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- Witt0
Eventually, we're but a sorry lump of grey goo already and funny quark strangelets are pish.
- waterhouse0
The Bible.
Truly though, I've said it somewhere here before, but read read read Finnegan's Wake by Joyce.
- ukit0
I don't read ficton. It's all a bunch of lies.
- MrOneHundred0
I have some dark fantasies.
- sublocked0
china mieville - king rat & perdido street station
- Witt0
What's dark fantasy?
- Isn’t that the strip club that Tracy Jordan took Liz Lemon to in the first ep of 30Rock?MrOneHundred
- I really don't know. I live in a small corner of Europe :PWitt
- Our darkest fantasies are about hi-jacking goats in the mountains.Witt
- No, we’re on the same page.MrOneHundred
- ahahah.Witt
- flashbender0
nerd
- not only am I a nerd but i'm a dork too!d_rek
- your a nork?designbot
- I think that can be said of the majority here. Inclusive of me.flashbender
- designbot0
Hackers: Hero's of the computer revolution.
Old book, but an awesome read.
- cannonball0
I started an advance copy of Anathem but it's way too much for me to get through. I also started on Orcs (which is like reading a cartoon) and been slowly tearing away at Moby Dick.
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its like... waaay too long. but good.cannonball
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- Witt0
Moby Dick is my favourite book - I think. I have read it 3 times now (in different stages of life, or moods) and it has always been surprising and inspiring. I think that's what makes a good book, a classic, or "your" book (among others, of course, but just "that" book). A book you keep reading and re-reading as you go on with your life. "Moby Dick" is that kind of book to me.
- I just like the way Melville writes. There's something hilarious about it, despite the author being a total wifebeater.cannonball
- a wifebeater? Had no clue. Still a piece of good writing has nothing to do with your intimacy, I believe.Witt
- I don't understand why you bring it up, cannonball - most great authors and artists have "despicable" lives.Witt
- Picasso was a cunt. Van Gogh was mad. Golding was a drunkard. Coleridge was a drug addict. And so on...Witt
- All of the above treated their wifes like shit.Witt
- katekelly0
The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl is pretty good. Its set in Boston in the mid 1800s...a bunch of scholars and kings of the literary world are getting together to translate Dante, while murders are taking place mirroring those in his work...not bad.
book club!?! yesss please!!!
- 5timuli0
The Road by Cormac McCarthy is great. Not sci-fi, not fantasy, but worth reading.
"It is a post-apocalyptic tale describing a journey taken by a father and his young son over a period of several months across a landscape blasted years before by an unnamed cataclysm that destroyed civilization and, seemingly, most life on earth."
- Witt0
It's not dark fantasy, but you may like this one if you don't know it already. It's a masterpiece, and I assure you you'll read it compulsively. I think it has all the ingredients to keep you engaged until the last page:
- Witt0
A classic on looming terror, darkness and madness:
http://www.amazon.com/Horla-Art-…