Honestly atari... suck my fucking dick. You've started thread after stupid thread, so don't start with me. Fuck you.

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I suppose it's cliche for a Sonic Youth fan to dig Phil Dick, but I've read a number of his books and I've usually found them great. Unfortunately his endings tend to let him down a little from time to time, but...

Try 'A Scanner Darkly' (the movie was good, this is better), 'Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said' and 'The Man In The High Castle'. People seem to fall over themselves to praise 'VALIS' but to be honest I thought it was too aimless and full of tangents.

Get this:

Try "Les chants du Maldoror" by Isidore Ducasse AKA Le Comte de Lautréamont. He was a Montevidean from French descent who spent his short life in Paris, writing.
Really dark poetry.

Really? When?

i just started reading Flow My Tears and i received The Man In The High Castle for Xmas. Flow My Tears is so far excellent.

The Dice Man is an easy and absorbing read if youve not come across it yet.

READ THIS


HOUSE OF LEAVES
by
Mark Danielewski


read it and tell me how it fucked up your brain

I'm reading that now. I'm enjoying it. Ah! I loved that book! I lent it to a friend. He hasn't read it yet, and hasn't given it back. Douche. I want my book back!

Today at school, we had the journal topic of "What story would you want to be turned into a ride?" (we have to write a page on some random topic every day). I chose House of Leaves.

I started reading Only Revolutions, but I can't find the motivation to finish it.

Right on. I'm going to investigate Neal Stephenson's 'Snowcrash' when I'm done with what I'm on now. Dystopian bizarreness all over the place. Yeargh!

P.S. I've only NOW got 'round to starting Alec Foege's 'Confusion Is Next: The Sonic Youth Story'. It's actually quite hard to find in England...

I think The Elements of Style by Strunk and White should be required reading for everyone. There ought to be a law. You should have to read it and be able to pass a basic grammar test before getting your driver's license.

Hubert Selby Jnr's Last Exit to Brooklyn

It's basically a series of short stories set around Brooklyn in the 50s. Incredibly bleak. Like a book version of Swordfishtombones and early Swans. Amazing stuff.

seconded.
its one of my favorite books.


I think it must be one of Antony's [& the johnsons] favorite books too, actually no... i know it must have been, he practically built his whole i am a bird now concept upon Georgette (Ref. The Queen is Dead "Last Exit to Brooklyn")

Georgette:

• A Drag Queen
• Recites/Reads Poe (while on bennie of course.)
• Constantly alludes to bird imagery and lakes/water.

Bennie in the bullion!

I've been on a pretty big Alistair Reynolds binge lately. You've got to like space opera type science fiction to at least some degree to get into him, but he's taking the genre to some pretty new places.

I love China Mieville, especially Perdido Street Station and Iron Council. I don't read much "fantasy" other than him, but he's great. He brings in elements of SF and horror too, so maybe that's why it works so well for me.

I'll echo the votes for Burroughs (especially the Naked Lunch which is a book worthy of all the hype), Ballard, PK Dick (though Valis is one of my favorites), and Gibson. I'd add Michael Moorcock to that bunch too, though he's most famous for the sword and sorcery Elric books (which are great) he's also done a lot of experimental SF/fantasy/surrealism stuff.

I read a lot of less experimental science fiction as well. David Brin, C.J. Cherryh, Stanislaw Lem (well, he's actually pretty damn experimental), Octavia Butler, Kathleen Goonan.

Pretty much the only horror I'm into (aside from the classics like Poe) is H.P. Lovecraft who is also one of the originators of science fiction really.

I might get that last exit to brooklyin.