Just finished re-reading A Clockwork Orange.

Am now about halfway into Schultz and Peanuts. Can't quite decide if I'm bored with it; there's just enough fascination with his life to keep me going, but it can get a little slow.

Have also been sporadically re-reading a so-so bio of James Dean from the 1970s by David Dalton.

For some reason, I've got it in my head that I want to re-read Rabbit, Run by John Updike, but I can't find my personal copy. A run to the library is in order.

I'm in the middle of Franny & Zooey now. Crime and Punishment is next on the list. There are so many of the classic books that I haven't read.

Currently reading Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. Next is Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut.

What is that? A biography? I picked up a book of plays by Harold Pinter at a bookstore once and read one, and it was so good I remembered his name, but I assumed he was relatively unknown so I never really looked him up.

Yeah, it's a biography that's just been updated and re-released after his death. He's a bit of a hero of mine.

Huh. I had really thought I stumbled upon some amazing obscure playwright at the time, but forgot about him until just now. I'm still going to have to read more of his stuff.

I bought Franny and Zooey and The Great Shark Hunt today. I'm going to finish the Sherlock Holmes stuff before I start those, which will take about 3 days.

Since his now infamous Nobel Prize acceptance speech just before his death his fame as a playwright has been largely eclipsed by his anti-War stance. But you still can't beat his plays like The Homecoming, The Dumb Waiter and The Birthday Party. That he died on Christmas Eve genuinely depressed me.

the wasteland by t.s. eliot

SRSLY

Ohhh!

well the economic collapse already came exactly like he predicted (its a 2006 book) but he's got long term strategies cuz things won't end here. HIGHLY recommended.

long story short: the dollar is going down the sewer, invest in gold, foreign stocks, etc.

(have you seen those ads of companies that offer to buy gold, on tv? they know what the fuck's up)

i picked up a couple of Isaac Asimov books yesterday, gonna start one of them tonight.

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, finished 3 stories tonight
I'm also going to start on this tonight:


List of books I have already purchased/have for near future reading:
The Great Shark Hunt-Hunter S. Thompson
Franny and Zooey-J.D. Salinger
Silence of the Lambs-Thomas Harris
Angels and Demons-Dan Brown

Books I'm trying to find at a decent price (I don't want to pay $20 for copy)
Atlas Shrugged-Ayn Rand
Good Omens-Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
something by Nietzsche

I just bought Rushdie's Midnight's Children and Marquez's 100 Years of Solitude. Add that to Absalom, Absalom! and this year's going to be a nice study in magic realism.

robert anton wilson "Illuminati papers"

guerilla ontology at it's finest.

I'm in the middle of Franny and Zooey right now. It's no Catcher In The Rye, but it's good.

I'll be starting on it as soon as I'm finished with Holmes, which means mid-week. I'm having trouble tracking down "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" and a decently priced copy of "Atlas Shrugged"

They should have trade paperback copies of all of Rand's stuff at chain bookstores. Granted, that's not the most relaxing way to read million-page books, and her posse throws a sheet of cardstock advertisement in the middle so that it will always open to that fucking page, even if you tear it out.

Fucking objectivists.

Yeah, I've found all but Atlas Shrugged at Borders or B&N. I really just want to find it at the used bookstore I have $24 trade credit at. It would be like $5 trade there.

Isn't Atlas Shrugged just Fountainhead Deluxe? I've heard they're pretty much the same. I can't stand her. I dunno.

I'm not sure. Oh well. I have this thing about long novels. I'll flip my shit if/when The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion gets published.

I couldn't do that. I feel like I get trapped in those, and have a harder time reading other stuff when I feel like I have another thing to finish. That would be a lifetime project.

Speaking of which, I almost picked up e.e. cummings's Eimi. It looks amazing. I didn't even know it existed.

I'm usually pretty good about reading several books at time. I'm hoping that for this semester I'll be able to keep up (mostly) reading 2 novels a time in English, along with one in French. I might have to cut that back to one in each language, but I'll give it a shot.

laugh if you must, but I just sat down and read this in under an hour and found it to be quite enjoyable.

finished Franny section.

bought these today:
The Prince - Machiavelli
Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
Fight Club - Chuck Palahnuik

The Franny section is good, and the Zooey section is great because it adds more explaination to why the the Franny section happened the way it did. It's almost genius :)

I just finished that two nights ago, now I am on Crime and Punishment.

Write a fiction about how to profit from it and sell it before it all comes tumbling down?

I'm going through all 6 volumes of Clive Barker's Books of Blood. Some truly twisted stuff going on here.

I'm writing a book called After the Crash: How to Make Oodles of Money from Other People's Misery after They Lose Everything.

^half-priced lottery tickets and weapons-grade liquor

Haha, yeh, and Wal-Mart discounts.

Richard Dawkins - The GOD Delusion

What's that like? I keep umming and ahhing whenever I see it in the bookshops.

I'm a little over halfway through Schulz. My God, that man raked in some dough!!!

It is a very interesting read man!

Mr. Dawkins is not a crackpot crank, even though his detractors claim so, and his writing is great. for athiests, he can crystallize a lot of the thoughts and ideas they may have but cannot put ino words. for theists, he gives food for thought, without outright indignation or insults.