Its October 09 and I'm reading...

Survivor

Who wrote that?

Some gay guy.

The Living Dead edited by John Joseph Adams. It's a zombie collection, it's October, and I want to read about zombies. so there.

It's by Douglas Coupland, or someone like that. It's a pretty good book.

OffSpring by Jack Ketchum, only read the first Chapter so far but it scared the crap out of me.

new USM new Rolling Stone
I'm going to pick up some Clevenger next...I need a real book.

Just finished:
Pygmie (no comment).
Jackson's The Lottery and Other Short Stories - she's obsessed with pies and tarnish resistant silverware boxes. Also, she has obviously not read ANY of Chuck's essays.

Starting in on The Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner - this guy amazes me for some reason. He writes so freaking weird and random, almost as if he did it drunk. It's 700+ pages of work that was "passed over". I'm only a hundred pages in and there are a few real gems buried in the shit. It's no Twilight but will do for me.

aww, dude! rolling stone? that shit hasn't been good for a long while. fuck it makes me mad how hardcore they have ruined that magazine.

i'm deciding on reading either the virgin suicides because i have yet to read it and the man who fell in love with the moon.

Go for The Man Who Fell In Love With The Moon.

If you can get passed all the gay sex - it's a really really good book.

Just finished Breakfast At Tiffany's and am now devouring a book on Jean-Paul Sartre, which funnily enough is called Sartre.

He did drink a lot.

Just finished "The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God" by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan.

Now reading "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

I'm currently reading "Sepulchre" by Kate Mosse. I've read bad reviews about it, but so far it's not bad.

Just picked this up on Sunday afternoon but haven't started it yet:

Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead, edited by John Skipp

Because I'm trendy.

No, really, though, because it's got a Stephen King story I've never heard of and more importantly, one by THEODORE STURGEON. <3

It's also got stories by Ray Bradbury, Neil Gaiman (one of my favorite authors EVER) and this Jack Ketchum guy whose stuff I've never read but want to.

http://www.amazon.com/Zombies-Encounters-Hungry-John-Skipp/dp/1579128289

Let the Northern Lights Erase your Name by Vendela Vida.

Just finishing Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison. Once I got past the first few chapters I really enjoyed it.

Next I think I'll read The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro.

I'm reading The Unconsoled right now! My god! We should hook up or something.

Haha! Awesome. I read Never Let Me Go a while back, and thought it was good but I really couldn't stand the writing style but Thesillian told me that it's very different in his other books, and The Unconsoled sounded amazing.

I read it a few years ago and loved it but can't remember it. It's kind of nightmarish. Keeps going on one thread, then suddenly back to something else. But I'm enjoying it the second time through.

Finished As I Lay Dying and can't seem to make it to Dermaphoria. My lady friend bought me The Pilo Family Circus and I figured since it was The Book Club's October book I'd read it next. About a quarter of the way through and am enjoying it thoroughly.

I'm not reading it, but it reminds me of something I ran across yesterday, and thought was hilarious.

'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies!' by Jane Austen and some other clowns who added that stuff in.

There is also 'Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters'. LOL!

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is really famous, over here at least, and it's actually supposed to be pretty good. I noticed that loads of people are jumping on the bandwagon now, with that Sea Monsters one and there's another book called 'Mr Darcy: Vampyre', or some such shit.

ain't nothing wrong with a flourish of gay sex scenes. see how i used the word flourish there? what a gay word. anyway, i have just started it. i loved faraway places so hard, so i'm hoping this is even better.

also,

i'm keen to read The Pilo Family Circus too. mostly just based on the cover art. and in't the writer australian? i really wish i knew more australian writers i actually liked.

Now how amazingly good was that book, huh? I love me some Faulkner.

I went into it semi-hesitant because of what I've heard of Faulkner. It started slowly but the book proved my trepidation ill advised. I really did love it. I'm thinking The Sound and the Fury next.

Yeah Will Elliott is Australian(and schizophrenic) and The Pilo Family Circus is amazing so far.

excellent. i shall purchase in my next batch. cheers for the heads up. i love finding a great aussie author.

Brightness Falls by Jay McInerney.

I read that a while back, I generallly like McInerney but I wasn't particularly impressed with that one. Apparently there's a sequel out now, the same characters but post-9/11, anyone here read that?

Hunger - Knut Hamsun

The Assasination of Marilyn Monroe by Donld Wolfe. As in Donald Wofle wrote th book not killed her.

Unless...

I love that book, it's one of my top 5.

I just started this, good so far.

Yes, The Good Life - I really liked it, it deals with 9/11 in an interesting way by showing how it affects the characters (okay that sounds bad, it's better than my description!).

Because of the season I've been reading Strange Tales by Rudyard Kipling. I haven't been able to sit down and read in forever. That first short story I finished felt like the relief from giving birth or constipation. Incredible.

yeah, I really like it so far. Have you read "growth of the soil" as well? I heard that's the book that won him the Nobel prize.

Less than zero.

First as Tragedy, Then as Farce by Slavoj Zizek. I'm going to be reviewing it for the Cult soon.

Hey that dude was on TV the other day. It was a BBC4 documentary about 'The Terror' and Robespierre, if you didn't catch it you should look for it on iPlayer. Zizek seems totally nuts.

"If a mere wife had wished to sleep out of doors in that pelting rain it would not have mattered; but Tietjens was a dog, and therefore the better animal."

Of his 40 or so books, I've read maybe fifteen. I've seen most of his recorded lectures, too. He's a bit nutty but an important philosopher, even though his books are wacky and disjointed, sometimes self-contradictory, and often full of annoying rhetorical questions.

This book is basically a postscript to his latest "big book", In Defense of Lost Causes, which, if I've read him right, is an apology for revolutionary terror.

I'd never heard of him until I saw that show, he seemed quite interesting. His position seemed to be somewhat in support of the ideas of Robespierre and the other revolutionaries, ideas like the 'if you're not with us you're against us' spirit. But I couldn't really tell if he was actually in support of it or if he just 'knew where they were coming from'.

H P Lovecraft- Weird Tales.

The Raw Shark Texts - Steven Hall

From Weird Tales you oughta move right to that Strange Tales by Kipling next.

Hey Phil, did you get around to reading The Kindly Ones, or?

Not yet, but I plan to. Did you enjoy it?

I enjoyed it very much. Will probably start rereading it in the near future.

I grabbed At the Mountain of Madness by Lovecraft... you know, cuz it's Halloween

Chronic City-by Jonathan Letham. Excited to read this.