What's a noise dude reading?

i really read too much nonfiction :(

its fun to learn about the world & whats in it :)

yeah but i am already reading Waiting for Gautreaux: A Story of Segregation, Housing, and the Black Ghetto, by Alexander Polikoff

Mildred Pierce by James M. Cain

The Given Day

Ayn Rand & The World She Made by Anne C Heller.

never read Rand and after reading this bio never want to. pretty interesting portrait of a messianic cult leader, tho. rand was increasingly creepy and finally, sad cause even "heroes" get old and ill and lonely.

fun fact; Alan Green$pan was a longtime Rand devotee and member of her inner circle...

finished: The City and The City by China Mieville

reading: J.G. Ballard autobio

my friend megan's unbelievably awesome new book: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/science/space/09space.html?scp=1&sq=megan%20prelinger&st=cse

sounds wild. the sample pages look amazing

Yeah that bk sounds fantastic!

i had to bring back waiting for gautreaux (we only get 3 weeks + one renewal, sux) so i am reading a sentimental education

seems pretty sentimental so far

space book looks awes. her husband was here (montreal) several months ago for presentations about open/online archives - cool, important stuff (esp for coms/media nerds like me obv)

i am reading a book abt the 'history of anxiety'
and a v poetic, slightly creepy novel by pascale quiviger

bolano 'by night in chile'
started last night, very good so far.

juggling a buncha books right now:

rick perlstein - nixonland
james ellroy - american tabloid

...and the Lord of the Rings audiobook lol

about to start The Girl Who Played w/ Fire

tara rodgers - pink noises, women on electronic music and sound
elizabeth hinkle-turner - women composers and music technology in the united states
christopher small - musicking (rereading)
christopher r. weingarten - it takes a nation of millions to hold us back
slavok zizek - in defense of lost causes
juji ito - uzumaki

i feel like i am starting to be a reader again

what are u reading

Henry James - The Tragic Muse
Johnny Rogan - Morrissey
David O Stewart - Impeached (about Andrew Johnson's impeachment)

oh oops
i started "i am a fugitive from a georgia chain gang!" by robert e. burns because i've had it for a while

how fun is it to read books with exclamation points in the title!

Picked up Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and I am excited.

bill c. malone - country music u.s.a.
glenn & henry comic
selected letters of john fante

xpost. my dad told me heinlein's 'stranger in a strange land' was his favorite book. i was gonna pick it up for my last vacation, but i wasn't really feeling it from scanning it in the store, and it was kinda too big to bring on vacay.

i ended up reading the Road, which i loved. is the movie terrible? charlize? ugh.

I loved Stranger in a Strange Land.
Huge influence on all that hippy shit, of course.
There's a reference to it in David Crosby's "Triad"

Suppose I should note that I mostly love classic sci-fi.

i'll eventually read it i think. i've never really done too much sci-fi

bill c. malone - country music u.s.a.

ian if you come across a copy of John Morthland's Best of Country Music, snap it up

will do.

how fun is it to read books with exclamation points in the title!

― peacocks, Thursday, May 27, 2010 9:55 AM (Yesterday)

otm, it's really good so far too

gonna try to see if the library has a circulating copy of this http://www.amazon.com/Monument-Good-Intentions-Maryland-Penitentiary/dp/0938420674?&camp=212361 because i love the title and it seems right up my alley

not that it has an exclamation point in the title but i will probably start reading it soon, for the record

let the great world spin

i'm really starting to think i need to schedule some sit down novel reading time.

i am a fugitive...! is great and only took me like 2 days to read. i am reading "the real eve: modern man's journey out of africa" now

mccarthy - suttree
journals of john cheever

Jim Thompson - The Killer Inside Me

fawwaz traboulsi - a history of modern lebanon

peter ackroyd's blake biography

shoot mama i just finished ben marcus' "the flame alphabet" oh, such a thing of giddy delight. he's bolted his dusty post-apoc quay bros jungian schtick onto the story of "chitty chitty bang bang". downright cheesy james patterson style in places, but he has such an exquisite turn of phrase, i'll forgive him that. i was down on the guy for a while cos i failed to reread "notable american women" ( sorta one trick pony of a book ), discovered stanley crawford's "some instructions.." which with a little (actually, a whole shitload of) added obfuscatory pseudo-symbology was effectively "the age of wire and string", and i heard an interview with him where he said "yeah i'd liken my work to kafka's" (a disappointingly naive, self regarding and coattailsy thing to say ), but he has now redeemed himself. the book is grand.

been on a binge recently. can't get enough & gf been away from home, so:
stanley crawford - gascoyne: ropey sub terry southern 60's "satire";
stanley crawford - travel notes - goofy monty python meets hunter thompson, still a disappointment compared to "unguentine"/ "some instructions..." which are divine.
stanley crawford - mayordomo - neat n sweet non fiction about stewarding an irrigation ditch.
jon ronson - the psychopath test - did this in 5 hours.
conan doyle - hound of the baskervilles. loved it.
thomas bernhard "the loser" (auf englisch, schande!)tiresome in that he always writes about self-appointed superior ponce so sympathetically, but being a self-appointed superior ponce, ich liebte das, natürlich.
re-read self's "quantity theory" o, for when he was on, he was on.
i think i shall attempt shatner's teklab next.

clark ashton smith - the book of hyperborea
george saunders - civilwarland in bad decline (re-reading some stories not all)
richard stark - the hunter
several brett halliday 'michael shayne mysteries'
jim thompson 'a hell of a woman' (preferred this to pop 1280 maybe.)
charles williams 'a touch of death'

hound of the baskervilles otm

recently finished:
julian barnes - the sense of an ending
dava sobel - a more perfect heaven
carl t bogus - buckley: william f buckley and the rise of amerikan conservatism
jo nesbo - headhunters
james ellroy - blood's a rover

just started:
derek raymond - how the dead live

on deck:
jennifer egan - visit from the goon squad
louis menand - the metaphysical club

j

carl t bogus - buckley: william f buckley and the rise of amerikan conservatism

never has an author's name been more appropriate - this book was half-assed in terms of content and execution. would still like to read a thorough takedown of mr. patrician smarty-pants

i am so slowly reading
eldridge cleaver - soul on ice
an anthology about baltimore riots in 1968 i started in december

but i'm not allowed to start another book until i finish both

Soul on ice is great

Currently reading John Calvin Batchelor's The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica which is excellent.

Preceded by:
Kate Wilhelm's Juniper Time which I didn't like as much Where Late The Sweet Birds Sing
Chester Brown's Paying For It which I found difficult to get through
Vladimir Sorokin's Ice which might be better in russian, but I found the translation tough to take
Christopher Priest's The Inverted World which I also really liked

Next will be Michael Bishop's No Enemy But Time as I slowly carve me way through some late 60s-early80s sci-fi on various lists that I'd previously never read.