July- Summer is here and I am reading...
I'm back on Gunslinger.
The Catmother of all Worldwide Cats
2666 by Roberto Bolano.
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 read Savage Detectives and some of his short stories so please let me know what you think of it when you are finished?
I quite liked Father and Son by Larry Brown. The man can write.
I started The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy today. Good stuff.
I've read a few things by Noon, Vurt is his most famous. I have very mixed feelings about him. He's kinda like Steve Aylett, William Gibson or even a sci-fi, manchester version of Irvine Welsh. It's often loaded with sci-fi slang which isn't explained and sometimes it can get annoying, but if you get past that there's some cool ideas in there.
Depends on if you like the writing, I love that old hard-boiled stuff.
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I just finished The Dharma Bums by Kerouac. I don't know what I'm going to read next.
READ THE BOOK OF LAZARUS BY RICHARD GROSSMAN!
Just started Friends Like These by Danny Wallace
It's funny that you mention him along side Steve Aylett. I haven't ever read anything by Noon. But for some reason I always classify him with Aylett.
And if that's the case though - it'll probably be a while before I ever give any of his books a go. I just could not get into Aylett and I wanted to so bad.
I don't get it...
I think he means you must not be looking very hard. it's all over the place.
I'm reading this too, I'm only 200 pages in though, I like it but I don't love it yet.
The Twelve by Stuart Neville, a debut novel that I sent to Nightrious and Im enjoying it so far.
Depends on if you like the writing, I love that old hard-boiled stuff.
I don't know having not read any yet! I'll see if I can pick some up. Currently reading Adderall Diaries thanks to Mirka.
"What cha readin' fer??"
the water method man-john irving
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, two chapters in and I really like it.
The Dog of Marriage by Amy Hempel
That's a giant book, but I got though it pretty quickly because it was so interesting.
Also, you recommended The Memoirs of Hecate County by Edmund Wilson to me quite awhile ago (specifically, The Man Who Shot Snapping Turtles) and I liked it so much that I bought a copy of To the Finland Station off of ebay. I haven't read it yet, though.
Anyway, right now I'm reading The Picture of Dorian Gray for the hundredth time 'cause I just loves me some Oscar Wilde.
That's a giant book, but I got though it pretty quickly because it was so interesting.
Also, you recommended The Memoirs of Hecate County by Edmund Wilson to me quite awhile ago (specifically, The Man Who Shot Snapping Turtles) and I liked it so much that I bought a copy of To the Finland Station off of ebay. I haven't read it yet, though.
It's a giant book alright, but I'm enjoying it. I like big books and I cannot lie.
I'm glad you liked Wilson. He was a god amongst literary critics, and his fiction was excellent as well.
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
NP by Banana Yoshimoto.
Anyway, right now I'm reading The Picture of Dorian Gray for the hundredth time 'cause I just loves me some Oscar Wilde.
I'm reading that now as well for book club. May not make it through by the deadline. I keep getting pulled into other things specifically The Time Machine by Wells. I mean, come on! he just met the Morlocks. I can't abandon it now.
"I thought I had mono once for an entire year. Turns out I was just really bored."
Wayne Campbell
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
"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"
Make sure you post in the Book Club Group after you finish. Here's the discussion thread:
http://chuckpalahniuk.net/group/official-cult-book-club/june-09-discussi...
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne.
Im going to a book signing by him on Tuesday.
Dead Reckoning: The New Science of Catching Killers by Michael M.D. Baden and Marion Roach
Anybody that liked Stiff by Mary Roach will really like this book. I love forensic type books and this one is really one of the better ones I've read. I read Unnatural Death by Michael Baden like a month ago and loved it. I'm liking Dead Reckoning even better.
And no it's not the same Mrs. Roach. Coincidentally almost the same name.
Paranoid Park by Blake Nelson.
All The Names Have Been Changed by Claire Kilroy.
The Virgin Suicides...by the pool.
Hey, when you get done with that you should let us know how it was. I, personally, am very curious to find out if it's the fratty wad of shit that I keep hearing it is, but I'm willing to give it a chance, regardless.
Anybody that liked Stiff by Mary Roach will really like this book.
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I enjoyed Stiff and have been eyeing another of her books called Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex. have you read it?
"I thought I had mono once for an entire year. Turns out I was just really bored."
Wayne Campbell
virgin suicides is probably my favorite or second favorite book. maybe third.
Not yet. I read Stiff and Spook and liked them both. I've been meaning to pick up Bonk but haven't yet.
Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
So...We are still going to die. Right?
Marilyn Monroe by Barbara Leaming.
Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis.
What I have shown you is reality. What you remember... that is the illusion.
Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
"I thought I had mono once for an entire year. Turns out I was just really bored."
Wayne Campbell
How is that??? I've had it for a year but never touched it.
I finished The Picture of Dorian Gray yesterday and am bouncing around through Oscar Wilde's collected works as well as the short stories of Guy de Mauppassant and the plays of Anton Chekhov and and and and started The Jungle Book today.
How is that??? I've had it for a year but never touched it.
I think it's really good, so far. Not my favourite of his novels, but by no means is it bad. Early on the book, the writing style reminds me so much of Less Than Zero; which for me, is definitely a good thing.
What I have shown you is reality. What you remember... that is the illusion.
How is that??? I've had it for a year but never touched it.
I thought it started out slow. At first it was tough to get into. But I remember that I really liked the book once all the pieces were together and I finished it.
The City and The City by China Mieville
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
a really interesting book about the subconcious making decisions in a blink, before we rationally have thought things over....
"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"
Come Closer by Sara Gran.
The American Academy of Pediatrics: The First Five Years
(specifically all the sections about chicken pox)
I finished Dorian Gray last well myself. Although I found the first half tedious but necessary the second half really held my attention. I'm so happy I didn't abandon it like I had planned.
"I thought I had mono once for an entire year. Turns out I was just really bored."
Wayne Campbell
Life : a user's manual (Georges Perec)
Brilliant book revolving around a single idea : the description of a full apartment building in Paris at a single instant, room by room, telling the stories of its inhabitants, all in the form of a puzzle.
Perec was the man of impossible challenges, one of his best known achievements is to write a full novel without using the letter E (try it once, just to have an idea). In this case, his apartment building opens its windows to a full world, to the past and the future, to the incredible detailed and the commotion of history. In spite, and probably because, of its almost mathematical premise, the book, based on a list of literary constraints,is a game of subtle and humourous exchanges with the reader, constructed over a period of 10 years with meticulousness and passion.
There's also a very french tone to it, it will probably remind you the movie Amélie.
For those interested, Paul Auster wrote a review in the NYTimes : http://www.nytimes.com/1987/11/15/books/the-bartlebooth-follies.html
Brilliant book revolving around a single idea : the description of a full apartment building in Paris at a single instant, room by room, telling the stories of its inhabitants, all in the form of a puzzle.
Perec was the man of impossible challenges, one of his best known achievements is to write a full novel without using the letter E (try it once, just to have an idea). In this case, his apartment building opens its windows to a full world, to the past and the future, to the incredible detailed and the commotion of history. In spite, and probably because, of its almost mathematical premise, the book is a game of subtle and humourous exchanges with the reader, constructed over a period of 10 years with meticulousness and passion.
There's also a very french tone to it, it will probably remind you the movie Amélie.
Sounds amazing, going toput it on my amazon wishlist straightaway. Thanks for the heads up Ludwig.
I thought it started out slow. At first it was tough to get into. But I remember that I really liked the book once all the pieces were together and I finished it.
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I finished Dorian Gray last well myself. Although I found the first half tedious but necessary the second half really held my attention. I'm so happy I didn't abandon it like I had planned.
I really dug that book. And it's so short that i can't imagine not finishing, though i finish just about everything. It's a very funny book. And he writes in a form that i think we're losing. That fairytale distance. Because that's what this is. A fairytale, and fairytales, well, they're about as perfect as writing gets, as thinking gets, i'd imagine. The whole world and all of its histories can probably be summed up in reading ten fairytales.
Celebration by Harry Crews. This book got a bit of bashing in the review but so far Im enjoying it.
Which reminds me anytime I read a review I wish I didnt. Anymore I will get my book recomendations from you guys at the Cult not some poncy journalist.
about to start tucker max,"I hope they serve beer in hell"
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