[evollove]

Originally Posted by atari 2600

Upon first reading "The Myth of Sisyphus" in my late teens I immediately set to work on and wrote a Kierkegaard-infused essay that made Camus look rather foolish and embittered.

Originally Posted by atari 2600

Kierkegaard is known as "The Father of Existentialism" and he's both a philosopher and theologian.

I won't even attempt to explain further because it would go right over your impatient head, and besides you've made up your obstinate mind anyway.

You're thinking* of the French (so-called) Existentialists who came later, e.g., Sartre and Camus.

*if you can call what you do "thinking" at all.

Genius!

[gmku]

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

[Pookie]

Originally Posted by gmku

Joan Didion's White Album.

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?

[gmku]

Yes, it's a keeper.

[drrrtyboots]

 

[afterthefact]

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.

[touch me i'm sick]

sirens of titan

[Hip Priest]

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).

[Alex's Trip]

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Everyneurotic]

 

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.

[Alex's Trip]

Good book, Neuromancer.

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

[samuel]

What is the What

[Alex's Trip]

Originally Posted by samuel

What is the What

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

[samuel]

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

[Dead-Air]

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.

[atari 2600]

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?

[Alex's Trip]

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

[Everyneurotic]

here's what i'm reading:

 

[drrrtyboots]

 

[Sonic Youth 37]

I plan to finish Ulysses either Sunday or Monday.