Palahniuk's essays (amateur wrestling, life in a navy submarine, etc.), portraits of people (Julliete Lewis, Ira Levin, Marylin Manson etc.) and some personal stuff about his life. Brilliant and vivid journalist skills, weird bits of life around us. So if you love weird shit (if you didn't, you'd not be here, the chances are), dive in.
Read today. Will read again. Not sure of it yet.
One of the best comicbooks I've ever read; Stanley Kubrick and P.K. Dick meet melancholic story about empathy, time, love and all those things behind it. That means even Adolf Hitler and travelling through time to kill him, really. Don't let the contrast of 'funny drawings' fool you, you deserve this comics and it deserves you.
Like Salinger but better. Columbine-like shootings, dumb people, barbecued chicken wings, fucked-up journalists, police, pedophilia, massmedia hysteria and the sole survivor of the shootings, Vernon G. Little, walking smiling to the cross. Add something little Vonnegut-ish to the mix and you're in for a ride. Booker Prize Winner 2003.
Grant Morrison is the fucking god.
The mutant child of Alan Moore, Terence McKenna and Robert Anton Wilson, Morrison has emerged as one of only a handful of comics writers with a true voice and vision. He's as fascinated by paranoid conspiracy theories and the Kabbalah as he is by superhero archetypes. They're all played out in this psychedelic science fiction adventure. Like his best-known works The Invisibles and Doom Patrol, this story follows a subterranean organization with terrifying science at its disposal—but in a break from Morrison's previous works, covert government agency the Hand is actually working to maintain the status quo against the mass hallucinations of a society that needs to dream. The story follows Greg Feely, a balding, middle-aged man who wants nothing more than to look at porn and care for his sick cat. It soon emerges that Feely is actually Ned Slade, special negotiator for the Hand. As Feely/Slade tries to decide which personality he really is.. lalala
(Entertainment Weekly)
Read on monday-tuesday. Intriguing, but I need to think about it some more. Will definitely try one more Kundera, it read great and was worth it, at least.
Umberto Eco's famous work on literature, writing and everything you can possibly encompass into six pieces of lectures that he once made in Harvard. Humorous, witty, passionate and mind-enhancing.
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