April 2011 and I am reading...
A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro.
i just finished RAGTIME, which will be added promptly the the list of most acclaimed pieces of shit i have ever seen.
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“...There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one's head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain. You ought to have some apprehension that the man you see before you was once even younger than you are now and arrived at his present wretchedness by imperceptible degrees.”
-James Baldwin
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
On Kindle!
That's right!
Let me know what you think? I'm going to read a Fantasy bookmthis weekend but haven't decided what yet.
I definitely recommend this. I'm about 200 pages in and I'm loving it. I don't usually read fantasy, but I'm glad I picked this up.
"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism." -Carl Sagan
"Am I cruel? Probably. Is she an idiot? Yes." -jane s.
Too true, too true.
The Milos Forman film version is very good too, with a gorgeous score by Randy Newman.
Just got The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language. Still working on Neverwhere and Blind Woman, just don't have a lot of time for anything at the moment.
Tender is the Night by F. Scott F.
"I'm glad I live in the GPS era. In a different century, I would've set off to visit the other side of the village and wandered off into the mountains and been eaten by a carnivorous plant. Or discovered the Americas."
-LaJessica
The Fuck-Up by Arthur Nersesian
I married a communist by Philip Roth
The Digger's Game (George V. Higgins)
Outpost by Adam Baker.
This book pulled me out from a very dark place in the past. After being with my dad through his sickness until he died, I identified with a lot of things written on it.
A special book for me. Hope you like it.
A special book for me. Hope you like it.
What book are you talking about?
"Paula" by Isabel Allende
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Been on a little bit of a reading frenzy lately.
Read Stranger Will by Caleb J. Ross for next month's book club.
Also been on a Blake Butler kick with Ever, Scorch Atlas, and There Is No Year.
Junky by William S Burroughs.
Haven't felt much like reading lately, but I am working on Caleb's Stranger Will as well, which will cure any case of reader's block.
How The Dead Live, by Will Self,
and
Angeldust Apocalypse, by Jeremy Robert Johnson
The JRJ book is something I've been meaning to give a try for a while, and so far it's been a good laugh.
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The Little Prince
"I'm glad I live in the GPS era. In a different century, I would've set off to visit the other side of the village and wandered off into the mountains and been eaten by a carnivorous plant. Or discovered the Americas."
-LaJessica
I think you picked it up at the perfect time 
Ask the Dust by John Fante.
Oliver Twist
"I'm glad I live in the GPS era. In a different century, I would've set off to visit the other side of the village and wandered off into the mountains and been eaten by a carnivorous plant. Or discovered the Americas."
-LaJessica
I'm nearing the end of my Blake Butler binge, and as much as I hate using the word "art," I'm afraid this is the word that best describes his work, especially Scorch Atlas and There Is No Year. There's a texture, a history and feel to these books that I've never seen before, and you do yourself a diservice by purchasing them on Kindle or any other electronic device that wouldn't translate those elements.
I hope they Serve Beer in Hell - Tucker Max. I found it quite funny, but not written that great. Yet I suppose the funniness outways the bad writing. Also interviewing him for my website later this year, so making sure that happens with his book read.
Not sure what to move onto next, might move onto invisible monsters for my Palahniuk fix.
You look like the type of guy / gal, who would like:
Cogan's Bluff (George V. Higgins)
Friends Like These - Danny Wallace
You look like the type of guy / gal, who would like:
Agreed! Just finished up There Is No Year last week and I'm still thinking about it. Might have to do a reread of that one. The House of Leaves similarities are there but it stands on its own..Already ordered his other 2 books, waiting on those. Good choices!
Reading the first Harry Potter book. This chick I'm kinda seeing, but not really, but sorta, is heaps into the series and gave it to me, demanding I read it because she found it weird I hadn't yet read any of them. I'm doing it for the sex. She also leant me A Million Little Pieces, which I'm pretty excited to read.
A Million Little Pieces is great. So too is the sequel My Friend Leonard.
His first novel Bright Shiny Morning is superb but his last one is a bit of a letdown.
Did you know he also wrote I Am Number Four?
Whatever the reason you're reading it, you're gonna like Harry Potter.
the great perhaps by Joe meno... trying to finish it today.
i'm a terrible person, in more ways than one.
I approve of this girl.
"I'm glad I live in the GPS era. In a different century, I would've set off to visit the other side of the village and wandered off into the mountains and been eaten by a carnivorous plant. Or discovered the Americas."
-LaJessica
I mean, a lot of the time with books, I'd prefer to read beautiful prose that goes nowhere, and, to be honest, the writing, so far (maybe it improves as the series moves on?), isn't very good. But I've laughed a few times and it's a quick entertaining read. Is this classed as fantasy? If so, it's my first fantasy book, I think.
The first few books are really kids books but as the series goes on, it really gets more in depth, etc. And the prose isn't gonna be very elaborate or anything, because of the fact it's for kids. Keep in mind, if it makes a difference, that she wasn't a writer before these books. She just had this crazy idea that she thought up for her children, and the rest, as they say, is history.
The first few books are really kids books but as the series goes on, it really gets more in depth, etc. And the prose isn't gonna be very elaborate or anything, because of the fact it's for kids. Keep in mind, if it makes a difference, that she wasn't a writer before these books. She just had this crazy idea that she thought up for her children, and the rest, as they say, is history.
what he said
"I'm glad I live in the GPS era. In a different century, I would've set off to visit the other side of the village and wandered off into the mountains and been eaten by a carnivorous plant. Or discovered the Americas."
-LaJessica
Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
Hells Bells by John Connolly.
I think I need to read John Connolly soon. Where to start, Derek?
Oh my god, you haven't read the book of lost things? Stop what you're doing, go buy it or download it and start reading.
"I'm glad I live in the GPS era. In a different century, I would've set off to visit the other side of the village and wandered off into the mountains and been eaten by a carnivorous plant. Or discovered the Americas."
-LaJessica
So, The Book of Lost Things, huh? I'll get onto that. Right after my Potter binge.
I actually almost had a panic attack the other day because I was thinking of all the books I've read in the last year or so and how it doesn't even dent what I want to be reading. And I realized I'm not nearly as well-read as I'd like to be and there's so much out there I want to read and the feeling that I'll never get to it all and I'll miss out on something special really just enveloped me. There's new stuff coming out every fucking day. And I can't keep up. And it scares me. There's so much old stuff I haven't, but should've read by now. I hate this feeling. Hopeless.
I actually almost had a panic attack the other day because I was thinking of all the books I've read in the last year or so and how it doesn't even dent what I want to be reading. And I realized I'm not nearly as well-read as I'd like to be and there's so much out there I want to read and the feeling that I'll never get to it all and I'll miss out on something special really just enveloped me. There's new stuff coming out every fucking day. And I can't keep up. And it scares me. There's so much old stuff I haven't, but should've read by now. I hate this feeling. Hopeless.
Read this:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/04/21/135508305/the-sad-beautifu...
Great article, Chris. Thanks for that.
Just finished Junky.
I started The Stand by Stephen King just before we bought the house, I stopped reading it to keep my mind on the move, I picked it up again today.
I started reading Stranger Will a few days ago. I'm liking the style.
It's Caleb, of course you're liking the style. The guy can write like a motherfucker.
It's not even available yet here. It's $50 to pre-order it. Regardless of the controversies - I've always really liked everything I've read by him.