Well, I'm about 50 pages into A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis and I highly recommend it. It's really hitting the spot right now because I have several good friends who are lawyers or in law school. It has annotations online!:

http://www.williamgaddis.org/frolic/index.shtml

I'm reading Samuel Beckett's Malloy. If I like it (and I do so far) I'll read Malone Dies and The Unnamable.

Those books are awesome!!! My sig comes from Beckett. I love him.

the joke
unbearable lightness of being
unthinkable thoughts of jacob green
some gossip girl book

I have a habit of having like five books on the go at once. Right now I'm reading:
Carpenter's Gothic-William Gaddis
Vermilion Sands-J.G. Ballard
Don Quixote
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy-Lawrence Sterne

Just Finished:
The Atrocity Exhibition-J.G. Ballard
Vineland-Thomas Pynchon
Blood and Guts in High School-Kathy Acker

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll (in one book)
Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder

Is it the one annotated by Martin Gardner? If not, you should check it out.

Might I ask what book/play/whatever else that quote is from?

It's from Malone Dies.

well, i is an imperialistic empire, whether lula says so or not, im afraid. plus consider his socialist roots. did you know lula wanted to tax the arms trade to fight hunger? a brilliant idea which was of course ignored by the powers that be. another plus for me is that he appointed gilberto gil as minister of culture.


well chavez is a fucking jackass im afraid, and the only reason he can do it is because hate oil money-- which morales doesn't have. about chile, i dont know about "icy relations", i only need to look at the abundance of chilean grapes in the supermarket to know that all is well there.


well clinton neglected it a bit to engage other endeavors, but bush has really fucked it up. do you know however the colon powell was in peru on september 11? perhaps things would have gone differently if not for the criminally stupid response bush had to the attacks.


wow, wow, brother, we might be confusing our cast of characters here. shit fell apart in argentina under menem and de la rua, & still reeling under duhalde. if anything kirschner has pulled argentina successfully out of the financial hellhole where it was. lemme link ya: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argenti...281999-2002%29


ha ha ha, i hear ya... our local dmv thinks that alaska is not part of the u.s.a....

It is, actually. Quite empowering and enlightening in this current climate of fear. Many of the women writing about their travels have travelled completely alone, many to some very (so-called) hostile places. And found themselves welcomed warmly.

Makes me wish I could just take off and fly.

The "recommended further reading" sections at the end of each chapter/country are interesting too. I'll definitely be looking out for some of them.

William S. Burroughs - Junky
Henry Rollins - Black Coffee Blues

Fiction
Molloy -- Samuel Beckett
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- Mark Twain

Poetry
Lion Bridge -- Michael Palmer

im browsing through a number of science fiction books i ot from he library yesterday, haven't decided on one to start yet

im still reading the same book that i have been reading for the past three months Tropic of Cancer.
never has a book brought me so much distress and joy all at once. i love it (and hate it)
i took a break from it the other day though and read The Stranger By Albert Camus which was brilliant!
next on my reading list is either, huck finn, heda gabler, or the divine comedy...

Gonna start re-reading some Vonnegut.

Not sure which one yet. Might just close my eyes, toss them all in the air and see which one smacks me in the head.

I'm reading Brave New World for the first time. I'm a little over 100 pages in, I just finished the first chapter where they're in the savage land. It's pretty good so far.

Ecstatic Peace Poetry Journal #7

hocus pocus - kurt vonnegut

i've been meaning to get my vonnegut collection started for a while, and about 3 weeks before his death, i found some..
re-reading "hocus pocus" and i hear the news..

so it goes.

Currently Reading:
The Death and Life of Great American Cities- Jane Jacobs.

Future Reading:
My Mother: Demonology- Kathy Acker
Notebooks of a Naked Youth- Billy Childish

Currently reading Recollections of a Golden Triangle by Alain Robbe-Grillet.

the secret history.

Nothing.
And I've never been more proud.

Batman: Dark Victory

Cued up: Batman: The Long Halloween

I also have Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas tucked in my bag, but I keep forgettting to pull it out and open the damned thing. It would be a re-read.

oh my,
"The Golden Triangle of the title refers to a bizarre sex cult that requires a steady supply of adolescent girls for sacrifice. The sordid tale is narrated by a kidnapper who passes himself off as a mad doctor who revels in slicing off the clothes of his prey ("I slit the golden dress axially with a single stroke of the scalpel"). He muses, "No sooner have I opened the paper at the sex-crimes page than I feel a flush come to my cheeks," and offers recurring images of "golden pubic fleece," "the black triangle of fleece," "the incipient fleece" and the "Titian-red pubis."


I've always wanted to read that, Are you enjoying it?

whys that?

I meant to type Recollections of THE Golden Triangle. That's the actual title. It isn't that kinky so far and the last book I read by the same author (Djinn) wasn't kinky at all. I had no idea, honest!

Reading constantly takes away from one's own thoughts. It only likens thoughts to what is read.

I will read The Man Who Was Thursday over the summer when I don't have all this class reading to do.

But what I am reading right now:
Metaphysics - Aristotle
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison - Foucault
Critique of Pure Reasion - Immanuel Kant (yet again)

it's true, reading can be a form of addiction/evasion. a lot better than tv though, unless you're talking danielle steel (sp?) & such other pap.

Recently finished:


Currently reading:


Anyone care to share some thoughts on these books, if indeed you have read them?

Just finished True Blood by Mike McQuay and now about to start the sequel Mother Earth. He was a working class guy, turned science fiction writer, who never made much money writing and died young. He was incredibly prophetic in some of his ideas though. In the early '80s he wrote Jitterbug which predicted a future world conquered by Islamic extremists, and in these books he deals with a world gone post-apocolypse not from nuclear war, but from global warming and genetic engineering. Pretty amazing, since he wrote the books in 1985 in the heighth of the Reagan years when nukes were the only civilization destroyer in most SF lit.

The List of Seven by Mark Frost. My English teacher let me borrow because we were talking about Twin Peaks the other day, and he remembered he had the book.

Just finished these:



I'm now reading:

and, I'm about to start:

Oh man. House of Leaves was a truly amazing book. I loved it.

I want to get house of leaves, but by the time I go to a bookstore, my funds are already depleted.

My brain is fucked just by flipping through it!

I didn't think House of Leaves was as great as everyone says it is, but I did enjoy it quite a bit.

I'm reading Gravity's Rainbow at the moment.

I am reading Memory Babe.

i'm rereading Leaves of Grass.
Novelwise i'm reading 100 years of solitude by gabriel garcia marquez