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The other day (by that, I mean about 3 months back) I was asked a question. Scene-party, wrecked, bump into someone who has heard I 'write'. They asked a fair if very naive question-what's the best book you've ever read? That's almost impossible to answer, as he soon realised when I explained I owned a few thousand books and probably read about 250+ books a year. As a minimum. "My goodness" he was heard to exclaim, in slightly stronger vocabulary. So I figured I'd recommend a few of my personal favourites and pick out some books I particularly rate at Fat Buddha. It's worth noting my taste is not really everyone's cup of tea, so tread carefully. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski This is, over The Shining or anything in that vein, the most frightening book I've ever read. What's particularly nerve racking is the idea of the book itself coming to get you... Danielewski's first novel (or something like that) is my favourite boo...

V for Vendetta is a ten-issue comic book series written by Alan Moore and illustrated mostly by David Lloyd, set in a dystopian future United Kingdom imagined from the 1980s about the 1990s. A mysterious anarchist named "V" works to destroy the totalitarian government, profoundly affecting the people he encounters. The series is set in a near-future Britain after a limited nuclear war, which has left much of the world destroyed. In this future, a fascist party called Norsefire has arisen and is the ruling power. "V", an anarchist revolutionary dressed in a Guy Fawkes mask, begins an elaborate, violent and theatrical campaign to bring down the government. This is essential reading folk, comic geeks like myself or not, especially on today of all days 'November the 5th'. The brief summary above does not do it justice, seriously, and the film was pretty diabolical, despite excellent casting of the very pretty Natalie Portman. Retailing for around a tenner you wi...

Books, books, books and more books, its xmas time, ho bloody ho and when people say the usual, what do you want for xmas, you tell, them i want the 'A Bathing Ape' book, 'Art & Sole' book and just throw in the sneaker book for goodd measure. All these books and many more are available from Fat Buddha If you have not been instore in a while to check out the book section, please do, now expanded and it takes up the whole back wall. Architecture, Fashion, Textiles, Photography, Art, Illustration, Animation, Design, Advertising,Graphic Design, Logos, Streetwear, Graffiti, Lifestyle and a wee dose of humour.

Want to turn my attention away from ranting like a lunatic for at least one post and return to a favourite topic of mine, writing. In particular, I'd like to highlight a writer who I think has contributed a great deal to art in general and seems to be totally overlooked by the casual reader-even if he is praised incessantly by critics. Stewart Home, let's be clear on this to start, is brilliant but also completely mad. He's the author of books such as "69 Things to do with a Dead Princess", "Red London" and the title to remember "Whips & Furs-My life as a bon vivant , gambler & love rat ‘by’ Jesus H. Christ." If I ever read a title that could infuriate the Catholic Church more, I'll assume Stewart's writing under a pseudonym . As he has many a time. Home is a cultural commentator and political radical-leaning into the anarchist/left-wing spectrum that I can't pindown . And a very highbrow prankster. For a time, he was the...

This book dropped instore today and retails at only £5 (yes only £5), short & concise at only 48 pages but packed none the less with good info and even better pictures. Andy Warhol was born in Pittsburgh, Pnnsylvania, in 1928. In 1945 he entered the Carnegie Institute of Technology, where he studied pictorial design. Upon graduation, in 1949, he moved to New York, and quickly achieved success as an illustrator in the advertising industry. His early artworks, made in the late 1950's, are handpainted versions of printed advertisements and omic strips, complete with faux benday dots. After seeing paintings by Roy Lichtenstein, in 1961 Warhol abondoned this direction, turning instead to photographic silkscreen production on canvas. Between 1963 and 1968 he produced more than 60 films and numerous pantings, drawings and sculptures, all of them reflecting and reproducing aspects of popular and commercial culture and, through seriality, shifting art toward a more explicit commodity ...