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public privates by terri kapsalis. i never knew the speculum had such creepy origins.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Thursday, 13 November 2003 10:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Frank Moorhouse "Room Service" still. It's got this fantastic middle section of stories made out of remembered sayings from his childhood, the one about his first serious relationship is extremely moving.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 13 November 2003 10:07 (twenty-one years ago)

boring articles about libraries and information management.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 13 November 2003 10:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I just started reading Johnny Rotten's autobiography today. I wonder what he'll be like as an old man - this book is ten years old and already it seems like he has Grampa Simpsonesque ideas of what is wrong with the kids today.

― Edward G. Remix (Damian), Thursday, 13 November 2003 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)

i started "bastard out of carolina" by dorothy allison at work today, i do not recommend reading it at work if you want to be cheerful at the customers. especially do not combine reading it with hearing radio news reports about how exceptionally busy the womens refuge was when new zealand lost the rugby.

its a really good book.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Monday, 17 November 2003 07:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Titus Groan. page 50 so far, damn you system errors btw been kicked off computer by windows barghhhhhhhhh!

― Menelaus Darcy (Menelaus Darcy), Monday, 17 November 2003 08:45 (twenty-one years ago)

haha johnny rotten as grampa simpson is the single greatest idea i've ever heard, like ever.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 17 November 2003 08:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Gormenghast rules!

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 17 November 2003 08:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I just finished A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. I quite liked it, tho it was annoying in places. I can see why lots of people hate it. I'm about half way through a whole bunch of stuff for school. Today I renewed a bunch of overdue stuff and now I owe them $18.

― Minty (Minty), Monday, 17 November 2003 09:14 (twenty-one years ago)

"And that's what's wrong with your generation. And as for Bart's generation..."

― Grampa Rotten (Damian), Monday, 17 November 2003 09:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I read about half of Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin today. Also some magazines.

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Monday, 17 November 2003 09:40 (twenty-one years ago)

AND I flicked through "Arranging Techniques For Synthesists" and discovered it's got two pages missing which I bet are really important! The annoying thing is that another 20 pages were missing but the library had put photocopied replacements in (withdrawn lib copy), but they hadn't done the same for these two pages nearer to the beginning. Goddamn.

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Monday, 17 November 2003 09:42 (twenty-one years ago)

the purloined clinic and strong motion, which is at points better than the corrections - and that is almost hard to beat.

― Clare (not entirely unhappy), Monday, 17 November 2003 12:25 (twenty-one years ago)

reading is counter revolutionary

― duane, Monday, 17 November 2003 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

writing is worse tho

― duane, Monday, 17 November 2003 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm reading these threads.

― The Man they call Dan (The Man they call Dan), Friday, 21 November 2003 02:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I finished "Room Service" and read "Vox" in the meantime. "Vox" was cute and pretty slight, which is Nicholson Baker's THING, I believe.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 10:58 (twenty-one years ago)

finished paris interzone, now about twenty pages into molloy in this old hardback trilogy. funny, quotable, blah blah blah; but with the whole no-paragraphs one-huge-block-of-text thing I kept losing my place due to listening to crews control : mcs inside the ride. went much swifter when the cd finished. haha also . . . m4rc3l's latest poetry.

― etc, Tuesday, 25 November 2003 13:34 (twenty-one years ago)

read billy budd last night for the first time ever. today i had some spare time so i read big chunks from a bunch of film books in the library - a howard hawks bio, godard on godard, for keeps by pauline kael (best film book evah?), some orson welles stuff. and on the bus home i read a transfeminism pamphlet i picked up at a SK show last september. yeah, i'm a readaholic.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 01:25 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm hlafway through "the magic toyshop" by angela carter

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 03:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I started reading 3 books yesterday, but ended up adandoning them all after a few pages in favour of lying on the couch.

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Thursday, 27 November 2003 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Seemed too hard to combine the two activities I guess.

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Thursday, 27 November 2003 23:00 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm rereading "as you like it" tonight, it's my 4th or 5th favorite shakespeare play. it has a male character in it called CORIN!

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 28 November 2003 06:58 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a french name isn't it? I nearly got a copy of As You Like It today from the withdrawns at work, but it was covered in pencil lines and highlighter NO WAY.

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Friday, 28 November 2003 07:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I took a few things to read at work today and I ended up reading two interviews from that John Waters thing I got a while ago and about 3/4s of the Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs booklet.

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Friday, 28 November 2003 07:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Still "A Frolic of His Own", I haven't been reading too much recently. I don't mind, it's a fantastic book and I'm happy to not finish it too quickly. I'm about halfway through it tho, I guess

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 4 December 2003 11:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Today I happened to start reading 'A Boy's Own Story" by Edmund White and managed to get about 2/3 of the way through it already. It was surprising after my problems with not being bothered reading last week.

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Thursday, 4 December 2003 11:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I just read "Vernon God Little" By DBC Pierre. It was pretty good, I guess, dunno if it was Booker Prize good tho.

― Minty (Minty), Thursday, 4 December 2003 11:33 (twenty-one years ago)

He sounds like an amusing person

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 4 December 2003 11:57 (twenty-one years ago)

i just finished "the powerbook" by jeanette winterson and before that "agnes grey" by anne bronte. out of the three bronte sisters, i have decided that i only like charlotte so far. jeanette winterson rules so thoroughly!

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Friday, 5 December 2003 00:07 (twenty-one years ago)

um i'm about to read some more dorothy allison.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Friday, 5 December 2003 00:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Graham Greene!!!!!!!!!!

― Minty (Minty), Friday, 5 December 2003 01:46 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

harry potter and the goblet of fire. ps does anyone know when the third harry potter movie is coming to our screens?

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 02:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack.
I think the new HP is meant to be out in the US in June or something, but I could be wrong..

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 03:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Don DeLillo - White Noise. I tried to read it on the bus yesterday but got distracted (by some people arguing over (I think) why Freddie Mercury died. These two girls were saying it was AIDS but the guy they were talking to kept insisting it was something to do w/ his hair). Anyway I've only read the first few pages.

― Livvie (Livvie), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 03:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha I wrote that like an album, I mean "White Noise" by Don DeLillo.

― Livvie (Livvie), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 03:16 (twenty-one years ago)

JUNE GOD THATS AGES.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 03:18 (twenty-one years ago)

the abolition of man - c.s. lewis

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 03:44 (twenty-one years ago)

pattern recogntion - william gibson, stack of mojo magazines - dads

― ducklingmonster, Tuesday, 23 December 2003 04:07 (twenty-one years ago)

"Hang on a Minute MAte" Barry Crump
"Bloom" Kelly Ana Morey

oo look how NZey I'm being.

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 05:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Read "The Unteleported Man" by Philip K. DICK yesterday, it was fun. Also another 100 or so pages of the Gaddis, I'll finish it soon if I'm not careful, Christmas'll prob save me.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 12:12 (twenty-one years ago)

sherry simon - gender in translation. for this i have damian to thank. yay damian!

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Monday, 5 January 2004 05:51 (twenty-one years ago)

"pride and prejudice" by jane austen.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 5 January 2004 07:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh cool, Di, I was going to ask if those books came in, and evidently the answer is yeah in regard to that one, so w00t!

I am reading Ray Coleman's biography of John Lennon. John Lennon cracks me so consistently up.

― Schwingung (Damian), Monday, 5 January 2004 07:40 (twenty-one years ago)

i have the "lennon remembers" interview book from 1970, it's pretty funny. it also inspired the hilarious national lampoon parody "magical misery tour":

"look you bastards i'm a genius like shakespeare, beethoven and van gogh! i'm a fuckin' artist! i'm sensitive as shit! i can make a guitar SPEAK! if i could be a fisherman i could but i CAN'T because i'm a fuckin' GENIUS! I WAS THE WALRUS! PAUL WASN'T THE WALRUS! I WAS JUST SAYING THAT TO BE NICE! where are you, mother? they're trying to crucify me!!"

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 5 January 2004 08:15 (twenty-one years ago)

HAHAHAHA! He probably would have said that, too. I've always been meaning to get a copy of Lennon Remembers but for some reason I prefer to live in a world where the Beatles liked each other.

― Schwingung (Damian), Monday, 5 January 2004 08:25 (twenty-one years ago)

STILL White Noise, I'm only a few chapters further to be honest. I did read Catcher in the Rye and some other stuff in the meantime, though.

― Livvie (Livvie), Monday, 5 January 2004 09:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"The Lord of the Rings"

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 5 January 2004 12:43 (twenty-one years ago)

i briefly considered rereading LOTR after seeing the movie. i then dismissed that notion as a momentary spasm of regressive madness.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 5 January 2004 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

don't. i reread it last year after two towers, it was an ordeal. damian, i am going to write an lj entry about how sherry simon's book has enriched my life! yay! tomorrow i am going to start on some luise von flotow!

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 08:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I look forward to reading it, Di. :)

― Schwingung (Damian), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 09:42 (twenty-one years ago)

its on d-land, in case yr conmfused.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 10:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm reading the Mog series, and I'm especially looking forward to getting out "Mog and Bunny". I sobbed while reading "Goodbye Mog".

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 12:24 (twenty-one years ago)

awww. i had "mog and the baby" as a kid. that baby was fucking ugly, cats are way cooler.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 12:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Mog saves that baby from certain death! That one was quite exciting.

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 12:52 (twenty-one years ago)

but it was an ugly baby!!!!! and it got all the attention!

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 13:03 (twenty-one years ago)

There are foxy babies?

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 13:27 (twenty-one years ago)

well there are babies that aren't unsightly. if you want foxy babies, you should ask alice cooper.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Mog got a reward of a big fish! I think I remember that anyway. In "Mog the Forgetful Cat" her reward was an egg. And a medal.

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 13:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I want that job

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

We have lots of Mog books! I remember "Mog the Forgetful Cat", I always thought the gift of an egg seemed a bit useless.

― Livvie (Livvie), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 23:12 (twenty-one years ago)

All this talk of ugly babies is making me think of Seinfeld, which isn't that big a step, really.

― Schwingung (Damian), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 23:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm also reading "Day of the Locust" by Nathanael West. There's a character called Homer Simpson in it, hmmmmm.

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 02:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Matt Groening has mentioned that character before, but I think everyone in the Simpson family is named after people in his own immediate family, as opposed to the book you speak of.

― Schwingung (Damian), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 09:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Well I've got about 70 pages of 'A Frolic of His Own' to go, which I'm kinda saving, I'm 150 pages into William T. Vollmann's 'The Rainbow Stories' w/out even really noticing ie. I guess it's GOOD, also I've read in the last week or so Nick Hornby 'High Fidelity' and Helen Fielding's 'Bridget Jones's Diary', and TODAY I started one of the Philip K. Dicks I got from the Orewa booksale, and the Nietzsche.

― Silly Sailor (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 18 January 2004 11:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Which I've nearly finished. Also at 5am last night I suddenly really felt like reading some Burroughs so I got through 50 or so pages of 'The Ticket that Exploded', it read really well at that time

― Silly Sailor (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 07:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been reading the Magician's Nephew by CS Lewis, as well as the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test AND I started the Sia Figiel book I got too. It's all too exciting having that many books to read.

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 09:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Mainlines, Blood Feasts and Bad Taste - it's the second Lester Bangs anthology. And guess what White Noise! It's pretty stupid that I'm so slow because I really love it every time I read a bit, but then for some reason I never seem to pick it up and keep reading other things instead, grr.

― Livvie (Livvie), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 10:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Paul Bowles "Let it Come Down", finished "Ticket that Exploded" yesterday.

― Silly Sailor (Andrew Thames), Friday, 23 January 2004 11:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I just finished "Porno" by Irvine Welsh, not his best eh. Still about halfway through Les Liaisons Dangereuses and The Picture of Dorian Gray.

― Minty (Minty), Friday, 23 January 2004 12:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Finished the Bowles, it FREAKED ME OUT. Back to the lots of things I've halfstarted esp the Philip K. Dick, "The Game-Players of Titan".

― Silly Sailor (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 25 January 2004 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah that Bowles freaked me out too. I always find his stuff unsettling (duh, it'd be weird if I didn't!). I remember reading "the sheltering sky" by candlelight a lot during the time when auckland had heaps of electricity failures.

I'm reading a messily written book about an interesting person/milieu (a druggie/prostitute/dealer/boho/writer who kind of very publicly exposed widespread corruption in the australian police force and was murdered, almost definately by at least one police officer.
& 5 or so other books I can't be bothered mentioning
Y'all should read "the great ideas" by Suzanne Cleminshaw!

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Sunday, 25 January 2004 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I read most of "The Hard Life" by Flann O'Brien today on the bus in/out of town and wowsah wow it's really good

― Silly Sailor (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 12:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language (by Don Watson)

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

john birmingham "leviathan". i've been reading it since june 2001.

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)

maus I and II (art spiegelman) and the antichrist (f. nietzsche).

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 23:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Maus is so fucking great! At the moment I'm reading "After the Quake" by Murakami and "Pattern Recognition" by William Gibson

― Minty (Minty), Thursday, 5 February 2004 00:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Well I read 'The Magician's Nephew' and 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe' from about 7am this morning, they were great. Started Italo Calvino 'Under the Jaguar Sun' just before, shouldn't take long, hopefully it'll be good

― Silly Sailor (Andrew Thames), Friday, 6 February 2004 12:16 (twenty-one years ago)

a pile of 2000ADs and The Business by Iain Banks

― ducklingmonster, Friday, 6 February 2004 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

five months pass...

"country" by nick tosches and "letters from the earth" by mark twain.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 23 July 2004 05:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Lots of things during the two weeks, William Gaddis "JR", William Burroughs "Cities of the Red Night", William T. Vollmann "Whores for Gloria", Johnny Cash "Cash: The Autobiography" (Elisabeth is that at yr place?), Richard Meltzer as usual, and today I started "Nocturnes for the King of Naples" by Edmund White and I should get back to it. Thinking about reading John Locke's "Two Treatises of Government" but um I dunno.

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 23 July 2004 05:46 (twenty-one years ago)

hey justyn isn't that tosches book great? his best! that or KILLER (jerry lee lewis biog.) or UNSUNG HEROES maybe.
me im readin : OURS by sergei dovlatov, BOB DYLAN by anthony scaduto

― get yr illegal on, Friday, 23 July 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

the everyday world as problematic by dorothy smith, and love & rockets number two

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Saturday, 24 July 2004 02:37 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah duane (it is you right?) it's pretty great, the most enjoyable book i've read in months. usually books about music with long lists of songs/artists/et al put me to sleep, but this one doesn't, it's very funny. i have read "unsung heroes" but i was sort of half-asleep on a bus (haha sounds like a smiths song) at the time, so i need to give it another read. the JLL book i own, but i can only remember the opening chapter where he tries to break into elvis's house. oh i forgot to mention i'm also reading "bush at war" by bob woodward, about halfway through that one.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 24 July 2004 02:48 (twenty-one years ago)

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