What book are you Reading right now November 2003

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Edited by Zaki

Don't be so patronising :mad:

whats an avatar?

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Fiberoptic Jesus [/i]
[B]newbee, newbee, newbee.
Not quite a good idea. Go to book club.
Get an avatar, and get outa here you scamp.
You don't gotta impress us.

Oh, theyre so cute when theyre new. [/B][/QUOTE]

I thought i was in book club?

ignorance is bliss

ignorance is truly bliss, but you are no longer ignorant of your mistake. now wallow in your non-blissful-state! bwuaaahahaha.
............
ahem.
i'm reading the same book my sig is from, Bluebeard, and also slowly working my way through Fugitives And Refugees.

ok so where should i hav posted?

actually, General Discussion is fine. i'm not sure what they were thinking, now that i think about it.

The Godfather, but it is a copy made in 1970, so it is breaking in half.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by izen [/i]
[B]ignorance is truly bliss, but you are no longer ignorant of your mistake. now wallow in your non-blissful-state! bwuaaahahaha.
............
ahem.
i'm reading the same book my sig is from, Bluebeard, and also slowly working my way through Fugitives And Refugees. [/B][/QUOTE]

any suggestions in vonnegut, i tried reading slaughterhouse 5, but it was running a little slow and i was reading something elase so i eneded up returning it to the library. Only other thing i;ve read is harrison bergenon, that was awesome, i was thinking about the cats cradle, heard alot of ice-9 references.

*passes the torch*

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by patioman [/i]
[B]*passes the torch* [/B][/QUOTE]

what is that?

if you couldnt get thorugh slaughterhouse five you might as well give up now because thats as good as it gets.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by H.D.Thoreau [/i]
[B]if you couldnt get thorugh slaughterhouse five you might as well give up now because thats as good as it gets. [/B][/QUOTE]
ditto.
sh5 is about as action packed as vonnegut gets, Bluebeard is slow as hell but it's kurt so i have to finish it to find out what's in his potato barn!

given up, then. i gues i was expecting soemthing morea long the lines of harrison bergenon

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by qpasha [/i]
[B]given up, then. i gues i was expecting soemthing morea long the lines of harrison bergenon [/B][/QUOTE]
not sure who that is, but think of vonnegut as Chuck without the cursing, sex, violence and general immoral themes. i think of vonnegut as Palahniuk with sugar coating.

his satire is still biting, though. i think of it more as chuck is to us what vonnegut was to people in that day. very exciting, and witty, with a penchant for rebelliousness. good stuff.

im reading camille paglia; sexual personae.
its decent so far. i love her spunkiness.

angelanicole, you described him much better than i did.

you know it.

although i think the best way to describe is indeed goddam fucking genius... perfect, indeed.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by qpasha [/i]
[B]whats an avatar? [/B][/QUOTE]
Since no one'll tell ya...
go here

[url]http://www.chuckpalahniuk.net/community/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3393[/url]

I was just Joshing kid.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Fiberoptic Jesus [/i]
[B]Since no one'll tell ya...
go here

[url]http://www.chuckpalahniuk.net/community/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3393[/url]

I was just Joshing kid. [/B][/QUOTE]

thanks

yeah i'm leaning towards cats cradle and slapstick

whaaa?

i actually thought i'd get some help figuring out what i should read next here. d'oh!

just finished notes from underground...keeping with the dostoevsky iim gonna read this;
Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Neitzche, & Kafka
by william hubben [img]http://www.kiosek.com/bookshop/images/kafka.gif[/img]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by izen [/i]
[B]not sure who that is, but think of vonnegut as Chuck without the cursing, sex, violence and general immoral themes. i think of vonnegut as Palahniuk with sugar coating. [/B][/QUOTE]

Sugar Coating? Fuck that! Damn near every single one of his books deals with glaring immorality and lawlessness.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by angelanicole [/i]
[B]im reading camille paglia; sexual personae.
its decent so far. i love her spunkiness. [/B][/QUOTE]

angie, has the "spunkiness" turned into "i get it already, you're a feminist, but i don't dare call you that for fear you'd belittle me with grad-school type big words and vivid descriptions that border on vulgar" yet?

Anyone read The Contortionist's Handbook? Is it really as good as Chuck Says?

yes and yes. read it now. add comments in the thread of the same name. can't wait to see you there!

I just started reading 'Sarah' by Jt LeRoy, I'm only on page 10 or so, so I can't really comment, plus I couldn't concentrate cause my roomate was watching his anthropology class on TV, loud.

From Totems to Hip-Hop.

Needed a break after Under the Banner of Heaven so I decided on a poetry collection book. It's ok.

'In the Hand of Dante' by Nick Tocshes, I finished 'Sarah'

Just finished Penny Dreadful by Will Christopher Baer. Not as good as Kiss Me, Judas untill the end. But I'll talk more on that later.

Now starting The Rainbow Stories by William T. Vollmann

Copy from Amazon.com:

These long, interlocking short stories comprise an anthropological field report from San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, 20 years after the Summer of Love. The author's stated goal is simply to retell--"unaltered, unverified"--the stories told to him by down-and-out street people such as Brandi the prostitute, Marisa the neo-Nazi bootwoman, and Carolina the saintly wino. Much of the action takes place offstage, in trauma centers, detox wards, and autopsy labs, with extensive footnotes citing relevant textbooks of pathology and criminal justice. This is a far more coherent book than Vollmann's first novel, You Bright and Risen Angels ( LJ 5/15/87), and clearly places him in the front ranks of contemporary authors. Highly recommended, but definitely not for the squeamish.
- Edward B. St. John, Loyola Law Sch. Lib., Los Angeles
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Im reading yet another Jackie O bio i mean i think shes the most intriguing woman on the planet and dern beautiful to boot i think ive read at least 3 or 4 bios and i have plenty of picture books...very fascinating woman indeed

Im also reading The Informers and I picked up Franney and Zooey and it was only five bucks!!

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by bookjunky [/i]
[B]Yet one more short post from me. I just finished a biography titled, " Running with Sissors" it was absolutly terrific. [/B][/QUOTE]
I read another book by that guy titled 'Dry', really did not like it, couldn't finish it.

In the past five days I have read so much, I think my brain is going to explode!!! I have been reading Max Barry's two books since the weekend. I finished Syrup on Sunday night and Jennifer Government this afternoon. I thoroughly enjoyed both. Now I am going to get started on Battle Royale, which should last a while, since it is double the length of the other two.

Ive read the Fuck Up it was pretty good i think.....but this was a book i read before chuck so its was left behind a long time ago

i do remeber that one part in the book where hes desribing how hes going crazy...that part was very awesome.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by bookjunky [/i]
[B]Yet one more short post from me. I just finished a biography titled, " Running with Sissors" it was absolutly terrific. [/B][/QUOTE]

is anyone else over the "my childhood was so fucked up, i just had to write a memoir" scene?

well...i'm in more of a "my coming of age was so fucked up, i just had to [i]fictionalize[/i] this memoir" scene. im not very good at drawing real life portraits...i would rather lie about not being able to lie and market it all as a lie. comprende?

si, claro.

i'm a sucker for a good coming-of-age story, which reminds me, have you read lamb, the gospel according to biff, christ's childhood pal, by christopher moore, yet?

I'm about 20 pages from the end of Contortionist's handbook. (I finally got to read it!) It is so good, the detail is great. But you all know that already.

I'm about to start an A.M Homes book from the library. hopefully she's as good as has been said about her on here.

Either that or Chinese Takeout by Arthur Nersesian. I love books about NYC, so it should at least have that going for it.

I'm reading [I]Middlesex[/I] by Jeffrey Eugenides ([I]Virgin Suicides[/I]) and I really can't reccomend it enough.

It's descirbed as being the story of a hermaphrodite named Cal, but that is only the surface. Ultimately, it ends up being part geneolaogy, part history, but mostly just beautiful. I am just enamored with the way Eugenides covers every angle of a story with such grace. I can hardly put it down.

currently reading [i]lies and the lying liars who tell them[/i] by al franken. which is good, because it's a funny book and i'm a liberal, but bad, because it means that if i am to be fair, i must then read one of ann coulter's pieces of shit.

Right now I am reading Survivor by Chuck.. I just learned of him not long ago so I'm trying to get all his books read.. they are SOOOO great!

Next up is Invisible Monsters.. but I may take a short break from Chuck to read a book my boyfriend sent me to read....
Hmm anyone recommend anything?
Thanks!

I'm still reading The Bell Jar because I had to return it and I just finished Ariel ... if that even counts as a book.
Oh, and I'm reading Fahrenheit 451 ...... it's for school ..... oh joy