Bob Dylan

The one about JFK/time-travelling was the most interesting SK I've read in a decade, since his memoir. Perhaps because I think that when he goes away from pure horror he's at his best (The Stand, Different Seasons, Misery, etc..)

http://infinitesummer.org/ INFINITE JEST ALL SUMMER LONG BITCHES One summer = 90 days = only about 15 pages a day will put you through the book!

Well these days he's collaborating with Marc Streitenfeld on most of his movies.

FTFY

LOL this is why his autobiography is awesome, all the ways he uses motherfucker (and all the possible variations) in it. He's a true motherfucker!

Only the first story was worth it! (The intestine-in-the-pool one)

Never read it! Told myself it was time before I grow too old of "coming-of-age" books : Because I like large contrasts between the two books I'm reading, this is my bed book :

Don Draper is the CEO of Ponomusic. It's also not a "portable" player, it is not made for portability actually.

His Master's Voice is his most popular work after Solaris. It's like Sagan's Contact, but wrote in the most hard scientific way.

Lem's His Master's Voice was an amazing book for me, all the realism it felt like a documentary on first contact. I've got Fiasco somewhere in my bookshelves just waiting for the right moment.

I'm in a post-apocalyptic mood but 50's style. It's probably gonna last half a year, I have a lot to read (Level 7, Alas Babylon, Swan Song, etc...). But as a start, this is really beautiful :

First Pynchon and it's GR? That's not the good way, but still good job being at half-way point! Most first-reader won't make it pass page 45 or something similar. GR should be the end of a journey through Pynchon.

The Baroque Cycle is full of insight, colorful characters, items of historical interest, modernized excesses of baroque-era prose (NS doesn't really try too hard to hew to historical grammatical or literary convention) and digressive thought, passages of tedium and reward, parodic absurdity, anachronism, humor, &c. Reamde, in contrast, is honestly about as straightforward as a 900 page beach-reading technothriller complete with underdeveloped islamic terrorist villains and a 100-plus-page shootout sequence gets. The quality of the sentence-by-sentence prose is certainly a step up from, e.g., Tom Clancy, but it's honestly missing most of what makes NS at least idiosyncratic/problematic/interesting. IMO. It's just a bit of fun, I guess. It's sort of just: ooh, more guns. Going from, say, Anathem to Reamde is like you've just gone from watching a full season of the Wire with all of its complex characterization and threading and concern with the function and dysfunction of inescapable institutions to watching some HBO-requested spinoff series in which Brother Mouzone is the central character and just look at how nonchalant and badass he is, wow. I'm probably being too hard on Reamde because I did have fun reading it. But I was a little disappoint. Indeed, Reamde had so much wasted potential, I still think that his prose was wasted with this book. But like you, I finished the book and told myself "ok that was still a fucking nice roller-coaster!"

please expand... i'm reading the "normal" one (I guess)... what's in the revisited? He wrote a 100 page non-fiction analysis of the book thirty years later called "Brave New World Revisited". A lot of the versions of the book actually have it attached to the end of the original.

Just remember to read the "revisited" after it!

I would read the A C Clarke book. I remember reading this when I was a late teen, about humanity and how it changes through 1 billion years, and how it was written, like some form of bible. The kind of book you could re-read when you're fifty again.

Oh I'm really waiting for Danielewski's next book, The Familiar, due who-the-fuck-knows when. It's supposed to be a serial book, published each 3 months, and it'll be 27 volumes.

I bought it, but still haven't read it. It look like such a task, I back off every time I go to start it. It's not that hard, House of Leaves is not that of a big book, and there's large portions of text where a page will be read in 30 seconds or less. It's a descriptive kind of writing, it's not that hard to read, thought it demands a lot of imagination on the reader's part. P.s.: Get the hardcover version if possible, it's one of those books where it's just better to have it bigger / more solid

somebody who needs to read it ASAP! p.s.: House

I always lol when I see MJ's books, especially the whisky stuff, because I imagine myself the singer just trying out some scotch and getting drunk after two drams.

Having read all the previous ones (including the Indiana Jones), it was logical to get this : Probably the most "Boards of Canada" series ever :

Because Jim Davis approved of the book, he even draw some additional panels.

Thanks, it's great to know (having finished Wool last year) that reading the next book is worth it! :)

Nihilism and cynicism, that's a nice combo!