What's the best thing you READ in 2001

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What was your favourite book, essay, poem, grafitti, or whatever this year?

― fritz, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

besides postings on the jefferson township high board, ok?

― fritz, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You had to take away my answer, didn't you?

It's been a particularly poor year for me reading wise. I have had so much reading to do for my classes that I haven't really had much of a chance to read things for fun. Hopefully I can do some of that on the xmas break.

― Nicole, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nick's diaries were highly entertaining.

― Madchen, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It should be pointed out that this was all above board and that Lucy is not stalking me within my own flat. They were all at least 7 years old.

Her diaries were rubbish and all involved crushes on mods from Bolton.

― N., Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You omit to mention that I noted down the exact number of times I had sex with each chap I shared a bed with.

― Madchen, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Note to anyone I have slept with recently: some years have passed since I made notes such as these.

― Madchen, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

is that coz all the recent ones have been crap?

― MarkH, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

all anyone wants to talk about today is boobs and sex

it's great

― fritz, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Harry Potter.

― Mark C, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sorry, are you all so disgusted at my answer you're unable to write? It was just a very funny joke. Hoho.

― Mark C, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think it was the proximity of "Harry Potter" to "Boobs and sex" that paralyzed conversation.

― fritz, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Fek read too much. Guess it would be Jesus' Son. Also the Jenny Holzer slogans are tres rad.

― helenfordsdale, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Let's see, Alexandra Ritchie's Faust's Metropolis was pretty damn sweet....something else I read really got to me, though, what was it? Damn, I'll have to review those old 'what are you reading' posts. And of course Mike on 9/11, but that was implicit.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Best thing I read this year was probably Norweigan Wood by Haruki Murakami as per a suggestion.

― Mandee, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That thing Otis wrote about Tom Cruise being a despicable cock on the Vanilla Sky thread.

― Ally, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Have Never Been The Same. OKay so its one fo the few nontextbooks I read this year shove off.

― Mr Noodles, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

best book would probably be ian m banks look to windward. pretty damn good, although i had just ploughed through all the predecessors and excession and the player of games must surely also get a note. george mcdonald fraser's flashman and the mountain of light was also a joy.

the thing i've read that brought me most joy was an email from a friend in the states, who i haven't seen for over five years, saying they would be arriving at an undisclosed major london airfield at approximately 7 am on new years day.

― another james, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The new John Ralston Saul.

― anthony, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In The Penal Colony, Franz Kafka.

― maryann, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

graffiti: probably the tag "penis", on a church fence in Russell

books: Rimbaud bio by Graham Robb...[only I'm about two chapters from the end, because I went travelling without having quite finished, had to return it to the library. I got further with the Auckland library copy but had to leave then someone had it out next time I was there and there aren't any copies in the stupid little city I'm presently mired in]
also probably at least amongst the most enjoyable, bio of mathematician Paul Erdos ("My Brain is Open" - I plan to read the "Man Who Loved Only Numbers" one soon).

― elizabeth anne marjorie, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

penis in russell. thats beautiful Liz. not quite the best thing I have read in 2001 but almost. I have to contemplate that question a little more and try to remember just what I have read.

last night it was the stripper and the supernatural

― Menelaus Darcy, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"A cow sez moo."

― Josh, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Book -- Vollmann, Argall.

Essay -- Lester Bangs on racism in tha punk scene.

grafitti -- "even here is holy" on a bathroom stall.

― Sterling Clover, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

biro on fence: stuck up slut pattie i luv breasties

― ducklingmonster, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Cat In The Hat.

It's the best thing I read every year.

― ogden, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Favourite book: Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami.

Favourite essay: Dave Hickey's Air Guitar collection and the Pinefox on food and Sylvia Plath.

Poem: Cotton Club Classics' by Mark Halliday .

Graf: "Fear God and Mistrust the English" (on the side of a building in Rotherhithe).

― Edna Welthorpe, Mrs, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ILE, because it entertains me and I feel I can make a random contribution without formally introducing myself. I apologize if my presumption is wron

― Still too shy to commit to a regular alias, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Rings Of Saturn by WG Sebald

― RickyT, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mango Tree
Hart Crane
First version as sent to Waldo Frank, 1926
Let them return, saying you blush for the great
Great-grandfather. It’s like Christmas.
When you sprouted Paradise a discard of chewing
gum took place. Up jug to musical hanging jug just
gay spiders yoked you first, – silking of shadows a good sanitarium for owls.
First-plucked before and since the flood, old
hypnotisms wrench the creamy boughs. Leaves spatter
dawn from emerald cloud-sockets. Fat final prophets
with lean bandits crouch; the dusk is close
Under your noon,
Sun-heap whose ripe lanterns gush history, recondite lightenings, irised

― anthony, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Fiction: Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson (I just love Bletchly park Maffs storeis)

Non-Fiction: London - The Biography by Peter Ackroyd. A veritable treasure trove.

― Pete, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ooh Pete, how was Cryptonom? I like Neal S (mainly for 'The Diamond Age'), but I don't like code-breaking-Bletchley stuff so much so have put off reading it. Is there much for the non-code-breaking-Bletchley -liking person to like?

― Ellie, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

if biographies and the like are game i really enjoyed harpo speaks, the autobiography of one adolf marx, surely the most enigmatic member of that remarkable family. good positive outlook on life too, and interesting anecdotes about the algonquin round table, george bernard shaw and all kinds of other groovy things.

― another james, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Someone else has read 'Faust's Metropolis'? I've read it twice, but I thought I was compensating for those terrified by its length. The Motley Crue book was nearly as good as Michael Burleigh's 'The Third Reich'.

― Snotty Moore, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No wait, "Ulysses".

― Josh, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I take it back. "A cow sez moo."

― Josh, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Someone else has read 'Faust's Metropolis'?

I'm a sucker for history. To Felicity Redwell -- hi there!

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh! hello, Ned.

― felicity, Wednesday, 19 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Even for the infinite cow the moo is finite.

― Mr Noodles, Wednesday, 19 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hanle y's posts!

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Wednesday, 19 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

More or less everything Robert Fisk writes.

― Tag, Wednesday, 19 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Graffiti: 'try subtlety' and Don DeLillo's 'White Noise' one insistent 'praise jesus' sticker at the Monroe el stop that became a familiar daily routine.

― turner, Wednesday, 19 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

graffiti: "zoe is a sexy bitch," somewhere in South London.

I am so drawing a blank on books. All I can think of is Ackroyd's London.

― rosemary, Wednesday, 19 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Fiction: Crime and Punishment Non-Fiction: London the Biography (not finished yet) Essay: Why Are You Telling Me This? - Kingsley Amis Grafitti: I want four cocks in my mouth at the same time Poem: (heard, not read) something about King Midas's wife by (?) can't remember. Edna will know.

― Peter Miller, Thursday, 20 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ellie, the book splits into three seperate thread sreally. There is hard, zen US soldier at Gudalacanal, there is code breaking weirdo (also US - actually very funny) and there is latter day south seas piracy and computer business stuff. A move from previous cyberpunk, but really, really good. If none of those three characters grab you though, you probably won't like it. If one does, you probably will cos it is all inter-related and the code breaking ain't too heavy.

― Pete, Thursday, 20 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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