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The Trial (kafka) and Kingdom of Fear (new HST book).
Hoping to find copies of Trainspotting, Crash and the revised Naked Lunch soon.
What?
i have the normal naked lunch, they had the revised one, but the only difference i hsaw was the $$$$$ kind , i cn barely read the one i have its so chaotic
I finished The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon a few days ago. Right now I'm reading parts of When We Die, about death and all that stuff. I'm waiting until I see what I get for christmas before I start anything.
Oh yeah...and I'm looking through a ton (the stack just about broke my arm at the library) of wedding books as of last Friday. My ring was an early Christmas present. 
I'm breaking my self-imposed rule of one book at a time and reading:
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (Good muckraking, but it didn't affect me nearly the way [i]The Jungle[/i] did.)
The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon (I'm only twenty pages in, but I'm enjoying it.)
McSweeney's #1 (Which was actually a Christmas present form last year.)
And I keep thumbing through some Sylvia Plath poetry, which was a present this year.
congrats, keety 
Thank you
Now I'm reading parts of my christmas presents trying to decide what to read. Right now it's Kiss Me, Judas - Will Christopher Baer, Death on the Installment Plan - Celine, and A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat - Arthur Rimbaud.
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by twomoredays [/i]
[B]I'm breaking my self-imposed rule of one book at a time and reading:
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (Good muckraking, but it didn't affect me nearly the way [i]The Jungle[/i] did.)
McSweeney's #1 (Which was actually a Christmas present form last year.)
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FFN is the best nonfiction I've read in quite a while...and serves to reaffirm why I won't eat under the golden arches.
and you better not be reading a first print of McSweeney's #1!!!!! That's worth some major cash!
Right now I'm reading A Prayer for the Dying by Stuart O'Nan. This is the first book written in second person I've read since the Choose Your Own Adventure books from elementary school. Takes a while to get used to.
yeah, twomoredays, i think you'd better elaborate...
still life with woodpecker by tom robbins
Memoirs of a geisha - Arthur Golden
Now I'm reading American Gothic Tales.
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte and
The things my wife and I have argued about by Mill Millington
just finished satan burger and microserfs. going to finish lolita, then proceed to jeff noons' "Vurt".
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I gave up on Death on the Installment Plan by Celine, at least for now. Not really in the mood for it. I'm reading, and almost done with Franny and Zooey - JD Salinger. Then I'll probably read the book club thingy, Hey Nostradamus that I got from the library.
started on the february book ("Hey Nostradamus")
reading "An Introduction to Reiki", "Rosslyn, Guardian of the Secrets of the Holy Grail", "Easy to Love, Dificult to Discipline" and Ray Bradbury's "Classic Stories"
Subterraneans by Kerouac
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Lenny Bruce's autobiography,
[i]How to Talk Dirty and Influence People[/i]
just ran through fear and loathing in las vegas
now im on notes from underground
Just finished Hey Nostradamus... probably read jennifer Government next since Max is coming through soon... not sure what I'll be reading after that. Lovely Bones, Accidental Tourist, something like that... get some female energy into the reading list after three guys in a row.
Plato.
All of it.
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"At the Water's Edge: Macroevolution and the Transformation of Life"
"Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures"
"Evolution: The Triumph of and Idea"
all by Carl Zimmer
I have one week to read Crime and Punishment for class. I told a friend about this, he laughed and said "good luck".
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Philosphy of science
Philosophy of mind
Some fantasy novel by Steven Erikson: The house of chains.
Another nice russian book: war and peace by Leo Tolstoy.
Just finished Hey Nostradamus! and am probably going to start The Plague - Albert Camus, or a book I got from thel ibrary a long time ago called Angus. I forgot the author's name, but it's told in the point of view of a dog that's been hurt or something, he can hear his "family" looking for him and all that. I just hope he doesn't die, since my dog's close to dying (she's 15yrs old), I don't want to read something sad. 
Oh well.
Yeah I bought Hey Nostradamus yesterday at the university bookstore but I doubt I can read it in time for the bookclub discussion. I have so many books I will def read and catch up on when the semester is over. Right now, it's all about doing my academic readings and doing my mini thesis and finding a thesis advisor.
I borrowed all of Mark Simpson's books from the library but will be buying all of them from this site very soon. Mark Simpson is the grandaddy of the whole "metrosexuality' phen. It's basically a collection of his column/essays in various of British press.
It's bitting, witty and just plain fun. Because of its length (essays) I can read through a lot of them due to the academic time constaints. This is what I'm reading from Simpson:
Sex Terror: Erotic Misadventures in Pop Culture
it's a Queer World: Deviant adventure in pop culture
and
Male impersonators: men performing masculinity.
Yes I am a cultural studies freak
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Jesus' Son
Tales of Terror Selected by Alfred Hitchcock (only cost me ten bucks, damn good find)
White Noise
The Crying of Lot 49
Reasons to Live
As long as I'm here I might as well post the books I've bought and haven't started, something I've a bit of a problem with.
Fouccault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Flicker by Theodore Roszack
Geek Love
DeLillo's Players
The Snows of Kilamanjaro by Hemingway
Blindness by Jose Saramago
I bought some other books but I know I'll never read them so I won't post them.
Tolkien - The Silmarillion
The Waste Lands - Stephen King
Syrup - Max Barry
I'm reading "The Code Book: The Secret History of Codes and Code-breaking" (Simon Singh), "The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory" (Brian Greene), and am still ploughing my way through "A Brief History Of Time" (Stephen Hawking).
I am queen of geeky non-fiction! Hear me roar!
I'm trying to decide which Chomsky to read next. Oh, and I *still* haven't read any Easton Ellis. 
Shame on me.
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[B]Blindness by Jose Saramago[/B][/QUOTE]
I read the first few pages of that in Barnes and Noble the other day. That's the next book I plan to get. It seemed really good, the idea and everything.
Which reminds me. I've wondered if it's like this in anyone else's bookstores. We have to go to B&N before 3:00pm because after that, all the high school kids get out of school and freakin hang out there.
It wouldn't be so bad if you didn't have to constantly hear "Oh YEAH! I was like....like. yeah sure hehehehe" from across the entire store. One time a group of kids were upstairs at one of the tables and had a whole freakin pizza.
I want to go up to one of these groups and ask them why the hell they're at a bookstore. Because they're obviously not reading. And if they are, it's always just magazines.
Anyway. I finally made it there when it was quiet and got to read that book. Hopefully it's as good as it seemed because I want to buy it.
The most beautiful woman in town and other stories ~ Charles Bukowski
Great book so far and of course his scene setting is top notch
I just finished Elisabeth Kubler Ross on Death and Dying last night.
I’m reading Cat’s Cradle (by Vonnegut) now and will have to pick up another of his books en route home tonight. I cannot get over his imagination, and this is one of his least recommended books. I cant wait to see how the rest are.
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"I have a riddle for you. A conundrum, if you will. What's the difference between you and a mallard with a cold? One's a sick duck ... I can't remember the rest but your mother's a whore."- 'Sean Connery'
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Fuckin great read Glamhoth...whaddya think so far?
about 90 pages into it, so far so very very good
the echolalia is the best thing, but all around a great book
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[B]the echolalia is the best thing, but all around a great book [/B][/QUOTE] thought you were talking about Dwayne Hoover is Breakfast Of Champion's, which i just finished reading again.
now i'm back to some good old C.S. Lewis, the space trilogy, i need some thick prose after the randomness of Vonnegut.
The Fountainheads by Ayn Rand
It fucking rocks
Shit that's supposed to say Fountainhead. Minus the S.
Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson
I wish HE had a Cult....
quicksilver-neal stephenson
hegemony or survival-noam chomsky.. i wish he had a cult!
i'll cut your throat
i'll make amends
Neuromancer-William Gibson and I'll be picking up Hey Nostradamus! tomorrow
Fancy a bit of the old ultra-violence?
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Just finished Jennifer Government, I thought it was OK, not bad, not great. I'm going to be giving Don Delillo a second chance and picking up my copy of MAO II, I tried reading White Noise about a year ago, got half-way through before I got bored with it. So far I read the prologue to MAO II and so far it does look seemingly promissing, but I think I felt the same way with the first couple chapters of White Noise so I will have to see how it ends up.
And Purge, whenever you're done can you tell me if NEUROMANCER is worth the read? I have the first 2 parts in the Neuromancer "trilogy" sitting on my shelf but have not read either. I want to read Neuromancer but it just seems a little lengthy when I look at my copy.
"Excuse me sir, Did you wash your hands after you took that big heaping dump. You know that sign, that sign says ALL employees MUST wash their hands after using the restroom, What part of that do you not understand?"- Malcom X
"Would you care to lick my sweaty baulz after they have been dipped in the finest venerial juices and sauteed in my own ass-sweat, madam?"- Winston Churchill
the heart is deceitful above all things by jt leroy. so fucked up.
and battle royale and jgballards best short stories.
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[QUOTE]And Purge, whenever you're done can you tell me if NEUROMANCER is worth the read? I have the first 2 parts in the Neuromancer "trilogy" sitting on my shelf but have not read either. I want to read Neuromancer but it just seems a little lengthy when I look at my copy.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I am almost done with it and so far it is very interesting especially if your into computers.
It is only 271 pages so I don't think its that lengthy considering Chuck's books are around the same length and I can finish one in a few sittings.
Fancy a bit of the old ultra-violence?
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Coupland's All Families Are Psychotic
And I just finished Charity by Mark Richard. Short Stories. Minimalism. To me Mark is not as refined as Hempel, but he has a little bit more humor (IMO).
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Well I finished Neuromancer, it was good but I dont think I will pick up the other 2 books. Also finished Hey Nostradamus!-still not sure how I feel about it.
Now I am moving on to High Fidelity by Nick Hornby and I just ordered Kiss Me, Judas and Penny Dreadful
Fancy a bit of the old ultra-violence?
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Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 by Hunter S. Thompson
Where have you gone George McGovern, this liberal turns his lonely eyes to you...
It's not easy having a good time.
Even smiling makes my face ache.
I just finished The Contortionist's Handbook a week ago and now I just picked up a copy of Thumbsucker.