BOO! Its October and I am reading...

[QUOTE=tom9d;1051029][I]Only Revolutions[/I] ....Many times I found myself stopping after reading five or six pages realizing that I had no idea what just happened, because it's easy to lose connection with what the words mean and just see them as words on a page. [/QUOTE]

I hate poetry because that's all I do, read and nothing gets visualized or imagined, just read.

Glamorama, baby - Glam-o-rama.

Im taking a break from Half Life and reading Blindness by Jose Saramango.

post office- charles bukowski

[QUOTE=Barca Boy;1052285]Im taking a break from Half Life and reading Blindness by Jose Saramango.[/QUOTE]

Ive been wanting to read that, tell me how it is/was whenever.

as for me, I think Im going to read[I] Alone With The Horrors[/I], the Ramsey Campbell collection.

Lolita-Nabokov

[QUOTE=kakunn;1051020](Its mindless fun, I´m enjoying more than I thought, should I get an electroshock treatment for this?)[/QUOTE] ... yes...

[QUOTE=bearchaser;1052644]Ive been wanting to read that, tell me how it is/was whenever.

as for me, I think Im going to read[I] Alone With The Horrors[/I], the Ramsey Campbell collection.[/QUOTE]

Read it now and you can join in the book club discussion coming up.

i just started "Tender As Hellfire" by Joe Meno, right now while i was waiting for my computer to correct its seizure....

I just wnt to Destin where a friend gave me The Way of the Peaceful Warrior and Breakfast of Champions. I am now reading them both.

Spider Robinson

took a break from Lolita and almost done with The Gum Thief-Douglas Coupland.

Ive read mixed reviews but Im going to read Dexter In The Dark by Jeff Lindsay.

Jmizair let me know what you thought of Douglas Couplands new one, I havent read one of his in ages.

I almost bought a Coupland the other day, i wish i had now.

Reading Dermaphoria by Craig Cleavenger at the moment - took me a long time to get into it, unlike The Contortionists Handbook, but now i'm really digging it. Fantastic author indeed.

Anybody know if he's writing a third novel? I assume he will be... any idea when it'll be out?

I think it's safe to say Cleavenger has joined the ranks of my favourite authors.

[QUOTE=Barca Boy;1060460]Ive read mixed reviews but Im going to read Dexter In The Dark by Jeff Lindsay.

Jmizair let me know what you thought of Douglas Couplands new one, I havent read one of his in ages.[/QUOTE]

Barca,

I enjoyed it. It was a quick easy ready and entertained me throughout. I always enjoy his books from time to time.

Im about to start The Extinction Journals by Jeremy Robert Johnson.

I will have it finished this evening so I need to know what you guys are reading otherwise I will just be posting in my own thread.

Just finished Palahniuk's Survivor for the second time, and waiting for amazon to deliver Invisible Monsters. (yeah, you can go ahead and throw rotten tomatoes at me, but I did just discover Palahniuk). Until it gets here, I'll probably try Stephen King's Cell.

I'm gonna read The Wasp Factory-Iain Banks

I have finished "Da vinci code" (and its comparable to a scooby doo episode)
Now im reading "how to be good" by nick hornby (and let me tell you that i needed all the amount of comedy that i found in this book)

I'm reading "Mister Pip" by Lloyd Jones.

And Raw Shark Texts, I keep getting into it, then feeling blah about it.

Why does Lloyd have two 'L's?

[QUOTE=Barca Boy;1065376]Im about to start The Extinction Journals by Jeremy Robert Johnson.

I will have it finished this evening so I need to know what you guys are reading otherwise I will just be posting in my own thread.[/QUOTE]

Blindness!

Oh wait - you said you read it. Haven't you?

P.S. - You'll have to let us know what you think of The Extinction Journals.

I finished The Extinction Journals and its renewed my interest in Bizarro Fiction. I especiall ynjoyed the authors note at the end of the book where explains where the story came about.

Next up is Apathy and Other Small Victories by Paul Nielan. Its been recomended by a few Culties and is supposed to be laugh out loud funny. Lets see.

You'll love it!

I just finished [I]The End of Alice [/I]by A.M. Homes. I read a post where Brock was going on about it and I was intrigued enough to pick up a copy. It was fucking intense. Dark, violent, smutty as hell, and still damn well-written! What more could ya ask for???

I'm about to start [I]Blindness[/I]. I'm looking forward to the discussion. (Assuming it goes better than my ill-fated attempt to lead the discussion on BEE"s [I]The Informers[/I].)

[QUOTE=Caligula7;1068814]I just finished [I]The End of Alice [/I]by A.M. Homes. I read a post where Brock was going on about it and I was intrigued enough to pick up a copy. It was fucking intense. Dark, violent, smutty as hell, and still damn well-written! What more could ya ask for???

I'm about to start [I]Blindness[/I]. I'm looking forward to the discussion. (Assuming it goes better than my ill-fated attempt to lead the discussion on BEE"s [I]The Informers[/I].)[/QUOTE]

Yeah Brock's description of it made me go out and buy The End of Alice too. I also bought The Safety of Objects - which I read it like a day or two. I haven't gotten around to Alice yet.

I'm currently reading Blindness. Starting out very good. Very well written.

I just finished Helter Skelter. I've owned this book since I was like 13 I think. I haven't ever felt like reading it - even though I love true crime... So I finally read it and I got to say that that book was awesome. Manson was a genius at taking people's insecurities and exploiting them to his benefit and hopefully pushing them to kill for him. Highly recommended.

The older nympho chick bought me a bunch of books that I have never read and she thought I might like. We try to educate each other like that. I'm reading these two right now, and so far I'm not sure what I think, neither one is particularly sucking me in, although sometimes I don't know if I am capable of feeling particularly sucked in anymore, mainly because I haven't read anything good in a while. Just stuff that isn't bad. Plus this whole personal training studying is throwing me off a little. It's much more in-depth than I thought when I took the job. Whether that is good or bad remains to be seen...

[img]http://ebooks.palm.com/files/products/000/01/13/96/cover/medium.jpg[/img] < Vassi is a good writer, but he makes way too much of the whole sexual experience. I'm sure it's because he was a product of the 60's. Everything is color and light and hallucination and deep and strange, like when he is fucking a girl with a baby snake in her vagina. Doesn't sound much fun to me but he writes a whole chapter about all the sensations he feels on his dick and in his dick's mind. I mean, I like sex, but this dude is something else. There isn't a woman he can't cure with his dick. Me, I know I have limitations...

[img]http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/2/21/200px-Confederacy_of_dunces_cover.jpg[/img] < I like that the author suicided himself, shows conviction of something, I guess, but other than that, I'm not sure I "get" it so far...

Just started The Names by DeLillo, and I'm fucking pumped about it. It's vintage DeLillo, and so far there's this motif of characters being fascinated with language, which only bodes well in Donnie D's hands. Yeah.

[QUOTE=Brock Landers;1069272]

[img]http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/2/21/200px-Confederacy_of_dunces_cover.jpg[/img] < I like that the author suicided himself, shows conviction of something, I guess, but other than that, I'm not sure I "get" it so far...[/QUOTE]

It's a good book if you just want to read about how bizarre those people down there live, other than that there isn't much to really "get" about it. Definitely, worth reading once though.

Based on the trailers, I'm going to read Stephen King's The Mist for Halloween. The commercials make it seem a lot better than I had originally thought when I read the synopsis of it.

*A Gesture Life: Chang-Rae Lee
*The Basics of Semiotics: ?

New to Cult Forums. Hi!

Im finishing Apathy and other small victories and then its House by Frank Peretti and ted Dekker- Dont know a thing about either writer so if its good then Ive dicovered two more.

I am reading I Am Legend again. Read it before a few years ago and liked it a lot, but didn't fully appreciate it as I am this time. Hope the movie is as good as the book.

I am reading Generation X by Douglas Coupland. Dunno why I've never gotten around to it before.

I love the little anecdotes and stories like the boy with hummingbird eyes.

After that, I think I'll move on to flipping throughI Am America(And so can you!) by Stephen Colbert.

I flipped it open while I was putzing around in an airport bookstore, and found myself chuckling at it.
Picked it up just for the hell of it.

I just finished [i]The Book of Lost Things[/i] by John Connolly (thanks to Derek!)
And I just started [i]Chart Throb[/i] by Ben Elton (also thanks to Derek!!)

And I must say, the book of lost things was amazing. It is a book I will definately read again at some point. I haven't finished reading through all of the notes in the back, which include the original versions of the fairy tales in the book, but I plan to do so.

[QUOTE=PGoutis01;1068854]Yeah Brock's description of it made me go out and buy The End of Alice too. I also bought The Safety of Objects - which I read it like a day or two. I haven't gotten around to Alice yet.

I'm currently reading Blindness. Starting out very good. Very well written.
[/QUOTE]

Damn. This is weirding me out. I bought the same 2 books, but read [I]Alice[/I] first and am waiting on [I]The Safety of Objects[/I]. (Although I have read excerpts of it on the web. The part about the kid and the barbie doll. Cool stuff.)

I also am finding [I]Blindness[/I] to be pretty damn amazing. It's a very beautifully written book. (I can only assume it was even better before translation.) The story is much more compelling than I expected. If something bad happens to the Dr. and his wife, I'm gonna set the book on fire.

[QUOTE=Caligula7;1071129]Damn. This is weirding me out. I bought the same 2 books, but read [I]Alice[/I] first and am waiting on [I]The Safety of Objects[/I]. (Although I have read excerpts of it on the web. The part about the kid and the barbie doll. Cool stuff.)

[/QUOTE]

The very first story in the book was probably my favorite. It's just so ordinary at first that and then it goes off in a totally different direction. It was really good. She then wrote a book about the characters of that one called Music for Torching (I think).

[QUOTE=ScribblingDes;1071126]I just finished [i]The Book of Lost Things[/i] by John Connolly (thanks to Derek!)
And I just started [i]Chart Throb[/i] by Ben Elton (also thanks to Derek!!)

And I must say, the book of lost things was amazing. It is a book I will definately read again at some point. I haven't finished reading through all of the notes in the back, which include the original versions of the fairy tales in the book, but I plan to do so.[/QUOTE]

Glad you liked it Melody. Its quickly becoming a favourite amoung Culties. There is a John Connolly thread somewhere in the book section.

Is the Book of Lost Things out in paperback in America?
I remember wanting to pick that up, but not wanting to shell out Hardcover prices, I think.
EDIT: Yes! since the 16th of october. I know what I'm picking up next.

[QUOTE=PGoutis01;1071173]The very first story in the book was probably my favorite. It's just so ordinary at first that and then it goes off in a totally different direction. It was really good. She then wrote a book about the characters of that one called Music for Torching (I think).[/QUOTE]

I thought MUSIC FOR TORCHING was a great book, but the older nympho chick thinks it was too tame. MUSIC FOR TORCHING is the same characters from the first story in SAFETY OF OBJECTS except that in MUSIC FOR TORCHING they aren't on crack, literally. They only smoke crack in the short story, which was an earlier version, and the author, most wisely, decided to omit the crack stuff from MUSIC FOR TORCHING...

All I remember about Safety of Objects, besides the sex with barbie and the same characters as MUSIC FOR TORCHING, is the story about the fat girl sunbathing naked. I like that one a lot. It's simple and short, yet very effective...

THE END OF ALICE was most definitely the high point of A.M. Homes career...

I hate when I do that... when I read a book and it is so good and I run out and buy up everything they have ever written, and then none of the other stuff is ever as good as the first one which was the best one and I started, quite by chance, with the best one...

So basically, I quit judging author's by the first book I read, if I like it or not... I think writer's either write the same stuf over and over, trying to re-capture early success OR they change and inevitably drive away their original fan base except for the ones who don't care about whether the writer is good or bad in the future books or not as long as he writes Fight Club 2 and they can have a reason to go on living. I happen to like Choke a helluva lot and I like Fight Club and Survivor and Invisible Monsters because they all pretty much read the same way. Fugitives and Refugees had it's moments, but the rest of it, I dunno, I need to try and re-read it maybe...

I'm about three-quarters of the way through [I]A Scanner Darkly[/I], which for some unknown reason I've been reading very slowly. As soon as that is finished, I have 3 books to choose from:
[I]Crime and Punishment[/I] by Fyodor Dostoevsky
[I]The Book of Lost Things[/I] by John Connolly
[I]The Raw Shark Texts[/I] by Steven Hall

Raw Shark sounds good. I like the title...

Many Cultists have recommended it, and my friend recently bought it. She just finished reading it yesterday, and is desperately wanting a second opinion, because she is still a little unsure of whether she understands and/or likes it.

[QUOTE=elegantly_bitter;1071647]Many Cultists have recommended it, and my friend recently bought it. She just finished reading it yesterday, and is desperately wanting a second opinion, because she is still a little unsure of whether she understands and/or likes it.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=elegantly_bitter;1071639][I]The Raw Shark Texts[/I] by Steven Hall[/QUOTE]

The Raw Shark Texts From Publishers Weekly

Hall's debut, the darling of last year's London Book Fair, is a cerebral page-turner that pits corporeal man against metaphysical sharks that devour memory and essence, not flesh and blood. When Eric Sanderson wakes from a lengthy unconsciousness, he has no memory. A letter from "The First Eric Sanderson" directs him to psychologist Dr. Randle, who tells Eric he is afflicted with a "dissociative condition." Eric learns about his former life—specifically a glorious romance with girlfriend Clio Aames, who drowned three years earlier—and is soon on the run from the Ludovician, a "species of purely conceptual fish" that "feeds on human memories and the intrinsic sense of self." Once he hooks up with Scout, a young woman on the run from her own metaphysical predator, the two trek through a subterranean labyrinth made of telephone directories (masses of words offer protection, as do Dictaphone recordings), decode encrypted communications and encounter a series of strange characters on the way to the big-bang showdown with the beast. Though Hall's prose is flabby and the plethora of text-based sight gags don't always work (a 50-page flipbook of a swimming shark, for instance), the end result is a fast-moving cyberpunk mashup of Jaws, Memento and sappy romance that's destined for the big screen.

Hmmmmm....

Just finished 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' by Mr Wilde. Good old 19th century horror full of satirical stabs at the aristocracy, vanity, drugs, moral degradation and overtones of homosexuality.

Currently on 'Journey To The End Of Night' by Louis-Ferdinand Celine - semi-autobiographical rantings. Funny, raw, opinionated, outrageously innacurate with historical facts. French.

[QUOTE=Brock Landers;1071635]I hate when I do that... when I read a book and it is so good and I run out and buy up everything they have ever written, and then none of the other stuff is ever as good as the first one which was the best one and I started, quite by chance, with the best one...[/QUOTE]I hate this too. It's happened so many times with me - with authors and bands. I will like something, and then go out and buy everything that they did, and then be pissed at myself for wasting so much money...

[QUOTE=Brock Landers;1071643]Raw Shark sounds good. I like the title...[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=elegantly_bitter;1071647]Many Cultists have recommended it, and my friend recently bought it. She just finished reading it yesterday, and is desperately wanting a second opinion, because she is still a little unsure of whether she understands and/or likes it.[/QUOTE]There was a book club discussion of this in July. Steven Hall (the author) even stepped in and answered questions about it. You can find the discussion here:

[url=http://chuckpalahniuk.net/community/showthread.php?t=29306]Raw Shark Discussion[/url]

I just finished Hell's Angels. I'm starting The Monkey Wrench Gang. I thought Hell's Angel's was cool, but some parts were a little slow, not as intensly written as I would have thought, given Hunter's reputation.

I'm just about finished with "Freak Show" by James St. James
I always wished I could've been a Club Kid, either that or a flapper girl. I mean who gets to use words like "barney-mugging" anymore.

O-Town...that means Conglam-O owns you.

after dark by murakami... almost halway done.. and lovin it...

Shouts, Johnny

Ive 20 pages to go in House by Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker. ITS CRAP, the worst book Ive read this year.

The Beach - Garland..... again.

Um.... that's all actually... weird.

Ive started Homeland by Sam Lipsyte, really good so far, Kudos to Airport Dan for recomending it. When I get home tonight I will post the books I bought.