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.