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If you're in the movie or music forums you've probably seen a pattern and know where I'm going with this.
I noticed several books with a UE theme or angle in the various recommendations, so how about a thread dedicated to UE related books? As usual I'll start, off the top of my head.
Matt Ruff - Sewer, Gas and Electric
The ex-wife of a multi-millionaire runs around the New York sewers hunting down a mutant great white shark. That's the UE part but there's lots more going on. Lots more.
Thomas Pynchon - V
A down on his luck ex-sailor takes a job hunting albino alligators in the sewers. Once again just the tip of a literary iceburg of strange happenings.
Robert Daley - The World Beneath the City
I can't find this book anywhere so please tell me if you manage to stumble across it. Chronicles the experiences of the late great Teddy May of the NYC sewers department plus tons of other lore and trivia about the world beneath the streets of the city that never sleeps.
Christopher Dewdney - Acquainted With the Night
Governor Generals shortlist for 2004. A book all about our favourite time of day, night.
Kevin Lynch - Image of the City
A sociological study of how people perceive and navigate within modern cities. A stepping stone for entirely new ways to understand urban spaces.
That's a good enough start eh?
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Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere - A guy runs around the London tube system around stations that no one knows exist and meets all sorts of crazy people. Great book!
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Where's Jules Vernes with the "Journey to the center of the Earth" recommendation? This has to be the most famous caving story ever.
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LOL uhm On a recent UE Mission to a paper mill I noticed how similar and how accurate "Richard Scary's" book called "Busy Town" (I think)... anyhow, yea i'll shut up now. lol
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Concrete Island by J.D. Ballard...a short book about a guy who crashes his car onto a neglected traffic island/junkyard underneath the expressway and is stranded there for days. Not obviously UE related, but I think that the way the narrator is forced to look at this chunk of urban wasteland from a different perspective is something that a lot of UErs will be able to relate to.
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two potentially hot reads, courtesy of my favourite urban studies blogger, Anne Galloway. Not strictly E, but definitely U
http://www.routled...u=&isbn=0415950139
http://www.routled...u=&isbn=0415933196
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Dead Tech A Guide to the Archaeology of Tomorrow.
Photographs by Manfred Hamm
Text by Rolf Steinberg
Intro Essay by Robert Jungk
I got this book from a friend for my Birthday, I highly recommend it. Amazing photos and interesting history.
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"They All Fall Down" by Richard Cahan
The Richard Nickel Story. I can't put this one down. Cost me $72 at chapters, but what a story!
01:14:16] <Chronic> Conrad...ya gotta go....
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The Wind-up Bird Chronicle-Haruki Murakami
Main character spends a lot of time in a dried up well outside an abandoned home in his neighborhood somewhere in japan after the disappearance of his cat and then wife .
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Posted by Kay O. Sweaver
Thomas Pynchon - V
A down on his luck ex-sailor takes a job hunting albino alligators in the sewers. Once again just the tip of a literary iceburg of strange happenings.
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Brilliant. Utterly brilliant.
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--Don DeLillo
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Posted by NV
Concrete Island by J.D. Ballard...a short book about a guy who crashes his car onto a neglected traffic island/junkyard underneath the expressway and is stranded there for days. Not obviously UE related, but I think that the way the narrator is forced to look at this chunk of urban wasteland from a different perspective is something that a lot of UErs will be able to relate to.
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EXCELLENT book. The guy wakes up and is confused and doesn't know where he is...takes him some time to figure it all out. Spends his first day or two wandering around observing his environment.
I recommend another Ballard book: Hello America.
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Posted by verdunstrangler
Where's Jules Vernes with the "Journey to the center of the Earth" recommendation? This has to be the most famous caving story ever.
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That book was absolutely the greatest! Also, "Sphere", by Michael Crighton.
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Try a series of books by Scott Westerfeld. The three books in the series are Uglies, Pretties, and Specials. It takes place in the future when most of the cities have been run down and abandoned. The kids go and explore the old cities to learn about their pasts and such. Really good series.
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