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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

The Men Who Stare At Goats - Jon Ronson

this was close to being really good but in the end I just didn't believe half the shit the guy was saying (which was a drawback when he starts trying to make serious points about the Iraq war).

― dmr (Renard), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 13:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Pulpy red-scare summer read, just finished:

http://g-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/3a/4d/015bd250fca0fb1f9e578010._AA240_.L.jpg

Apparently they made a movie of it starring:
Rutger Hauer
John Hurt
Craig T. Nelson
& Dennis Hopper

which I obviously have to rent now

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah the movie's great. Like the Big Chill with a body count.

The Shockwave Rider - John Brunner
Suicide: No Compromise - David Nobakht

― Alicia Fucking Silverstone (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

the dying animal - phillp roth (just started)
the big sleep - raymond chandler

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Sunday, 30 July 2006 03:09 (seventeen years ago) link

apprenticeship of duddy kravitz - mordecai richler

only i just realized a whole signature (ie 30 pages) is missing argh

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 30 July 2006 03:44 (seventeen years ago) link

forgotten how much it rules though

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 30 July 2006 03:45 (seventeen years ago) link

music from inside out - ned rorem

a little pretentious, but sorta interesting nonetheless

― tehresa needs more out of this relationship than she's willing to put in (tehres, Sunday, 30 July 2006 04:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Mason & Dixon -- one dude
Introductory Essays Into Zen (or something like that) -- D.T. Suzuki

― gbx (skowly), Sunday, 30 July 2006 05:42 (seventeen years ago) link

still reading Lomax's Land Where the Blues Was Born (I think he's a pretty decently great writer -- no try hard, as some allege -- lots of amazing stories here..)

Blues People --- never read it before for some crazy reason, but it's pretty immense

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Sunday, 30 July 2006 05:47 (seventeen years ago) link

just started all the king's men by robert penn warren, it's pretty good so far.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 30 July 2006 09:10 (seventeen years ago) link

WIKIPEDIAS

This leads to a famous Jewish riddle: how can twins born minutes apart have a Bar Mitzvah 28 days apart? Answer: The first child was born just before sunset on 30 Adar, the last day of Adar I, while his twin was born just after sunset on the first of Adar II. In a non-leap year the second twin will have his birthday on 1 Adar, and the first twin 29 days later on 1 Nisan (since there is no 30 Adar in a non leap year). Thus their Bar Mitzvahs, which are held on the Saturday after the boy's 13th birthday, will take place 28 days apart (or even 35 days apart if 1 Adar is a Friday; if the birthday is a Saturday, the Bar Mitzvah takes place a week later, so the older twin will have his Bar Mitzvah on 8 Nisan, 35 days after that of his younger brother on 2 Adar).

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Sunday, 30 July 2006 14:02 (seventeen years ago) link

yo gbx i thought i was sick of one dude but i just started reading gravity's rainbow

― killy (baby lenin pin), Sunday, 30 July 2006 14:18 (seventeen years ago) link

so, you know.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Sunday, 30 July 2006 14:19 (seventeen years ago) link

reading/liking 1973 nervous breakdown now - big ups to m. coleman. finally read consider the lobster recently - considerably sucked! definitely not jumping into any infinite jest reread any time soon.

― j blount (papa la bas), Sunday, 30 July 2006 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I wish I could take back having ever read Infinite Jest. Or, better yet, having ever talked about having read it as if that were a positive thing.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Sunday, 30 July 2006 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link

In ninth grade I may have literally thumped it while saying "genius". :(

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Sunday, 30 July 2006 19:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I just read Lucy the last Astrid Lindgren book, Ronia, the Robber's Daughter. It was good. Reading her a Bobbsey Twins book right now; weird, I originally read her the first three, which were OK, I guess. They were written around 1903-1906 or so, I think. Then we found one in a used book store that was the seventh in the series and it seemed to have been written quite a bit later and was lamer - the kids thought of themselves as *detectives* by this point and were interested in solving mysteries and crimez. Now, we just got the fourth one out of a library and this one must have been written by a different person. They totally changed the way their maid Dinah (who is African-American) was depicted, calling her "colored" and making her speech way more stereotypical. She calls white men, "Massah!"

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 30 July 2006 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link

just finished moneyball and now i'm reading something happened

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Sunday, 30 July 2006 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link

tom johnson, 'the voice of new music'

collected village voice reviews of various ny early 70's loft concerts. look at the table of contents. hard to even imagine what it must have been like.

http://homepage.mac.com/javiruiz/English/booksenglish.html#thevoiceofnewmusic

― milton parker (Jon L), Monday, 31 July 2006 00:00 (seventeen years ago) link

more barthes - writing degree zero (it is good)

― nazi bikini (harbl), Monday, 31 July 2006 00:03 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost
that looks....amazing

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Monday, 31 July 2006 00:05 (seventeen years ago) link

i finish the barthes and now reading "image and reality of the israel-OMG PALETSINE!!!11! conflict" by norman G. finkelstein

has anyone read this book and if so is the whole thing going to be just him pointing out how everyone who has written a pro-israel book has falsified old research data etc. about how bad and hated arabs are? i think it might be kind of a boring book but it is hard to find decent books about this topic, amirite

― nazi bikini (harbl), Saturday, 5 August 2006 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

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