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I just finished Tom Robbins' Villa Incognito which was hella fun and fulfilling, and am cautiously delving into a very strange and ridiculous piece of print called Teach Yourself Fucking whose author's name I can't remember and has photos of his fully exposed (and aroused) genitals on the cover, the majority of which's content is goofy scribbles.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 18 August 2003 15:23 (twenty years ago) link

"miami" by joan didion, the new lester bands anthology, "necropolis railway" by andrew martin, an orwell anthology, and "love signs." i will always be reading "love signs."

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 18 August 2003 16:20 (twenty years ago) link

Just finished Aleksander Hemon's Nowhere Man, which I really liked. About to finish ZZ Packer's Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, which I'm really liking. I'd been meaning to read both those books forever. Also the Believer, Entertainment Weekly, and the New Yorker. Oh, and Classic Material: the Hip-Hop Album Guide, which mostly sucks, but I paid 16 bucks for it on impulse so I might as well read it.

― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Monday, 18 August 2003 17:00 (twenty years ago) link

Oh yeah, I finished the Shteyngart, which ended up being slightly disappointing - the second half didn't seem as funny as the first half. After that, I read Put Out More Flags by Evelyn Waugh, Moon Palace by Paul Auster, an autobiography of Nikola Tesla, and Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser - all of which were pretty good. Now I'm reading If On a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino, which I've been meaning to read for years.

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 18 August 2003 17:09 (twenty years ago) link

Reading a novel for the first time in far too long - Twelve Bar Blues by Patrick Neate. It's OK.

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 18 August 2003 17:15 (twenty years ago) link

I just finished Bill Drummond's 45, and am about to read John Faheys How Bluesgrass Music Destroyed My Life and Haruki Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.

― T. Weiss (Timmy), Monday, 18 August 2003 20:09 (twenty years ago) link

I am reading Argall by William Vollmann, because I am dumb.

― Ess, Monday, 18 August 2003 20:13 (twenty years ago) link

~~auto~~biography of Nikola Tesla

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 18 August 2003 20:14 (twenty years ago) link

I'm reading Sense and Sensibility, and it's taking em AAAAGES. It's the grammar - I just don't get it. I'm on chepter 29 of 50. Getting there eventually.

I have a theory that Jane Austin is like porn. You have the cool dialogue every so often, and that bit's REALLY cool (like the sex), but then you have pages of annoying "then she went here, and then she did that, and found it most disagreeable" and it's boring as hell, just like the acting.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 10:43 (twenty years ago) link

Why don't you try something with less subtlety? And your theory is total crap mate.

It's Jane Austen (with an e) incidentally.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 13:21 (twenty years ago) link

I'm making my 10th(ish) attempt at "Gravity's Rainbow". I'll beat the fucker this time if it kills me.

― Jim Eaton-Terry (Jim E-T), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 13:53 (twenty years ago) link

Good luck w/ the Pychon, Jim. I've tried it quite a few times myself.... and failed each and every time. I know it's commercial, but i just finished "Seabiscuit" and was absolutely blown away. The horse-racing scenes make you feel like you're there.

― Chris Krewson, Tuesday, 19 August 2003 14:00 (twenty years ago) link

Julio Cortázar's Cronopios and Famas, which i'm enjoying immensely, and Gaddis's The Recognitions, which still feels like far too much work.

― summerslastsound, Tuesday, 19 August 2003 14:04 (twenty years ago) link

I just finished a one volume history of the US civil war called "Battle Cry of Freedom" by James McPherson.

I'm leaning towards starting up "High Rise" by JG Ballard, which I found at a libary sale a couple of months back. What is funny is that the copy of the Ballard book came out of the US Naval Observatory Libary in Chicago, which I found as rather strange.

― earlnash, Tuesday, 19 August 2003 14:14 (twenty years ago) link

I read a lot of essay collections (maybe I have a short attention span). Most recently, I re-read "Men, Women, and Other Anticlimaxes" by Anatole Broyard (my favorite writer). Also, "The Difficulty of Being" by Jean Cocteau, and "Nalda Said" by Stuart David (Looper/Belle & Sebastian).

― Kate Silver (Kate Silver), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 14:43 (twenty years ago) link

finished flann o'brien 'at swim two birds' this morning.

now PKD: The zap gun.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 15:03 (twenty years ago) link

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