What books are currently sitting on your desk waiting to be read and why?
Glamorama- BEE...wanna read it again for fun
Libra- donny delillo....loved white noise...need to read this, hear its insane
'1984' started four times, never made it through...
'mastering audio'
'yamaha sound reinforcement handbook'
graduating in three weeks!
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book club?
[QUOTE]FUNK IT WET; 6 DAYS[/QUOTE] -the prophesy in Maddie's orange juice squirts.
Some copy of National Enquirer from last year. Other than that, I read all of my books.
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no one ever said they were my books.
the library must be pretty pissed though.
I still need to read "Lullaby" but I've busying myself with school reading (Hamlet).
I started Franny and Zooey and cant seem to finish it...def. not a time issue
And i want to read Motherless Brooklyn again
Has anyone here been keeping up? As in, buying Chuck's books as they come out?
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Brother Supremo- you are so sigged right now.
[QUOTE]FUNK IT WET; 6 DAYS[/QUOTE] -the prophesy in Maddie's orange juice squirts.
I don't know what I was thinking. I was just trying to find a way to build up about how excited I was about seeing Chuck tomorrow, sicne he's coming around my neck of the woods. I didn't mean to ask such a stupid question.
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[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Brother Supremo [/i]
[B]I don't know what I was thinking. I was just trying to find a way to build up about how excited I was about seeing Chuck tomorrow, sicne he's coming around my neck of the woods. I didn't mean to ask such a stupid question. [/B][/QUOTE]
well, if it's way out of context, I'll take it down if you want me to.
[QUOTE]FUNK IT WET; 6 DAYS[/QUOTE] -the prophesy in Maddie's orange juice squirts.
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by leonardshelby [/i]
[B]Glamorama- BEE...wanna read it again for fun
Libra- donny delillo....loved white noise...need to read this, hear its insane [/B][/QUOTE]
of course lenny I have to add to your thread, specially when you mentioned DeLillo, About LIbra: got it but I haven't read it. when you do read it and finish it be sure to hunt don the DeLillo thread in the book club or start your own discussion.
Unfortunately Im reading the SAMEFUCKINGKEROUACBIOGRAPHYTHATIVEBEENREADINGTHROUGHFORMONTHS!!!
and(looks around) shhhh [size=1]The Lone Drow by R.A. Salvatore Salvatore[/size]
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delillo is the fuckin man. one of the greatest writers ever. ill be sure to post about it when i start and finish. white noise was insane.
did you read my 3000 word post on americana?
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Thank you 9.10.84 for immortalizing me for such stupid shit I say almost everyday. You can keep it up if you want. I don't mind.
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The conversation the guy has with his son early on in the book made me laugh on and off for one whole week.
ahhh, ahhh, ahh, no!
*runs out of the room because White Noise is on his shelf, not read yet.*
[QUOTE]FUNK IT WET; 6 DAYS[/QUOTE] -the prophesy in Maddie's orange juice squirts.
yeah its funny and amazing. haven't read your giant post. actually remember seeing it. will read it after i read the book, of course.
which do you feel is his best? i hear underworld and libra and once in a while white noise.
Underworld is a feat! The best book Ive read that was published after 1990, besides Survivor. Libra is a bold fucking move for any writer to tackle, can you imagine writing about lee harvey oswald? Maybe ill leave this site and start reading it. Goddamn DeLillo! I said I needed a fucking break from you!
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read on, brotha.
I'm reading American Phyco right now, after im done with that I'm going to read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. I've been trying to read outside of Chuck more lately. I loves The Rules of Attraction. Bret Easton Ellis is awsome.
Once I'm done reading both of those I'm going on a huge search for The Contortionist Handbook. It looks pretty good.
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Every text book I've purchased this semester. I tend to cram towards the end.
Glamorama is much much better than Rules. Contortionist's is awesome. Read it a while back.
100 years of solitude
sound and the fury
sun also rises
few tom robbins books
fino, might as well make the best of your spent cash. good luck, im the same.
A more important question would be what books do I WISH were on my desk right now.
Namely: I've been wanting to read the Contortionist's Handbook forEVER. I can't find it fucking anywhere in this stoopid town.
Also, I want to read more Douglas Coupland because he's god.
If I want to start a DeLillo book, which one should I start with?
I tried reading one about a guy in a limo going through the city...and I'm very, very embarrased that I can't recall the name of it. But I didn't get through it.
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Fino35 [/i]
[B]Every text book I've purchased this semester. I tend to cram towards the end. [/B][/QUOTE] I've got two textbooks I haven't yet taken out of the cellophane wrappers.
I've got a French book that I bought yesterday that I have to do exercises in. Around the house I've got probably 5-10 books that I bought and just never read, including 1984. I started reading it at a time when my attention span was so bad that I couldn't sit through anything, let alone read a book. =(
I'm waiting on my bn.com order with an Amy Hempel book, The Contortionist's Handbook, and Jennifer Government.
war of worlds, stephen kings everything is eventual, and vurt. oh, because im still reading dorian gray, battle royale, and jg ballards short stories.
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I picked up Delillo's Libra the other day, got 40 pages in, and then picked up Coupland's Generation X, and forgot all about it. The list of shit I've got to read that's sitting right in front of me: Stephen King's Wolves of the Calla; Raymond Carver's Where I'm Calling From; Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Klay; the Playboy with Guts in it; and a book called Everything You Need to Know About The Music Industry, which I'm about halfway through.
Too many to name, dratted book clubs!
Contortionist's Handbook - $10.00 new on Amazon.com
in queue..
place of dead roads - burroughs
western lands - burroughs
hitchhikers guide to the galaxy - adams
eros from hell (history of japanese sex flicks)
graveyard of lunatics - bradbury
and for the umptheenth time, notes from the underground
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I desperately need some new books. I've read all mine at least twice through. Actually waiting on getting some books of mine returned.
I should go book shopping more often.
Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.
Used book stores are the BEST.
Only when you have some form of funds to spend in them. They are reduced and cheap prices, but they're still prices, meaning money must be exchanged.
Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.
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oh and house of leaves
fuck thet thing [/B][/QUOTE]
I had that same thought when I got that book. I just wanted it to die so I wouldn't have to read ALL those footnotes and spin the book around a lot just to read it.
[QUOTE]FUNK IT WET; 6 DAYS[/QUOTE] -the prophesy in Maddie's orange juice squirts.
If I named all the books in my bookcase that were just waiting for me to read them...it would take quite a while...I have almost 200 books and out of those I would say I've only read about 100 or more.
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[B]100 years of solitude[/B][/QUOTE]
oprahbookclubselection...
right on, moe. now I can post my list and not have to take a bath afterwards.
(of course)Don Delillo- White Noise
Henry Rollins- Broken Summers
Arthur Golden- Memoirs of a Geisha
Ralph Waldo Emerson- Essential Writings
EDIT: I forgot the why. OK, I got the Don Delillo because of all of you, the cult. and I have just been reading William Tester and Amy Hempel short stories before I get to it. the Henry Rollins is because Henry is the man and I find myself loving damn near everything he does. ever. the Arthur Golden because my birthday was last September but somebody didn't give me my birthday PRESENT until late January. lazy bitches. said that she read it in one sitting and that I must read it. hmm. and the Emerson because my dad seems to think he's good. I have actually flipped through that book, and what little I read was stunning.
[QUOTE]FUNK IT WET; 6 DAYS[/QUOTE] -the prophesy in Maddie's orange juice squirts.
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by moe.ron [/i]
[B]oprahbookclubselection... [/B][/QUOTE]
You got somethin against the woman/club who brought (or is 'oversaturated' the word im looking for...) us Toni Morrison???????????????
But seriously,
Gone Tomorrow - Gary Indiana
The Ice Shirt - William T. Vollmann
The Call of Cthulhu and Others - H.P. Lovecraft
Arc d'X - Steve Erickson
I Married a Communist - Philip Roth
The Death of Frank Sinatra - Michael Ventura
Celebration - Harry Crews
Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer
The Tooth Fairy - Graham Joyce
Joe - Larry Brown
The Wall of the Sky, The Wall of the Eye - Jonathan Lethem
Pastoralia - George Saunders
Kiln People - David Brin
Just to name a few...
Plus books to read again soon:
Chuck's Stuff
White Noise - Don Delillo
The Great Gatsby - DUH
Everything I own by Bukowski
I manage to fill an entire Billy bookcase (look it up on ikea if you want) each year, but can't quite keep up with my buying habits....
I'm not going to list them because I have at least thirty.
Why? Because I read books, maybe two a week. (I don't like to read fast). I also buy five a week. 
I cannot go into a bookstore (or the library for that matter) emptyhanded. I'm starting to think it isn't my fault, it's actually physically impossible to not buy something at the bookstore.
House Of Leaves - im in college so i havent had the time to read much of it. I think im on the 3rd chapter but just cant get into it.
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a long list. On the top are:
My Education: a book of dreams - burroughs
Great apes - Will Self
Hell's angels - HST
New Kafka Translation
still reading:
The Trial - Kafka
Kingdom of Fear - HST
Trainspotting - Welsh (just started)
What?
Halfway through The Contortionist's Handbook. I had to special order it from Borders. Now I can see why so many people recommend this book.
Also picked up Underworld by DeLillo, Pattern Recognition by Gibson, Fiskadoro by Dennis Johnson at the local Half Priced books place all for under $20.00
Fancy a bit of the old ultra-violence?
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Hey, I just picked up Underworld and Fiskadoro as well. I will get to read them next month. This month is Hemmingway and Fritzgerald and Satre and Will Christopher Baer.
Oh, and the reason is time by itself.
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I just bought Depraved indifference by gary Indiana for a bit of nasty and Razor Wire Pubic Hair my secret santa gift and a Nick Tosches book and really I'm still stuggling through hey Nostrodamus which i have no interest in.
The Castle (Kafka)
Crash (Ballard)
The Stranger (Camus)
I should really stop buying books. I just need the revised Naked Lunch, Mexico City Blues and Kaddish, then I'm done. I swear.
What?
Women (Bukowski)
Motherless Brooklyn (Jonathan Lethem)
Ghost Of Chance (Burroughs)
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
The Autograph Man - Zadie Smith
Look at Me - Jennifer Egan
Beats Deciphering Gorilla Crayon Scribbling - Yucitan Hummiding Sholom Cabong Dadigascar IV
I made the last one up.
“If you can quit, probably you should.”
-Alexander Blackburn, then editor of Writer’s Forum in Colorado
i read the autograph man recently - very nice stuff.
martin amis - time's arrow
william gibson - neuromancer
ah HA. you almost caught me doing it, too. but I won't post my list because this thread doesn't belong here.
[QUOTE]FUNK IT WET; 6 DAYS[/QUOTE] -the prophesy in Maddie's orange juice squirts.