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am reading italo svevo, "a life"

-- cozen (skiplevel...) (webmail), June 14th, 2006 12:22 AM. (Cozen) (link)

So, so good!

(I'm reading a Hans Christian Andersen bio).

― Damn, Atreyu! (x Jeremy), Sunday, 9 July 2006 02:58 (seventeen years ago) link

an instance of the fingerpost by iain pears
and from hell by allan moore & eddie campbell

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Sunday, 9 July 2006 03:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Chuck Palahniuk's Diary, and all four of John Fante's Arturo Bandini books are the most recent reads for me. May reread Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics next.

― ALLAH FROG (Mingus Dew), Sunday, 9 July 2006 04:00 (seventeen years ago) link

from hell by allan moore & eddie campbell

I just finished Watchmen .... pretty cool. I had never read of Allan Moore's stuff before.

also PKD's Valis was great

― dmr (Renard), Sunday, 9 July 2006 13:42 (seventeen years ago) link

read *any* of

― dmr (Renard), Sunday, 9 July 2006 13:42 (seventeen years ago) link

i just read who's afraid of virginia woolf? as an easy one for times when brain is not functioning. i started pride and prejudice cause somehow i never read it and i had it but i'm like 5 pages in and annoyed by girls who just wanna get married.

― tehresa, who will here remain anonymous (tehresa), Sunday, 9 July 2006 14:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I just finished Watchmen .... pretty cool. I had never read of Allan Moore's stuff before.

wha????? I read Watchmen like once a year.

Currently into The Economy of Cities, by Jane Jacobs. It makes me want to punch every hippy and/or redneck nimby right in the face.

― gbx (skowly), Sunday, 9 July 2006 15:11 (seventeen years ago) link

After taking a long break from it, I am now back to Pessoa's "The Book of Disquiet". It's amazing, and it is a weirdly potent kind of mood-intoxicant. It kind of paralyzes you with ennui.

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Sunday, 9 July 2006 16:15 (seventeen years ago) link

wha?????

haha I knew that was coming .... playing catch-up over here! don't laugh!

― dmr (Renard), Monday, 10 July 2006 01:00 (seventeen years ago) link

guys our lady of the flowers is the best book i have ever read (maybe) and i'm only on pg 112

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Monday, 10 July 2006 01:16 (seventeen years ago) link

new yorker summer fiction issue

― killy (baby lenin pin), Monday, 10 July 2006 01:28 (seventeen years ago) link

The best novel I've ever read is The Green Knight by Iris Murdoch.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 10 July 2006 01:50 (seventeen years ago) link

VALIS is really trippy, innit? The PKD I've read:

Three Stigmata of Palmer Erdrich
Valis
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
Man in the High Castle
Scanner Darkly

so what should I scoop up next?

― Damn, Atreyu! (x Jeremy), Monday, 10 July 2006 12:25 (seventeen years ago) link

UBIK.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 10 July 2006 12:33 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah Ubik is good, I read that one a few months before Valis. Valis is probably better, a little more of a mind-fuck ... but I liked both ...

I think that list above names all the other ones I've read ...

― dmr (Renard), Monday, 10 July 2006 13:30 (seventeen years ago) link

definitely ubik. also try now wait for last year, time out of joint, and do androids dream of electric sheep.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 10 July 2006 13:34 (seventeen years ago) link

the world jones made is pretty good, too.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 10 July 2006 13:34 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.jazzrecordcenter.com/store/images/miles1021.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0738202037.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― Dominique (dleone), Monday, 10 July 2006 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link

along the jane jacobs line i just started paul goodman's communitas

a silly academic (perhaps too much so) thing called greenwich village 1963: the avant garde and the efervescent body

also a bunch a breton and alfred jarry and joseph cornell's diaries

spent sat night rereading another country..a deathwish encouraged by a bottle of whiskey.

will pick up some djuna barnes at the library later

x-post I: i don't buy our lady of the flowers...when i started it, years ago, i was entranced...finished it about two years ago without a care. sometimes depravity just ends up vacant? i don't know...what do people get from it?..i'm always a bit envious when i fail to see the charm in things, gluton that i am.

x-post II: i should reread the book of disquiet. i started it in college, but it didn't feel right at the time. maybe it will never feel right, but im glad you reminded me of it, drew

― bb (bbrz), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Autobiography of Betrand Russell
Time Enough for Love - Heinlein
Playgrounds of the Mind - Niven

― Songbirds of Darker Florida (cprek), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link

ny people i am new - where is a good used book store?

― tehresa, who will here remain anonymous (tehresa), Monday, 10 July 2006 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link

THE STRAND.
BROADWAY & 12TH.

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Monday, 10 July 2006 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link

tx ian!

― tehresa, who will here remain anonymous (tehresa), Monday, 10 July 2006 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link

in one of those modes where I've started all these books and can't really get into one (they all seem good, it's no knock on the books themselves):

Neil Gaimen - American Gods
David Foster Wallace - Consider the Lobster
Joseph Conrad - Lord Jim
Steve Kent - The Clone Republic (sci-fi paperback a friend of mine recently god published)

― M@tt He1geson, Rendolent Ding-Dong (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:24 (seventeen years ago) link

the strand is amazing. don't go there looking for anything in particular, though. you need to have some free time and be in a serious browsing mood. alabaster on 4th ave and 12th st is really good as well, but a completely different style - small and orderly. there's also a fantastic place run by an eccentric old man that i found in the west village during a rainstorm a few years ago, but it seems to have disappeared brigadoon-style.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link

there's also a second Strand near Wall St if you happen to be way downtown .... but the Union Sq one is better

― dmr (Renard), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link

isn't the strand where michael caine buys that ee cummings book in hannah & her sisters?

― Dominique (dleone), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link

i like e village books on st. marks...but they can be pricey...lots of good people on the street near nyu library on saturdays...but again..can be pricey...if yr just looking for nothng in particular and are in brooklyn theres the thing and that dude's wife's place down the street on manhattan ave. piles of stuff, some good, some not even fit for toilet paper.

― bb (bbrz), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link

A Most Damnable Invention: Dynamite, Nitrates and the Making of the Modern World by Stephen R. Brown

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 10 July 2006 18:01 (seventeen years ago) link

girlsarepretty.com is unusually painful today

― milton parker (Jon L), Monday, 10 July 2006 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link

box office poison
tiny giants
acme novelty date book
orthodoxy
some ginnnnsberg interview book
chunklet over-rated book
tech books of relevance, cookbooks, study guides, hacks, etc.
m.

― msp (mspa), Monday, 10 July 2006 22:14 (seventeen years ago) link

SCOTT PILGRIM VOL. 2
UMBRA

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Monday, 10 July 2006 22:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Matt Briggs Shoot The Buffalo

― Igor Adkins (Grodd), Monday, 10 July 2006 23:03 (seventeen years ago) link

muriel spark, loitering with intent.

― estela (estela), Monday, 10 July 2006 23:18 (seventeen years ago) link

COLLISION AT HOME PLATE
YOU GOTTA HAVE WA
SEASONS IN HELL

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 01:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Into the Wild
the big book of TC Boyle short stories that I bought for "The Hector Quesadilla Story"

― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 01:27 (seventeen years ago) link

right now I am just reading a lot of French newspapers talking about Zidane. I really need to focus on something else soon, though!

― dar1a g (daria g), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 02:13 (seventeen years ago) link

The Trouble With Tom - Paul Collins
The Know-It-All - A.J. Jacobs
The Men Who Stare At Goats - Jon Ronson
Infinite Jest. AGAIN. WHY?

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 03:24 (seventeen years ago) link

a biography of Robert Mitchum & some book about flappers

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 03:25 (seventeen years ago) link

you don't need to read infinite jest to be a good person. trust me, i'd never touch it and i'm a great person

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 03:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Looking back at my list, if I just established a "read only books that start with THE *" rule, I could probably live out the rest of my life a much happier person.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 03:41 (seventeen years ago) link

don't re-read infinite jest, it's a trap, that book is as empty as a soap dish at the local dump

― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 04:30 (seventeen years ago) link

The noize biard has set me free.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 04:36 (seventeen years ago) link

i loved loved loved infinite jest but wondering how dated it is and how much i would love it now plus obv it's length stops me from rereading it.

anyhow my so-dull so-sad list

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 04:37 (seventeen years ago) link

you guys all have the weirdest taste and i can't understand

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 04:42 (seventeen years ago) link

ALSO:

Finley Wren - Philip Wylie (AGAIN, BUT ALWAYS WORTH IT)

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 04:48 (seventeen years ago) link

The Planets -- Dava Sobel

astronomy for liberal arts dummies, explained in clear beautiful prose. if I didn't live in a city, I'd go buy a telescope.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 09:04 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm reading The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics by Bruce J Schulman. i'm about halfway through it so far, it hasn't delved very far in depth about any particular issue. so no great revelations but the part about nixon's presidency was interesting because i don't think i totally grasped what a shrewd motherfucker that guy was. and he was both shrewd and a motherfucker. right now the book is focusing on the rising political and economic influence of the south and the "reddening of america". nice summer time read.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 12:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I jsut read that awhile back, pretty much agree. I highly reccomend the recent 1973 Nervous Breakdown by Andreas Killen. He pulls a lot of disparate strands together w/o straining for effect.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 12:31 (seventeen years ago) link

i wrote it down, will investigate.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 12:49 (seventeen years ago) link

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