It's November, fools! What are you reading?
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Finished [I]The Tesseract[/I]. Started [I]Microserfs[/I]. The reading is kind of slow for me lately.
[QUOTE=Federov][I]Rebel Without a Crew[/I].
[I]Marabou Stork Nightmares[/I]
considering a re-visit to the [color=blue]House[/color].[/QUOTE]
Done.
Still haven't finished this fourth(?) re-read.
Decided against.
So I'm still on [I]Marabou Stork Nightmares[/I] and have also started reading [I]Will o' the World[/I].
Just finished Cintra Wilson's 'Colors Insulting to Nature.' Not sure what's next, maybe 'Dermaphoria' or 'Little Children.'
When we call soccer 'football' the terrorists have won.
I'm reading Mark Z. Danielewski's new book, "The Fifty Year Sword".
Yup, that's right 
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'Jack' by A.M. Homes
When we call soccer 'football' the terrorists have won.
Richard Stark books. About 1 1/2a day. Been through 5 of tem so far.
shoot em up bang bang stuff, the bad guy is the good guy.
"well she's either a cruel horny bitch or she might actually like you." - audreythirteen
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just finished [I]Everything is Illuminated[/I]
just got [I]Dermaphoria[/I]
just finishing up [I][COLOR=DeepSkyBlue]House [/COLOR]of Leaves[/I], which i don't want to stop reading...
just found [I]the subterranea[/I]ns
just tripped over [I]harry potter 7[/I] cause it the holidays and the damn series makes me happy so stick a fork in my juggler.
Haha, look at that sig quote! Despite the cringe-worthy over-use of 'all' it's pretty good, I'm like Shakespeare!
Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor Vanilla Ice
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more...
[QUOTE=Vendetta]Haha, look at that sig quote! Despite the cringe-worthy over-use of 'all' it's pretty good, I'm like Shakespeare!
Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor Vanilla Ice
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more...[/QUOTE]
haha! Of course!
you're also a natural cure for
depression.
i am charlotte simmons by tom wolfe-[I]just started[/I]
the danielewski book is.. well... danielewski (that's a good thing;)). it's five narratives that have been spliced together to tell one story.. it's as though someone had edited five stories together (at the beginning he says it's composed of independantly conducted interviews).. there's also traces of someone (outside the five) tampering with the narrative, possibly to make it what they want.... there's coloured quotations to show who is speaking (not that we know who that even is).. could definitely read it again to try to understand it more.. only 50pgs of text, says he spent two years writing it, so i'm sure there's something deeper in the story, as with HoL....
starting 'the tipping point' now..
[QUOTE=Earthbound]The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon[/QUOTE]
One of the only books I never finished. And it's like, what, 12 pages long? I hated it. I spit upon it now when I see it laying around the house.
I'm still slogging my way through [i]The Infinite Jest[/i] and took a break from it to read [i]The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things[/i], which almost made me cry at some points. I predict this book won't spend a lot of time at my house, as I'll be loaning it out to everyone I know.
There is hope, but not for us.
You hated Life of Pi!?
That's inhuman.
There is hope, but not for us.
i read a couple things this month but its too late to list them now, i'll just say i read them in December
[QUOTE=morey]i am charlotte simmons by tom wolfe-[I]just started[/I][/QUOTE]
You're putting us on, right? I thought I was the only member at The Cult who'd read that (or even thought seriously about it). Wolfe doesn't write the kind of thing I want to write, but I find I have a weakness for him. See also John Irving (they hate each other, go figure).
When we call soccer 'football' the terrorists have won.
[QUOTE=jane s.]You hated Life of Pi!?
That's inhuman.[/QUOTE]
Heh, some of us might say that about 'Lot 49.' I can't hang with 'Gravity's Rainbow' (I've tried a few times), and I've never tried 'Vineland' but I love 'The Crying of Lot 49,' I enjoyed 'V.' and I fucking adore 'Mason & Dixon.' The latter may be the greatest literary feat of the last fifty years, something to torture future lit majors with along with 'Moby Dick' and the Yoknapatawpha novels...
'Lot 49' is an obvious leap-off point for Pynchon [I]because [/I]it's short. But then, aside from that and a handful of short stories, he doesn't 'do' brevity any more than Amy Hempel 'does' works of sustained length. Their common point seems to be the novella: 'Tumble Home' is her magnum opus and 'Lot 49' is Pynchon's quick deconstruction of conspiracy theories and the USPS.
When we call soccer 'football' the terrorists have won.
[QUOTE=Chixulub]You're putting us on, right? I thought I was the only member at The Cult who'd read that (or even thought seriously about it). Wolfe doesn't write the kind of thing I want to write, but I find I have a weakness for him. See also John Irving (they hate each other, go figure).[/QUOTE]
I bought it months ago and got through the first chapter, but I haven't continued with it because of other books I started prior to buying Charlotte Simmons. I hope to get back to reading it one of these days.
[QUOTE=Chixulub]Heh, some of us might say that about 'Lot 49.' I can't hang with 'Gravity's Rainbow' (I've tried a few times), and I've never tried 'Vineland' but I love 'The Crying of Lot 49,' I enjoyed 'V.' and I fucking adore 'Mason & Dixon.' The latter may be the greatest literary feat of the last fifty years, something to torture future lit majors with along with 'Moby Dick' and the Yoknapatawpha novels...
'Lot 49' is an obvious leap-off point for Pynchon [I]because [/I]it's short. But then, aside from that and a handful of short stories, he doesn't 'do' brevity any more than Amy Hempel 'does' works of sustained length. Their common point seems to be the novella: 'Tumble Home' is her magnum opus and 'Lot 49' is Pynchon's quick deconstruction of conspiracy theories and the USPS.[/QUOTE]
In modern fiction, there seems to be a fine line between brilliance and absolute bullshit pretention. (See Eggers, David). For me, Pynchon seems to have crossed that line and then set it afire.
There is hope, but not for us.
[QUOTE=Undertow]I bought it months ago and got through the first chapter, but I haven't continued with it because of other books I started prior to buying Charlotte Simmons. I hope to get back to reading it one of these days.[/QUOTE]
Whelp... Ever read Flaubert? If you think of 'A Man in Full' as Tom Wolfe re-telling 'A Tale of Two Cities' this is his take on Madam Bovary. I don't mean a literal re-telling, more the way I think 'Cider House Rules' is John Irving trying to do an updated 'Oliver Twist.'
When we call soccer 'football' the terrorists have won.
[QUOTE=jane s.]In modern fiction, there seems to be a fine line between brilliance and absolute bullshit pretention. (See Eggers, David). For me, Pynchon seems to have crossed that line and then set it afire.[/QUOTE]
In the case of 'Gravity's Rainbow' I'd agree. The fist sixty pages or so I've read have a moment or two of brilliance, but even Pynchon (he doesn't sit for interviews, so this is second-second-hand from an interview I saw with someone who knew him then), has supposedly said when he wrote 'GR' he was so 'out if it' he didn't know what he meant.
Methinks a good chunk of what he 'meant' was lost in some Mexican rental property that smelled a lot like a Grateful Dead concert.
If 'Lot 49' doesnt' flip it for you, I wouldnt' give up on him. Try 'Mason and Dixon,' with this caveat: I'd just refinanced my house and had a false sense of liquidity at the time I read it. Why, you ask, does that matter? I subscribed to the OED online, which gives you not only definitions but biographies of words. Including when X meant Y in terms of common usuage. Since the language, including dialogue, of 'Mason & Dixon' is 'period' I think the OED saved it for me. I love it dearly, but without the resources to decode some of the jokes, double entendres, scams, and absurdities, it might have gone the other way with me.
When we call soccer 'football' the terrorists have won.
[QUOTE=karbunkle]i read a couple things this month but its too late to list them now, i'll just say i read them in December[/QUOTE]
How is it too late you effing bum?
[QUOTE=Vendetta]How is it too late you effing bum?[/QUOTE]
because by the time i get around to listing them it'll be the first of the month
plus it'll look like i read more next month too !
Okay, you do things your way, twisted as it is.
I finished A Feather of Stone by Cate Tiernan yesterday. Twas awesome.
[QUOTE=Chixulub]Whelp... Ever read Flaubert? If you think of 'A Man in Full' as Tom Wolfe re-telling 'A Tale of Two Cities' this is his take on Madam Bovary. I don't mean a literal re-telling, more the way I think 'Cider House Rules' is John Irving trying to do an updated 'Oliver Twist.'[/QUOTE]
I haven't read any Flaubert, and Charlotte Simmons is my first Wolfe book.
[QUOTE=sara faye]We were supposed to read this one at the same time so we could discuss it (once I bought my own copy), remember? I'm still game if you are![/QUOTE]
Are you saying you own a copy now?
Finished IN THE COUNTRY OF LAST THINGS by Paul Auster, which I bought in Paris and started on SAMARITAN by Richard Price.
I just finished SVH Super Edition: Spring Fever. Jessica and Elizabeth are both slags, really.
Just finished A Confederacy of Dunces which was absolutely great. Now I'm onto On the Road by Kerouac, which is pretty entertaining so far.
[QUOTE=AmateurArthur]Just finished A Confederacy of Dunces which was absolutely great. Now I'm onto On the Road by Kerouac, which is pretty entertaining so far.[/QUOTE]
Entertaining! My friend you best find some better modifiers that express your utter love and devotion to that book as it sends orgasmic butterflies through your legs and crotch in spurts of Oreo shaped pills and table saw teeth.
Ah! Well I'm not even halfway through the book yet, but I'm sure that when i have finished the masterpiece the modifiers will be surging through my veins non-stop 
Well yeah. Or else you'll be disappointed with it and not understand why people like it so much. I found it really obnoxious. The characters in it made me do a bad-quart.
What's a bad-quart? Black milk?
Finished 'Jack' by A.M. Homes, started 'Little Children' by Tom Perrotta.
When we call soccer 'football' the terrorists have won.
Is no-one reading this month? Is it so cold that you can't get your frostbitten fingers around a book?
I'm reading A Feather of Stone by Cate Tiernan. It's about a girl who didn't know she had a twin and now her Grandmother's immortal blah blah blah, witches, New Orleans, the usual.
Also re-reading The Sound and the Fury and looking over a bunch of books on Faulkner, my favourite so far is William Faulkner: Thirty Years of Criticism. Awesome stuff.