what are you reading? - Page 92

!@#$%! · 03.05.2009, 02:25 AM

last sunday's new york times. i'm slow this week. i almost wrote "nothing", but there was a fun flannery o'connor article in the book section that needed to be mentioned.

pbradley · 03.05.2009, 02:32 AM

After reading Palahniuk's Haunted, which was preceded by Rant, I don't know what to turn to. Diggin transgressive stuff but want to get away from Palahnuik and fiction in general.

And "transgressive" non-fiction sounds like bag of wank (perhaps literally?)

!@#$%! · 03.05.2009, 02:34 AM

i'd suggest picking up an issue of the new york review of books or the times literary supplement and seeing what smells good.

i used to love the NYRB but after 9/11 they started doing too much politics and the bush era was a nausea-inducing one.

fugazifan · 03.05.2009, 02:37 AM

robinson crusoe

StevOK · 03.05.2009, 03:16 PM

Arthur C. Clarke - Childhood's End

Glice · 03.05.2009, 03:27 PM

Just finishing the Talmud. Pretty inessential for a religious text, I have to say.

Alex's Trip · 03.06.2009, 12:08 AM

drrrtyboots · 03.07.2009, 10:37 PM

Katy · 03.07.2009, 11:49 PM

Just finished Nick Hornby's last collection of 'What I'm Reading' columns for The Believer, "Shakespeare Wrote For Money". Got a few good book recs out of it.

Now trying to concentrate on finishing RD Laing's "The Divided Self", Primo Levi's "The Truce" and "Crooked Little Vein" by Warren Ellis.

Dead-Air · 03.08.2009, 12:53 AM

It's alright. I'm looking much more forward to reading Thurston's No Wave book when I'm done though.

DeadDiscoDildo · 03.16.2009, 07:30 AM

Finally just cracked into the Illuminatus Trilogy.

I'm about 45 pages into the eye in the pyramid.

It took me a bit to get used to how much it jumps around but now I'm 'with it'.

Rob Instigator · 03.16.2009, 09:44 AM

been trying to get this for years. never fopund it. libary copy always checked out. bought it used on amazon yeah!!!!! so good. great stuff.

I have wanted to read this ever since it came out

David Hockney's SECRET KNOWLEDGE

drrrtyboots · 03.16.2009, 07:59 PM

[Sandbag] · 03.16.2009, 08:15 PM

chairman of the bored · 03.16.2009, 08:56 PM

^'doors of perception' is great...im too bugged out to ever take mescalin, so i thank aldous for his account

^^i credit 'still life with woodpecker' with kick-starting my post-high school reading binge many moons ago...read 'jitterbug perfume' if you haven't...prob. my favorite robbins book, though i havent read him in a long time...and this jsut reminded me i met him at a book signing a few years back. nice, funny guy.

StevOK · 03.16.2009, 09:16 PM

I'm finishing up Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke tonight and will start reading Red Planet by Robert Heinlein.

Katy · 03.17.2009, 08:24 AM

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Originally Posted by chairman of the bored

read 'jitterbug perfume' if you haven't...prob. my favorite robbins book, though i havent read him in a long time...and this jsut reminded me i met him at a book signing a few years back. nice, funny guy.

Same. ('Jitterbug Perfume' is my favourite.)

And JEALOUS. I'd love to meet Tom Robbins. Cept I'd probably hug him to death.

terminal pharmacy · 03.18.2009, 09:56 AM

Sonic Youth 37 · 03.23.2009, 07:46 PM

I finished Slaughterhouse-Five last night. It was okay-good. It didn't blow me away as I was led to believe it was. I shouldn't finished The Stranger (L'etranger) tonight.

Now, to decide what to start next, either Dubliners, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Porno, or Glue. I'm also going to pick up a copy of Gravity's Rainbow this week.

demonrail666 · 03.23.2009, 08:54 PM

03.05.2009, 02:25 AM	#1821
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,564	last sunday's new york times. i'm slow this week. i almost wrote "nothing", but there was a fun flannery o'connor article in the book section that needed to be mentioned.
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03.05.2009, 02:32 AM	#1822
pbradley invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: SoKo Posts: 10,621	After reading Palahniuk's Haunted, which was preceded by Rant, I don't know what to turn to. Diggin transgressive stuff but want to get away from Palahnuik and fiction in general. And "transgressive" non-fiction sounds like bag of wank (perhaps literally?)
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03.05.2009, 02:34 AM	#1823
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,564	i'd suggest picking up an issue of the new york review of books or the times literary supplement and seeing what smells good. i used to love the NYRB but after 9/11 they started doing too much politics and the bush era was a nausea-inducing one.
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03.07.2009, 11:49 PM	#1829
Katy the destroyed room Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: London, UK. Posts: 643	Just finished Nick Hornby's last collection of 'What I'm Reading' columns for The Believer, "Shakespeare Wrote For Money". Got a few good book recs out of it. Now trying to concentrate on finishing RD Laing's "The Divided Self", Primo Levi's "The Truce" and "Crooked Little Vein" by Warren Ellis.
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03.08.2009, 12:53 AM	#1830
Dead-Air invito al cielo Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Portland OR Posts: 4,300	It's alright. I'm looking much more forward to reading Thurston's No Wave book when I'm done though. __________________ FuckBook; My Band; My Radio Show; My Flickr Page; Science Fiction Message Board
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03.16.2009, 07:30 AM	#1831
DeadDiscoDildo invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 3,805	Finally just cracked into the Illuminatus Trilogy. I'm about 45 pages into the eye in the pyramid. It took me a bit to get used to how much it jumps around but now I'm 'with it'.
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03.16.2009, 09:44 AM	#1832
Rob Instigator invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the land of the Instigator Posts: 27,976	been trying to get this for years. never fopund it. libary copy always checked out. bought it used on amazon yeah!!!!! so good. great stuff. I have wanted to read this ever since it came out David Hockney's SECRET KNOWLEDGE __________________ RXTT's Intellectual Journey - my new blog where I talk about all the books I read.
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03.16.2009, 08:56 PM	#1835
chairman of the bored the destroyed room Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 569	^'doors of perception' is great...im too bugged out to ever take mescalin, so i thank aldous for his account ^^i credit 'still life with woodpecker' with kick-starting my post-high school reading binge many moons ago...read 'jitterbug perfume' if you haven't...prob. my favorite robbins book, though i havent read him in a long time...and this jsut reminded me i met him at a book signing a few years back. nice, funny guy. __________________ stay awake to the ways of the world
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03.16.2009, 09:16 PM	#1836
StevOK expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Henrietta, TX Posts: 2,412	I'm finishing up Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke tonight and will start reading Red Planet by Robert Heinlein. __________________ Follow me! Soundcloud Tumblr Facebook
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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	I finished Slaughterhouse-Five last night. It was okay-good. It didn't blow me away as I was led to believe it was. I shouldn't finished The Stranger (L'etranger) tonight. Now, to decide what to start next, either Dubliners, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Porno, or Glue. I'm also going to pick up a copy of Gravity's Rainbow this week. __________________ "One: Where's the fife? and Two: Gimme the fife."
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