last sunday's new york times. i'm slow this week. i almost wrote "nothing", but there was a fun flannery o'connor article in the book section that needed to be mentioned.

After reading Palahniuk's Haunted, which was preceded by Rant, I don't know what to turn to. Diggin transgressive stuff but want to get away from Palahnuik and fiction in general.

And "transgressive" non-fiction sounds like bag of wank (perhaps literally?)

i'd suggest picking up an issue of the new york review of books or the times literary supplement and seeing what smells good.

i used to love the NYRB but after 9/11 they started doing too much politics and the bush era was a nausea-inducing one.

robinson crusoe

Arthur C. Clarke - Childhood's End

Just finishing the Talmud. Pretty inessential for a religious text, I have to say.

Just finished Nick Hornby's last collection of 'What I'm Reading' columns for The Believer, "Shakespeare Wrote For Money". Got a few good book recs out of it.

Now trying to concentrate on finishing RD Laing's "The Divided Self", Primo Levi's "The Truce" and "Crooked Little Vein" by Warren Ellis.

It's alright. I'm looking much more forward to reading Thurston's No Wave book when I'm done though.

Finally just cracked into the Illuminatus Trilogy.

I'm about 45 pages into the eye in the pyramid.

It took me a bit to get used to how much it jumps around but now I'm 'with it'.

been trying to get this for years. never fopund it. libary copy always checked out. bought it used on amazon yeah!!!!! so good. great stuff.

I have wanted to read this ever since it came out

David Hockney's SECRET KNOWLEDGE

^'doors of perception' is great...im too bugged out to ever take mescalin, so i thank aldous for his account

^^i credit 'still life with woodpecker' with kick-starting my post-high school reading binge many moons ago...read 'jitterbug perfume' if you haven't...prob. my favorite robbins book, though i havent read him in a long time...and this jsut reminded me i met him at a book signing a few years back. nice, funny guy.

I'm finishing up Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke tonight and will start reading Red Planet by Robert Heinlein.

Same. ('Jitterbug Perfume' is my favourite.)

And JEALOUS. I'd love to meet Tom Robbins. Cept I'd probably hug him to death.

I finished Slaughterhouse-Five last night. It was okay-good. It didn't blow me away as I was led to believe it was. I shouldn't finished The Stranger (L'etranger) tonight.

Now, to decide what to start next, either Dubliners, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Porno, or Glue. I'm also going to pick up a copy of Gravity's Rainbow this week.