then there's terry pratchett's discworld series ...
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almost all bunny's reading was done in the 80s were it not for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mostly_Harmless
21 days ago
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I saw the bbc tv version last year or the year before. It was better than the movie. Also read The Salmon of Doubt by Adams a long time ago.
21 days ago
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Ziryab, have you read much Bukowski before? I ask because I really have enjoyed reading Bukowski, but I strongly suspect that these " new " collections of poetry are a lot of his reject poems, maybe they were found crumpled up in the waste basket after his death, with a small sprinkling of good, previously publshed pieces.
I don't know if that's true of your collection, I haven't read it, but I would recommend reading the Bukowski books published during his lifetime. His first novel, Post Office is amazing. I've had coworkers who had never finished a book before, get hooked by its first paragraph, then go on to read all of it. His poetry can be pretty uneven, I get the impression he banged them out, one after the other, but there's a lot of good stuff there.
21 days ago
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#26
Currently I am reading Stephen King's book, Misery. My mom recommended it to me as a good introduction to King's work.
As far as chess-related books go, I've been reading Calculation by Jacob Aagaard. It's probably a bit above my level considering the fact that I get almost all of the puzzles wrong, but I still think it's helpful to my calculation skills, nonetheless.
21 days ago
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odyson wrote:
Ziryab, have you read much Bukowski before? I ask because I really have enjoyed reading Bukowski, but I strongly suspect that these " new " collections of poetry are a lot of his reject poems, maybe they were found crumpled up in the waste basket after his death, with a small sprinkling of good, previously publshed pieces.
I don't know if that's true of your collection, I haven't read it, but I would recommend reading the Bukowski books published during his lifetime. His first novel, Post Office is amazing. I've had coworkers who had never finished a book before, get hooked by its first paragraph, then go on to read all of it. His poetry can be pretty uneven, I get the impression he banged them out, one after the other, but there's a lot of good stuff there.
Your advice seems sound. The book store I’m now frequenting is owned by a guy who cherishes the beats. It’s a fun store with macabre art, clever classification schemes (“Christianity and other cults” next to a larger section on witchcraft). I sold them a bag full of classic science fiction paperbacks and bought five books with the credit, including the Bukowski and Kerouac. Also Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America. I’ve bought two Hunter S. Thompson collections there, too. One a collection of essays, one a collection of letters.
It the first book of his that I’ve started reading. It appears that most of the poems are previously published.
21 days ago
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#31
Richard Brautigan - One of my favorites . . .
"I feel horrible. She doesn't
love me and I wander around
the house like a sewing machine
that's just finished sewing
a turd to a garbage can lid.
20 days ago
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#32
odyson wrote:
I read On The Road when I was young enough for it to be a bad influence on me. I also read 1984 when I was too young to appreciate it. All it did was depress me, and I came away with a sort of cartoon version of what it was saying. I read it again about five years ago, and thought it was a work of genius. The subject was no less grim, but this time I was exhilirated. Dude i totally relate to the part of 1984. truth be it I read it at 7 and thought it was a funny book, read it last year (age 10) and JESUS christ the amount of stuff i missed and probably am missing is crazy
My reintroduction to Orwell came just a little before that with Down and Out in Paris and London, which was something of a revelation to me. After 1984 I read his Homage to Catalonia, which has the experiences that would shape his political vision. And then, The Road To Wigan Pier, where he lays out his beliefs on socialism, with surprising criticisms for one who considered himself to be a socialist.
By this point, I decided that I liked being in the company of Mr.Orwell, so I bought two volumes of a three volume set of his essays, journalism, and letters. I have mostly read them, and plan on buying the third volume this year sometime.
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20 days ago
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#36
Loved Kurt Vonnegut's stuff. My favorite of his books is "God Bless you Mr. Rosewater." I so love telling annoying people (paraphrased) - Take a flying leap at a rolling donut.
20 days ago
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#37
I think I'm gonna sue chess.com for deleting the long message I just typed, presumably because I mentioned the name of a popular science-fiction writer. Let me laboriously try to recreate it for you, appropriately edited.
20 days ago
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#38
Kurt Vonnegut is a legend. I have the Library of America edition of his collected novels (and also their edition of Kerouac's road novels). I like their editions of different authors a lot. I read their edition of Melville's Omoo and Typee, which was good, and 4 Novels from the 1960's by Philip K. D*ck, which was also pretty good.
20 days ago
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#39
shadowtanuki wrote:
I think I'm gonna sue chess.com for deleting the long message I just typed, presumably because I mentioned the name of a popular science-fiction writer. Let me laboriously try to recreate it for you, appropriately edited.
That why bots are the wrong approach to content moderation. BTW, there were several old paperbacks from the 1960s in the bag that I sold to Giant Nerd Books two weeks ago.
Sorry I don’t recall which ones.
We should not play, nor support others who play their bots either.
I read this book a few years ago.
... The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ...
listened to the bbc radio version
played the infocom version of the game
read this "trilogy" of 5
watched the bbc tv version
and the movie which was a little disappointing.
obviously a big fan.