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Bunbury 06.19.2006 12:22 PM

what are you reading?
 
frankie and johnny were lovers!
oh lordy how they could love...

i just finished tif findleys, the last of the crazy people.
you?

Grete 06.19.2006 12:33 PM

short story of Checov, I like them

whorefrost 06.19.2006 12:36 PM

i'm currently juggling Cock and Bull by Will Self and Death on the Instalment Plan by Louis Ferdinand Celine

Hip Priest 06.19.2006 01:46 PM

The Cheshire Grand Jury 1625 - 1659, A Social and Administrative Study by J.S. Morrill

Trasher02 06.19.2006 02:00 PM

Lord of the rings - Fellowship of the ring

I finally started reading.

krastian 06.19.2006 02:01 PM

Lee's Road Movies....just got it and Ambient Loop for Vancouver is really good too.

jon boy 06.19.2006 02:02 PM

the rules of attraction

finding nobody 06.19.2006 02:04 PM

 


and i just bought lee's 1980s journals

screamingskull 06.19.2006 02:06 PM

today i read Optic Nerve issues 3,5,6, and 7 by Adrian Tomine. I bought them off ebay, they are fantastic i only have to get 8 & 9 and i will have the complete collection.

sonicl 06.19.2006 02:07 PM

Right now? The Sonic Youth fan forum. Sorry, if I hadn't said it someone else would've.

Bookwise? Carl Hiassen's "Stormy Weather".

FruitLoop 06.19.2006 02:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Grete
short story of Checov, I like them


... about Chekov, I encountered this today.... funny.

afterthefact 06.19.2006 02:31 PM

Neil Gaiman - Smoke and Mirrors... good stuff, good stuff...

A Thousand Threads 06.19.2006 02:34 PM

at the moment
Naomi Klein - No Logo
Merylin French - Women
some Kafka Stories & some Lovecraft

Magublafix 06.19.2006 02:34 PM

The Fall - Albert Camus

Alex's Trip 06.19.2006 02:36 PM

I have to read these books as summer homework for my English Class next year

A Seperate Peace-John Knowels
The Good Earth-Pearl Buck
Silas Marner-George Elliot

umjammer atomsk 06.19.2006 02:47 PM

The Count of Monte Cristo

RIPfrey05 06.19.2006 02:52 PM

"Waldon"

screamingskull 06.19.2006 02:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alex's Trip
Silas Marner-George Elliot



that book couldent suck anymore if it tried!!!!!!!!!!!!, i had to read that for english lit a few years ago. although it might not be so bad out of the classroom environment which seems to make everything a hell of alot more boring! either way you have my sympathy.

LifeDistortion 06.19.2006 02:55 PM

Nothing and I'm getting rather sick of it, by the way what's the deal with the SY Book Club? Has the second book been picked yet?

h8kurdt 06.19.2006 02:56 PM

William Blake-Songs of innocence and experiance

After this i'll start Ghost World which i'm looking forward to.

screamingskull 06.19.2006 03:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by h8kurdt
After this i'll start Ghost World which i'm looking forward to.



FUCK YEAH!!!!!!:) ;) :p , im so glad that you bought it!!!!!, it arrived pretty fast didn't it, you only ordered in on like monday didn't you?

h8kurdt 06.19.2006 03:02 PM

I certainly did. You pay for service (£4). I looked at the first page, noticed the Sonic Youth reference that makes it great already.

screamingskull 06.19.2006 03:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by h8kurdt
I certainly did. You pay for service (£4). I looked at the first page, noticed the Sonic Youth reference that makes it great already.


i'd thought you'd like that:) , thats why i didn't tell you, didn't want to ruin it for you.

chuck norris 06.19.2006 03:16 PM

mmm, i have to think....

R.K. Rowling - Harry Potter (i am always three years behind on everybody)
J. Cale - What's Welsh for Zen? (autobiography)
P. Roth - ???
James Joyce - Dubliners
?? - An introduction to the Brain (scientific book about neuroscience, good stuff, I can really recommend this)

And I like books/articles about culture theory and cultural behavior, and things like that.

umjammer atomsk 06.19.2006 03:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by h8kurdt
After this i'll start Ghost World which i'm looking forward to.


I just bought a copy of it two weeks ago, yay Daniel Clowes! I'm trying to track down A Velvet Glove but I think I'll have to order it from amazon.

h8kurdt 06.19.2006 03:20 PM

*waits for screamingskulls rant about how great Clowes is*

screamingskull 06.19.2006 03:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by h8kurdt
*waits for screamingskulls rant about how great Clowes is*


ha ha ha ha ha, you know me too well!:p

bytheriver 06.19.2006 03:24 PM

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Astonishing X Men volume 1 by Joss Whedon

screamingskull 06.19.2006 03:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by umjammer atomsk
I just bought a copy of it two weeks ago, yay Daniel Clowes! I'm trying to track down A Velvet Glove but I think I'll have to order it from amazon.


'like a velvet glove cast in iron' is not the way to go if you have only ever read Ghost World by Daniel Clowes, trust me, you are better off checking out 'David Boring', it is a better one to get next, then 'ice haven'.

'Like a velvet glove cast in iron' is very very very odd, and not really anything like Ghost World, nothing Daniel Clowes ever wrote before or after Ghost world is anything like ghost world.

trust me get David Boring!

David Boring is kinda odd, quite confusing but still has that sad seculded feeling you get from Ghost World. after reading 'Like a velvet glove' all i could think was what the hell aws he on when he wrote this, its is completely screwed. 'ice haven' has that nice ghost world feel to it too, but nothing Clowes has done has topped Ghost World in my opinion.

It is also definately definately worth checking out Adrian Tomine's comics, he has a drwing style exactly the same as Clowes'es, i cant tell them apart, but Tomine's work is alot more truthfull and sad. It mainly focuses on teenagers and young adults from the same generation (generation X) as enid and rebecca's in ghost world. so if you are searching for something similar to Ghost World then i suggest not something by Clowes but by Tomine.

good comics by Adrian Tomine are-
Summerblonde
The Optic Nerve series - there are 10, you cant find them on amazon, but you will be able to get them individually on ebay. And "32 storys:the complete Optic Nerve series" is not in fact the optic nerve series but rough drawings and serieses that did not make it into the actual proper series.

gmku 06.19.2006 03:45 PM

Mix Tape: the Art of Cassette Culture

Perfect Sound Forever: the Story of Pavement

This Must be the Place: Adventures of Talking Heads in the 20th Century

screamingskull 06.19.2006 03:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gmku
Mix Tape: the Art of Cassette Culture


i want this!, is it anygood?

umjammer atomsk 06.19.2006 03:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by screamingskull
'like a velvet glove cast in iron' is not the way to go if you have only ever read Ghost World by Daniel Clowes, trust me, you are better off checking out 'David Boring', it is a better one to get next, then 'ice haven'.

'Like a velvet glove cast in iron' is very very very odd, and not really anything like Ghost World, nothing Daniel Clowes ever wrote before or after Ghost world is anything like ghost world.

trust me get David Boring!


I read Ice Haven in the store. It was great, I'll probably buy it after I get his other works. Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron seemed really interesting to me due to the fact that it was strange/messed up. I'll go with David Boring as my next purchase if you so wish though. I'm a bit tight on the green so that's why I'm not buying them all at once like I would like to.

luxinterior 06.19.2006 03:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chuck norris
mmm, i have to think....

R.K. Rowling - Harry Potter (i am always three years behind on everybody)


It's J.K. Rowling, and the "three years" part is more like a decade.

I don't know what will be left for me to do after Book 7 comes out. It's like I won't have anything to live for. I love Harry Potter.

screamingskull 06.19.2006 03:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by umjammer atomsk
I read Ice Haven in the store. It was great, I'll probably buy it after I get his other works. Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron seemed really interesting to me due to the fact that it was strange/messed up. I'll go with David Boring as my next purchase if you so wish though. I'm a bit tight on the green so that's why I'm not buying them all at once like I would like to.


i just saved up for a while then bought them all at once from amazon, you wont find them cheaper than on amazon.
i still dont have all of them though, i need to get '20th centuary 8 ball' and 'caricature' then i have the whole Daniel Clowes collection.
although there are a few very rare ones out there like 'Orgy bound' which is about £300.00 on amazon. don't think i will be getting that one anytime soon.

gmku 06.19.2006 03:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by screamingskull
i want this!, is it anygood?


It's pretty cool. Nothing too heavy, just a good fun read. Interesting to look at the variety of examples people gave Thurston to include in the book. People did cool things with cassette covers, too, sort of collage artsy covers.

I've actually made a couple mix tapes based on a couple of the example compilations in the book. The book has inspired me to start making mix tapes (yes, as in cassette, not CDR) again. There's something about having a side A and a side B that's very satisfying.

Everyneurotic 06.19.2006 04:11 PM

just finished rereading lexicon devil.

now it's american hardcore for the 569th time.

schizophrenicroom 06.19.2006 04:14 PM

JPod- Douglas Coupland. It's pretty funny. I love Coupland.

screamingskull 06.19.2006 04:15 PM

umjammer atomsk, i found some good pages from Adrian Tomines Optic Nerve series so that you can see what its like. i also just read an interview with him and he said that he send his comics to Danile Clowes before he prints them to get his imput.

 


 


 

luxinterior 06.19.2006 04:17 PM

Angry boy with Rancid shirt.

toxic johnny 06.19.2006 04:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bytheriver
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

I love this book...

At the moment I'm reading The Gospel Singer by Harry Crews.


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