Reading

anything by jeanette winterson

ditto chuck palahniuk

derrick jensen's "endgame" series

right now: christopher hitchens "god is not great"
 
I've been trying to finish The Man in the High Castle by Phillip K. Dick, for like a year but shit just keeps popping up. I enjoy it so far. Its some Sci-Fi bout if the Axis had won WWII.
 
hmm whos axis? i want to read stuff by chuck by the plots have vibes i cant read, at the moment. though end game series is sounding very interesting right about now.
 
yes, chuck is NEVER for the faint of heart/stomach. the first story in "haunted" made people pass out en masse at readings while it was still in short story form.

and i'm realising i should amend the line about jensen to read "anything by"..... "Language Older than Words" is an amazing healing read, as is "Culture of Make Believe".
 
some of the subject matter for what im reading in summary isnt what i need to hear right now. now jensen seems a little more positive. endgame is where i want to start. just have to find it in the store before i leave. one day shipping is outrageous.
 
if you can, try to find "walking on water" too (i really want a copy but haven't come across one yet) -- it's about his experiences teaching creative writing to maximum security inmates -- amazing read.
 
found some of the excerpts confusing. does he talk about things you can do to better living in the world as an agronomist?
 
it's hard to define jensen -- he's at once ruminative, historical, educational, call to arms, sociological and psychiatric.....

none of his books are particularly "narrative" in the linear sense like a novel, but they all have a generous helping of "storytelling"..... you don't finish reading one of his books with the feeling like you've just read a textbook like some non-fiction writing does.
 
it's very interesting following his writings --

walking on water is like a memoir.
language older than words is memoir / healing journey / a peek at the history of cultural genocide.
culture of make believe follows the cultural genocide theme, lots of anecdotes, history, statistics, explores why and how people can be so horrible to each other and our home.
the endgame series is a sort of "well, what the hell can we do about all that then?"

i think his more recent writings have an environmental activist theme to them..... a few of my "wild salmon crusader" friends have met him in their travels.
 
i should probly give him a read a bit in the store before i decide. seems like theres some applied ideas in the books just want to be sure. a little mix of dreams with the environment and all is well with the world.
 
lol, first time i found "culture of make believe" in a store, i thought "hm this looks interesting" and did my "read a random page test" ..... good thing it was a friendly grassroots type bookstore, because i ended up buying it 2HRS LATER as i left the store.....
 
neosapien said:
I've been trying to finish The Man in the High Castle by Phillip K. Dick, for like a year but shit just keeps popping up. I enjoy it so far. Its some Sci-Fi bout if the Axis had won WWII.
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That is a very interesting and entertaining book. But watch out for the twist ending.

And it is one hell of a twist. I won't spoil it for you. But finish it.

PKD's work can be frustrating until you realize he was bat-shit crazy. Still, his work is an acquired taste.
 
more wars and unhappyness why? where the tales of a society where at least one small house is the for-front for earth friendly show down. plants over rule human destruction, its everywhere
 
anything with a story line of jewish people getting enslaved or such tends to drive me insane. though,The Matarese Countdown by Robert Ludlum. soundsgreat with ideals of jensens from what ive read thus far. governement take down with a twist of tree hugging. superb
 
silasraven said:
hmm whos axis? i want to read stuff by chuck by the plots have vibes i cant read, at the moment. though end game series is sounding very interesting right about now.
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The Axis Powers.

The novel is an alternate history (sort of) asking 'What if Germany Won WWII?'

Slavery is legal and people smoke cannabis cigarettes like it's no big deal.

Essentially The Third Reich rules the world and the U.S. is Japan's bitch.

Until you get to the end....
 
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