I'm planning on borrowing that from a friend pretty soon.

bumping to stop all of crypto's shit...

at first i thought it was a bit stupid but it has since picked up and i'm liking it.

I picked up The Naked and the Dead at the library today. Anybody familiar?

elephant and other stories by Raymond Carver.

Not read anything by him b4, but thought i'd explore as H.Murakami seems to cite hime alot and after reading this i can see why, gonna track down the rest of his stuff..

I'm reading that now (see: last page)

I'm really going at a snails pace though. I'm on page 102. THere are a lot of really great parts, but then a lot of the stuff drags.

Don Quixote.

More than two-thirds through Pattern Recognition. Very sympathetic protagonist considering my similar nameplusinitial screen name and own, though less severe, allergy to trademarks. Fortunately no techno/business intrigue.

The part with the asian porn that she found on the history of her computer scared me. That would freak me out.

John Barth - The Floating Opera. I'm actually getting pretty tired of this overly self conscious post modern stuff. Vonnegut is one of the few authors in that style who I'm not sick of. I'm moving onto Graham Greene next. Probably the Comedians.

It does drag, more than I thought it would. I'm around the 100 page mark, too. I might not make it all the way through.

Life's too short to read boring books.

Great book cover! I could develop a fetish about buying new copies of the books I love with new cool covers.

well, to be honest, I'm reading that in Czech edition. The cover is pretty interesting too though:

Definitely. When I get to page 300 (which could take ages), I'll decide if I don't want to keep reading it or not.

City of Thieves by David Benioff

Raymond Carver is the man....one of my favorite writers. One of my creative writing teachers got me into him when I was in college.


I highly recommend getting this:

Right now I'm reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

And at some thrift stores, I bought these books:

The Complete Plays of Aristophanes
Brave New World - Huxley
Much Ado About Nothing - Shakespeare
Hamlet - Shakespeare
A Room With a View - EM Forster
The Nature of Emotion - some random psychology book that looked cool

the sorrows of young werther

I fucking love Raymond Carver.

The Human Zoo by Desmond Morris

...errr...i mean...



about halfway through, pretty awesome so far.

breakfast of champions was great, i didn't think i would like it but it turned out to be a great read.

Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett

just finished:

-the ten commandments for business failure, by don keough


good book, funny, & very sharp notions; though not "original", usefully put together, and a quick read

-hellblazer, fear & loathing by garth ennis

it was alright. i should have started with vol. 1 to "get" the characters

-fables, vol 2: animal farm, bill willingham + mark buckingham

fun stuff

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currently reading:

hari hari rama rama
ha ha no-- it's ok...

the september 8th issue of the new yorker:

(see cover here-- i can't post 5 pictures, blagh)

and a bunch of other magazines

reallllyyyy good so far

I Just Finished Ulysses!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

?!
So you're glad you've finished it because it's boring and pointless?

i finished watchmen, fucking hell!!!! what a story!!!! the last two chapters, wow!!!

now starting:

watchmen is the shiznite...i just finished 'a brief introduction to literary theory'...now its time to cleanse my brain with something with a bit more zing...calvin and hobbes maybe

I'm reading Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II by J.M. Coetzee. Not as good as Boyhood - it's rather boring actually, but I have to finish it.

Read Diary of a bad year by Coetzee which was ok, currently reading :-

Out of the Alleyway, Nakagami Kenji and the poetics of Outcaste Fiction by Eve Zimmerman.

I need to start watchmen. its lying around for two weeks now...

currently: Naked Lunch

just read: Child of God by C McCarthy

inferno

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Legally Dead by Edna Buchanan

This was my favorite of his. So so good.