[noumenal]

Well, I'm about 50 pages into A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis and I highly recommend it. It's really hitting the spot right now because I have several good friends who are lawyers or in law school. It has annotations online!:

http://www.williamgaddis.org/frolic/index.shtml

[Silent Dan Speaks]

I'm reading Samuel Beckett's Malloy. If I like it (and I do so far) I'll read Malone Dies and The Unnamable.

[noumenal]

Originally Posted by Silent Dan Speaks

I'm reading Samuel Beckett's Malloy. If I like it (and I do so far) I'll read Malone Dies and The Unnamable.

Those books are awesome!!! My sig comes from Beckett. I love him.

[schizophrenicroom]

the joke
unbearable lightness of being
unthinkable thoughts of jacob green
some gossip girl book

[The 97th Hammer]

I have a habit of having like five books on the go at once. Right now I'm reading:
Carpenter's Gothic-William Gaddis
Vermilion Sands-J.G. Ballard
Don Quixote
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy-Lawrence Sterne

Just Finished:
The Atrocity Exhibition-J.G. Ballard
Vineland-Thomas Pynchon
Blood and Guts in High School-Kathy Acker

[k-krack]

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll (in one book)
Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder

[noumenal]

Originally Posted by k-krack

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll (in one book)

Is it the one annotated by Martin Gardner? If not, you should check it out.

[Silent Dan Speaks]

Might I ask what book/play/whatever else that quote is from?

[noumenal]

It's from Malone Dies.

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by Пятхъдесят Шест

To be honest, poking fun being friend with Bush is just too easy of a target! Perhaps a little unfair, as their relationship is timid at best. However, its interesting to read some of the things that Lula has said about the United States that has basically gone unnoticed by most publications. I'm referencing the outstanding Foreign Affairs periodical for this, but Lula has been known to refer to America as an 'imperialistic empire', the usual spiel.

well, i is an imperialistic empire, whether lula says so or not, im afraid. plus consider his socialist roots. did you know lula wanted to tax the arms trade to fight hunger? a brilliant idea which was of course ignored by the powers that be. another plus for me is that he appointed gilberto gil as minister of culture.

Originally Posted by Пятхъдесят Шест

You bring up a fascinating topic about power in Latin America being channeled through having a good relationship with the United States. Its important, without a doubt. But I don't think its nearly as important as it was in the past. Just look at Hugo Chaves, probably the best example of this. He's made every attempt to agitate and mock the United States. Almost weekly! In doing so, he has legitimized Venezuela on the world stage, and made more friends than enemies. Evo Morales is running Bolivia into the ground, but he experiences immense popularity through out Latin America, not just with his indigenous core anymore. Chile has icy relations at best with America, but has seen the most sustainable growth in all of Latin America, even without dialog with America.

well chavez is a fucking jackass im afraid, and the only reason he can do it is because hate oil money-- which morales doesn't have. about chile, i dont know about "icy relations", i only need to look at the abundance of chilean grapes in the supermarket to know that all is well there.

Originally Posted by Пятхъдесят Шест

I think the United States has been burning its bridges with Latin America for the better part of the last twenty years, and its starting to show!

well clinton neglected it a bit to engage other endeavors, but bush has really fucked it up. do you know however the colon powell was in peru on september 11? perhaps things would have gone differently if not for the criminally stupid response bush had to the attacks.

Originally Posted by Пятхъдесят Шест

Make sure you know, I am no friend of the IMF or World Bank!! I only think Kirschner should be held accountable for his part in Argentina's decline. Granted it's not nearly as bad as it was, which he deserves credit for. But when it was happening, he was left out of any discussion. Just like similar IMF induced debacles in Africa, corruption at the national level contributes to the IMF's notoriously failed policies.

wow, wow, brother, we might be confusing our cast of characters here. shit fell apart in argentina under menem and de la rua, & still reeling under duhalde. if anything kirschner has pulled argentina successfully out of the financial hellhole where it was. lemme link ya: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argenti...281999-2002%29

Originally Posted by Пятхъдесят Шест

I rarely get to have these discussions as well! Imagine me brining up Venezuela's flailed labor and land reform policies in South Omaha bar. Ah. Even the Venezuelan ex pats here could give a shit less.

ha ha ha, i hear ya... our local dmv thinks that alaska is not part of the u.s.a....

[Katy]

Originally Posted by Пятхъдесят Шест

I'm betting on that being a very fulfilling read.

It is, actually. Quite empowering and enlightening in this current climate of fear. Many of the women writing about their travels have travelled completely alone, many to some very (so-called) hostile places. And found themselves welcomed warmly.

Makes me wish I could just take off and fly.

The "recommended further reading" sections at the end of each chapter/country are interesting too. I'll definitely be looking out for some of them.

[_slavo_]

William S. Burroughs - Junky
Henry Rollins - Black Coffee Blues

[cagedbird]

Fiction
Molloy -- Samuel Beckett
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- Mark Twain

Poetry
Lion Bridge -- Michael Palmer

[!@#$%!]

im browsing through a number of science fiction books i ot from he library yesterday, haven't decided on one to start yet

[fugazifan]

im still reading the same book that i have been reading for the past three months Tropic of Cancer.
never has a book brought me so much distress and joy all at once. i love it (and hate it)
i took a break from it the other day though and read The Stranger By Albert Camus which was brilliant!
next on my reading list is either, huck finn, heda gabler, or the divine comedy...

[Katy]

Gonna start re-reading some Vonnegut.

Not sure which one yet. Might just close my eyes, toss them all in the air and see which one smacks me in the head.

[cosmokramer]

I'm reading Brave New World for the first time. I'm a little over 100 pages in, I just finished the first chapter where they're in the savage land. It's pretty good so far.

[whorefrost]

Ecstatic Peace Poetry Journal #7

[candymoan]

hocus pocus - kurt vonnegut

i've been meaning to get my vonnegut collection started for a while, and about 3 weeks before his death, i found some..
re-reading "hocus pocus" and i hear the news..

so it goes.

[candymoan]