i just started The Air Conditioned Nightmare-By Henry Miller
i just read the 15 page preface and its pretty good stuff. he is an amazing writer, i hope the rest of the book is as good!

I've wanted to read some Henry Miller, but I've read that when he begins philosophizing it gets quite dry. (I believe I read that in a Bukowski poem.)

Thomas Wolfe- Look Homeward, Angel

I stumbled across a bunch of Kerouac novels and journals and bio's at a secondhand book store today. Bought half of them and will buy the rest weekly.

Also among the books I found were 2 Charles Bukowski: Letter vol 1 & 2.
Also some Ginsberg.

Great finds.

i want to hold a howl party but i dont know how to go about doing it.

Neuromancer-William Gibson.

Next week, I think I'm gonna start reading the Tale of Two Cities for English.

Murakami - Wind-Up-Bird. or whatever it's called in the English translation.

Celine's influence seems to be pretty widespread. This novel's quite modern for it's time.

Nova Express by William S. Burroughs.

I'm reading "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson and "Wonderland Avenue" by Danny Sugerman. (Learning all about neatrons, protons, Iggy Pop and heroin.)

I've started reading more than one book at a time. Something I NEVER used to do. I don't know if it's a good thing or not.

I read "The Consolations of Philosophy" and "Status Anxiety" by Alain de Botton last week. I liked the Montaigne chapter of the first, only some of the latter.

i never read more than one book at a time. i can't consciously focus on more than one.

Me either.

Speaking of modern novels, though (my other post), can someone reccomend some? 50's or so and up.
I'm stuck in the past. I haven't read a novel that wasn't written before the 50's in some time and I hardly know any good authors in the latter 20th century. (I have read the quite obvious ones like On the Road, Fear and Loathing and the such)
Reccomendations will be much appreciated.
Oh yeah, any genre.

Orwells 1984.

Read it like 5 times now. Can't get enough.

Ways of Seeing- John Berger

a collection of Philip K. Dick short stories
Count Zero by William Gibson
and some stories for my Sci-fi/Fantasy Lit class

Charles Bukowski: Selected letters 1960s-1970s (Living on Luck vol.2)

And have been contemplating for a few weeks now to start one of the many Kerouac novels I bought.

Posts.

Just finished Bram Stoker's "Dracula" will start either Dostovesky's "House of the Dead" or Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure".

i have wanted to read this for a while now is it any good at all?

How was it? I actually picked up a copy of this last week, but have yet to get around to reading it.

i actually like that book a lot.

I take it it's good then.
That is, if I can trust cantankerous's opinion.

well i don't know, what color dress should i have worn last night, red or green?

Umm? I'd say green.

Has anyone read "Tale of Two Cities"? Any good?

then you can trust my opinion, because we share one.

Huh, so you were going somewhere with that.
Fine. I take it's a good book and I look forward to reading it.

It's alright. I was a bit disappointed, personally. (But it was better than "The Consolations Of Philosophy".) I think Alain de Botton just quotes other people too much and doesn't have enough of a sense of humour for me. His writing style is nothing special, he just knows a lot and can quote it. He's a great researcher, I'll give him that.

I did enjoy the final chapter on "Bohemia" though.. but mostly for the subject matter (rather than his prose or his insight into the subject.)

"Dracula" is a good read. A lot of people may not like it as its written in a series of letters but I just read it like it was a first person narrative. I saw the Francis Ford Copolla film years before and its a bit difficult to not think of it, but over all its a good book. Definately a must read, its a classic.

a collection of short stories by h.p. lovecraft

it was assigned reading for me in eighth grade and i could barely penetrate the crazy wording. i was convinced Dickens just made up his own grammar rules. i imagine it would be significantly easier to read now.

other than that, it was a pretty good story.

School books. Reading for fun is so last year.

Since reading for school is so cool.

Not cool but fucking required. I don't want to fail.

Since not failing school is so cool.

I know. Amounting to something is so underrated.

i have a GED, you cunt.

We all know picking up trash is the coolest.

Now post a picture to make up for that insult.