new copy just for that.

Junky's the only Burroughs book I don't own.. I should change that.

Anyone ever read Burroughs's son's book? I need to check that out,

I think that's why it's my favourite book of his (plain-ness)! I've only scanned The Naked Lunch and I gather it's not my thing.

I'm having to read Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf) for my English course. I quite like it... though because the characters' emotions are evoked impressionistically rather than stated directly, it can be a trial if you're not in a responsive mood, tired, etc. Then it just seems like random words on a page.

The cover was what sold me on it (since my library has 2 copies). His prose is great in it though, a lot more beneath the straightforward form than meets the eye.

my favorite burroughs is this: