Genius!

Joan Didion's White Album and a mystery called Silence by Thomas Perry.

I've had this book for quite a few years now but I've never managed to get around to reading it. It's currently on my books-to-get-rid-of-because-I'm-never-going-to-get-around-to-read-them pile.

Should I remove it from that pile?

Yes, it's a keeper.

The Colossus Of Maroussi

Also, and I'm sure it's due to reading this book, I had a dream that my family and RdTv's family all went to Greece and camped out on the beach. Now I want to do it for real.

sirens of titan

I'm kind of inbetween books at the moment, so I'm just reading some of George Herbert's poetry again (he's something of a hero). Next up is either a biography of Herbert that I found, or an old book I've been looking for for years, Philip Sulley's The Hundred of Wirral (1891).

FUCK I CAN'T STOP BUYING BOOKS

Crime and Punishment $1
A Streetcar Named Desire 25 cents
The Crucible 25 cents

Famous American Plays of the 20's 25 cents
**The Moon of the Caribbees - Eugene O'Neill
**What Price Glory? - Maxwell Anderson and Laurence Stallings
**They Knew What They Wanted - Sidney Howard
**Porgy - Dubose and Dorothy Hayward
**Street Scene - Elmer Rice
** Holiday - Philip Barry

Famous American Plays of the 40's 25 cents
**The Skin of OUr Teeth - Thorton Wilder
**Home of The Brave - Arthur Laurents
**All My Sons - Arthur iller
**Lost in the STars - Maxwell Anderson
**The Member of the Wedding - Carson McCullers

How am I gonna get through them all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

less than $100 pesos (that's less than ten dollars, gringos) plus 10% discount for guessing a trivia about peter sellers. and in english, no less.

the lemmy book is awesome, by the way, although i wish he got more about his time in hawkwind and had more touring and recording stories. still a great read, it's like talking to him in a way.

Good book, Neuromancer.

I should read it again, but I'm fucking overwhelmed right now.

What is the What

I don't own it, never opened it, never touched it. But I can't get past the title.

You should own it, open it, and definitely touch it.

Just read Our Band Could Be Your Life, which was good, except for some really stupid errors (saying Girl Trouble was an Olympia band for instance).

Now reading Valentine Pontifex by Robert Silverberg.

I'd buy that for a dollar!

Good find, Alex. Bet it's the Constance Garnett translation. Hmm, maybe David Magarshack. I like both, (Garnett slightly more), but prefer the Jessie Coulson one most of all. It's part of the Norton Critical edition of Crime and Punishment.

I recently got the Isaac Bashevis Singer book for a buck used.

I just got this non-fiction book called Happenings about happenings edited and written by Michael Kirby.

Has anyone read it?

It is the Constance Garnett translation. It is pretty old. 1950 is the publishing year.

here's what i'm reading:

I plan to finish Ulysses either Sunday or Monday.

I may start reading Shakespeare's King Lear.

Hah, good luck again.

I'm reading River of God at the moment.

I just started Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds, the last book he has had published that I have to read before I'm force to wait as he writes more!

I don't remember the author, but I'm reading a book called Spacecraft in Fact and Fiction that I found in my local library. I would highly recommend it to floatingslowly.

Thought I'd check it out since the Dalai Lama is the man.....it's pretty good.

Crazily detailed. Nice photos.

Am I the only one here who found that book utterly boring?

Lolita. Nabokov

light of my life, fire of my loins. my sin, my soul.

best novel open ing fuckng ever.

i never finished it though. hA!!

Paint it Black.

what the fuck is that. some love letter to the rolling stones?

It had tons of great lines. It was very well written. It got kind of boring, and it didn't need to be as long as it was, but I suppose it was essential to the idea that anything ("pederosis" included) could be made beautiful and artful through language.

Anyway, now I am reading The Bell Jar (this edition):

finished this about a month ago. You probably ought to finish it, it would be worth your time.

I'm reading Small is Beautiful by E.F. Schumacher.

It's my favorite book of all time. You should read the annotated edition, if possible. Makes clear all the little literary jokes N. was playing. Fantastic book.

The Cut Out by Francine Matthews

Great female-spy novel written by a former CIA analyst.

http://www.amazon.com/Cutout-Francin.../dp/0553581503

Hahah! He's such a dick.

I hate dicks.