It's a hot August night and I'm reading...
Finishing Penny Dreadful, halfway through Elephant Memory by Antonio Lobo Antunes, and started Gargantua and Pantagruel yesterday.
Fun stuff:
A Fable by William Faulkner (still don't see why it's so unpopular)
A book about the show Nip/Tuck (surprisingly sophisticated)
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by HP Lovecraft (the only Lovecraft story I hadn't read)
Schmuck stuff:
The Encyclopedia Logic by Hegel (much more accessible than most of his work)
New Theories of Discourse by Jacob Torfing (challenging, but extremely interesting)
Lacan, Discourse and Social Change by Mark Bracher (a little simplistic, but in its simplicity at least it manages to explain a great deal about Lacan's four discourses)
Pour Lire Jacques Lacan by Philippe Julien (wonderful so far)
The Cambridge Companion to Walter Benjamin (good for learning to enjoy Benjamin more thoroughly than I used to)
thanks for sharing.blackhawk tactical pants.
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"I could have done worse!" exultantly cried the murderer Lebret, sentenced at Rouen to hard labor for life. — Félix Fénéon
I decided to read the HP series again. I'm on chamber of secrets. I'm also reading a bunch of poetry by various poets. And trying to get myself to finish that orwell book I got annoyed with.
I realised yesterday that my mental and emotional space can be well evauluated by the dozen books or so collected on my bedside table at a given point and their place marks and position in relation to the top of the pile. If I ever need a head doctor I'm not going to talk, just tell them to look at my table.
Just finished reading Nicholas Christopher's Veronica for the second time (I first read it in about 2002). What a cool novel - a joy to read and a heart-breaker to finish.
Today I'm picking up Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep yet again - I haven't read it in a long enough time, and I'm desperate for some Marlowe fodder.
Andrez Bergen
A couple o' hack novels out, and upcoming noir/pulp/comicbook thing (Who is Killing the Great Capes of Heropa?)
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About halfway through The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen, and really enjoying it so far.
Today I'm picking up Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep yet again - I haven't read it in a long enough time, and I'm desperate for some Marlowe fodder.
Just started this today myself....gonna give Faulkner's Big Woods a try as well
Spanbauer's "Now is the Hour."
I don't know. It's not August here yet...
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
"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 reading Stephen Dixon's Interstate and Grant Morrison's Supergods. Will probably start Sinister Miniatures today with its first story.
Finished The Never Enders this morning. Started The Stand and plan on mixing in Warmed and Bound when it arrives. These two books, mixed in with work I've been neglecting, should keep me busy for a while. See you in September.
Hopefully gonna finish up Fahrenheit 451 at the beach today.
Warmed and Bound Anthology. I don't know how y'all did it, but the cover even feels all soft and velvety.
"...human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars."
Very cool book - I loved it. And I guess a hot beach is the right location to read it...
Today I'm picking up Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep yet again - I haven't read it in a long enough time, and I'm desperate for some Marlowe fodder.
Just started this today myself....gonna give Faulkner's Big Woods a try as well
Enjoy, music.sherlock.
Andrez Bergen
A couple o' hack novels out, and upcoming noir/pulp/comicbook thing (Who is Killing the Great Capes of Heropa?)
http://andrezbergen.wordpress.com/
Seven Spanish Angels by Stephen Graham Jones!
Matt Bell's W&B story is too damn good. I gotta move his book up in the queue now.
I forgot to mention that I also started reading Torso by Michael Bendis I was too busy finishing up my egg sammich so we could leave for the beach.
Let us know how that is. I'm trying to get into his non-Marvel stuff.
40 pages in and I'm enjoying it but it's barely building up soo I'll definitely let you know once I get finished with it.
It's awesome! Don't you dare say anything bad about it Jaz!
I can make my own opinion thank you very much! 
You know, you're right. You CAN make your own opinion about it... as long as it's the one I tell you to have.
Straw Dogs by John Gray.
The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
It tells the story of the life of Dinah and other women from the Old Testament from a feminist's perspective. I recently received it as a present and although it's quite unlike what I usually pick up, I'm really enjoying it.
I'm gonna start The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho today
Fall into Time by Douglas Lain and Ultra Fuckers by Carlton Mellick III.
May get back into Idoru by William Gibson sometime after.
It tells the story of the life of Dinah and other women from the Old Testament from a feminist's perspective. I recently received it as a present and although it's quite unlike what I usually pick up, I'm really enjoying it.
Amazing book
Halfway through Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
"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 doing Jesús Ángel García's badbadbad (in preparation for his reading in town this weekend), which is all sexdrugsrocknroll in the bible-thumping South and really good so far. Also beginning to find my way through the Warmed and Bound stories, and resisting the urge to skip around, as great care was put into its chronology and I don't wanna fuck with that.
Goblet of Fire
Half-Blood 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
that one is my favorite. Can't wait to get to it.
Prisoner used to be my favorite, but I'm not so sure anymore. This is my fourth time reading them with five reads all ready for Hallows and I'm noticing things I didn't notice before. Namely, the progression of the stories as being more kid oriented to being darker and more grown up, particularly in the way they are written. The major change, I think, comes in the fifth book and progresses through the seventh. I think through multiple readings I've grown a greater appreciation for the last three books. I'm not sure I could pick a favorite anymore.
"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
One of my favorite things about the story has always been the way it progressed in intensity as Harry aged. The story and its themes mature with our hero. Almost as though each book was written in the maturity level of Harry and at an appropriateness level for a person of that age to read.
Reading the story this time it can almost make me cry to think how abused he was as a small boy, but he blows it off as just a fact of his life. Silly, I know.
They lock him in a damn closet!!!
sorry. Done.
I only starting reading these recently. Got up to book 3 and they really are good. Definitely worthy of the hype and will probably be read in a hundred years.
You look like the type of guy / gal, who would like:
Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales and Shirley by Charlotte Bronte.
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
"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"
Loved it....reminded me of Siddartha by Herman Hesse
Loved it....reminded me of Siddartha by Herman Hesse
Yeah so far I like it. I leafed through the graphic novel version a while ago at B&N because my mom mentioned how one of her patient's was supposedly dating Coelho. But now it sounds like she just might be obsessed with the guy after having worked closely with him on a couple movies and projects.
Warmed and Bound
Loved it....reminded me of Siddartha by Herman Hesse
But Siddharta is a million times better I must say.
"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"
Loved it....reminded me of Siddartha by Herman Hesse
But Siddharta is a million times better I must say.
I really like Siddhartha. The Alchemist reminds me more of The Little Prince and I hadn't read the reviews 'til after I thought that and apparently most of the reviewers felt the same way. The Alchemist reads more like a children's story to me than Siddhartha did. Overall I guess The Alchemist kind of falls in between Siddhartha and The Little Prince. All seem to be tales of spiritual/self discovery type journeys.
Loved it....reminded me of Siddartha by Herman Hesse
But Siddharta is a million times better I must say.
I really like Siddhartha. The Alchemist reminds me more of The Little Prince and I hadn't read the reviews 'til after I thought that and apparently most of the reviewers felt the same way. The Alchemist reads more like a children's story to me than Siddhartha did. Overall I guess The Alchemist kind of falls in between Siddhartha and The Little Prince. All seem to be tales of spiritual/self discovery type journeys.
I read The Little Prince in high school and remember not caring for it for some reason....yeah, the Siddartha/Alchemist similarity is definitely the journey....both spiritual and physical
Loved it....reminded me of Siddartha by Herman Hesse
But Siddharta is a million times better I must say.
QFT...Siddartha is one of a few books that I have read more than once.
Loved it....reminded me of Siddartha by Herman Hesse
But Siddharta is a million times better I must say.
I really like Siddhartha. The Alchemist reminds me more of The Little Prince and I hadn't read the reviews 'til after I thought that and apparently most of the reviewers felt the same way. The Alchemist reads more like a children's story to me than Siddhartha did. Overall I guess The Alchemist kind of falls in between Siddhartha and The Little Prince. All seem to be tales of spiritual/self discovery type journeys.
I read The Little Prince in high school and remember not caring for it for some reason....yeah, the Siddartha/Alchemist similarity is definitely the journey....both spiritual and physical
I recently read The Little Prince and used it for this philosophy blog I had to keep for my philosophy/world religions class. It's a really simple book but it's honest in a child like way. I probably wouldn't have cared for it in high school either.
My copy of Warmed & Bound got delivered today. So I'm now reading that.
I'm planning to mix these stories up with Stay God by Nik Korpon
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Finishing up Sinister Miniatures.
Also The Regulators by King/Bachman. I'm still waiting on Amazon for W&B, but I shall definitely be reading that at some point this month.
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