[atari 2600]

In the "Introduction to the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition," Pirsig states the following: "I suppose every writer dreams of the kind of success Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance has had in the past twenty-five years--rave reviews, millions of copies sold in twenty-three languages, a description in the press as 'the most widely read philosophy book, ever.' " [1]

That's fucked.

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Twain may have been different (similar is some ways too), than, say, Faulkner, but he is great in his own way. Poor guy was an atheist though.
I love The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and I'm sure Mr. Faulkner did as well. As did Bret Harte *& Flannery O' Connor probably.


Dickens is also great in his way. He's not Dostoevsky, but you just know he loved the Russian lit. (fantastic characters..Dickensian, even!)
In all of British 19th c. lit, what other prominent literary figures are there?
(there's) Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Austen, Fyodor fan Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (others I'm forgetting)
rtemembering some minor figures (should I i=nclude>>>???)
Spurgeon, who is a very noteworthy theologian.
hmm...
Shelley
oh..Lewis Carroll...Robert & Elizaberth (elizabteh um try again,) Elizabeth Barrett Browning,

A lot of these are very great (especially blake), but Dickens can hold his own with this crowd rather nicely.


Oh shit...ignore the tangent.

I'm not going anywhere. Letterman is on now. Much to fucked-up to go anywhere anyhow. Sonic Youth in the baja. Cloudy here, but the stars are out somewhere.

[atari 2600]

Hack author Anne Rice moved to La Jolla, CA, after Katrina to be near her son.
Although, La Jolla is a great place. Just the right size. Just too rich for my blood. Bear in mind that I live in Charlottesville, VA.

I grew up for the most part on the Mississippi Gulf Coast in Gulfport/Biloxi near New Orleans.

Got MS BLUES in my blood.

Love the Cajun cuisine. It's the best.

[atari 2600]

Me either. Although that book of short stories (mentioned previously) with the Stand by Me material in it is good. I checked it out from a library once a long time ago and read most of it. Stephen King uses some mental mad-lib technique.

Now he does editorials for Entertainment Weekly which are mostly entertaining, I confess, (primarily 'cause he's a nutty crank), but sometimes they are particularly very askew. In his feature for this week's issue, he leads-off by affirming that his favorite song right now is Amy Winehouse's "Rehab." Dorkus ignoramus. And you just know he's trying to be hip, at least a little bit, the poor, pathetic loser.

Who the hell has time for Amy Fucking Winehouse?
I don't know how the fuck someone like that even has an audience or dares to get in front of one. King or Winehouse.

Totally befuddled here.

[demonrail666]

Steinbeck's Cannery Row is something I love to read in the summer in the same way that Dickens is always perfect tucked up in bed on a freezing cold night.

[atari 2600]

freezing cold...yeah Dostoevsky and Dickens
argh
um
...
Can you imagine shamans in Siberia?
Talk about yr hardcore.

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i can sympathize about the boy band explosion timing-thing..ouch!
irrepairable damage, even
when will the political philosophers pay for their crimes?

yeeoow

[demonrail666]

LOL. This summer I think I'll take Crime and Punishment to the beach.

[SynthethicalY]

This Summer I will Read A Clockwork Orange, The Sorrows of Young Werther, and Maybe Crime and Punishment.

[demonrail666]

Originally Posted by SynthethicalY

This Summer I will Read A Clockwork Orange, The Sorrows of Young Werther, and Maybe Crime and Punishment.

Crime and Punishment whilst drinking a pina colada, with some salsa playing on your iPod.

[SynthethicalY]

HAHA, I will be working and Summer School.

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Crime & Punishment is the greatest work of fiction by any author, ever.

[demonrail666]

I don't want to start a whole thread on this, but just a sort of related question. Has anyone here ever actually managed to finish Don DeLillo's Underworld?

[atari 2600]

don't know the author or the book...the name sounds like I may have read it before though.

[luxinterior]

Originally Posted by Blatherskite

Nothing in music has ever stirred up my ire, though, more than N'Sync and Backstreet Boys. I wouldn't have so much of a problem in the now days, but you've got to understand that when they were big, I was in Middle School. That SUCKED!

On the contrary, it was awesome.

[atari 2600]

Oh shit, I just looked him up. My friend typset White Noise. Also Geek Love and a Lorca volume.

fuck the underlining

[atari 2600]

luxinterior, all empathies, but you probably even find something you like about the Bullet Boys.

[atari 2600]

=On the flip side, I watch Entourage.

[demonrail666]

White Noise is OK, but Underworld...sheesh.

Has the French author Michel Houellebecq hit the states at all? Atomised and Platform are definitely two of the best contemporary novels I've read in a long time.

[luxinterior]

Even I can do better than Bullet Boys. Honestly. What do you take me as? Some sort of tramp?

[Tokolosh]

Originally Posted by demonrail666

White Noise is OK, but Underworld...sheesh.

Has the French author Michel Houellebecq hit the states at all? Atomised and Platform are definitely two of the best contemporary novels I've read in a long time.

I enjoyed reading Atomised and The Possibility of an Island.
Don't know if I'd like his rapping though.