Merry Christmas! It's December and I am reading...
I'm reading it right now. I really like it. I think that Middlesex is his best though. Then again, I read The Virgin Suicides in like two days and don't remember much of it (it was years ago). I should probably reread that one.
I think Melody has finished it.
It's also the Book Club discussion over at LitReactor right now.
I haven't finished it yet, I didn't get started as early as I wanted to and now I'm super busy with Christmas stuff and my sister being in town. I think I've been at about the same spot for two weeks. But so far I am enjoying 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
Finally finished Good Omens. I read the last 100 pages today (because I love that freakin' book) and I'm disappointed that it took so long to finish, but I'm glad I finally got it done. I'll be working on The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo next, as it's been sitting on my desk for a while now.
Yeah Good Omens was great. We did a book club discussion of it a long time ago. You should check it out.
Oh man, I finished A Dance With Dragons and now I simply HAVE TO know what happens next but it'll be a few more years. Dammit!
I finished Pocket Notebook and it was pretty cool!
Might read Giles Corey next. A review:
Giles Corey, a 150 page book that accompanies the self-titled album of the same name, is an extraordinary read in the most literal sense of the word. Part truth, part fiction; it's a riveting tale of the trials and tribulations of a very real period of extreme depression. What's genius here is that Dan manages to construct a false history that seems all too real through the supernatural and the occult, while stringing it into his own life. The last chapter is powerful in particular, in which he finally gets around to the actual historical figure that the book is named after, ending on both uplifting and depressing extremes.
It's a quick read, for sure, that many will be able to finish in an hour or so -and probably intended to be read alongside the album. However, this work stands as a piece of art well enough on its own.
Assuming the very old, grossly overweight, chain-smoking author doesn't die before he finishes the series.
That's always funny.
Grrr.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Giles Corey, a 150 page book that accompanies the self-titled album of the same name, is an extraordinary read in the most literal sense of the word. Part truth, part fiction; it's a riveting tale of the trials and tribulations of a very real period of extreme depression. What's genius here is that Dan manages to construct a false history that seems all too real through the supernatural and the occult, while stringing it into his own life. The last chapter is powerful in particular, in which he finally gets around to the actual historical figure that the book is named after, ending on both uplifting and depressing extremes.
It's a quick read, for sure, that many will be able to finish in an hour or so -and probably intended to be read alongside the album. However, this work stands as a piece of art well enough on its own.
Finished reading Giles Corey by Dan Barrett. It was depressing and interesting. 3/5. 
>200 books on my Kindle and nothing to read....
This is why we can't have nice things.
No Andrez Bergen huh?
I'm almost finished The Good Life by Jay McInerney. Top notch from McInerney as usual.
The Curtain: An Essay In Seven Parts by Milan Kundera.
Assuming the very old, grossly overweight, chain-smoking author doesn't die before he finishes the series.
That's always funny.
Grrr.
No way he'll have the luxury of taking that long again. HBO has a show to make.
"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
Halfway through Slaughterhouse Five. Good stuff.
Funny, I just made this exact comment at litreactor earlier, but - I loved Slaughterhouse Five. I read it in one day. I just couldn't stop reading it. So good.
I started reading it a couple of years ago and never finished it. I really should.
Girl Interrupted
Context can be hilarious.
This is why we can't have nice things.
I'm positive I'll read TSMG again early in 2012, but I really need Andrez to put away his synthesizers and write another book already.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Context can be hilarious.
ha
Context can be hilarious.
ha
Hehe.
I'm positive I'll read TSMG again early in 2012, but I really need Andrez to put away his synthesizers and write another book already.
My mom just asked to borrow TSMG so she should be starting it soon. I hope she likes it.
That's gotta be one of my all-time favourite books/movies.
Eva Luna by Isabel Allende. Kundera's essays on novels were amazing.
I loved Slaughterhouse-Five too. I ended up read most of his books and a couple of his plays during my first semester of college. So... last year. Feels like a lot longer ago. I think my favorite was The Sirens of Titan. I fucking love that book. One of the few I didn't get around to was Cat's Cradle. That one was always checked out and I forgot about it after Christmas... hmmm... I need to get that one.
I'm still reading The Island of Doctor Moreau. Will finish either tomorrow or on New Years Eve. If I say it, it will happen.
I'm positive I'll read TSMG again early in 2012, but I really need Andrez to put away his synthesizers and write another book already.
It sounds like he's moving along on his new book at a pretty good pace. He has a facebook page for it. I'm sure you belong to it right?
Just finished Slaughterhouse Five. Wonderful stuff. Trying to decide on whether I want to read Neuromancer or Farenheit 451 next.
Well, if any of his myriad other Facebook pages would, you know, mention the title, I sure might!
This is why we can't have nice things.
Pete, could you make a thread with that blog of Bergen's new book please? Since you're still our book club mod over here too? That would be so awesome of you and stuff.
Rereading The Kindly Ones again. Tried that quite some months ago as well, but it was too dark and depressing, so I had to stop. It feels better now.
I don't want to tell you what to read - but I loved Fahrenheit 451
Andrez's facebook page for the novel he's working on (for Tuffy and Jaz and anybody else that cares).
Working title: One Hundred Years of Vicissitude
http://www.facebook.com/pages/One-Hundred-Years-of-Vicissitude/251245908...
I'm finishing Allende's book and listening to Lhasa's songs. Perfect way to relax before tonight's party.
I don't want to tell you what to read - but I loved Fahrenheit 451
Definitely. Probably my favorite book of all time to date. I can't believe it took me so long to get around to reading it.
That's really saying a lot.
451 is one of those books I really wish I'd read at a younger age. I think it would have totally blown me away even much more.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Short. Brutal. Amazing.
Hasford wrote three books, now all sadly out of print. He was also a bit of a criminal lunatic.
That's annoying. I really want to head it now. I'll have a look on AbeBooks.