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