the secret history - donna tart

sweet choices there

about 1), i liked the music of chance, the essay about his father, and i've heard great things about the country of last things & moon palace (an ex of mine used to be a big auster fan-- in part because of his "vampire" looks).

about 2), i read the whole book but the strategy i utilized was just sticking to 1 chapter a day, much like the newspapers of the xix century where such books were published in serialized form-- they were the soap operas of the day. so yeah, just read 1 chapter a day & see how it goes. then some weekend maybe you feel inspired to do 3 or 4 or whatever. but definitely treat it like a marathon book, not a sprint one.

enjoy.

I am reading a book of master drawings and prints written in the 1950's. great art historical stuff.

also I am reading a large Taschen book I got last wekeend of Leonardo Da Vinci's drawings.
it rules.

like i said, i'm waiting until nyc to start ulysses again. i'm excited and scared at the same time.

i was just reading cometbus issue number 50 and now i'm re-reading the psychic soviet.

I just started Century Rain by Alastair Reynolds, the first novel I've checked out by him that's not set in the Revelation Space universe. What's particularly odd is that I've been watching the dvds of the British intersticial tv program The Singing Detective and this book cuts back and forth between a more traditional SF future and a 1950s detective story in Paris, and the detectives are musicians!

Ulysses page 305.

Meditations-Marcus Aurelius (for Roman Empire)

Ulysses page 530. I read 100 pages today.

Just finished the Phillip K Dick short story collection Eye of the Sibyl.

I'm currently in the middle of several other things such as Michael Moorcock's Elric - Stealer of Souls (I think there are going to be an infinite number of re-releases to reflect the infinite nature of the multiverse...). It's the Conan for pessimists. Or Discworld's evil and somehow older twin.

I started Alan Dean Foster's Quozl a long time ago. It's about an advanced culture of giant space rabbits that come to earth. It's pretty good so far. But I'm pretty sure the cover is extremely inaccurate, and it's a lot less 'ha ha' than it might suggest.

Also need to finish League of Extraordinary Gentlemen vol. 1.
I hope Alan Moore comics stop being made into shitty movies.
I hope the Watchmen movie turns out at least OK, since it's based on the perfect comic.
So much to live up to.

Next might be Manson: In His Own Words

there is zero merit in reading ulysses fast. honestly. you're missing out of the many tentacles each word extends into the surrounding protoplasm. just saying.

Well, it's not really that fast. I'm reading the fantasy part where for a lot of it there's a lot of open page space, with the name of the speaker being the only thing on the line.

Edit: dreamery creamery butter.

I can easily see how James Joyce is considered to be one of the best writers who ever lived. I've had a brief exposure to him, but what I've read I have been absolutely floored by.

right now I'm reading Nietzsche - The Genealogy of Morals. I'll finish that tomorrow, hopefully read a book on race by next Tuesday, then kick off the summer with Lolita and Discipline and Punish.

consolation of philosophy
Alain de Botton

its an awesome book, life changing i could say
great book

Ulysses page 612.

Fucking great book. Easily one of my favorites.

nothing feels good for like the fifth time.

I'm now reading A Messiah at the End of Time or The Transformation of Mavis Ming by Michael set in the Dancers at the End of Time version of Earth. So far it is much like the books in that trilogy, and I wouldn't expect otherwise, whimsical satire in a far future where literally anything is possible (which makes the residents rather bored.)

When I finish it, I'll be starting the Moorcock graphic novel Elric: The Making of a Sorcerer next. I'm quite looking forward to spending some time with my favorite albino friend then!

i've just read 'Ubik' by Philip K. Dick - and its awesome, mindblowing, scary book.


i also like very much the adaptation of A Scanner Darkly with Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Robert Downey Jr, Woody Harelsson. Anybody saw that movie?

and


which i am struggling to get through

i loved that movie
my fav scene is when they are all paranoid about someone being in the house
it was perfect
it captured being paranoid on drugs poooifectly

I'm on my third reading of Naked Lunch, with On The Road being read on the side.

Several books regarding Camus writing style.

Yes, it is one of a handful of actualy great science fiction movies, and the best PKD adaptation ever in my opinion. You should read Now Wait for Last Year, that's my favorite PDK drug story.

I'm reading up on Mahayana Buddhism, having managed to forget a lot of it in the last few years. It's tricky, making good of all these text books floating around my person...

ha. I have that exact book. I remember for some reason my best friend stole about 10 copies from the school for some reason :p
it wasn't even a book they taught anymore.

great expectations

i've read "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" and it's good as Ubik.


Also I've read "VALIS" which is the break of PKD i think.. it was hard to read this book.


i will buy Now Wait for Last Year in time ;) Blade Runner is great movie, but not an 'adaption' it's only the idea from Do androids dream of electric sheeps. Minoroity Report based on short story of PKD is not that bad as an action movie. Greets man.

yeah, or when Barris bought new bike - it was awesome! :D

i dont want to make this a downer thread, but ive actually been reading the journal of a friend of mine who overdosed about a year ago. i went home for a little while because his parents had a memorial gettogether for him and me and my other highschool friends were in his room just talking and stuff and i found it lying around (his parents havnt even been able to move anything in his room yet, sad), i asked his parents if i could have it and they said yes.

its very sad but it definitley has been giving me a better sense and understanding of the circumstances surrounding his death, and in a way has helped me come to a little bit better terms with it.

so uhh, yeah sorry for that. but thats really what ive been reading.

You'll shoot me for this, I'm sure, because it seems like such a Cantankerous kind of thing to do, but I'm re-reading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Some of the ideas in that book reminded me of Snow Crash... which is def. a lighter read...

VALIS is such a dense book, with a million and one references to various things. I'm glad Wikipedia was invented before I tried to make it through that one. But, even if you don't understand EVERYTHING at first, it still has enough funny parts or just interesting ideas to keep it going...

I just know if I ever finish losing my mind, I probably won't be able to make such a good book out of it.

Just bought Saul Bellow's Herzog. Looking forward to starting it when I finish teaching next week

I have to read To Kill a Mockingbird for school

Excellent, excellent book. I read it 5 or so years ago.

Ulysses page 638. Getting close to the end now.

I really like Saul Bellow. There is something about his writing style that seems really familiar, for lack of a better word.

I recently read Ravelstien, and even writings from his later years are relatable...

I had to read that last year for school. It is a really good book.

started it last night:





not this edition though, mine is translated "thus spoke zarathustra".