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Caretstik Posted May 12, 2008 Share Posted May 12, 2008 About to start Chuck Palahniuk's 'Rant' now that it's finally out in paperback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tridact Posted May 12, 2008 Share Posted May 12, 2008 I'm reading Ghost by Allen Lightman. Here's the description: From Publishers Weekly In this smartly paced novel from the author of Einstein's Dreams, a divorced, former banker witnesses a supernatural event, inspiring him to continue the search for something that has hovered in the back of his mind throughout his life. A promising, handsome student in his younger years, middle-aged David struggles to restore order to his life and relationships after being sacked from his middling bank job. The search leads him to the local funeral home, where he takes a job as an apprentice among a cast less hip than the Six Feet Under crew, but compelling in a quieter way—the director, Martin, is a fatherly figure whose allegiance to his inherited profession rules an existence otherwise restricted by severe agoraphobia. After David has a vision he can't describe in words in the home's slumber room, he gets agitated to the point where he is compelled to confess to a loose-lipped friend. Soon, David's vision becomes a local media event, with unwanted consequences. Familiar questions about the existence of God, life after death and the fluidity of time arise, and the cast doesn't get the detail it deserves. But the momentum that builds alongside David's ensuing psychological turmoil is enough to carry the story. (Oct.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david Posted May 12, 2008 Share Posted May 12, 2008 looking for a copy of valis to read Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tht! tne Posted May 12, 2008 Share Posted May 12, 2008 the maxx trade paperbacks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DMWalles Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 Just finished "Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" by Dave Eggers Now Reading "The Amazing Adventures of Kavelier and Clay" by Michael Chabon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Vidiot Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 also: American Psycho - Bret Eastern Ellis That's Easton Ellis, Chris. Good book. Read Glamorama afterward. It's the best thing he's ever done...epic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zaphod Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 i'm reading europe central by william vollman. it's a monster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 blood meridian - cormac mccarthy songs of the doomed - hunter thompson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zaphod Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 blood meridian is trash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest maoam Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 Berlin by Anthony Beevor. Great book, has taken me 3 months to read partly because its a fairly rigorous historical account and because i had eye surgery and have had to pretty much learn how to read over again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beneboi Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 About to start Chuck Palahniuk's 'Rant' now that it's finally out in paperback. i saw this the other day, but i dont know if i have it in me to read another palahniuk book, im not 17 anymore a friend gave me a copy of Keep the Aspidistra Flying, so im reading that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 blood meridian is trash really? I like it. are there any better cormac mccarthy books you'd recommend then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
playbynumbers Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 ('suttree' is mccarthy's best book, i think) edna millay - selected poems robert carter (ed.) - traditional japanese poetry jonathan lear - aristotle: the desire to understand archimandrite sophrony - on prayer franz rosenzweig - the star of redemption Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zaphod Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 read the crossing or the road or suttree. but i'm kind of tired of mccarthy, he's overbearing and a lot of his writing isn't actually that good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beholdapalehorse Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 The Canterbury Tales Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mononomo Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 albert camus - the fall arthur c clarke - rendezvous with rama philip k. dick - the man in the high castle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Replicant Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 HEMINGWAY - "THE SHORT STORIES" Fuck yeah on that. As good as they get. Also check out Raymond Carver's short stories (well all he ever wrote were shorts). Finished The Magus by John Fowels. One of the best ever as far as philosophy, mystery, sex and Greece go. Reading Catch-22 now. Tough to digest. One of the most literally insane narratives I've encountered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest analogue wings Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 Just got Spook Country by William Gibson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zaphod Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 prepare to be underwhelmed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest awkward Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 (edited) About to start Chuck Palahniuk's 'Rant' now that it's finally out in paperback. readable as always but not much interest in the content. read it on trains. i dont know if i have it in me to read another palahniuk book, im not 17 anymore haha exactly. i won't pick up another. i got stuck in a only-reading-authors who-i-knew-when-i-was-15-20 type loop and infact i've never really come out of it. i'm still looking forward to the new iain banks books. how sad. albert camus - the fall inspired the greatest band ever! i kinda wanna read it but i think it might be a bit shallow to read a book that inspired a band. Edited May 14, 2008 by awkward Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest awkward Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 well lets see. what am i reading... Mome 11 (comic book) gullivers travels a users guide to the fall by dave thompson mark e smith autobiography (soonish) just finished kramers ergot 5 & 6. damn those are some incredible and inspiring books. and soon i wanna read vonneguts galapagos again as it started my vonnegut kick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goffer Posted May 21, 2008 Share Posted May 21, 2008 found Philip Roths Portnoy's Complaint at a thrift store today for $1, can't wait to dive in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest endangered betche Posted May 21, 2008 Share Posted May 21, 2008 Just finished Palahniuk's new one, Snuff. The premise (one girl, 600 guys) is interesting, but the plot meanders. Sort of short. Just ok. :undecided: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Al Hounos Posted May 21, 2008 Share Posted May 21, 2008 he's overbearing and a lot of his writing isn't actually that good. you'll take that back write now. :devil: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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