March St Davids Day 2010 Book thread and I am reading...
Just finished The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima.
Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami's next.
I've been eyeballing my copy of Pinball, 1973. Soon.
First Pablo D'stair's 'I Poisoned You.'
Laughter in the Dark by Nabokov.
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
Adverbs, by Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket.
There is hope, but not for us.
This year I decided to reread all my old Chuck books. I read Fight Club, Survivor, Invisible Monsters and Choke. After rereading them I think Survivor is my new favourite.
survivor and choke have been my favorites from the start. incidentally, survivor was my first contact with chuck, and that only because i was scouting graphical inspiration for a project and dug the cover.
still on holiday derek?
No Im back from holiday. The thing is with me and Chucks early books I read them when I was at my lowest moment so I cant remember much about them other than they were awesome so rereading them has been such a pleasure.
OH Yes Beto I finished Await Your Reply and really enjoyed it, I will surely read more of his books.
im hoping to finish await your reply tonight or tmorrow. i can't force myself to savor it anymore - too good. will gulp.
the road was an amazing read. i could not put that one down - found myself losing a lot of sleep over it too. i've yet to try the movie because it scares me that they may have butchered it - the trailer made it feel like there might be a lot of made up flashback and backstory; the lack of it only made it more powerful.
kabol was kind enough to surprise me with a minty fresh first edition, first printing once :)
I didn't want to put down The Road either, it was pretty amazing. As for the movie, I've only watched half of it so far and it's fairly faithful to the book. I've been having trouble finishing pretty much any movie lately so don't take my only watching half as a bad indicator, it's not.
I just started reading "The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the frontiers of brain science" Everyone should read this, holy crap, just started it and it changes the way you look at your life and I'm only 70 pages in. And by everyone, I mean teachers especially, I think that knowing how the brain works and how what is learned is imprinted in the brain should shape how education is formatted. Specifically, rote memorization might not have any benefit (I'm looking at you Social Studies classes) and as much as I hated writing and grammar, English classes might be very important for more than just writing and grammar.
Think for yourself. Question Authority.
Miyuke Miyabe The Devils Whisper. I like it but damn these Japanese names are confusing the Hell out of me.
Neon Angel by Cherie Currie w/Tony O'Neil
Hahaha, i know what you mean. The last eight books i've read have been Japanese and, shit, the names are a bit wild at times.
Hahaha, i know what you mean. The last eight books i've read have been Japanese and, shit, the names are a bit wild at times.
Aha, you just reminded me, I have a copy of The Sound of Waves somewhere and I need to dig it out.
"We Are Oblivion" was great...like a really fucked up Bonnie & Clyde meets "Momento."
I'm back to "The Book of Lost Things" now.
I feel like everything nowadays is something meets Memento.
My book is like "The Babysitter's Club" meets "Momento"
My dick is like A Penis meets Memento.
I'm reading Mein Kampf by Hitler.
"The sun may burn brightly, and the faces of children may be plump and achingly sweet, but in the air we breathe, in the water we drink and in the food we share, there will always be darkness in the world."
I want to read that too.
The Road was breathtaking. i teared up for the last five or six pages. disapointed i didn't read it sooner. still trying to work out the missing apostrophies.
about to start Beat The Reaper. it came in the mail today and i read the first section. it was pretty action packed, so i'm looking forward to jumping in to it.
I'm reading BEAT THE REAPER again. I can't help myself, I found a used copy at a book shop yesterday and started reading it again.
I also just got a blistered mess of a copy of THE HUMAN STAIN by Roth because Phil keeps blathering about it. So I want to read it and see if we are gonna fight again or BOND. haha. 
Oh, and something really fantastic, but I'll take photos and post. This is crazy out-of-this-world-artifact stuff that I'm kind of freaking out about and am afraid to touch without washing my hands six times.
about to start Beat The Reaper. it came in the mail today and i read the first section. it was pretty action packed, so i'm looking forward to jumping in to it.
Apostrophes are overrated.
REAPER is not!
You shut your mouth!!!
I'm about to finish "Adverbs"...not really sure what I'll move on to next.
There is hope, but not for us.
Really liked The Pilo Family Circus. I'm still not sure if I liked the end though...
Last night started The Thanatos Syndrome by Walker Percy
I also just got a blistered mess of a copy of THE HUMAN STAIN by Roth because Phil keeps blathering about it. So I want to read it and see if we are gonna fight again or BOND. haha. :)
I'm guessing that of the 30 Roth books now available, that's one of the ones that will please you most. Some of them are clearly not up your alley, but The Human Stain, man, I think it's a masterpiece of writing. Just don't watch the movie! It's not half as good.
One of the things about Roth is that he's prone to weird digressions about sex that feel out of place. The Human Stain avoids that, which I appreciated a lot. Plus, if you don't like it, I won't be mad. We can bond over the book I plan to send you via snail mail when I get back to England!
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 also just got a blistered mess of a copy of THE HUMAN STAIN by Roth because Phil keeps blathering about it. So I want to read it and see if we are gonna fight again or BOND. haha. :)
I'm guessing that of the 30 Roth books now available, that's one of the ones that will please you most. Some of them are clearly not up your alley, but The Human Stain, man, I think it's a masterpiece of writing. Just don't watch the movie! It's not half as good.
One of the things about Roth is that he's prone to weird digressions about sex that feel out of place. The Human Stain avoids that, which I appreciated a lot. Plus, if you don't like it, I won't be mad. We can bond over the book I plan to send you via snail mail when I get back to England!
The only Roth I've ever read repulsed me so I am taking a big chance here! (Portnoy's Complaint) But I've noted how fervently you have been recommending The Human Stain and thought I'd give it a shot. I mooched it from a bookswap site and it really is a mess, a well read, dogeared beloved mess, so I already kind of like it.
Last night started The Thanatos Syndrome by Walker Percy
You guys ever have a ton of awesome books lined up. You randomly grab one. And it happens to be the longest one. So you're trying to fly through it, not remembering any of it, because you know the other books are better. You don't want to quit because if you quit so far into a book - you'll never pick it up again... That's where I'm at right now.
Marilyns Last Words by Mathew Smith. Sounds like a Witness Relocation Name if I ever heard one.
Crime by Irvine Welsh
Sort of sequel to Filth but not really. No tapeworm.
Next up for me is some stories from Dublin Noir, an anthology edited by Ken Bruen, the dude I met two weeks ago.
Something Happened by Joseph Heller
"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"
I can't believe I'm still not finished with Owen Meany. I've been reading it all month. But then I haven't been reading like I usually do. Hopefully I will finish it before I get to vegas today. I'm taking Interview with the Vampire and The Postman Always Rings Twice with me on the trip.
"I'm glad I live in the GPS era. In a different century, I would've set off to visit the other side of the village and wandered off into the mountains and been eaten by a carnivorous plant. Or discovered the Americas."
-LaJessica
Hey guys, which John Irving book should I start with. I read A Widow for one year ages ago and need to read something else by him.
I'm almost done with A Prayer for Owen Meany which is great. The Cider House Rules is really good. And The World According to Garp is amazing. If you are going to read more than one I'd save Garp for later. Owen comes close, but I don't think any are as good as Garp.
"I'm glad I live in the GPS era. In a different century, I would've set off to visit the other side of the village and wandered off into the mountains and been eaten by a carnivorous plant. Or discovered the Americas."
-LaJessica
Garp, definitely. I think it's his best. A Widow for One Year was only okay. The quality of it was really inconsistent.
There is hope, but not for us.
Im off to the bookstore later, whichever one of the 3 mentioned are there I shall get. Thanks Melody and Janey!
Tell All by Chuck P, I cant wait to fnish work today and start this.
Shakespeare's sonnets (for uni but I'm enjoying the shit out of them anyway). Shakey baby is a fucking badass
Sonnet 18 is amazing. Such a great fuck you to Petrach and his themes and style.
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed.
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Just finished Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami, which was just ten kinds of glorious.
Tours of the Black Clocks by Steve Erickson now.
Im starting The Delivery Man by Joe McGinniss JR.
Tours of the Black Clocks by Steve Erickson now.
I got in an Erickson kick a while back. But his stories all seemed the same to me. I bought tours based on Will Chris Baer's recommendations. But I just haven't been able to pick it up.
Reading The Nomad by Isabelle Eberhardt for school. It's okay, but she keeps talking about how depressed she gets.
I think she's an emo
Ive picked up a short novel called All My Friends Are Superheroes by Andrew Kaufman.
Tours of the Black Clocks by Steve Erickson now.
I got in an Erickson kick a while back. But his stories all seemed the same to me. I bought tours based on Will Chris Baer's recommendations. But I just haven't been able to pick it up.
Oh man, Erickson has significantly blown my mind each time i pick up one of his books. I've only read three thus far, and now there are times i'll just pick them up at any page and read a few paragraphs. To me, he's about as perfect as a writer can get. He writes the way i dream of writing, telling the stories i've dreamt of telling, but doing it better and more fully than i could've imagined.
Just finished A Prayer for Owen Meany while I was in Vegas. Great book. Kind of hard to believe such a touching story came from John Irving. I read The Postman Always Rings Twice on the plane. Its one of those books I can tell is genius, but I'm not really sure why. That might be because I'm braindead from the trip, or maybe I just need to read it again.
I started Beat the Reaper before my nap. I can tell i'm going to love it.
"I'm glad I live in the GPS era. In a different century, I would've set off to visit the other side of the village and wandered off into the mountains and been eaten by a carnivorous plant. Or discovered the Americas."
-LaJessica
Just got done with "The Book of Lost Things." I highly recommend if you're down for some dark fairy tale.
Moving on to this:
Charactered Pieces is fantastic the whole way through.
You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers
Chinese Takeout by Arthur Nersesian