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I am finishing Of Human Bondage and then I will either read Jinmy Burns' book on FC Barcelona or Neil Baldwin's "Man Ray-American Artist".
I mostly read non-fiction.
What about you?

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

i am reading Julio Cortazar: Blow Up and Other Stories

and i was reading Wuthering Heights until Catherine died. after that, i felt there was no point.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

also I like comics. I am getting through Tezuka's Phoenix saga and thinking of reading all my Queen And Country s again.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

"oh"

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

william kennedy, "the ink truck"
w.g. sebald, "vertigo"

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

christian wolmar - on the wrong line: how ideology and incompetence wrecked britains' railways

― terry lennox. (gareth), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

liner notes

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

"oh"

sorry, this wasn't directed at you, killy! It was just a general oh.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

terry, that sounds good. I still haven't read Leadville.

ad I'd like to read this

http://www.ltmuseumshop.co.uk/catalogue/images/large/00000006.jpg

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

currently:
david lodge, "conciousness and the novel"
william gaddis, "carpenter's gothic"

recently:
william manchester, "a world lit only by fire" (you should read this, adam, if you haven't already.)
joshua shenk, "lincoln's melancholy"

i really want to read "eichmann in jerusalem" sometime soon.

xpost to stormy d: what liner notes have you been reading? lately i been reading coley's "black woman" notes, the back of terry riley's "shri camel" and also trying to get a grasp on the (Spanish) notes to the first Color Humano LP.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, what are the best liner notes?

I really enjoyed the notes to Jackson C. Frank's "Blues Run The Game". Almost farcical tragedy!

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

Raymond Carver - Will You Please Be Quiet Please?
Haruki Murakami - The Elephant Vanishes

I read these two together as there is some obvious debt to Carver in Murakami's work (Murakami commercially translated much of Carver from English to Japanese), it becomes even more evident in his short stories. The Elephant Vanishes is intriguing as it balances two radically different translators against each other (smooth, street-versed Alfred Birnbaum vs. stuffy, academic Jay Rubin). Rubin's translations come off like your terribly out-of-touch uncle's thoughts on pop culture whereas Birnbaum's voice seems truer to Murakami's. Additionally, the first chapter of The Elephant Vanishes is the first chapter of Murakami's epic The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle... translated by Birnbaum (the novel was translated by Rubin). It offers a short teaser of how much stronger the book's impact may have been had Birnbaum done the translation.

Other than some of the Fantastic-ness of The Elephant Vanishes stories, I found that Murakami's familiar themes of loss of companionship and frequent drinking paralleled much of what Carver mined in his.

What else... Joseph Conrad's Heart Of Darkness (found on the sidewalk around the corner from me). Just started, I last read this 17 years ago.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

books currently checked out from the libarry:

jimbo in purgatory ...gary panter
a new kind of christian book 1... brian mclaren
the last word and the word after that book 3... brian mclaren
god's politics... wallis
chris crawford on game design... chris c.
everything bad is good for you... steven johnson
the areas of my expertise... james hodges
hitchhikers guide vol 1-5 (on 3)... d. adams

lot of churchy crap right now... need to divert shortly.
m.

― msp (mspa), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

I WAS reading the Moor's Last Sigh until I LOST it.

I raced through Fast Food Nation on the train back from NYC to Chi (behind the times, I know).

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

I like Raymond Carver too.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of actual NOISE BOOKS,

ha anyone read that "Wreckers Of Civilization"?

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

rip it up and start it again by simone reynolds-wrap (yeah i know)
at the mountains of madness by hp lovecraft
lynch on lynch
the plausibility of life by evolutionary biologist dudes i forget the name of
v for vendetta (never read it before!)
volume 1 of that hitler biography by ian kershaw

― latebloomer: keeping his reputation for an intense on-set presence (latebloomer), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

xpost: it's great. lotsa info on COUM and GPO's performance art, gossip.

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

I knew that senseiDancer would have read it!

you are TRULY noise.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

Where can I got cheap copy?

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

ian it was mostly an expression of the fact that I haven't had much time for books .. which makes me sad.. but yeah off the top of my head, recently I really enjoyed Billy Vera's liner notes to the Complete Allen Toussaint on Warners set, and the liners to the Rev Charlie Jackson's God's Got It -- which are really nice and in-depth.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

Winesburg, Ohio.

Boy. Seems like all I did for a spell there was drink gin-and-tonics and read the entirety of Raymond Carver's catalogue.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

watchout, it's a gateway drug. after you read it, you'll want to check up on TG24, like, ooh the gig where Genisis tries to kill himself with pills cuz Cosey left him for Chris.

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

i skimmed through a copy of "wreckers of civilization" at the ica bookshop.

irony.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

I like that bookshop.

Oh you said "bookshop"!

uh oh

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

what?

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

don't you say bookstore?

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

not necessarily, and esp. not in the case of a store inside a museum.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

oh, I didn't know that.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

it's bookstore, dude. quit denyin'

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

I read Wreckers of Civilization about five years ago? I checked it out from the Goldsmiths' library.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

Just started David Foster Wallace's Consider the Lobster (thanks to Laurel, who sent it to me!)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

Goldsmith's? in LONDON?

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

(I'm just kidding)

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

it's bookstore, dude. quit denyin'

no it's technically a giftshop but who buys the junk in there that ain't books?

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

...did anyone else read that piece in Harper's by the dude that invented the "flash mob?"

xpost call it a giftshop then! also: i have bought a pen before, but that's because I needed one.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

Just started Household words : bloomers, sucker, bombshell, scab, nigger, cyber / Stephanie A. Smith.
Read most of Consider the Lobster. The porn article and the title article were my favorites. Some of it just didn't interest me at all, like the big Grammar Usage and the new dictionary thing, and I'd already the McCain thing in Rolling Stone.
Too many books in the library.

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

xpost i read that

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

Currently reading:

Bright Lights, Dark Shadows: The Real Story of ABBA

from the library:
Patricia Campbell Hearst - Every Secret Thing
Emily Wortis Leider - Becoming Mae West
Donald Spoto - Lenya
Simon Winchester - A Crack on the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

no it's technically a giftshop but who buys the junk in there that ain't books?

me!

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

i died a little bit inside.

xpost

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

Patricia Campbell Hearst - Every Secret Thing
Emily Wortis Leider - Becoming Mae West
Donald Spoto - Lenya
Simon Winchester - A Crack on the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906

three of these are on my list!

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

adam, in lovely SARF LAHNDAN

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

I've been threatening to pierce Jung's Mysterium Coniunctionis but really haven't been reading much outside Grant Morrison comics and issues of MOJO.

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

gbx - actually, i just skimmed the article. usually i read the notebook, the index, the puzzle and forget that i haven't read the rest of it.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

How is that ABBA bio?

I am reading:

Varese - a looking glass diary, Louise Varese
Electric Sound - Joel Chadabe

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

I learned that Frida recorded a cover of "Life on Mars" for one of her solo albums.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

killy - it was a good read, actually. Pretty funny, well-written, etc. Just made me embarassed to be even remotely linked to "hipster scum" in even the loosest way. Which was the point, I think.

hey cunningh4m: is that DFW book any good? I read A Supposedly Fun Thing and that it was outstanding (esp the titular essay).

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

i have wanted to have a noise dude book thread but i suspected it would die quickly? i'm glad. thanks adamrl.

i have just started:
albert camus - the plague
frantz fanon - the wretched of the earth

i have just recently finished:
sigmund freud - 3 essays on the theory of sexuality
slavoj zizek - welcome to the desert of the real
stewart home - assault on culture

wreckers of civilization sounds good

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

we're avid penny pressers. (re: giftshops.)

― msp (mspa), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

i knew a book thread would be prime caitlinbait

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

omg my roommate has such a boner for zizek it's not even funny.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

is he single?

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

caitlin would like to meet him

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

yes he is!

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO MEET HIM

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

he's a good looking dude, too.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

i want to see the zizek documentary

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

There's a copy around here someplace.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

it's boring, don't watch it

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

whozizek?

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

>I learned that Frida recorded a cover of "Life on Mars" for one of her solo albums.

this is definitely of fringe interest but here's a mashup of Frida and Penderecki I made for a fellow noiseboarder's birthday

http://s61.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2TMMBBTFPU1PN07HF3MC683BWI

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

i've never read zizek... compare him to somebody.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

oh, he's a professor at the European Graduate School -- what the hell is with that place? i was convinced it was a hoax, but now i am afraid it is real!

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

...did anyone else read that piece in Harper's by the dude that invented the "flash mob?"

yes, and that douche was on brian lehrer today too. ugh.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

i bet it's made up. all these famous people "teach" there. i don't know who to compare him to. welcome to the desert of the real is only like 150 pages (and it's one of those tall, skinny verso books so the pages aren't normal size) so you should just read it, it's good!

xpost

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

My friend Megan is smitten with Zizek.

Unfortunately, he's taken:

http://jdeanicite.typepad.com/i_cite/images/zizek_wedding_2.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

he had a spread in Film Comment last issue.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

In which he Commented on Films.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

haha is that really his wife? i don't know whether to say wow or ew, creepy old man

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

the boy done good.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

That is really his wife. I love that photo. It's hilarious.

hey cunningh4m: is that DFW book any good? I read A Supposedly Fun Thing and that it was outstanding (esp the titular essay).

-- gbx (in....), March 8th, 2006 2:23 PM. (skowly) (later) (link)

Sk0w, I've only read one of the essays so far. But yeah, good. Supposedly Fun Thing is my favorite book of his (including the fiction).

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

I made a go at Infinite Jest in, like, 11th grade or so but gave up after a few hundred pages. Besides being a bit dense, it was heavy and people teased me for lugging around such a ridiculously sized book.

Also, I had acne.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

once i read a page of it because my friend was reading it and i thought i might puke or die if i went any further

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

yes! i hate that dude.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

caitlin why aren't there more cool girls like you? n_n

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

i exist only inside the internet ^_^

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

xpost BUZZ OFF, BRIT!

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

hey! lay off adam. he's special.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

I made a go at Infinite Jest once when I was 17 and again when I was 23. Neither time did I make it past the first 100 pages. That, and I got sick of a couple friends of mine waxing rhapsodic about it in a really sickening way. Eff that.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

never mind, caitlin! i take it back!

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

britdude@usa.net

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

Still, his essays are pretty great.

xpost DFW's, not Adam's. I don't know if he writes essays.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

don't be mean to adam, he is lovely

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

I also finished The Game the other day, it was stupid.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

The last essay I wrote was a mawkish "personal statement" that somehow got me into grad school.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

Yeeks. I just wrote one of those about doctor school and it was BAAAD>

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

recent:
"the metamorphosis" (kafka)
do androids dream... (philip k. dick)
"the double" (dostoevsky)

now:
the divine invasion (philip k. dick)

next:
cloud atlas (mitchell)
maybe neuromancer

― inert false cat (sleep), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

guys, my comment to adam was not serious. i luv all of u.

personal statements are the worst. it was during the personal-statement-writing process that i decided "fuck grad school" and moved to pennsylvania instead.

i got a 1470 on the GREs and i like to brag about that. so i'll mention it here because it is almost relevant.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

divine invasion was my fave pkd

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

i haven't started reading it yet, but i found this over the weekend...

http://static.flickr.com/50/108290029_9ffa3ce500.jpg

― Knute Rockne, All American (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

The last essay I wrote was a mawkish "personal statement" that somehow got me into grad school.

my personal statement (and my letters of recommendation, and maybe my resume) was what got me into grad school. it wasn't my grades, that's for sure! i'm living proof that you can slack off through undergrad and still get into a fancy grad school.

― Knute Rockne, All American (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

wow... that reminds me of this amazing book called "Handbook for Poisoners" that i recommend to EVERYONE. the first half includes a glossary full of information about various poisons (animal venoms, plants, chemicals, etc), and accounts of real-life poison stories. the second half is a collection of short stories ALL ABOUT POISONINGS by famous writers (i think rudyard kipling, arthur conan doyle, etc). i LOVE that book so much. the cover says HANDBOOK FOR POISONERS in a very large font, and i was reading it on the bus once. this old man tapped me from the seat behind and said "i better be careful around you, huh?"

― Q _ _ n n (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

does it have anything to do with this movie?

― Knute Rockne, All American (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

I keep this on my desk at work:

http://www.greenwood.com/books/BookDetail_pf.asp?pf=1&dept_id=1&sku=C5756

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

Haha! :-D

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

MILTON WHAT DO YOU DO FOR A LIVING?

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

Jam culture?

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

audio hardware & software QA

SHHH

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

hmmmm

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

what's the contra code again?

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

up up down down left right left right a b a b start? or something like that.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

also, sexydancer, do you need to borrow any grant morrison? i still have yer doom patrol vol. 2.

i have: animal man, the mystery play, we3, seaguy, some of his Justice League and I used to have his X-Men stuff, but I think they're still at my cousin's house in RI.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

i think i pretty much have everything except flex mentallo and teen hitler.

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

we 3 = best

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

it's b a b a start.

b a b a start select for two player

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

morrison: finished up "7 soldiers" vol 1. and "kid infinity"
wow that late 80s/early 90s painted-stylee dates like a motherfucker.
this 7 soldiers seems to be morrison trying to outdo Moore again, but that's a good thing.

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 21:59 (nineteen years ago)

I don't profess to being noisy but am reading pierre by herman melville, just now

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:33 (nineteen years ago)

you are noisome

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:35 (nineteen years ago)

not really, though.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:35 (nineteen years ago)

but maybe

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:35 (nineteen years ago)

he is scottish.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:38 (nineteen years ago)

really??

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:39 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.crimelibrary.com/graphics/photos/notorious_murders/famous/nietzsche_crimes/Rise-&-Fall-Third-Reich150.jpg

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

re: granny morrisey: i gave up on seven soldiers pretty early on.. i've got a few issues each of manhattan guardian/klarion/zatanna and shining knight. liked klarion the best. apparently it's gotten better?

re other comics, if we're talkin em on this thread:
old conan b&w magazine-sized deals. B-
fell #4 by warren ellis. B+
cerebus up through melmothish... recently re-readings reveal funnier and funnier joeks.

allan moore hasn't really done much worthwhile since League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, has he? i mean, does he still do weird princess lesbicon porn or whatever?

reading:
i still haven't finished that lomax book i was reading. i want to read more fiction. i want to read a lot of fiction quickly. how do you guys feel about Iain Pears? he was recommended to me, at some point... also Peter(?) Ackroyd?

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:44 (nineteen years ago)

London

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:48 (nineteen years ago)

adamrl are you a bot???????

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:49 (nineteen years ago)

britbot

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:53 (nineteen years ago)

Peter Ackroyd wrote a book called London.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:54 (nineteen years ago)

AND he writes fiction

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:54 (nineteen years ago)

he wrote a biography of... dickens?

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:57 (nineteen years ago)

would i LIKE his writing, adam?

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:57 (nineteen years ago)

it...doesn't seem likely!

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:58 (nineteen years ago)

could you be a bit more descriptive?
this coyness is tiring, adam.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 23:59 (nineteen years ago)

Buddha's Little Finger, Victor Pelevin

some books on web usability & a css manual. (boring)

― dar1a g (daria g), Thursday, 9 March 2006 00:32 (nineteen years ago)

this coyness is tiring, adam.

I'm sorry! It's hard for me to write long posts sometimes.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 02:03 (nineteen years ago)

Peter Ackroyd writes historical fiction and non-fiction on very British subjects. I don't know your tastes, but I wouldn't have thought he would be your kind of thing.

Did you MEAN Peter Ackroyd or someone else?

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 02:05 (nineteen years ago)

no, i think i meant peter ackroyd. sounds right. i dunno if i'll like the way he writes, but it's definitely the guy.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 9 March 2006 03:43 (nineteen years ago)

Seaguy [feels like an extended version of Sam & Max: Bad Day On The Moon, i <3 it]
Harry Kemelmans Rabbi Small novels [right now: Monday The Rabbi Took Off, très silly but very readable]

― Yawn (Wintermute), Thursday, 9 March 2006 04:05 (nineteen years ago)

some books on web usability & a css manual. (boring)

me 2, ugh

― o -- (eman), Thursday, 9 March 2006 04:53 (nineteen years ago)

books about the web are OUT OF DATE AKA "TIRED"

― R.I.P. Concrete Octopus ]-`: (ex machina), Thursday, 9 March 2006 05:01 (nineteen years ago)

jon, what have you been reading lately?

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 9 March 2006 05:04 (nineteen years ago)

― o -- (eman), Thursday, 9 March 2006 05:07 (nineteen years ago)

jon doesn't read books!!

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 9 March 2006 05:13 (nineteen years ago)

internet > books >>>>>>>>> internet books

― o -- (eman), Thursday, 9 March 2006 05:16 (nineteen years ago)

http://homepage.mac.com/pauljlucas/personal/books/covers/silicon_snake_oil.jpg

;)

― Yawn (Wintermute), Thursday, 9 March 2006 05:17 (nineteen years ago)

Buddha's Little Finger, Victor Pelevin

theres a new pelevin out! i havent read it yet

― terry lennox. (gareth), Thursday, 9 March 2006 10:01 (nineteen years ago)

http://g-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/a5/a9/429aa2c008a0998238567010._AA240_.L.jpg

― MAX BRODY, ULTIMATE ROADIE (ddb), Thursday, 9 March 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

i'm reading a fan's notes and shepperton babylon. right now i'm more into the former, but the latter is really good fun.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 9 March 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

Julio Cortazar: Blow Up and Other Stories

been re-reading that recently...i need more...i have another collection of short stuff which is excellent

slowly trudging through the galleys for a book on the rise of the avant garde in new china

collection of scottish folk stories...

― bb (bbrz), Thursday, 9 March 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

tried starting the simon reynolds book on post-punk but it's crap especially considering what he thinks of as post-punk i think of as punk, but then i'm not english and don't have some one note definition based on the sex pistols. VIVA AMERICA!

― Jack Cole (jackcole), Thursday, 9 March 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

haha, you are incorrigible.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

i keep wondering about buying that book as i dont know much about either punk or postpunk, i have the fall records and thats it, but then i never get round to it

― terry lennox. (gareth), Thursday, 9 March 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

I've never read a Simon Reynolds book. I don't read much about music, really.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

the fall is a good example -- PUNK (and even directly inspired to form by the sex pistols playing in manchester to boot). example of weak ass brit def that has unfortunately also become weak ass american def. oh well -- VIVA OHIO!

― Jack Cole (jackcole), Thursday, 9 March 2006 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

I used to live in Ohio!

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

VIVA SPRINGFIELD! VIVA YELLOW SPRINGS!

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

The only "punk" I like isn't punk.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

not a bad definition, adam -- unless you go Kogan Humbert Humbert.

― Jack Cole (jackcole), Thursday, 9 March 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know what that means!

Honestly, I know nothing about music criticism.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

i know several people from yellow springs, ohio. none of them are dave chappelle, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

Do you really? Have you been there? There's a really cute little movie theater on the main street there. Also a place where Sarah got her tattoo done haha!

It's a really nice little town. I could maybe live there in a little house with a porch swing.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

I'm obsessed with porches - what a good idea!

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

It feels Southern there kind of after the snow melts, with large graceful trees and dirt tracks.

HAHA'S PIZZA

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

my significant OTHER, Jane, went to Antioch.

― Jack Cole (jackcole), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

Ohio seems to have a high number of good colleges. Or is it me?

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

antioch is a bit like the island of misfit toys.

― Jack Cole (jackcole), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

i went to oberlin.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

deej went to wooster.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

one of my friends from HS, Er1n, went to antioch and promptly got molested by the dude who was selling her vicodin.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

I know! with Karen O!

xxp

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

liz phair and john mcentire also went to oberlin and possibly dated, or so i hear.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

haha

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

pleasant plain's book has a character called wing biddlebaum. i can't read anything set in the UK. SORRY. i was 1/2 way through 'my search for patty hearst' before i had to return it to the library (late anyway). before that i finished a book called 'RX' which i liked a lot but would only be of interest to people who like novels about girls taking drugs. its practically a genre, you know. right now im reading 'readymade'. the magazine, not the book of the magazine. i need something new.

― sunny successor (katharine), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

i can't read anything set in the UK

wtfingf, dude?!?

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

at first i thought you meant pleasant plains WROTE a book!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

My wife wrote a book.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

i can't read anything set in the UK
wtfingf, dude?!?
-- Adamrl (adamr...) (webmail), Today 11:19 AM. (nordicskilla) (later)

dreary, yeah?

SORRY

― sunny successor (katharine), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

Fair enough. I accept your sweeping generalization. We all make them!

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

Also your husband is a d00d, so you know, fair play to him.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

oh, i am also reading "Free Jazz" by Eckcherardttdstf Jost.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

Was it a children's book, Adam? Not that I'm judging anything from it, just wondering.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah's book? No, it is a "chick lit" novel. You are thinking that because she used to work in children's books!

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

i came to friend's "beat generation" course once for a screening of some film, and the prof asked me if i was into the beats. i said "not so much" and he said "oh, are you more into, like, chick lit?"

― killy (baby lenin pin), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

i am decidedly not into chick lit

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

chick lit is for MOMS.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha! so not true.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

there is a special category of chick lit for moms, called Mom Lit. The Red Tent, Lovely Bones, that one about the Bees, etc. i know this because of my mom's book club.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

i think my mom reads that stuff, maybe even my dad. i really can't tell what's chick lit and what's not anymore.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, that is way more "On The Money".

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

Adam, what was she doing in children's books?? Inquiring kids' lit publishing minds want to know!

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

I'm talking like contemporary women's fiction about relationships and shit. The stuff you see 20something gals in fancy boots reading on BART. Anyway, I think her book is good but I would say that. It's with two agents right now and I would pray for it if I were in any way religious.

xp
She worked for a "boutique" children's publisher in London, then she worked for horrible college textbook publisher, now she is assistant to big literary agent who does mostly non-fiction, some movie stuff.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

How was the boutique house to work for? I have thought of going that route...

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

shopaholic & sister?
the devil wears prada? xpost

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

my mom loves david sedaris, is he chick lit? i don't really know anything about him, mostly because i am a snob

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

no, he's not really chick lit. he's always on This American Life, reading passages from his books in a nasal voice.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

David Sedaris is not chick lit. Ian has it in two.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

Also, Caitlin, I think that makes your mom pretty cool.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

my mom is cool, sometimes.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

(yay, i was looking forward to jack cole posting to this thread.)

i love love love most of the bands in reynolds book but can't bring myself to read it. i don't have a well thought out reason why other than i think i'm getting totally burnt out on music-related writing. (disturbing considering that i write about music a wee bit. getting burnt out on that too. getting burnt out on just about everything tho.)

i went to elementary school in ohio. it's a quality place to learn to cross the street on your own. it's where i started my addiction to elephant ears too.
m.

― msp (mspa), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

The Lovely Bones is a horrible book.

that one about the Bees

There are two. Bee Season and The Secret Life of Bees. I think one is supposed to be more okay than the other, but I can't tell them apart.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

it's where i started my addiction to elephant ears too.

OH MY GOD yes absolutely. You know they don't have elephant ears in the Tri-State area/Jersey Shore, right? They have funnel cakes, instead, which I just don't like as well. And then up in Boston and related parts I'm told they have "fried dough", which doesn't seem terribly specific but then I've never tried it. I have elephant ears once a year at a certain festival in September, only time I can find 'em.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

all lit is chick lit

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

How was the boutique house to work for? I have thought of going that route...

she loved it

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, when we moved to upstate ny i was pretty pissed off at the whole funnel cake thing.

i'm thinking fried dough might actually be elephant ears, but i've never tried that either.

usually i just placate my needs with a cinnamon twisty donut. sort of a methadone treatment, but...

okay, i'm gonna have to leave the office now.
m.

― msp (mspa), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

in rhode island we have "dough boys."

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

i was 1/2 way through 'my search for patty hearst'

this book was so disappointing! more patty and martha mitchell, less memoit PLEASE.

i got an elephant ear at my local diner. which is tri-state area.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Thursday, 9 March 2006 22:39 (nineteen years ago)

Roze, I'd ask you to mail me one but the lovely greasy crunch would suffer, I think. Do they offer apple-cinnamon topping? MY FAVORITE.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 9 March 2006 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

books about the web are OUT OF DATE AKA "TIRED"

So's the web site I work on but am I authorized to change that? nope...

Also reading: http://images.amazon.com/images/P/159253192X.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

It's OK, could've used a good copy editor on the theory section, but I plan on returning it to Borders after reading through anyways.

― dar1a g (daria g), Thursday, 9 March 2006 22:53 (nineteen years ago)

i dont think of the fall as punk

or postpunk

― terry lennox. (gareth), Friday, 10 March 2006 00:31 (nineteen years ago)

I liked the SR book, but I can't be bothered to get upset if something is deemed punk or post-punk or what have you, so maybe that's why?

I think once I finish the current batch of library books, I'm going to get the Peter Shapiro book, and read all the disco/dance books mentioned on the ILM thread. Except the Mel Cheren book, 'cause my library system doesn't have it. (But they do have the Albert Goldman!)

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Friday, 10 March 2006 01:09 (nineteen years ago)

Surely, Live at the Witch Trials is a punk record.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 10 March 2006 01:11 (nineteen years ago)

Gharbzadegi by Jalal Ali Ahmad

― milton parker (Jon L), Friday, 10 March 2006 01:38 (nineteen years ago)

you're probably right, i dont mind!

― terry lennox, (gareth), Friday, 10 March 2006 09:40 (nineteen years ago)

i0826458319.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Friday, 10 March 2006 10:09 (nineteen years ago)

D'oh. That was supposed to be the cover of Alain Badiou's "Being and Event"

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Friday, 10 March 2006 10:09 (nineteen years ago)

today i bought:

david lodge "small world" (the sequel to a book I thought was HILARIOUS)
THE BEST OF FRITZ LEIBER!! (i love pulp; introduction by Poul Anderson!)
h.l. mencken "A Gang of Pecksniffs" (about the newspaper world. love this dude, also.)

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Saturday, 11 March 2006 04:31 (nineteen years ago)

god that simon reynolds book about post-punk was a piece of shit. my favorite moments were his chapter's on pre-punk bands being shoehorned into his post-punk frame. also, learn like one thing about ohio besides Pere Ubu and Devo, thanks!

― Jack Cole (jackcole), Monday, 13 March 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

mencken was a krautrokker:

"There are, indeed, only two kinds of music: German music and bad music."

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 13 March 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

best mencken music quote though:

"Of Schubert I hesitate to speak. The fellow was scarcely human. His merest belch was as lovely as the song of the sirens. He sweated beauty as naturally as a Christian sweats hate."

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 13 March 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

haha. roffles. i love mencken. he's so much fun to read.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Monday, 13 March 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty, 1945

Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty creatively unfolds through the overheard thoughts of the members of the Fairchild family. The oversized clan deals with a massive amount of external and internal issues that focus on both the unity and the conflict within this tight-knit Southern family. This novel does not focus on one person, place, or thing. The protagonist of Delta Wedding is the Fairchild family in that the author tells the story through the voices of the entire family. However, the character of George does stand out as the hero of the novel.

George Fairchild is the only family member in touch with reality, and he appears to be a knight in shining armor. Everyone is drawn to George. George has separated himself from the clan by moving away from the dynasty, and he has learned to differentiate the family members from the family as a whole. George Fairchild is the only character in the novel who has learned the value of love and honor above all else.

George's life had taken on a new meaning when he met the love of his life, Robbie Reid. He had stepped over the boundary, defied the Fairchilds, and married Robbie, a woman whom the family perceived as a threat to their social position, even more so than Dabney’s betrothed Troy. Before Robbie's marriage to George she was a clerk at Fairchilds, the family's store. It isn't as embarrassing or unbecoming for Dabney to marry Troy because his background isn't well known, and Troy has been quick in learning to imitate Battle's every move. Battle will quickly move Troy up the ladder of success, whereas Robbie is a local girl whose background is impossible to hide. Robbie refuses to conform to the Fairchild traditions, she is considered to be an unfit wife for the magnificent George, and she has been a life long neighbor.

Dabney is most able to understand George’s separateness in that she is greatly concerned about her family’s dislike for Troy and the implications it may have on her life. Dabney fears the price she will pay for the betrayal will be more than she can bear. The Fairchild family does not invite outsiders and Troy is an outsider. He has been raised deep in the backwoods, and he is an employee of the Fairchilds. Considering Troy's background and lack of social standing, Dabney believes at times that she is betraying Fairchild by marrying “below” her social class. Dabney is aware that her father does not want her to go. She also knows one cannot escape being a Fairchild, but Dabney wants her freedom. Before the wedding she reflects on how protected she has been up until now, and Dabney feels the marriage will give her the freedom to face the real world, just as George found a similar courage within.

The dislike between Robbie and the family is mutual. Aunt Mac criticizes Robbie and Robbie strikes back: " 'Aunt Mac Fairchild!' said Robbie, 'You're all spoiled, stuck-up family that thinks nobody else is really in the world! But they are!'" Robbie is possessive and jealous, and George's family is equally possessive and jealous. Robbie is the ultimate outsider that the family loves to hate.

The family's thoughts concerning the invasive outsiders are opinionated and judgmental. The Fairchilds are protected by a self-made boundary that secures them from the outside world. Throughout this novel one discovers the family members often consider themselves as outsiders. Ellen, the wife of Battle Fairchild, is a twenty-year outsider member of this dynasty and knows the frustration of trying to become one of the Fairchilds. Robbie, the wife of George Fairchild, is an embarrassment to the family and will always be considered an outsider. Troy, the outsider-to-be, is judged as unsuitable marriage material for Dabney. And little Laura, the orphaned Fairchild, is treated as if she does not exist. The sight of Laura brings back memories of her mother, and the memories bring pain. In this story one has the opportunity to experience a family dealing with its own world in its own way. The novel Delta Wedding shares a family's struggle with conflict and compassion within the family unit, within the individual, and within the outsiders trying to penetrate the family's secure boundary.

A complexity of boundaries is found within each family member and encircling the Fairchild family as a whole, however George has been able to cross these boundaries both in physical sense and in an emotional one. He has separated himself as much as possible from the ties that sought to bind him to family tradition. These boundaries hold the family in a somewhat balanced world, and an outsider's intrusion into their world threatens the balanced security. George’s separation from the family is therefore indicative of his separation with the family’s narrow-minded attitudes as well.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Monday, 13 March 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0471648493.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

http://www.paperview.com/store/images/categories/abebarthesfashion.JPG

― elmo, patron saint of nausea (allocryptic), Monday, 13 March 2006 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

gettin into the casual wear groove, eh?

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Monday, 13 March 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

fo sho

― elmo, patron saint of nausea (allocryptic), Monday, 13 March 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

what a coincidence, i'm reading:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0671717820.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
and
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/imageDB.cgi?isbn=0374521611

― killy (baby lenin pin), Monday, 13 March 2006 22:00 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.cmgww.com/historic/twain/twnm003.jpg

i've been all up in his head space for a few months now

― kephm (kephm), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 23:56 (nineteen years ago)

the unbearable lightness of being by milan kundera.

up next some turgenev or some proust.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Saturday, 25 March 2006 04:07 (nineteen years ago)

Dude, that book is not an upper.

― Laura H. (laurah), Saturday, 25 March 2006 08:28 (nineteen years ago)

ian, have you read gogol? i much prefer him to turgenev

reminds me, i should read the new pelevin.

― charltonlido (gareth), Saturday, 25 March 2006 09:08 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/x0/x4997.jpg

surprisingly gd bk abt one 'the Beckett of Hammersmith'- a bk that acknowledges the compromise - lies - of literary biog but still knuckles down to telling the story of johnson's life, which ended w/ his suicide in 1973 at the age of 40 - written w/ wit and intelligence and great sympathy

also read hammer of the gds by stephen davis, notorious bk abt led zeppelin - terrible but compulsively readable

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Saturday, 25 March 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

im tempted by this: http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0801870879.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

what im really looking for is a decent book about hawaiian music of the 20s or 30s, but, in the meantime, any recommendations of prewar pop music would be great

― charltonlido (gareth), Saturday, 25 March 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

i have read some gogol, gareth. i almost bought dead souls yesterday, actually, but it seemed so long and brutal. i like his short stories, though.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Saturday, 25 March 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

about to start Tom Perrota's Little Children

plus the 2 new Baseball Prospectus books, obv

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 25 March 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

i read 'dead as doornails' by anthony cronin a little while ago. it was pretty fantastic.

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 25 March 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

dead souls isnt really a heavy book, i dunno, its a while since i read it though

― charltonlido (gareth), Saturday, 25 March 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

it just seemed long and daunting.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Saturday, 25 March 2006 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

There's graffiti by a scenic waterfall near Superior, WI that says "read Gogol."

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Monday, 27 March 2006 06:31 (nineteen years ago)

i had to quit on dead souls...i read some stories of his that were quite good, though...

happily purchaced and read for hours yesterday: flann o'brien the best of myles

― bb (bbrz), Monday, 27 March 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

finished the ink truck last night. working on vertigo.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 27 March 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

ahhhh! i never got to finish vertigo. almost bought his book about not talking about the war in germany yesterday--on the natural history of destruction i think...has anyone read that?

― bb (bbrz), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

starting "fire love" by turgenev today. will probably finish it today, also, since it is short.

what then?

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.velopress.com/pictures/92.jpg

― ddb (ddb), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

if that is some sort of quasi-religious tract on the implications of american imperialism and the mountainbike, i will eat my hat.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

the mark kurlansky book on oysters and new york

and 20 other books

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

can somebody tell me about edward de bono?

― bb (bbrz), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

Bill "Spaceman" Lee - The Little Red (Sox) Book
new National Geographic
WSJ weekend edition

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

NOPE, JUST A BOOK ABOUT FIXING YR BROKED MT. BIKE.

IT HAS FUNNY ILLUSTRATIONS.

― ddb (ddb), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

http://efi.group.shef.ac.uk/bib/s323blocks.jpg
Blocks of Consciousness and the Unbroken Continuum (2005)
This is a book + DVD about electronic free improv (Erstwhile Records type stuff, onkyo, post-AMM soundz)

― Dominique (dleone), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

Send Me, a debut novel by Patrick Ryan

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

i miss adamrl.

i am reading
the saskiad by brian hall
and
blood & grits by harry crews

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.bookpool.com/covers/877/0764588877_500.gif

― autovac (autovac), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

i've spent the last 2 days writing a paper on

http://img.epinions.com/images/opti/0d/77/0803253656-books-resized200.jpg

but fun reading is

http://www.conjunctions.com/images/conj39a.gif

peter straub's anthology of hoity-toity fantasy.

― adam (adam), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1594481865.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

i had a field day at the library today...

Theodore Sturgeon The Ultimate Egoist Vol 1
John Julius Norwich A Short History of Byzantium
the autobiography of Mark Twain
The Best American Science Writing 2005
The Letters of H.L. Mencken
PKD The Penultimate Truth
Orwell Keep The Aspidistra Flying

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Thursday, 11 May 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

Sinclair Lewis - Babbitt (skimmed)
Peter Doyle - Echo And Reverb: Fabricating Space in Popular Music Recording, 1900-1960
"An Ives Celebration" - ed. Vivian Perlis
Osamu Dazai - The Setting Sun

all great, except for 'Babbitt'

― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 11 May 2006 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

nick tosches, "cut numbers"

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 11 May 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

BOING BOING

― JW (ex machina), Thursday, 11 May 2006 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

http://chadsreviews.com/why-this-exists/pix-from-bees/

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 11 May 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

yea, i posted that on my del.icio.us. so rad!!!

― JW (ex machina), Thursday, 11 May 2006 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

scamming on office skanks

― lf (lfam), Thursday, 11 May 2006 23:25 (nineteen years ago)

also reading & using one of these: http://www.cycling74.com/download/lemur_c74.pdf

― milton parker (Jon L), Friday, 12 May 2006 00:04 (nineteen years ago)

YUPPIE

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 12 May 2006 00:17 (nineteen years ago)

like I paid for it

― milton parker (Jon L), Friday, 12 May 2006 00:19 (nineteen years ago)

(it's only a loaner though)

― milton parker (Jon L), Friday, 12 May 2006 00:21 (nineteen years ago)

who cares... looks cool.

...

xsl book
random safari.oreilly titles
"aeiou" by jeffrey brown
complete shorts of mark twain

― msp (mspa), Friday, 12 May 2006 02:00 (nineteen years ago)

mimi sheraton: the bialy eaters: the story of a bread and a lost world
joshua gamson - the fabulous sylvester
marion nestle - what to eat
t.j. english - paddy whacked: the untold story of the irish american gangster
michael bronksi - culture clash: the making a of a gay sensibility

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Friday, 12 May 2006 02:12 (nineteen years ago)

thanks to cut number i finally understand the numbers racket.

flann o'brein's at swim-two-birds
raymond queneau's stories and remarks.

both entirely recommendable

― bb (bbrz), Friday, 12 May 2006 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

killy: lover's discourse, c/d? i am reading barthes' mythologies now and it is really noize. what's a noise dude reading.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 00:55 (nineteen years ago)

winston churchill the second world war volume 2: their finest hour

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 01:00 (nineteen years ago)

& just finished evan eisenberg's the recording angel, which is fantastic, especially once he reaches the middle chapter 'phonography', ditches the anthropology and just sails away into abstract truest space

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 01:04 (nineteen years ago)

caitlin: my post up above was just a joek in response to allocryptic's post. can't remember shit about that book, but i can see the spine from across the room, so C. last time i said something positiv about barthes i got yelled at by some drunk dude at sun city girls show who was like "what are u, 25? get a life! barthes is gay! john barth rules!"

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 01:12 (nineteen years ago)

Wouldn't 25 be a compliment?

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

I started a really boring novel about junkies last night (Luke Davies, 'Candy'), but I think I'm going to toss it aside in favor of the new Pevear translations of The Double and the Gambler.

I'm on a Russian kick for the summer, do any noizers have a favorite translation of The Death of Ivan Ilyich?

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 01:23 (nineteen years ago)

john barth? does anyone read stuff by that guy? i don't even know who he are

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 01:30 (nineteen years ago)

i know lots of peeps who are into john barth, matter of fact. he writes fiction.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 01:34 (nineteen years ago)

ok i knew that but i didn't know people cared! i thought he was just some guy

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 01:37 (nineteen years ago)

he's "just some guy" to most people on this Earth, i'd imagine.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 01:38 (nineteen years ago)

I found Barth's Chimera at a thrift store and read the first of the 3 sections .... the Arabian Nights one ... I could see how it was probably groundbreaking as far as metafiction goes but since meta is so played out now (or at least, I have read my fill of it for a long time) it seemed pretty dated

most recently I read Secret Rendezvous by Kobo Abe. It was OK but I liked The Ruined Map better ...

― Renard (Renard), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 02:00 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know what is a good translation of Ivan Ilych.. but I usually like translations that are pointing a little more at the source language that they sound somewhat different than modern English, even awkward at times, not so polished. I tried to learn Russian (didn't give enough time/effort to be good at it) but with the way the language is structured it seems to configure space differently. weird.

I was reading "In a country of mothers" by AM Homes - just a whim - it's OK, I think she's probably written better stuff though.

― dar1a g (daria g), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 02:23 (nineteen years ago)

the book of revelation

― latebloomer's potater chip of the proletariat (latebloomer), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 02:24 (nineteen years ago)

The only good Barth I've read has been The Sot-Weed Factor. Everything else has been cutesy indie rock shit.

Currently reading PAMELA which is v good and Watson's book about Zappa which is slightly less good. Also The Book of Margery Kempe which is not by choice and less good (or at least less interesting) than all three of the above.

― adam (adam), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 02:36 (nineteen years ago)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0752860399.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 03:02 (nineteen years ago)

jimmy mcdonough's bio of andy milligan
saramago "blindness"
mailer "the naked and the dead"
howard "conan the conqueror"

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 03:41 (nineteen years ago)

i just read "the three stigmata of eldritch palmer" in one evening. did a lot better than when i was a sixth-grader. i think i stopped "getting it" sometime around the sixth or seventh chapter back then ... this time i could follow it almost all the way to the end. i got more of the jokes and references this time around, too. particularly the dirty ones and the ones about religion. weird, that.

now back to "miles runs the voodoo down" (phil d freeman is the shit!)

― renegade bear shot by cops on frat row (vahid), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 05:17 (nineteen years ago)

hmm...I almosted posted this on the enemies list yesterday:

The Plugged Nickel box is amazing, most of all because Miles is the weakest link in the band a lot of the time (and I really don't like Wayne Shorter very much at all).
-- pdf

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 09:10 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.zaalbooks.nl/BookImages/1068.jpg

― and what (ooo), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

http://pictures.abebooks.com/COPPERHILLBOOKS/438781610.jpg

― and what (ooo), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

The only good Barth I've read has been The Sot-Weed Factor. Everything else has been cutesy indie rock shit.

YA RLY. anything that can be described as "smart and funny" usually doesn't sit well with me.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

well, not anything. i just have some specific, annoying writers in mind.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

First part of Chimera is pretty great.

― danski (danski), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

kevin lynch's the image of the city, which is on my summer reading list for school. i bought it today at the art/architecture bookstore on wilshire in santa monica.

― sometimes it takes an earthquake to know where the fault lies (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 8 June 2006 00:44 (nineteen years ago)

that looks like a good read. please give update when finished.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Thursday, 8 June 2006 01:41 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.curthoppe.com/Penthouse_letters.jpg

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Thursday, 8 June 2006 01:46 (nineteen years ago)

my dad reads those

― i shouldn't know this (baby lenin pin), Thursday, 8 June 2006 01:50 (nineteen years ago)

that looks like a good read. please give update when finished.

the "image" he means is kind of a photographic image people mentally take of cities as they walk around them and navigate them -- a kind of moment-to-moment spatial analysis, or the way people are able to figure out/remember directions by recalling notable buildings and intersections and public spaces, and how dead areas and drab neighborhoods without any real nodes of activity make it easier for visitors to get lost. he looks at cities very systemically, by going into detail and then asking how those details function within the larger system. only problem from the reader's end is that it was written in 1960 and some of the places he's talked about have changed or are undergoing changes. what he writes about is still very relevant though.

― sometimes it takes an earthquake to know where the fault lies (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 8 June 2006 02:02 (nineteen years ago)

jameson talks about that book in his postmodernism book. he draws kind of a tardish (like duh, but also wrong) conclusion from it though. i want to read books about cities/buildings but not that one. a different one.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 8 June 2006 02:51 (nineteen years ago)

JBR: THAT WAS FAST
CAITLIN: HUH? my favorite book about cities is Invisible Cities (Calvino). read that one.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Thursday, 8 June 2006 02:53 (nineteen years ago)

I DON'T LIKE CALVINO, BARELY AT ALL. is it nonfiction though? the only thing i have read by him is the one about the winter night and the traveler and i got 2/3 done and i was like fuck, i don't even like this, so boring. then i quit. i like realism.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 8 June 2006 02:55 (nineteen years ago)

ok, you won't like invisible cities.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Thursday, 8 June 2006 02:56 (nineteen years ago)

i don't know what kind of book about cities i want though. i want to know about architecture and poor people and politics. i don't mean like mike davis (is that his name i forgot), that guy that writes about slums and stuff, i mean like stuff about cities that is like, harder to read.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 8 June 2006 02:59 (nineteen years ago)

i liked this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262024519/103-3321431-1142242?v=glance&n=283155

― killy (baby lenin pin), Thursday, 8 June 2006 03:03 (nineteen years ago)

what about de Certeau's 'The Practice of Everyday Life'? or Henri Lefebvre's 'The Production of Space'? might be up your alley. I've never read 'em though. I just know they are supposed to be "the shit". and like hard and stuff.

I am reading the Peter Green biography (still). I bought Alan Lomax's 'Where the Blues Began' for cheap at the book fair on Sunday, and I hope to finish the Green and start the Lomax before the blues fest starts on Friday.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Thursday, 8 June 2006 03:08 (nineteen years ago)

oh yeah! those were both on my mental list and i forgot them. i think i would really like lefebvre but i don't know very much about certeau. i think adamrl read that book.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 8 June 2006 03:29 (nineteen years ago)

i like pretty girls.

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Thursday, 8 June 2006 04:30 (nineteen years ago)

ok I like books AND pretty girls.

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Thursday, 8 June 2006 04:34 (nineteen years ago)

Its allaout the plightofconcering art verys love in humun bonage.philipcaresthe doctorsdaughterbecauceshepovide

I AM AN ASSHOLE.

duh.

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Thursday, 8 June 2006 04:40 (nineteen years ago)

those were my drunk roommate.

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Thursday, 8 June 2006 04:55 (nineteen years ago)

she's a funny one, she is.

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Thursday, 8 June 2006 04:55 (nineteen years ago)

finished the frank kogan book. now onto THE UNB EARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 June 2006 05:30 (nineteen years ago)

a man without a country
david boring
ice haven
identity crisis
the metamorphosis (comic version)
.net gotchas
ajax hacks
c# cookbook
xpath
xslt 2.0

― msp (mspa), Thursday, 8 June 2006 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

Ball Four (in anticipation of meeting the author in 3 weeks)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 June 2006 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

wtf @ dissing barth & loving calvino

― and what (ooo), Thursday, 8 June 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

i like italians.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Thursday, 8 June 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

winters night is one f the worst books i ever read

― and what (ooo), Thursday, 8 June 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, i said i like invisible cities brah. dunno about that other shit.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Thursday, 8 June 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

i have some issues with imagined cities. ones i've dreamt about while asleep, etc, so i'm partial to anything about Cities being Invisible.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Thursday, 8 June 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

new george saunders

prometheus + seven against thebes - aesychlus

turn of the screw - henry james

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 8 June 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

henry james >>>> everybody else on this thread

― and what (ooo), Thursday, 8 June 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

Calvino sucks a million dicks.

― adam (adam), Thursday, 8 June 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

thank u

― and what (ooo), Thursday, 8 June 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

i always imagine him as the sleazy dude from the onion 'european men are so romantic' point-counterpoint

― and what (ooo), Thursday, 8 June 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

I have this idea of him as a Eurotrash David Foster Wallace, which is pretty much the same thing.

― adam (adam), Thursday, 8 June 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

henry james is boring

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 8 June 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

actually the only guy i like is balzac

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 8 June 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

calvino's collection of italian folktales is great.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 8 June 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

what james have you read?

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 8 June 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

(i am only being contentious and really don't have that strong of an opinion on henry james). i have read 2 things by him (long time ago) but i forgot what they were. i think daisy miller? and something else. i don't like stuff from that period usually, though. i really do like balzac! and flaubert.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 8 June 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

but what about invisible cities? do you hate that too (addressed to everyone who dissed calvino)? that's the only one i like.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Thursday, 8 June 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

i love balzac & flaubert

― and what (ooo), Thursday, 8 June 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

if you had to read james for jr high/high school, then i'm not surprised if you hate him (though you might hate him no matter what- who knows?) as he's one of the most badly-taught authors.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 8 June 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

i read him on my own. i will try again someday

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 8 June 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

'On biting the tongue' is pretty great.

― danski (danski), Thursday, 8 June 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

'On Hashish' is pretty great. walter benjamin making up cutesy silly names for objects in his field of vision.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Thursday, 8 June 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

if you love Balzac and Flaubert, you might like Portrait of a Lady better than Daisy Miller. if you don't like Portrait, the later James will just piss you off, though.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 8 June 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

Calvino rules! F the haters.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Thursday, 8 June 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

Calvino rules! F the haters.

if on a winter's night a traveller makes my head spin. in the best possible way.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 8 June 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

have any noize dudes read Henry Miller's Time of the Assassins? i'm about 40 pages into it, and so far it just seems like Mr. Miller is comparing himself to Rimbaud. i don't know whether to keep going or leave it on the shelf. does it go anywhere? or does he just keep describing all the little details of his life that correspond to Rimbaud's?

― killy (baby lenin pin), Monday, 12 June 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't read that one. I'm not a huge Miller fan. His books, for me, seem to run together into a stream of bitter, lonely sexuality.

That said, I got (for free) a nice copy of his letters to Anais Nin this weekend. Guy at stoop sale gave it to me.

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Monday, 12 June 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

i got a free copy of one of Ninny's diaries a few weeks ago. it's kind of boring.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Monday, 12 June 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

yeah. fuckin self-important people be writing books bout theyselves.

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Monday, 12 June 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

whenever i read henry miller i get the urge to either take a shower or smoke opium

― killy (baby lenin pin), Monday, 12 June 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

a stream of bitter, lonely sexuality.

You mean there's another kind?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 June 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

ugh. i hate henry miller.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 12 June 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

i am kind of feeling the same way after trying to read this Rimbaud jerk-off

― killy (baby lenin pin), Monday, 12 June 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

I love Portrait of a Lady and second the recommend for M de Certeau, I read part of that & quite enjoyed. Also what about Walter Benjamin's arcades project - too obvious? Bachelard, The Poetics of Space.

Here is what I am reading
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/covers/0596000359_cat.gif

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 12 June 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, arcades project if you have a really, really long time.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Monday, 12 June 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

midnights children yo

― SQUARECOATS (plsmith), Monday, 12 June 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

I have to get this one next!

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/covers/0596007655_cat.gif

"I read an amazing book recently that's a f***ing manifesto for my philosophies on information on the web and through other connected technologies. The book is Ambient Findability, and it's a short read, but dense with inspiration. It talks about everything from defining a document (animal in wild != document, animal in zoo = document, but what about animal in wild with RFID tag?) to person-tracking to folksonomy to the long tail to ambient information to wearable computing."
--StephtheGeek, March 2006

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 12 June 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

chapter 1, page 1: "I'm sitting on a beach in Newport, Rhode Island."

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 12 June 2006 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

the sagas of icelanders
william burroughs - the soft machine
richard rhodes - the making of the atomic bomb (re-read)

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 12 June 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

I hate technical software books. Daria, rec me some shit like that

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Monday, 12 June 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

holy shit dar1a that sounds sweet

― SQUARECOATS (plsmith), Monday, 12 June 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

I am really a super novice here, but we need one (1) CMS + thesauras + metadata + serious information design to really make some of our web sites work, so I picked up the O'Reilly book on IA, although I don't remember where I found out about it. it's from 2002 so I bet a lot of new cool stuff has come out since then.

Oh shit, from the recommended list in the back of that book:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0226468046

also see blogs:
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/
http://www.informationdesign.org/

"A reading list for aspiring knowledge workers"
http://futuretense.corante.com/archives/2006/02/27/a_reading_list_for_aspiring_knowledge_workers.php

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 12 June 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

SCOTT PILGRIM VOL 1 -3

― ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ (chaki), Monday, 12 June 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

I need to reread that Richard Rhodes book as well

I'm reading Yamaha's Sound Reinforcement Handbook, bible of live sound mixing tech from the early 80's

― milton parker (Jon L), Monday, 12 June 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

yeah... i've seen the IA book... wanted AF... i've got a sub to safari books online... i'll have to check em out.
m.

― msp (mspa), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 01:31 (nineteen years ago)

and what i can't believe you're dissing calvino but reading a PAUL AUSTER book... ew...

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 02:31 (nineteen years ago)

i'm reading austerlitz by wg "og" sebald right now... going to maybe read tropical truth next (is it actually good)? and/or barney's version by mordecai richler.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 02:32 (nineteen years ago)

'If Chins Could Kill' - Bruce Campbell's autobiography

― S- (sgh), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 03:21 (nineteen years ago)

i borrowed a harry partch book from teh ian yesterday, but it will probably take me some time to actually read it because i am a drunk.

― tehresa, who will here remain anonymous (tehresa), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 03:23 (nineteen years ago)

also working on a pdf (hi, tedious!) of the libretto for britten's the rape of lucretia. ok, the libretto is actually by duncan, but i hear britten in my head while i read.

― tehresa, who will here remain anonymous (tehresa), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 03:26 (nineteen years ago)

an advance copy of This Is Your Brain On Music by Steven Leviten, he's a neuroscientist and former record producer who explains how we perceive and process music. It's written for a general audience but he doesn't gussy up the cognitive or mathematical underpinnings of music theory w/fancypants prose.

this book is blowing my mind, bros.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 09:03 (nineteen years ago)

neat.

I have a safari sub as well (@work) but would it kill them to make the interface better so that the books are actually readable?

― dar1a g (daria g), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 10:32 (nineteen years ago)

its Daniel Levitin - i saw the webpage for that bk a couple of weeks ago:

http://www.yourbrainonmusic.com/

― xyzzzz__ (jdesouza), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 10:38 (nineteen years ago)

oops early AM posting is my downfall. i'd be interested in yr take Julio. Dr. Daniel is really takin this liberal arts dude to school.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

Walter Tevis' The Man Who Fell to Earth (unexpectedly included in the library's Criterion Collection DVD of the Roeg film)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

I made it through high school and part of college without ever reading a word of Philip Roth, so I started Portnoy's Complaint. Thru 125 or so, I am not sold.

― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

wait till you get to 129

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 02:04 (nineteen years ago)

Do I get another long description of Daddy Portnoy's unit?

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 02:19 (nineteen years ago)

I'm reading some ghost stories by Sheridan Le Fanu and really loving them.

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 03:02 (nineteen years ago)

oooh, those information architecture books and links... thanks dar1a. god, i love information. i'm reading stuff about discourse analysis, still. your brain on music looks awesome too.

i just finished reading age of innocence and a few books of poemtry. i have house of leaves and have had it for a few years but still haven't read it (was a present). i mostly just don't want to be freaked out and unable to sleep properly.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 03:12 (nineteen years ago)

read the first chapter of Valis on the subway today

― Renard (Renard), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 03:54 (nineteen years ago)

i just spent like $300 on amazon and ium drunk!

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 04:41 (nineteen years ago)

woah, that shit cost $300!??!?! it didn't seem like that much!

― tehresa, who will here remain anonymous (tehresa), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 05:06 (nineteen years ago)

haha .. been there ... hello Duke Ellington Anniversery Box

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 05:14 (nineteen years ago)

ha it was only $24 !

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 05:24 (nineteen years ago)

am reading italo svevo, "a life"

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 06:22 (nineteen years ago)

http://products.listal.com/images/nodrop/180/0321305256/books/stylin-with-css-a-designers-guide.jpg

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

screw it, i started Victor Hugo NOTRE DAME. this old rotten mildew copy with cigarette paper pages.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

THE WALKING DEAD VOLUMES 1-3.

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Jesus, reading Lucy the original Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie - intense.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 9 July 2006 00:20 (nineteen years ago)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0802130135.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Sunday, 9 July 2006 02:47 (nineteen years ago)

am reading italo svevo, "a life"

-- cozen (skiplevel...) (webmail), June 14th, 2006 12:22 AM. (Cozen) (link)

So, so good!

(I'm reading a Hans Christian Andersen bio).

― Damn, Atreyu! (x Jeremy), Sunday, 9 July 2006 02:58 (nineteen years ago)

an instance of the fingerpost by iain pears
and from hell by allan moore & eddie campbell

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Sunday, 9 July 2006 03:07 (nineteen years ago)

Chuck Palahniuk's Diary, and all four of John Fante's Arturo Bandini books are the most recent reads for me. May reread Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics next.

― ALLAH FROG (Mingus Dew), Sunday, 9 July 2006 04:00 (nineteen years ago)

from hell by allan moore & eddie campbell

I just finished Watchmen .... pretty cool. I had never read of Allan Moore's stuff before.

also PKD's Valis was great

― dmr (Renard), Sunday, 9 July 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

read *any* of

― dmr (Renard), Sunday, 9 July 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

i just read who's afraid of virginia woolf? as an easy one for times when brain is not functioning. i started pride and prejudice cause somehow i never read it and i had it but i'm like 5 pages in and annoyed by girls who just wanna get married.

― tehresa, who will here remain anonymous (tehresa), Sunday, 9 July 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

I just finished Watchmen .... pretty cool. I had never read of Allan Moore's stuff before.

wha????? I read Watchmen like once a year.

Currently into The Economy of Cities, by Jane Jacobs. It makes me want to punch every hippy and/or redneck nimby right in the face.

― gbx (skowly), Sunday, 9 July 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

After taking a long break from it, I am now back to Pessoa's "The Book of Disquiet". It's amazing, and it is a weirdly potent kind of mood-intoxicant. It kind of paralyzes you with ennui.

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Sunday, 9 July 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

wha?????

haha I knew that was coming .... playing catch-up over here! don't laugh!

― dmr (Renard), Monday, 10 July 2006 01:00 (nineteen years ago)

guys our lady of the flowers is the best book i have ever read (maybe) and i'm only on pg 112

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Monday, 10 July 2006 01:16 (nineteen years ago)

new yorker summer fiction issue

― killy (baby lenin pin), Monday, 10 July 2006 01:28 (nineteen years ago)

The best novel I've ever read is The Green Knight by Iris Murdoch.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 10 July 2006 01:50 (nineteen years ago)

VALIS is really trippy, innit? The PKD I've read:

Three Stigmata of Palmer Erdrich
Valis
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
Man in the High Castle
Scanner Darkly

so what should I scoop up next?

― Damn, Atreyu! (x Jeremy), Monday, 10 July 2006 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

UBIK.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 10 July 2006 12:33 (nineteen years ago)

yeah Ubik is good, I read that one a few months before Valis. Valis is probably better, a little more of a mind-fuck ... but I liked both ...

I think that list above names all the other ones I've read ...

― dmr (Renard), Monday, 10 July 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

definitely ubik. also try now wait for last year, time out of joint, and do androids dream of electric sheep.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 10 July 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

the world jones made is pretty good, too.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 10 July 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.jazzrecordcenter.com/store/images/miles1021.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0738202037.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― Dominique (dleone), Monday, 10 July 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

along the jane jacobs line i just started paul goodman's communitas

a silly academic (perhaps too much so) thing called greenwich village 1963: the avant garde and the efervescent body

also a bunch a breton and alfred jarry and joseph cornell's diaries

spent sat night rereading another country..a deathwish encouraged by a bottle of whiskey.

will pick up some djuna barnes at the library later

x-post I: i don't buy our lady of the flowers...when i started it, years ago, i was entranced...finished it about two years ago without a care. sometimes depravity just ends up vacant? i don't know...what do people get from it?..i'm always a bit envious when i fail to see the charm in things, gluton that i am.

x-post II: i should reread the book of disquiet. i started it in college, but it didn't feel right at the time. maybe it will never feel right, but im glad you reminded me of it, drew

― bb (bbrz), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

Autobiography of Betrand Russell
Time Enough for Love - Heinlein
Playgrounds of the Mind - Niven

― Songbirds of Darker Florida (cprek), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

ny people i am new - where is a good used book store?

― tehresa, who will here remain anonymous (tehresa), Monday, 10 July 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

THE STRAND.
BROADWAY & 12TH.

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Monday, 10 July 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

tx ian!

― tehresa, who will here remain anonymous (tehresa), Monday, 10 July 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

in one of those modes where I've started all these books and can't really get into one (they all seem good, it's no knock on the books themselves):

Neil Gaimen - American Gods
David Foster Wallace - Consider the Lobster
Joseph Conrad - Lord Jim
Steve Kent - The Clone Republic (sci-fi paperback a friend of mine recently god published)

― M@tt He1geson, Rendolent Ding-Dong (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

the strand is amazing. don't go there looking for anything in particular, though. you need to have some free time and be in a serious browsing mood. alabaster on 4th ave and 12th st is really good as well, but a completely different style - small and orderly. there's also a fantastic place run by an eccentric old man that i found in the west village during a rainstorm a few years ago, but it seems to have disappeared brigadoon-style.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

there's also a second Strand near Wall St if you happen to be way downtown .... but the Union Sq one is better

― dmr (Renard), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

isn't the strand where michael caine buys that ee cummings book in hannah & her sisters?

― Dominique (dleone), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

i like e village books on st. marks...but they can be pricey...lots of good people on the street near nyu library on saturdays...but again..can be pricey...if yr just looking for nothng in particular and are in brooklyn theres the thing and that dude's wife's place down the street on manhattan ave. piles of stuff, some good, some not even fit for toilet paper.

― bb (bbrz), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

A Most Damnable Invention: Dynamite, Nitrates and the Making of the Modern World by Stephen R. Brown

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 10 July 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

girlsarepretty.com is unusually painful today

― milton parker (Jon L), Monday, 10 July 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

box office poison
tiny giants
acme novelty date book
orthodoxy
some ginnnnsberg interview book
chunklet over-rated book
tech books of relevance, cookbooks, study guides, hacks, etc.
m.

― msp (mspa), Monday, 10 July 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

SCOTT PILGRIM VOL. 2
UMBRA

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Monday, 10 July 2006 22:59 (nineteen years ago)

Matt Briggs Shoot The Buffalo

― Igor Adkins (Grodd), Monday, 10 July 2006 23:03 (nineteen years ago)

muriel spark, loitering with intent.

― estela (estela), Monday, 10 July 2006 23:18 (nineteen years ago)

COLLISION AT HOME PLATE
YOU GOTTA HAVE WA
SEASONS IN HELL

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 01:00 (nineteen years ago)

Into the Wild
the big book of TC Boyle short stories that I bought for "The Hector Quesadilla Story"

― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 01:27 (nineteen years ago)

right now I am just reading a lot of French newspapers talking about Zidane. I really need to focus on something else soon, though!

― dar1a g (daria g), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 02:13 (nineteen years ago)

The Trouble With Tom - Paul Collins
The Know-It-All - A.J. Jacobs
The Men Who Stare At Goats - Jon Ronson
Infinite Jest. AGAIN. WHY?

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 03:24 (nineteen years ago)

a biography of Robert Mitchum & some book about flappers

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 03:25 (nineteen years ago)

you don't need to read infinite jest to be a good person. trust me, i'd never touch it and i'm a great person

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 03:33 (nineteen years ago)

Looking back at my list, if I just established a "read only books that start with THE *" rule, I could probably live out the rest of my life a much happier person.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 03:41 (nineteen years ago)

don't re-read infinite jest, it's a trap, that book is as empty as a soap dish at the local dump

― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 04:30 (nineteen years ago)

The noize biard has set me free.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 04:36 (nineteen years ago)

i loved loved loved infinite jest but wondering how dated it is and how much i would love it now plus obv it's length stops me from rereading it.

anyhow my so-dull so-sad list

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 04:37 (nineteen years ago)

you guys all have the weirdest taste and i can't understand

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 04:42 (nineteen years ago)

ALSO:

Finley Wren - Philip Wylie (AGAIN, BUT ALWAYS WORTH IT)

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 04:48 (nineteen years ago)

The Planets -- Dava Sobel

astronomy for liberal arts dummies, explained in clear beautiful prose. if I didn't live in a city, I'd go buy a telescope.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 09:04 (nineteen years ago)

i'm reading The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics by Bruce J Schulman. i'm about halfway through it so far, it hasn't delved very far in depth about any particular issue. so no great revelations but the part about nixon's presidency was interesting because i don't think i totally grasped what a shrewd motherfucker that guy was. and he was both shrewd and a motherfucker. right now the book is focusing on the rising political and economic influence of the south and the "reddening of america". nice summer time read.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

I jsut read that awhile back, pretty much agree. I highly reccomend the recent 1973 Nervous Breakdown by Andreas Killen. He pulls a lot of disparate strands together w/o straining for effect.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

i wrote it down, will investigate.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

The Men Who Stare At Goats - Jon Ronson

this was close to being really good but in the end I just didn't believe half the shit the guy was saying (which was a drawback when he starts trying to make serious points about the Iraq war).

― dmr (Renard), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

Pulpy red-scare summer read, just finished:

http://g-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/3a/4d/015bd250fca0fb1f9e578010._AA240_.L.jpg

Apparently they made a movie of it starring:
Rutger Hauer
John Hurt
Craig T. Nelson
& Dennis Hopper

which I obviously have to rent now

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah the movie's great. Like the Big Chill with a body count.

The Shockwave Rider - John Brunner
Suicide: No Compromise - David Nobakht

― Alicia Fucking Silverstone (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

the dying animal - phillp roth (just started)
the big sleep - raymond chandler

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Sunday, 30 July 2006 03:09 (nineteen years ago)

apprenticeship of duddy kravitz - mordecai richler

only i just realized a whole signature (ie 30 pages) is missing argh

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 30 July 2006 03:44 (nineteen years ago)

forgotten how much it rules though

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 30 July 2006 03:45 (nineteen years ago)

music from inside out - ned rorem

a little pretentious, but sorta interesting nonetheless

― tehresa needs more out of this relationship than she's willing to put in (tehres, Sunday, 30 July 2006 04:14 (nineteen years ago)

Mason & Dixon -- one dude
Introductory Essays Into Zen (or something like that) -- D.T. Suzuki

― gbx (skowly), Sunday, 30 July 2006 05:42 (nineteen years ago)

still reading Lomax's Land Where the Blues Was Born (I think he's a pretty decently great writer -- no try hard, as some allege -- lots of amazing stories here..)

Blues People --- never read it before for some crazy reason, but it's pretty immense

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Sunday, 30 July 2006 05:47 (nineteen years ago)

just started all the king's men by robert penn warren, it's pretty good so far.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 30 July 2006 09:10 (nineteen years ago)

WIKIPEDIAS

This leads to a famous Jewish riddle: how can twins born minutes apart have a Bar Mitzvah 28 days apart? Answer: The first child was born just before sunset on 30 Adar, the last day of Adar I, while his twin was born just after sunset on the first of Adar II. In a non-leap year the second twin will have his birthday on 1 Adar, and the first twin 29 days later on 1 Nisan (since there is no 30 Adar in a non leap year). Thus their Bar Mitzvahs, which are held on the Saturday after the boy's 13th birthday, will take place 28 days apart (or even 35 days apart if 1 Adar is a Friday; if the birthday is a Saturday, the Bar Mitzvah takes place a week later, so the older twin will have his Bar Mitzvah on 8 Nisan, 35 days after that of his younger brother on 2 Adar).

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Sunday, 30 July 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

yo gbx i thought i was sick of one dude but i just started reading gravity's rainbow

― killy (baby lenin pin), Sunday, 30 July 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

so, you know.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Sunday, 30 July 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

reading/liking 1973 nervous breakdown now - big ups to m. coleman. finally read consider the lobster recently - considerably sucked! definitely not jumping into any infinite jest reread any time soon.

― j blount (papa la bas), Sunday, 30 July 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

I wish I could take back having ever read Infinite Jest. Or, better yet, having ever talked about having read it as if that were a positive thing.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Sunday, 30 July 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

In ninth grade I may have literally thumped it while saying "genius". :(

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Sunday, 30 July 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

I just read Lucy the last Astrid Lindgren book, Ronia, the Robber's Daughter. It was good. Reading her a Bobbsey Twins book right now; weird, I originally read her the first three, which were OK, I guess. They were written around 1903-1906 or so, I think. Then we found one in a used book store that was the seventh in the series and it seemed to have been written quite a bit later and was lamer - the kids thought of themselves as *detectives* by this point and were interested in solving mysteries and crimez. Now, we just got the fourth one out of a library and this one must have been written by a different person. They totally changed the way their maid Dinah (who is African-American) was depicted, calling her "colored" and making her speech way more stereotypical. She calls white men, "Massah!"

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 30 July 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

just finished moneyball and now i'm reading something happened

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Sunday, 30 July 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

tom johnson, 'the voice of new music'

collected village voice reviews of various ny early 70's loft concerts. look at the table of contents. hard to even imagine what it must have been like.

http://homepage.mac.com/javiruiz/English/booksenglish.html#thevoiceofnewmusic

― milton parker (Jon L), Monday, 31 July 2006 00:00 (nineteen years ago)

more barthes - writing degree zero (it is good)

― nazi bikini (harbl), Monday, 31 July 2006 00:03 (nineteen years ago)

xpost
that looks....amazing

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Monday, 31 July 2006 00:05 (nineteen years ago)

i finish the barthes and now reading "image and reality of the israel-OMG PALETSINE!!!11! conflict" by norman G. finkelstein

has anyone read this book and if so is the whole thing going to be just him pointing out how everyone who has written a pro-israel book has falsified old research data etc. about how bad and hated arabs are? i think it might be kind of a boring book but it is hard to find decent books about this topic, amirite

― nazi bikini (harbl), Saturday, 5 August 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

i think the topic is generally indecent without having to be written about

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Saturday, 5 August 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

i mean, no matter what happens everybody is going to be pissed off and make stuff up

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Saturday, 5 August 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

yup :(

― nazi bikini (harbl), Saturday, 5 August 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

invisible cities, again

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Saturday, 5 August 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

shit that is my favorite book, ian. it is the most re-readable book i know.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Saturday, 5 August 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

besides ulysses.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Saturday, 5 August 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

books i ordered at amazong recently:

for me
for school
for school
for school
for school

― rudy huxtable can't fail (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 5 August 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

i am reading Da Europeans by MC Henry Jizzames.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 5 August 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

jeebs that glitter stucco book looks totally cool.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 5 August 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

blarrgh, school books are so expensive, jody! but i guess that's school.

i just read a couple of weird books about visualization and healing. yeahhh.

and at this moment i am reading "technoculture and critical theory: in the service of the machine?" yeahhh.

― rrrobyn monsters with heat fever+stroke (rrrobyn), Saturday, 5 August 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

blarrgh, school books are so expensive, jody!

i bought 'em used! the four books came out to about $100 including standard shipping.

― rudy huxtable can't fail (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 5 August 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

yaay! that is sweet.

― rrrobyn monsters with heat fever+stroke (rrrobyn), Saturday, 5 August 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

it's the best when you can get paperback international edition from SINGAPORE for like $15 and then $15 FAST shipping for a $100 book. i don't think it's gonna work for lawyer school books :(

― nazi bikini (harbl), Saturday, 5 August 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

it's funny cuz i ordered those plannering school books two days ago w/ media mail shipping and two of them arrived this morning. i ordered the architecture book a week ago with expedited shipping (since the book was so cheap, i decided to splurge), and it still hasn't arrived. of course, that seller's in friggin' maryland...

― rudy huxtable can't fail (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 5 August 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

are you gonna be a city planner, jody? i always liked the sound of that. the only city planner i ever knew was kevin bacon's dad. he was a cool old dude.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 5 August 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, invisible cities is badass. I used to be a huge Cosmicomics fan but then i reread and it didn't hold up well at all.

i just finished John Cage:an Anthology and I'm about to reread Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal (my favoritest book) for like the millionth time.
I'm also reading some really boooring Eno-woship book called "his music and the vertical color of sound"

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Saturday, 5 August 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

are you gonna be a city planner, jody?

yeah! housing and land planning/policy and stuff. i'm about to start my master's at USC, which has one of the most solid urban policy schools in the country.

― rudy huxtable can't fail (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 5 August 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

Rising Up, Rising Down - William T Vollman
Herzog on Herzog

― Alicia Titsovich (sexyDancer), Saturday, 5 August 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

psychic soviet by "ian svevonius"
m.

― msp (mspa), Saturday, 5 August 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

good luck, jody! jeez, that's gotta be a lot of work. you must have to write one of those fancy dissertations, right? hoo boy, i admire people who can do stuff like that. i was no good at school :(

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 5 August 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

sorry. off-topic. i am still reading henry james.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 5 August 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

you must have to write one of those fancy dissertations, right?

no, i have to do a project-based comprehensive exam -- i do a presentation and then try to defend it from the wrath of the faculty meanies. powerpoint ahoy!

― rudy huxtable can't fail (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 5 August 2006 23:12 (nineteen years ago)

spent a few months rereading rimbaud

frank o'hara - collected poems
ovid - the metamorphoses:book I

tonight: mystery of woolverine woo-bait comic reprint

― kephm (kephm), Saturday, 5 August 2006 23:13 (nineteen years ago)

just about to finish re-reading:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1852427507.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

although i have yet to see the movie. is it worth watching?

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Sunday, 6 August 2006 04:50 (nineteen years ago)

Scott Smith, The Ruins - trashy horror/thriller fun by the guy who wrote A Simple Plan, except not really fun (kinda long-winded with cheap dread devices and someone at his publishing house should have edited out the 'awhiles' three drafts ago).

― milo z (mlp), Sunday, 6 August 2006 06:48 (nineteen years ago)

Odd, I recently read Invisible Cities as well. Wasn't a bad book, but I guess maybe my expectations were too high, after Cosmicomics. Had this convo with Remy already I guess. Reread Choke and Pulp as well, not sure what I'll dive into next.

― ALLAH FROG (Mingus Dew), Sunday, 6 August 2006 08:50 (nineteen years ago)

Milton I've got the Johnson on PDF and ws just reading a few bits (the rev of Feldman's "Neither"). Just listening now to his disc on Pogus ('Kientzy plays..') and its quite good so far.

― xyzzzz__ (jdesouza), Sunday, 6 August 2006 11:12 (nineteen years ago)

i am gonna go buy the paper and read it.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 6 August 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

hopefully there will be an article in the paper about doom metal noisehat t-shirts so i can start a thread about it.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 6 August 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

i am a culprit, aren't i? i promise i won't start a thread about anything i read in the NYT for one calendar year. unless it's really dumb.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 6 August 2006 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

andrew: the piano teacher movie is kinda "meh" but there is a blowjob scene that is amazingly uncomfortable/hot.

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Sunday, 6 August 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

seconded, ian. though i didn't really find it hot, just unconfortable and slightly embarrassing, like i was watching somebody apply bandages to a self-inflicted wound.

― Damn, Atreyu! (x Jeremy), Sunday, 6 August 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.bestwebbuys.com/muze/books/83/0393321983.jpg

http://www.steevak.com/my_media/covers/book/book32.jpg

http://www.teleport-city.com/gfx/reading/covers/cryptonomicon.jpg

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

Gombrowicz- Ferdydurke

― bobqawesome (bobqawesome), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

Just finished Philip K. Dick's "Solar Lottery" and Jon Krakauer's "Into Thin Air" and the short stories of Breece D'J Pancake, still 100 pages to go on Emmanuel Levinas' "Totality and Infinity".

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

lately I've lacked the attention span for anything more taxing than Sudoku or the morning paper

― dmr (Renard), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

my new books are:
Richard Feynman - The Character of Physical Law
Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene

tentative up next if I can handle the maths:
Ash & Gross - Fearless Symmetry

― Dominique (dleone), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

I just started reading Richard Dawkin's The Ancestor's Tale!

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

i finished mike davis's dead cities (it was ok) and now i just found this gem in the library:
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1845451015.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V55001074_.jpg

it's rly good

i am into easy nonfiction lately

― nazi bikini (harbl), Thursday, 17 August 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

finished freakonomics and now i'm reading bringing down the house

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Thursday, 17 August 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

Mezrich's follow-up to Bringing Down The House is maybe better, I can't remember the title but it involves arbitrage of asian futures markets. pure evil.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 17 August 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

ugly americans, i got that one too. haven't read it yet.

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Thursday, 17 August 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

I just started reading Richard Dawkin's The Ancestor's Tale!

-- gbx (polarbea...), August 17th, 2006.

that's probably my favorite Dawkins. i wish he would write more like that most of the time.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 17 August 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679413383.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 17 August 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0752848771.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

and I got this one today

http://www.npr.org/programs/day/features/2005/dec/holiday_books/chekhov.jpg

― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 17 August 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/026274015X.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V1057189350_.jpg

i just started so i dunno

― nazi bikini (harbl), Saturday, 19 August 2006 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Sunday, 20 August 2006 03:04 (nineteen years ago)

Must be my FutureSex/LoveSound.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 25 August 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.echonews.com/1110/images/rats_robert_sullivan.jpg

― dmr (Renard), Friday, 25 August 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

that edition, actually...i reread it about every two yrs, but im getting to thinking it just makes me savagely unhappy every two years.

also:
susan sontag against interpretation
douglas rushkoff get back in the box
new york schools of music and visual art
bob dylan the essential interviews
paul goodman communitas
raymond queneau the blue flowers
oakley hall warlocks

― bb (bbrz), Friday, 25 August 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

douglas rushkoff get back in the box

i quite liked this, as the only 'business' book i've ever read that was actually insightful in any way

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Friday, 25 August 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

yeah..im into it..but since its a business book, i get bored with it easily...its been on the desk for a week now..should get back to it and finish it...his last collumn in arthur was utter trash though. sure, he was mostly right, but i expect more smarter things...

― bb (bbrz), Friday, 25 August 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

"what the frog's eye tells the frog's brain" lettvin, mccullouch, maturana, pitts

― milton parker (Jon L), Sunday, 27 August 2006 01:15 (nineteen years ago)

I HAVE A REQUEST FOR JBR:

PLZ TO RECOMMEND AN URBAN PLANNING BIBLIOGRAPHY, PLZ.

(email, if you like, to my login plus gmail)

― gbx (skowly), Sunday, 27 August 2006 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

zola - NANA

― killy (baby lenin pin), Sunday, 27 August 2006 03:56 (nineteen years ago)

RJ Smith's "The Great Black Way" and Peter Guralnick's Sam Cooke biography.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 27 August 2006 05:16 (nineteen years ago)

how's The Great Black Way? I'm waiting for it at my library.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 27 August 2006 11:41 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://www.schwartzbooks.com/mas_assets/full/1594480184.jpg

― señor citizen (eman), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

focusing now on the queneau mentioned above...its become a hillarious little romp.

also an occasional wodehouse story and cortazar's hopscotch

― bb (bbrz), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1592401996.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0767903277.01._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_AA240_SH20_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

lame girl stole my queneau! (crosslist on bummerz)

― Lazy Comet (plsmith), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

the thin man - hammett
the big sleep - chandler
pale fire - nabakov

looking to try some elmore leonard, any starting recommendations?

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

It is hilarious.

Also got this book called BEERS OF THE WORLD, which is like a coffee table book for people who only ever have beer on their coffee table.

― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

ive heard good things about the warlocks by oakley hall..input anyone?

― bb (bbrz), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

My old man only read Elmore Leonard. He offered "Rum Punch" and "Ryan's Rules" aka "SWAG" as starting points. I read "Ryan's Rules" it has ten rules on how to not get busted doing crime. Note: the protagonists do not follow these rules.

― Dr. Alicia B. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

still reading:
Rising Up Rising Down - William T Vollman (3,000 pgs to go, yo)
also:
Illuminatus! - Roberts Shea and Anton Wilson (only read 1st book as kid)
45 - Bill Drummond (recently read "The Manual" had to follow up)

― Dr. Alicia B. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - Haruki Murakami
new short story collection, not a fan of the translators, but oh well

The Mind of Bill James: How a Complete Outsider Changed Baseball - Scott Gray
not bad, though my expectations were low. found a few typos/grammar problems, maybe i should go into editing?

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

How is Rising Up, Rising Down? Other than long.

― John Justen,a ninja slapboxing fajitas out of J. Casablancas dental dam. (johnju, Wednesday, 13 September 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

Pretty great. I read the abridgment so I found a "cheap," ($100) slightly damaged copy of the volume set online. Vollman's writing for clarity here, so it's an easy read, despite the length. So far, I read great stuff on Napoleon and Stalinist Russia.

― Dr. Alicia B. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

just finished Easy Riders, Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

how long is the abridgement? i'm too lazy to ask the internet.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

500 pgs.

― Dr. Alicia B. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

no wait, 750

― Dr. Alicia B. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

wow i'm still reading zola - nana, though i'm almost done (10 pages left). i guess that's what happens when you only read on the train.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 23:03 (nineteen years ago)

Reading:
-Loos essays for Modern & Post-Modern Architecture
-Vectors and Smoothable Curves, amazing essays by this poet
William Bronk
-William Bronk poetry
-and I just started reading Houellebecq's new book, which is looking to be a stinker so I might drop it

― trees (treesessplode), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 23:33 (nineteen years ago)

i love loos! he wrote some crazy essays, huh.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 23:34 (nineteen years ago)

ahhh, nana or the cunt as metaphor for paris, as a former proffessor once put it..killy, how do you do with his little protige huysmans?

forgot before: edward young: complete prose and poetry...but mostly resignation...

― bb (bbrz), Thursday, 14 September 2006 03:28 (nineteen years ago)

Huysmans? I dunno about Huysmans, if it's who I think yr talking about. Maybe a bad translation?

The Loos essays are awesome and insane, yes.

― trees (treesessplode), Thursday, 14 September 2006 05:54 (nineteen years ago)

Ngugi wa Thiong'o Wizard of the Crow
Patrick O'Leary Door Number Three

― Igor Adkins (Grodd), Thursday, 14 September 2006 10:53 (nineteen years ago)

Thomas Sugrue - The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit

[I've more or less made up my mind to pick up where I left off and get my Ph.D in political science. An M.A. just doesn't get you very much outside of professional degree programs. Also: Sugrue is the awesome when it comes to urban histories.]

― blackmail (blackmail.is.my.life), Thursday, 14 September 2006 11:04 (nineteen years ago)

also finishing _manhattan transfer_.

― blackmail (blackmail.is.my.life), Thursday, 14 September 2006 11:07 (nineteen years ago)

JK Huysmans, student of Zola, wrote against nature, la bas, etc...basically the epitome of decadent literature

― bb (bbrz), Thursday, 14 September 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I hated 'Against the Grain.' A friend who posted on ilm early in the summer (the perhaps infamous 'white soul' thread) gave it to me many years ago. Read it. Hated it. Never gave it back, and he never remembers giving it to me, and I do not know where it is. Though it honestly could have been a terrible translation...

― trees (treesessplode), Thursday, 14 September 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

The Juice - Will Carroll

and now
Reflections in a Golden Eye - Carson McCullers

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 September 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

Flann O'Brien - At Swim-two-birds. Somehow challenging when English is not your first language.

― Pom (pom), Thursday, 14 September 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

whoa i just started reading that. noize jinx

― killy (baby lenin pin), Thursday, 14 September 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

http://yoyurec.spn.dp.ua/wp-content/uploads/2006/04/gtdpictures4la.jpg

― Really cool, wickedly cool, cooly cool bon apetit! (ex machina), Thursday, 14 September 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

git r done

― dmr (Renard), Thursday, 14 September 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTD

― Really cool, wickedly cool, cooly cool bon apetit! (ex machina), Thursday, 14 September 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

that gtd shit is a cult, beware

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 14 September 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

hmm thought i posted this already...

but at swim is rugged even if youve read a bunch of flann before

― bb (bbrz), Thursday, 14 September 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

still working on pale fire but just bought

the secret agent - jospeh conrad
the spy who came in from the cold - john lecarre
the long goodbye - raymond chandler

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 14 September 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

Pale Fire is probably my favorite book ever. Certainly in the top 5.

― John Justen,a ninja slapboxing fajitas out of J. Casablancas dental dam. (johnju, Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

the long goodbye is pretty damned excellent too...

― bb (bbrz), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

Reading this to Lucy - I had no idea about this book; it is so good.

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/f/f9/180px-RootabagaStories.jpg

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 00:03 (nineteen years ago)

finally got my own copy of this, yaay!
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0415267374.01._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_AA240_SH20_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― rrrobyn, the situation (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 00:28 (nineteen years ago)

stefan zweig - beware of pity

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 00:46 (nineteen years ago)

going through four boxes of old comics retreived from my parents as they moved out of the old house... mostly worthless, but boy was jack kirby weird in the 70's

most of these I just have to find some place to ditch, but I got to find some place to sell the x-men 123-154 & daredevils 150-190

― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 03:07 (nineteen years ago)

OMAC One Man Army? Issue #1

― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 03:08 (nineteen years ago)

hmm... a complete set of Micronauts fetches about $15 eh? maybe I should hit e-bay with aaaairidpfgffffftt

― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 03:43 (nineteen years ago)

raymond carver - cathedral (hi steve)

― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 03:55 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - hahahhahahhalol

in the future, men will hurl women encased in concrete blocks! are you ready?

i remember when the time came to sell my comics collection only to find out that they're worth no more than used toilet paper unless they are encased in a plastic bags with mylar having never been read once. it also helps if you don't own shit like ROM Spaceknight

― DUMBOCLAAT (eman), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 04:00 (nineteen years ago)

lot's of tom strong, y, blab back issues, various oreillys as usual... jack cole bio...

― msp (mspa), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 04:14 (nineteen years ago)

milton do you have any dr. strange from the seventies?

― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 04:27 (nineteen years ago)

I had forgotten that the Dire Wraiths fought by ROM, Spaceknight, were actually an offshoot of the Skrull race. Whew.

-- TOMBOT (tombo...), May 11th, 2006.

― DUMBOCLAAT (eman), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 04:48 (nineteen years ago)

just finished reading a bunch of frustratingly conservative anti- "smart growth" commentary (basically anti-bureaucratic pro-market ayn rand bullshit, blah blah urban growth boundaries are containment and exclusionary and are driving up land prices in cities and anyway ppl's REAL preference is the suburbs and stop trying to inhibit the noble autonomy that our nation's values are based on, blah blah blah)

― beverly sills ninja (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 05:36 (nineteen years ago)

i mean these articles go on and on about the "euphemisms" of the smart-growth movement and then continue to flog the good old reliable reason mad lib jargon that feeds into america's psychotic fear of any sort of governance whatsoever.

― beverly sills ninja (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 05:41 (nineteen years ago)

milton do you have any dr. strange from the seventies?

no, I never even read those, don't know why -- Gene Colan's art was always incredible, I have the Howard The Ducks and the Draculas (bad stories but unbelievable artwork) but not the Stranges, were they good?

they were all in mylar bags, but they weren't taped up. so they're all yellowed and not worth much money. I think I'm keeping the Kirbys and everything else I kind of need to give away.

― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 07:18 (nineteen years ago)

Tomb of Dracula DID have killer art. Some of those Dr. Strange's were pretty cool--lots of psychedelic hippy nonsense.

― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

Reader's Digest Into the Unknown
A Decade of Masterpiece Theatre

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 01:40 (nineteen years ago)

just finished:

game of shadows
time out of joint
flow my tears, the policeman said
the tipping point

now reading:

in cold blood

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Sunday, 1 October 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

bass culture
+
3 beach boys books:
heroes and villains
wouldn't it be nice
smile: the story of brian wilson's lost masterpiece

― am0n (am0n), Sunday, 1 October 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

what PKD should i read next (besides scanner and electric sheep)

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Sunday, 1 October 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

jewbik

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 1 October 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

nr:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0415944635.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

it's ok.

― cuervo jones (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 1 October 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

Still reading Lucy the Carl Sandburg rootabaga books:

http://www.josephperry.net/rootabaga/img/rootabaga030.jpg

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 1 October 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

that zizek book was awright. first half was sublime but the second half was a bit of a snore fest.

currently reading william james book on psychology, a book on the history of english and Zodiac.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Sunday, 1 October 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

larry bunge: valis

― am0n (am0n), Sunday, 1 October 2006 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

thanks. i just bought the trilogy. are there any others like time out of joint? i really liked that one.

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Sunday, 1 October 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

ya ubik is.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 1 October 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

American Movie Critics: An Anthology

Carson McCullers - The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

some pkd ideas: ubik, the man in the high castle, the three stigmata of palmer eldritch, the world jones made

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 2 October 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

i have a feeling that i'm going to end up reading every one of his books.

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Monday, 2 October 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.schwartzbooks.com/mas_assets/full/0142004154.jpg

and after a four-year layoff:
http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/lipstick.jkt.jpeg

― milo z (mlp), Monday, 2 October 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

PKD like "joint?"
for more eccentric-uncle type family drama: "confessions of a crap artist"
no sf, but it's right in line with his other visionary-type works

― Dr. Alicia D. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Monday, 2 October 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

confessions of a crap artist may be my favorite pkd.

bought today:
if on a winter's night a traveler
bluegrass breakdown: the making of the old southern sound by robert cantwell

― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Monday, 2 October 2006 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

hey, so if i buy a book that has like 250 pages in it and i'm on page 75 first day reading it, can i return it in a couple of days?

― jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 5 October 2006 03:52 (nineteen years ago)

the moviegoer

― Maf54 (plsmith), Thursday, 5 October 2006 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

I am almost done with DIVINE INVASIONS: A LIFE OF PHILIP K. DICK by Sutin.
Today from the library I got:
"The Temple of Dawn" by Yukio Mishima
"Local Anaesthetic" by Gunter Grass
"Wonderful Wonderful Times" by Elfrieda Jelinek
"Four Hours in My Lai" by Bilton& Sim
"The Ascent of Mind: Ice Age Climates and The Evolution of Intelligence" by William Calvin
"The Born-Einstein Letters 1916-55" edited by Born

― calvin johnson has ruined rock for an entire generation (orion), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

i just started re-reading "War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning." So good.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

the writing on the wall.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

Elmore Leonard "The Hot Kid"

bought in airport

― dmr (Renard), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805080759.01._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_AA240_SH20_OU01_SCLZZZZZZZ_V59064863_.jpg

― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

i'm trying to read Chris Elliot's "The Shroud of the Thwacker" but it's so tedious and not funny, i don't want to finish it. i feel really bad because one of my super close friends told me it was the funniest thing he's ever read. maybe i'm not getting the references to all the books he's making fun of, or maybe it's just plain stupid. or maybe i'm just plain stupid? i dunno.

― jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

just ordered -- Faust: Stretch Out Time 1970-1975 by Andy Wilson

― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

?? about the band ??

― am0n (am0n), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 23:08 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.faust-pages.com/stretchouttime/

Andy's run their site for over 10 years, knows them all pretty well, has probably gotten some choice stories, I'll post back

Irmler snailed on transistors, I was naked

― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 23:39 (nineteen years ago)

i read cormac mccarthy's "the road".

HATED IT.

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 23:50 (nineteen years ago)

now: arguing w/ grumpy readers of manly-man fiction on ILBooks.

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 23:52 (nineteen years ago)

alpha male book discussion bored

* Cormac McCarthy- The Road (13 new answers, last at 3:46 pm)
* What are you reading - on or about October 2006 (47 new answers, last at 3:17 pm)
* for Pynchon fans -- advice please (23 new answers, last at 2:09 pm)
* Lorrie Moore (5 new answers, last at 1:33 pm)
* Umberto Eco: Baudolino (3 new answers, last at 9:59 am)

Last on Monday, 30th October 2006

* The Most Difficult Book You've Ever Read (1 new answer, last at 10:44 pm)
* should we have a nanowrimo thread? (1 new answer, last at 5:13 pm)

Last on Saturday, 28th October 2006

* Mystery/noir/detective novels S/D (1 new answer, last at 12:52 pm)

Last on Friday, 27th October 2006

* Suite Française (1 new answer, last at 3:36 pm)
* does anyone still read jeanette winterson? (15 new answers, last at 1:03 pm)

Last on Thursday, 26th October 2006

* 'House of Leaves' by Mark Z. Danielewski (2 new answers, last at 2:08 pm)
* 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (6 new answers, last at 10:08 am)

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 23:53 (nineteen years ago)

pynchon / eco / danielewski!!!

the only thing needed to qualify for ultimate all-time pseud status is chuck palahniuk!!

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 23:54 (nineteen years ago)

the really sad thing is that i've read all that shit. well, except chuck p.

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 23:58 (nineteen years ago)

the only McCarthy I go back to is Child of God.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 00:05 (nineteen years ago)

Lilian Roxon: Mother of Rock

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 00:31 (nineteen years ago)

there's like twelve equally pseudy books in the past hundred posts. (especially the sutin.) that said i've read most of them. (anyone read the dick bio by uh someone called mason? came out this year. or last year. some year.)

― tom west (thomp), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

right. against the day. 1 page down, 1084 to go...thank you, mr pynchon, for keeping me busy till next year.

― the hunchback of nassau ave to be (bbrz), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

Henry Adams – The Jeffersonian Transformation
Margaret Drabble – The Ice Age

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

Dashiell Hammett - The Maltese Falcon
Dashiell Hammett - Red Harvest

Hard-Boiled Wonderland & The End of the World - Haruki Murakami

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

i've heard Against the Day is pretty bad :/

i would like to hear otherwise

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

ill weigh in in 6 months...

― bb (bbrz), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

Reading my copy of J.G. Ballard's new book, Kingdom Come, and a huge collection of his short stories. For some reason neither is out in the US so I had to hit up amazon.co.uk.

Read Hard-Boiled Wonderland a while ago, it was great.

the only thing needed to qualify for ultimate all-time pseud status is chuck palahniuk!!

What about Bret Easton Ellis? I thought he was necessary for pseud status. I finally got around to reading his last one, not so great. He can actually write occasionally though, unlike Palahniuk.

― mh. (mike h.), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

I have been kickin it lowbrow with some Elmore Leonards that I got 4 free

Hot Kid was kinda bad but Maximum Bob is cool. also have Glitz lined up.

― dmr (Renard), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

i think i'm gonna read a thousand patrick o'brian books over break

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

Very "The Killer Inside Me":
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/158567849X.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V35690145_.jpg

― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

orhan pamuk, my name is red

― CROWS don't FLY in STRAIGHT LINES (orion), Thursday, 23 November 2006 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

against the day

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 23 November 2006 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

hunger by knut hamsen

― T. Weiss (Timmy), Friday, 24 November 2006 00:15 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1555533647.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

pretty good, but you might find it boring

― nazi bikini (harbl), Sunday, 14 January 2007 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

low life - luc sante

― dmr (Renard), Sunday, 14 January 2007 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

^^one of those books w/great rep I've never got around to reading. is it good? I've always liked Sante's journalism.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 14 January 2007 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

some james ellroy thing

― Rebel.yell.For.Internet.cakes (nordicskilla), Sunday, 14 January 2007 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1900565102.01._BO2,204,203,200_PIlitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― hstencil (hstencil), Sunday, 14 January 2007 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

is it good? I've always liked Sante's journalism.

just started! I will report back.

― dmr (Renard), Monday, 15 January 2007 00:45 (nineteen years ago)

The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker

― Dominique (dleone), Monday, 15 January 2007 01:08 (nineteen years ago)

I like Low Life. I think everyone who ever wrote a crime novel set in 19th century NYC has read it though.

Sante has posted on ILX, I think, we should get him on noize board.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Monday, 15 January 2007 02:58 (nineteen years ago)

YETI is publishing a collection of Sante's essays in May, FYI -- it's thick and really rad. I'm super psyched/ feel really lucky that this gets to be the second real book we publish! Not surprised he's been on here before. Anyway, sorry for the self-promo. I love 'Low Life' a lot...

I'm reading a lot of stuff at once: several histories of the African-American church, that Musil short works collection 'Posthumous Papers,' the Dylan book from two years ago which I finally found cheap used, the last Portis book I've yet to finish ('True Grit' -- reading it extra slowly as I'll be so bummed when there is no new to me Portis to read), and about to re-read 'Baron in the Trees' by Calvino since that always makes me super happy and I've been extra bummed the last few weeks.

― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Monday, 15 January 2007 05:16 (nineteen years ago)

i just finished Deyan Sudjic's 'The Edifice Complex.' a bit poorly written at times-- guy doesn't know how to say the same thing twice without blatantly repeating himself-- but enjoyable. i especially liked the fact that he LOVES the Casa del Fascio, but his dissing of every other architect in 20th c. architecture ('oh boo hoo he built a building for a repressive dictatorship' 'who cares bro the building is either a good building or a bad building'

― the table is the table (treesessplode), Monday, 15 January 2007 06:10 (nineteen years ago)

er, anyway, his dissing is totally out of hand.

― the table is the table (treesessplode), Monday, 15 January 2007 06:12 (nineteen years ago)

I am also reading Peter Shapiro's Turn the Beat Around, what i would say is the best non-fiction book about disco eva. the guy did his research, and other than his somewhat lukewarm treatment towards european disco, his taste is great and so is the book. two whole pages on baldelli! encyclopedic, too.

― the table is the table (treesessplode), Monday, 15 January 2007 06:16 (nineteen years ago)

The last couple of weeks:
Ruth Reichl, Tender to the Bone
That Johnny Cash biography by Michael Streissguth
Tom Perrotta, Little Children
New Carl Hiaasen and a Kinky Friedman I'd already read but mostly didn't realize it 'til I was near the very end.

― A Radio Picture (Rrrickey), Monday, 15 January 2007 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

I read The Edifice Complex.

― Rebel.yell.For.Internet.cakes (nordicskilla), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

The Shakespeare Wars by Ron Rosenbaum

― latebloomer aka freedom williams sr (latebloomer), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

"ronin" by frank miller

― msp (mspa), Monday, 15 January 2007 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

currently reading "a walk on the wild side" by nelson algren. i remember taking it out of my bag to read on saturday and then i couldn't find it again for the rest of the weekend. it turns out i put it back in my bag, i found that out when i got to work this morning. also, my nephew bought me "chicago: a city on the make" for my b-day, on the back cover is a picture of the cover of the first edition. it's a shot of the chicago river and wacker drive from the late 40's or so, i totally want to hunt down this picture.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Nader: Crusader, Spoiler, Icon by Justin Martin

Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:04 (eighteen years ago)

Just finished The Truth About Diamonds for book club.

So fucked. It's not about Nicole Richie, but about semi-fictionalized version of herself. And yet, despite this fact, Nicole manages to be a major supporting character in the book? WTF. I was sincerely hoping it was going to get all Fight Club at the end.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:11 (eighteen years ago)

Low Life is pretty great

every other page there is some sentence like this: " ... Hellcat Maggie, who filed her teeth to points and wore sharpened brass fingernails, later made an independent career of freelance saloon brawling."

― dmr (Renard), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:16 (eighteen years ago)

James Tiptree Jr./Alice Shelton story collection

― T. Weiss (Timmy), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:54 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.methuen.co.uk/images/475/0413771113.jpg
not so good, struggled to make it through his telling of some hippie gathering, fell asleep halfway through recounting a Christian biker gathering.

starting instead: David Goodis, Black Friday and Other Stories

― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:02 (eighteen years ago)

that's a bummer .... I love Denis Johnson
never read any nonfiction by him though

― dmr (Renard), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:05 (eighteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

just finished "ghostwritten" by david mitchell. i was really into it until the end where it got all wannabe phil dick with talking satellites. that was the weak link.

library haul:
phil dick! - martian time slip
calvino - marcovaldo
tim powers - on stranger tides (lol monkey island book)
and for nonfiction:
"dr. seuss & mr. geisel" by judith & neil morgan
"herodotus" by romm
"dragon hunter: roy chapman andrews and the central asiatic expedition" by charles gallenkamp

― ian, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 00:59 (eighteen years ago)

some murakami crap
gygax on Wednesday, 28 February 2007 00:59 (19 minutes ago)

Whoa hi dere

― JW, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 01:22 (eighteen years ago)

I Feel Good *by* James Brown -- worst/least convincing ghostwriting ever

― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 02:23 (eighteen years ago)

Been reading Lucy some of the Moomintroll books. Right now we are reading Moominland Midwinter

― Tim Ellison, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 02:59 (eighteen years ago)

he lives

― gbx, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 03:08 (eighteen years ago)

not reading anything tonight! i have a new class starting tomorrow, but the professor hasn't posted the syllabus yet.

loads of reading to do for thursday, including this (WF is my prof for this class):

http://images.bestwebbuys.com/muze/books/46/1559637846.jpg

― get bent, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 05:54 (eighteen years ago)

Weeds -- Guardians of the Soil by Joseph A. Cocannouer, An Agricultural Testament
by Sir Albert Howard and The American As Anarchist by De Leon

― artdamages, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 06:22 (eighteen years ago)

Julia reinhard Lupton "Citizen Saints: Shakespeare and Political Theology"
Brian Vickers, ed. "English Renaissance Literary Criticism"
Elizabeth I "Collected Works"
Steven Marcus "The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth Century England"
Manuel DeLanda "Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy"

― Drew Daniel, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 06:26 (eighteen years ago)

hi drew! you're playing across the street from my school this friday but i can't go because i promised NED RAGGETT i'd go to his birthday party!

― get bent, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 06:34 (eighteen years ago)

just finished 2 classic spy thrillers :
THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD -- john le carre
A PASSAGE OF ARMS -- eric ambler

contemplating reading this next:
TEENAGE -- jon savage. it's a history of adolescence 19th century thru WWII

― m coleman, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 11:38 (eighteen years ago)

Le Corbusier 'Towards A New Architecture'

it"s pretty snooze but the pictures are decent

'Ancient Voyagers in the Pacific'. Did y'all know that the Polynesians probably accidentally settled the islands of the eastern pacific?

yeah i need to go to the bookstore.

― jergincito, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 13:30 (eighteen years ago)

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d171/pink_playdoh_princess/blubber.jpg

― elmo argonaut, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 17:01 (eighteen years ago)

i took these out of the library for a paper i was doing on the role of parking (and land use decisions relating thereto) in smart-growth strategies:

lots of parking: land use in a car culture by john a. jakle and keith a. sculle

parking requirements for shopping centers: summary recommendations and research study report - 1982 book-length study by the urban land institute, sponsored by the international council of shopping centers. (it's as awesome as it sounds, if that kind of thing sounds awesome to you. the cover is k-cool early '80s computer-generated op-art.)

― get bent, Friday, 9 March 2007 07:33 (eighteen years ago)

they both sound interesting

― jergincito, Friday, 9 March 2007 10:14 (eighteen years ago)

we need to bring back trains for real.

i am reading harvest wobblies by greg hall

― artdamages, Friday, 9 March 2007 13:32 (eighteen years ago)

the confessions of st. augustine

― bb, Friday, 9 March 2007 14:10 (eighteen years ago)

sweet soul music: rhythm and blues and the southern dream of freedom.

i am eating this shit up with a knife and fork.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 9 March 2007 14:19 (eighteen years ago)

i am reading dr. seuss bio now.

― ian, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

just arrived:
lynch on lynch
unbearable lightness
guns germs + steel
cat's cradle

delayed for "4-7 weeks":
herzog on herzog

really disappointed in myself for not ordering:
akira manga

― sleep, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:28 (eighteen years ago)

herzog on herzog is bound to be amazing...now im tempted to order

― bb, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:30 (eighteen years ago)

hopscotch - julio cortazar

― t. weiss, Saturday, 10 March 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

http://a284.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/30/l_5777562fe25367ce501b727b35fe42a3.jpg

ha...completely forgot about this untill i found a copy of it in my desk earlier

― bb, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:28 (eighteen years ago)

fortress of solitude

― dmr, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:34 (eighteen years ago)

just bought this (prof said "not required, but it'll be the coolest thing you read all semester") and am looking for a cheap copy to send to a similar-minded friend:

http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393329593.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

This unique, spectacular guide, replete with the author's striking photographs, reveals how the industrial environment rivals the natural world in its sheer dazzle. Brian Hayes explores all the major "ecosystems" of the modern industrial world, depicting what the structures are & why they're there. Objects that clutter our everyday world include streetlamps, antenna towers, satellite dishes, among the thousands of manufactured items. Larger, more exotic facilities have transformed vast tracts of landscape: coal mines, nuclear power plants, grain elevators, oil refineries and steel mills, to name a few. Further Reading, Index. Illus., 500 color photographs. 536p.

― get bent, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 00:50 (eighteen years ago)

just finished scott fitzgerald - tender is the night (!!)
gonna start the garden of the finzi-continis

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 00:58 (eighteen years ago)

ordered the new Douglas Hofstadter book the other day (yay!), so will start reading soon

― Dominique, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 01:16 (eighteen years ago)

dick "martian time-slip"
next in line is a book called "American Murder Ballads" by i forget who.

― ian, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 14:40 (eighteen years ago)

i actually liked that denis johnson collection mentioned upthread by milo, and i second ian's opinion on ghostwritten and recommend that he read cloud atlas.

jbr, have you read real places by grady clay?

― lauren, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 14:45 (eighteen years ago)

(right now i'm reading the current issue of the new yorker. ho hum. i need to hit the strand.)

― lauren, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

ordered the new Douglas Hofstadter book the other day (yay!), so will start reading soon

oh that looked cool. report back. i am still only halfway through godel esher bach - it feels like i am doing logic homework reading that thing. i liked this collection of essays he did w/daniel dennett a little better.

i am reading One Straw Revolution by [Masanobu Fukuoka]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masanobu_Fukuoka[/link]

― artdamages, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 17:21 (eighteen years ago)

what we talk about when we talk about love by raymond carver

― ian, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 22:41 (eighteen years ago)

Fitzgerald's story "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 29 March 2007 14:44 (eighteen years ago)

i am reading a story collection called "cthulhu 2000" it's not 'good' so far but it is kind of hilarious

― bell_labs, Friday, 30 March 2007 17:57 (eighteen years ago)

jbr that infrastructure book looks dope

― river wolf, Friday, 30 March 2007 18:17 (eighteen years ago)

Sometimes I wonder what Hoftstader hoped to achieve in GEB. From what I've heard, I AM A STRANGE LOOP may leave me the same way.

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Friday, 30 March 2007 18:42 (eighteen years ago)

orwell "selected essays"
calvino "baron in the trees"

― ian, Friday, 30 March 2007 21:17 (eighteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

almost done with paul auster's "music of chance" and i like it quite a bit.

i tried to read "american pastoral" because of my roommate's great enthusiasm for philip roth, but i had to give up after about 100 pages. maybe less. the only other roth i've read is "the dying animal" and i thought that kinda sucked too.

― ian, Monday, 16 April 2007 17:46 (eighteen years ago)

try goodbye, columbus.

― lauren, Monday, 16 April 2007 18:34 (eighteen years ago)

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1560256915.01._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_SCLZZZZZZZ_V46797369_AA240_SH20_.jpg

― milo z, Monday, 16 April 2007 18:54 (eighteen years ago)

whats up with that book?

i am trying to reread the philosophical investigations and also a wendell berry book whose name escapes me

― artdamages, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:48 (eighteen years ago)

Up with it?

― milo z, Monday, 16 April 2007 22:05 (eighteen years ago)

this book i'm reading is great! awesome fantasy novel.

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n29/n147897.jpg

― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 16 April 2007 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

so many ppl mentioned cortazar in various thread that I picked up hopscotch

― dmr, Monday, 16 April 2007 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

*threads

― dmr, Monday, 16 April 2007 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

i also just picked up hopscotch, dave. used! i also got the neil hagerty "public works" collection

― ian, Friday, 20 April 2007 02:51 (eighteen years ago)

John Sayles' short stories are the lit equivalent of one of his lesser movies.

― milo z, Friday, 20 April 2007 04:17 (eighteen years ago)

E.O. Wilson - On Human Nature

― Dan I., Friday, 20 April 2007 04:33 (eighteen years ago)

Peter Watts - Blindsight (interesting SF novel)

― latebloomer, Friday, 20 April 2007 05:59 (eighteen years ago)

David Hare Stuff Happens (very brief)

― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 20 April 2007 06:25 (eighteen years ago)

still the same fucking book: master and margarita. almost finished.

― nathalie, Friday, 20 April 2007 07:10 (eighteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

did dave like hopscotch? i thought it was good. i did skip that one section in the ephemera about the constitution of wherever. i am reading cortazar's "blow up and other stories" now.

― ian, Monday, 14 May 2007 18:01 (eighteen years ago)

just read hammett's "the dain curse" (not so great) and chandler's "farewell my lovely" (fuckin' aces)

― elmo argonaut, Monday, 14 May 2007 18:06 (eighteen years ago)

also trying my hand at some donna harraway

― elmo argonaut, Monday, 14 May 2007 18:07 (eighteen years ago)

left book about tolkien during ww1 at mom's :(

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Monday, 14 May 2007 18:08 (eighteen years ago)

finished reading miranda july's book of short stories and it was A++. i'm now trying to make it through The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium by Harry Mathews.

― Mr. Que, Monday, 14 May 2007 18:08 (eighteen years ago)

jon savage's teenage and a fairly terrible book on the rise of mall punk

― strongohulkington, Monday, 14 May 2007 18:14 (eighteen years ago)

is it called munk?

― Mr. Que, Monday, 14 May 2007 18:15 (eighteen years ago)

i met jon savage the other week. relatively friendly chap.

― ian, Monday, 14 May 2007 18:22 (eighteen years ago)

i'm now trying to make it through The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium by Harry Mathews.

How is it so far? I haven't read that one, but I love My Life in CIA and the stories collected in The Human Country.

― C0L1N B..., Monday, 14 May 2007 18:31 (eighteen years ago)

it's all letters, half of them are written in normal English and half in this weird pidgin dialect, and those are a real slog, but it's enjoyable. I'm going to try & read The Conversions and Tlooth sometime this summer.

― Mr. Que, Monday, 14 May 2007 18:37 (eighteen years ago)

You can still get a bunch of Matthews' books for $5 at Labyrinth:
http://www.labyrinthbooks.com/all_search.aspx?sauthor=Mathews,%20Harry

Sadly, they don't have his OOP Perec bio.

― C0L1N B..., Monday, 14 May 2007 18:43 (eighteen years ago)

best friends, worst enemies: understanding the social lives of children - thompson and oneill
between the river and the bridge - ferguson
his dark materials omnibus - pullman (my students are really into it)
otis spofford - cleary
eye of the wolf - pennac

― remy bean, Monday, 14 May 2007 19:03 (eighteen years ago)

Hermione Lee - Edith Wharton
J.M. Coetzee - Slow Man

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 14 May 2007 22:49 (eighteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/228/493452264_0109573f39.jpg?v=0

― 696, Monday, 14 May 2007 23:07 (eighteen years ago)

did dave like hopscotch? i thought it was good.

still working on it. I like it though. I'm slow as shit at reading, especially now that I have a short commute.

did you read the "extra chapters" in the suggested order or just plow straight through?

― dmr, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 00:29 (eighteen years ago)

I'm reading The Final Exit by Cortazar. Brill.

― t. weiss, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 06:25 (eighteen years ago)

The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples

...pretty interesting, lots of fun facts to know and tell, but dude's writing style is a little too, uh, enthusiastic for my tastes

― river wolf, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 14:33 (eighteen years ago)

do any noize dudes have a librarything account?

― Steve Shasta, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

The Waterworks by E.L. Doctorow

I'm on a kick of trying to finish books I put down, and I'm glad with this one because the last 1/4 or so is pretty good.

― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

do any noize dudes have a librarything account?

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/WIZARDISHUNGRY

massively non complete

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

just bought these two for summer classes:

brazil is not for amateurs: patterns of governance in the land of "jeitinho" by belmiro v.j. castor

blackwater: the rise of the world's most powerful mercenary army by jeremy scahill (nation books; looks pretty hardcore)

― get bent, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 15:59 (eighteen years ago)

b.f. skinner 'beyond freedom and dignity'

― deej, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:04 (eighteen years ago)

one of my roommates swiped my Economist!

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:10 (eighteen years ago)

yuppie

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

Jane Jacobs - The Death and Life of Great American Cities

― jergïns, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

not only do I read the economist but I read this, which uses Euros and metres for everything:

http://www.monocle.com/

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

Fuckinagains Wake

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:27 (eighteen years ago)

j/k Economist is cool w/me.

SexyDancer, good luck with Fuckhead's Wake

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

Finnegan Beginagain

― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

did you read the "extra chapters" in the suggested order or just plow straight through?

In the order suggested.

― ian, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:31 (eighteen years ago)

ok, i created a librarything page too, although there isn't much there yet:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/stockholm_cindy

― get bent, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:37 (eighteen years ago)

http://trybecca.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/millipedecover.jpg

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

White Bicycles.

Recently finished bios of Judy Chicago and Charles Addams.

― tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 21:30 (eighteen years ago)

best friends, worst enemies: understanding the social lives of children - thompson and oneill

Okay I'm going to find this and read the shit out of it.

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 21:44 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, it's a great book. also michale thompson's other book raising cain: protecting the emotional lives of boys is pretty great.

― remy bean, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 22:23 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/wooderson

stopped at 200 because I'm unwilling to pony up $$$

― milo z, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 22:25 (eighteen years ago)

current reading:
James Crumley, The Last Good Kiss
and just purchased this afternoon
Dianne Purkiss, English Civil War: Papists, Gentlewomen, Soldiers, and Witchfinders in the Birth of Modern Britain

― milo z, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 22:31 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=Colinpb

― C0L1N B..., Tuesday, 15 May 2007 22:55 (eighteen years ago)

Just finished:
Colin Wilson "The Mind Parasites" (thanks Milton for the recommendation!)
G. E. Aylmer "A Short History of 17th Century England"
Michel Houellebecq "H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life"
Mark Hansen "New Philosophy for New Media"
Aleister Crowley "Book 4"
Amanda Anderson "The Way We Argue Now"

Just purchased:
Edward Fenton, ed. "The Diaries of John Dee"
Marsilio Ficino "Three Books on Life"
E.K. Chambers "The Medieval Stage"
Ricky Vincent "Funk: The Music, The People, and the Rhythm of the One"
Aleister Crowley "Magick in Theory and Practice" (I sprang for the big tome this time)
John Aubrey "Brief Lives"

― Drew Daniel, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 07:34 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=fogindex

i think it's about 1/3 of my current bookshelves

― Steve Shasta, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 08:56 (eighteen years ago)

hows the houellebecq/lovecraft? i think im still one of the few that actually likes houellebecq sometimes

― 696, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 09:27 (eighteen years ago)

Jane Jacobs - The Death and Life of Great American Cities

this keeps coming up in other books/articles etc, gonna read it after I finish The Life of Kingsley Amis by Zacary Leader. how's it so far?

― m coleman, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 10:08 (eighteen years ago)

written in the 50s so dated in places, but really interesting, getting me to look at cities in ways i hadn't before. if you're not into urban planning type stuff it could be somewhat of a slog, though.

― jergïns, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 10:41 (eighteen years ago)

milo, I have that English Civil War book out from the library.

― tokyo rosemary, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 12:58 (eighteen years ago)

i like jane jacobs but she's problematic in places. you have to read her in a context-specific way, and keep in mind the era and some of the batshit things people were thinking and doing back then. the libertarians have really latched onto her because of her suspicion of government.

― get bent, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 13:50 (eighteen years ago)

she makes a great case for le corbusier being a dumbfuck though

― jergïns, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 13:54 (eighteen years ago)

reading *mystery and manners* the collection of prose pieces by flannery o'connor

― scott seward, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 14:00 (eighteen years ago)

*mystery and manners* the collection of prose pieces by flannery o'conno

Great shit! I was struck at the time by how steely lots of her advice is.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 16:21 (eighteen years ago)

I found a big pile of stolen library books on a park bench, from which I took Drown by Junot Diaz. I like it! Great title too.

― gnarly sceptre, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/mcoleman

― m coleman, Thursday, 17 May 2007 13:58 (eighteen years ago)

Drew: how was that Amanda Anderson book? it sounds interesting.

am back into Against the Day and some Bunny Wilson novel ... Memoirs of Hecate Co., i think.

― bb, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

neil hagerty "public works" wow this guy only pulls it off abt 1/3 of the time; his batting average is much better with da music makings.

― ian, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:57 (eighteen years ago)

at the dump last weekend i found a copy of Dion's autobio and it was inscribed and signed by him! it looks good too. i heart dion.

― scott seward, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://www2.wwnorton.com/cover/032336.jpg

A Dog's Ransom

― dmr, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 19:41 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.lilatheatre.com/truth.jpg

http://z.about.com/d/bestsellers/1/0/H/1/-/-/Exile_on_Main_St.jpg

― jeff, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 19:54 (eighteen years ago)

just picked up the granta best new novelists issue cause i have a freind in there. i wonder if ill read any other selections.

otherwise: picked up a book on the underground press and something called "six little-known birds of the mind" that google produces no results for.

― bb, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 19:57 (eighteen years ago)

craigslist help wanted, mostly.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 19:58 (eighteen years ago)

notable american women, ben marcus

― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 19:59 (eighteen years ago)

I got that Exile book as a gift and it annoyed me almost immediately so I put it down

most of it seemed to boil down to "I hung out with the Stonez, lol, they do drugs"

lemme know if I'm totally off base and it's worth reading

― dmr, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 20:01 (eighteen years ago)

I'm breezing through it because there are a few interesting parts, but it's pretty annoying.

― jeff, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 20:04 (eighteen years ago)

feynman lectures on physics

― river wolf, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 20:15 (eighteen years ago)

craigslist help wanted, mostly.

oh, i've reading that a lot myself...not as life changing as i'd like

has anyone read the a loog oldham books? ive been tempted, but rock books ahve been less than enrapturing recently

― bb, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 20:18 (eighteen years ago)

I started reading The Mysteries of Pittsburgh again, which I liked much better the first time when I didn't realize that it was set in the '80s.

― milo z, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 20:25 (eighteen years ago)

You guys are always reading such interesting shit. I am reading Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys which is hilarious.

― nickalicious, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 21:27 (eighteen years ago)

Have you read American Gods?

― milo z, Thursday, 7 June 2007 17:37 (eighteen years ago)

Finishing up Chandler's 'Little Sister' -- next up is probably some Ionesco?

― elmo argonaut, Thursday, 7 June 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

I haven't read American Gods yet. I was told I should read it first but it wouldn't be problematic if I read Anansi Boys first.

― nickalicious, Thursday, 7 June 2007 17:50 (eighteen years ago)

* After Dark by Murakami (pretty weak)
* The Collected Stories of Leonard Michaels

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 14:58 (eighteen years ago)

got the Mingering Mike book in the mail yesterday, it's pretty sweet

http://www.curiosityshoppeonline.com/mingeringmike.html

― dmr, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 19:00 (eighteen years ago)

woah

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 19:06 (eighteen years ago)

has the mingering mike thread been bumped

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 19:17 (eighteen years ago)

i just bumped it.

woah, there's an exhibit in DC. I guess I know what I'm doing this weekend.

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

FWIW I finished Anansi Boys and am now pretty deep into American Gods; FYI I think this may actually be the better strategy, AB teases at the mythology that is more thoroughly explored in AG.

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 19:25 (eighteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

don delillo - the body artist

― dmr, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

bought when it came out but never read

― dmr, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

The Yiddish Policemen's Union - kinda bad. Chabon kinda does that Lethem thing where he overloads the detective story with detective story-isms and there are increasingly diminishing returns.

― milo z, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

Mulligan Stew--Gilbert Sorrentino. Good, but it lost a lot of steam towards the end. Really funny, though. Next up is Motorman by David Ohle.

― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

annie dillard - pilgrim at tinker creeeeek, from which ive been reading excerpts for like eight years, without having ever gone str8 thru - rules just like i always thought...

hey mark, did you ever see that mingering mike exhib? wanna?

― 69, Monday, 9 July 2007 03:21 (eighteen years ago)

i love pilgrim. i wanna write a book like that. pilgrim at metal creek.

i'm reading this:

http://www.lopezbooks.com/images/kl/017079.jpg

funny. dry. rustic. rural. Fargo-esque.

― scott seward, Monday, 9 July 2007 03:23 (eighteen years ago)

oh and i just finished reading this which i really liked:

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n0/n2856.jpg

― scott seward, Monday, 9 July 2007 03:26 (eighteen years ago)

except my cover looked like this:

http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/covers/0-671-43532-9.jpg

― scott seward, Monday, 9 July 2007 03:27 (eighteen years ago)

and not like this:

http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/graphics/covers/34103.jpg

― scott seward, Monday, 9 July 2007 03:27 (eighteen years ago)

or this:

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/1/15/200px-Wherelate.jpg

― scott seward, Monday, 9 July 2007 03:28 (eighteen years ago)

or even this:

http://members.aol.com/siure/wherelateo.jpg

― scott seward, Monday, 9 July 2007 03:28 (eighteen years ago)

and certainly not like this:

http://dreamers.com/libroscf/novabr25.jpg

― scott seward, Monday, 9 July 2007 03:30 (eighteen years ago)

and needless to say:

http://www.temp.sfbok.se/kat/img/316.jpg

― scott seward, Monday, 9 July 2007 03:30 (eighteen years ago)

fourth cover posted is rad!

― 69, Monday, 9 July 2007 03:32 (eighteen years ago)

i just read cordwainer smith's norstrilia and i found this cover that is truly friggin' cool:

http://www.efanzines.com/EK/eI14/rb309.jpg

― scott seward, Monday, 9 July 2007 03:38 (eighteen years ago)

holy shit that cover rules.

i'm re-reading semi-trashy george r. r. martin fantasy novels. mmm.
and all star superman issue #8 by grant morrison & frank quitely.
and the most recent issue of The Atom.

― ian, Monday, 9 July 2007 03:48 (eighteen years ago)

i read some of the july (bono 'edited') vanity fair over at a friend's house - some good stuff! need to borrow it later
reading a book called "in bad taste? the adventures and science behind food delicacies" for author interview tomorrow
an issue of a journal called Public titled "Eating Things" that has electron microscope pic of taste buds on the cover (they look like frost-covered tongues with deep grooves running down their middles. there is something too clever yet unimaginative abt this cover)
the usual academic stufff that will soon not have to be read anymore
there is a reason i never participate in this thread :/
maybe i will get some sci-fi out from library this week though?

― rrrobyn, Monday, 9 July 2007 04:05 (eighteen years ago)

i like the 5th wilhelm cover with the red sky
but def feel an affinity with the 7th one too

― rrrobyn, Monday, 9 July 2007 04:07 (eighteen years ago)

do it! after i finish this drury book, i'm going back to my summer sci-fi binge.

― scott seward, Monday, 9 July 2007 04:10 (eighteen years ago)

that wilhelm book was cool and freaky and sad. very 70's. free clone love.

― scott seward, Monday, 9 July 2007 04:11 (eighteen years ago)

i don't know what they were thinking with that first cover. looks like mars or something. the whole thing takes place on post-apocalypse earth.

― scott seward, Monday, 9 July 2007 04:16 (eighteen years ago)

ooh
xpost
oh it's post-apocalypse! maybe i will have to read it!

instead of reading sci-fi last week i just watched all the episodes of torchwood i hadn't watched (4-13)... was meant to be like a reward for work-doing but then i just wld do some work and watch like 3 in a row. ! however this is not as bad as me with a book i like b/c it seems like more of an excuse to procrastinate b/c it's y'know READING and reading's good rite. but i still think some 70s sci-fi reading wld somehow work for me right now. (have also really been wanting to watch old star trek! what is going on)

― rrrobyn, Monday, 9 July 2007 04:18 (eighteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

just finished:
http://imad_moustapha.blogs.com/my_weblog/images/kazuo_ishiguro.jpg

just starting:
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/RESOURCE/MEDIA/IMAGES/bookcovers/Original/0224063979.jpg

― dmr, Friday, 27 July 2007 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

finished _man in the high castle_ and _the three stigmata of palmer eldritch_, starting _do androids dream of electric sheep_.

also, read morrison's complete run of _animal man_.

― elmo argonaut, Friday, 27 July 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.lopezbooks.com/images/kl/006363.jpg

― Mr. Que, Friday, 27 July 2007 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

i seem to be a verb - buckminster fuller
collection of raymond chandler novels
the duty of genius (bio of wittgenstein) - ray monk

― artdamages, Friday, 27 July 2007 14:41 (eighteen years ago)

raymond chandler <3

― elmo argonaut, Friday, 27 July 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

juggling:
A Thousand Plateaus - Deleuze & Guattari
Tao Te Ching - translated by Aleister Crowely
Fear & Loathing in America - Hunter S. Thompson

― sexyDancer, Friday, 27 July 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

Jacques Barzun- "Berlioz and the Romantic Century"

fucking awesome, best book I've read on this subject since Rosen's "The Romantic Generation".

― Jon Lewis, Friday, 27 July 2007 14:50 (eighteen years ago)

how is the recognitions? worth it?

― dmr, Friday, 27 July 2007 14:53 (eighteen years ago)

The Recognitions starts out amazing and then dwindles off into impenetrability.

Cue Mr. Que to tell me I'm a moron because I didn't understand it.

― n/a, Friday, 27 July 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

no way, n/a, I'm not going to say you're a moron. it's dense and a little boring in parts. and it does dwindle. i read it once, and stopped 100 pages from the end, and I never do that. i did read the last few pages--great ending.

so far it's great, again, a little draggy in spots. the thing with a 900 page book is, you can speed read through a page or two and not miss too much. it's really funny, i'm enjoying it a lot.

― Mr. Que, Friday, 27 July 2007 14:58 (eighteen years ago)

I'm also using this for help:

http://www.williamgaddis.org/recognitions/index.shtml

p.s. hi stencil!

― Mr. Que, Friday, 27 July 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

I just remember being really excited when I first started reading it, like "OMG this is the best book ever" and then like two days later I just couldn't take any more.

― n/a, Friday, 27 July 2007 15:06 (eighteen years ago)

Fear & Loathing in America - Hunter S. Thompson

^^^ just lent a bro my copy of this book. i think i like it better than any of his journalism

currently reading:

Mason & Dixon (second try, after readus interruptus last summer)

― river wolf, Friday, 27 July 2007 15:06 (eighteen years ago)

http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/41F+uFpTbLL._AA240_.jpg

Kinda trashy and oddly apologetic for Spector, but fun.

― n/a, Friday, 27 July 2007 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

Finished: http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QPkfne8FL._AA240_.jpg

Reading: http://www.rusoffagency.com/covers/fiction/Angelica_100_140.jpg

― Jordan, Friday, 27 July 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

BTW what is exact title of this oral history of Sly & Family Stone ppl were talking about?

― Jon Lewis, Friday, 27 July 2007 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

Fear & Loathing in America - Hunter S. Thompson

^^^ just lent a bro my copy of this book. i think i like it better than any of his journalism

word. the letters are were it's at. Proud Highway also great.

― sexyDancer, Friday, 27 July 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Thomas S Kuhn

― Dominique, Friday, 27 July 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, I kept Proud Highway in my bathroom for years!

― Jordan, Friday, 27 July 2007 16:55 (eighteen years ago)

i've got like little dogears and post its and scraps of paper all over the place in F&L in America. Read most of it when I was living in Dublin; the letters were perfect bus reading. Also, lived in Aspen a few years later, which made the whole running for sheriff business double hilarious, especially seeing what a weirdo place that town is now.

― river wolf, Friday, 27 July 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

If the upcoming third volume of letters is as great, this could be Thompson's Rosy Crucifixion Trilogy.

― sexyDancer, Friday, 27 July 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

some of that stuff must be anthologized in more than one book because I feel like I definitely read the Aspen running for sherriff thing as part of The Great Shark Hunt (which I never finished)

― dmr, Friday, 27 July 2007 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

So I have a $25 gift card my sister in law gave me to Barnes & Harbl. Leaning toward using it on the most recent WT Vollmann, Poor People.

― Jon Lewis, Friday, 27 July 2007 17:13 (eighteen years ago)

Bataille - Story of the Eye
Jim Thompson - A hell of a Woman
Marx - Capital vol 1 (Chapter is gd noize readin')

― xyzzzz__, Friday, 27 July 2007 18:00 (eighteen years ago)

Chapter ONE.

― xyzzzz__, Friday, 27 July 2007 18:01 (eighteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

finished - "Jimmy Corrigan" (was really good)
now - "Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bronx is Burning"
next - William Gibson "Spook Country"

― dmr, Monday, 13 August 2007 18:44 (eighteen years ago)

finished The Recognitions yesterday--really great in places. Didn't drag so much the second time around. overall=not too boring.

― Mr. Que, Monday, 13 August 2007 18:51 (eighteen years ago)

upcoming oliver sacks "musicophilia" abt music-related neurological conditions, good stuff, more case history/anecdotal & easier to read than daniel levitin's "this is yr brain on music"

there's a form of amusica -- inability to perceive music -- where people can't recogonize dissonance due to mild brain damage. according to dr sacks they dont have the "normal response" to dissonant music but instead find it "slightly pleasurable" HA bring the NOIZE!!!!

later dudes

― m coleman, Monday, 13 August 2007 19:36 (eighteen years ago)

did anyone read Richard Powers' latest, The Echo Maker? Gerald Weber seemed really obviously based on Oliver Sacks to me. anyway, I loved it.

― horseshoe, Monday, 13 August 2007 19:38 (eighteen years ago)

Just finished: William T. Vollmann- Poor People
Now resuming: Mervyn Peake- Titus Groan

― Jon Lewis, Monday, 13 August 2007 19:54 (eighteen years ago)

b4: transmigration of timothy archer
now: the wind-up bird chronicle
l8r: the brothers karamazov

― sleep, Monday, 13 August 2007 21:05 (eighteen years ago)

i'm re-reading semi-trashy george r. r. martin fantasy novels. mmm.

a friend says the song of ice and fire books are the best
is it true
are they the best

― sleep, Monday, 13 August 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

They're the best of their type-- that plot-twist-driven/bazillion-characters/detailed world-building kind of fantasy. Vivid characters, painfully suspenseful, sharp grasp of the eternal verities. There's not much atmosphere or style to his prose, though. It's kind of existential high fantasy. But totally fun and awesome and deserves its cult.

― Jon Lewis, Monday, 13 August 2007 21:18 (eighteen years ago)

i see. maybe i'll borrow a game of thrones and give that a shot. i've never read fantasy book in my life but i have a feeling i could dig it.

― sleep, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 17:04 (eighteen years ago)

oh i just finished a game of thrones and moved onto the next one. i haven't read fantasy stuff before really either.

― bell_labs, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 17:05 (eighteen years ago)

It's pretty fukcing solid, right?

Incidentally the audiobooks of the first 3 books are excellent, read by this awesome somewhat hammy old british stage guy named Roy Dotrice.

FWIW my favorite series-form fantasy other than LOTR is The Book Of The New Sun by Gene Wolfe (1st book is Shadow Of The Torturer). Wolfe is dense, lyrical, doomy, atmospheric as fuck, allusive, sometimes impenetrable. His text itself is a kind of magic.

― Jon Lewis, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 17:13 (eighteen years ago)

it took me about a hundred pages to get into it but i ended up really liking it!

― bell_labs, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

i guess HBO is making a series of the books. i think that could potentially be awesome.

― bell_labs, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

sleep i will lend u a game of thrones, but lindsay has it rite now.
i love this shit.

i am reading HARRY POTTERS AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS now. the highpoint of this series was book 5. this one is.. okay. but there were parts of it that i was reading this morning on the train that were really cringey. i guess this is what i get for reading books designed for people ten yrs younger.

― ian, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 17:20 (eighteen years ago)

The Sufis by Idries Shah

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

william gibson on radio now

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

xpost-- I'm really glad it got picked up as a cable serial instead of a movie. Even a 3hr film would just butcher it, the plot's way too intricate.

― Jon Lewis, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 17:41 (eighteen years ago)

i'm done with the first one, sleep can have it!

― bell_labs, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

Finished:
William Gibson - Spook Country
Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood
Analog In, Digital Out - Brendan Dawes
(yeah, it's a book on computer art crap)

― mh, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 17:46 (eighteen years ago)

Colin Thubron - Shadow of the Silk Road

― sanskrit, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

sweet thanks ian and lindsay! i will read all this fantasyz.

― sleep, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/41GxUU6bCUL._AA240_.jpg

― jhøshea, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

YES^^^

― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 16:07 (eighteen years ago)

yah totally

― jhøshea, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass

― elmo argonaut, Monday, 20 August 2007 14:19 (eighteen years ago)

recently finished the warhol diaries, now reading "the westies" by t.j. english.

― hstencil, Monday, 20 August 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

lady snowblood.

― nathalie, Monday, 20 August 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)

lots! of design/arch mags, delerious ny, and some dashil hammet thing...(because i need a dumb book and thats as low as ill go)

― bb, Monday, 20 August 2007 21:50 (eighteen years ago)

YAY.

i found a like-new, not expensive copy of lanark, so that's what i'm (re)reading. people in the nyc area who haven't read it are welcome to borrow it (after signing pledge to treat it humanely) once i've finished because it's one of the best books ever.

― lauren, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 16:28 (eighteen years ago)

Cool, I always thought that book looked great.

― Jon Lewis, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 16:29 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.webslog.com/images/Oblivion.jpg

― jhøshea, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 16:29 (eighteen years ago)

(also i'm sure you were kidding but pls don't call dashiell hammett dumb!)

― lauren, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

respect the hammett

― elmo argonaut, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.zip.com.au/~mayor/satriani/images/students_kirk_hammett.jpg

― dmr, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 16:45 (eighteen years ago)

just started spook country

― dmr, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 16:45 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

well it was nowhere near as good as Pattern Recognition but I liked it ok

interesting setup but when it gets to the payoff it's like "huh. that's it? huh."

― dmr, Thursday, 4 October 2007 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

finished - GLITZ, Elmore Leonard
now - HEAT, Bill Buford
next - DUNE (never read it, only seen the movie)

monosyllabic trifecta

― dmr, Thursday, 4 October 2007 22:00 (eighteen years ago)

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51NPovssT3L._AA240_.jpg

slow at first, but it's starting to pick up.

― Mr. Que, Monday, 15 October 2007 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

Atonement, Ian McEwan

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 15 October 2007 19:09 (eighteen years ago)

Death and Life of Great American Citites

it's good, but i predict that i will not finish it.

also read recently: Hope in Hell, about MSF. good, quick, read.

― river wolf, Monday, 15 October 2007 19:19 (eighteen years ago)

The Postman Always Rings Twice
Mildred Pierce

― elmo argonaut, Monday, 15 October 2007 19:24 (eighteen years ago)

PHILLIP PULLMAN'S HIS DARK MATERIALS TRILOGY.
this is spottily written but still decently engaging.

also, brian chippendale "Maggots"

― ian, Monday, 15 October 2007 19:26 (eighteen years ago)

u gonna go say hi to chippendale tonight ian?

― Jon Lewis, Monday, 15 October 2007 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

is that black pus show tonight? i had forgotten about it. i probably SHOULD...

― ian, Monday, 15 October 2007 19:28 (eighteen years ago)

no the book signing at Spoonbill Sugartown, with Frank Santoro and C.F.

― Jon Lewis, Monday, 15 October 2007 19:29 (eighteen years ago)

oh jeeze, what time? i should definitely head over after work if it's not late.
i thought there was originally planned a black pus/kites show to coincide.

― ian, Monday, 15 October 2007 19:33 (eighteen years ago)

check "are we getting drunk tonight" thread, I posted it there this morning (didn't know where else to post it!)

― Jon Lewis, Monday, 15 October 2007 19:40 (eighteen years ago)

Mysterium Coniumctionis - Jung
Book 4 - Crowely

― sexyDancer, Monday, 15 October 2007 19:42 (eighteen years ago)

sD, what Jung is fun

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 15 October 2007 19:56 (eighteen years ago)

Death and Life of Great American Citites

it's good, but i predict that i will not finish it.

yeah, same happened to me. loved it, made it through less than 200 pages.

From Jaq, I'm getting through A Man with No Talents: Memoirs of a Tokyo Day Laborer by Oyama Shiro and Edward Fowler. it's kind of interesting, kind of difficult. he actually describes a room of 1 1/2 tatami mats (about 2.5 sq m) as being big.

― jergïns, Monday, 15 October 2007 20:04 (eighteen years ago)

xp: start with "Psychological Types" for secret history of the war between the extroverts and the introverts, then dive into "Pyschology and Alchemy" for mystic vision funnies.

― sexyDancer, Monday, 15 October 2007 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

sD is training for sorcery @_@????

― elmo argonaut, Monday, 15 October 2007 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

just brushing up

― sexyDancer, Monday, 15 October 2007 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

Philip Roth - Ghost Writer
Ann Finkbeiner - The Jasons
Philip Pullman trilogy audiobook while I go to sleep. Two chapters to go with the last one. Pullman narrates very well. I imagined he would sound like a reedy nerd, not Laurence Olivier.

― caek, Monday, 15 October 2007 20:16 (eighteen years ago)

Watching Dallas.

― stevienixed, Monday, 15 October 2007 20:37 (eighteen years ago)

finished:
pattern recognition (gibson)
norwegian wood (murakami)
^thx again dave, i really liked both

reading:
simulations (baudrillard)
targeting iran (barsamian)

― sleep, Monday, 15 October 2007 21:38 (eighteen years ago)

no prob!

we watched a murakami-related movie last night (tony takitani)

unfortunately it was booooooring

― dmr, Monday, 15 October 2007 21:40 (eighteen years ago)

oh yeah i saw that
that was before i knew about murakami
yes it was totally boring and i was disappointed, netflix recommended the shit out of that movie to me :[

― sleep, Monday, 15 October 2007 23:51 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/covers_450/9781400081394.jpg

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 01:19 (eighteen years ago)

the yellow arrow - victor pelevin

― omar little, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 01:37 (eighteen years ago)

Hm let's see:
Joseph's Bones: Understanding the Struggle Between God and Mankind in the Bible (Jerome Segal)
Od Magic (Patricia McKillip)
Moonheart (Charles deLint)
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger (Marc Levinson)

― Laurel, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 01:59 (eighteen years ago)

Constance Kuriyama "Christopher Marlowe: A Renaissance Life"
Christopher Marlowe "Doctor Faustus (A Text)", "Doctor Faustus (B Text)"
Austin Grossman "Soon I Will Be Invincible"
Aleister Crowley "Snowdrops from a Curate's Garden"
Christopher Hill "The World Upside Down"
Philip K. Dick "Time Out of Joint"
the new issue of Critical Inquiry (guest edited by Lauren Berlant)

― Drew Daniel, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 02:24 (eighteen years ago)

cereal boxes
microwave instruction manual

― abanana, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 02:53 (eighteen years ago)

man who was thursday - g.k. chesterton
dear mr. henshaw - beverly cleary
big old essay on zbigneiw preisner

― remy bean, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 02:55 (eighteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

john fowles - the magus
bits of japrocksampler at work. will buy a copy eventually.

― ian, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 16:58 (eighteen years ago)

I read The Magus earlier this year. We should discuss incoherently/drunkenly when next we meet.

― Jon Lewis, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 17:01 (eighteen years ago)

i found the magus... frustrating.

― elmo argonaut, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 17:02 (eighteen years ago)

i am not super far into it yet, maybe 150 pages. so no spoilers.

― ian, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

Definitely a "problem book". Which is fine. I like a mess.

― Jon Lewis, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 17:10 (eighteen years ago)

mcluhan - understanding media
delillo - white noise

― sleep, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 18:09 (eighteen years ago)

a lovecraft comp cos it's that time of the year

― bell_labs, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 18:11 (eighteen years ago)

charles perrow - normal accidents
walker percy - lost in the cosmos

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 18:27 (eighteen years ago)

what is lost in the cosmos like, tom? the only percy i've read is the moviegoer, which i liked despite it being a bit mopey.

― ian, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 18:31 (eighteen years ago)

japrocksampler
al gore - the assault on reason (you can see how no one writing this clearly about the compromises inherent in the office could actually want to run for the office. but he really has to)
conversations with glenn gould

― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 18:35 (eighteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Bruce Chatwin - In Patagonia
Philip Roth - Ghost Writer
Peter Ackroyd - Newton
Ann Finkbeiner - The Jasons: The Secret History of Science's Postwar Elite (rad so far!)

― caek, Sunday, 18 November 2007 00:23 (eighteen years ago)

The World Without Us - Alan Weisman

― jergïns, Sunday, 18 November 2007 00:47 (eighteen years ago)

am i the only person who finds philip roth unreadable?

― remy bean, Sunday, 18 November 2007 00:49 (eighteen years ago)

no! i hate philip roth. i read the dying animal and thought it was terrible. told to try american pastoral, couldn't get more than a hundred pages into it.

― ian, Sunday, 18 November 2007 00:57 (eighteen years ago)

kinda want to read to the John Daly autobiography

― iiiijjjj, Sunday, 18 November 2007 00:58 (eighteen years ago)

also, just finished the magus. haven't picked up my next yet. maybe i'll finish the golden compass tonight, since i'm no more than 50 pages from the end anyway.

― ian, Sunday, 18 November 2007 01:00 (eighteen years ago)

american pastoral is 100 pages too long, but it's really worth it. dying animal is considered "bad" roth too, i think?? anyway, AP is really cool but a bit of a slog.

― Mr. Que, Sunday, 18 November 2007 03:02 (eighteen years ago)

dude, ian, don't start there. read portnoy's complaint. or better yet, read Our Gang. Our Gang is noize. Sabbath's Theater is total punk rock as well. and brilliant.

― scott seward, Sunday, 18 November 2007 03:27 (eighteen years ago)

all the later stuff is just phil itching for a nobel.

― scott seward, Sunday, 18 November 2007 03:28 (eighteen years ago)

anyway, i am reading:

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/c2/c12224.jpg

which is great.

― scott seward, Sunday, 18 November 2007 03:30 (eighteen years ago)

i also own the hardcover, which has this cover:

http://archive.salon.com/special/1998/bookawards/src/19gaitskill.gif

― scott seward, Sunday, 18 November 2007 03:31 (eighteen years ago)

newest trade paperback cover (and the worst):

http://a7.vox.com/6a00c2251c7d24604a00c22523031f604a-500pi

― scott seward, Sunday, 18 November 2007 03:32 (eighteen years ago)

DON QUIXOTEEEE

― 69, Sunday, 18 November 2007 05:14 (eighteen years ago)

Sabbath's Theater is my favourite Roth book (I have read two, so whatevs). Don Quixote is awes. I finished Part I a year or so ago and was kind of exhausted. I should go back and read II.

― caek, Sunday, 18 November 2007 09:08 (eighteen years ago)

dude, ian, don't start there. read portnoy's complaint.

yea Roth's older stuff is less self-conscious, Goodbye Columbus was always my fave, see the movie too w/Rich Benjamin and Ali McGraw. But avoid The Ghost Writer and other Zuckerman novels like the plague.

― m coleman, Sunday, 18 November 2007 13:17 (eighteen years ago)

American Pastoral gets too cerebral/weighty but I loved that character "The Swede"

― m coleman, Sunday, 18 November 2007 13:19 (eighteen years ago)

g marcus made me want to like roth..but the fucker is so mannish and exhausting...based on i married a commie

im trudging through todd gitlins the 60's...
some book of original sources from the 60's.
berkowitz's something happened (cult/political overview of the 70's)
anderson's: revolution the reagan legacy
rosen's masks and mirrors:gen x and the chameleon personality
generation me: why todays young americans are more confident, assertiv, entitled -- and more miserable than ever
and some other bad book about the babyboomer generation that ic ant find on my desk right now

will also dig into my old friend xtian t3b0rd0's book called we go liquid...which is about a kid who gets spam emails from his mather after her death

― bb, Sunday, 18 November 2007 16:55 (eighteen years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0345341848.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― artdamages, Sunday, 18 November 2007 22:59 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

http://www.outatime.it/ritornoalfuturo/materiale//bttf1(14)A_Match_Made_in_Space.jpg

― chaki, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 19:09 (eighteen years ago)

I went ahead and read that Rolling Stones Exile on Main St. book, it was pretty awful

the dude does all this authorial dick-swinging like "my book rools, ur book sucks, I am god of all Stones lore, all your facts are rong"

then at least three times later on in the book he cites wikipedia as a source

― dmr, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 19:16 (eighteen years ago)

there are a few good anecdotes but mostly it was pointless, he spends a whole page on a takedown of Liz Phair. "her record didn't even have anything to do w/ Exile and yet the critics nutted all over it wtf!!?!"

― dmr, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

will probably read this next once shannon finishes it

http://trashotron.com/agony/images/2007/07-news/06-18-07/diaz-oscar_wao.jpg

― dmr, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 19:21 (eighteen years ago)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41MJR0DE62L._AA240_.jpg

i'm not all that noise, tho

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 20:01 (eighteen years ago)

I am reading Foundation for the first time since jr. high and I'm seeing a lot of acid in the ideas of psychohistory.

After this, I do not know what I'll read. Maybe a book I found on the street about how to get personal grants.

― ian, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

I had Asimov sign my copy of Foundation Trilogy at a Star Trek convention in the '70s, ian!

I'm reading I Am Legend.

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 20:17 (eighteen years ago)

cormac mccarthy - blood meridian

― sleep, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 20:22 (eighteen years ago)

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y126/paradorlounge/9780140108927H.jpgfin
http://www.booksamillion.com/bam/covers/0/06/092/909/006092909X_l.gifnow

― jhøshea, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

No Country For Old Men

― milo z, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

re-reading in the name of the rose

― max, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 20:27 (eighteen years ago)

...in penn station

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

right now:

Rereading: The Europe of Trusts by Susan Howe
Reading: A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes
Recently Read: Crush by Richard Siken, Singularities by Susan Howe

― the table is the table, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 20:34 (eighteen years ago)

cormac mccarthy - blood meridian

^^ my grandfather recommends this. i have never read mccarthy; do i read this one or no country for old men firsts?

― ian, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 20:36 (eighteen years ago)

blood meridian is bloody and gory. supposed to be the "best" mccarthy, i've never been able to click with it and i've tried 3x. i can't get past page 100. the road is awesome, no country for old men is just okay.

― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 20:39 (eighteen years ago)

everyone seems to hate no country for old men

ive only ready all the pretty horses, the crossing and the road. i liked them all tho the 1st 2 might be a little cowboy-y for some.

― jhøshea, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 20:40 (eighteen years ago)

ian I can lend you blood meridian if you want. I liked it a lot.

― dmr, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 20:40 (eighteen years ago)

in fact I might bring it to Freddy's tomorrow and pretend it's a birthday present

― dmr, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 20:41 (eighteen years ago)

i love blood meridian

― the table is the table, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 20:41 (eighteen years ago)

has anyone read Tree of Smoke?

― dmr, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 20:42 (eighteen years ago)

dave, i can bring you that yahowa DVD.

― ian, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

i read Tree of Smoke. i thought it was pretty blah. i liked the solider stuff but the CIA officer stuff was a real slog. the two stories merged, sorta. some longish books don't seem long, they fly right by and you want to read more. that was not the case with this one though, it was a drag. the guy is great with a short story but his long stuff i just don't enjoy.

― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 20:45 (eighteen years ago)

it was also really choppy for a novel? i wanted him to get into certain scenes in real depth and length, but he would just cut scenes off at the knees and stuff. it may be worth looking into though, if you like him, it wasn't horrible or anything.

― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 20:47 (eighteen years ago)

I've read almost everything by him so I'm sure I'll check it out at some point. maybe I'll wait for the paperback.

― dmr, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 20:50 (eighteen years ago)

No Country for Old Men isn't as good as The Road. The accents seem more forced in print than they did on screen and there's far too much of the "back in the day, the world was..." narration.

― milo z, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 20:51 (eighteen years ago)

everyone seems to hate no country for old men

I liked it well enough -- not at all my genre -- until the sheriff's "society's goin to hell cuz people don't say 'please'" chapter.

ha xpost

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 20:53 (eighteen years ago)

i never read denis johnson before - after seeing tree of smoke on every year end list i got already dead and am crazily enjoying it - tho only 50 pages in.

― jhøshea, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

Already Dead is great but it lags a bit in the middle. it has some absolutely gorgeous passages though.

― the table is the table, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 20:57 (eighteen years ago)

denis johnson for me is like Jesus' Son >>>>>> Already Dead >> Fiskadoro > Resuscitation of a Hanged Man but I liked parts of all of them. Jesus' Son is an all time fave

― dmr, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 21:03 (eighteen years ago)

jesus son is super ace

― max, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 21:07 (eighteen years ago)

movie is pretty good too

― max, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 21:07 (eighteen years ago)

Strange Piece of Paradise, Terri Jentz (2006)

Two college girls participate in something called the "Bikecentennial", which involves bicycling across America in '76. A few days into their journey, they are camping out in the Oregon desert, and some guy drives his truck over the tent in which they are both sleeping, and then attacks them both with a hatchet. Miraculously, they survive and manage to go on with life. Over the years, the author becomes increasingly haunted by the psychological scars that she bears from the whole traumatic ordeal (the axe-dude was never caught), and she courageously ends up re-visiting the scene of the crime and begins to track down the psychopath. The greatest true crime book ever? And, unlike most entries in the genre, it's written in first-person...plus the author is just plain rad. A fucking great book.

That's my Reading Rainbow style review!

― dell, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 21:11 (eighteen years ago)

i started tree of smoke, read about 100 pages--there wasn't anything wrong with it, but it wasn't really grabbing me either.

i suck at reading fiction these days, though.

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 21:20 (eighteen years ago)

Me too, why is that? Someone broked my imagination?

― dell, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 21:25 (eighteen years ago)

Actually, though, it takes imaginative facilities to read non-, so maybe I just can't truck with whatever authors' own imaginal worlds these days. By and large, my favorite fiction has always been roman a clef shit, anyways.

― dell, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 21:27 (eighteen years ago)

Jesus' Son is amazing.

I got a copy of his first novel (Angels) yesterday, I think that's up next.

― milo z, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 21:39 (eighteen years ago)

Anyone else read his plays? I think they were sort of unfairly knocked.

Speaking of plays, anyone ever read anything by Will Eno. I think he's totally brilliant.

― the table is the table, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 21:46 (eighteen years ago)

i just finished tree of smoke, too. it was - yeah, mr. que - kind of 'bleh.' it didn't really come together in the end, and though it had all the trappings of an Important Novel, i put it down wondering exactly what i'd jsut read.

― remy bean, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 21:53 (eighteen years ago)

i read swallows and amazons on laurel's recommendation, and loved it. i am in the first chapters of swallowdale now

― remy bean, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 21:54 (eighteen years ago)

my mom LOVES the swallows and amazons books and always was trying to get me to read them when i was younger... i could never get into it

― max, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

lehane - gone baby gone
thomas - deluxe
routledge comp reader - foucault

― stevienixed, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 22:04 (eighteen years ago)

Jesus' Son is amazing.

-> i agree. fantastic book.

― stevienixed, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 22:05 (eighteen years ago)

The Green Man - Kingsley Amis
Henry James: The Young Master - Sheldon M. Novick

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 23:42 (eighteen years ago)

green man has been on my list forever ... is it worth picking up?

― remy bean, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 23:48 (eighteen years ago)

The supernatural stuff isn't as considered as Amis' usual chronicle between the sexes (the novel has the most inept threesome in lit history).

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 20 December 2007 02:10 (eighteen years ago)

Re-Reading: William Gass "On Being Blue"

Reading: A. C Grayling "Descartes: The Life and TImes of a Genius"
Achille Mbembe "On the Postcolony"
Aleister Crowley "Konx Om Pax"
J. P. Sartre "Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions"
Howell "Logic and Rhetoric in England: 1500 to 1700"
Empson "Milton's God"
plus various "how to" books about revising your dissertation

Having Read Aloud to Me: C.S. Lewis "Out of the Silent Planet"

Up next: Parker's mammoth bio of John Milton

― Drew Daniel, Thursday, 20 December 2007 03:36 (eighteen years ago)

^^^do they all get equal play?

― mookieproof, Thursday, 20 December 2007 07:06 (eighteen years ago)

Achille Mbembe "On the Postcolony"

i just had to read part of this for class; i liked it a lot

― max, Thursday, 20 December 2007 07:09 (eighteen years ago)

STRESS: The Nature and History of Engineered Grief, by Robert Kugelmann
also still working on Walker Percy's Lost In The Cosmos which I highly, highly recommend so far

― El Tomboto, Thursday, 20 December 2007 07:25 (eighteen years ago)

if not for the short & informal semiotics lesson in the middle then at least for the hilarious/tragic questionnaires

Actually it's pretty interesting how STRESS, Lost in the Cosmos, and my last book - Normal Accidents by Charles Perrow - all sort of dovetail on similar points. Also see Why Things Bite Back by Edward Tenner for more discussion on how modern life is amazingly bad for everyone

― El Tomboto, Thursday, 20 December 2007 07:27 (eighteen years ago)

like, in a more interesting and intellectually honest way than "fast food nation" is

― El Tomboto, Thursday, 20 December 2007 07:28 (eighteen years ago)

that book sucked

― El Tomboto, Thursday, 20 December 2007 07:28 (eighteen years ago)

green man has been on my list forever ... is it worth picking up?

not as funny as KA's best social satires but good, a strange and interesting little supernatural mystery.

― m coleman, Thursday, 20 December 2007 11:06 (eighteen years ago)

ive been considering k amis for a while...i fear hell be a touch to mannish for my taste, but...its worth a go

mostly hacked through todd gittlin's the sixties and the twilight of common dreams...in both cases theres something about his "prose" style i like -- a certain "prophetic voice", to accept a term, that i find necessary in nonfiction these days and a good amount of allusive language -- and a good amount to too close to his home prattle. indeed, too much prattle in general. hes also a bit too tied to born-on-the-fourth-of-the-cold-war thinking for my taste. i appreciate his criticism of later 60's thought, but ... something annoyingly stodgy, as though he can't get past his own frustrations...im reading his stuff to prep on a book idea about the break between the babyboomer gen and what ive been calling "the new lost generation"(and evidently im not alone in that), and his stodgy, strangely higher-than-thee, now-that-ive seen-it-all, approach that proves my points, sooooooo. to the same end im constantly rereading the grails of didion's essays, some galbraith, c wright mills, bucky fuller, etc...need some if stone and w. apppleman williams

otherwise:
playing with mailer's why are we in vietnam
ray mungo's return to sender (have to find a copy of total loss farm ... and get that new book about communes in vt)
don delillo's great jones (something very annoying about this..perhaps just the character. the character names are terrible. so cute (something i couldnt take from k vonegut and irks me about tom pynchon)
and that new collection of letters between the mittford sisters (which is charming as all hell and makes me ...oh, whats the word when yr sentimental for something you never had?)

― bb, Thursday, 20 December 2007 13:36 (eighteen years ago)

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0fiT27cfyN00t/340x.jpg

― n/a, Thursday, 20 December 2007 13:41 (eighteen years ago)

bb: if you havent read any kingsley amis lucky jim is definitely where to start. "a laff riot" -- j-p sartre

― m coleman, Thursday, 20 December 2007 13:45 (eighteen years ago)

ha, well, if jp likes it...

n/a: how is that?

― bb, Thursday, 20 December 2007 13:46 (eighteen years ago)

something annoyingly stodgy

Ben, Alex Cockburn of thr Nation and Counterpunch refers to this track of tediousness in ex-lefties as "Gitlinization."

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 20 December 2007 14:27 (eighteen years ago)

modern life is amazingly bad for everyone

Still my fave Blur album.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 20 December 2007 14:29 (eighteen years ago)

it's pretty good, though i may be too dumb for it, which is distressing. he'll be going along all pop-sciencey and it's fine and then all of a sudden drop into serious linguist mode and i have to read everything three times before i can grasp it

― n/a, Thursday, 20 December 2007 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

i love great jones street - so funny

― jhøshea, Thursday, 20 December 2007 14:31 (eighteen years ago)

oh, its funny alright..and everything i like about dd...just..wish hed quit it with the cute shit

doc: ha...hillarious...i remember gitlin being annoying as all get out in the weather underground film...its like he just doesnt see certain things right in front of his face while claiming hes onto it...(indeed he pulls out "mr jones" a few times in the 60's: days of...).

n/a arrgh...serious linguists...are...tedious...

― bb, Thursday, 20 December 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

its it because...not enough ellipses...

― jhøshea, Thursday, 20 December 2007 14:38 (eighteen years ago)

basically

― bb, Thursday, 20 December 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

i'm reading cradle to cradle: remaking the way we make things by william mcdonough and michael braungart.

http://www.mcdonough.com/images/cradle_cover.gif

next up is counterculture green: the whole earth catalog and american environmentalism by andrew g. kirk.

http://www.kansaspress.ku.edu/images/kircou.jpg

― get bent, Thursday, 20 December 2007 22:02 (eighteen years ago)

hmm lemme know how the kirk is. first one looks good too

have you read that book plenitude by rich gold?...my ladyfriend was reading it...and speaks v.v. highly of it

― bb, Thursday, 20 December 2007 22:10 (eighteen years ago)

i want that book on the whole earth catalog too.

i am reading this: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71KYH1ED23L.gif

― artdamages, Thursday, 20 December 2007 22:13 (eighteen years ago)

oops: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71KYH1ED23L.gif

― artdamages, Thursday, 20 December 2007 22:13 (eighteen years ago)

plenitude is on my "i'll get around to it eventually" list. :-)

there's so much to read on this subject; it's overwhelming and more than a little repetitive sometimes.

― get bent, Thursday, 20 December 2007 22:34 (eighteen years ago)

true,very true...its hilarious in that regard...soon there will be landfills full of them

― bb, Friday, 21 December 2007 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

except cradle to cradle's zero-waste production/packaging means it can be UPCYCLED and used as biological and technical nutrients, resulting in a CLOSED-LOOP SYSTEM and saving everyone from getting cancer and having six-eyed mutant babies!

*pats self on back*

― get bent, Friday, 21 December 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

Got some nice books for my b-day! proven fact: friends give better books than parents.
charley patton bio by calt & wardlow
blood meridian
breakfast on pluto - mccabe
that book abt TG & COUM that i started a thread about

also was at the bookstore today and saw a few books that looked interesting. new A1an Licht book on "sound art" and a new moondog bio. not to mention my ever-lengthening list of novels and novelists.

― ian, Saturday, 22 December 2007 04:45 (eighteen years ago)

im confused by alan lichts book...its all pictures of sound art

i think ill pick up the moondog book after xmas

― bb, Saturday, 22 December 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

Faulkner - The sound and the Fury and As I Dying.
Coleridge's brilliant and confusing (both qualities peak at the exact same points) Biographia Literaria.
Bukowski - Post Office
Lenin - What is to be Done?

Might start on E.P.Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class. If not now then probably never.

― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 22 December 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

attention williamsburgles:
good book table at bedord & north 6th today, in front of the muffin shop. might have to go check back--other books on witchraft, two compies of Lucky Jim (one hardback, one soft.), some PKD i already had, lots of post-war european lit.

picked up:
-anthology of soviet sf
-kundera "farewell party"
-calvino "difficult loves"
-carver "where i'm calling from"
-muldoon "projections of the astral body"
-mccarthy "all the pretty horses" (started blood meridian on the train today, liking it very much.)

― ian, Saturday, 22 December 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

oliver sachs "musicophilia: tales of music and the brain"

― remy bean, Saturday, 22 December 2007 19:32 (eighteen years ago)

david markson "reader's block"

― Mr. Que, Sunday, 23 December 2007 00:02 (eighteen years ago)

i love where i'm calling from. its very manly.

― artdamages, Sunday, 23 December 2007 05:10 (eighteen years ago)

The Armies of the Night
by Mailer (that's "Mailer")

― Dr Morbius, Sunday, 23 December 2007 18:52 (eighteen years ago)

the magus by john fowles

― t. weiss, Sunday, 23 December 2007 19:51 (eighteen years ago)

that book (the magus) is ... goddamn, i don't know what it is. am i glad i read it? yes, i think. or maybe not. at the end of it i thought 'huh, that is an interesting thing, but then again maybe it isn't.'

― remy bean, Monday, 24 December 2007 20:45 (eighteen years ago)

in short: what the hell is the that book?

― remy bean, Monday, 24 December 2007 20:46 (eighteen years ago)

the magus would have been better with extreme editing applied to the final hundred pages.

― ian, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 17:16 (eighteen years ago)

(started blood meridian on the train today, liking it very much.)

nice

ended up getting Tree of Smoke for xmas so I'm readin that now

― dmr, Thursday, 27 December 2007 02:38 (eighteen years ago)

just read:

austen - persuasion
bill buford - heat

reading:

j roth - the radetzky march

― s1ocki, Thursday, 27 December 2007 02:50 (eighteen years ago)

magazines

― rrrobyn, Thursday, 27 December 2007 04:02 (eighteen years ago)

in past several days, in order:
en r0ute (air canada mag)
arthur
fashion
us weekly
hello! canada
oprah
drome
vanity fair (in progress)
harpers (in progress)

― rrrobyn, Thursday, 27 December 2007 04:05 (eighteen years ago)

bear aware: a homeowner's guide to preventing bears in your backyard phamplet

― rrrobyn, Thursday, 27 December 2007 04:06 (eighteen years ago)

i look forward to taking this thread to heart and to the return of books

― rrrobyn, Thursday, 27 December 2007 04:09 (eighteen years ago)

Kingsley Amis - The Old Devils
Sheldon M. Novick - Henry James
Joseph Ellis - American Creation
That big-ass collected Joan Didion.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 27 December 2007 04:14 (eighteen years ago)

Here are books that I like:

Post Office
Rivethead
Lucky Wander Boy
Tobias Wolfe, Raymond Carver, Nicholson Baker
How to be Alone

Now, what should I check out from the library?

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 27 December 2007 04:50 (eighteen years ago)

PP, see if they have any collections by Andre Dubus (esp. the 'We Don't Live Here Anymore' book of novellas)(not Andre Dubus III) or Richard Yates's Revolutionary Road.

starting Miss Lonelyhearts tonight

― milo z, Thursday, 27 December 2007 05:20 (eighteen years ago)

those appear to be excellent suggestions. Thanks, mz.

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 27 December 2007 05:35 (eighteen years ago)

How should I read Hopscotch? Starting in the middle or from Chapter 1?

― Tape Store, Thursday, 27 December 2007 05:51 (eighteen years ago)

uhm, i don't remember which way it is but read the one where you skip around a lot. i don't remember if it starts at the beginning or in the middle.

― ian, Thursday, 27 December 2007 06:37 (eighteen years ago)

you read 1 to 56 straight through and then start skipping around (altho I didn't re-read chapters I had already read, just glanced at enough of it to remind me which one it was)

― dmr, Thursday, 27 December 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.compositiontoday.com/images/the_rest_is_noise.jpg

just used xmas gift cards to buy this .... psyched

― dmr, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

got ^^ for my birthday. read the first 15 pages or so this AM and I'm already so hooked. truly awesome.

― m coleman, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

ill be picking that up soon

― bb, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 23:21 (eighteen years ago)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ZtONiQJ4L._AA240_.jpg

― remy bean, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 23:29 (eighteen years ago)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31ZTJA6918L._AA240_.jpg
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51D2NX0Z4AL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

WRENTHAM: A HISTORY 1673-1973 -- WRENTHAM, MASSACHUSETTS
WIZARD OF EARTHSEA 1
ECONOMIST
NEW SCIENTIST
ALICE WATERS ART OF SIMPLE COOKING

― remy bean, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 23:40 (eighteen years ago)

getting sick of having books opacked

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 00:13 (eighteen years ago)

ALICE WATERS ART OF SIMPLE COOKING

want. keep flipping through at bookstore.

― get bent, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 04:08 (eighteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Monica Youm = Ignatz

o Ignatz!
he’s a stalker

or a snicker or
a stain the v

on his forehead
stands for villain

or for vain o
tongueless talker

will you never teach him shame?

― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 05:51 (eighteen years ago)

mispelled that. Monica Youn.

also that Alex Ross book which is OKAY

― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 05:51 (eighteen years ago)

still picking through that stress book from upthread. thickest skinny book I ever read. and steve friedman's the agony of victory which is a collection of features he did from a bunch of magazines and was okay but nothing I'd get for myself. and the omnivore's dilemma which seems like it might be a little below my weight but I'm just starting out and maybe I can skim all the shit I know already

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 07:02 (eighteen years ago)

I am a quietude dude but I just stocked up:

Wapshot Chronicle - Cheever
The Half Brother - Christensen
Lover's Discourse - Barthes
two 33 1/3 books
new collected Grace Paley cause I lost it in a bar

― nabisco, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 07:17 (eighteen years ago)

xxpost

the alex ross is probably better for classical noobs like me rather than people who actually know the music

― m coleman, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 11:00 (eighteen years ago)

just finished:

Mohammed Hafez "Suicide Bombers in Iraq: the Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom"
Aristotle "De Anima" (On the Soul)

still working my way through:
Parker's enormous bio of Milton
William Empson "Milton's God"

re-reading:
Frances Ferguson "Pornography, The Theory"

just starting:
Alex Ross "The Rest Is Noise"
Daniel Boyarin "Dying for God: Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity and Judaism"
Marshall Grossman ed. anthology "Reading Renaissance Ethics"

― Drew Daniel, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 14:36 (eighteen years ago)

thomas hine: the rise and fall of the american teenager
boris vian: heartsnatcher (too cute, i think)
maeve brennan: the visitor (a bit flat, but i really like her voice and pacing)

― bb, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

rendezvous with rama

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 17:37 (eighteen years ago)

the alex ross is probably better for classical noobs like me rather than people who actually know the music

I think that's otm .... in any case that's why I'm reading it, to try to find a starting point on music I don't know much about but am interested in .... I'm not that far yet (still reading Tree of Smoke at the same time) but I thought the Schoenberg/Webern/Berg chapter was pretty good

― dmr, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 17:51 (eighteen years ago)

Iain Banks - The Wasp Factory

― milo z, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 18:18 (eighteen years ago)

Post-Pop Cinema tipsy mothra
Oil! Upton Sinclair

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

(personal)
green man - kingsley amis (alfred didn't dissuade me)
last evenings on earth - robert bolaño
laika - nick abadzis
what happens next: a history of american screenwriting

(work)
interstellar pig - william sleator
benjamin dove - fridrik erlings

― remy bean, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 18:33 (eighteen years ago)

Drew Daniels' 20 Jazz Funk Greats book

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

thanks sexyDancer!

you should write one too!

― Drew Daniel, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 22:22 (eighteen years ago)

omnivore's dilemma sucks guys. I don't think I'm going to bother finishing it. this guy basically nails it (also, just like fast food nation and freakonomics which I also couldn't read, he replaces intellectual rigor with the tone of a discovery channel voice-over factoid show - it's not about ideas, it's about trivia).

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 22:25 (eighteen years ago)

which is cool because by giving pollan the brushoff I can now move on to Dorner's Logic Of Failure and Reason's Human Error

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 22:28 (eighteen years ago)

i thought it was an entertaining read, but i wasn't taking it very seriously.

― artdamages, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 22:36 (eighteen years ago)

reading: the essential gilbert white of selborne, american short story masterpieces, and animal vegetable miracle by barbara kingsolver (a gift i am reading out of obligation)

― artdamages, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 22:39 (eighteen years ago)

I'm about sixty pages from the end of the omnivore's dilemma, and have found it very enjoyable so far. precisely what is lacking, TOMBOT? sure, there's a lot of trivia, but it's journalism meant for a popular audience; "factoids" are sorta part of the deal. and as far as intellectual rigor: is it that he doesn't, as that amazon dude pointed out, proffer some sort of solution? "sucks" just seems like too strong a word, hardman.

at the end of the day, i'm all in favor of more books that shed light on our weirdly dysfunctional food system, especially when they're written by writers as good as pollan.

― gbx, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 23:03 (eighteen years ago)

like amazon guy, i also enjoyed the bit on vegetarianism and singer, but that's probably because i've spending a lot of time around vegans lately and they're getting on my nerves

― gbx, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 23:05 (eighteen years ago)

no that's all well and good but I think the masters' program ruined me for pop science books. magazines ok, in that format I don't expect more than what pollan has to offer - but it is kind of like a big magazine piece, and yeah, his theses seemed pretty weak right off the bat to me, plus there are several things he states as "factoids" that aren't as cut-and-dried as he makes them out to be

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 23:06 (eighteen years ago)

it is kind of like a big magazine piece

otm there. i guess that's what i expected, though

― gbx, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 23:10 (eighteen years ago)

I should go looking for some big hardscience book about america's agronomy system from a systems engineering or institutional psychology or agricultural econ perspective

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 23:12 (eighteen years ago)

something with lots of ENDNOTES

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 23:12 (eighteen years ago)

tom have a 15-page draft of a paper about americans agronomy system from a pseudo-heideggerian perspective, its really inaccurate and super-pretentious and if you call me when im drunk ill read it to you in an angry tone of voice

― max, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 23:18 (eighteen years ago)

there's a bibliography in the back; check there?

― gbx, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 23:27 (eighteen years ago)

oh right!
http://www.amazon.com/Omnivores-Dilemma-Natural-History-Meals/dp/book-citations/1594200823/ref=sid_dp_av?ie=UTF8&citeType=citing#citing

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 23:28 (eighteen years ago)

max, i have a suggestion

* get drunk
* record yrself reading yr paper
* package as an "album" and bundle it with ned's discography

― gbx, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 23:35 (eighteen years ago)

* ...
* profit!

or just make an mp3 and post it on leonardo

― gbx, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 23:35 (eighteen years ago)

also: i didn't know amazon could do that!

― gbx, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 23:35 (eighteen years ago)

tempted to buy this

― gbx, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 23:38 (eighteen years ago)

The End of Agriculture in the American Portfolio
"American agricultural production is destined to end, argues Steven Blank, but this should be no cause for alarm. In this work, he shows that the changes leading to the end of American agricultural production are part of a natural process that is making us all better off. "

― artdamages, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 23:41 (eighteen years ago)

joel salatin does seem like interesting guy, but i am one of those vegans so i haven't bothered w/his books. the unsettling of america by wendell berry is pretty classic (written in the 70s in response to the nixon administration's "get big or get ou tpolicies"), but hes not a scientist.

― artdamages, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 23:45 (eighteen years ago)

the prob w/a hard science book about american agriculture is the hard science folks are always on the wrong side of the argument.

― artdamages, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 23:46 (eighteen years ago)

i wrote a paper on the unsettling of america in about half and hour and got a b-!

― artdamages, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 23:48 (eighteen years ago)

i tried to find wendell berry at the used bookstore yesterday and got stuffed

― gbx, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 23:51 (eighteen years ago)

the steven blank book seems like a bad bet despite the nerd boner of being a $115 university press hardback with no dustcover thing

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 23:52 (eighteen years ago)

"planet earth" has temporarily sated my need for actual books

― gbx, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 23:54 (eighteen years ago)

yeah i posted that for sheer wtfness though i would like to leaf through it at a library (xpost)

― artdamages, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 23:55 (eighteen years ago)

its kind of a reductio ad absurdum of free market principles in agriculture

― artdamages, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 23:56 (eighteen years ago)

have you been watching the vsn with attenborough's narration?

― remy bean, Thursday, 17 January 2008 00:09 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, is there another one?

― gbx, Thursday, 17 January 2008 00:21 (eighteen years ago)

compelling television: bat struggling against a horde of cockroaches, thrashing in an enormous pile of its own shit

― gbx, Thursday, 17 January 2008 00:23 (eighteen years ago)

sigorney weaver did the narration for the first american screening

― remy bean, Thursday, 17 January 2008 03:47 (eighteen years ago)

dead certain: the presidency of geo w bush - robert draper (just finished, pretty good)
the path to power - robert a caro (taking forever to read but a damn bloody masterpiece - reads like a political horror novel)

― J.D., Thursday, 17 January 2008 08:51 (eighteen years ago)

wittgenstein's mistress but it's pretty boring. hoping 'science in action' by bruno latour is up next.

― strgn, Thursday, 17 January 2008 11:11 (eighteen years ago)

Lordy, hard science too HARD for me...

maybe I'll read the Caro LBJ trilogy for his centennial, if only I could get an F train seat on which to read it.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 17 January 2008 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

the collector by fowles
canery row by steinbeck

― t. weiss, Friday, 18 January 2008 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

I know it's the antithesis of noise but I love B Kingsolver's essays. They work on me.

― Laurel, Friday, 18 January 2008 18:30 (eighteen years ago)

morbs, i don't try to carry around books that big anymore, and have a shorter book for the train and longer one for home. carrying around the power broker two years ago put me in physical therapy

― bell_labs, Friday, 18 January 2008 19:09 (eighteen years ago)

lol that's why I'm reading 2 books right now, Tree of Smoke is like a dictionary

― dmr, Friday, 18 January 2008 19:15 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.afscstore.org/store/images/0679738061.jpg

― Tracksuit Party, Saturday, 19 January 2008 12:34 (eighteen years ago)

^^ "creatively researched" lol -- davis got blasted for making factual errors in this contentious classic

― m coleman, Saturday, 19 January 2008 12:51 (eighteen years ago)

skool:

john stuart mill - on liberty
toward sustainable communities: transition and transformations in environmental policy - edited by daniel a. mazmanian and michael e. kraft
biliana cicin-sain, robert knecht - integrated coastal and ocean management: concepts and practices
timothy beatley, david j. brower, anna k. schwab - an introduction to coastal zone management
this article

for pleasure: still reading the counterculture green book about stewart brand/whole earth/etc i mentioned upthread. it's great, but the typos are making my head hurt.

― get bent, Saturday, 19 January 2008 13:38 (eighteen years ago)

just ordered the rest is noise.....thanks noise dudes!

― gbx, Saturday, 19 January 2008 20:18 (eighteen years ago)

omg jody that article is right up my alley, but i do not have educational privileges anymore :*(

― gbx, Saturday, 19 January 2008 20:20 (eighteen years ago)

give me your e-mail addy and i'll send you the pdf

― get bent, Saturday, 19 January 2008 21:49 (eighteen years ago)

White Noise, and also What is Life? by Schrodinger

― Dan I., Sunday, 20 January 2008 10:52 (eighteen years ago)

you'll have to tell us what it is when you're finished

― artdamages, Sunday, 20 January 2008 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

this week i read

laika (abadzis)
last night on earth (bolaño)
green man (amis)

and now i am reading
diamond age (stephenson)
kim (kipling)
new testament (old desert guys

― remy bean, Sunday, 20 January 2008 17:39 (eighteen years ago)

Drew Daniels' 20 Jazz Funk Greats book

-- sexyDancer, Wednesday, January 16, 2008 8:05 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Link

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thanks sexyDancer!

you should write one too!

-- Drew Daniel, Wednesday, January 16, 2008 10:22 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Link

Great book, Drew! God's in the details and God is here. Always good to have the actual music discussed. Yeah, I could probably turn out a pretty heavy volume on Melvins' Bullhead, but who knows when I'd find the time...

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 16:08 (seventeen years ago)

picking up tim miller's book on late 60's communes today...my week of detoxing and working upstate threatens to be dangerous...perhaps i best stop and get a 33&1/3 book too

― bb, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 16:10 (seventeen years ago)

returning vian's heartsnatcher...i think hes just a touch to silly. maybe im just not french enough or the translation is pants...

― bb, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 16:12 (seventeen years ago)

xpost i'd like to read that... i'm fascinated by communes (successes and failures of).

― get bent, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 16:13 (seventeen years ago)

ill let you know. ive read good and bad chatter. i need to find a copy of mungo's total loss farm..ill be closer to that area latertoday though next week, and can maybe find some other stuff. pity i caant drive or i could try and go and talk to some of the weirdos still around.

i want to read sheryl tipping's the february house too, but thats a different sort of commune

― bb, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 16:21 (seventeen years ago)

i am reading again

philip k dick 'the divine invasion'
umberto eco 'the name of the rose'

― rrrobyn, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 16:24 (seventeen years ago)

sherril tippin...that is.

― bb, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 16:25 (seventeen years ago)

I forgot to bring a book

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 16:52 (seventeen years ago)

so I finished pelecanos' "Soul Circus" which was about a body count and not much else besides at the end both of the author's signature characters team up to clandestinely and illegally burn down a route 1 gun shop in virginia in the interest of saving lives in the district which is kind of a manifesto for him, I guess

luckily though I am now on cliff stoll's THE CUCKOO'S EGG which is really extraordinarily well written and edited and as a person who already knows everything he's talking about I haven't skipped a sentence yet

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 06:54 (seventeen years ago)

I seriously recommend this book btw for anybody who ever wonders exactly what the fuck it is I do and how it gets done. nothing much has changed, really

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 06:56 (seventeen years ago)

besides the salaries, I guess

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 07:02 (seventeen years ago)

the timmiller communes book is pretty weak..just breifly covers the same story again and again without much insight...its all to brief and too obvious...im gonna rush through the rest of it now and get into some pinchbeck tonight

had a glance at the february house, but was pretty sleepy...i await what lies ahead with certain zeal...

just read yet another bob dylan article and i dunno why

― bb, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 20:22 (seventeen years ago)

i'm reading exley's a fan's notes because a librarian friend of mine said it made her think of me. it's making me kind of uncomfortable for the same reasons that steven tyler thinks this is spinal tap is terrifying instead of funny.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 20:27 (seventeen years ago)

go giants

― mookieproof, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 20:32 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,899555,00.html

got to this cause of the commune book...a nice little lark...oh, hippies

― bb, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 20:34 (seventeen years ago)

i am reading blood meridian by cormack mccarthy and it is DEPRESSING THE SHIT OUT OF ME

i don't know if i can finish it.

― bell_labs, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 20:35 (seventeen years ago)

i just finished the road by cormac mccarthy and while really, REALLY dark it was a fucking fantastic book.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 20:40 (seventeen years ago)

i really like his language but it's soo bleak

― bell_labs, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 20:41 (seventeen years ago)

there were some moments in the road where i had to put it down and just not read for a while because it just too dark.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 20:44 (seventeen years ago)

at the job i was recently fired from they had a stack of Rolling Stones to read and one of the recent ones had an interview with Cormac McCarthy and apparently he spends almost all his spare time these days hanging out at the Santa Fe institute with a bunch of scientists.

― latebloomer, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 20:48 (seventeen years ago)

i just inherited a copy of the road.

― bb, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 20:53 (seventeen years ago)

two months pass...

junot diaz - brief wondrous life of oscar wao (liked this a lot)
elmore leonard - gold coast

― dmr, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 21:17 (seventeen years ago)

have this on deck as soon as my wife finishes it

http://media.npr.org/programs/watc/features/2007/apr/savagedetectivescover.jpg

also wld like to read that new richard price but I'll probably wait for paperback

― dmr, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 21:18 (seventeen years ago)

i <3 elmore leonard

― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 21:22 (seventeen years ago)

the Bolanos novel was a serious disappointment.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 21:25 (seventeen years ago)

http://resource.tcdc.or.th/bookcover/8587/8587-fc-a.jpg

― elmo argonaut, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 21:28 (seventeen years ago)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51AW2nonbGL._SS500_.jpg

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 21:29 (seventeen years ago)

when i pay a library fine ill pick up the tao of physics and a book about the history of little magazines in america

― bb, Thursday, 3 April 2008 13:20 (seventeen years ago)

i am reading JR by William Gaddis for the second time and i think i will do Oscar Wao next. i heard bad stuff about the second half of the Bolano so i took a pass on it.

― Mr. Que, Thursday, 3 April 2008 14:02 (seventeen years ago)

oh i'm also reading Then We Came to The End bu Joshua Ferris. it's just ok. :/

― Mr. Que, Thursday, 3 April 2008 14:03 (seventeen years ago)

just read:

Kingsley Amis "Lucky Jim"
Joshua Clover "The Matrix" (about da movie)
Joshua Clover "The Totality for Kids"
Edwin Schneidman "Autopsy of a Suicidal Mind"

now reading:
A. Brierre de Boismont "Hallucinationsd, or, The Rational History of Apparitions, Visions, Dreams, Ecstasy, Magnetism, and Somnambulism" (crazy anthology from 1853 of case histories)
Bruce Fink's new translation of Lacan's "Ecrits"

― Drew Daniel, Thursday, 3 April 2008 14:15 (seventeen years ago)

dr. drew, tell me about kingsley amis (though ifeel weve probably all tried this before)...i've always felt he wasnt right for me, but have come across some quotes and clips that force me to wonder...wheres a good leaping point?

― bb, Thursday, 3 April 2008 14:52 (seventeen years ago)

have you read lucky jim? i'd say that's a good leaping point but then i'm not particularly knowledgeable about ka. the collected letters are great as well. talk about a doorstop, though.

― lauren, Thursday, 3 April 2008 15:00 (seventeen years ago)

finally got around to brothers karamazov, 2/3 through

― sleep, Thursday, 3 April 2008 15:00 (seventeen years ago)

kingsely amis wrote some fucking funny letters.

― Mr. Que, Thursday, 3 April 2008 15:06 (seventeen years ago)

Alex Ross "The Rest Is Noise"
Henri Michaux "Darkness Moves"
Mario Bois "Iannis Xenakis: The Man & His Music"
"Yeti #5"
"YES Yoko Ono"

― s. morris, Thursday, 3 April 2008 15:27 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.cafes.net/ditch/family.jpg http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/419HT38K1AL._AA240_.jpg

― jhøshea, Thursday, 3 April 2008 15:47 (seventeen years ago)

I've only read "Lucky Jim" which I read because it's a silly academic satire novel about somebody who has just started their first real job as a professor and, er, I can relate to that. I read it on a plane in one go and it was pretty delightful. Kinda dated in a 50s sexist way but that's to be expected really. I liked it, and would compare it with recent academic satires by David Lodge, if you want a ref point. Funny and lite.

― Drew Daniel, Thursday, 3 April 2008 17:13 (seventeen years ago)

"Kinda dated in a 50s sexist way "

yeah, thats whats put me off going into him, but...i suppose i could read it with a smirk and half-closed critical eye and enjoy..i think i like his phrasing and rhythm..

thnks all

― bb, Thursday, 3 April 2008 17:22 (seventeen years ago)

lucky jim is so good

― adam, Thursday, 3 April 2008 17:22 (seventeen years ago)

i just bought japrocksampler but i've only leafed through it so far.

― get bent, Thursday, 3 April 2008 18:15 (seventeen years ago)

i just re-read two novels by sir kingsley:

girl, 20 -- late 60s generation gap comedy about foolish middle-aged classical conductor/fool Sir Roy Vandervane and his pursuit of ever-younger women. his wife's speculation on "when he's in his 70s his girlfriends will be under 10" and the description of Sir Roy's heavy metal symphony are priceless LOLs.

the anti-death league -- one of his odd genre exercises, a sort-of early cold war spy thriller? hard to explain but pretty easy to enjoy, but then I am a huge fan of stuff like graham greene and eric ambler.

lucky jim and the old devils are his most popular and funniest novels, also the bookends to his career. also worth checking out is the green man, one of his oddities, a supernatural mystery. i've always wanted to read the alteration, a futuristic tale that philip k dick admired!, but have never been able to find a cheap copy.

― m coleman, Thursday, 3 April 2008 21:26 (seventeen years ago)

this clive james essay on amis is ace

― m coleman, Thursday, 3 April 2008 21:34 (seventeen years ago)

The Noble Quran
7 steps to midnight (matheson)
humboldt's gift (bellows)
the war against cliche (amis)

― mkcaine, Thursday, 3 April 2008 22:02 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

Sensory and Perceptual Issues in Autism and Asperger Syndrome - Olga Bogdashina (a little dry and academic, reading it for a story idea)
On Writing - Stephen King (not as great as I'd been led to believe, but pretty good)
Saboteurs: The Nazi Raid on America - Michael Dobbs (not started yet, but fully expect it to be awesome)

― caek, Monday, 26 May 2008 16:31 (seventeen years ago)

Dean Wareham memoir
"The Secret History of the World as Laid Down By The Secret Societies"
John Keegan - "A History of Warfare"

― milo z, Monday, 26 May 2008 17:08 (seventeen years ago)

que and alfred pretty much otm on The Savage Detectives, if it was terrible I wouldn't have finished the 600 some pages but it really falls off after a pretty good beginning. also being so much about poetry I wished there was some poetry in it! you're left to wonder what it was the "visceral realists" were actually writing (if anything)

just started Pynchon's Against the Day

― dmr, Monday, 26 May 2008 23:49 (seventeen years ago)

snow crash

― cutty, Monday, 26 May 2008 23:57 (seventeen years ago)

^^good book^^

― thorn, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

did u ever know that yr my hiro

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 00:13 (seventeen years ago)

"The Secret History of the World as Laid Down By The Secret Societies"

^^^
Returning this. Not a history of secret societies and their teachings, or a 'history' written from their perspective - dude really seems to buy into the notion.

― milo z, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 00:41 (seventeen years ago)

Chandler, The Long Goodbye -- since i have queued the Altman / Gould adaptation on netflix

― elmo argonaut, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 13:28 (seventeen years ago)

it seems like people either hate the first section of the savage detectives and get into the interview section or vice versa.

(i thought the bookend journal entries were aight (but great at introducing a lot of characters quickly, from the perspective of a kid who doesn't really know any of them well) and loved the interview stuff.)

― Jordan, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 13:57 (seventeen years ago)

skimming on a Greyhound last night:

Orson Welles, Volume 2: Hello Americans by Simon Callow

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 14:25 (seventeen years ago)

it seems like people either hate the first section of the savage detectives and get into the interview section or vice versa.

there were some good parts in the interview section but some of it really dragged

I think I was a little put off by how self-serving / self-mythologizing it was (even though there was some self-deprecation too), it seemed like there wasn't a ton of purpose to it other than trying to immortalize himself and his friends

― dmr, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 16:40 (seventeen years ago)

naomi klein - the shock doctrine

― sleep, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 17:05 (seventeen years ago)

i can see your point dmr, but that's not really how it read to me. at first you see them through the eyes of a teenager who thinks they're way cool, and then you spend the next 500 pgs getting a sense of how they're just normal dudes who don't really know what they're doing in life, and who may or may not be any good at writing poems.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 17:35 (seventeen years ago)

donald barthelme - the dead father

― max, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 17:40 (seventeen years ago)

three months pass...

i really want to read a book but i don't like anything

― Jewish Proverb (harbl), Sunday, 14 September 2008 18:23 (seventeen years ago)

Then the Internet could be for you!

― Scowly D (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 14 September 2008 18:24 (seventeen years ago)

Yevgeny Zamyatin - We (liked this more than 1984 or Brave New World, the originals usually are better. closer to Dostoevsky than most clinical SF. also interesting for a book written in Russia in 1920 that it eliminates all the Cold War discussion -- a dystopia with only one Socialist government is much more terrifying) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel)

Fernand Ouellette - A Biography of Edgard Varese

Robert Katz - Love Is Colder Than Death, The Life and Times of Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Eckhart Tolle - The Power of Now (Gaaaaaaahhhhh)

Modern Music - Volumes 18-22, 1940-1945 - http://www.ripm.org/journal_info.php5?ABB=MMU - hardbound annuals collecting each year's issues, duplicates from the Prelinger Library -- incredible how many of the articles & reviews are struggling to justify the energies spent on avant garde music during wartime. wish even the remotest shadow of this kind of discussion were going on today.

― Milton Parker, Sunday, 14 September 2008 20:34 (seventeen years ago)

repost of wikipedia link to Zamyatin's WE

― Milton Parker, Sunday, 14 September 2008 20:35 (seventeen years ago)

i don't like dystopias or science fiction or new age shit or biographies (especially autobiographies). those are the things i don't like the most.

but how is that fassbinder book because i love fassbinder and would be willing to read a biography about him if it does not suck

― Jewish Proverb (harbl), Monday, 15 September 2008 12:23 (seventeen years ago)

it's kinda dishy & very judgmental. I have no doubt about how sadistic the man treated his troupe, but it's hard to square how moralistic a tone the book takes when it's also clear how much the man was loved by his friends. but if you love Fassbinder, it's a book that breaks down the personal affairs that inspired each film, imagine if 'Beware of a Holy Whore' were 15 hours long and covered his entire career

― Milton Parker, Monday, 15 September 2008 18:50 (seventeen years ago)

two months pass...

Interzone - Burroughs collection of early stories and Tangier-related odds n ends including some relatively straight travel journalism, pretty interesting

currently trying to read The Road real fast before the movie comes out (appearance of the Now a Major Motion Picture version of the paperback spurred me to action)

anyone planning to tackle the Bolano? doubt I'm gonna try it since I barely made it through Savage Detectives (see above) and this one is even more sprawling. the section about the Ciudad Juarez murders sounds pretty interesting though.

― dmr, Monday, 17 November 2008 18:54 (seventeen years ago)

put it on hold at the library, but i can't imagine i'd get through it in three weeks

― mookieproof, Monday, 17 November 2008 19:10 (seventeen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3f/Earth_Abides_1949_small.jpg/200px-Earth_Abides_1949_small.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Abides

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4748/3392/320/limbo.jpg

http://100sf.blogspot.com/2006/10/6-limbo-1952-by-bernard-wolfe.html

Ramon Sender - Naked Close-Up (fictionalized novel about Stan Brakhage's stay at the San Francisco Tape Music Center in the early 60's, Subotnick & Oliveros are central characters)

Ross W. Duffin - How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care) - answered every last question I had about the 19th/20th century transition to ET

Tom Siegfried - The Bit and the Pendulum

― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 20:45 (seventeen years ago)

'Limbo' is way over-the-top cyborg manifesto fun from 1952, and it's interesting to read a hilariously macho channeling of Freud before the 70's completely emasculated most forms of therapy. but 'Earth Abides'... I have no idea why it isn't regularly mentioned as one of the best American novels of the 20th century. (well, yes I do: most people still can't consider science-fiction as literature)

― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 21:17 (seventeen years ago)

i like this thread but i never read anymore except on the bus so i can't make a contribution. this is a placeholder post :(((

― ketchup dood (harbl), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 21:26 (seventeen years ago)

in fact adam made it just for me!

― ketchup dood (harbl), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 21:26 (seventeen years ago)

i'm like 300 pages into the bolano so far, but it's the first one i've read by him so i got nothing to compare it to

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 21:26 (seventeen years ago)

i love the bolano stories in the new yorker. been trying to figure out where to start with his books.
also really want to read the Road.

― mizzell, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 21:59 (seventeen years ago)

really want to read the bolano, but i'm just finishing up infinite jest and i think i need to put a couple short books in between.

― some know what you dude last summer (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 22:04 (seventeen years ago)

haha, i am supposedly reading infinite jest. it mainly just sits there next to my bed.

― mizzell, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 22:25 (seventeen years ago)

i played it using brushes at a rehearsal.

― some know what you dude last summer (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 22:26 (seventeen years ago)

(nice sounding book)

― some know what you dude last summer (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 22:27 (seventeen years ago)

Atkinson- Telepathy and Mental Influence
Hirschman- The Passions and The Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism Before Its Triumph
Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Sigmund Freud - The Uncanny
Pater - Appreciations

― Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 01:28 (seventeen years ago)

i need to get some new sf books those two upthread look good.

the empire as a way of life - william appleman williams
rules for radicals - saul alinsky
the importance of living - lin yutang

― artdamages, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 06:53 (seventeen years ago)

I've been going back and reading Guy DeBord -- it's actually a lot of fun to me now, as opposed to back when I was all wigged out in college and taking everything (and myself) way too seriously.

His essay on the Watts riots is kind of awesome even though I don't think I'd ever take up that radical a position.

― Albert Jeans (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 13:27 (seventeen years ago)

I just started Waking Giant, the new book on the Age of Jackson.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 14:29 (seventeen years ago)

in the middle of the third policeman--i love it while im reading it but i never feel like picking it up

― :) Mrs Edward Cullen XD (max), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 14:35 (seventeen years ago)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3069/3043098643_9ab137c0d5_o.jpg

― Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 16:27 (seventeen years ago)

translator of 2666 supplies notes and annotations

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 20:50 (seventeen years ago)

Yates - Revolutionary Road

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 20 November 2008 14:25 (seventeen years ago)

dashiell hammett short stories

― the magic length of god (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 20 November 2008 16:22 (seventeen years ago)

the sound and the fury

― dmr, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 04:42 (seventeen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Tortilla Flats

― t. weiss, Monday, 15 December 2008 00:13 (seventeen years ago)

Growing Up In Tier 3000 - Felix C. Gotschalk
A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller, Jr.

― Milton Parker, Monday, 15 December 2008 21:05 (seventeen years ago)

oh my god, I love you wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fiat_Lux_Canticle_map.png

― Milton Parker, Monday, 15 December 2008 21:17 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

junot diaz - drown
dash shaw - bottomless belly button
william gass - the heart of the heart of the countr & other stories
lester bangs - mainlines, blood feasts

― dmr, Monday, 2 February 2009 17:42 (sixteen years ago)

*country

― dmr, Monday, 2 February 2009 17:43 (sixteen years ago)

crime & punishment

how's drown so far?

― sleep, Monday, 2 February 2009 23:30 (sixteen years ago)

good! not as good as oscar wao but I like it. it's short stories

― dmr, Monday, 2 February 2009 23:36 (sixteen years ago)

one month passes...

got a couple don delillos from the library

running dog - good, pulpy, kinda reads like william gibson (or I guess, later gibson reads like '70s delillo). post-vietnam nazi sex film conspiracy
end zone - football at a small-town texas college. not liking this, I think I'm gonna bail out and finish the lester bangs instead

― dmr, Monday, 9 March 2009 19:13 (sixteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

What's a noise dude reading? has new answers

the above is appearing mysteriously at the top of every page/thread on ILX that I visit ("has new answers" is colored blue")

ok so well

"the four noble truths" by the dalai lama tenzin gyatso (not sure i'm interpreting this one correctly as it seems to be merely reaffirming my pessimistic worldview)
"city of quartz" by mike davis (so far a great history of los angeles)

had to stop reading "angler", the 2008 book on cheney because it was just bumming me out so much

― listen to it...put yourself in los angeles (winston), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 05:14 (sixteen years ago)

i also finally read the booklet to the ozzy-era sabbath box the other night as well as the "o.o.b.e. adventure" orb maxi-booklet

― listen to it...put yourself in los angeles (winston), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 05:16 (sixteen years ago)

the above is appearing mysteriously

maybe you bookmarked a post by accident?

― dmr, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 05:25 (sixteen years ago)

just finished Raymond Carver - Cathedral

― dmr, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 05:25 (sixteen years ago)

xp that must have been it;

strange; just reserved a raymond carver short stories collection at the library today

― listen to it...put yourself in los angeles (winston), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 05:35 (sixteen years ago)

had to stop reading "angler", the 2008 book on cheney because it was just bumming me out so much

ha, i bought this but i doubt i'll be able to stomach it either

about to finish crime and punishment; moby-dick is next.

― sleep, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 07:40 (sixteen years ago)

crime & punishment/moby-dick both work as alt-titles for cheney!

― m coleman, Friday, 10 April 2009 10:32 (sixteen years ago)

haha

― sleep, Friday, 10 April 2009 16:22 (sixteen years ago)

reading flannery o'connor short stories for a bit, then planning to dig deep into faulkner.

recently:
harry crews "the knockout artist" (v good, if a slightly unsatisfying conclusion)
"might as well live" a bio of dorothy parker
john fowles "the aristos"

― ian, Friday, 10 April 2009 17:17 (sixteen years ago)

Just finished the Patternmaster quartet (never read Clay's Ark or Mind of My Mind before--those were great!) Starting on either Jack Womack's Random Acts of Senseless Violence or Pohl's Gateway next.

― Alex in SF, Friday, 10 April 2009 17:28 (sixteen years ago)

i couldn't find my copy of sound & the fury so i am reading more harry crews--this time "feast of snakes" and holy shit is it bleak. there is something really distressing every ten pages or so, from a crazy girl rubbing shit in her hair, to brutally training pitbulls, to a guy thinking about concentration camps while he assfucks his travel companion. oh, harry crews, you love to be appalling.

― ian, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 23:32 (sixteen years ago)

btw ian i just ordered warlock cuz of that cormac thread

― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Thursday, 16 April 2009 02:57 (sixteen years ago)

oh, warlock is good! it's more of a traditional western than most of the mccarthy i've read, but it's a good book and enjoyable to read.

― ian, Thursday, 16 April 2009 03:27 (sixteen years ago)

fine by me! i'm just queuing up a bunch of books for this summer. so far:

against the day
warlock
suttree

― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Thursday, 16 April 2009 03:59 (sixteen years ago)

this time "feast of snakes" and holy shit is it bleak

eep I almost got that at the library last time. instead I got Cathedral which was pretty fuckin bleak in its own right

have not heard of warlock, I'm interested

― dmr, Thursday, 16 April 2009 05:24 (sixteen years ago)

this time "feast of snakes" and holy shit is it bleak

an ex gave me this : /

― mookieproof, Thursday, 16 April 2009 08:30 (sixteen years ago)

la carre _smiley's people_
atwood _handmaid's tale_
plus, borges short fiction here & there

― elmo argonaut, Thursday, 16 April 2009 13:32 (sixteen years ago)

handmaid's tale was my mom's latest read, she's had 7 boys and is married to a very religious man -- i guess it must have really bothered her because she said she hated it and "don't bother returning it" :\

― elmo argonaut, Thursday, 16 April 2009 13:34 (sixteen years ago)

yo im reading gravitys raindbow--this books is pretty f-in rad

― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Thursday, 16 April 2009 17:36 (sixteen years ago)

yeah dude its sick. I'll probably re-read it at some point, when I read it the first time a few years ago it took me so long to finish that by the time I got to the end I forgot what happened at the beginning. Against the Day went a lot quicker even though it's more pages (I think because I decided I didn't have to "figure it out" and should just plunge ahead)

― dmr, Thursday, 16 April 2009 17:57 (sixteen years ago)

bolano's 2666

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:04 (sixteen years ago)

i keep looking at maybe getting that but it looks like a serious commitment.
Worth it?

― forksc-murdertofu (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:42 (sixteen years ago)

yeah, it's good. I was getting bummed by all the people saying books 2 & 3 were not up to snuff, and was anticipating my pace getting slowed down when I hit them, but it didn't happen. the thing's eminently readable.

in some weird way, bolano convinced me novels shouldn't try to be about real life anymore, they should just be navel-gazing meditations on literature. tho he probably felt the opposite way.

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 16 April 2009 18:59 (sixteen years ago)

oh yeah, 2666 was gonna go on my summer list, but i'll admit to feeling the same way, forks.

someone recommend me some quick stuff.

― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Thursday, 16 April 2009 19:05 (sixteen years ago)

u read any george saunders? do you like short stories? the leonard michaels story collection that came out 2 years ago was pretty awesome too

― Mr. Que, Thursday, 16 April 2009 19:10 (sixteen years ago)

i am embarrassed to admit that i've never read any saunders---he's been recommended several times, tho

― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Thursday, 16 April 2009 19:11 (sixteen years ago)

having the 3 vol paperback ed of 2666 takes the edge off the commitment fears

genius marketing move by FSG imo

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 16 April 2009 19:17 (sixteen years ago)

yeah all long books need to come in small paperback volumes for easy subway reading

― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Thursday, 16 April 2009 19:18 (sixteen years ago)

each paperback volume of long books should be written by a different author

― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 16 April 2009 19:19 (sixteen years ago)

fuck long books

― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 16 April 2009 19:19 (sixteen years ago)

someone recommend me some quick stuff

you could take a cue from elmo and hit up some borges

ficciones is the bomb

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 16 April 2009 19:30 (sixteen years ago)

Carver is quick.

And while on the subject, i think "Cathedral" is maybe his most optimistic/uplifting story; the volume as a whole illustrates a kind of painful, technicolor suburban drama but in a way that is often universally appealing/affirming, rather than totally alienating as in Crews. His (Crews) characters are often much more exaggerated & absurd than what you find in Carver and I think that allows him to take them to further extremes without it seeming forced.

ANYWAY, don't ever suggest "A Feast of Snakes" to anybody--they'll hate you. And I wonder why the fuck an ex would suggest it to Mookieproof! It's almost like saying, "Here, I hope u puke."

― ian, Friday, 17 April 2009 04:45 (sixteen years ago)

also quick:
Asimov "Foundation"
Brautigan "In Watermelon Sugar"

― ian, Friday, 17 April 2009 04:46 (sixteen years ago)

I like Feast of Snakes!

Anyways, I passed on the mammoth 2066 (they were sold out of the tpb) and opted for my first HL Humes book in 'The Underground City'. Saw a dope documentary on this cat and really looking forward to it.

And another pile of graphic novels. I've got a serious addiction.

― The brash tweedy impertinence of Detective Freamon (forksclovetofu), Friday, 17 April 2009 04:49 (sixteen years ago)

no, i thought feast of snakes was good, just really difficult to read. people talk about how hard blod meridian is to read, and for whatever reason i found parts of feast of snakes 100x harder to get through.

― ian, Friday, 17 April 2009 04:54 (sixteen years ago)

I think i cauterized part of my brain in college reading the most offensive shit I could get my hands on: books about prison rape, 120 days of sodom, loads of burroughs and crews and bukowski, just any fucked up thing to see how I could handle. Printed word don't freak me out much anymore. DeSade especially was instrumental in that: when you read 100 pages of writing about eating shit, that's around two straight hours of thinking about eating shit. You might as well have eaten shit.

― The brash tweedy impertinence of Detective Freamon (forksclovetofu), Friday, 17 April 2009 05:17 (sixteen years ago)

I mean, bully for you if that's your thing. I discovered it really ain't mine.

― The brash tweedy impertinence of Detective Freamon (forksclovetofu), Friday, 17 April 2009 05:17 (sixteen years ago)

harry crews is not de sade! i mean, crews is really entertaining and easy to read and funny for the most part.

― scott seward, Friday, 17 April 2009 19:19 (sixteen years ago)

carver is short & quick/'easy' to read but gets pretty brutal after 5-6 stories--for me at least

― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Friday, 17 April 2009 19:20 (sixteen years ago)

read delmore schwartz short stories

― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 17 April 2009 19:24 (sixteen years ago)

although i guess some people might find de sade funny, easy to read, and entertaining as well.

― scott seward, Friday, 17 April 2009 19:25 (sixteen years ago)

Crews can be sufficiently taxing on occasion.

― The brash tweedy impertinence of Detective Freamon (forksclovetofu), Friday, 17 April 2009 19:25 (sixteen years ago)

just read short stories by anyone. they tend to be short.

― scott seward, Friday, 17 April 2009 19:25 (sixteen years ago)

read posts

― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 17 April 2009 19:26 (sixteen years ago)

like i said on the ilb reading thread, i haven't read crews since the 80's. or since the mulching of america came out. but i still have all my paperbacks and i should re-read one of these days. i wish i had some of the older books. his first books aren't that easy to find. i used to get those out of the library.

― scott seward, Friday, 17 April 2009 19:28 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n61/n306905.jpg

this is totally a fast read

― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 17 April 2009 19:29 (sixteen years ago)

i wanna read that book! i was just reading about that guy's books.

― scott seward, Friday, 17 April 2009 19:31 (sixteen years ago)

it's his best, his others are super uneven but gascoyne would probably be the closest runner up

― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 17 April 2009 19:32 (sixteen years ago)

that looks interesting but possibly out of print? might have to track it down.

― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Friday, 17 April 2009 19:33 (sixteen years ago)

it just got reissued recently

― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 17 April 2009 19:34 (sixteen years ago)

i bought a bunch of stuff today; local used bookstore got in a big collection of music books.

how to play bluegrass guitar (by my hero HAPPY TRAUM)
outside the dream syndicate: tony conrad and the arts post-Cage
that greil marcus book abt the basement tapes
a book called "the blues revival" which is alright

and i also got a paul bowles autobio.

― ian, Friday, 17 April 2009 21:58 (sixteen years ago)

carver is short & quick/'easy' to read but gets pretty brutal after 5-6 stories--for me at least

same here; i had to take a break from "will you please be quiet" a couple of days ago; struck a nerve at a certain point

i really need to start reading less depressing shit.. lol "terror and consent" by bobbitt and canetti's "auto da fe" are next in the queue

― listen to it...put yourself in los angeles (winston), Friday, 17 April 2009 23:07 (sixteen years ago)

i wanted to read something non-depressing after a few weeks of crews & flan o'connor, so I am reading the Bob Dylan "Chronicles" book which is a lot better than i thought (only 20, 30 pages in.)

― ian, Saturday, 18 April 2009 01:26 (sixteen years ago)

'tooth and claw' by t.c. boyle is good collection of short stories - they're all a little bizarre and they read pretty quickly.

― where we turn sweet dreams into remarkable realities (just1n3), Saturday, 18 April 2009 02:02 (sixteen years ago)

that greil marcus book abt the basement tapes

really enjoyed this, curious what you'll think since you're probably a lot more into some of the music referenced (dock boggs etc.) whereas for me it was an education, hadn't heard any of that stuff at the time (and still not that much of it now)

also that reminds me I borrowed Lipstick Traces off a friend and it's been sitting on my shelf

right now I'm reading this Times reporter's 2007 book abt exploring immigrant neighborhoods in nyc called The World in a City

― dmr, Saturday, 18 April 2009 05:24 (sixteen years ago)

ian you shd watch I'm not there when you're done w/ Marcus and the Dylan book.

I don't rad many short stories, but I think the great George Saunders one I've read is called "Isabelle," 7 devastating pages.

I'm trying to stop writing and job-hunting so I can start Shusaku Endo's Silence.

― Dr Morbius, Saturday, 18 April 2009 07:38 (sixteen years ago)

(I do find Greil M almost unreadable tho)

― Dr Morbius, Saturday, 18 April 2009 08:00 (sixteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Not sure what to read next.

Paul Bowles memoir? Book about Minimalism? Sam Charters' book on the Country Blues?

― ian, Friday, 8 May 2009 21:06 (sixteen years ago)

ANYWAY, don't ever suggest "A Feast of Snakes" to anybody--they'll hate you. And I wonder why the fuck an ex would suggest it to Mookieproof! It's almost like saying, "Here, I hope u puke."

― ian, Friday, April 17, 2009 12:45 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark

this made me want to read a feast of snakes fyi

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Friday, 8 May 2009 21:09 (sixteen years ago)

also read the paul bowles and tell me what he says about jane, loev her

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Friday, 8 May 2009 21:10 (sixteen years ago)

hated emperors children more than any other book in recent memory

― The Macallan 18 Year, Saturday, 9 May 2009 16:47 (sixteen years ago)

^^only book I've ever wanted to throw at wall in disgust

― m coleman, Sunday, 10 May 2009 00:29 (sixteen years ago)

From Publishers Weekly
Marina Thwaite, Danielle Minkoff and Julian Clarke were buddies at Brown, certain that they would soon do something important in the world. But as all near 30, Danielle is struggling as a TV documentary maker, and Julius is barely surviving financially as a freelance critic.

puke. why would you even think to pick that up?? no offense to you guys & your tastes, but "clever" contemporary urban dramas are MUST AVOID for me.

― ian, Sunday, 10 May 2009 04:19 (sixteen years ago)

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

― high (latebloomer), Sunday, 10 May 2009 04:24 (sixteen years ago)

to be fair though, that's why i avoided american psycho for so long, only to read it and actually think a lot of it was v v funny and enjoyable.

― ian, Sunday, 10 May 2009 04:30 (sixteen years ago)

whos the bigger shithead: me for trusting an amazon booklist or me for reading nearly 200 pages of that crap

― The Macallan 18 Year, Monday, 11 May 2009 23:56 (sixteen years ago)

clever" contemporary urban dramas

i loved Then We Came to the End

― The Macallan 18 Year, Monday, 11 May 2009 23:58 (sixteen years ago)

seven months pass...

Jim Thompson - The Alcoholics <--- most twisted/funny/weird Thompson I've read yet. also taught me that "Crapping You Negative" by the Grifters has a Jim Thompson reference for both band name and album title.

Denis Johnson - Nobody Move <--- quickie crime/noir, read this start to finish on Saturday during snow-hampered air-travel day, liked it

James Ellroy - Blood's a Rover <--- xmas present, just started it

― dmr, Monday, 28 December 2009 19:19 (sixteen years ago)

stuart kaufman - at home in the universe
john r pierce - an introduction to information theory

one day, I will discover the secret of reading fiction!

― Dominique, Monday, 28 December 2009 19:30 (sixteen years ago)

thomas keller and david cruz - the ad hoc cookbook

― ┌∩┐(◕_◕)┌∩┐ (Steve Shasta), Monday, 28 December 2009 19:35 (sixteen years ago)

i've been in a mostly nonfiction rut for a while too. just not interested in fiction. i'm becoming one of *those* people O_o
reading leonard zeskind - blood and politics
started flannery o'connor - the violent bear it away but wasn't concentrating :/

― welcome to gudbergur (harbl), Monday, 28 December 2009 19:42 (sixteen years ago)

i was sufficiently not-concentrating on that to think flannery o'connor had written a novel called the violent bear

what's wrong with the dorkily-titled ILB 'what are you reading' threads anyway guys

― thomp, Monday, 28 December 2009 19:45 (sixteen years ago)

i never want to post on them bc i feel embarrassed about (1) being too slow and (2) reading nonfiction

― welcome to gudbergur (harbl), Monday, 28 December 2009 19:46 (sixteen years ago)

the book is called "the violent bear it away but wasn't concentrating"

― welcome to gudbergur (harbl), Monday, 28 December 2009 19:46 (sixteen years ago)

i think i would possibly stand a chance against a violent bear if he wasn't concentrating

ppl on that board will talk about non-fiction just as happily tbh

― thomp, Monday, 28 December 2009 19:48 (sixteen years ago)

i figured, i just never noticed it

― welcome to gudbergur (harbl), Monday, 28 December 2009 19:49 (sixteen years ago)

i only finished 14 books this year!

― welcome to gudbergur (harbl), Monday, 28 December 2009 19:50 (sixteen years ago)

u read that many in a week thomp

― welcome to gudbergur (harbl), Monday, 28 December 2009 19:50 (sixteen years ago)

what's wrong with the dorkily-titled ILB 'what are you reading' threads anyway guys

oh nothing, I just have never posted on that board and don't use site new answers so this is the thread title I remember to search for when I'm thinkin' baout some books

― dmr, Monday, 28 December 2009 20:00 (sixteen years ago)

that is nearly a plausible title for a flannerybook, sad it does not exist

christopher small - music society education
brian greene - the elegant universe
the anarchy of silence - john cage & experimental art - MACBA / curated by julia robinson

― Milton Parker, Monday, 28 December 2009 20:09 (sixteen years ago)

milton parker i have that fassbinder book you recommended upthread out of the library. i wonder if i'll get to it. awesome dayglo cover.

― welcome to gudbergur (harbl), Monday, 28 December 2009 20:10 (sixteen years ago)

frederick exley - a fan's notes

― ian, Monday, 28 December 2009 21:27 (sixteen years ago)

Morris Dickstein - Dancing in the Dark

(cultural history of Depression-era America)

― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 December 2009 22:04 (sixteen years ago)

xpost oh definitely get to it, it's a quick fun read. like I said upthread though, it's mostly just the dirt

xpost want to read Dancing in the Dark. I took Morris' 60's class at UCSB, he taught Gates of Eden.

also reading: janet cardiff - the walk book

― Milton Parker, Monday, 28 December 2009 22:07 (sixteen years ago)

Richard II
Alice Munro - Too Much Happiness
Stephen Spender - Worlds Within Worlds: A Memoir

― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 28 December 2009 22:07 (sixteen years ago)

i have only finished 5 books this week. and three of them were short and the other two were trashy

― thomp, Monday, 28 December 2009 22:22 (sixteen years ago)

xpost oh definitely get to it, it's a quick fun read. like I said upthread though, it's mostly just the dirt

ur otm this is good, i like it!

― jortin shartgent (harbl), Friday, 8 January 2010 15:18 (sixteen years ago)

i had to give up on Dancing in the Dark -- 30 pages in about a week. I don't always get a seat on the train, so i don't have much time to read books. :(

(also, weirdly, Dickstein doesn't deal w/ Walt Disney at all)

― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 January 2010 15:23 (sixteen years ago)

re-reading pieces of fahey's 'how bluegrass music destroyed my life'

― Joint Custody (ian), Friday, 8 January 2010 16:55 (sixteen years ago)

Zizek - Violence
Galbraith - The Great Crash 1929

― pithfork (Hurting 2), Friday, 8 January 2010 17:37 (sixteen years ago)

graham lambkin - dumb answer to miracles

― Joint Custody (ian), Saturday, 9 January 2010 00:13 (sixteen years ago)

swedish police novels

― the eagle laughs at you (m coleman), Saturday, 9 January 2010 11:52 (sixteen years ago)

Henning Mankell?

― pithfork (Hurting 2), Saturday, 9 January 2010 17:18 (sixteen years ago)

Girl with the Dragon Tattoo? (I read that one actually, it was decent but kinda weird. Like two separate books ... a corporate techno-thriller with a Silence of the Lambs grisly detective story sandwiched in the middle.)

― dmr, Saturday, 9 January 2010 18:17 (sixteen years ago)

wahloo!!!

― max, Saturday, 9 January 2010 18:18 (sixteen years ago)

griselda pollock - vision and difference
william borroughs - the naked lunch
leo tolstoy - confessions

after that im gonna read me some st augustine i think?

― plaxico (I know, right?), Saturday, 9 January 2010 18:19 (sixteen years ago)

xpost - yes these

so far: wahloo!!! >>>> Hanning Mankell?

but I like both

Girl with the Dragon Tattoo? Like two separate books ... a corporate techno-thriller with a Silence of the Lambs grisly detective story sandwiched in the middle.

totally. haven't read the sequel yet but plan to

― the eagle laughs at you (m coleman), Saturday, 9 January 2010 18:27 (sixteen years ago)

martin beck is the best

― max, Saturday, 9 January 2010 18:28 (sixteen years ago)

but i like mankell too--check out the bbc movies of the wallander series they do a p good job of capturing the mood and are shot very pretty like

― max, Saturday, 9 January 2010 18:28 (sixteen years ago)

I'll probably read The Girl Who Played w/ Fire once it's in paperback

― dmr, Saturday, 9 January 2010 19:13 (sixteen years ago)

one month passes...

almost done: civilwarland in bad decline
next: beyond the dream syndicate: tony conrad & the arts after cage

― Joint Custody (ian), Friday, 5 March 2010 02:46 (fifteen years ago)

James Ellroy - Blood's a Rover <--- xmas present, just started it

this was pretty awesome

― dmr, Friday, 5 March 2010 07:06 (fifteen years ago)

some shocking plot twists along the way

― dmr, Friday, 5 March 2010 07:07 (fifteen years ago)

tried to start reading MY DARK PLACES after but I overestimated my Ellroy stamina

― dmr, Friday, 5 March 2010 07:08 (fifteen years ago)

I'll probably read The Girl Who Played w/ Fire once it's in paperback

picking up my reserved copy at the lib tomorrow. looking forward to it. just finished The Complete Stories of JG Ballard - total noise dude terrain

― the mighty the mighty BOHANNON (m coleman), Friday, 5 March 2010 10:01 (fifteen years ago)

Salinger's Nine Stories {never have!)

― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 March 2010 14:58 (fifteen years ago)

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/images/2008/12/03/skipjamescaltwfmu.jpg

― am0n, Friday, 5 March 2010 15:53 (fifteen years ago)

gilgamesh
some jenny lewis poems

― nautical nooba (rionat), Friday, 5 March 2010 17:49 (fifteen years ago)

The Complete Stories of JG Ballard
tried to read Crash. thought it sucked bad

― jaxon, Friday, 5 March 2010 18:27 (fifteen years ago)

Crash & Atrocity Exhibition are the furthest out. If you hate High Rise, then you can feel safe giving up, but I love Crash

Moderan - David R Bunch - http://www.amazon.com/Moderan-David-R-Bunch/dp/B000L3UKGA
Liveness - Philip Auslander - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415196906/pageturners0c
The New Age Music Guide - Patti Jean Birosik
Sailing The Wine Dark Sea: Why The Greeks Matter - Thomas Cahill
Outside of Time: Ideas About Music - Robert Ashley

― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 05:11 (fifteen years ago)

Just finished The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
It's problematic but worth the time.

― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 05:29 (fifteen years ago)

i didn't think crash was 'out' at all. i thought it was boring. and seriously, if i had to read the words "chromium" or - i forget what the word was now, probably "labia", i thought i'd barf. they were used twice a page. i was pretty bummed. for so many amazing musicians claiming it to be a major influence and i couldn't even finish it. i dunno.

― jaxon, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 05:38 (fifteen years ago)

a lot of people prefer reading the interviews of Ballard talking about Crash to actually reading it, if you find it boring it's a good sign, probably. there are certainly times I wish I hadn't read all those Delany & Dennis Cooper books & Lautremont etc. but Crash I love. I think musicians like Crash not just because of the extreme pathology because it's got a very musical repetitive structure, but safe to say with that one people know by the second chapter whether it's their thing or not. his other books are more traditional / expositional SF

― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 05:56 (fifteen years ago)

Just finished The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
It's problematic but worth the time.

― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, March 17, 2010 1:29 AM (5 hours ago)

i have this on hold at the library, not sure if i'll read it.
i also have crash but have not read it. i am prob reading too many books atm.

― harbl, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 11:10 (fifteen years ago)

Michael Moorcock - City of the Beast
HP Lovecraft - The Dunwich Horror

and about to start George Mandel's Crocodile Blood

― gnarly sceptre, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 13:13 (fifteen years ago)

people know by the second chapter whether it's their thing or not

I read it a while ago but for me it was more that I felt I "got" the thesis early on and the book just went on and on banging the same drum

― dmr, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 14:49 (fifteen years ago)

what's a soon-to-be noise dad reading

http://img.amazon.ca/images/I/51ure5siyfL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

― dmr, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 16:16 (fifteen years ago)

Outside of Time: Ideas About Music - Robert Ashley

^^^ WANT

reading a book i found at my friend kate's place called "A History of Secret Societies."

the masonic secret rules there, iirc.

― ian, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 18:33 (fifteen years ago)

the human stain

― fuckin' (jeff), Thursday, 18 March 2010 01:52 (fifteen years ago)

hated that book if i recall correctly

― harbl, Thursday, 18 March 2010 10:17 (fifteen years ago)

it was a quick read and i didn't love it. not sure if i want to read any more roth.

also read:
inside the painters studio (great for painters)
hollywood monster (not surprisingly, a very quick read with little substance)

― fuckin' (jeff), Thursday, 18 March 2010 21:09 (fifteen years ago)

Ian, are you enjoying Saunders? Love that dude.

― Trip Maker, Thursday, 18 March 2010 21:37 (fifteen years ago)

I'm only reading boring library school shit, and ILM :/

― Trip Maker, Thursday, 18 March 2010 21:38 (fifteen years ago)

i did enjoy saunders. hoping to find cheap or borrow a copy of pastoralia.

hate roth btw.

― ian, Thursday, 18 March 2010 23:09 (fifteen years ago)

people go apeshit for american pastoral and a few of his others and they have never done anything for me; made it 100 pages into am. pas. before giving up. finished the dying animal, felt like i was waiting for some type of resolution or revelation but nothing ever happened.

― ian, Thursday, 18 March 2010 23:10 (fifteen years ago)

yeah pretty much the same w/ human stain. i guess i didn't really *hate* it but all the characters were super annoying and stuff kept not happening, and it was just weird and dirty old mannish.

― harbl, Thursday, 18 March 2010 23:24 (fifteen years ago)

he is a dirty old man! but yeah. i hated the human stain, loved american pastoral. been trying to catch up on the barry hannah i haven't read. oh i read the ask by sam lipsyte, that was awesome, and the steve martin book, born standing up. that was ok.

― Mr. Que, Thursday, 18 March 2010 23:29 (fifteen years ago)

i really like some early roth but human stain felt empty & ridiculous

― Lamp, Thursday, 18 March 2010 23:30 (fifteen years ago)

read lately:

c schine the three weissmanns of westport, gg kay under heaven, steven erkison dust of dreams. the copy of the ask that i ordered came in so i will be reading that next

― Lamp, Thursday, 18 March 2010 23:32 (fifteen years ago)

hoping to find cheap or borrow a copy of pastoralia.

I'll check to see if I still have it but I think it either got sold to the Strand or at my last yard sale. I'll look though.

― dmr, Friday, 19 March 2010 00:24 (fifteen years ago)

if I did sell it it wasn't because it's bad btw! it was pretty funny. just making space.

― dmr, Friday, 19 March 2010 00:25 (fifteen years ago)

finished lush life
started hp lovecraft tales collection. stoked!!

― sleep, Friday, 19 March 2010 12:50 (fifteen years ago)

stoked for the madness tbh

― sleep, Friday, 19 March 2010 12:50 (fifteen years ago)

i've been wondering where you've been vic!

― forksclovetofu, Friday, 19 March 2010 14:53 (fifteen years ago)

Just finished The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
It's problematic but worth the time.

― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, March 17, 2010 1:29 AM (5 hours ago)

i have this on hold at the library, not sure if i'll read it.
[...]

― harbl, Wednesday, March 17, 2010 7:10 AM (1 week ago)

meh i let the hold go and didn't read it. i got this instead bc housing segregation is like my favorite topic? i dunno why
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2BaDRBdoSL._SS500_.jpg

― harbl, Sunday, 28 March 2010 18:33 (fifteen years ago)

lol hueg sorry

― harbl, Sunday, 28 March 2010 18:34 (fifteen years ago)

i really read too much nonfiction :(

― harbl, Sunday, 28 March 2010 18:34 (fifteen years ago)

its fun to learn about the world & whats in it :)

― alt-3, gold & silver (Lamp), Sunday, 28 March 2010 18:35 (fifteen years ago)

yeah but i am already reading Waiting for Gautreaux: A Story of Segregation, Housing, and the Black Ghetto, by Alexander Polikoff

― harbl, Sunday, 28 March 2010 18:44 (fifteen years ago)

Mildred Pierce by James M. Cain

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 28 March 2010 18:52 (fifteen years ago)

The Given Day

― jeff, Sunday, 28 March 2010 19:03 (fifteen years ago)

Ayn Rand & The World She Made by Anne C Heller.

never read Rand and after reading this bio never want to. pretty interesting portrait of a messianic cult leader, tho. rand was increasingly creepy and finally, sad cause even "heroes" get old and ill and lonely.

― the mighty the mighty BOHANNON (m coleman), Sunday, 28 March 2010 19:33 (fifteen years ago)

fun fact; Alan Green$pan was a longtime Rand devotee and member of her inner circle...

― the mighty the mighty BOHANNON (m coleman), Sunday, 28 March 2010 19:35 (fifteen years ago)

finished: The City and The City by China Mieville

reading: J.G. Ballard autobio

― mh, Sunday, 28 March 2010 23:23 (fifteen years ago)

my friend megan's unbelievably awesome new book: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/science/space/09space.html?scp=1&sq=megan%20prelinger&st=cse

― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 7 April 2010 18:22 (fifteen years ago)

sounds wild. the sample pages look amazing

― are we human or are we dancer (m coleman), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 20:27 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah that bk sounds fantastic!

― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 18:32 (fifteen years ago)

i had to bring back waiting for gautreaux (we only get 3 weeks + one renewal, sux) so i am reading a sentimental education

― harbl, Monday, 19 April 2010 00:08 (fifteen years ago)

seems pretty sentimental so far

― harbl, Monday, 19 April 2010 00:08 (fifteen years ago)

space book looks awes. her husband was here (montreal) several months ago for presentations about open/online archives - cool, important stuff (esp for coms/media nerds like me obv)

i am reading a book abt the 'history of anxiety'
and a v poetic, slightly creepy novel by pascale quiviger

― planes/octaves/dimensions of existence (rrrobyn), Monday, 19 April 2010 00:49 (fifteen years ago)

bolano 'by night in chile'
started last night, very good so far.

― ian, Monday, 19 April 2010 00:50 (fifteen years ago)

juggling a buncha books right now:

rick perlstein - nixonland
james ellroy - american tabloid

...and the Lord of the Rings audiobook lol

― lesley gorguts (latebloomer), Monday, 19 April 2010 01:07 (fifteen years ago)

about to start The Girl Who Played w/ Fire

― dmr, Monday, 19 April 2010 02:42 (fifteen years ago)

tara rodgers - pink noises, women on electronic music and sound
elizabeth hinkle-turner - women composers and music technology in the united states
christopher small - musicking (rereading)
christopher r. weingarten - it takes a nation of millions to hold us back
slavok zizek - in defense of lost causes
juji ito - uzumaki

― Milton Parker, Monday, 19 April 2010 06:45 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

i feel like i am starting to be a reader again

― harbl, Thursday, 27 May 2010 01:28 (fifteen years ago)

what are u reading

― call all destroyer, Thursday, 27 May 2010 01:28 (fifteen years ago)

Henry James - The Tragic Muse
Johnny Rogan - Morrissey
David O Stewart - Impeached (about Andrew Johnson's impeachment)

― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 May 2010 01:31 (fifteen years ago)

oh oops
i started "i am a fugitive from a georgia chain gang!" by robert e. burns because i've had it for a while

― harbl, Thursday, 27 May 2010 01:58 (fifteen years ago)

how fun is it to read books with exclamation points in the title!

― peacocks, Thursday, 27 May 2010 13:55 (fifteen years ago)

Picked up Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and I am excited.

― Trip Maker, Thursday, 27 May 2010 17:22 (fifteen years ago)

bill c. malone - country music u.s.a.
glenn & henry comic
selected letters of john fante

― ian, Thursday, 27 May 2010 18:05 (fifteen years ago)

xpost. my dad told me heinlein's 'stranger in a strange land' was his favorite book. i was gonna pick it up for my last vacation, but i wasn't really feeling it from scanning it in the store, and it was kinda too big to bring on vacay.

i ended up reading the Road, which i loved. is the movie terrible? charlize? ugh.

― jaxon, Thursday, 27 May 2010 18:19 (fifteen years ago)

I loved Stranger in a Strange Land.
Huge influence on all that hippy shit, of course.
There's a reference to it in David Crosby's "Triad"

― Trip Maker, Thursday, 27 May 2010 19:33 (fifteen years ago)

Suppose I should note that I mostly love classic sci-fi.

― Trip Maker, Thursday, 27 May 2010 19:36 (fifteen years ago)

i'll eventually read it i think. i've never really done too much sci-fi

― jaxon, Thursday, 27 May 2010 20:41 (fifteen years ago)

bill c. malone - country music u.s.a.

ian if you come across a copy of John Morthland's Best of Country Music, snap it up

― you're either part of the problem or part of the solution (m coleman), Thursday, 27 May 2010 21:37 (fifteen years ago)

will do.

― ian, Thursday, 27 May 2010 21:39 (fifteen years ago)

how fun is it to read books with exclamation points in the title!

― peacocks, Thursday, May 27, 2010 9:55 AM (Yesterday)

otm, it's really good so far too

― harbl, Saturday, 29 May 2010 00:33 (fifteen years ago)

gonna try to see if the library has a circulating copy of this http://www.amazon.com/Monument-Good-Intentions-Maryland-Penitentiary/dp/0938420674?&camp=212361 because i love the title and it seems right up my alley

― harbl, Saturday, 29 May 2010 00:34 (fifteen years ago)

not that it has an exclamation point in the title but i will probably start reading it soon, for the record

― harbl, Saturday, 29 May 2010 00:36 (fifteen years ago)

let the great world spin

― mookieproof, Saturday, 29 May 2010 00:38 (fifteen years ago)

i'm really starting to think i need to schedule some sit down novel reading time.

― forksclovetofu, Saturday, 29 May 2010 13:00 (fifteen years ago)

i am a fugitive...! is great and only took me like 2 days to read. i am reading "the real eve: modern man's journey out of africa" now

― harbl, Monday, 31 May 2010 19:31 (fifteen years ago)

mccarthy - suttree
journals of john cheever

― ian, Saturday, 5 June 2010 03:53 (fifteen years ago)

Jim Thompson - The Killer Inside Me

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 5 June 2010 10:41 (fifteen years ago)

fawwaz traboulsi - a history of modern lebanon

― cozen, Saturday, 5 June 2010 10:44 (fifteen years ago)

peter ackroyd's blake biography

― fuckd and bombd (r1o natsume), Saturday, 5 June 2010 16:22 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

shoot mama i just finished ben marcus' "the flame alphabet" oh, such a thing of giddy delight. he's bolted his dusty post-apoc quay bros jungian schtick onto the story of "chitty chitty bang bang". downright cheesy james patterson style in places, but he has such an exquisite turn of phrase, i'll forgive him that. i was down on the guy for a while cos i failed to reread "notable american women" ( sorta one trick pony of a book ), discovered stanley crawford's "some instructions.." which with a little (actually, a whole shitload of) added obfuscatory pseudo-symbology was effectively "the age of wire and string", and i heard an interview with him where he said "yeah i'd liken my work to kafka's" (a disappointingly naive, self regarding and coattailsy thing to say ), but he has now redeemed himself. the book is grand.

― iglu ferrignu, Thursday, 26 January 2012 10:23 (thirteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

been on a binge recently. can't get enough & gf been away from home, so:
stanley crawford - gascoyne: ropey sub terry southern 60's "satire";
stanley crawford - travel notes - goofy monty python meets hunter thompson, still a disappointment compared to "unguentine"/ "some instructions..." which are divine.
stanley crawford - mayordomo - neat n sweet non fiction about stewarding an irrigation ditch.
jon ronson - the psychopath test - did this in 5 hours.
conan doyle - hound of the baskervilles. loved it.
thomas bernhard "the loser" (auf englisch, schande!)tiresome in that he always writes about self-appointed superior ponce so sympathetically, but being a self-appointed superior ponce, ich liebte das, natürlich.
re-read self's "quantity theory" o, for when he was on, he was on.
i think i shall attempt shatner's teklab next.

― iglu ferrignu, Monday, 13 February 2012 18:06 (thirteen years ago)

clark ashton smith - the book of hyperborea
george saunders - civilwarland in bad decline (re-reading some stories not all)
richard stark - the hunter
several brett halliday 'michael shayne mysteries'
jim thompson 'a hell of a woman' (preferred this to pop 1280 maybe.)
charles williams 'a touch of death'

― one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 13 February 2012 23:01 (thirteen years ago)

hound of the baskervilles otm

― beware of greeks bearing petrol bombs (darraghmac), Monday, 13 February 2012 23:10 (thirteen years ago)

recently finished:
julian barnes - the sense of an ending
dava sobel - a more perfect heaven
carl t bogus - buckley: william f buckley and the rise of amerikan conservatism
jo nesbo - headhunters
james ellroy - blood's a rover

just started:
derek raymond - how the dead live

on deck:
jennifer egan - visit from the goon squad
louis menand - the metaphysical club

― demolition with discretion (m coleman), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 11:41 (thirteen years ago)

carl t bogus - buckley: william f buckley and the rise of amerikan conservatism

never has an author's name been more appropriate - this book was half-assed in terms of content and execution. would still like to read a thorough takedown of mr. patrician smarty-pants

― demolition with discretion (m coleman), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 11:46 (thirteen years ago)

i am so slowly reading
eldridge cleaver - soul on ice
an anthology about baltimore riots in 1968 i started in december

but i'm not allowed to start another book until i finish both

― kim tim jim investor (harbl), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 12:26 (thirteen years ago)

Soul on ice is great

― little clouds of citrus spritz as i peel (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 12:42 (thirteen years ago)

Currently reading John Calvin Batchelor's The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica which is excellent.

Preceded by:
Kate Wilhelm's Juniper Time which I didn't like as much Where Late The Sweet Birds Sing
Chester Brown's Paying For It which I found difficult to get through
Vladimir Sorokin's Ice which might be better in russian, but I found the translation tough to take
Christopher Priest's The Inverted World which I also really liked

Next will be Michael Bishop's No Enemy But Time as I slowly carve me way through some late 60s-early80s sci-fi on various lists that I'd previously never read.

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 23:59 (thirteen years ago)

about 200pgs into the Art of Fielding. it's aight

― dmr, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 18:15 (thirteen years ago)

richard stark - the hunter

Everything I've read from the Parker books has been very entertaining. I'm not usually into the whole hard-boiled style but Luc Sante's blog sold me on this series. It was nice to see them published again with Sante doing the intros.

― gutta gutta island (s. morris), Thursday, 16 February 2012 06:04 (thirteen years ago)

I actually slightly prefer the Dortmunder books, but I like pretty much everything that Stark/Westlake wrote.

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 16 February 2012 14:12 (thirteen years ago)

Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad, keep getting images from the Peter O'Toole film which I wish i didn't would like it more if my mind created its own images.

Also Judge Dredd/Hammerstein.

― Stevolende, Thursday, 16 February 2012 17:00 (thirteen years ago)

five months pass...

finished:
osamu dazai - no longer human (very bleak!)
gene wolfe - book of the new sun
georges simenon - maigret and the death of a harbor master

reading:
charles williams - the wrong venus
robert b parker - the widening gyre (still digging these)
donald westlake - get real (the first dortmunder i am reading. i have a few others that i got at thrift stores i haven't checked out yet. but i love the parker & grofield stuff, and some of the other one-off novels of his i have read as well--361 was good, so was Somebody Owes Me Money.

― one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 13 August 2012 22:00 (thirteen years ago)

Adam Winkler - Gunfight: The Battle Over The right to Bear Arms in America

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 August 2012 22:02 (thirteen years ago)

I'm about 150 pages from the end of Bolano's 2666

― dmr, Monday, 13 August 2012 22:15 (thirteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

reading now:
the jewel in the skull - michael moorcock (silly pulpy sword & sorcery but i like that stuff sometimes)
the wrong venus - charles williams (dirty-book themed crime caper, love williams.)

just finished:
the hot spot, also by charles williams. for fans of the usual suspects -- willeford, thompson, goodis et al. small town car salesman gets tied up with two women and several criminal activities ensue.

gave up on get real.

― one dis leads to another (ian), Saturday, 1 September 2012 02:28 (thirteen years ago)

i'll get back to it.

― one dis leads to another (ian), Saturday, 1 September 2012 02:28 (thirteen years ago)

Any Simenon recommendations, ian? I picked up a nice Maigret omnibus yesterday and started with Liberty Bar.

― jim, Saturday, 1 September 2012 02:46 (thirteen years ago)

i am fairly new to simenon actually, but he is probably my wife's favorite writer after Raymond Chandler. She swears by all the Maigret mysteries. Of the non-Maigret stuff, I thought Dirty Snow was a-mazing.

― one dis leads to another (ian), Saturday, 1 September 2012 02:53 (thirteen years ago)

the jewel in the skull - michael moorcock

could never get into anything outside the sci fi except elric. is that corum or hawkmoon or what?

― the late great, Saturday, 1 September 2012 03:55 (thirteen years ago)

i'm trying to read "the golden space" but it's pretty hard going (see sci fi thread, recently)

― the late great, Saturday, 1 September 2012 03:56 (thirteen years ago)

tempted to switch to babel 187 or engine summer

― the late great, Saturday, 1 September 2012 03:56 (thirteen years ago)

that is some hawkmoon action.
i never read anything outside the elric when i was a kid.

― one dis leads to another (ian), Saturday, 1 September 2012 04:25 (thirteen years ago)

ditched "Vineland" to do 3 barthelmes on the trot.
on 4th & enjoying immensely. he clicks for me, unlike the pynch. an effortless read.
also 1/2way through "the ticket that exploded". not read any burroughs in abt 15yrs & i forgot just how fantastic he gets at the top of his game.

― iglu ferrignu, Saturday, 1 September 2012 07:22 (thirteen years ago)

finished 2666. really blew me away unlike Savage Detectives which I thought was pretty overrated. not sure what I'm going to pick up next. someone left a book called "Hopeful Monsters" by Nicholas Moseley in a free pile on the sidewalk and I grabbed it but not sure if I want to read it now.

oh yeah also read Ragtime a while ago, that was good

― dmr, Sunday, 2 September 2012 01:42 (thirteen years ago)

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