I might read Huck Finn then, thanks.
I've read two chapters in Scarlet Letter and already I'm bored. Nothing really happens. Hawthorne is being descriptive, but it's like he's not describing anything....can't really explain it. Hope it gets better, though.

now I'm reading paul auster's mr. vertigo... but hmm... don't like it that much honestly...

The Skills to Pay the Bills: The Story of the Beastie Boys

& Locas (the graphic novel)

Huck Finn is excellent. Better than Tom Sawyer.

Kusheisi - The Buddha Of Suburbia
J. Joyce - Dubliners
S. Bellow - Herzog
and a biography of Iggy Pop (Gimme Danger) which is no fun.

good book. i'm reading breakfast of champions

Paul Has a Summer Job by Michel Rabagliati

Finally finished Scarlet Letter. It took much longer than it should have.
Tomorrow I'll begin Fathers and Sons by Turgenev, which I'm looking forward to and hope it's a good read.
I'm also on and off with Waldan and Leaves of Grass - Whitman is becoming my favorite poet.

I don't understand why everyone hates the Scarlet Letter. I didn't think it was that bad. I thought it was pretty engaging compared to other high school reading. On the other hand, I thought To Kill a Mockingbird was boring as hell. Whatever. I don't generally like Americana at all. Scarlet Letter seemed to have a relatively "exotic" feel to it that kept me from classifying it as such, I guess.

I just don't like Hawthorne because everything is a fucking metaphor.

Next up: David Boring & Lost Girl

^^daniel clowes??

I loved Scarlet Letter, it's just so DARK. I think it makes a difference if you are forced to study a book at school, I read Scarlet letter through choice.

i remeber getting all excited to read austers new york trilogy, but it was quite the let down as well.

For David Boring, yes.

Lost Girls is by an English artist by the name of Nabiel Kanan.

I'm reading Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein.

I agree. And in whole pages nothing seemed to happen. I would find myself skipping a whole page and Hawthorne would still be describing the same scene or person - not just that, but hte same feeling the person was having. I found that pretty irritating. It wasn't complete shit, though.
To Kill a Mockingbird was my least favorite book school's required so far. I might have been, though, that at the time the book was assigned, I was reading the Brother's Karamazov, and I just found TKAMB dull in comparisn.

"There is no there there."

Stein's a fun read.

Carlos Castaneda "The Second Ring of Power"

Edward Abbey, "The Monkeywrench Gang." Very cool so far...