what are you reading? - Page 136

ilduclo · 02.18.2011, 10:43 AM

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Originally Posted by SONIC GAIL

That's the one I got an autograph on "to Mike, best wishes from Uncle Bill"

he was a sweetie during his old age. big lover of the kitties, too.

I've just started this one

looks pretty great, lots of killer pictures, and George L appears to be nearly as good a writer as he is a trombonist. U Chicago has some really great books, their publishing is well represented in casa duclo.

http://www.jazz.com/features-and-int...h-george-lewis

a-p a. niemi · 02.19.2011, 04:57 AM

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Originally Posted by SONIC GAIL

^ I'm reading Burroughs too

Nice! Just read Junky and now reading Queer.

me. · 02.20.2011, 01:33 PM

Hermann Hesse - Strange News from Another Star

Sonic Youth 37 · 02.20.2011, 02:19 PM

It's good, but the wording Fleming uses can be strange and difficult to understand sometimes. Nice plot.

Very interesting and humorous. I'm only about 100 pages in. I hate the copy I have due to the fact that it's a mass market edition and damn near 600 pages long or something close to it.

About halfway finished. Meh. Hammett's prose kind of annoys me.

chrome noise tape · 02.20.2011, 02:34 PM

my favourite portugese poet

Derek · 02.20.2011, 02:35 PM

Dostoevsky's The Idiot.

terminal pharmacy · 02.20.2011, 03:24 PM

Rob Instigator · 02.21.2011, 01:48 AM

Interviews with art spiegelman
And a catalog and analysis of william blake's paintings

EVOLghost · 02.21.2011, 07:42 AM

I want to buy this book. Anyone read it? My literature teacher seems to love this book .

EVOLghost · 02.21.2011, 07:59 AM

oh yeah and I read Kafka's short story "THe Judgement" and loved it. Kafka's absurd storytelling is magnificient. I love his stories.

SuchFriendsAreDangerous · 02.22.2011, 04:07 PM

reading this for a second time a few years later, quite refreshing from my different perspective today. I really like the way Suskind captures the heaviness and deep emotive impact that underlies are banal and trivial daily lives and routines. Noel goes through boringly normal day and undergoes a series of realistically normal (and laughable) setbacks including being late for work, ripping your pants, and yet these are interpolated with bewildering emotions and memories of the past, explosive episodes of ecstasy, paranoia, social anxiety, dread, joy, sumptuousness. Detailed and perfectly descriptive narration, with potent insights and symbols both ostentatiously and yet also subtly laid out..

I love Patrick Suskind, his style reverberates in my very being, like reading my own internal dialogue, pure genius the way certain musicians capture the indescribable feelings of the inside world of the mind..

Pelle · 02.22.2011, 04:48 PM

I've finally managed to borrow a copy of 1984.

SuchFriendsAreDangerous · 02.22.2011, 07:12 PM

pss..

(much better)

krastian · 02.22.2011, 07:59 PM

^Can't go wrong there.

space · 02.22.2011, 09:12 PM

I EAT NERDS FOR BREAKFAST.

GRINDCORE FURY.

ink. · 02.22.2011, 10:16 PM

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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous

reading this for a second time a few years later, quite refreshing from my different perspective today. I really like the way Suskind captures the heaviness and deep emotive impact that underlies are banal and trivial daily lives and routines. Noel goes through boringly normal day and undergoes a series of realistically normal (and laughable) setbacks including being late for work, ripping your pants, and yet these are interpolated with bewildering emotions and memories of the past, explosive episodes of ecstasy, paranoia, social anxiety, dread, joy, sumptuousness. Detailed and perfectly descriptive narration, with potent insights and symbols both ostentatiously and yet also subtly laid out..

I love Patrick Suskind, his style reverberates in my very being, like reading my own internal dialogue, pure genius the way certain musicians capture the indescribable feelings of the inside world of the mind..

I may need to pick this up..

alteredcourse · 02.23.2011, 01:00 AM

I read different things in different settings. I need a defrag.

moppity · 02.23.2011, 03:58 AM

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Originally Posted by ink.

I may need to pick this up..

Me too.

SuchFriendsAreDangerous · 02.23.2011, 11:02 AM

"..the most formidable intellect in public discourse.."

the condescending pretentiousness of this douche is overwhelming sometimes. his bullshit attitude might be appreciable if he could actually write anything other than sensationalist sound bites and instead argue some substance and depth of subject. I have never been more disappointed then when reading Dawkins, seriously, science should vote to have a better representative, and a more sophisticated arguer at that

Pookie · 02.23.2011, 02:44 PM

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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous

"..the most formidable intellect in public discourse.."

the condescending pretentiousness of this douche is overwhelming sometimes. his bullshit attitude might be appreciable if he could actually write anything other than sensationalist sound bites and instead argue some substance and depth of subject. I have never been more disappointed then when reading Dawkins, seriously, science should vote to have a better representative, and a more sophisticated arguer at that

He must be doing something right if he so obviously touches a nerve.

02.20.2011, 01:33 PM	#2703
me. stalker Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 400	Hermann Hesse - Strange News from Another Star
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Sonic Youth 37 invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: if there is a bright spot in the universe, the farthest point from it Posts: 9,443	It's good, but the wording Fleming uses can be strange and difficult to understand sometimes. Nice plot. Very interesting and humorous. I'm only about 100 pages in. I hate the copy I have due to the fact that it's a mass market edition and damn near 600 pages long or something close to it. About halfway finished. Meh. Hammett's prose kind of annoys me. __________________ "One: Where's the fife? and Two: Gimme the fife."
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chrome noise tape the end of the ugly Join Date: May 2009 Location: Making The Nature Scene Posts: 935	my favourite portugese poet
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EVOLghost invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: cybatraz! Posts: 11,537	I want to buy this book. Anyone read it? My literature teacher seems to love this book .
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EVOLghost invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: cybatraz! Posts: 11,537	oh yeah and I read Kafka's short story "THe Judgement" and loved it. Kafka's absurd storytelling is magnificient. I love his stories.
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SuchFriendsAreDangerous invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: fucking Los Angeles Posts: 14,801	reading this for a second time a few years later, quite refreshing from my different perspective today. I really like the way Suskind captures the heaviness and deep emotive impact that underlies are banal and trivial daily lives and routines. Noel goes through boringly normal day and undergoes a series of realistically normal (and laughable) setbacks including being late for work, ripping your pants, and yet these are interpolated with bewildering emotions and memories of the past, explosive episodes of ecstasy, paranoia, social anxiety, dread, joy, sumptuousness. Detailed and perfectly descriptive narration, with potent insights and symbols both ostentatiously and yet also subtly laid out.. I love Patrick Suskind, his style reverberates in my very being, like reading my own internal dialogue, pure genius the way certain musicians capture the indescribable feelings of the inside world of the mind.. __________________ Today Rap music is the Lakers
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02.22.2011, 04:48 PM	#2712
Pelle expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Sweden Posts: 1,725	I've finally managed to borrow a copy of 1984.
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SuchFriendsAreDangerous invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: fucking Los Angeles Posts: 14,801	pss.. (much better) __________________ Today Rap music is the Lakers
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krastian invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Baltimore Posts: 7,808	^Can't go wrong there. __________________ Confusion is next and next after that is the Truth.
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space expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 1,553	I EAT NERDS FOR BREAKFAST. GRINDCORE FURY.
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alteredcourse expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 1,503	I read different things in different settings. I need a defrag.
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02.23.2011, 11:02 AM	#2719
SuchFriendsAreDangerous invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: fucking Los Angeles Posts: 14,801	"..the most formidable intellect in public discourse.." the condescending pretentiousness of this douche is overwhelming sometimes. his bullshit attitude might be appreciable if he could actually write anything other than sensationalist sound bites and instead argue some substance and depth of subject. I have never been more disappointed then when reading Dawkins, seriously, science should vote to have a better representative, and a more sophisticated arguer at that __________________ Today Rap music is the Lakers
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