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needfull things

Stephen King is one guy who couldn't write a decent ending to save his life. This book is a perfect example.

Beginning Dostoevsky's The Idiot today.
Just finished Ask the Dust - John Fante. A quick, pleasent read.

a bief history of time.
someone n this board mentioned it and sparked an interest.
its well difficult though.
quantum mechanics?

i loved that book. its really easy to read but his writing is fantastic. its almost like poetry! and his characters and dialogues are amazing. he was also a huge influence on bukowski

suck it, marras/.
4th time.

^Have you read Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream?

yes. it's sitting on my shelf of things to return to the library.

It just might be my favorite.

i've got the rum diary lying on top my TV i think but i haven't got down to reading it yet.

at the moment lots of things

foundation - isaac asimov
the idiot - dostoevsky
the electric kool-aid acid test - tom wolffe

Yeah. In the edition I have Bukowski writes the introduction and one of Bukowski's peoms, simpley titled Fante - I believe - is in the back of the book.
I liked his style as well and found Bandini to be easy to relate to.

at the moment i am trying to juggle masses of books at the same time, but essentially i am reading crime and punishment by dostoyevsky, junkie by burroughs, dharma bums by kerouac and i often dip into leaves of grass by walt whitman, i keep telling myself i should sit down and devourer the whole thing, but i never manage it. i guess i'm a lightweight. but i should really give it more attention from what i've read so far (its amazing).
oh yes, and something by thomas hardy for school. rock on.

Crime and Punishment should demand all your attention.

Today's Daily Telegraph.

Ugh. Quantum anything.. horrible, horrible. Doesn't bear reading about. I quite liked physics until it got to that bit.


I'm reading "Pride & Prejudice" by Jane Austen now. (Because they're showing the 1995 BBC mini-series on TV this week and I've been watching it and realized yesterday that I never finished reading the book. So I'm catching up.)

just finished ellis's informers,it was better than less than zero.

now im 52 pages into, last exit to brooklyn.

Confusion is Sex: The Sonic Youth Story- By Alec Foege

Characters of the Bus Industry.

Edmund White - The Married Man

currently, nothing. im almost done with needfull things by stephen king but i stopped reading it cause i got lost...

Patterns of Folklore - Hilda Ellis Davison

Heretics of Dune

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

i was reading bunbury's latest posts

good ones

Dune - Frank Herbert

Bukowski: Reach for the Sun: Selected Letters vol 3.

Lord of the Flies-William Golding

i've also been re-reading a strange spanish novel i found many years ago:

wikipedia!

On this day...

November 16:

 

• 1384 - Though she was a woman, Jadwiga was crowned "King of Poland".
• 1532 - Sapa Inca Atahualpa (pictured) was captured by Francisco Pizarro in the Battle of Cajamarca.
• 1885 - Louis Riel, Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and "Father of Manitoba", was executed for high treason.
• 1979 - The first line of the Bucharest Metro was opened in Bucharest, Romania.
• 2002 - Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) was first recorded in Guangdong, China.

edited, as the post I was commenting on has been deleted!

Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - David Hume (short but hefty. I actually just started this 15 minutes ago)
Desolation Angels - Jack Kerouac (It's alright. I enjoyed it more atop Desolation Peak, but once he gets down into the world his encounters aren't anything new)

A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album
by Ashley Kahn

Up next is a Miles Davis bio. I just love how this dude curses.

Here's a Miles quote from the Coltrane book
"Trane liked to ask all these motherfucking questions back then about what he should or shouldn't play. Man, fuck that shit; to me he was a professional musician and I have always wanted whoever played with me to find their own place in the music"

Im about to finish A Scanner Darkly


it was very good

Coupla books and bunch of articles on meth for a research paper on the effectiveness of Iowa's new pseudoephedrine law.

Sporadically, in down moments during this, Joe Sacco's But I Like It, a book of rocknroll comics which are pretty amusing. Book comes complete with a 4-song CD of The Miracle Workers live in Germany, circa 1988. What, never heard of The Miracle Workers? Well, neither had I until I picked this up. They had a really groovey sound. Very garagey like the Stooges, but with slightly more chops. They sound a little like Mudhoney, but heavier, more hard rock than grunge.

I bought this book in like 2nd grade and my dad wouldn't let me read it......the whole concept of the book was so awesome for my little mind!

I think I've heard of that book, is it any good?

I lost my copy.

"Mix Tape: The Art of Cassette Culture" - Thurston Moore

& I'm always reading..."A Seperate Reality: Further Conversations w/ Don Juan" - Carlos Castaneda

I am reading crappy BDSM porn by Anne Rice. It's called "The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty" (the first in an "erotic trilogy"). I don't know why I'm reading it. I hate Anne Rice's writing. And the BDSM is not turning me on at all.

I hate it when I start reading shitty books. I always feel compelled to finish them. And it always takes ages.