03.05.2009, 02:25 AM | #1821 |
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last sunday's new york times. i'm slow this week. i almost wrote "nothing", but there was a fun flannery o'connor article in the book section that needed to be mentioned.
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03.05.2009, 02:32 AM | #1822 |
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After reading Palahniuk's Haunted, which was preceded by Rant, I don't know what to turn to. Diggin transgressive stuff but want to get away from Palahnuik and fiction in general.
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03.05.2009, 02:34 AM | #1823 |
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i'd suggest picking up an issue of the new york review of books or the times literary supplement and seeing what smells good.
i used to love the NYRB but after 9/11 they started doing too much politics and the bush era was a nausea-inducing one. |
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03.05.2009, 02:37 AM | #1824 |
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03.05.2009, 03:16 PM | #1825 |
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Arthur C. Clarke - Childhood's End
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Just finishing the Talmud. Pretty inessential for a religious text, I have to say.
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03.06.2009, 12:08 AM | #1827 |
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03.07.2009, 10:37 PM | #1828 |
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03.07.2009, 11:49 PM | #1829 |
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Just finished Nick Hornby's last collection of 'What I'm Reading' columns for The Believer, "Shakespeare Wrote For Money". Got a few good book recs out of it.
Now trying to concentrate on finishing RD Laing's "The Divided Self", Primo Levi's "The Truce" and "Crooked Little Vein" by Warren Ellis. |
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03.08.2009, 12:53 AM | #1830 |
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It's alright. I'm looking much more forward to reading Thurston's No Wave book when I'm done though. |
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03.16.2009, 07:30 AM | #1831 |
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Finally just cracked into the Illuminatus Trilogy.
I'm about 45 pages into the eye in the pyramid. It took me a bit to get used to how much it jumps around but now I'm 'with it'. |
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03.16.2009, 09:44 AM | #1832 |
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been trying to get this for years. never fopund it. libary copy always checked out. bought it used on amazon yeah!!!!! so good. great stuff. I have wanted to read this ever since it came out David Hockney's SECRET KNOWLEDGE
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03.16.2009, 07:59 PM | #1833 |
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03.16.2009, 08:15 PM | #1834 |
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03.16.2009, 08:56 PM | #1835 |
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^'doors of perception' is great...im too bugged out to ever take mescalin, so i thank aldous for his account
^^i credit 'still life with woodpecker' with kick-starting my post-high school reading binge many moons ago...read 'jitterbug perfume' if you haven't...prob. my favorite robbins book, though i havent read him in a long time...and this jsut reminded me i met him at a book signing a few years back. nice, funny guy.
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03.16.2009, 09:16 PM | #1836 |
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I'm finishing up Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke tonight and will start reading Red Planet by Robert Heinlein.
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I finished Slaughterhouse-Five last night. It was okay-good. It didn't blow me away as I was led to believe it was. I shouldn't finished The Stranger (L'etranger) tonight.
Now, to decide what to start next, either Dubliners, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Porno, or Glue. I'm also going to pick up a copy of Gravity's Rainbow this week.
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