Oh, did I tell you guys that I read "Play it as it Lays" by Joan Didion and thought it was a really good book? If not: I read "Play it as it Lays" by Joan Didion and I think it is a really good book!

Reading The Green Child by Herbert Read. Only novel he wrote. so far so weird.

Andrzej Szapkowski - The Witcher

i just read this autobiographical bit in the newspaper:

http://wapo.st/1cpQHnR

it great! reads like a short story.

ooh ooh! i didn't like it as much as the last thing he wanted, but it's still classic didion. her prose is even tenser than her non fiction, i think, it almost makes me squirm.

So I start reading Elmore Leonard's Stick. I get a chapter in and I'm thinking I love this but I have to stop because whenever I read him I become a lazy fucker and only want to read him, and drink, and listen to crap 80s Rock music.

just spent a chunk of the morning reading

THE RISE & FALL OF THE SILK ROAD

http://www.wired.com/2015/04/silk-road-1/
http://www.wired.com/2015/05/silk-road-2/

fascinating stuff. like a real-life breaking bad. part 2 has its clunky moments, as it recaps aspects of part 1 for readers who waited for the installment. but still, i impossible to put down.

Finished Herbert Read's The Green Child, http://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2015/0...-were-not.html

and will be starting in on the last volume of Joseph Campbell's The Masks of God, titled Creative Mythology

picked the texts for my oral exam:

a bunch of short stories by Kate Chopin
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
The Crying Lot of 49 by Thomas Pynchon

Now I just have to read them all ...

edit:
and I am reading this for class right now:

some of the best shit wired's done in a while. what a swashbuckling story.

Returned about a dozen books to the library yesterday. A winter's worth of reading.

Renewed Nabokov's Lectures on Literature. Due date: May 24, 2016. Aren't college libraries wonderful!

YES. i wanna read that book again!

I'm sure this'll go down like a ton of bricks, but hey it's what I'm reading.



Decided to give this another read. I dunno, I think it's one of my fav autobiographies out there. Great book.

Im reading my obituary

Masks Of God is epic good, my fav is Oriental.. though Occidental talks a lot about Christianity and i especially like how Primitive discusses how human sacrifice was replaced by symbolic rituals..

Arnold is as much a self-made success as ANYONE in US History. Sounds like a cool read.

This one will be cool too. I like how it deals with how personal revelation, and personal experience of LOVE usurped the dogma of the organized church. Heavy stuff.

Primitive was AMAZING

I absorb masks so quickly i can read one volume in a lazy afternoon and not miss a single pouint, and i exchange dialogue with the text like a conversation

Yeah you've gotta give him credit where it's due there. I've read A LOT of biographies. Mostly music biogs, but also including sports etc. Most of them are the same (especially music ones). Band start out as best friends, get famous, fuck a load of people, play for millions of people, do loads of drugs, start getting addicted to drugs, become miserable, make shit albums, sober up, they talk about stuff no on really cares about at the end, then fin. Same old, same old.

Arnie's is different, 3 vastly different careers (The best body builder at the time, biggest movie star in the world, then two term governor) done to stupid levels of success with a whole load of other stuff in between. I dig it and t be honest he's a pretty big inspiration for me. Again, I know that's pretty much anathema to the punk rock/art scene i'm in, but whatever.