It's a hot August night and I'm reading...
I'm not sure how I feel about Tess.
"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
Finished it, Loved it. I was actually taken back a few times at how crude/crass Capote is with his writing but that's what made it so enjoyable for me.
Also greatly enjoyed Breakfast at Tiffany's. Capote has been a wonderful surprise, between this and 'In Cold Blood' i'm blown away. I've never seen the film, though i'm quite keen to now.
The film is watered down quite a bit but it's still worth watching. Even though I enjoyed the film before having read the book,I appreciate the film a lot more now having read the book.
I started A Clockwork Orange last night.
I am currently reading The House of the Dead by Dostoevsky.
Enjoy! It's a damn good read.
Okay, all done. It was funny as hell...that's all I can say without ruining the story. 
Ditto; on both counts.
"There’s no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I’ve started drinking my own urine." -Patrick Bateman
Finished Already Dead by Charlie Huston last night.
Started reading Balzac and the Little Chinese Steamstress by Dai Sijie and still reading A Clockwork Orange
I think everyone in this thread should just be my friend on goodreads.
"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
Microserfs by Douglas Coupland
Reading Ayn Rand's 'Fountainhead' again, just cause i can.
Also, started Cormac McCarthy's 'All the pretty horses', though i've put it down because i've found the lengthy sentence structure annoying. Might try it again later.
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.
I'm feeling a bit nerdy at the moment. I'm reading The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by John Maynard Keynes.
"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"
Okay, all done. It was funny as hell...that's all I can say without ruining the story. :D
Awesome! It's so short I can probably read it in one or two sittings if I tried. Maybe I can fit it into the next week or two.
Have you read:
Apathy and Other Small Victories by Paul Neilan
The Subject Steve by Sam Lipsyte
I think you would like them.
Okay, all done. It was funny as hell...that's all I can say without ruining the story. :D
Awesome! It's so short I can probably read it in one or two sittings if I tried. Maybe I can fit it into the next week or two.
Have you read:
Apathy and Other Small Victories by Paul Neilan
The Subject Steve by Sam Lipsyte
I think you would like them.
I haven't, but my Kindle recommended the Paul Neilan book. I'll check them out & give them a go. As always, thanks for the recommendations, Pete!
I need to reread The Subject Steve. I found it very anyone and was unable to finish it. But year later, I read another book of his: Home Land. And it was fantastic. And I also read The Ask and Venus Drive, which were both pretty decent.
Michael Kimball's Dear Everybody reminds me of Home Land, except it is sad and the humor is not mean-spirited.
I liked The Subject Steve way more than I liked Home Land. Home Land was a solid read though - just not as solid.
I am currently reading The House of the Dead by Dostoevsky.
Enjoy! It's a damn good read.
So far, it's alright. I think I prefer Solzhenitsyn's "A Day...Ivan Denisovitch" as far as russian-prison stories go, at least stylistically. Though Dostoevsky's psychology of his characters is more interesting. I'm apparently embarking on a russian kick for the moment, so we'll see.
Also:
Yay, this is still one of my favorites by him... though I do need to borrow Anathem from my sister... one of these days.
"...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."
I fucking love Stephenson. Cryptonomicon is my favorite, but Snow Crash is up there too.
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
Yeah, Cryptonomicon is great too, especially as it seems the turning point where he figured out he needs 1,000 pages to tell his stories. But Snow Crash was my first and so has sentimental reasons (that and its links to Julian Jaynes's work.)
But my absolute favorite is probably "In the Beginning... was the Command Line" even though it's not a novel.
"...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."
I think it's been over a year since you recommended it.
Just about to start Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
"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 loved that book. But I always have to explain to my male friends that it's not gay when I tell them I read it. But I'm sure the movie is so gay. It's funny how just having R Patts in a movie will automatically make anybody think that the film and the source material are girly. He should really try to move his career in a different direction.
Anyway, I'm reading A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin. It's amazing. My sister is a freak mutant speed reader and she saw me reading it, started A Game of Thrones, finished it, read Clash, and is half way through A Storm of Swords all in the two weeks that I've been reading this book. It's very frustrating. She read Deathly Hallows in one day, pretty much in one sitting.
"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.
Loved Snow Crash as well. Liked Cryptonomicon. Liked The Diamond Age more than that book and less than Snow Crash. Quicksilver made me totally lose interest in him as an author.
[quote=ScubaSteve1729My sister is a freak mutant speed
I'm not your sister.
Finished Rob Roberge's Working Backwards from the Worst Moment of My Life story collection over a few hours. It's entertainingly-depressing, full of losers trapped in bad situations. Loved it, and the dialogue especially is great. I was irked by one sequence that riffed on the same "laugh tracks are full of dead people" notion that Chuck used in one of his books, though odds are CP lifted it from elsewhere as well.
Now it's on to The Last Werewolf. I usually care nothing for creature/monster stuff, but people I trust have told me this book rules.
A French Novel by Frederic Beigbeder.
He was in a movie that I really liked, Remember Me.
Just finished The Devil All the Time which was quite good.
Starting up on House of Leaves.
See ya next year! And I hope you brought a change of underwear.
High Rise by JG Ballard
The Great Fire, Shirley Hazzard
Read Fight Club again yesterday, in pretty much one sitting. I'd slept at a friend's house and woke up about 3 hours before she did (lazy mare, I know) and nothing else on the bookcase took my fancy.
Now I've started Tough, Tough Toys For Tough, Tough Boys by Will Self, one of his short story collections.
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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
"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 loved that book. Enjoy!
A Farewell To Army by Ernest Hemingway
The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat.
About to start The Demon Haunted World: Science as a
Candle in the Dark By Carl Sagan. I've been wanting to read this book for a while. Excited.
"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've tried reading that book a few times. It never holds my attention and I always end up putting it down and never picking it back up.
Sense and Sensibility.
The Counterfeiters by Andre Gide.
You're reading fast!
I'm a slow reader. It takes me a month, sometimes more to read a book THAT I'M INVESTED IN.
How was this.
seven spanish angels.
remembering that it's something like seven years old, and it doesnt have all the neat bells and whistles of stephen jones' newer work is only needed if you're hoping to read the murder mystery version of LEDFEATHER. this book stands up, though next to other sparse authors. pretty good story so far.
a nice way to break in a kobo, anyways...
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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
Off Season The Unexpurgated Edition by Jack Ketchum
How was this.
Beautiful. Read it.
How was this.
Beautiful. Read it.
how would it be, say for someone who hates over-writing?
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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
how would it be, say for someone who hates over-writing?
Did you think Pride and Prejudice was over-written?
How was this.
Beautiful. Read it.
how would it be, say for someone who hates over-writing?
I hate over-writing too, I don't like all classical novels, yet I've read this one in two sittings.
What the fuck is over-writing? Texts with deep-ends? With dictionary words? And...Lucifer forbid, thesaural expansions? Too many words? Descriptions?
Don't get me wrong. I come from the land of minimalism, but fettering language is troglodition.
Less is not always more. And for fuck's sake, A lady, if one wants to assign overwriting to her dossier broke ground when ground was frozen to women writers.
Okay, sorry to be so harsh.
I feel more like I do now than I did before.
Now I've started Tess of D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy. I love Hardy and I've heard this one is his best, so I'm sure I'll love it.
Less than 24 hours to finish 1,194 pages? Bloody hell!!
Good luck with Tess, I thought she was awful.
Hmm. My copy must be missing something. Maybe its abridged and I didn't notice.
"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