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Slave to the Box

July 17th, 2009 Filed under: Rants | Tags: , ,

Nothing but Garbage on TV

Nothing but Garbage on TV

I have become a fucking slave to television again. Everything in New Zealand closes the same time everyone gets off work, for some fucked up reason, so I spend my nights veged out in front of the box. My mind is turning into play dough, and not that colourful highlighter stuff you get at boutique toy stores or from the internet, nope the year old half dried grey coloured crap you find in the sale bin at K-Mart. It’s really quite depressing. But I’m actively trying to change that so I have started to read books again. Unfortunately I’m so hooked to the boob tube that I’m actually reading on my ipod. Must be getting some kind of fix from the pixelated goodness.

If there are any good books you can recommend to me leave them in the comments. If they aren’t available in ebook format that’s even better!

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  1. 1 Shen said at 2:39 am on July 17th, 2009:

    Books are just another way of submitting your mind over to the man.

    You really need to get back into creating stuff, so others can submit their will to you.

    That said, The Book of Dave by Will Self (around 600 pages I think) was very interesting, although quite bleak.

    I just finished reading The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (around 1100 pages) which is set in 12C England about building a Cathedral. Some of the writing is terrible, and the characters are all black and white, but it was an enjoyable enough read.

    The Dune series was quite good, if you haven’t read it yet. It got a lot better after the first book or 2 I thought.

    I would also recommend almost anything by Kurt Vonnigut, Charles Bukowski or William Gibson (read his books in order, because they follow on from each other)

  2. 2 Rick said at 2:56 pm on July 18th, 2009:

    The RiverWorld Series by Farmer is good SF. Steinbeck – most stuff by him is very enjoyable.

  3. 3 Sean said at 1:16 am on August 5th, 2009:

    I’ve been trying to read some earlier 20th century books recently.
    I can recommend The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle for light reading, and For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway for something more serious.

  4. 4 jim kassiones said at 5:49 am on December 19th, 2009:

    Personally I like true adventure stories. Alone by Admiral Richard Byrd,Endurance by Alfred Lansing, Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen. If you like fiction try Anne Tyler I’ve pretty well read all of her books at least twice.

  5. 5 Ki said at 9:15 am on December 19th, 2009:

    Cool, thanks for the suggestions. I’ll have a look for some of those at the library.

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