Millennium by John Varley ('70s time travel/plane crash science fiction novel).

The Great Gatsby, and I am surprised to find the same kind of atmosphere I like in Jeffrey Eugenides.

Before that came Jonathan Coe's latest, which bored me and tasted like still water.

In between was a comic book by one of my craves, Pixel Vengeur :

The Big Short by Michael Lewis, which is a terribly pedestrian account of the financial crisis, but a quick read none the less.

My roommate was kind enough to get me a copy of The Magus by John Fowles, which I'll start after I finish this program in June.

'Holes', easy read book I found in a box of shit I got.
Pretty good actually..

has anyone read any jules verne? I been mad trying to find some jules verne, but i treat books like used records, getting em at Amazon.com is just pathetically easy and takes away the whole artform of finding good books

psch, they are all free in project gutenberg at this point, do a search. which means they also should be on dover thrift editions or similar imprints.

they should also be (free) in the amazon kindle store. so you can download the files to a kindle or kindle reader software (in your computer) to make them more readable.

i read him aaaages ago-- voyage to the center of the earth, 20,000 leagues under the sea, from the earth to the moon, etc.

you got no library card? that shit *should* be there if you don't want to read in the computer.

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EDIT: i read in a hurry and i thought you were having trouble finding them.

so you WANT TO have trouble finding them? that's easily accomplished-- you're in LA. good luck sweating!

just picked up a discount copy of 2066, only $8, that's less than a penny a page, what a bargain!

Rowan Williams - Silence and Honey cakes; the wisdom of the desert.

Not what I wanted it to be, but as ever a lovely piece of writing from dear Row.

not as good as old man and the sea but pretty good

Rowan Williams is quite clearly one of the good uns. Unfortunately he has to weave his views around the inconsistancies and stupidities of his idiotic religion.

I know, right? He wants to come over to the bells and smells side. Bring back the guilds, I say.

Not unlike Suchfriends...

You'd love that wouldn't you?
You'd love it.

Was curious if anyone here has read the Ryu Murakami novel of "Audition". The book was adapted into a pretty well known japanese horror film. If you seen the movie is the book still worth a read? Without going into detail, is the movie pretty faithful to the book or are there differences in the book that are worth appreciating?

Atrocity Exhibition

I finished "Neuromancer" and really enjoyed it. I'm going to read "Carrion Comfort" by Dan Simmons next.

Just finished Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, started reading Prisoners of the Stars (volume two of an anthology) by Isaac Asimov.

If nothing else, the best title for a book I've seen in a long time.

The Homecoming by Harold Pinter

Annoying

Keep me posted on the Daly bio if you would please Bytor. He's always been a favorite of mine. Also please cagebird a word on the Marley book..

THANKS

Lyrical Genius by Kwame Dawes promises to bring the later years into focus. The writing is very good. The author has a deep appreciation for Jamaica. I don't know anything else because I am reading it slowly. I have lots left.

The Trail Drivers of Texas by J MarvinHunter. On about page 850 of 1000, I've had to renew it twice from the library...almost as long as the Polyponnesian War by Thucydides.

Useful comment.

Uh... I read Bentham/ Mill the other day. It was shit. Now I'm reading John Donne. Dense/ good. Coleridge next.

It's hard to disagree with a lot of Jones's points but, well, here's a photo of him. Should say everything, really

You can tell he never goes out or to the ''right'' places to realise that chavs have been progressively pushed to the suburbs in the past couple of years.

I'm just bitter that I never wrote it, if I'm honest.

Interesting utube post - thanks. Before he won the PGA and was on the tour playing random events because he didn't have full privileges he always got an invite to play the event in Sutton MA. which put him downtown drinking in Worcester where he ended up on the dance floor on all fours barking at the moon one Saturday nite.

I'm just about to start it so can't comment yet. It looks like an interesting topic, though.

not his best... but worth reading for any philip k dick fan (which i am). Eventually, i want to read Ubik.

Sam Lipsyte : The Ask

And during the week end

John Kennedy Toole : A Confederacy of Dunces
(in French, I find the translation funnier, Reilly's diatribes in English are too odd and uncomfortable)

That's Toole; add a moustache and you have the character - his eyes, that's him!

Finished it. Best is a chapter on Derek Bailey.

Nightfall and Other Stories by Isaac Asimov.