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[Sun Ra]

Looks legit interesting
Saints book club?
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Just quietly, if you are stupid enough to read it, it will change your life.

 

[Dard Ball Get]

Just quietly, if you are stupid enough to read it, it will change your life.

Just got it. Wanting to add in a fiction book a month or so, but not trashy fiction. Ready to have my life changed

 

[NoisyMinor]

5 books down so far in ‘23

Garfield and Andy Capp don't count, guv.

 

[Dard Ball Get]

Garfield and Andy Capp don't count, guv.

What about Zoo and The Quokka?

 

[Sun Ra]

Just got it. Wanting to add in a fiction book a month or so, but not trashy fiction. Ready to have my life changed

You wont regret it. Oh wait ....
It has a pretty interesting take on reincarnation if that is something that turns you on.
If not, it will soon.

 

[NoisyMinor]

What about Zoo and The Quokka?

Old copies of Picture Premium definitely count.

 

[Sun Ra]

Old copies of Picture Premium definitely count.

Mate we only discuss literature around here, spare me.

 

[NoisyMinor]

Mate we only discuss literature around here, spare me.

 

[gringo2011]

Mate we only discuss literature around here, spare me.

You live up to your namesake. He would have channelled Burroughs if he didn't read him.

 

[Sun Ra]

You live up to your namesake. He would have channelled Burroughs if he didn't read him.

They were friends apparently, also John Cage and Merce Cunningham as well. All were gay of course.

 

[gringo2011]

They were friends apparently, also John Cage and Merce Cunningham as well. All were gay of course.

May have explained a bit about both of their art. Both seemed to have been big psychedelic drug users.

 

[Sun Ra]

May have explained a bit about both of their art. Both seemed to have been big psychedelic drug users.

I wouldn't say big. Not at all. May have dipped their toes into LSD but they were on their own trips regardless. Man.

 

[gringo2011]

I wouldn't say big. Not at all. May have dipped their toes into LSD but they were on their own trips regardless. Man.

I guess they were a bit early for LSD but they were both pretty interstellar in their outlooks regardless. I thought that they'd be on the shrooms.

 

[Sun Ra]

I guess they were a bit early for LSD but they were both pretty interstellar in their outlooks regardless. I thought that they'd be on the shrooms.

They were around the same time, earlier in fact, for Tim Leary. Sure they were aware of this just doubt they were big time imbibers.

 

[gringo2011]

They were around the same time, earlier in fact, for Tim Leary. Sure they were aware of this just doubt they were big time imbibers.

I read recently that Leary was working for the CIA or FBI and informed on people.

 

[Sun Ra]

I read recently that Leary was working for the CIA or FBI and informed on people.

He only ever did that when he was on acid, trust me President Nixon.

 

[pebblesofsand]

Looks legit interesting
Saints book club?
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This has been out a while but its a great piece of writing.

Immigrant youth on the estates in London.

 

[George]

5 books down so far in ‘23

Well done, Dardy-pants!

 

[Dard Ball Get]

Well done, Dardy-pants!

Read you like a book, saw this coming a mile off.
Still funny though

 

[Stan_Darsh72]

My book reading in 23 is stating out with Don Quixote and then The Nature of Un-Happiness by David Smail.

 

[bergholt]

My book reading in 23 is stating out with Don Quixote and then The Nature of Un-Happiness by David Smail.

I've given up on trying to read classics like Don Quixote or Dickens or Tolstoy or Moby Dick or Dostoyevsky or whatever. The style is just too tedious. Catch 22 is about as far back as I can go.

 

[Joffaboy]

My book reading in 23 is stating out with Don Quixote and then The Nature of Un-Happiness by David Smail.

Read the first hundred pages of Don Quixote and couldn't get the image of a mentally ill bloke on horseback with his wife deserting sidekick on a donkey wandering about Spain making ********s of themselves.

Read Bulldozed by Nikka Savva over Christmas. Until you read that you really don't know how much Morrison was loathed by almost everyone in the Liberal party including an absolute hatred for him by NSW treasurer Michael Kean. the shit Morrison pulled and always threw others under the bus to save himself was eye opening but appalling. Thank god that spanner is gone.

 

[gringo2011]

I've given up on trying to read classics like Don Quixote or Dickens or Tolstoy or Moby Dick or Dostoyevsky or whatever. The style is just too tedious. Catch 22 is about as far back as I can go.

Classics are fantastic, you're missing a lot of great books. Dickens and Moby Dick aren't that inaccessible. The Russians can be hard going but worth the effort mostly. Don Quixote isn't one I loved though, it was a story of its time, I preferred the Graham Greene version about a crazy priest and a communist Sancho.

 

[Sun Ra]

Read the first hundred pages of Don Quixote and couldn't get the image of a mentally ill bloke on horseback with his wife deserting sidekick on a donkey wandering about Spain making ********s of themselves.

Read Bulldozed by Nikka Savva over Christmas. Until you read that you really don't know how much Morrison was loathed by almost everyone in the Liberal party including an absolute hatred for him by NSW treasurer Michael Kean. the s**t Morrison pulled and always threw others under the bus to save himself was eye opening but appalling. Thank god that spanner is gone.

Morrison was a special campaigner, no doubt.

 

[Joffaboy]

Classics are fantastic, you're missing a lot of great books. Dickens and Moby Dick aren't that inaccessible. The Russians can be hard going but worth the effort mostly. Don Quixote isn't one I loved though, it was a story of its time, I preferred the Graham Greene version about a crazy priest and a communist Sancho.

Tolstoy is a great read if you get a good translation. To capture the nuance of his craft written in Russian is very difficult ,(apparently, I can't read Russian so WTF would I know).
Loved War and Peace, an English version of the Russian with the soirée's of the upper classes in French, with another English translation at the bottom. Really enjoyable 1500 pages and a great story to boot.

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