(idm) Re: reading list

From joanisse
Sent Fri, Sep 11th 1998, 06:09

>> In the last few weeks I've read:
>>
>> BladeRunner 2: The Edge Of Human - KW Jeter
>> BladeRunner 3: Replicant Night - KW Jeter
>> Future Noir: The Making Of BladeRunner - ?
>> Spear Of Destiny - Trevor Ravenscroft

i am currently finishing of henry roth's mercy of a rude stream quartet,
and it's excellent. (roth is the guy who wrote call it sleep, which i'm
sure many people read in modern american lit.) four solid books by an
old, dead guy who probably never had the pleasure of listening to
autechre.

it's funny how most of the stuff being offered up on idm up is sci-fi,
postmodern, culture/anti-culture, and general cult faves like ballard,
burroughs, and pynchon. it's kind of how, on a goth list, everyone is
reading anne rice or lautreamont, and how industrial headz are always
reading stuff on re/search...

>> Josephus: The Jewish War, & Antiquities (anyone care to recommend good
>> translations?).

there's a somewhat hard to find collected works put out by Hendrickson
publishers (translated by a Wm.Whiston) that reads exceptionally well.
the Williamson translations in the penguin classics is cheap, easy to
find and very well translated, imho. 

happy hunting.

r.j.