What are you reading right now?

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard · 02-21-2016, 08:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Tristan Geoff

You're ignoring the subtleties. The fine details can apply to anyone's life situations, which is the beauty of it.

I never truly understood what "the bed" was referring to. Who's bed is being layed upon? I always asked myself. Now that you mentioned it though, I do have a bed myself...

TeenageWasteland · 02-21-2016, 09:14 PM

I Am Ozzy and Steven Tyler's autobiography 'Does the Noise In My Head Bother You?'
I also read one HP Lovecraft story each night

Ashwell John · 03-07-2016, 08:13 AM

Reading a drama "Kobar" written by Monir Chowdhury.

innerspaceboy · 03-08-2016, 03:30 PM

Absolutely thrilled with the book Ocean of Sound by David Toop. Just finished a chapter exploring a dream Sun Ra had about buying socks, and the next chapter title was so exciting I had trouble putting it down -

3 scanning: aether talk

Ambient in the 1990s; Scanner, John Cage, acid house, disco; AMM; Telepathic Fish, Biosphere Mixmaster Morris, Land of Oz, The Orb, The KLF

How much awesome can you cram into one chapter?

Ashwell John · 03-10-2016, 07:24 PM

Just finish a novel written by Humayan Ahmed.

innerspaceboy · 03-20-2016, 12:35 PM

Just finished Ethan Hayden's critical analysis of Sigur Ros' ( ).

Ethan Hayden is a linguistics expert, composer and performer currently pursuing a Ph.D. in music at the University at Buffalo, US. I had the pleasure of attending one of his performances of his work, "…ce dangereux supplément…" in 2015. The work is a set of phonetic studies for voice, video, and electronics in which Hayden makes a wide range of vocal sounds, none of which are coherent expressions of any known language.

This made Hayden a fitting author to tackle Sigur Ros' ( ) album for an edition of the popular 33 1/3 book series. The parenthetical album is sung entirely in the nonsense Hopelandic language created by the members of Sigur Ros.

So what does one write about an album with no discernible theme or statement? And how would one begin to describe the nonsense sounds of the Hopelandic language? Over the course of 150 pages, Hayden expertly addresses these questions, and presents both a critical analysis of Hopelandic and a philosophical perspective on the recording itself. The book adds a fascinating critical dimension to the album and works like it and it aims to help listeners approach these works with a greater sense of understanding.

Pet_Sounds · 03-20-2016, 03:19 PM

I just finished The Sun Also Rises and am onto A Farewell to Arms. Also reading...

P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters edited by Sophie Radcliffe
The Last Lion: Volume 1: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 by William Manchester
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Law of Success by Napoleon Hill
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Bowie: The Biography by Wendy Leigh

Ashwell John · 03-22-2016, 09:57 AM

Reading a novel about our Liberation War 1971.

DeadChannel · 03-25-2016, 04:05 PM

Like usual, I'm reading a bunch of things at once:

Naomi Klein - This Changes Everything
Peter Kropotkin - The Conquest of Bread
Pierre Joseph Proudhon - What is Property
John Steinbeck - East of Eden
Hunter S. Thompson - Hell's Angels

Go ahead, call me a pinko commie.

Ninetales · 04-04-2016, 01:10 PM

Hey all. So I'm very unread. I'm trying here to get back into reading novels, but am dumb and don't really know where to start besides just looking up some classics or whatever.

Someone give me some book recs that they think I'll enjoy just based on idk what you'd just assume I might like.

For a bit of context: the last book I read fully for pleasure was probably 3-4 years ago - Faust by von Goethe (yes really a play but whatever). It's also taken me over 4 years to read the first half of The Trial twice. So I'm just looking to start fresh.

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Pet_Sounds Remember the underscore Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: The other side Posts: 2,488	I just finished The Sun Also Rises and am onto A Farewell to Arms. Also reading... P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters edited by Sophie Radcliffe The Last Lion: Volume 1: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 by William Manchester A Separate Peace by John Knowles Law of Success by Napoleon Hill An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield Walden by Henry David Thoreau Bowie: The Biography by Wendy Leigh __________________ Everybody's dying just to get the disease

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TeenageWasteland Groupie Join Date: Feb 2016 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 11	I Am Ozzy and Steven Tyler's autobiography 'Does the Noise In My Head Bother You?' I also read one HP Lovecraft story each night

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Ashwell John Music Addict Join Date: Feb 2015 Posts: 100	Reading a drama "Kobar" written by Monir Chowdhury.

03-10-2016, 07:24 PM	#5 (permalink)
Ashwell John Music Addict Join Date: Feb 2015 Posts: 100	Just finish a novel written by Humayan Ahmed.

03-22-2016, 09:57 AM	#8 (permalink)
Ashwell John Music Addict Join Date: Feb 2015 Posts: 100	Reading a novel about our Liberation War 1971.

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DeadChannel Music Addict Join Date: Dec 2014 Location: Canada Posts: 1,259	Like usual, I'm reading a bunch of things at once: Naomi Klein - This Changes Everything Peter Kropotkin - The Conquest of Bread Pierre Joseph Proudhon - What is Property John Steinbeck - East of Eden Hunter S. Thompson - Hell's Angels Go ahead, call me a pinko commie.

04-04-2016, 01:10 PM	#10 (permalink)
Ninetales Music Addict Join Date: Jun 2013 Location: livin wild Posts: 2,179	Hey all. So I'm very unread. I'm trying here to get back into reading novels, but am dumb and don't really know where to start besides just looking up some classics or whatever. Someone give me some book recs that they think I'll enjoy just based on idk what you'd just assume I might like. For a bit of context: the last book I read fully for pleasure was probably 3-4 years ago - Faust by von Goethe (yes really a play but whatever). It's also taken me over 4 years to read the first half of The Trial twice. So I'm just looking to start fresh.