Its August and I am reading...
No, you're thinking about Phillip Roth.
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Fuck I coulda swore he came out with one last year, and then that Against the Day like three years ago.
My internal brain clock is on the fritz again.
No, you're thinking about Phillip Roth.
I only get him confused with John Updike.
For me, there's no confusing Pynchon. He was on The Simpson's!!
although, come to think of it, so was Updike, so who knows...
1984 by George Orwell.
What I have shown you is reality. What you remember... that is the illusion.
pygmy and after 30 pages in, i feel like giving up. let me know if there's a payoff if i keep going.
Have you read Snuff? If you thought the ending to Snuff was fantastic and funny and witty and a worthwhile payoff, and would like to see the camp level cranked up a notch or two, then hang in there!
Otherwise, no, stop before you rage like I did.
Otherwise, no, stop before you rage like I did.
I liked it. Wasn't really what I was expecting. I don't know about all that funny and witty and fantastic, but I liked it. To each his own though. 
i wish i had a digital copy of pygmy. i'd run it through babelfish and hit undo until it makes sense.
Dont tell anyone but apparrently Chuck is going to have a TWIST at the end of his next book.....who woulda THUNK it???? what?? a twist???? Chuck??? no way Mannnn or Woman. you all feel the same??.... Admit it we just read the book just to get to the Twist yes/no? denial/honesty? c'mon someone/surely - C'MON ITS THE TRUTH SURE HE CONJOURES NEW OTHER totally amazing original PLOTS BUT REALLY WE'ERE JUST WAITING FOR THE TWIST????? does anyone fel like were just trampin through? pg 1 to pg 200 are just fillers for the twist......................ah jesus....I know i'm not the 1st to say it but honestly NONE of the characters are believeable...NONE!!!! really do you know anyone really who are like a character in his books???? Fuck it i dont wanna knock Chuck but he started it..................
"They express their individuality by wearing the same clothes reading the same books listening to the same music and hanging around in a big group - individulas finding safety in numbers - even God laughed at that one" Chuck Palahniuk
Are you secretly Joe Suglia?
or he is:
So...We are still going to die. Right?
As am I.
Whatcha think? I'm loving it. It's the most accessible Pynchon book ever!
I actually am enjoying it. I haven't read anything else by him so I don't know about its accessibility v. Gravity's Rainbow - I just think it's a breezy, amusing read that isn't the fluff of most modern fiction that's been forced upon me.
No. Iron Man is much cooler, how dare thee.
Twisted City by Jason Starr.
I just spoke about this author with Ludwig, hes a modern day Jim Thompson and well worth reding if you are into that kind of thing.
The Road by C. McCarthy. Yeah,,finally.
The Catmother of all Worldwide Cats
The Adderall Diaries by Stephen Elliott
This is the first thing I've read by him and I've got to say its really interesting stuff!
Or will it all end in a big bankiss orgy?
And the Hippos were boiled in their tanks by Jack Keouac and William S. Burroughs. I'm almost done then I'm going on a Hemmingway bender. It's a shame I've only read The old man and the sea.
You shit on these nukkas two times Dr.Dre?
Oh Fo' Sho'!
I finished pygmy,I liked it, probably my 2nd favorite chuck book after fight club, I thought that the way it was writen,ESL, was very original
next on the agenda,interveiw w/ a vampire
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the raw shark texts - steven hall
white noise - dan dellilo
why two books? because i wanna.
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team and a Dream by H G Bissinger.
Yay, its great, if you dont enjoy it I will send you two books instead! Thats how confident I am.
Elephants on Acid by Alex Boese.
Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut
"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"
PIcking up and reading all sorts of things all at once. Read the rest of Checkov's plays yesterday along with some of Maupaussant's stories. Finished Mrs Dalloway a few days ago, which is just about perfect. Beautiful. Picking up Very Mercenary by Rayo Casablanca or Orlando by Woolf.
So many things to read, not sure what it'll be next.
I hate Virginia Woolf.
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
I just finished Chelsea Cain's Heartsick, which was mostly fun and light reading, compelling in parts, but some of the parts were pretty weakly written and bothered me. In particular, (semi spoiler, but not really) the reporter's first meeting with the After School Strangler. It made zero sense. The structure was a bit too Thomas Harris-clone for me, although sometimes that worked to the story's advantage.
Meh. I'm done babbling now. The third book is due out soon, and I think if there's a definite end in sight for this series (ie, it only lasts three or four books) I'll keep plugging away at it.
I'm working my way through Tropic of Cancer as we speak, before that I read The Time Traveller's Wife, some Dan Brown (yes yes I know how people feel about him but he entertains me) and Hugh Laurie's The Gun Seller (great book)
Got to finish Tropic of Cancer soon so I can get started on Moab is My Washpot by Stephen Fry
Actually I don't sit behind a PC, I sit infront of a PC, and if I'm honest I sit at a desk which happens to have a PC on it, not behind or infront of a desk, at a desk.
white noise - dan dellilo
HEY TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK OF THAT WHEN YOU READ IT.
Because I still don't...I can't...I'm not sure. It's on the top of my "re-read" list.
I'm almost done with Revolutionary Road. Noooo, I don't want it to end. 
After this: I Play The Drums In A Band Called Okay by Toby Litt.
Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life by Neil Strauss.
I'm blowing right through it, so I've got to come up with something else soon.
Mika, I'm anxious to hear what you thought of The Road.
I'm reading World War Z by Max Brooks. I'm getting through it at a decent pace, I should finish it soon.
After I'm picking up How to become a Monster by Jean Barbe.
"The sun may burn brightly, and the faces of children may be plump and achingly sweet, but in the air we breathe, in the water we drink and in the food we share, there will always be darkness in the world."
white noise - dan dellilo
HEY TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK OF THAT WHEN YOU READ IT.
Because I still don't...I can't...I'm not sure. It's on the top of my "re-read" list.
I know we discussed this book at length in the Book Club a long time ago... years ago. But it's not in there now and I don't know how to search on the new site.
Maybe Mirka or somebody can help out here?
After this: I Play The Drums In A Band Called Okay by Toby Litt.
Ah, imke, I loved RR, too. Just got it back from loaning it to a friend, in fact.
Im starting the Never Enders by Michael Sonbert, a book I saw advertised here!
The Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox. I'm reading it again because there is a new sequel, and a movie coming out this year of it.
re-reading giovanni's room
then i think i will finally start on geek love
I finished Craig Clevenger's The Contortionist's Handbook this last week. I'm going to reread this next week.
I mean, WOW. What a great read. One of my top ten favorite books.
Get the sugar. Get the sugar. Get the sugar.
I'm actually about to start this...let me know what you think!
Or will it all end in a big bankiss orgy?
I mean, WOW. What a great read. One of my top ten favorite books.
Hit Dermaphoria, i think it's much better. Though, yeah, Craig Clevenger's top notch.
Just finished The Catcher in the Rye, I'm saddened that it took me so long to read it, but after reading Franny and Zooey last month I didn't want to put it off. Am now starting The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain De Botton, which I'm enjoying so far.
I mean, WOW. What a great read. One of my top ten favorite books.
Hit Dermaphoria, i think it's much better. Though, yeah, Craig Clevenger's top notch.
Good to hear his second one is top notch too. I'm going to order scads and pass them out for Christmas.
Get the sugar. Get the sugar. Get the sugar.
1984 by George Orwell
"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"
Ive started The Pilo Family Circus by Will Elliot and so far so good.
the soloist by steve lopez
I just finished Every Dead Thing by John Connolly. My sis is a huge fan of his and lent this to me but crime/thriller isn't really my cup of tea. I did love The Book Of Lost Things though.
This afternoon I went to the park and started reading All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy.
I'm about to finish Kite Runner and will be reading this book next. What did you think?
On a scale of 1 to awesome I'm the sh*t.
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach
Think for yourself. Question Authority.
I'm about to finish Kite Runner and will be reading this book next. What did you think?
you should definitely read it! then pick up Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and compare the two.
"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"
Black Flies a Novel by Shannon Burke.