#297

Currenly re-reading The Anarchist Banker, a small story written by Fernando Pessoa.
Went to the book fair i found a copy in the “used” shelf for 2€ and couldn’t leave it there.
A bit different than his usual and one they don’t talk about in school (like the poet i too am Portuguese, so we study his writings in school).

Mainly the book is a conversation in a coffee with a banker that is an anarchist, where he explains why he is an anarchist and his personal amd quite peculiar views on anarchism.

It’s not a great book like his others, but probably my favorite of his.

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#298

This just arrived - Biofeedback and the Arts. David Rosenboom. we used to have it in the art college library in the 1980’s. Full of brilliant information and very speculative takes on biofeedback… You can still find copies online.

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#299

Books read in June:

Non-Graphic Novels

Christie Wilcox’s Venomous: How Earth’s Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry; Octavia Butler’s Fledgling (It’s sadly ironic that an author’s final book be about a very young person who is likely to live for a very long time.); The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland; The History and Uncertain Future of Handwriting by Anne Trubek.

Graphic Novels

Étienne Davodeau’s Lulu Anew. Étienne Davodeau’s The Initiates (Les Ignorants). Pizzeria Kamikaze by Etgar Keret with Asaf Hanuka illustrating. Daniel Clowes’ Mister Wonderful. Moon Cop by Tom Gauld. The final volume of Brian Bendis’ run on Uncanny X-Men (Volume 6: Storyville). The first volume of Cullen Bunn’s run on Uncanny X-Men (Superior, Volume 1: Survival of the Fittest). The second volume of Cullen Bunn’s run on Uncanny X-Men (Superior, Volume 2: Apocalypse Wars). The third volume of Cullen Bunn’s run on Uncanny X-Men (Superior, Volume 3: Waking From the Dream). Anders Nilsen’s Dogs and Water. Sons Of The Devil Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 by Brian Buccellato (with Toni Infante, illustrations). Brian Wood and Greg Smallwood’s Moon Knight. Moon Knight, Volume 3: In the Night by Cullen Bunn with Ron Ackins. The first volume of Jeff Lemire’s Moon Knight. Jeff Lemire and Humberto Ramos’ Extraordinary X-Men, Volume 1: X-Haven. Jeff Lemire and Humberto Ramos’ Extraordinary X-Men, Volume 2. Jeff Lemire and Humberto Ramos’ Extraordinary X-Men, Volume 3. Corinne Mucha’s Get Over It. Supreme: Blue Rose, from Warren Ellis and Tula Lotay. Miss Lasko-Gross’ Henni. Ultimate Comics: X-Men, Volume 1, written by Nick Spencer, illustrated by Paco Medina. Ultimate Comics: X-Men, Volume 2, more of the same from Nick Spencer, albeit with Carlo G. Barberi as illustrator. Gene Luen Yang’s Superman, Volume 1: Before Truth. Joyce Farber’s Special Exits. Karnak: The Flaw in All Things by Warren Ellis and several illustrators. Jason’s Werewolves of Montpelier. Warren Ellis and Jason Masters’ James Bond, Vol 2: Eidolon. Andy Diggle and Luca Casalanguida’s James Bond: Hammerhead. Glacial Period by Nicolas de Crécy. Jiro Taniguchi’s Guardians of the Louvre.

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#300

I recently finished Sean Wilsey’s “More Curious.” Wilsey was heavily influenced by Joseph Mitchell, so I decided that would be the next writer I would read and picked up Mitchell’s “Up in the Old Hotel.”

Both are great nonfiction reads. I’m a journalist myself, so I tend to gravitate to nonfiction.

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#301

zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance.
way late to the party but i feel i wouldn’t have understood it if i was any younger.

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#302

I started reading this one and never finished it maybe 15 years ago, maybe I should try it again :slight_smile:
(talking about zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance)

#303

What did you think of The Last Days of New Paris? I just saw that in the book store yesterday. I loved Perdido St Station, and was wondering if Last Days was equally imaginative.

#304

I liked it a lot. It’s not as ornate as Perdido. It’s closer to The City and the City. It’s about combat surrealism in World War 2.

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#305

Great book here for fans of the band or that era of rock music. I’m hopeful that Michael Anthony will one day consider writing an autobiography. I think that’d be the best inside perspective on VH.

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#307

I visited my old punk rock pal Duncan on my recent trip (he is an English professor at the University of South Dakota). I was excited to get his first novel and a chapbook (and an album of his I didn’t know about). I really have enjoyed it so far. Started it yesterday evening and I’m already 2/3 of the way into it.

#308

One of my favorite graphic novelists and designers…the Blueberry series are among my favorite non- sci fi ( for lack of better discription) works.

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#309

History of Philosophy by Luc Perry ( half way through and got distracted my Elektron Machinedrum Manuel at the moment.

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#310

Pink Noises by Tara Rodgers. A bunch of very inspiring interviews, her introduction has really got me thinking more deeply about all the ways and reasons that make the field of electronic music and it’s history seem so male dominated.

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#311

Growing up, I was a big fantasy nerd, gaming, etc. Studied history in college/grad school. I just joined a cool RPG online via Roll20 called Torchbearer with a setting that has a Norse aesthetic, so I figured I’d dip back in to get in the spirit:


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#312

in the last three monthes, i read another novel by Yoko Ogawa (Le Musée du Silence);
two books by Julia Kerninon (Buvard et Une activité respectable) which is my new favorite living author;
a few short stories from DFW’s Oblivion: stories (which needs to be planned beforehand because one can’t really pause in the middle of reading, lest lots of details are lost from the short term memory of the reader (ain’t it somehow what that book is about?));
loved the clarity, tragedy and despair of The Man Who Spoke Snakish by Andrus Kivirähk;
started reading an edition of the Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa (the ratio of invoked thoughts and inner landscape wandering / page is so high i have to read it no more than one or two fragments every other day, and even so i fear i will get to the end too soon);
enjoyed Luciano Berio’s Remembering the Future,
did a fast ride through the West with James Crumley’s The Last Good Kiss,
and started a two thousand pages chronological collection of the works of Antonin Artaud.
I also wanted to re-read Islands in the Net (Bruce Sterling) but the french translation struck me at being not so good so i guess i’ll wait to stumble upon an english edition (or maybe i simply got too used to excellent writers (i just had remorse to write that, implying Sterling’s style was bad, so i googled and found the first chapter online : It’s definitely a translation problem)).

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#313

Loved the format of this book. Very polemic/rant-y, which I like. :japanese_ogre: No real new insight (say if you’ve been following Building the world you want to live in), just a very amusing and quick read. Reads ironically like a series of blog posts.

#314

Thanks for sharing. You recommend some interesting books.

#315

Kevin Crawford, Silent Legions. It’s a OSR-inspired investigative RPG. I’m running a 7th edition Call of Cthulhu campaign, and the sandbox adventure generation tables in Silent Legions are worth their weight in gold.

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#316

I just finished Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Heretic. She talks about why Islam needs a reformation and gives some thoughts as to how that can be achieved.

And am currently on Thaddeus Russell’s A Renegade History of the United States. This thing is wild. The first 1/3 of the book is dedicated more or less to “contextualizing” slavery (no doubt some controversial stuff!), and I just finished a section on the bad-ass madam’s of the wild west who made vast fortunes, while women on the east coast were struggling to secure the same rights as men.
His point is that the people of the United States are as free as they are because of the renegades (the drunks, whores, slackers…), and not because of the upstanding citizens/fore-fathers/philosophers. It’s got some things people would no doubt find controversial but, man, am I enjoying reading this thing.

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