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    • CutlasshoundC
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      The Hokusai Encyclopedia (aka the Hokusai manga), such a glorious reference book!!!!!






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      I ain't got time to bleed.

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      • mclaincauseyM
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        I have one Hokusai in and another one on order of late.

        Think it, be it.

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        • madmondayM
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          light, fun reading:


          head high, middle finger higher

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          • CutlasshoundC
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            Iron Will by the tattoo artist Grime.

            Beast of a book, beautifully presented, epic quality tattoos. Proud to have this one in my collection.

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            I ain't got time to bleed.

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            • steelworkerS
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              Liked "Blood Meridian" by McCarthy- looked at "The Road" but it wasn't for me. I'm all for a bit of gloom and doom but that was some heavy slogging.

              Those are my principles, and if you don't like them…
              Well, I have others.

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              • steelworkerS
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                Actually if people on this thread can recommend drugged up fuck ups stories, preferably violent, in the middle on nowhere in America in the middle of the 22d century… I'm all ears.

                Good thread. Violent drug stories..."Crimes in Southern Indiana" & "Donnybrook" both by Frank Bill. "Poachers" and "Hell at the Breech" both by Tom Franklin. "The Devil all the Time" by Donald Ray Pollack. "Winter's Bone" by Daniel Woodrell. Anything by Woodrell I'd read his feckin shopping list. And I second the Joe R.Lansdale rec he's really good. Anything by George Pelecanos. Anything by Don Winslow, Thomas Perry, "The Butcher's Boy"...

                Those are my principles, and if you don't like them…
                Well, I have others.

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                • mclaincauseyM
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                  Like dystopian cyberpunk stuff? I might have a couple if so…

                  Think it, be it.

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                  • steelworkerS
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                    Add to the list of  crazed Americans -

                    "Knockemstiff"- Donald Ray Pollock, "All We Need Of Hell" & "A Childhood" by the late great Harry Crews,

                    "Volt", Alan Heathcock

                    Those are my principles, and if you don't like them…
                    Well, I have others.

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                    • ChrisC
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                      Just finished reading "Cryptonomicon" by Neal Stephenson.  Enjoyable, but I have mixed emotions about it.  Mostly because it felt like it was building toward a more monumental conclusion than it actually had.

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                      • mclaincauseyM
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                        Agreed, but as a geek I still love the darn thing. I love how Stephenson has cross-generational storylines in this and other books. Having Alan Turing as a character is a huge plus too. I think Snow Crash is probably a bit better in a way and I have not read the Diamond Age.

                        Think it, be it.

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                        • tmgT
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                          Agree with the comments on Cryptonomicon, fantastic book, and a real page turner, but it just seemed to fizzle out in the last few chapters. It deserved a much stronger ending, and it wasn't lacking the ingredients.

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                            Weapons of Mass Diplomacy by Lanzac & Blain (SelfMadeHero London 2014)…Winner of the Best Graphic Novel Award Angouleme International Comics Festival 2013.....GBP 16,99...an excellent comics for all guys with a sense for the real backgounds of politics and diplomacy...Perfect!

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                            • SeulS
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                              Sounds good - will be picking it up asap. Thanks for the tip.

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                                It was recommended to me by a real comics-expert and the book is really great…OK, Belgium ist the comics-paradise on earth with Tintin and others...love it to be for a stopover at Brussels airport buying some nice Tintin-souvenirs

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                                • SeulS
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                                  Tintin's a little ponce…

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                                  • GilesG
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                                    @Seul:

                                    Tintin's a little ginger ponce…

                                    "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                                      ???

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                                      • SeulS
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                                        With a wee ponce dog.

                                        Only the drunk Captain is a decent lad.

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                                        • SeulS
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                                          Only good Tintin btw (reàl good if you're into Class War mag/ socialism/ anarchism/ communism/ anti-sexism/ anti-racism/ anti-poofism and so on)…

                                          http://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Free-Adventures-J-Daniels/dp/0951426109

                                          http://tintinrevolution.free.fr/pages/image001.html

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                                            Lanzac&Blain: A silver-haired aristocrat thunders through the palatial offices of the French foreign ministry quoting Greek philosophers and demanding his speech-writers pepper their efforts with poetry. The fictional eccentric, Alexandre Taillard de Vorms, is France's least likely comic-book hero.

                                            But he is the star of a satirical graphic novel based on the former French prime minister and foreign policy supremo, Dominique de Villepin, which has become a surprise French literary hit,

                                            and Tintin, I like the drawigs and stories…I know that some people like to see phantoms, too much interpretations, not ignoring some special aspects: Tintin in the Congo is forbidden to sell in South Africa and some critics about Tintin in the Land of the Soviets...Herge´s biography mirrors his time

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