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Post by stormcrow on Nov 14, 2018 14:53:43 GMT -5
Another author I've been meaning to dive into at some point. Have you read any of his other work? Let us know how you like it! Honestly: never read anything from him. I saw hundreds of times "The name of the Rose" movie, still one of my favourites, but never read the book indeed. |
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Post by Summerless on Dec 16, 2018 7:25:11 GMT -5
Currently reading - Phallos: Sacred Image of the Masculine  www.amazon.com/Phallos-Masculine-Psychology-Analysts-Analysis/dp/0919123260I've studied a large variety of psychoanalytic and depth psychological works for some time (I'm a psychotherapy grad student), and this author's works have had such a major impact on me in such a short amount of time. Jung addressed the masculine aspect of psyche only cursorily and near the end of his life, while Freud's attention to the masculine was often in opposition to the feminine, i.e. a repudiation of the oedipal relationship with the mother, and wholly based in the physicality of drive. This text seeks to develop the masculine not in opposition to the feminine (anima or animus), but parallel to it. As such, the sacred masculine is shown in a light that differentiates it from patriarchal dominance, while still respecting the innate will to meaning through individuation and understanding one's 'myth.' |
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Post by Pilgrim's Shadow on Jan 6, 2019 17:35:32 GMT -5
Can anyone recommand some wierd Sci-Fi books? by wierd i intend to such an extremly obscure wierdness in which my simple human mind will have difficulties comprehend.
Edit: can also be fantasy. I guess that when either is wierd enough, it becomes both anyway.
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Post by dungeonsnake on Jan 11, 2019 10:39:44 GMT -5
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Post by Pilgrim's Shadow on Jan 11, 2019 14:38:43 GMT -5
Thx! Listened to the album right now and that alone was pretty great. It got me curious about the stories themselves.
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Post by Båvingr on Jan 30, 2019 10:10:34 GMT -5
Currently reading Alan Garner - The Weirdstone of Brisingamen - read this in school when I was 12! Kids discover a secret underground world in the Cheshire countryside, meet a wizard, some dwarves and "svart alfar".
Anyone else read Garner's books?
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Post by thekeeper on Feb 4, 2019 11:30:20 GMT -5
Currently reading Alan Garner - The Weirdstone of Brisingamen - read this in school when I was 12! Kids discover a secret underground world in the Cheshire countryside, meet a wizard, some dwarves and "svart alfar". Anyone else read Garner's books? I haven't heard of him but these seem pretty kool. Searching for pictures mostly brings up Zach Galifinakis from The Hangover. I guess they share the same name, haha. |
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Post by Båvingr on Feb 9, 2019 6:50:35 GMT -5
Currently reading Alan Garner - The Weirdstone of Brisingamen - read this in school when I was 12! Kids discover a secret underground world in the Cheshire countryside, meet a wizard, some dwarves and "svart alfar". Anyone else read Garner's books? I haven't heard of him but these seem pretty kool. Searching for pictures mostly brings up Zach Galifinakis from The Hangover. I guess they share the same name, haha. Hahaha! Finished the book, very cool, very inspired by Norse myths, a great way to introduce kids to heathenism! |
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Post by sternenfeuer on Feb 10, 2019 3:24:47 GMT -5
I just finished re-reading all of Gary Gygax' "Gord the Rogue" novels and it was a sweet blast from the past. Read them first more than 20 years ago. This series surely has quite some lacks in terms of writing but it has so much charm and so much great background fluff if you're into early AD&D. The books partly read a bit like a rule book when aspects of alignment and different types of magic are incorporated into the story  Also a great deal of the story (esp. in the later books) deals with the various demon princes (Graz'zt, Demogorgon, Orcus, Zuggtmoy to name but a few), the abyssal layers etc - and that's the stuff I was and still am totally into  |
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Post by stormcrow on Apr 5, 2019 5:57:56 GMT -5
just released a new video about "10 influential books". As usual, I have listed some titles that actually inspired MY snyth music. Hope they will work for other artists as well! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GZ5Q4qhVm8 |
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Post by dungeonsnake on Aug 7, 2019 22:22:14 GMT -5
Another author I've been meaning to dive into at some point. Have you read any of his other work? Let us know how you like it! is extremely dungeon synth |
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Post by crushingteeth on Aug 17, 2019 23:13:09 GMT -5
Another author I've been meaning to dive into at some point. Have you read any of his other work? Let us know how you like it! is extremely dungeon synth I finally picked up a copy of The Name of the Rose. I'll probably get into it in the next month or so after I re-read The Metamorphosis.
Currently on this:
So far one of the best pieces of literature I've ever read.
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Post by dungeonsnake on Aug 18, 2019 9:15:27 GMT -5
Name of the Rose is really good too, and also quite dungeon-synth. I didn't care for Foucault's Pendulum as much, it seemed rather self-indulgent to me.
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Post by DieuxDesCimetieres on Aug 19, 2019 12:59:54 GMT -5
I've read a couple of books by Cormac McCarthy, and he really is an exceptional author.
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Post by crushingteeth on Sept 9, 2019 13:33:44 GMT -5
 I finished Breakfast of Champions, I was a bit disappointed but it was a fun read at least. Then went on to read Dune, and what a masterpiece that is. I found it as enjoyable as my first read-throughs of The Lord of the Rings. I watched the Lynch movie afterwards on some kind of sadistic recommendation, and I can't express how laughably bad it was despite the A+ special effects. Anyways I need to read the next three (I've been told to stop at God Emperor, but maybe someone here can convince me to read the two after GE). Afterwards I was getting frustrated that I had so many books that had been sitting on my shelf for ages that I hadn't read so I picked 'The Fall' by Camus. I think I liked it even more than The Stranger just for the fact that I related in every way to the narrator at every turn. He was me, and I him. What an introspective read, so many good quotes. “God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves. You were speaking of the Last Judgement. Allow me to laugh respectfully. I shall wait for it resolutely, for I have known what is worse, the judgement of men. For them, no extenuating circumstances; even the good intention is ascribed to crime. Have you at least heard of the spitting cell, which a nation recently thought up to prove itself the greatest on earth? A walled-up box in which the prisoner can stand without moving. The solid door that locks him in the cement shell stops at chin level. Hence only his face is visible, and every passing jailer spits copiously on it. The prisoner, wedged into his cell, cannot wipe his face, though he is allowed, it is true. to close his eyes. Well, that, mon cher, is a human invention. They didn't need God for that little masterpiece.” And now at the recommendation of others I'm going to start Suttree. |
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Also a great deal of the story (esp. in the later books) deals with the various demon princes (Graz'zt, Demogorgon, Orcus, Zuggtmoy to name but a few), the abyssal layers etc - and that's the stuff I was and still am totally into 
