January, happy new year and I am reading...
Halfway through The Market For Liberty, by Linda and Morris Tannehill. It's everything that's been passing through my brain recently in text format, absolutely amazing. Hope to have it done before I fly back to Flor on the 3rd.
"They sold you hippies grunge, hip hop, now liberty activism."
Starting Hell by Yaysutaka Tstsui.
I'll be tackling the unabridged Count of Monte Cristo, which should last me until January of oh-ten.
It's not January here yet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
I love Tsutsui.
I just bought Dark by Natsuo Kirino.
The Catmother of all Worldwide Cats
Music for Torching by A.M. Homes.
Next up is The Suicide Shop by Jean Teule. I have the day off and no football on tv so all Im doing is reading.
HAPPY GOOD ONE! HAVE A NEW YEAR!
in the middle of survivor after that, american psycho i think.
nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.
The Seance by John Harwood.
That's my favorite French novel, I can't recommend it enough.
I'm re-reading "Portnoy's Complaint." I didn't really like it the first time around, but I'm realizing now that I didn't particularly understand it.
There is hope, but not for us.
Im about to start Fat Tuesday by Gary Davison.
I'm reading House of Leaves, Intro to Special Relativity, and Intro to Electrodynamics. When I'm done with House, I'll start A Thousand Splendid Suns.
Think for yourself. Question Authority.
not reading anything right now. but I plan to read try Tree of Smoke sometime before school ends.
Rubicon Beach, and it's weird (but good)
This book is very good. Her best is "The End of Alice".
I am trying to read straight through Les Miserables, instead of a couple chapters here and there for the whole year, and also, I am finishing "Eating the Cheshire Cat" by Hellen Ellis.
"...you want to be truly unselfish? Love someone or die for someone. Those are the only good deeds you can perform without any hope of personal gain."
Agree.
My favorite is "This Book Will Save Your Life", though.
I love Tsutsui.
I just bought Dark by Natsuo Kirino.
Tsutsui was really good, I will be getting more by him.
I have to thank Natsuo Kirino and Out for reigniting my love of Japanese fiction. I have read Groyesque aswell and Im keeping Real World for a holiday. I take it Dark is only available in Japanese?
Yesterday I ordered 5 books by Japanese authors but I forget the names. I will post about them when I get them.
Has Kirino many more books in Japanese?
I love Tsutsui.
I just bought Dark by Natsuo Kirino.
Tsutsui was really good, I will be getting more by him.
I have to thank Natsuo Kirino and Out for reigniting my love of Japanese fiction. I have read Groyesque
I have Grotesque and another book by him on my To Read pile.
My To Read pile is hugenormous.
i'm getting ready to start the audiobook for Anathem by Neal Stephenson on this little mp3 player i got for christmas. It looks loooooooong!
That audiobook is well presented and produced, and he reads it well. However, I never finished it because it was the first Stephenson novel to bore me.
Nate, may I recommend The Unvanquished by Faulkner? I know it's one of those things that people recommend to other people even if they know other people won't like them, just to sound clever or whatever, but it's actually really good.
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
I'll look for it next time i'm out shopping. As I Lay Dying was pretty good.
Nate, may I recommend The Unvanquished by Faulkner? I know it's one of those things that people recommend to other people even if they know other people won't like them, just to sound clever or whatever, but it's actually really good.
Ohhh, yes it is. It is very good. (no cleverness here, just agreeing)
As I Lay Dying was pretty good.
My favorite Faulkner (dated as it was, so many of the characters were like actual people I've known living here in the South).
I'm still enjoying Lolita, but for Christmas my friend gave me a book of literary trivia, which I'm also flicking through.
yeah, i don't know if i'm going to be able to finish this either. I love Stephenson but this sounds an awful lot like The Lord of the Rings as written by Stephen Hawking. And the Lord of the Rings didn't wow me to begin with.
It would probably be ok to sit and read with it there in front of you but just listening to it seems to much a chore. i'll give it another couple-three hours worth...
Ive read a story and a half so far of Knockemstiff and I feel like closing the shop for the day and reading the lot. Thoroughly enjoyble.
Knockemstiff is too good to devour in one day so Im picking up Flicker by Theodore Ruzak.
Im almost done with "you shall know our velocity" and its probably one of the best books Ive read
It would probably be ok to sit and read with it there in front of you but just listening to it seems to much a chore. i'll give it another couple-three hours worth...
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Agree.
My favorite is "This Book Will Save Your Life", though.
I finished Music for Torching last night, it was a good read.
I read This book Will Save Your Life a while ago, which was more happy and made me crave doughnuts really bad.
But I'll check out The End of Alice sometime, thanks.
Last night I started reading A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby.
I have been trying to get into reading Atonement by Ian McEwan, but I'm finding it incredibly boring.
V. by Thomas Pynchon
Agree.
My favorite is "This Book Will Save Your Life", though.
If you can get through the first hundred pages of Atonement, the payoff is incredible.
I'm reading this book called Couch, about three dudes that get stuck carrying this (magical?) couch across, well, the world. It's OKAY writing at its best, but the story's unusual enough to keep me going. Also, I haven't really read a book in a while, so this is quite exciting. Hoorah!
Oh yeah! Double posts! WOOOOOOOYEAHfuckmylife.
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I really fucking hate Apple.
What are you doing to Derek's thread?
Good coffee is like drinking Rock and Roll.
Finished 'The Market For Liberty' this morning, poolside. I could hear the 2001 theme playing in my head as I wrapped it up, so empowering, recommended to everyone.
I watched some Miami Vice and proceeded to read 'No Treason: The Constitution of no Authority' by Lysander Spooner on my comp and it only took about two hours. That was a fun festival. Anarchist essay from the 1870s about the nature of contracts and the invalidity of the Constitution.
Now I'm on to 'Existentialism is a Humanism' by The Sartre. It looks short, so I'm hoping to steam through most of it tonight, as classes begin tomorrow for me and reading time will wither out.
"They sold you hippies grunge, hip hop, now liberty activism."
...I'm sorry?
Last night I started reading A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby.
Let me know how that is, will you? I was severely disappointed with his previous book, "How To Be Good" that I didn't risk it with another.
I'm reading some old-ass paperback called "The Existentialist Posture."
There is hope, but not for us.
reading Knockemstiff too, and yeah, it is quite good. i remember saying that the first few pages were so-so, but when you plow through it, it gets better.
Rereading Classical Budo by Donn F. Draeger.
I've got three books on the go at the moment.
One of them is Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets. I've been reading it for a while because it's really heavy and just looking at it makes my wrists tired. It's really tightly bound too so it's not like I can lay it on a table and read it like that. Oy vey.
Another one is Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier. This is the kind of book I can really get on board with. Spooky and dangerous, heroines running headlong into situations, nice floppy paperback. And it only cost a pound.
Also reading BUtterfield 8 by John O'Hara. Semi-hardboiled, cynical 1930s stuff so far. I'm only about ten pages in. I saw the film years and years ago and luckily enough I can't remember any of it so that's good news for my enjoyment of the book:
Just started American Tabloid by James Ellroy
One of them is Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets. I've been reading it for a while because it's really heavy and just looking at it makes my wrists tired. It's really tightly bound too so it's not like I can lay it on a table and read it like that. Oy vey.
I've been backburnering that book over and over forever. It's wonderful, though.
American Tabloid is incredible, but then I'm biased, I'm an Ellroy nutrider.
I'm reading Downtown Owl, the first novel by Chuck Klosterman. I loved his other books, and I'm very much enjoying this one so far.
Finished E is an H this morning, now onto The Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling.
"They sold you hippies grunge, hip hop, now liberty activism."
Pastoralia by George Saunders.
Finished Raw Shark Texts not too long ago. That was probably in December, but I'm still in love with the book so I enjoy mentioning it.
I also FINALLY read Invisible Monsters. Only CP book I haven't read. Loved it, of course.
I'm re reading 9 Stories by Salinger at the moment till I can get my paws on some new books.
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Almost done with "Scar Tissue" by Anthony Kiedis, and just starting "No Country for Old Men" by Cormac McCarthy.
I've been reading Look me in the eye by John Elder Robison.
Now I'm reading Night Train by Martin Amis.
The Names by Don DeLillo