What Are You Currently Reading?

[Demoncrat]

Read Marc Almond's Tainted life at the behest of mate. michty! when Julian Cope is telling you youre taking too many drugs etc.

Philip K Dick's Cantata-140. another excellent read from the man hollywood regularly steals from. in an overcrowded future, a way is discovered to relieve the population boom, buuuut like in most PKD stories the human race ****s it up again.

someone made a film out of the Atrocity Exhibition????????
sold!

[Wes]

Originally Posted by thehamish

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someone made a film out of the Atrocity Exhibition????????
sold!

Yep, and the DVD includes a commentary track from Ballard himself...

Atrocity Exibition DVD

[Phurious]

Originally Posted by Wes

Phil, I love that title Against the World, Against Life...

The Ballard shorts are fantastic, I read both Volumes last year - just incredible. In fact I was reading Ballard's 1964 novel, The Drought last week - no one writes sci-fi like Ballard, every page is full of dazzling invention... Phil have you seen the 2000 film adaptation of The Atrocity Exibition ? Well worth seeking out and as dense and impenetrable as the novel... I've heard the 2002 Swedish film Low-Flying Aircraft is good as well...

Ballard is one of my all time faves. His exploration of social themes over the last 40 years is endlessly fascinating no-one writes detached characters with such skill, yet manages to make the stories utterly absorbing - love him, love him.

My faves are High-Rise, Concrete Island and Super-Cannes, but that's unfair really as I like anything that he's done.

I had no idea The Atrocity Exhibition was adapted - gonna have to see that immediately (in fact I just one-clicked bought it on Amazon now!).

Thanks Wes

[Phurious]

Originally Posted by thehamish

Read Marc Almond's Tainted life at the behest of mate. michty! when Julian Cope is telling you youre taking too many drugs etc.

Philip K Dick's Cantata-140. another excellent read from the man hollywood regularly steals from. in an overcrowded future, a way is discovered to relieve the population boom, buuuut like in most PKD stories the human race ****s it up again.

someone made a film out of the Atrocity Exhibition????????
sold!

I've had Tainted Life on my shelves for a while, but never got round to reading it. Should rectify this.

[Phurious]

@Wes and @TheHamish

Seeing as you guys like two of the finest Sci-fi writers ever to have graced this fair planet I wonder if you have read John Brunner's Stand On Zanzibar or Samuel R. Delany's Dahlgren?

Two of the most epically mind-****ing and expanding sci-fi novels that I've ever read - as experimental and literate as anything by Joyce, Burroughs et al. Cannot recommend enough (although PKD detested Dhalgren - surely reason enough to read it!)

[Wes]

Originally Posted by Phurious

@Wes and @TheHamish - Seeing as you guys like two of the finest Sci-fi writers ever to have graced this fair planet I wonder if you have read John Brunner's Stand On Zanzibar or Samuel R. Delany's Dahlgren?

Thanks Phil, this is exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for - the last book I finished, just a few days ago was Man in the High Castle - that's the kind of reading mood I'm in at the moment...

[Rik]

Last week, killing a bit of time in my local library, I stumbled upon a book called Dead Brigade by James Lovegrove. It's about a team of British soldiers that are zombies and although more like a short story (it's only 136 pages long, with huge text and plenty of blank space on the pages), it's actually pretty good. It only took me an hour to read it and after a bit of digging, I found out that the publishers (Barrington Stoke) are designed for dyslexic readers and adults with a low reading age, hence the strange format. Highly recommended and I think the story could be developed further and turned into either a full length novel or even a film.
Ideal for a train/bus journey to work, or instead of the morning paper in the toilet


Well hello Mister Fancypants.

[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by Phurious

@Wes and @TheHamish

Seeing as you guys like two of the finest Sci-fi writers ever to have graced this fair planet I wonder if you have read John Brunner's Stand On Zanzibar or Samuel R. Delany's Dahlgren?

Two of the most epically mind-****ing and expanding sci-fi novels that I've ever read - as experimental and literate as anything by Joyce, Burroughs et al. Cannot recommend enough (although PKD detested Dhalgren - surely reason enough to read it!)

duly noted Phu! i take it youve read Bester as well??

aaand i just reread MAUS as i hear theyre making a film out of it! lawdy!

[keirarts]

Green lantern:the sinestro corps.

[buggenhagen]

Just finished "Cloud Atlas" by David Mitchell (I just worked on the UK section of the film shoot so was interested to read the book) and "The Sisters Brothers" by Patrick Dewitt. I'd recommend them both. I particularly enjoyed The Sisters Brothers - great, weird, darkly comic western which felt somewhere between a Cormac McCarthy novel and a Coen Brothers script.