sidewinder Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 For a long part of my life (basically from college till...this year) I hardly read. It's quite pathetic really but I was always so focused on music and doing things, books didn't interest me. Now I've gotten in the habit of it and I'm enjoying it. It's tough figuring out what to pick up next sometimes, since I never paid much attention to authors and books in general. I should read through this thread to get some ideas. Right now I'm almost done with Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goffer Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 Should finish up Mark Safranko's Lounge Lizard tonight then start up Louis-Ferdinand Céline's Journey to the End of the Night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capsaicin Posted October 13, 2009 Share Posted October 13, 2009 Teachings of don Juan - A Yaqui Way of Knowledge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david Posted October 13, 2009 Share Posted October 13, 2009 the divine invasion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted October 13, 2009 Share Posted October 13, 2009 So much fucking reading. ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Iain C Posted October 13, 2009 Share Posted October 13, 2009 Mainly T.S. Eliot at the moment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
octopus Posted October 13, 2009 Share Posted October 13, 2009 Finishing Joseph Heller's Closing Time. He really never did live up to Catch 22. His writing became darker and intensely repetitive later, which I partly enjoyed, partly felt frustrated. Something Happened was an interesting book because it was third funny third interesting third hateful. Also have bought Ulysses, so I'm getting ready for that. Ok so have any of you gone to a book club? It is a weird experience if you like books. The book club I've gone to is mainly made up of literature students who have no interest in reading literature. They basically want to drink coffee and eat food and talk about television shows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doorjamb Posted October 13, 2009 Share Posted October 13, 2009 Just finished a short Lovecraft horror collection and now I'm 2/3 through Chimera by Barth. So far it's good (if you like his style), but I'm finding the third section (Bellerophoniad) to be slow going compared to the first half. I recently finished Cities of the Red Night by William Burroughs. The book was enjoyable even though I could not follow the storyline(s) during a few parts. I think that means you're doing it wrong right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest viscosity Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 goth novels for english lit class.. Modern Prometheus and Wuthering Heights would like to read HP Lovecraft though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 Today: 2 chapters from Nisa: Life and Words of a !Kung Woman 1 chapter from Mirror For Humanity 1 chapter from Ten Questions: A Sociological Perspective half a chapter from International Relations and this bloody article that's like 15 pages long titled Hyphenating the Hybrid: (re)visions of Racial Mixedness in fred Wah's Diamond Grill. An I'm posting on WATMM. FML Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Coalbucket PI Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 just finished (or decided to stop reading the appendices of) House Of Leaves. was enjoyable but also a bit shit sometimes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Iain C Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 I actually had a dream last night that I had a copy of House of Leaves again. In real life, someone borrowed my copy and never gave it back about 4 or 5 years ago. Enjoyable novel. If you're interested in similar concepts/tones without the extraneous bullshit, I recommend you give Borges, Calvino or even Kafka a try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capsaicin Posted October 17, 2009 Share Posted October 17, 2009 I just finished A Clockwork Orange a few minutes ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atop Posted October 17, 2009 Share Posted October 17, 2009 the divine invasion GODDAMN I love this novel! LINDA FOX = BJORK THE BROKEN MESSIAH! UHHHHH! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Malabar Posted October 17, 2009 Share Posted October 17, 2009 oryx and crake (so far i really don't like this) ted hughes letters brian eno biography book on peter greenaway films spinoza's ethics (ARGH!) Yes, Spinoza's Ethics is difficult. Which Eno biography are you reading? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Yegg Posted October 17, 2009 Share Posted October 17, 2009 John R. Pierce's An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain James Mission Posted October 17, 2009 Share Posted October 17, 2009 On the Road - Kerouac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patternoverlap Posted October 17, 2009 Share Posted October 17, 2009 Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - Murakami Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Malabar Posted October 17, 2009 Share Posted October 17, 2009 Does anybody use those electronic reader thingies? Are they worth the relatively high price? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Dylan Posted October 17, 2009 Share Posted October 17, 2009 A reader in it's current form has no future, just check how think a macbook air is. But it'll happen, in 10 years they will be everywhere. I'm slowly getting myself a real book collection of what I want to read for the future so that in 50 years I can read my own books in peace instead of searching where to buy them. That doesn't mean I'm against those readers, I just think it's stupid at the moment. The tech is useless for at least the next 10 years. Once there are REAL readers, real tablets, small, practical, not those greyscale-screen low-res atrocities, everybody will adopt them like we are adopting laptops at this moment. But it won't be for books, it'll be more than that (web, digital media, movies, music, books, magazines, apps, etc...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Malabar Posted October 17, 2009 Share Posted October 17, 2009 A reader in it's current form has no future, just check how think a macbook air is. But it'll happen, in 10 years they will be everywhere. I'm slowly getting myself a real book collection of what I want to read for the future so that in 50 years I can read my own books in peace instead of searching where to buy them. That doesn't mean I'm against those readers, I just think it's stupid at the moment. The tech is useless for at least the next 10 years. Once there are REAL readers, real tablets, small, practical, not those greyscale-screen low-res atrocities, everybody will adopt them like we are adopting laptops at this moment. But it won't be for books, it'll be more than that (web, digital media, movies, music, books, magazines, apps, etc...) Interesting. I think they'll become very popular as you say, but with little effect on standard books. There's something about the book, the touch, the smell, a pretty cover, that people will want to hang on to. How big is your collection so far? What are trying to get hold of, if you don't mind me asking? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoodie Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 the varieties of scientific experience - carl sagan the man has a way with words. and diagrams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capsaicin Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 I'm going to start The Brothers Karamazov Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Z_B_Z Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 just started. i love robert anton wilson but always put off checking this out for some reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atop Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 me as well, loving RAW, and have not read the masterwork either....it frightens me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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