It's November, fools! What are you reading?

"Miyamoto Musashi", by Kenji Tokitsu.
It's a biography and a study of a 17th century samurai.

Started Geek Love yesterday, I'll see if I feel like doing any work this evening, if not I'll spend it reading.

Momentum by Mo Molam.

I need to find some fiction next. Might have a third crack at Harry Potter IV.

Still readong Paul Auster's THE BROOKLYN FOLLIES and love erevry freaking page of it.

[QUOTE=Mr. Brown]Still readong Paul Auster's THE BROOKLYN FOLLIES and love erevry freaking page of it.[/QUOTE]
I picked up Oracle Night after I saw you quarting over it in a thread once and I'm reading it now to write a review for a class.

Too bad I like it so much, I would have really loved to do a hatchet job.

I'm finishing a Confederacy of Dunces tonight then starting Breakfast Of Champions by Vonnegut.

[QUOTE=Vendetta]I picked up Oracle Night after I saw you quarting over it in a thread once and I'm reading it now to write a review for a class.

Too bad I like it so much, I would have really loved to do a hatchet job.[/QUOTE]

I think it's my favorite as of yet.

[QUOTE=188416]I'm finishing a Confederacy of Dunces tonight then starting Breakfast Of Champions by Vonnegut.[/QUOTE]

Did you like Confederacy? Made me chuckle a fair few times.

I'm about to start Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys by Will Self.

[QUOTE=Riddlegimp]Did you like Confederacy? Made me chuckle a fair few times.
[/QUOTE]

I kept grinning all the time. Ignatius is one of the best characters I've ever read, he was perfect.

[QUOTE=188416]I kept grinning all the time. Ignatius is one of the best characters I've ever read, he was perfect.[/QUOTE]

Cool.

I think the "Crusade For Moorish Dignity" is an all-time classic scene, as well as several others.

In desperately disappointing news, Will Ferrell is playing Ignatius in the upcoming movie bastardisation of the novel. I'm trying to remain optimistic. Truly I am.

What in the world is going on? Fuckers. I'm gonna start taking movies and turning them into books, see how they like it.

Let's start with The Legend Of Zorro!

I'm adding CHARACTER, PLOT, DIALOGUE, MEANING, stripping it of all PRODUCT PLACEMENT AND ADVERTISING TIE-INS, changing the main female character to a whimsical 70 year old lady and adding dash of LOVE.

Let's see how they like THAT.

Anyway, great book.

right now i'm reading hst's the rum diary, which is often a good read if a bit uneven and lacking the madness of his latter works.

Yesterday I started "The Infinite Jest" by David Foster Wallace (I'm kicking The List's [i]ass[/i]); I'm 100 pages in and I haven't decided if it's really inventive or just incredibly pretentious yet.

Have you posted the list somewhere? You should cos it'd be fun to see who can finish it first. I still have a copy and delete the books I read from it. It's a delightful system that I feel would benefit others.

We made a thread about it in this forum but I didn't have a complete copy of the list at the time. I'll go through my email and see if I can find it.

what list, dorks?

Just finished "The Tesseract" last night. Really enjoyed it.

Planning on starting William Golding's "The Inheritors" tonight or tomorrow, but in the mean time I've been paging through "The Best American Non-Required Reading 2005". It's a good mix of short stories and articles from a wide array of authors and publications. It's edited by Dave Eggers, who i keep giving a second, third, fourth chance even though none of his other projects have compared to "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius".

[QUOTE=Balthazar]what list, dorks?[/QUOTE]

100 greatest novels fool!

[QUOTE=Mr. Brown]100 greatest novels fool![/QUOTE]
oh gay
i thought it was a real list

[url=http://www.chuckpalahniuk.net/community/showpost.php?p=735327&postcount=69]No, it is.[/url]

Rents and I made it up last spring.

[QUOTE=Balthazar]oh gay
i thought it was a real list[/QUOTE]

Perfect for you!

ban you

Catch 22.

[QUOTE=Mr. Brown]Catch 22.[/QUOTE]
watch your step, bitch.

Man, I moonwalk it over here.

You guys are ruining my thread with your sexual tension!

i'm in the middle of some piece of rubbish, called "black box" about people on a plane that are all connected by that theory that you can find a common link w/ any person in the world within 6 degrees of acquaintance.

it has its moments, though. like when "unfunny Johnny" the comedian goes on stage, starts bombing then proceeds to blow his brains out all over the back curtain, and then springs back to life to complete his comedic performance.

----today the bookstore called and told me my copy of Clevenger's new book, the name of which escapes me.

[QUOTE=JKuhlmann]i'm in the middle of some piece of rubbish, called "black box"[/QUOTE]
The person who wrote this book, he stole my name.

nick walker? or black box? is black box your nickname?

No son, black box is my real name. My parents were hippies.

[QUOTE=Vendetta]You guys are ruining my thread with your sexual tension![/QUOTE]

Bahahahaha sigged.

I'm reading A Hell of a Woman by Jim Thompson.

[QUOTE=mary]I'm reading A Hell of a Woman by Jim Thompson.[/QUOTE]

He's great. Have you read [B]The KIller Inside Me[/B]?

I'm reading [B]Glitz [/B] by Elmore Leonard and a collection of shorts by an amazing new writer, Craig Davidson called [B]Rust and Bone[/B].

[QUOTE=mirka]I'm reading [B]Glitz [/B] by Elmore Leonard[/QUOTE]

I remember flipping open the cover of the paperback out of my backpocket at the busstation, seven am in the morning and reading the first page and then exhaling, going "Aaahh, Elmore Leonard."

Got back into [I]Rebel Without a Crew[/I].
Also re-reading [I]Marabou Stork Nightmares[/I] and considering a re-visit to the [color=blue]House[/color].

I've just finished Bret Easton Ellis' Lunar Park (loved it), and about to start Perfume by Patrick Suskind.

Also on my list for this month: A Home At The End of The World by Michael Cunningham, Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain, How It Ended by Jay McInerney and whatever else I pick up along the way.

I'm also "reading" the Haunted audiobook, which is quite cool. As we say at the library - put a book in your ear! Or, er, not. Whatever.

[QUOTE=mirka]He's great. Have you read [B]The KIller Inside Me[/B]?

I'm reading [B]Glitz [/B] by Elmore Leonard and a collection of shorts by an amazing new writer, Craig Davidson called [B]Rust and Bone[/B].[/QUOTE]

Yes, that's my next read. I borrowed it from a friend and i can't wait to dig into it. My friend describes it as the American Psycho of its time. In fact, Thompson got really popular in the 80s so it would make sense that it was one of Bret E.Ellis' influences.

I [I]finally[/I] finished Hemingway's [I]For Whom the Bell Tolls[/I] (finally) and then read Jase's [I]Remember to Blink[/I]. Now I've moved on to Fitzgerald's [I]The Beautiful and Damned[/I]. I'm wanting to re-read Tim O'Brien's [I]The Things They Carried[/I] as well.

Jim Thompson is the MAN, nuff said.

In prep for a story...Christine by Stephen King.

[QUOTE=franc tireur]"Miyamoto Musashi", by Kenji Tokitsu.
It's a biography and a study of a 17th century samurai.[/QUOTE]
let me know if that book discusses the story of Musashi carving a sword from a boken and killing that dude on the island with it. i've heard that story so many times growing up, don't know if it actually happened to Musashi or if it's made up.

[QUOTE=Mr. Brown]I remember flipping open the cover of the paperback out of my backpocket at the busstation, seven am in the morning and reading the first page and then exhaling, going "Aaahh, Elmore Leonard."[/QUOTE]

"You know what she has for breakfast? Toast and a coke".

[QUOTE=mary]Yes, that's my next read. I borrowed it from a friend and i can't wait to dig into it. My friend describes it as the American Psycho of its time. In fact, Thompson got really popular in the 80s so it would make sense that it was one of Bret E.Ellis' influences.[/QUOTE]

I can't even believe it got published when it did. I can see it being the AP of it's time but I hated AP. I thought it was just garbage. No pacing at all, and really long, boring scenes.

[QUOTE=mirka]He's great. Have you read [B]The KIller Inside Me[/B]?[/QUOTE]
That book sounds cool and it has now made it on to my ever expanding wish list. Now all I need is about 5 grand so I can afford everything...

asfixia by chuck palahniuk

choke in spanish. brilliant idea. where´s my dictionary?! dammit.

So Coin Locker Babies was an awesome book. I was completely suprised because I hated Almost Transparent Blue.

Then I read The Virgin Suicides which was written really good. I'm sort of at a toss up about if I really liked it or just found it ok.

Now I'm reading Out by Natsuo Kirino.

I finished Breakfast of Chapions by Vonnegut and was happy with it. Now i'm reading my very first Murakami book - 'The Wind-up Bird Chronicle'

Happy enough to read more Vonnegut?

I can't decide whether to read V by Thomas Pynchon or Still Life With Woodpecker by Tom Robbins next.

Eventually I'll read more Vonnegut.

I'm reading Wicked by Gregory Maguire. Definately a must read, there is alot more to it than the cover thats all I'll say.