Books
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thanks and goodby terry!
his television documentary on the subject of assisted suicide (quite heavy stuff!):
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xnu340_terry-pratchett-choosing-to-die_shortfilms
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There used to be a sci-fi and fantasy bookshop in Lancaster (UK not CA) run by a gentleman named Pete. It was officially called Interstellar Master Traders, though it never had a sign outside.
The shop was tiny, but absolutely rammed with stock. Here's a picture of the old premises.
Anyway, back in the late eighties or early nineties, a friend of mine called Guy would occasionally skip college to spend an afternoon chatting with Pete. One time he was there, and Pete was heckling him for being a fan of Terry Pratchett…
Turns out the other person in the shop was Terry. He was an old friend of Pete's, and Guy said he has good memories of that day.
Oh, and Joe Abercrombie grew up in Lancaster, and used to visit Pete's shop. No, I didn't know him.
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just started reading seriously this year. so far this year i've read:
1Q84 - Murakami (first half awesome, 2nd sucked)
Norwegian Wood - Murakami (was pretty good, but defeinitely would have liked it better had i read it when i was 20)
Slaughterhouse 5 - Vonnegut (loved it, one of my favorites)
Breakfast of Champions - Vonnegut (hated it)
The Rum Diary - Hunter S Thompson (loved it, one of my favorites)
Inherent Vice - Thomas Pynchon (funny, but didnt get the point of the book and was very confusing)
Reign In Blood - DX Ferris (wasnt well written, but learned a lot about Def Jam, Rick Rubin and Slayer \m/)
The Road - Cormac McCarthy (jesus…)finishing up Fear and Loathing right now
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Reading The Martian.
Fan-goddamn-tastic. Almost impossible to put down. VERY hard sci-fi, meaning lots of sci. It is set in a near future manned mission to Mars, and it's all about the ingenuity of an astronaut who gets stranded on The Red Planet. Shifts between gallows-humor imbued journal entries and narrative from varied perspectives.
HIGHLY recommended.
So great to hear you enjoyed it! (said the man from Del Rey….)
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Here's a touching tribute from Neil Gaiman to his erstwhile partner in crime and friend.
http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2015/03/the-facts-of-death.html
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just started reading seriously this year. so far this year i've read:
1Q84 - Murakami (first half awesome, 2nd sucked)
Norwegian Wood - Murakami (was pretty good, but defeinitely would have liked it better had i read it when i was 20)
Slaughterhouse 5 - Vonnegut (loved it, one of my favorites)
Breakfast of Champions - Vonnegut (hated it)
The Rum Diary - Hunter S Thompson (loved it, one of my favorites)
Inherent Vice - Thomas Pynchon (funny, but didnt get the point of the book and was very confusing)
Reign In Blood - DX Ferris (wasnt well written, but learned a lot about Def Jam, Rick Rubin and Slayer \m/)
The Road - Cormac McCarthy (jesus…)finishing up Fear and Loathing right now
hahaha thats lite reading in the world of cormac mccarthy
wait until you try and take on blood meridian hahaha -
I kinda want to read all the Discworld books in one long, epic, binge read. Seems like the sort of thing the Kindle was created for.
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Really AMAZING novel from a real genius writer.
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A piece on one of my favorite books (and the funniest I've ever read) came up on my Facebook feed this morning, and it linked to a pretty good review of A Confederacy of Dunces.
The main character, Ignatius Reilly, is spleen-rupturingly hilarious. He fancies himself a medieval soul trapped in an age of abomination. The scenes that Toole paints of New Orleans are reverent and real.
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'The Free' by Willy Vlautin, a healthy dose of American Reality (rather than Dream). Highly readable and recommended.
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I love this book and I know quite a few real life Ignatiuses. If I ever visit NO I'd have to wear a hunting hat.*
I gave it as a birthday gift to a friend of mine. he looked confused, and as he flipped through the pages said; "there's a lot of words isn't there?" - sigh…..*with earflaps of course
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just started reading seriously this year. so far this year i've read:
1Q84 - Murakami (first half awesome, 2nd sucked)
Norwegian Wood - Murakami (was pretty good, but defeinitely would have liked it better had i read it when i was 20)
Slaughterhouse 5 - Vonnegut (loved it, one of my favorites)
Breakfast of Champions - Vonnegut (hated it)
The Rum Diary - Hunter S Thompson (loved it, one of my favorites)
Inherent Vice - Thomas Pynchon (funny, but didnt get the point of the book and was very confusing)
Reign In Blood - DX Ferris (wasnt well written, but learned a lot about Def Jam, Rick Rubin and Slayer \m/)
The Road - Cormac McCarthy (jesus…)finishing up Fear and Loathing right now
hahaha thats lite reading in the world of cormac mccarthy
wait until you try and take on blood meridian hahahachallenge accepted. i just have to get through the rest of fear and loathing on the campaign trail 72. didnt much care for fear and loathing in las vegas… but i dont have any experience with hallucinogenic drugs so i couldnt relate
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Reviving this old thread because I just ordered this book that I learned about from the Heddels Instagram account:
I was trying to explain my affinity for Japanese-made denim to a friend and as I was telling him that Japanese brands were making incredible vintage American-style workwear, he asked why. I really didn't have an answer. Maybe I will after reading this.
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I have it incoming too…..
Btw, book tip for anyone who loves Japan. "The Roads To Sata" by Alan Booth, it's written by an English man who lived in Japan and walked from from the Northern tip of Hokkaido down to the Southern tip of Kyushu. Great read.
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Kinda early to say. So far, it focuses less on the workwear segment of men's clothing (which is what I sort of assumed it would cover) and more on the broader concept of creating a sense of fashion for men and a consumer culture in post-war Japan. It's examined a couple of trends in the 50s and 60s and how they reflected broader cultural changes, which is interesting, but not exactly what I expected.
