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Hip Priest · 08.14.2006, 12:45 PM

I'm re-reading Herbert Farjeon's Cricket Bag, which funnily enough is by Herbert Farjeon.

gmku · 08.14.2006, 01:45 PM

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Originally Posted by k-krack

What other Clowes books have you read? (if any) Like i ahve said before, i read ...Velvet Glove... not too long ago, and really loved it, and i don't know whether to get Eightball or Ghost World next..

I've read Velvet Glove. Didn't care much for it--seemed like Clowes was just being weird to be weird, if you know what I mean. I've also read Caricature, which I liked much better. Ghost World's probably my favorite Clowes--this is a re-read, this time.

screamingskull · 08.14.2006, 02:34 PM

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Originally Posted by gmku

I've read Velvet Glove. Didn't care much for it--seemed like Clowes was just being weird to be weird, if you know what I mean. I've also read Caricature, which I liked much better. Ghost World's probably my favorite Clowes--this is a re-read, this time.

after i read 'like a velvet glove cast in iron' i just thought "what the fuck was he on when he wrote that?", Caricature is the only Daniel Clowes book i dont have, i recently got '20th Centuary eightball' and liked that alot.
Ghost Worls is still his best, then Ice Haven, then David Boring, then 20th Centuary Eightball, then the rest.

i really really really reccomend to everyone who likes Daniel Clowes to read anything you can find by Adrien Tomine, he is just like him!!!, his drawing style is exactly the same, but he is far far more realistic than Daniel Clowes.

At the moment i am reading "staring at sound", its about the Flaming lips, its pretty great so far.

gmku · 08.14.2006, 02:38 PM

Oh yeah, I read David Boring, too. That's a good one.

k-krack · 08.14.2006, 02:43 PM

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Originally Posted by gmku

I've read Velvet Glove. Didn't care much for it--seemed like Clowes was just being weird to be weird, if you know what I mean. I've also read Caricature, which I liked much better. Ghost World's probably my favorite Clowes--this is a re-read, this time.

really? i thought the surrealism of it was cool.i guess some things were just weird to be weird, but i still thought it was cool, and funny as hell. like the women who had a child with the mermaid..man...

gmku · 08.14.2006, 02:47 PM

Yeah, I mean, on one level, I dug it. But it doesn't have lasting appeal for me like Ghost World & other more straightforward work.

Glice · 08.14.2006, 03:44 PM

Re-reading the Upinishads and Joyce's Ulysses. Do I win the prize? Can it be Lady Sov?

ploesj · 08.14.2006, 04:15 PM

the bonfire of the vanities.. my father gave me a bunch of books he'd like me to read once in my life and i have loads of time now

!@#$%! · 08.14.2006, 07:21 PM

more work-related stuff:

actually it's not boring. but very entertaining. quite addictive as a matter of fact.

am i the only geek here??

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I know. I almost didn't buy Do Androids Dream because the only copy I could find has Harrison Ford and Blade Runner plastered all over it.

oh brother-- you shouldn't have. hit the used bookstore instead. of course hand-made book covers are quite interesting if you make one. or giving ford a little hitler moustache for that matter.

DemonBox · 08.15.2006, 09:22 AM

Some short stories by Cora Sandel,
A book by Jens Bjørneboe.
And a whole lot of Red Youth magazines.

DemonBox · 08.15.2006, 09:24 AM

And yeah, Haruki Murakami - Windupbird. I don't what the english title is, so ecxuse me.

SpectralJulianIsNotDead · 08.15.2006, 09:26 AM

I am reading Our Band Could Be Your Life

gmku · 08.15.2006, 09:32 AM

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Originally Posted by SpectralJulianIsNotDead

I am reading Our Band Could Be Your Life

Pretty good book, but I thought cutting off the history once the band went "corporate" was a bit arbitrary.

Groove(Y) · 08.15.2006, 11:48 AM

books on a sonic youth forum!...i can do that...i was reading dharma bums...i brought it to milwaukee to read while waiting for the doors to open for the syouth concert...well i ran to the hotel connected and asked if they'd hold it for me and i never remembered to pick it back up...good book though

harris · 08.15.2006, 03:07 PM

right now im reading BARREL FEVER by david sedaris
ON THE ROAD by jack keruac, i know i had been putting it off
and short stories by flannery oconnor

krastian · 08.15.2006, 03:53 PM

^Flannery O'Conner rules.

nomadicfollower · 08.15.2006, 05:19 PM

A friend lent me a Dave Eggers book. How We Are Hungry, I think, is the title. I've got the first two stories in. I like his style (even though it doesn't really seem new or inventive), but the stories - again, that I've read - are kind of boring..
Actually boring's not a good word. Easy? I'm not sure.

finding nobody · 08.15.2006, 05:23 PM

were reading a book in school called "runner" a great great book

timtimtim · 08.15.2006, 11:26 PM

I'm reading breakfast of champions by kurt vonegut for the second time and it is glorious as is everything he has written except Time quake

Norma J · 08.16.2006, 01:10 AM

Salvador Dali, the surrealist Jester by who I cannot remember.

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gmku invito al cielo Join Date: May 2006 Location: Oxford, England Posts: 15,225	Oh yeah, I read David Boring, too. That's a good one. __________________ Ever notice how this place just basically, well, sucks.
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gmku invito al cielo Join Date: May 2006 Location: Oxford, England Posts: 15,225	Yeah, I mean, on one level, I dug it. But it doesn't have lasting appeal for me like Ghost World & other more straightforward work. __________________ Ever notice how this place just basically, well, sucks.
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ploesj invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: antwerp. Posts: 2,901	the bonfire of the vanities.. my father gave me a bunch of books he'd like me to read once in my life and i have loads of time now __________________ blog flickr
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DemonBox the end of the ugly Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Norway Posts: 840	Some short stories by Cora Sandel, A book by Jens Bjørneboe. And a whole lot of Red Youth magazines.
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DemonBox the end of the ugly Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Norway Posts: 840	And yeah, Haruki Murakami - Windupbird. I don't what the english title is, so ecxuse me.
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SpectralJulianIsNotDead invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 7,409	I am reading Our Band Could Be Your Life
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Groove(Y) empty page Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: a rather, unfortunate setting... Posts: 18	books on a sonic youth forum!...i can do that...i was reading dharma bums...i brought it to milwaukee to read while waiting for the doors to open for the syouth concert...well i ran to the hotel connected and asked if they'd hold it for me and i never remembered to pick it back up...good book though __________________
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harris little trouble girl Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 34	right now im reading BARREL FEVER by david sedaris ON THE ROAD by jack keruac, i know i had been putting it off and short stories by flannery oconnor __________________ "I' rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal labotomy." - Tom Waits
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krastian invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Baltimore Posts: 7,808	^Flannery O'Conner rules. __________________ Confusion is next and next after that is the Truth.
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nomadicfollower invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: North America Posts: 2,672	A friend lent me a Dave Eggers book. How We Are Hungry, I think, is the title. I've got the first two stories in. I like his style (even though it doesn't really seem new or inventive), but the stories - again, that I've read - are kind of boring.. Actually boring's not a good word. Easy? I'm not sure.
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finding nobody invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Florida Posts: 7,275	were reading a book in school called "runner" a great great book
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timtimtim children of satan Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Indiana Posts: 245	I'm reading breakfast of champions by kurt vonegut for the second time and it is glorious as is everything he has written except Time quake
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Norma J invito al cielo Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Orstralia Posts: 4,917	Salvador Dali, the surrealist Jester by who I cannot remember. __________________ I want girls with new-wave hair-doos
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