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what are we reading ? i finished cantos, and narnia and am working on a michael charbon short story collection.

― anthony easton (anthony), Friday, 13 December 2002 22:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Nettl's biography of Rosa Luxemburg

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 13 December 2002 22:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Michel Houllebeq - Extension Du Domaine De La Lutte (dutch translation)
Peter Taylor - Loyalists

― stevo (stevo), Friday, 13 December 2002 22:25 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm reading douglas reed's "insanity fair" (1938), 1st hand account of europe during the hitler era by a british journalist. looking for stuff about this bk on the www i found it for sale from the National Front's website which was a bit disturbing & weird 'cause Reed seems to be pretty consistently anti-fascist, what's da dill there? think it's 'cause he later wrote some bks critical of zionism.
'part from that been reading stuff like for inst carl hiaasen, dirk wittenborn, charles higson, patricia highsmith

― unknown or illegal user (doorag), Friday, 13 December 2002 22:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I like books. I especially like the covers of books. Sometimes I like the end papers, too. When that happens, it's special.

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― Aimless, Friday, 13 December 2002 23:04 (twenty-three years ago)

the last things that i peeped for school were a collection of documents about the EU and the last 1/4 of 'the invisible man'. i re-read most of senghor's 'major elegies' and nerval's 'chimeras' on my own.

i missed you anthony easton. :)

― mike (ro)bott, Friday, 13 December 2002 23:09 (twenty-three years ago)

I like books. I especially like the covers of books.

http://members.rott.chello.nl/e.visser25/SakiFront1.jpg

when I'm in a bad mood I read saki. I read saint vespaluus now.

― erik, Friday, 13 December 2002 23:21 (twenty-three years ago)

ha ha the Pablum font, real?
i hate those manufactured pop books!

― unknown or illegal user (doorag), Friday, 13 December 2002 23:23 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm still reading Hunger!

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 14 December 2002 00:02 (twenty-three years ago)

oooer erik yr saki is so much for SEKZY than my cheap knockoff.

currently unemployed, in rotorua & all nooked up with books. this week :

witi ihimaera - the matriarch; pounamu pounamu
yann martel - life of pi
edward said - power & imperialism
patricia grace - potiki
rey ventura - underground in japan
paul auster - new york trilogy
majid fakhry - averroes (ibn rushd) : his life, works & influence

― Ess Kay (esskay), Saturday, 14 December 2002 00:14 (twenty-three years ago)

I am rereading Mason and Dixon. It's even better than it was the first time.

― RickyT (RickyT), Saturday, 14 December 2002 00:30 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm reading the one volume "Byzantium" by John Julius Norwich. It's great if you like books about fine religious art, blindings, and castration. And people becoming so angry that they die.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Saturday, 14 December 2002 01:24 (twenty-three years ago)

jel i sometimes think "Hunger" is the greatest book ever. it'd be better if it was called "Strictly From Hunger" tho.

― unknown or illegal user (doorag), Saturday, 14 December 2002 04:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Hamid Dabashi, CLOSE-UP Iranian Cinema: Past, Present and Future

(nearly finished)

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Saturday, 14 December 2002 11:52 (twenty-three years ago)

kim!! (anthony i slightly misremembered, he is brought up by a hindu prostitute but his birth-mother is english or irish...)

it has a top gay-ish subtext: the homosocial underground brotherhood as secret world democracy (more on this when i finish it)

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 14 December 2002 12:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Modern Japanese Stories, a 20th C collection from about 1960, full of excellent stuff, and The Architecture Traveller: A Guide to 250 Key 20th-Century American Buildings. Does "20th-Century" need that hyphen? Oh, and still the diarists' anthology The Assassin's Cloak, as it's ordered by date so I'm reading a day's selection a day. Nearly finished!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 14 December 2002 12:10 (twenty-three years ago)

kim!! (anthony i slightly misremembered

I knocked off halfway but i remember "strange priests eat boys" ha ha

http://members.rott.chello.nl/e.visser25/KimKipling2.jpg

― erik, Saturday, 14 December 2002 13:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Ann Quin -- Passages; is she at all known in England? This book, or another one of hers, apparently inspired Stewart Home's 69 Things to Do with a Dead Princess.

Also, A Reader's Manifesto -- B. R. Meyers.

― Mary (Mary), Sunday, 15 December 2002 16:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Probably reread LOTR this week. In the runup to the move and the movie, I just want something familiar and cool. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 15 December 2002 16:57 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm re-reading "Basic Eight" by Daniel Handler... stephin merritt says to.

― phil-two, Sunday, 15 December 2002 17:31 (twenty-three years ago)

"Heart of a Dog" by Bulgakov

― Dave Fischer, Sunday, 15 December 2002 18:57 (twenty-three years ago)

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