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Originally posted by mechanicalflattery mechanicalflattery wrote:

[--]And lately I've been working through Emil Cioran's The Temptation To Exist[--]
Incidentally I just started reading A Short History of Decay. He seems like a jolly sort of fellow.
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f**k you Captcha.. I'm on to your game...

just finished a reread of one of the most controversial works of history .. like EVER!!! You think aguring what is prog or not gets prog fan hot and bothered .. this book got historians doing the same and god how nasty it got.
The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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Finished "Lincoln in the Bardo" would highly recommend, it's something else. Bit on the "avant garde" side but it's not anything tooo crazy.

About to begin "Solar Bones" by Mike McCormack, which is apparently one giant non stop sentence. 
Know nothing about it so here we go. 

Yeah after a ton of non fiction and easy reading I wanna get back into harder/experimental stuff, working back to my attempt at Infinite Jest and Gravity's Rainbow


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Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

I just started re-reading the "Thursday Next" series by Jasper Fforde (yes, double "F"). For all lovers of classic English literature (Shakespeare, Dickens, Austen, the Brontë sisters) this series is a must-read.



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Complicated Game: Inside the Songs of XTC.  Excellent book.
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Nineteen-Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Animal Farm by George Orwell

Currently reading The Atrocity Exhibition by JG Ballard.
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Rereading Maps of Meaning by Jordan B. Peterson. Can't think of many other books as deep written during my lifetime. Highly recommended for anyone drawn towards Jung or mythological thought in general. In comparison I would rate this book way above The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell, a book which I also rated relatively high until I read this one.

The lecture series are also worth watching, there's a lot in the book that's not in the lectures and vice versa.
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- halfway through the first volume of The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- halfway through Tales of Power by Carlos Castaneda
- about to start reading Magick by Aleister Crowley
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Nearly finished Proxima by Stephen Baxter.
What an excellent book.
Also reading The Secret History of Star Wars by Michael Kaminskyand The London DMS by Matthew Wharmby.
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Currently reading Arthur C. Clarke's SciFi classic The City and the Stars from 1956 (or Kadonnut menneisyys  = 'The Lost Past', as the Finnish translation is titled).
I originally read it at the age of 13 or 14 (in 1983/4), but it almost feels like the first time since my memories of the story are rather thin.
Amazing speculation about mankind's future beyond millions of years!
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Rereading The Occult by Colin Wilson.....a never ending source of occult ideas, the people, and history involved with them.
One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
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Love your servitude.

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Thought my big bro kept them all but found a good dozen in some dusty old box



Sweet memories.
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I'm reading (in Finnish, but the cover is similar) this highly acclaimed debut by an Argentinian woman living in Berlin.
Very spellbinding and original - quite hard to make sense at first, but it gets more and more interesting. One might say it's an eco thriller.   Fever Dream   is the English title.
 
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Few weeks ago I started to read again King´s Dark Tower-serie, I am in the second now. I have read three last only once.
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recently read Hominids by Robert J Saywer.


I'm now about 70 pages into the sequel  Humans
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Just completed Peter May's Enzo Macleod thriller series with Cast Iron.
Currently half-way through The Gathering Dark by James Oswald - book 8 in the Inspector McLean Edinburgh police series (with a touch of the supernatural in places)
“Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.”
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Reading 'The Fallen Man'....by Hillerman....an ongoing crime series about tribal police  in a southwest US Indian reservation area.
One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
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