April Fools and I am reading...
I'm about half way through Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Garcia Marquez. Dig it like a Diglet.
The best of H.P. Lovecraft.
Still reading The Shipping News by Annie Proulx (swoon), and a smattering of The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson.
There is hope, but not for us.
Just finished Factotum by Charles Bukowski. I still loved the writing style, but the story didn't do it for me in this one. It felt rushed and forced. The story didn't move like Women or Post Office.
I'm starting Parasites Like Us by Adam Johnson. It's a recommendation from Mirka, so I know it's gonna be good. She hasn't let me down yet.
After this I'll probably read Ham on Rye.
I might just go pick up ghost writer if its good!
i love love love those Vintage Yates covers. they're special.
All the Beautiful Sinners by Stephen Graham Jones
I heartily approve. Stephen Graham Jones is one of my favorite writers. Very cool guy, too.
Man I loved that book. I wish I could take that trip for the first time again...
Oh, i finished The Women in the Dunes by Kobo Abe the other day. Fantastic stuff, how imprisonment becomes home and escape loses meaning.
Clevenger recommended that book.
I just couldn't see how it could be at all gripping...
Oh man, it's quite amazing, really. His prose is very simple and it's perfect. He has these sentences, sometimes fifty pages apart, which delve so deep into what it means to be human that you stop what you're doing, read it again, and wonder how he knows so much about you.
You made me want that book now.
Kobo Abe is a very clever guy. I'm going to try to get some of his other books, too. He's a bit Kafka like, allowing absurdity to heap, while remaining perfect, though the world's lost all semblance of balance. I've been thoroughly impressed by japanese literature, and i think he's one of the best.
Back onto Steve Erickson, reading Our Endless Numbered Days. The man is boundless, infinite.
Man I loved that book. I wish I could take that trip for the first time again...
It's a trip alright. Having to pay attention though.
Yeah I had the same problem. You really can't let your mind wander too much. It's easy to get confused with that one. But it was such a good read.
I just started Beat The Reaper... Matt Ill be over in your thread in a few days!
20th Century Ghosts, a short story collection by Joe Hill (Stephen King's son). I haven't read a genre book in years.
Last Breath from that collection was one of my favorite short stories.
I read that a few years ago. But there weren't any vintage yates then I don't think. His books were hard as hell to find at the time. Someone recommended him, but then no one I talked to had ever heard of him. I guess Revolutionary Road changed that.
I was reading The Stone Diaries, but I was leaving for a trip and I couldn't find it. So I grabbed the shining, which I'm almost through with. If my mother will drive some of the way back today I should be finished before I get home.
"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
Right now Pygmy. Not as bad as a lot of eople say. In fact, probably his funniest.
I really want to start Brave New World, but I've got a stack of books I've gotten from my aunt recently that I want to read as well. Better than no books to read, eh?
FUBU and KFC have anounced their move to combine forces and fullyn focus on targeting more 'ethnic' audiences. In other news, McDonalds, Starbucks and Wal-Mart have combined to become The United Corporate of America. Moving on...
I can't remember what i last posted in here. Anyrate, finished A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Great stuff. And tomorrow i'll probably be finishing Our Ecstatic Days by Steve Erickson, which is some kind of plateau or pinnacle of literature.
Probably reading some plays by Jean Cocteau after that.
Marlow's Doctor Faustus and a bunch of pastoral poetry for uni.
I'm halfway into Kiss Me Judas. I simply love the story!
"Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested."
"Jemand musste Josef K. verleumdet haben, denn ohne dass er etwas Böses getan hätte, wurde er eines Morgens verhaftet"
I picked up An American Childhood by Annie Dillard (Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek... I hadn't heard of it) at my second-hand bookshop. Just got a glimpse of what it's about and I'm going to have a stab at it.
Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem
I'm essentially done with Amber Spyglass, which I loved, and now it's time for smoochie smoochie christ betrayer, which berto sent me.
The King of Methlehem by Mark Lindquist
Hater - David Moody I cant wait to get deeper into this!
I need to kick into my reading again so Ive started Shampoo Planet by Douglas Coupland. I love his books, hes edging his way into my top five!
So good! His influence on Palahniuk is particularly evident after reading this book...
Derek, you just reminded me that I've had his book Eleanor Rigby on my shelf forever and haven't read it. That's next on my list!
There is hope, but not for us.
the only thing i've read of his is Gen X.
what are some other favourites?
what are some other favourites?
My personal favourite is Hey Nostradamus but I still have to read The Gum Thief, JPod and Microserfs. So far Ive enjoyed ll his works.
Slogging through Gravity's Rainbow once again, for my dissertation. Sigh.
thanks for sharing.blackhawk tactical pants.
— Spambot
"I could have done worse!" exultantly cried the murderer Lebret, sentenced at Rouen to hard labor for life. — Félix Fénéon
what are some other favourites?
My personal favourite is Hey Nostradamus but I still have to read The Gum Thief, JPod and Microserfs. So far Ive enjoyed ll his works.
i wouldn't mind getting Gen A. sounds like it could be interesting. i've liked the look of Hey Nostradamus, so i might pick that one up next. but it will probably sit at the bottom of a giant, ever-growing pile of to-be-read books.
I am finally reading Knockemstiff! 
I'm finally reading Kiss Me, Judas.
"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.
And I'm finishing L'ecume des Jours.
How was it? I'm borderline on getting it.
How was it? I'm borderline on getting it.
Get Eeeeeeettttttt!!! One of my favourite books of short stories!
Hey Nostradamus! Is my favorite Coupland book next to Generation X.
I didn't care for Shampoo Planet all that much.
I didn't care for Shampoo Planet all that much.
How come? I thought it did a great job of capturing the sensation of being stuck in suburbia during your late teens/early 20s.
amazing, right?
Totally. I can't put it down. I'm typing with my toes.
"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.
Read "Eleanor Rigby" basically all in one sitting today. It was illuminating in parts, like almost uncomfortably so.
There is hope, but not for us.
I like it, but I've been so tired the last couple of days that it's hard to find the energy to keep reading it.
I didn't care for Shampoo Planet all that much.
How come? I thought it did a great job of capturing the sensation of being stuck in suburbia during your late teens/early 20s.
I'm not sure... I just didn't think it was up to the quality of his other stuff. It was ok, I was just expecting something more.
A lot of times when I get that feeling for an author I really like, what it means is I just wasn't in the mood for him when I read it. Maybe if I reread it at another time, I would end up liking it.
Nice. You're always reading good books.
Thanks. You recommended I start with that one and I'm glad I listened. I think I'll read some more of the stand alone novels and then get into the Zuckerman novels if I'm still keen.