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[QUOTE=Popcultjunkie]Battle Royale
Stranger Than Fiction
Diana The Goddess who Hunts Alone[/QUOTE]

no bookstore ever ever has battle royale

i'm reading camus' the stranger

[QUOTE=tetsuo]no bookstore ever ever has battle royale

i'm reading camus' the stranger[/QUOTE]

i'm reading the Battle Royale novel. can't keep up w/the manga.

Ecstasy by Irvine Welsh (duh!)

Battle Royale manga, eaferly awaiting book 8

Ecstasy is great, have fun with it.

I'm about to start reading a book called Blowjob (or at least so it's translated in Bulgarian) by some Stuart Holms. And a book called Crazy by some German kid-author. And Franny and Zooey by Salinger.

I'm on the second part of E, it's mind boggling, it seems to switch from one main story to a bunch of side stories. Andreas (the german tenazadrine punk) reminds me of someone I know, that doesn't have tenazadrine. The part with the melon was fucking hilarious.

I actually just read the first two novellas and they were awesome but somehow couldn't finish the third novella.

i recently bought Of Mice And Men, but have yet to begin reading it.

IM. It's weird.

Fugitives and Refugees
A lot of Workshop stories
Trying to figure out what novel to read next. Gravity's Rainbow is in my 'to-read' pile, but I don't know if I want that big of a commitment. Did Mason & Dixon this year, not sure if it's healthy to read Pynchon excessively.
If not GR, then probably Amnesia Moon, Jazz (Toni Morrison) or The End of the Affair.

I also have growing stack of lit mags that I haven't gotten around to, latest Paris Review, McSweeney's #12, Southwest Review, etc.

The more I read the more I have in that 'to-read' column. How do they multiply like that?

stranger than fiction
the informers
and galapagos

i loved amnesia moon

Shouldn't this be in the Book forum? Oh well... White Noise by DeLillo

I've been looking for The Contortionist Handbook but I cant find it in any stores.

It's harder to find... just order it off of Amazon.

[QUOTE=Sycron]Shouldn't this be in the Book forum? Oh well... White Noise by DeLillo[/QUOTE]
y'know, you're right

im reading Dog Day Afternoon by Patrick Mann
i havent seen the film, but ive heard it sucks compared to the book

Ugh... what else am I reading... hmm... lots of stuff really.

Crash by JG Ballard
The Enchanter by Nabokov (Did I spell that right?)
Wizards and Glass By King
Best Bisexual Erotica edited by Bill Brent and Carol Queen

Assorted magazines. And I recently started reading the paper every day.

i'm reading kiss me, judas by will baer and then pennydreadful and then happy baby by some guy.
ha! i have will baer books and you don't! losers

im rereading dangerous angels by francesca lia block until i can get my hands on the acid house by irvine welsh.

[QUOTE=WeeBeasty]Crash by JG Ballard
[/QUOTE]

great book.
have you read any of his others?

Li - Dynamic Form in Nature, by David Wade

A cute little book.

[QUOTE=johnnnn]stranger than fiction
the informers
and galapagos[/QUOTE]
Galapagos rocks. I remember, in particular, the line about the lizard who eats seaweed and lets it cook in its innards on the rocks, about how millions of years of evolution had not found a way to improve, or for that matter, to worsen this survivial method.

It's up there with Breakfast of Champions, where he describs Kilgore Trout (has to be based on PKD) as having a common combination of nothing to live for and an iron will to live.

[QUOTE=Sycron]Shouldn't this be in the Book forum? Oh well... White Noise by DeLillo[/QUOTE]
Cosmopolis was interesting in terms of style, but I found it lacking in the plot/ideas area. Did I start with a bad example of DeLillo? There have been a few authors I was late in liking because the first book I read was atypical of them (or maybe their worst).

[QUOTE=glamhoth]i loved amnesia moon[/QUOTE]
Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn are all the Lethem I've ingested so far. I loved both so much, I'm sure I'll get around to reading him through.

[QUOTE=Kit!]im reading Dog Day Afternoon by Patrick Mann
i havent seen the film, but ive heard it sucks compared to the book[/QUOTE]
I didn't know there was a book. I loved the film, one of Pacino's breakout rolls.

But the book is always better when there is one. I can't think of any time where I went to a movie and said, "the book was okay but that was great!"

LOTR was the closest to even matching the books, but even then, I imagined entirely different oliphants, an entirely different landscape. An entirely different walk with the dead.

Books give you a lot of details and fuel to imagine, movies give you someone else's imaginings.

[QUOTE=Chixulub]Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn are all the Lethem I've ingested so far. I loved both so much, I'm sure I'll get around to reading him through.[/QUOTE]

Those are the only two I haven't read by Lethem.

i've only read MB, AM and Gun, with occasional music
moon was my favorite

[QUOTE=Parkaboy]Those are the only two I haven't read by Lethem.[/QUOTE]
Then I guess we have met half way. MB was a masterpiece, Fortress only incredible.

I worked for five years for a guy with Tourette's, and I have to say MB nails the voice.

Fortress is just awesome even if you don't dig comic books. Lethem really captured the Generation X childhood/aftermath in that.

I usually am reading 3-4 books at a time depending on my mood.

Currently a bunch of trendy stuff.

Da Vinci Code-Dan Brown
The Corrections-Jonathan Franzen
Coma-Alex Garland (Just Picked up today)
Notes from the Underground-Dostoyevsky