March St Davids Day 2010 Book thread and I am reading...
Im taking a break from the Awesomeness of Stephen Kings Dark Tower and reading The Pugilist at Rest by Thom Jones.
Whats everyone else reading?
talk to me. i don't know really what was in said thread. the goods?
i'm reading Women by Bukowski.
The Dark tower sucked me in and i dont think i could take a break while i was reading it. It almost became an obsession. I'm afraid to go back because i want to be able to read other stuff.
As your attorney, my advise to you is to start drinking heavily(er).-Tuffy
Yip, thats hapening to me too. I read the frst section of Part 2 and Im really trying to leave the rest until my holiday next week. I will probably fail at that.
Reading Beat the Reaper. So far I really really like it. Good rec Mirk!
I'm listening to Stephen King's new one Under the Dome in my car. It's pretty good. Sometimes I just sit in my car because I don't want to miss what happens next.
I'm listening to Stephen King's new one Under the Dome in my car. It's pretty good. Sometimes I just sit in my car because I don't want to miss what happens next.
Beat The Reaper is Awesome, and I was pleasantly surprised by Under The Dome.
Gotta thank Rob and Berto, both of them read 'Reaper' way before I did. I read it based on their strong recs. I love the cult.
Oh, and Pete, don't forget to read 'Await Your Reply' by Dan Chaon. If you do, my work is done here! 
Im after ordering Await Your Reply and Kockroach based on your recomendation Mirka. Looking forward to both of them, you havent let me down so far.
Im after ordering Await Your Reply and Kockroach based on your recomendation Mirka. Looking forward to both of them, you havent let me down so far.
Yes! The three best books I read last year were probably 'Kockroach', 'Reply', and 'Reaper'!
Rob Hart interviewed the author of 'Kockroach', and it's going up tomorrow. Oh, and guess who recommended that book to us? Mr. Craig Clevenger. He says it's one of the best books he's read in YEARS. That's kind of his 'Reaper', the book that he recommends every chance he gets.
i'm reading Women by Bukowski.
Great book. Not my very favorite Bukowski, but still great.
I'm reading The Never Enders by Michael Sonbert. It came highly recommended and is passed on to you in the same fashion.
"Plus, if I go too long without writing I start to turn into a real asshole." -misterwoe
"She'll like what she's told to like." -Mo'Don
I've just finished reading High Fidelity by Nick Hornby (because I'd never read it, or any of his stuff) and I was wondering which of a ton of books on my shelves to start next but my decision has been made: Stephen King's The Dark Tower it is. I only have Volume 1 but we'll see how I get on...
What do you think about High Fidelity. I finished that last week and I'm really not sure if I liked it or not... I mean it was ok. But I was going into it thinking I was going to love it.
i'm reading Women by Bukowski.
Great book. Not my very favorite Bukowski, but still great.
I'm reading The Never Enders by Michael Sonbert. It came highly recommended and is passed on to you in the same fashion.
I fucking LOVE this book. Ive read it twice in the last 6 months and gave a copy to one of my favourite authors the other day.
DEREK. This thread should be "March, St. David's Day and I'm reading..." You always do the special day of the month, our patron saint of Wales deserves a head's up darn it!
I'm reading Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving and I love it so much!
I'm rereading Harry potter and the deathly Hallows. I bought a hardback copy of it for just $4 on campus at a book sale!! What a deal.
and this should be called St Patrick's Day and I'm reading....cuz derek is irish.
Brentinlouis Wrote: What was that rule about being intentionally annoying?
I'm reading Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving and I love it so much!
Fixed Digits.
Thanks Big D!
St Patrick always gets all the fuss. But we're having a major daffodil and leek party up in Wales, hooeee!
i'm reading Women by Bukowski.
Great book. Not my very favorite Bukowski, but still great.
I'm reading The Never Enders by Michael Sonbert. It came highly recommended and is passed on to you in the same fashion.
I fucking LOVE this book. Ive read it twice in the last 6 months and gave a copy to one of my favourite authors the other day.
done. Read it about 6 Months ago and loved it. Ripper of a
debut.
I'm trying to make myself start american pastoral by philip roth
Post Office by Charles Bukowski
Great book. Great character. i loved this book, oly read it for the first time a few weeks ago. it's a super quick read. took me a few hours. i'm reading Women by him now, which is meant to be the template for Hank Moody from Californication (my latest fictional man crush).
hope you enjoy it. we always seems to read similar stuff around the same time. odd.
Great book. Great character. i loved this book, oly read it for the first time a few weeks ago. it's a super quick read. took me a few hours. i'm reading Women by him now, which is meant to be the template for Hank Moody from Californication (my latest fictional man crush).
hope you enjoy it. we always seems to read similar stuff around the same time. odd.
It's very good so far. Have only read it for half an hour during lunch at work.
I'd heard that about Hank Moony/Californication. It was the main reason for wanting to read Bukowski but I thought I'd start at the beginning.
Will probably pick up Women and maybe Ham and Rye too in my next mass purchase.
yeah, i bought and read P.O first because i like starting at the beginning. now, i'm just bummed it took me so long to discover Bukowski, because i'm friggin' loving the shit out of his stuff at the moment. Ham On Rye is next. Factotum is another Chinaski story, too.
speaking of Bukowski, i'm just about to watch Barfly. Amazing!
Been a busy boy without my computer. Finished Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, which i quite liked. Then hit Faulkner's A Light in August and Sanctuary. Read After Dark by Haruki Murakami a few days ago. Almost done with Grass on the Wayside by Natsume Soseki and Roshomon and other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa. Next, i think, is The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima or The Face of Another by Kobo Abe. Too, reading SHINTO: The Fountanhead of Japan by Jean Herbert, which is this big book about Shintoism, which is my most recent focus of study.
and then, of course, the book i sent you for christmas!
Brentinlouis Wrote: What was that rule about being intentionally annoying?
I'm saving that one, actually. I read the Faulkner ones because i had them checked out of the library forever and needed to finally give them back. Then i've been reading these Japanese fellows and all about Shintoism for a project i'm doing.
Fear not, good sir Levi, your book sits next to my bed every day waiting to be read. And it shall!
it betta!!
But that's actually really cool about the Shintoism. i'm in a Japanese Art History class now, and i could not be more immersed in Japanese stuff. I'm really liking it. Our teacher is sort of like, *sigh*........she's sort of like Gaga. She taught at harvard, and is really really eccentric and crazy and wears really out there fashion that is really really expensive, and she's really frightening, and calls students out in class, but I really admire her for her knowledge. She knows just about anyone who is worth anything in the art history world regarding asian arts. If I had a good recommendation letter from her, Working at the british museum in london would be a breeze, because she's like this (crossed fingers) with him. But her clothes.....are soo gaga. I can't even describe them. Like, giant wool bubble dresses paired with black tights, knee high argyle socks and shiney gold high heels. everything is a designer brand. She's unmarried so she spends her money on clothes. awesome.
Brentinlouis Wrote: What was that rule about being intentionally annoying?
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larson. This book was on my must read shelf for ages and its about time I gave it a go.
is that series any good? i've glanced at them and i have to say, not that appealing. but i keep hearing about them and hearig about them.
That's one of the best novels I've read in a while.
Speaking of Roth, I'm reading I Married a Communist.
thanks for sharing.blackhawk tactical pants.
— Spambot
"I could have done worse!" exultantly cried the murderer Lebret, sentenced at Rouen to hard labor for life. — Félix Fénéon
I'm still on Gonzo's Angel Falls.
I hear its great. Mirka swears by it. Give me two days and I will have finished the first part.
Dostoevsky's The Idiot.
No, you're the idiot!
Huh-haw!
I have this favourite bookstore in the city where all the staff know me. Ive been buying books off them these last ten years. I didnt realise it until lately that they have an actual list in chronological order of all the books Ive ordered off them. The other day the owner commented that the titles I get are getting stranger and stranger as I go on.
Yesterday I ordered Kockroach, Await Your Reply and Salmonella Men on Planet Porno. I dont think I will ever beat the last one.
I read The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and I really liked it. I didn't know it was a series until recently. Knowing that it's a series actually makes all the other books much more appealing. I will be reading more of his stuff in the future for sure.
..well, not TOO much more of his stuff.
Yesterday I ordered Kockroach, Await Your Reply and Salmonella Men on Planet Porno. I dont think I will ever beat the last one.
I wanna write about your life someday.
I plan to finish up Dracula later today. I also re-read Alice in Wonderland a few days ago, forgot how much I loved it. I'm kind of on a Victorian binge lately so I might try re-reading some old standby, like Jane Eyre.
There is hope, but not for us.
Oh Monkey thats terrible!
Last week I remember seeing a thread called How Do I Get Chuck To Sign My Copy of Fight Club? I was going to open a thread called How Do I Get My Copy of Catcher in the Rye signed? but then I realised that would be very UnDerek.
There's actually a pretty fascinating legal battle going on over rights to the Millennium Trilogy books/movie deals/etc. The author had a live-in girlfriend and was mostly estranged from his family, but their laws (Norway? I think?) say that only a legal spouse has rights to the deceased's property and works.
Right!
I hear its great. Mirka swears by it. Give me two days and I will have finished the first part.
I do love those. Let me know what you think, Derek. I'm on pins and needles waiting for the next installment.
Yesterday I ordered Kockroach, Await Your Reply and Salmonella Men on Planet Porno. I dont think I will ever beat the last one.
hahha. and YAY!
Halfway through "The Amber Spyglass" - no idea what I'll be reading next
Think for yourself. Question Authority.
reading The Book of Lost Things and digging it so far.
derek, i think you sent me The Never Enders by Michael Sonbert back in august, along with some sweets and a little green irishman and a picture of cujo. i cannot find that book. ive made a mess of the house looking. it's in some stack, somewhere around here. if that's the one you sent. i vaguely remember that it was. the 2009 year, needless to say, was tough on my reading habits. i was reading mostly workshop submissions and finished very few books throughout the entire year.
anyrate, i'll find it. maybe i'll wake next morning and recall exactly where i stashed it.
march, i am reading the following. im halfway through tell-all. ive already read toxicology, bleed into me, and ledfeather, but my memory of them is so sparse and silly that i want to breathe through them again. the jim crace i picked up with another of his at a used bookstore in downtown a couple of weekends ago. the william gay, i'm restarting from scratch; it's seriously that good that i dont wanna start after several months at the halfway point. oronooko ive been swooning over for a month or so now. ive gone through most of jauss' essays, but i wanna finally finish the text. and norwood, derek's favorite charles portis novel, i read probably six years ago and need to reread it. as for lowboy and amnesiascope, , though i know absolutely nothing about either book, i am a fan of both authors so i just went out and got them and i'll probably burn through all of these in the coming weeks.
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play hard, like it's work to be done.
JKABOL! If you cant find it I will order yu another copy after I get back from Barcelona in two weeks! BUT IF you lose Cujo there will be trouble. Grrr!
pah-leeze, negro
(we're remodeling again, clearly)
and i'll find the book, no worries. it's not like it left my house on its own
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Dude, The Pugilist At Rest is phenomenal. My favorite one is "Mosquitoes". Enjoy it, dude.
I'm reading the Emperors Thread. I really want to revive this and create another one, but I;m sure no one would participate and a fight would just ensue.
douche