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    What Book Did You Read Last Night???

    a book which i have read - for the second time - recently: derren brown : tricks of the mind. a truely fantastic work which i recommend even to those who aren't a fan of brown's tv entertainment (and to those i say : watch "the heist"). his memory exercises outlined in this book are...
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    aye, that's an enjoyable read... i remember reading it when it first came out and thinking it would have made a great film. then when i saw the film, i nearly got sick into my own scorn. don't let that stinking heap of celluloid muck put anyone off reading the book : to say the movie made some...
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    regarding "atomised"... ...it's one of those things i thought i was relatively alone in disliking. hugely over-rated and contrived. also contains some rather glaring factual errors regarding some of the topics cited in it.
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    (all in my own opinion of course) flann o'brien's weakest work by far. it struck as a reworking of "the third policeman" but with all the magic left out. it does spiral to an excellent conclusion, but is certainly not representative of him anywhere near his best.
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    "kitchen confidential" is a great read, highly entertaining and very enlightening for foodies : highly recommended. the chefs i have known who have read it have remarked that it's very accurate to the adrenaline-fuelled kitchen heat and mania. the passion for food is infectious. read over the...
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    ellis is unbelievably over-rated. i thought "american psycho" was ok, but tried way too hard (in general). "the rules of attraction" was the last book i read that i thought was truely shit. it was beverly hills 90210 with drugs and swearing. particularly bad was the characterisation, drawn piss...
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    aye, it's conversational without being contrived or condescending in any way. he knows what he's talking about and says it well, and its got personality without coming across as trying too hard, a trait that is rare these days.
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    it's a good one, his "reefer madness" (which is actually just as much about the exploitation of illegal immigrants on califonian strawberry farms and the economics of the pornography industry as it as about cannabis legislation) is well worth reading as well. i found the information about...
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    over the last week: william burroughs: the soft machine, nova express, the ticket that exploded, queer. re-reading these after a few years. i had forgotten how tough to get into the "cut-up trilogy" is to get into. soft machine is a bit of a slog, though peppered with some vividly poetic...
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    read recently: joyce carol oates : blonde. great, viciously extended and gloriously repetative. cormac mccarthy : the road. i must admit this one didnt really do it for me. some emotionally potent moments, but my interest waned towards the end. re-read shuttle + redgroves' "the wise wound"...
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    read recently: fast food nation. i must admit that i found the first couple of chapters rather boring, and as i despise the mcdeath factories and their endless regurgitation of uniform fast-shit, i found the most shocking aspects to be in the descriptions of slaughter house workers in america...
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    over the week: neil strauss : the game. (hilarious!) e e cummings : 100 selected poems (great stuff, use [abuse?] of grammer is wonderful) peter sotos : special, tool, timeless. (special and tool have their moments, far from his best [selfish little / tick / lazy] though. the ending of...
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    finished off "the rules of attraction". didn't reedeem itself. started conrad's "the secret agent", better is an understatement.
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    finished mailer's "the executioners song". excellent stuff. despite its hefty volume of pages, it remains totally fascinating. the level of research and attitude of empathy which are so evident in this work are truely remarkable. read about half of bret eston ellis' "the rules of attraction". i...
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    over the last few days: peter sotos : index. read this for a second time, the first of a trilogy, and i think the preceeding books - "lazy" and "tick" - are superior. however this does have its moments. as always, the subject matter can be hard to take and the use of language is both elegant...
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    andrea dworkin : intercourse. good so far, though it lacks the elegant brutality and precise rage of "pornography", which remains her tour-de-force.
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    george bataille : story of the eye. disappointingly dull.
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    currently reading: "an insider's guide to submodalities" by richard bandler and will mcdonald. the co-founder of neuro-linguistic-programming provides a guide into certain techniques of hypnosis, particularly with regard to changing habits and beliefs within the individual's psychology. it is...
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    started: "the story of v" by catherine blackledge: a biography of the vagina, from the perspectives of sexuality, biology, medicine, history, mythology and art. "the marquis de sade" by donald thomas: a portait of the remarkable life of the libertine.
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    "frogs into princes" by richard bandler and john grinder. essential reading for anyone interested in the practical methods regarding for conquering fears and anxiety.
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