started reading baudrillard's book about the gulf. quite hilarious, but basically legitimate.

Virilio's desert screen is probably a good place to go if you enjoy Baudrillard on the gulf. Personally, I think both are unmitigated tripe, but that's not to say you won't.

Read a book called Finding Alaska. It was in the bargain bin for $5 and bought it on a whim and it was fantastic. Young writer. Would like to read more of his stuff.

Going to start reading Collapse by Jared Diamond.

valley of the dolls ...again

I want to read that book, Valley of the Dolls.

Currently reading Great Sky River by Gregory Benford, which is much better than the somewhat cheesy title.

go to the fucking library and get it

I owe the library, which reminds me I need to pay that fee.

how much is your fee?

50 dollars.

Well after watching Trainspotting the other night I decided to read the book which looks like this



I'm curious, have anyone who isn't from not-so Great Britain read this, if so, did you struggle with it?

Anyway to put simply FUCKING BRILLIANT BOOK!

Crime & Punishment

Good book and I know at least Atari will agree with me. I personally preferred Notes from underground but it's still great. Have you read any of his other stuff?

^^ a very funny book! oh yes: hilarious similes... i'll post a sample later

and also

the age of innocence

Not yet, but once I get through the pile of books waiting on my dresser, I'll have read Notes, actually. I bought it a couple weeks ago, and it's waiting there for me to finish [this], the complete "trilogy of five" Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, and Nietzsche's Twilight of the Idols + The Antichrist (in one book).

In my opinion it has, next to the Outsider, the best opening line in any book EVER. I smell a new thread!

Not read any of old Nieztsche boy yet but I do know one thing. His name is a fucking bitch to write.

hahaha I've been spelling it over and over lately (he's come up a lot in internet discussions.
Nietzsche, Nietzsche, Nietzsche, Nietzsche, Nietzsche.
I haven't read much of his work yet either, aside from a bunch of poems/bits of books at work (I work in a book store). Really, REALLY awersome stuff, I'd say to look into him if yr into philosophy, but also poetry and just all-around great writing.

See now this is the thing *rant alert* I can never find myself able to completly read a philosphical book. It feels, to me, like one massive drone and it feels that they're basically saying "these are my ideas now accept them" and I can't bloody well answer back disagreeing or agreeing with the writer so I just get all angry and flustered (man that sounded camp) and just throwing the book aside but I will give Nietcheese a try.

American Splendor

just read the power and the glory by graham greene
now i am reading
justine by the marquis de sade
also reading poetry by blake and rimbaud

reading more plays:
Angels In America
Spring Awakening (both versions)
Fuddy Meers

I'm reading a whole mess of things for college, but I'm thinking about reading Gravity's Rainbow again.

Is anyone else here into Pynchon? I'm wondering if I should read Mason and Dixon or Against the Day first, but it'll be a while since school doesn't leave me much time to read for fun.

Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney.

funeral rites by jean genet, i'd recommend it.

Myth Today-Barthes.

a book of short stories by truman capote. i had forgotten how much i prefer the breakfast at tiffany's story to the movie.

Ham on Rye by Bukowski.

Very good, although rather depressing.

Still...

how is that book? the title of his first novel was so aggravating i never picked it up. actually i did. the first pages didn't impress me, so i chucked it back to the pile.

which reminds me, i have to go to the library & supermarket #2.

see you later.

Almost painfully, but with much anticipation still, Hegel's Phenomenology of the Spirit.
Just a sort of prelude to my rereading it and maybe understanding it.

Having read, I think, all of his books available in English, I'd say this was his best. He's an awesome writer, I always entirely forget how brilliant he is. If you've not read Bataille yet I can't recommend him highly enough. In a similar vein, but darker.


I admire you for trying. I can't think of anyone I've met that happily says they've got that book... bearing in mind that, unlike a lot of people, I know about 30-odd who've tried. It's a fucking monster of pain. Which reminds me, must batter my head against it again at some point in the future.

I'm dipping in and out of Kant's 3rd Critique and Deleuze's 1000 plateaus with a side-order of re-reading Homer for my lunch breaks.

You know, I've been reading some music theory of antiquity lately. I can't recommend this more--it's fucking enlightening and downright hilarious.

For example: Cleonides, Aristides Quintilianus, Boethius, Hucbald, Guido of Arezzo, etc.

how is this?
i've just finished his 2007 book "tree of smoke" - it's a really stunning and impressive novel.

I just started Odds Are Murder by the late Mike McQuay. It's part of his Mathew Swain, 21st Century Private Detective series that put Raymond Chandleresqe formulas into a science fiction setting. Almost parody in it's cliches, but always fun. And no, his 21st Century isn't this one, but it's not too different from what Ridley Scott made famous in Blade Runner.

also this