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henry james >>>> everybody else on this thread

― and what (ooo), Thursday, 8 June 2006 13:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Calvino sucks a million dicks.

― adam (adam), Thursday, 8 June 2006 14:00 (eighteen years ago) link

thank u

― and what (ooo), Thursday, 8 June 2006 14:03 (eighteen years ago) link

i always imagine him as the sleazy dude from the onion 'european men are so romantic' point-counterpoint

― and what (ooo), Thursday, 8 June 2006 14:08 (eighteen years ago) link

I have this idea of him as a Eurotrash David Foster Wallace, which is pretty much the same thing.

― adam (adam), Thursday, 8 June 2006 14:14 (eighteen years ago) link

henry james is boring

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 8 June 2006 14:21 (eighteen years ago) link

actually the only guy i like is balzac

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 8 June 2006 14:26 (eighteen years ago) link

calvino's collection of italian folktales is great.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 8 June 2006 14:34 (eighteen years ago) link

what james have you read?

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 8 June 2006 14:35 (eighteen years ago) link

(i am only being contentious and really don't have that strong of an opinion on henry james). i have read 2 things by him (long time ago) but i forgot what they were. i think daisy miller? and something else. i don't like stuff from that period usually, though. i really do like balzac! and flaubert.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 8 June 2006 14:38 (eighteen years ago) link

but what about invisible cities? do you hate that too (addressed to everyone who dissed calvino)? that's the only one i like.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Thursday, 8 June 2006 14:47 (eighteen years ago) link

i love balzac & flaubert

― and what (ooo), Thursday, 8 June 2006 14:49 (eighteen years ago) link

if you had to read james for jr high/high school, then i'm not surprised if you hate him (though you might hate him no matter what- who knows?) as he's one of the most badly-taught authors.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 8 June 2006 14:56 (eighteen years ago) link

i read him on my own. i will try again someday

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 8 June 2006 15:15 (eighteen years ago) link

'On biting the tongue' is pretty great.

― danski (danski), Thursday, 8 June 2006 15:57 (eighteen years ago) link

'On Hashish' is pretty great. walter benjamin making up cutesy silly names for objects in his field of vision.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Thursday, 8 June 2006 16:12 (eighteen years ago) link

if you love Balzac and Flaubert, you might like Portrait of a Lady better than Daisy Miller. if you don't like Portrait, the later James will just piss you off, though.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 8 June 2006 16:42 (eighteen years ago) link

Calvino rules! F the haters.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Thursday, 8 June 2006 18:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Calvino rules! F the haters.

if on a winter's night a traveller makes my head spin. in the best possible way.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 8 June 2006 18:21 (eighteen years ago) link

have any noize dudes read Henry Miller's Time of the Assassins? i'm about 40 pages into it, and so far it just seems like Mr. Miller is comparing himself to Rimbaud. i don't know whether to keep going or leave it on the shelf. does it go anywhere? or does he just keep describing all the little details of his life that correspond to Rimbaud's?

― killy (baby lenin pin), Monday, 12 June 2006 13:03 (eighteen years ago) link

I haven't read that one. I'm not a huge Miller fan. His books, for me, seem to run together into a stream of bitter, lonely sexuality.

That said, I got (for free) a nice copy of his letters to Anais Nin this weekend. Guy at stoop sale gave it to me.

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Monday, 12 June 2006 13:05 (eighteen years ago) link

i got a free copy of one of Ninny's diaries a few weeks ago. it's kind of boring.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Monday, 12 June 2006 13:06 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah. fuckin self-important people be writing books bout theyselves.

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Monday, 12 June 2006 13:09 (eighteen years ago) link

whenever i read henry miller i get the urge to either take a shower or smoke opium

― killy (baby lenin pin), Monday, 12 June 2006 13:10 (eighteen years ago) link

a stream of bitter, lonely sexuality.

You mean there's another kind?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 June 2006 13:21 (eighteen years ago) link

ugh. i hate henry miller.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 12 June 2006 13:23 (eighteen years ago) link

i am kind of feeling the same way after trying to read this Rimbaud jerk-off

― killy (baby lenin pin), Monday, 12 June 2006 13:31 (eighteen years ago) link

I love Portrait of a Lady and second the recommend for M de Certeau, I read part of that & quite enjoyed. Also what about Walter Benjamin's arcades project - too obvious? Bachelard, The Poetics of Space.

Here is what I am reading
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/covers/0596000359_cat.gif

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 12 June 2006 13:56 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah, arcades project if you have a really, really long time.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Monday, 12 June 2006 14:11 (eighteen years ago) link

midnights children yo

― SQUARECOATS (plsmith), Monday, 12 June 2006 14:12 (eighteen years ago) link

I have to get this one next!

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/covers/0596007655_cat.gif

"I read an amazing book recently that's a f***ing manifesto for my philosophies on information on the web and through other connected technologies. The book is Ambient Findability, and it's a short read, but dense with inspiration. It talks about everything from defining a document (animal in wild != document, animal in zoo = document, but what about animal in wild with RFID tag?) to person-tracking to folksonomy to the long tail to ambient information to wearable computing."
--StephtheGeek, March 2006

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 12 June 2006 16:18 (eighteen years ago) link

chapter 1, page 1: "I'm sitting on a beach in Newport, Rhode Island."

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 12 June 2006 16:21 (eighteen years ago) link

the sagas of icelanders
william burroughs - the soft machine
richard rhodes - the making of the atomic bomb (re-read)

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 12 June 2006 16:22 (eighteen years ago) link

I hate technical software books. Daria, rec me some shit like that

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Monday, 12 June 2006 16:29 (eighteen years ago) link

holy shit dar1a that sounds sweet

― SQUARECOATS (plsmith), Monday, 12 June 2006 16:34 (eighteen years ago) link

I am really a super novice here, but we need one (1) CMS + thesauras + metadata + serious information design to really make some of our web sites work, so I picked up the O'Reilly book on IA, although I don't remember where I found out about it. it's from 2002 so I bet a lot of new cool stuff has come out since then.

Oh shit, from the recommended list in the back of that book:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0226468046

also see blogs:
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/
http://www.informationdesign.org/

"A reading list for aspiring knowledge workers"
http://futuretense.corante.com/archives/2006/02/27/a_reading_list_for_aspiring_knowledge_workers.php

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 12 June 2006 17:15 (eighteen years ago) link

SCOTT PILGRIM VOL 1 -3

― ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ (chaki), Monday, 12 June 2006 17:18 (eighteen years ago) link

I need to reread that Richard Rhodes book as well

I'm reading Yamaha's Sound Reinforcement Handbook, bible of live sound mixing tech from the early 80's

― milton parker (Jon L), Monday, 12 June 2006 17:23 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah... i've seen the IA book... wanted AF... i've got a sub to safari books online... i'll have to check em out.
m.

― msp (mspa), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 01:31 (eighteen years ago) link

and what i can't believe you're dissing calvino but reading a PAUL AUSTER book... ew...

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 02:31 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm reading austerlitz by wg "og" sebald right now... going to maybe read tropical truth next (is it actually good)? and/or barney's version by mordecai richler.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 02:32 (eighteen years ago) link

'If Chins Could Kill' - Bruce Campbell's autobiography

― S- (sgh), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 03:21 (eighteen years ago) link

i borrowed a harry partch book from teh ian yesterday, but it will probably take me some time to actually read it because i am a drunk.

― tehresa, who will here remain anonymous (tehresa), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 03:23 (eighteen years ago) link

also working on a pdf (hi, tedious!) of the libretto for britten's the rape of lucretia. ok, the libretto is actually by duncan, but i hear britten in my head while i read.

― tehresa, who will here remain anonymous (tehresa), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 03:26 (eighteen years ago) link

an advance copy of This Is Your Brain On Music by Steven Leviten, he's a neuroscientist and former record producer who explains how we perceive and process music. It's written for a general audience but he doesn't gussy up the cognitive or mathematical underpinnings of music theory w/fancypants prose.

this book is blowing my mind, bros.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 09:03 (eighteen years ago) link

neat.

I have a safari sub as well (@work) but would it kill them to make the interface better so that the books are actually readable?

― dar1a g (daria g), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 10:32 (eighteen years ago) link

its Daniel Levitin - i saw the webpage for that bk a couple of weeks ago:

http://www.yourbrainonmusic.com/

― xyzzzz__ (jdesouza), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 10:38 (eighteen years ago) link

oops early AM posting is my downfall. i'd be interested in yr take Julio. Dr. Daniel is really takin this liberal arts dude to school.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 11:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Walter Tevis' The Man Who Fell to Earth (unexpectedly included in the library's Criterion Collection DVD of the Roeg film)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 18:47 (eighteen years ago) link

I made it through high school and part of college without ever reading a word of Philip Roth, so I started Portnoy's Complaint. Thru 125 or so, I am not sold.

― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 19:40 (eighteen years ago) link

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