02.19.2015, 12:27 PM | #3821 |
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if only Machen had helped LOvecraft with his prose!!!!
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02.19.2015, 12:52 PM | #3822 |
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Yeah, as a writer Machen leaves him for dust. But I don't think Lovecraft created a character as utterly evil as Helen, either. Love how everyone who meets describes her as utterly beautiful but strangely repulsive. One of horror's great femme fatales.
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coolness. I will check out Austin Osman Spare. thanks
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02.19.2015, 02:26 PM | #3824 |
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and I got The White People downloaded. Thanks as well.
BTW, it is odd that the Penguin classics collection has Pan on the cover but not the novella!!!!!
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02.19.2015, 04:25 PM | #3825 |
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someone is selling all sorts of choice MACHEN http://www.ebay.com/itm/arthur-mache...em234abb 682d
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02.19.2015, 05:51 PM | #3827 |
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LUCKY! My wife bought it for me for Valentine's Day! It should arrive any day now!
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02.19.2015, 07:20 PM | #3829 |
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thanks for the recommendations everyone. i usually read two or three books a month because that's what my mental state can handle. i get depressed after heavy isolation and ignoring friends and family.
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02.20.2015, 11:22 AM | #3830 |
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THE LAUGHING MONSTERS by Denis Johnson
About halfway through. A little slower going than I expected but entertaining nevertheless.
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02.21.2015, 08:23 AM | #3831 | |
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The Lottery - Shirley Jackson Another classic horror short story. So short, in fact, you can read it in about ten minutes. But guaranteed it'll play on your mind far longer. Here's a pdf: http://sites.middlebury.edu/individu...on_lottery.pdf Truly disturbing. Apparently when it was first published in the New Yorker readers sent Jackson hate-mail for writing something so horrible. Quote:
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02.23.2015, 03:05 PM | #3832 |
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shirley jackson is one of my all time faves.
reading libra by don delillo
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02.25.2015, 01:46 PM | #3833 |
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I've ended Edgar Hilsenrath's Fuck America.
I like how lively his style is. Re-reading Martin Amis' The Information, some 18 years later, to see if I still like it (I have to admit that I can't recall much, except that at the time it made me read two of his other books - I can't read the whole body of work of an author I like though, once I spot similarities, I leave it to later days that sometimes don't even come) |
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Just checked out the Codex Seraphinianus from the Library I work at.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Seraphinianus
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Yep. It's excellent.
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I finished Science & Sanity - Korzybski. I will have to re-read that shit in a decade!
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03.12.2015, 04:46 PM | #3837 |
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Finished The White People by Arthur Machen.
About 100 pages into Masks of God: Occidental Mythology
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03.12.2015, 04:57 PM | #3838 |
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the last thing he wanted by didion
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This was as inspiring a book as it was depressing.
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03.12.2015, 09:20 PM | #3840 |
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this week im reading online pdfs about hoophouse construction
and i'm reading a lot of websites about growing potatoes-- from crazy survivalist sites to the USDA |
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