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As I Lay Dying
Psh...not impressed.
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![]() great book, got taken away from me last summer, but im getting even at last ![]() fucking tiny picture. it says: "Beyond Thinking: A Guide to Zen Meditation" also: (another tiny picture) ![]() karnak café, by naguib mahfouz. i got derailed from this one last december but just restarted. i'm brushing up on egyptian history so i can get what the fuck he's talking about (thanks, wikipedia). and finally: ![]() oh yeah baby. vol 1 of the collected gilbert hernandez stories from love and rockets. he's like, the garcia marquez of comix, with a gringo touch. |
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#1783 |
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are you really into meditation? if so, kudos to you, man.
meditation is so simple its hard. |
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I don't think I've ever hated reading a book as much as I did that one. Utter torture. I feel your pain. |
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The problem with Jane Austen is that you have to have a vagina to like her writing.
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Or a prick of a teacher insisting you read it.
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But they can't force you to like it though, can they? |
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Yeah, I finished it tonight. His whole style in that book just rubbed me the wrong way. I had to stop reading for about 30 minutes after the half-page about sleep and being and not being. It just made zero sense to me.
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Oh I don't read Faulkner for sense. Elaborate southern grotesque with a little bit of mind reading is all I care for.
It's like Lovecraft writing an episode of the Beverly Hillbillies. |
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I like things to at least make a little sense and overall this book did. Just some moments I had to seriously reread entire pages to see what he was getting it. I didn't have to do that with Ulysses and it made me feel weird. Oh well.
Up next for reading: continue Trainspotting start Fellowship of the Ring (for a class) and Perks of Being A Wallflower and after finishing that, American Psycho.
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The other AP Lit teacher teaches a lot of cool, more obscure stuff (Equus, Lysistrata) and a few great ones (Importance of Being Earnest), but never collects work, grades work, etc. That's cool for a lot of people, and sometimes I wish I was in his class for the ease, but I still really like my teacher because she actually is challenging and the pay off is obvious.
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after a long hiatus, I finally picked up On Stranger Tides last night, perhaps I'll read a bit more after work this morning
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i try. yeah, it's hard as fuck. |
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Okay, bookies. I'm going to buy a copy of On The Road next week and I want to know if I should get the standard published copy or the "original scroll" edition?
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I read this tonight and really enjoyed it. It's kind of a strange, eerie childern's bedtime story for adults...I guess that's the best way to put it. I cannot wait to see the movie.
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The "original scroll" is only useful if you give a fuck about Kerouac. If you give a fuck about the actual book, get the real thing. It's like buying the version of the Waste Land that's all hand-written and Ezra-edited--it's cool if you're super into Eliot, but only if you're super interested in him. It was edited for a reason.
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Wish I'd taken a picture of this before it was painted over (ya need ta see it, to fully appreciate it) but there was this graffitti on a wall I'd always see on the way to work on the train that said: "If you close your eyes, the cars almost sounds like faraway ocean waves" To which someone drew an arrow pointing to this heady musing and replied thus: "I fucked your mum last night". So stupid that I had to laugh... II. If we're talking books though, then the last book I read was something I found at a bus stop..... ![]() I came away thinking this is like a female version of William Burroughs "Junky". She was one strung out woman.... |
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1,000 Recordings To Hear Before You Die
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The standard, published copy. The novel's editing was justifiable - the scroll edition has no breaks and is littered with bad grammer (I don't mean that in a pedantic way - I mean it's confusing enough as to be unreadable). Without the editing, it's too self-indulgent as to be worth the bother of finding the good bits. The only good thing about it is he uses the real names and is a bit more open about a few of them having sex with each other. Not that it makes a difference if you're not interested in the beats themselves. I've been reading 101 Reykjavik. I like it, really reminds me of Martin Amis (Success, Money-era): the prose has a beat-like rhythm, everything is refracted through a knowledge of low pop.culture, lots of philosphical analogies between people/things and what brands, TV shows, groups, they represent - should be annoyingly hip but isn't somehow. |
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