FLA FUR BIS FLE Posted July 13, 2010 Share Posted July 13, 2010 just finishing.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Dylan Posted July 13, 2010 Share Posted July 13, 2010 Oprah told me to read One Hundred Years of Solitude... so of course I didn't. Actually her book club is quite good, it's a nice balance of important intellectual novels and more mainstream stuff. I mean she is actually telling American plain people to read GGM's Love in the Time of Cholera or Ken Follett's Pillar of Earth or East of Eden instead of Da Vinci code crapolas or Twilight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dese manz hatin Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 recently read Breakfast for Champions and Clockwork Orange reading Kafkas Trial, good but not very captivating i need something that results in: suggestions? House Of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewsi Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis anything burroughs? or bob dylan's "tarantula" books that don't make sense yes im going to read some hermann hesse next. what should i start with? steppenwolf? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Z_B_Z Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 ridiculously entertaining. i hope they dont fuck it up with a shitty film adaptation... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest happycase Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 Someone recommend me some Delillo, I've already read White Noise and loved it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest happycase Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 im going to read some hermann hesse next. what should i start with? steppenwolf? I like this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaarg Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 My gf is reading Harry Potter to me before sleep. We're at book 5 now. It's awesome. Actually not awesome but you get the picture. my mom never read books to me when I was really young Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 just finishing.. How does that compare with Eco's other works? I've read "The Name of the Rose" and "Foucault's Pendulum" (i think I preferred "Foucault's Pendulum, but it's a tough choice...). Currently reading for the chen: Barrington Moore: "Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke viia Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 currently reading: Faulkner - "As I Lay Dying" Joseph Campbell - "Myths to Live By" Frank Bacon - "Of Empire" (on the john) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bigs Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 i have crying of lot 49 sitting in my apartment i'm looking for an enjoyable trip should i read it? i've never really read pynchon i also have vineland is it based around paranoia? after having finished lot 49, i'd highly recommend it. great novel! he flows between scenes and voices with such ease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Guest HerculesCzar Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 Just picked up Naked Lunch for cheap $. Does watmm think it's worth reading? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Z_B_Z Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 yes burroughs is weird and amazing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doorjamb Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 duh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marf Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 Time traveller's guide to medieval england...Its fucking awesome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest beatfanatic Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 just finished reading wasnt too impressed with it. kinda lost interest in it halfway through but still finished it since I am a huge Rushdie fan. I wouldnt recommend it though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Franklin Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 reading Underworld by Don Delilo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLA FUR BIS FLE Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 just finishing.. How does that compare with Eco's other works? I've read "The Name of the Rose" and "Foucault's Pendulum" (i think I preferred "Foucault's Pendulum, but it's a tough choice...). Currently reading for the chen: Barrington Moore: "Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World" I've read both Foucault's Pendulum and The Name of the Rose as well, and I would say that Baudolino is my favorite of the three, though the narrative is a lot different than both, I think. The way events transpire and unfold is almost similar to a Terry Gilliam film. I wouldn't say that this is exactly why I like the story so much, but the approach came across as very fresh. You are bombarded with so much that it can feel very frantic (in a good way) at times, and you are sort of propelled through loads of historical events, religious time lines and mythological settings. Thumbs up from me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capsaicin Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 reading Americana by Don DeLillo just finished Post Office by Charles Bukowski (who is my new favorite author) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dese manz hatin Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 Just picked up Naked Lunch for cheap $. Does watmm think it's worth reading? oh yes ive just finished it some days ago....as i put it somewhere else on this board, it reads like the literary rendition of wrong mspaint thread sometimes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Billov Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 it reads like the literary rendition of wrong mspaint thread sometimes That thread rubs me in ways previously unrubbed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghOsty Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 Recently finished House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski which I reccommend a different and occasionally difficult read but very worth it. Now I'm kinda very slowly making my way through Jean Paul Sartre's Nausea and The Devil In The White City by Erik Larson... Also re-reading through all my old Spawn comics lately for kicks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Coalbucket PI Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 (edited) Disappointed, but I completely lost my momentum with The Idiot... I kind of like where I think its going but I'm about 1/3 into it and it's so slow. Found a copy of High Fidelity by Nick Hornby in a pub and read most of it in 2 days. Reminded me reading books shouldn't be such hard work. I think I've been trying to read The Idiot the whole of two thousand and god damn ten. Now that is ridiculous. Edited July 28, 2010 by Coalbucket PI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bacteriatastic Posted August 11, 2010 Share Posted August 11, 2010 east of eden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Chromatic Posted August 11, 2010 Share Posted August 11, 2010 Isaac Asimov - Fantastic Voyage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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