April Fools and I am reading...
Marie Howe. Dabbling.
Man is the cruelest animal.
Porneia: On Desire and the Body in Antiquity by Aline Rouselle
The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan
“if you want to be a bird,” you said once, “with colorful plumage and buoyant trills, you must also be ready for hollow bones."
Our Gang by Philip Roth.
I'm reading The Stand again.
I've been contemplating giving that another read. But I'm so far behind on reading, I shouldn't be rereading that monster right now. But it's been tempting me.
I just love it so much, and it's been awhile.
I'm trying to get Drew to read some Stephen King, and I think he'd enjoy The Stand, but it might be too honkin' big for a first timer. He reads Hemingway and Steinbeck and London and other manly authors, so King would be a totally different experience.
A STORM OF SWORDS!!!!11
Someone just died in it and I didn't see it coming and I'm bummed.
"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.
I'm on the second of The Hunger Games books. I'm finding them entertaining and exciting but pretty annoying in other ways. I guess because they're children's books they don't challenge the character's humanity and morals much, a lot of things happen that make me roll my eyes because it's too easy for her (within that universe, you know, not easy easy but she never has to go against herself or anything) and I often feel cheated.
However, if I was a lot younger I would have loved them and I wouldn't feel like I was being talked down to.
There's a grown woman I know who was going crazy over them the other day, "They're amazing, I love them so much, I've read them 3 times, they're amazing." - you'd have to be an idiot to be grown up and reading these multiple times.
However, if I was a lot younger I would have loved them and I wouldn't feel like I was being talked down to.
There's a grown woman I know who was going crazy over them the other day, "They're amazing, I love them so much, I've read them 3 times, they're amazing." - you'd have to be an idiot to be grown up and reading these multiple times.
For sure. Maybe she doesn't read a lot.
House of Incest by Anais Nin.
Clown Girl by Monica Drake.
I'm taking a break from The Lonely Dead by Michael Marshall Smith and starting 15 miles by Rob Scott.
I'm going to start The Handmaid's Tale...
as soon as I finish Bossypants by Tina Fey.
I want to read that Tina Fey autobiography so much. Cannot afford =[
as soon as I finish Bossypants by Tina Fey.
The Handmaid's Tale was absolutely awesome. I've yet to read more Atwood, but I loved this one.
I'm digging it. There's an interesting chapter about the Sarah Palin on SNL situation. I'd give it to you if you weren't so far away!
I found an old copy for like 50 cents in a thrift store. It looks like it came out just after the movie. It may just be me but I find the fact that it's so covered in positive reviews that they had to put one on the cover and even the spine kind of funny.
Heavy Liquid by Paul Pope. Loved Batman: Year 100, so I decided to give him another go. Anyone else read any Pope?
I'm super-crazy excited to read Mark Leyner's The Sugar Frosted Nutsack once I can find the time in a couple of days.
The two reviews on amazon don't look good for that one.
First hundred pages of Phil's new book.
I wouldn't pay attention to the two reviews on Amazon.
New York Times review: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/books/review/the-sugar-frosted-nutsack...
Halfway through List Memory of Skin by Rusell Banks and it's amazing. I'm after realising I have a few more of his books around somewhere that I haven't read yet.
boy, i used to come here to see what you people were reading. things sure have changed.
not sure why people had a difficult time reading, 'we need to talk about kevin?'.
(was it the wording or topic?) because i just breezed right through that sucker
going back to david copperfield
wild thing by josh bazell. pietro brwna is growing on me though i must say i preferred the first book.
About to start Nocturnal by Scott Sigler.
Lonesome Traveller - Jack Kerouac
I got back to reading The Maltese Falcon. Hopefully I'll get to finish it soon.
Point Omega by Don DeLillo.
30 pages to go! I'm almost there.
Starting We Live Inside You by Jeremy Robert Johnson. I've been really excited to start this one, but I've been holding off until I was closer to the Book Club discussion time. Well, it's only a few weeks away! So I can start haha.
I never finished that! I don't remember why, but I had to stop for some reason and never went back to it.
I never finished that! I don't remember why, but I had to stop for some reason and never went back to it.
It takes longer to get through than it seems it would. I love Sam Spade though:
"I want to sneak out before your mother catches me and gives me hell for dragging her lamb through gutters."
flying through Ablutions P DeWitt (really enjoyed the sister brothers as well) and have Outsourced Zeltserman and The Fade Wooding to move onto
men plan. Fate laughs
11/22/63 by Stephen King. Been waiting a long time to read this one
I'm on the third book of The Hunger Games but I'm not sure I'm even enjoying it any more! I've just gotten weary with the flaws and the characters but I also want closure, I'm not sure I can concentrate on something else without finishing these damn books.
There will be another exciting section soon and I'll be enjoying myself again, this is just a rough patch.
I just finished Everything's Eventual by Stephen King earlier today and I'm about halfway through Junky by William S. Burroughs right now.
Everything's Eventual was pretty good.
I've only read Full Dark, No Stars as well as far as SK's short stories go (except for Shawshank in Different Seasons) and I think Full Dark has better stories. Eventual is worth the read anyway, though.
Junky is interesting but I guess that's all I can really say.
This. And Stranger Will. Using Kindle on my iPad for the first time. Still prefer actual books to flicking a screen..
Currently reading The Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller. It's highly enjoyable!
"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"
Everything's Eventual was pretty good.
I've only read Full Dark, No Stars as well as far as SK's short stories go (except for Shawshank in Different Seasons) and I think Full Dark has better stories. Eventual is worth the read anyway, though.
Junky is interesting but I guess that's all I can really say.
I haven't read any of his newer stuff, but if you like his short stories definitely check out Skeleton Crew
If I was forced to just read one author's work for the rest of my life it would be him.
If I was forced to just read one author's work for the rest of my life it would be him.
Or 2010s' Miller. Mr Phil Jourdan.
Everything's Eventual was pretty good.
I've only read Full Dark, No Stars as well as far as SK's short stories go (except for Shawshank in Different Seasons) and I think Full Dark has better stories. Eventual is worth the read anyway, though.
Junky is interesting but I guess that's all I can really say.
I haven't read any of his newer stuff, but if you like his short stories definitely check out Skeleton Crew
Will do! Thank you!
If I was forced to just read one author's work for the rest of my life it would be him.
Or 2010s' Miller. Mr Phil Jourdan.
Henry Philler! har har har!! But seriously, he's got to write more books first, i'm not promising the rest of my life to one author with just one book.
If I was forced to just read one author's work for the rest of my life it would be him.
Or 2010s' Miller. Mr Phil Jourdan.
Henry Philler! har har har!! But seriously, he's got to write more books first, i'm not promising the rest of my life to one author with just one book.
TWO!
Finally finished The Maltese Falcon now I'm gonna try to finish this other book about religion and hopefully read Middlesex or another one of the books I've bought for a quarter.
If I was forced to just read one author's work for the rest of my life it would be him.
Or 2010s' Miller. Mr Phil Jourdan.
Henry Philler! har har har!! But seriously, he's got to write more books first, i'm not promising the rest of my life to one author with just one book.
Then there are the numerous short stories and previous unpublished or self-published novels.
I'm not taking a bunch of printed out copies stapled together to the island.
Oh yeah, I'm also stranded on a desert island is why I can only read one author.
If I was forced to just read one author's work for the rest of my life it would be him.
Or 2010s' Miller. Mr Phil Jourdan.
Henry Philler! har har har!! But seriously, he's got to write more books first, i'm not promising the rest of my life to one author with just one book.
TWO!
Finally finished The Maltese Falcon now I'm gonna try to finish this other book about religion and hopefully read Middlesex or another one of the books I've bought for a quarter.
What's the other book about religion? Also, the Maltese Falcon is religious?
Ha! Way to twist my words against me. I couldn't remember the name of the book but it's an older book called Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future by Fr. Seraphim Rose. It is a bit outdated and it's written to a specific audience, I've just been really interested in reading about Christian view points recently. And The Maltese Falcon is a mystery...so could be about religion if you tried to say that the whole story is an allegory of the spirit world or something.
Termite Parade by Joshua Mohr.
Written on the Body by Janet Winterson. Almost done, and will most likely finish it tomorrow. Amazing book.