and it rules so far!!!

Looks good to me

for me
some stuff I dig some less so

i am reading The Two Towers.

The Nibelungenlied

Reading "Only Revolutions" by Mark Z. Danielewski



it's pretty out there.

wish i had the patience to read. maybe it would make me smarter?

brian_dc said:

What do you think of it? I was a HUGE fan of House of Leaves, and I was dying for Danielewski to put something new out, so much so that I spent an hour trying to order The Fifty Year Sword (a book he wrote and released only in the Netherlands 500 copies in Dutch 500 in English) off a Dutch website. I went to Borders to buy Only Revolutions, read a half a dozen pages and just got mad. Is there any solid prose in the whole book or is it all weird poetic stuff?

I'm trying to read James Joyce "Portrait of An Artist as a Young Man" but it's taking a back seat to GRE studying. Recently I've read some pretty great stuff though:

Tom Perotta "Little Children' (10x better than the movie)
James Baldwin "Go Tell it on the Mountain"
John Fante "Full of Life"
John Fante "1939 Was a bad Year"
Charles Bukowski "Factotum"

Just finished the Dark Tower series from Stephen King. Absolutely amazing. Now I'm reading Catcher In the Rye - which aint bad.

xmikex said:


I kind of feel the same way as you. I think the only reason I'm still reading it is because I'm waiting for it to come together somehow. I don't know whether or not to just stop reading the historical stuff on the side along with it or not...I think if I did that I might be able to follow the parallels in the two parts better.

oh, but it's all poetic stuff. I haven't found any real prose in there yet.

i don't have time to read right now, but i'll probably pick up a book to read in january.

I'm reading a book about the Coelocanth called A Fish Caught in Time, it rules.

Demon Haunted World-Carl Sagan

In the Lion's Court: Power, Ambition and Sudden Death in the Reign of Henry VIII by Derek Wilson

FuckIsMySignature said:

i recently finished "Wizard and Glass" and it was fucking amazing. there is still so much fucking reading left to finish the series.

xmikex said:


Bukowski Rules!!!! Go rent Barfly with Mickey Rourke. Loosely based on Charles.

Wolves of the Calla was probably my favorite in the series

BlackoutRick said:

I have the Bukowski "Born into This" documentary, and he pretty much said he hated the Barfly movie. I haven't seen it myself. I'm kind of scared to see the Factotum movie.

i'm ready for a drink

this comic book kicks ass im going to get the second volume in a few minutes

yay for zombies!

better than the movie

brian_dc said:

Danielewski is a great prose writer, and it's really disappointing to see him put out a book that doesn't demonstrate that. I mean, Borges is obviously a huge huge influence on him, and Borges was always pretty far out there, but the guy at least put together recognizable sentences. House of Leaves afforded him a lot of creative license (I guess he had to walk away from a couple publishers intitially with HoL because they refused to do the weird typesetting) and it seemed like he used it all to put together a show-offy pile of shit instead of the real novel we'd all been - very patiently - waiting for him to write.

I dunno, you tell me. I'll probably pick up a copy of it at some point, but I just didn't want to pay $30 when I'm sure there'll be PLENTY of used copies on Amazon in a month.

I've been wanting to read "The Shining" again.

Also: yay for book threads.

Zarathustra's Secret

Anyone else hate Maya Angelou as much as I do?

xmikex said:

Right here.

for a minute i was thinking of Jade Angelou, the daughter of Sean Connery's character in "The Rock". hahahahahahahaha that movie is awesome.

Womack?! i should have known you piece of sssshhhit.

Yeti said:

What a glorious film.

Sean Connery wipes his ass with "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"

DestroyYouAlot said:

I used to have the same book and back when I was like 11 I used to jerk off to all the female monsters who have crudely sketch boobs.

there was a sphinx looking chick in the back with a nice pencil'd-on rack. She was my favorate.

pam said:

have you ever formed an original opinion in your entire life?

So I have to like a terrible, pretentious, overrated writer or I am unoriginal now? Why don't you grow a name before you speak.

Bukowski is king
That Joyce book's on my list too, but I bet it is trying huh?
I haven't seen Factotum yet either, I was also scared but my father (who is the only person I know who loves Bukowski more than I do) loved it so I think it's worth checking out

trying to get through the hot zone. It was reccomended to me by a girl who said that it was like 1984 with gore. So far, there is just gore and no '84.

y_ddraig_goch said:

Nice! So are all of the books in English now?

I'm going through My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist by Leyner and Leopold's Ghost, a pretty cursory account of Leopold's rape of Africa.

Dar said:

Portrait of An Artist... is a little trying, yes. There's a lot of Irish political history, and coloquialisms used, and you have to constantly refer to the footnotes. Joyce has got some pretty interesting stuff to say if you can get past all that.

Yeti said:

how can you like that nick cage is in it?

its not the movies i hate, its Nicolas Cage. i like alot of movies he was in, i just think he was terrible in them.

ahh i see. .what others? con air?face off? both pretty good movies.. but while i like nick cage.. i agree the acting is pretty mediocre in most of his movies

I know it sounds cliche, but I took it from the BornSoVile collection.

CNV said:

Good to know! I finished Apocalypse Culture just recently and have been interested in checking out some other Feral House publications.

I'm also interested in checking out The Omnivore's Dilema. The author was on the Colbert Report a while back and had some interesting things to say about how our diets are (d)evolving.

I'm also reading Dante's Divine Comedy again, although this particular translation is a bit dissapointing so far.

A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Buddhism - Plain and Simple by Steve Hagen

Zen Keys byThich Nhat Hanh

SinisterMinister said:

is that any easier to read than Beyond Good and Evil?

yeti - it's a shorter work altogther. relentless Nietzsche nonetheless.

CABAL- Clive Barker

Movie=Night Breed

A Long Way Down - Nick Hornby

is he anything like bruce hornsby?

Quite.

i'll pick up a copy asap

Love all Stephenson books.
But if you've never read him, I recommend SNOW CRASH!

Reading is for uptight white people. I'm listening to rap music, smoking a blunt and watching the Chappelle show on TIVO. Now that's fucking multicultural.

PryoryofSyn said:

Awesome. I liked Zodiac a lot, too.

xmikex said:

one of my favorites. the way he just quits his jobs and basically tells the bosses to fuck off makes Henry Chinaski my personal hero.

i just started this:



-ryan

Just picked this up the other day...

the rooster said:

That's a killer book. Read it 2x.

Awesome book I've finally started reading...



It's about a sideshow family of freaks and it's amazing.

i wrote a short story about circus freaks back in highschool. my teacher was convinced i'd become a famous writer.

I also got an early birthday gift:


... and although it's a lot of artwork, there are a few essays and notes on his paintings etc. If you're at all a fan of low-brow artwork or just fucked up shit in general, check him out.

*ahem* That's Joe Coleman, by the way.

The only thing I have time to read right now is my textbooks. :(



Granted I am happy to be learning something about electronics, it is SO dry.

I'm currently reading the posts in this thread.

I like jacking off so hard my cock shoots powdered milk.

that should have said "but it is SO dry"

Book Two of the Earth Chronicles: The Stairway to Heaven

Granny_Monster said:

Fuck yeah Coleman's the shit.

Plato: The Republic And Other Works

^ Good luck charm or primitive tampon????

You decide.

Hahaha

I read "It's Not About Me" by Max Lucado when I dookie.

Troll said:

I actually thought it was a tampon at first glance!

Im reading Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk... pretty awesome so far

The Heebie Jeebies at CBGB's : A Secret history of jewish Punk

Granny_Monster said:


the omnivores dilemma is awesome! I just finished it, and if you follow michael pollan, then the stuff with following the cow through its life cycle and asessing all the resources used to raise it will not be news to you. I would suggest reading the botany of desire as well if you havent read it yet.

some books ive been reading/read recently:

Not in His Image- John Lash
Shamans- Mircea Eliade
tibetan book of living and dying - sogyal rimpoche
the mayan factor- jose aguelles
i also want to check out Arguelles' new book Time and the Technosphere

finally reading House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski

the rooster said:


have you read "choke"?

Danielski is Pynchon for white trash.

Right now I'm reading Naked Lunch by Burroughs. Weiiiird book. Before this I was finally reading Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas. After I finish this I'm probably gonna read some Robert Cormier (technically a young-adult author but he's really good so whatever).

Stephen King - On Writing

xmikex said:

Factotum was good. I didn't know he hated Barfly. He wrote the play for it for chrissakes.

just started this, but seems interesting so far
meanwhile, ive been reading a brief history of time on and off and recently finished "UBIK" by Philip K. Dick which was fucking AWESOME