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the mark kurlansky book on oysters and new york

and 20 other books

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Monday, 27 March 2006 15:55 (eighteen years ago) link

can somebody tell me about edward de bono?

― bb (bbrz), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Bill "Spaceman" Lee - The Little Red (Sox) Book
new National Geographic
WSJ weekend edition

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:26 (eighteen years ago) link

NOPE, JUST A BOOK ABOUT FIXING YR BROKED MT. BIKE.

IT HAS FUNNY ILLUSTRATIONS.

― ddb (ddb), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:27 (eighteen years ago) link

http://efi.group.shef.ac.uk/bib/s323blocks.jpg
Blocks of Consciousness and the Unbroken Continuum (2005)
This is a book + DVD about electronic free improv (Erstwhile Records type stuff, onkyo, post-AMM soundz)

― Dominique (dleone), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:40 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Send Me, a debut novel by Patrick Ryan

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:01 (eighteen years ago) link

i miss adamrl.

i am reading
the saskiad by brian hall
and
blood & grits by harry crews

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:10 (eighteen years ago) link

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― autovac (autovac), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:33 (eighteen years ago) link

i've spent the last 2 days writing a paper on

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but fun reading is

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peter straub's anthology of hoity-toity fantasy.

― adam (adam), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:53 (eighteen years ago) link

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― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:59 (eighteen years ago) link

i had a field day at the library today...

Theodore Sturgeon The Ultimate Egoist Vol 1
John Julius Norwich A Short History of Byzantium
the autobiography of Mark Twain
The Best American Science Writing 2005
The Letters of H.L. Mencken
PKD The Penultimate Truth
Orwell Keep The Aspidistra Flying

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Thursday, 11 May 2006 21:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Sinclair Lewis - Babbitt (skimmed)
Peter Doyle - Echo And Reverb: Fabricating Space in Popular Music Recording, 1900-1960
"An Ives Celebration" - ed. Vivian Perlis
Osamu Dazai - The Setting Sun

all great, except for 'Babbitt'

― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 11 May 2006 21:26 (eighteen years ago) link

nick tosches, "cut numbers"

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 11 May 2006 21:28 (eighteen years ago) link

BOING BOING

― JW (ex machina), Thursday, 11 May 2006 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link

http://chadsreviews.com/why-this-exists/pix-from-bees/

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 11 May 2006 21:34 (eighteen years ago) link

yea, i posted that on my del.icio.us. so rad!!!

― JW (ex machina), Thursday, 11 May 2006 21:40 (eighteen years ago) link

scamming on office skanks

― lf (lfam), Thursday, 11 May 2006 23:25 (eighteen years ago) link

also reading & using one of these: http://www.cycling74.com/download/lemur_c74.pdf

― milton parker (Jon L), Friday, 12 May 2006 00:04 (eighteen years ago) link

YUPPIE

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 12 May 2006 00:17 (eighteen years ago) link

like I paid for it

― milton parker (Jon L), Friday, 12 May 2006 00:19 (eighteen years ago) link

(it's only a loaner though)

― milton parker (Jon L), Friday, 12 May 2006 00:21 (eighteen years ago) link

who cares... looks cool.

...

xsl book
random safari.oreilly titles
"aeiou" by jeffrey brown
complete shorts of mark twain

― msp (mspa), Friday, 12 May 2006 02:00 (eighteen years ago) link

mimi sheraton: the bialy eaters: the story of a bread and a lost world
joshua gamson - the fabulous sylvester
marion nestle - what to eat
t.j. english - paddy whacked: the untold story of the irish american gangster
michael bronksi - culture clash: the making a of a gay sensibility

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Friday, 12 May 2006 02:12 (eighteen years ago) link

thanks to cut number i finally understand the numbers racket.

flann o'brein's at swim-two-birds
raymond queneau's stories and remarks.

both entirely recommendable

― bb (bbrz), Friday, 12 May 2006 12:25 (eighteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

killy: lover's discourse, c/d? i am reading barthes' mythologies now and it is really noize. what's a noise dude reading.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 00:55 (eighteen years ago) link

winston churchill the second world war volume 2: their finest hour

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 01:00 (eighteen years ago) link

& just finished evan eisenberg's the recording angel, which is fantastic, especially once he reaches the middle chapter 'phonography', ditches the anthropology and just sails away into abstract truest space

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 01:04 (eighteen years ago) link

caitlin: my post up above was just a joek in response to allocryptic's post. can't remember shit about that book, but i can see the spine from across the room, so C. last time i said something positiv about barthes i got yelled at by some drunk dude at sun city girls show who was like "what are u, 25? get a life! barthes is gay! john barth rules!"

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 01:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Wouldn't 25 be a compliment?

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 01:18 (eighteen years ago) link

I started a really boring novel about junkies last night (Luke Davies, 'Candy'), but I think I'm going to toss it aside in favor of the new Pevear translations of The Double and the Gambler.

I'm on a Russian kick for the summer, do any noizers have a favorite translation of The Death of Ivan Ilyich?

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 01:23 (eighteen years ago) link

john barth? does anyone read stuff by that guy? i don't even know who he are

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 01:30 (eighteen years ago) link

i know lots of peeps who are into john barth, matter of fact. he writes fiction.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 01:34 (eighteen years ago) link

ok i knew that but i didn't know people cared! i thought he was just some guy

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 01:37 (eighteen years ago) link

he's "just some guy" to most people on this Earth, i'd imagine.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 01:38 (eighteen years ago) link

I found Barth's Chimera at a thrift store and read the first of the 3 sections .... the Arabian Nights one ... I could see how it was probably groundbreaking as far as metafiction goes but since meta is so played out now (or at least, I have read my fill of it for a long time) it seemed pretty dated

most recently I read Secret Rendezvous by Kobo Abe. It was OK but I liked The Ruined Map better ...

― Renard (Renard), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 02:00 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't know what is a good translation of Ivan Ilych.. but I usually like translations that are pointing a little more at the source language that they sound somewhat different than modern English, even awkward at times, not so polished. I tried to learn Russian (didn't give enough time/effort to be good at it) but with the way the language is structured it seems to configure space differently. weird.

I was reading "In a country of mothers" by AM Homes - just a whim - it's OK, I think she's probably written better stuff though.

― dar1a g (daria g), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 02:23 (eighteen years ago) link

the book of revelation

― latebloomer's potater chip of the proletariat (latebloomer), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 02:24 (eighteen years ago) link

The only good Barth I've read has been The Sot-Weed Factor. Everything else has been cutesy indie rock shit.

Currently reading PAMELA which is v good and Watson's book about Zappa which is slightly less good. Also The Book of Margery Kempe which is not by choice and less good (or at least less interesting) than all three of the above.

― adam (adam), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 02:36 (eighteen years ago) link

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― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 03:02 (eighteen years ago) link

jimmy mcdonough's bio of andy milligan
saramago "blindness"
mailer "the naked and the dead"
howard "conan the conqueror"

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 03:41 (eighteen years ago) link

i just read "the three stigmata of eldritch palmer" in one evening. did a lot better than when i was a sixth-grader. i think i stopped "getting it" sometime around the sixth or seventh chapter back then ... this time i could follow it almost all the way to the end. i got more of the jokes and references this time around, too. particularly the dirty ones and the ones about religion. weird, that.

now back to "miles runs the voodoo down" (phil d freeman is the shit!)

― renegade bear shot by cops on frat row (vahid), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 05:17 (eighteen years ago) link

hmm...I almosted posted this on the enemies list yesterday:

The Plugged Nickel box is amazing, most of all because Miles is the weakest link in the band a lot of the time (and I really don't like Wayne Shorter very much at all).
-- pdf

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 09:10 (eighteen years ago) link

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― and what (ooo), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 12:40 (eighteen years ago) link

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― and what (ooo), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 12:41 (eighteen years ago) link

The only good Barth I've read has been The Sot-Weed Factor. Everything else has been cutesy indie rock shit.

YA RLY. anything that can be described as "smart and funny" usually doesn't sit well with me.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 12:43 (eighteen years ago) link

well, not anything. i just have some specific, annoying writers in mind.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 12:47 (eighteen years ago) link

First part of Chimera is pretty great.

― danski (danski), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 20:33 (eighteen years ago) link

kevin lynch's the image of the city, which is on my summer reading list for school. i bought it today at the art/architecture bookstore on wilshire in santa monica.

― sometimes it takes an earthquake to know where the fault lies (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 8 June 2006 00:44 (eighteen years ago) link

that looks like a good read. please give update when finished.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Thursday, 8 June 2006 01:41 (eighteen years ago) link

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― Q('.'Q) (eman), Thursday, 8 June 2006 01:46 (eighteen years ago) link

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