Go Back   Sonic Youth Gossip > Non-Sonics
Reload this Page What book should I read next?
Register FAQ Members List Mark Forums Read

View Poll Results: Which one
The Divine Comedy (all 3 parts) 6 18.18%
The Time Machine 1 3.03%
Brave New World 7 21.21%
Cannery Row 2 6.06%
A Portraut of the Artist as a Young Man 3 9.09%
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon 0 0%
Dracula 4 12.12%
The Call of Cthulhu 5 15.15%
Other book (please name) 11 33.33%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 33. You may not vote on this poll

 
Thread Tools
Old 10.03.2008, 12:59 PM   #1
Sonic Youth 37
invito al cielo
 
Sonic Youth 37's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: if there is a bright spot in the universe, the farthest point from it
Posts: 9,443
Sonic Youth 37 kicks all y'all's assesSonic Youth 37 kicks all y'all's assesSonic Youth 37 kicks all y'all's assesSonic Youth 37 kicks all y'all's assesSonic Youth 37 kicks all y'all's assesSonic Youth 37 kicks all y'all's assesSonic Youth 37 kicks all y'all's assesSonic Youth 37 kicks all y'all's assesSonic Youth 37 kicks all y'all's assesSonic Youth 37 kicks all y'all's assesSonic Youth 37 kicks all y'all's asses
Choose and live.


I own all but the last two (Dracula and The Call of Cthulhu), they are on my list for purchase next time I go to the bookstore
__________________
"One: Where's the fife? and Two: Gimme the fife."
Sonic Youth 37 is offline   |QUOTE AND REPLY|
Old 10.03.2008, 01:05 PM   #2
noisereductions
invito al cielo
 
noisereductions's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: New England, USA
Posts: 16,210
noisereductions kicks all y'all's assesnoisereductions kicks all y'all's assesnoisereductions kicks all y'all's assesnoisereductions kicks all y'all's assesnoisereductions kicks all y'all's assesnoisereductions kicks all y'all's assesnoisereductions kicks all y'all's assesnoisereductions kicks all y'all's assesnoisereductions kicks all y'all's assesnoisereductions kicks all y'all's assesnoisereductions kicks all y'all's asses
NEW YORK GIRLS by R. Kern.
noisereductions is offline   |QUOTE AND REPLY|
Old 10.03.2008, 01:05 PM   #3
StevOK
expwy. to yr skull
 
StevOK's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Henrietta, TX
Posts: 2,412
StevOK kicks all y'all's assesStevOK kicks all y'all's assesStevOK kicks all y'all's assesStevOK kicks all y'all's assesStevOK kicks all y'all's assesStevOK kicks all y'all's assesStevOK kicks all y'all's assesStevOK kicks all y'all's assesStevOK kicks all y'all's assesStevOK kicks all y'all's assesStevOK kicks all y'all's asses
I voted Brave New World. It's one of my favorites.
__________________
Follow me!
Soundcloud
Tumblr
Facebook

 
StevOK is offline   |QUOTE AND REPLY|
Old 10.03.2008, 01:08 PM   #4
Sonic Youth 37
invito al cielo
 
Sonic Youth 37's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: if there is a bright spot in the universe, the farthest point from it
Posts: 9,443
Sonic Youth 37 kicks all y'all's assesSonic Youth 37 kicks all y'all's assesSonic Youth 37 kicks all y'all's assesSonic Youth 37 kicks all y'all's assesSonic Youth 37 kicks all y'all's assesSonic Youth 37 kicks all y'all's assesSonic Youth 37 kicks all y'all's assesSonic Youth 37 kicks all y'all's assesSonic Youth 37 kicks all y'all's assesSonic Youth 37 kicks all y'all's assesSonic Youth 37 kicks all y'all's asses
I'm going to take Brave New World to lunch with me to pass the time.
__________________
"One: Where's the fife? and Two: Gimme the fife."
Sonic Youth 37 is offline   |QUOTE AND REPLY|
Old 10.03.2008, 01:11 PM   #5
al shabbray
 
Posts: n/a
City of Glass - Auster

what an awesome book need to read the whole NY trilogy
  |QUOTE AND REPLY|
Old 10.03.2008, 01:19 PM   #6
!@#$%!
invito al cielo
 
!@#$%!'s Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: mars attacks
Posts: 42,546
!@#$%! kicks all y'all's asses!@#$%! kicks all y'all's asses!@#$%! kicks all y'all's asses!@#$%! kicks all y'all's asses!@#$%! kicks all y'all's asses!@#$%! kicks all y'all's asses!@#$%! kicks all y'all's asses!@#$%! kicks all y'all's asses!@#$%! kicks all y'all's asses!@#$%! kicks all y'all's asses!@#$%! kicks all y'all's asses
i voted divine comedy for the simple reason that it's such a cornerstone of western literature that everyone should read & know it.

it's also a bridge between antiquity and modernity: a document of the budding renaissance. sure, some people will say it's still the middle ages, with its fucked theology and geocentric cosmology, but the resurrection of classical antiquity is a renaissance move. this is good shit.

read the inferno, and procure yourself good notes-- the details, the history and the explanation of each character, each myth, each legend, each symbol referenced or created are highly entertaining. his similes are epic-- hailing back to virgil and homer. but way cooler i think. here is where translation fails, especially verse translation-- you'll get better results with a prose translation and a look at the original italian verse.

the purgatory gets a bit dull-- by paradiso, dullness has set in, with all the fucking spinning spheres. but still-- good stuff.

poete maudit
e malcolm lowry attempted a XX century version of the divine comedy and failed at providing parts 2 & 3, but left us "under the volcano" which was made into an awesome movie by john huston with albert finney as geoffrey firmin-- black magician learning that karma is a bitch.

nietzsche, who saw dante as getting his petty revenge in writing when he couldn't defeat his enemies in real life, called him the hyena who versified among the graves. hyena or not, the man was thoroughly defeated, exiled, heartbroken, frustrated, and took refuge in poetry.

ezra pound makes frequent and constant reference to dante in his cantos.

in the spanish language (perhaps others too) the adjective dantesco is used to describe anything so horrible that defies human imagination, like a concentration camp or a battlefield.

anyway, get that in you and you'll be on solid ground to talk bullshit for many years to come.

the other books you mention are good, but none as essential as this.
!@#$%! is offline   |QUOTE AND REPLY|
Old 10.03.2008, 01:21 PM   #7
StevOK
expwy. to yr skull
 
StevOK's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Henrietta, TX
Posts: 2,412
StevOK kicks all y'all's assesStevOK kicks all y'all's assesStevOK kicks all y'all's assesStevOK kicks all y'all's assesStevOK kicks all y'all's assesStevOK kicks all y'all's assesStevOK kicks all y'all's assesStevOK kicks all y'all's assesStevOK kicks all y'all's assesStevOK kicks all y'all's assesStevOK kicks all y'all's asses
I've never read the Divine Comedy, but I really like the band.
__________________
Follow me!
Soundcloud
Tumblr
Facebook

 
StevOK is offline   |QUOTE AND REPLY|
Old 10.03.2008, 01:23 PM   #8
sticky money
little trouble girl
 
sticky money's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2008
Posts: 54
sticky money has much to be proud ofsticky money has much to be proud ofsticky money has much to be proud ofsticky money has much to be proud ofsticky money has much to be proud ofsticky money has much to be proud ofsticky money has much to be proud ofsticky money has much to be proud ofsticky money has much to be proud ofsticky money has much to be proud of
You should read some Orson Scott Card. Ender's Game (and the following series), Alvin Maker, Homecoming, Pastwatch... Have you read the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series? Hilarious.
__________________

 
sticky money is offline   |QUOTE AND REPLY|
Old 10.03.2008, 01:32 PM   #9
racehorse
100%
 
racehorse's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 784
racehorse kicks all y'all's assesracehorse kicks all y'all's assesracehorse kicks all y'all's assesracehorse kicks all y'all's assesracehorse kicks all y'all's assesracehorse kicks all y'all's assesracehorse kicks all y'all's assesracehorse kicks all y'all's assesracehorse kicks all y'all's assesracehorse kicks all y'all's assesracehorse kicks all y'all's asses
Read the Inferno, and then go to Joyce. Life's too short to bother with the Paradiso.
__________________
She holds the room up by talk alone
racehorse is offline   |QUOTE AND REPLY|
Old 10.03.2008, 01:33 PM   #10
racehorse
100%
 
racehorse's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 784
racehorse kicks all y'all's assesracehorse kicks all y'all's assesracehorse kicks all y'all's assesracehorse kicks all y'all's assesracehorse kicks all y'all's assesracehorse kicks all y'all's assesracehorse kicks all y'all's assesracehorse kicks all y'all's assesracehorse kicks all y'all's assesracehorse kicks all y'all's assesracehorse kicks all y'all's asses
Actually, thanks !$%!@! stuff it, read Inferno, and then go to Pound's Cantos!
__________________
She holds the room up by talk alone
racehorse is offline   |QUOTE AND REPLY|
Old 10.03.2008, 01:36 PM   #11
Glice
invito al cielo
 
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 12,664
Glice kicks all y'all's assesGlice kicks all y'all's assesGlice kicks all y'all's assesGlice kicks all y'all's assesGlice kicks all y'all's assesGlice kicks all y'all's assesGlice kicks all y'all's assesGlice kicks all y'all's assesGlice kicks all y'all's assesGlice kicks all y'all's assesGlice kicks all y'all's asses
Quote:
Originally Posted by sticky money
You should read some Orson Scott Card. Ender's Game (and the following series), Alvin Maker, Homecoming, Pastwatch... Have you read the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series? Hilarious.

Did you hear there's someone writing the sequel to Mostly Harmless?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7619828.stm

Shocking.
__________________
Message boards are the last vestige of the spent masturbator, still intent on wasting time in some neg-heroic fashion. Be damned all who sail here.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Savage Clone
Last time I was in Chicago I spent an hour in a Nazi submarine with a banjo player.
Glice is offline   |QUOTE AND REPLY|
Old 10.03.2008, 01:41 PM   #12
gmku
invito al cielo
 
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Oxford, England
Posts: 15,225
gmku kicks all y'all's assesgmku kicks all y'all's assesgmku kicks all y'all's assesgmku kicks all y'all's assesgmku kicks all y'all's assesgmku kicks all y'all's assesgmku kicks all y'all's assesgmku kicks all y'all's assesgmku kicks all y'all's assesgmku kicks all y'all's assesgmku kicks all y'all's asses
I don't know why, but I can never get anybody to add the following excellent books to their list:

Geronimo Rex by Barry Hannah (epic adventure of a white-boy jazz trumpet player who grows up on the cusp of the civil rights movement in the south. Lots of neat adventures, lots of poetry)

Speak, Memory by Nabakov (this book is so pretty. And you don't have to worry this time about someone thinking you're a pedo for reading it)

92 in the Shade by Thomas McGuane (yes, it's bit hippy-ish, and yes, McGuane is a bit too much of a fisherman-cum-Hemingway for most tastes, but this nonetheless is a brilliant novel about a drug-addled Key West skiff-guide wannabe and his explosive misadventures. Great comedy and drama.)
__________________
Ever notice how this place just basically, well, sucks.
gmku is offline   |QUOTE AND REPLY|
Old 10.03.2008, 01:41 PM   #13
StevOK
expwy. to yr skull
 
StevOK's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Henrietta, TX
Posts: 2,412
StevOK kicks all y'all's assesStevOK kicks all y'all's assesStevOK kicks all y'all's assesStevOK kicks all y'all's assesStevOK kicks all y'all's assesStevOK kicks all y'all's assesStevOK kicks all y'all's assesStevOK kicks all y'all's assesStevOK kicks all y'all's assesStevOK kicks all y'all's assesStevOK kicks all y'all's asses
Quote:
Originally Posted by Glice
Did you hear there's someone writing the sequel to Mostly Harmless?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7619828.stm

Shocking.



So, how will he get around all the characters being killed in Mostly Harmless?
__________________
Follow me!
Soundcloud
Tumblr
Facebook

 
StevOK is offline   |QUOTE AND REPLY|
Old 10.03.2008, 01:45 PM   #14
al shabbray
 
Posts: n/a
Quote:
Originally Posted by sticky money
You should read some Orson Scott Card. Ender's Game (and the following series), Alvin Maker, Homecoming, Pastwatch... Have you read the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series? Hilarious.

the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy is some of the funniest things existing, but why the fuck do you got emmah in your avatar and as your sig?
  |QUOTE AND REPLY|
Old 10.03.2008, 01:47 PM   #15
gmku
invito al cielo
 
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Oxford, England
Posts: 15,225
gmku kicks all y'all's assesgmku kicks all y'all's assesgmku kicks all y'all's assesgmku kicks all y'all's assesgmku kicks all y'all's assesgmku kicks all y'all's assesgmku kicks all y'all's assesgmku kicks all y'all's assesgmku kicks all y'all's assesgmku kicks all y'all's assesgmku kicks all y'all's asses
Another one -- The Centaur by John Updike.

Pure reading ecstasy, I assure you. The prose is gorgeous.
__________________
Ever notice how this place just basically, well, sucks.
gmku is offline   |QUOTE AND REPLY|
Old 10.03.2008, 01:52 PM   #16
Glice
invito al cielo
 
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 12,664
Glice kicks all y'all's assesGlice kicks all y'all's assesGlice kicks all y'all's assesGlice kicks all y'all's assesGlice kicks all y'all's assesGlice kicks all y'all's assesGlice kicks all y'all's assesGlice kicks all y'all's assesGlice kicks all y'all's assesGlice kicks all y'all's assesGlice kicks all y'all's asses
Quote:
Originally Posted by StevOK


So, how will he get around all the characters being killed in Mostly Harmless?

I'm sure they weren't killed. They were killed before. Some sort of accident with a time machine or something. No, that was Beebelbrox... but they all disappeared for no apparent reason. And there was that bit with the flying.

Christ, I can't remember those books at all.
__________________
Message boards are the last vestige of the spent masturbator, still intent on wasting time in some neg-heroic fashion. Be damned all who sail here.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Savage Clone
Last time I was in Chicago I spent an hour in a Nazi submarine with a banjo player.
Glice is offline   |QUOTE AND REPLY|
Old 10.03.2008, 01:56 PM   #17
Sonic Youth 37
invito al cielo
 
Sonic Youth 37's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: if there is a bright spot in the universe, the farthest point from it
Posts: 9,443
Sonic Youth 37 kicks all y'all's assesSonic Youth 37 kicks all y'all's assesSonic Youth 37 kicks all y'all's assesSonic Youth 37 kicks all y'all's assesSonic Youth 37 kicks all y'all's assesSonic Youth 37 kicks all y'all's assesSonic Youth 37 kicks all y'all's assesSonic Youth 37 kicks all y'all's assesSonic Youth 37 kicks all y'all's assesSonic Youth 37 kicks all y'all's assesSonic Youth 37 kicks all y'all's asses
I've read the Infero twice, once in verse, the other in prose. I got halfway through the prose version of Purgatory and stopped. I've been meaning to pick it back up for a year, and I'll have to read the Inferno again before moving on.

The new Hitchhiker's book makes me wary, not sure how it's going to turn out.
__________________
"One: Where's the fife? and Two: Gimme the fife."
Sonic Youth 37 is offline   |QUOTE AND REPLY|
Old 10.03.2008, 01:59 PM   #18
terriblecanyons
invito al cielo
 
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: the land where large fuzzy dice still hang proudly like testicles from rear-view mirrors
Posts: 5,949
terriblecanyons kicks all y'all's assesterriblecanyons kicks all y'all's assesterriblecanyons kicks all y'all's assesterriblecanyons kicks all y'all's assesterriblecanyons kicks all y'all's assesterriblecanyons kicks all y'all's assesterriblecanyons kicks all y'all's assesterriblecanyons kicks all y'all's assesterriblecanyons kicks all y'all's assesterriblecanyons kicks all y'all's assesterriblecanyons kicks all y'all's asses
John Dies at the End.
Damnit.
terriblecanyons is offline   |QUOTE AND REPLY|
Old 10.03.2008, 02:00 PM   #19
terriblecanyons
invito al cielo
 
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: the land where large fuzzy dice still hang proudly like testicles from rear-view mirrors
Posts: 5,949
terriblecanyons kicks all y'all's assesterriblecanyons kicks all y'all's assesterriblecanyons kicks all y'all's assesterriblecanyons kicks all y'all's assesterriblecanyons kicks all y'all's assesterriblecanyons kicks all y'all's assesterriblecanyons kicks all y'all's assesterriblecanyons kicks all y'all's assesterriblecanyons kicks all y'all's assesterriblecanyons kicks all y'all's assesterriblecanyons kicks all y'all's asses
Or the Raw Shark Texts.
terriblecanyons is offline   |QUOTE AND REPLY|
Old 10.03.2008, 02:01 PM   #20
Sonic Youth 37
invito al cielo
 
Sonic Youth 37's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: if there is a bright spot in the universe, the farthest point from it
Posts: 9,443
Sonic Youth 37 kicks all y'all's assesSonic Youth 37 kicks all y'all's assesSonic Youth 37 kicks all y'all's assesSonic Youth 37 kicks all y'all's assesSonic Youth 37 kicks all y'all's assesSonic Youth 37 kicks all y'all's assesSonic Youth 37 kicks all y'all's assesSonic Youth 37 kicks all y'all's assesSonic Youth 37 kicks all y'all's assesSonic Youth 37 kicks all y'all's assesSonic Youth 37 kicks all y'all's asses
In the fall I go through 2-3 average size paperbacks a week, so I'll be reading a bunch of stuff.
__________________
"One: Where's the fife? and Two: Gimme the fife."
Sonic Youth 37 is offline   |QUOTE AND REPLY|


Thread Tools

All content ©2006 Sonic Youth