What's got you flipping this May?

Got Paul Auster's THE NEW YORK TRILOGY squeezed freshly into the backpocket of my jeans. Soon as I travel, which should be in a few hours (to the videostore), I'm gonna open that sucker, smell it and start reading.

Well gee, today I'm giving Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor a read-over. Wonder if anyone else is reading it...

[QUOTE=Vendetta]Well gee, today I'm giving Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor a read-over. Wonder if anyone else is reading it...:([/QUOTE]

It's next on my list. When do the discussions start?

My girlfriend keeps laughing at the name Flannery.

[QUOTE=Riddlegimp]It's next on my list. When do the discussions start?

My girlfriend keeps laughing at the name Flannery.[/QUOTE]
The 18th I think. There's going to be a list of things to keep in mind while you're reading so check that out when it's posted which should be today or tomorrow, I believe.

Will do.

[QUOTE=Vendetta]Well gee, today I'm giving Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor a read-over. Wonder if anyone else is reading it...:([/QUOTE]
I'll have it read by discussion time.

[QUOTE=Mr. Brown]Got Paul Auster's THE NEW YORK TRILOGY squeezed freshly into the backpocket of my jeans. Soon as I travel, which should be in a few hours (to the videostore), I'm gonna open that sucker, smell it and start reading.[/QUOTE]

Auster is the flipping man.

It's funny when you quote yourself... so you can comment on something that you said. There's something ironic about that...

reading you shall know our velocity by dave eggers. it's fairly entertaining so far, but nothing too terribly special. which pretty much sums up my thoughts on eggers.

[QUOTE=PGoutis01]It's funny when you quote yourself... so you can comment on something that you said. There's something ironic about that...[/QUOTE]

It was meant in a way that I was coming back on something I said earlier. I hadn't started then and now I read like the first two chapters and I'm like, damn, I was right.

you'd think a thread like this, started today would have mentioned 'Haunted' by now

[QUOTE=Mr. Brown]It was meant in a way that I was coming back on something I said earlier. I hadn't started then and now I read like the first two chapters and I'm like, damn, I was right.[/QUOTE]
I figured that. I just thought it was funny and felt the need to point it out.

[QUOTE=karbunkle]you'd think a thread like this, started today would have mentioned 'Haunted' by now[/QUOTE]

I'm still waiting for my copy in the mail. [SIZE=1]Friggin'-fraggin' USPS.[/SIZE]

i'm still reading the virgin suicides and hey nostradamus and snow white russian red. i read slowly.

[QUOTE=Vendetta]Well gee, today I'm giving Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor a read-over. Wonder if anyone else is reading it...:([/QUOTE]
I'm also reading Sweet Valley Saga: The Wakefields of Sweet Valley.

Going to finish:
Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Vernon God Little

Going to Start:
Haunted
Doors of Perception - Huxley

[I]The Book of Muscle[/I] by Lou Schuler and Ian King along with The Invisibles Vol. 1: Say You Want a Revolution by Grant Morrison.

[QUOTE=urmynme]
Vernon God Little
[/QUOTE]

Karbunkle sent me this a month ago. I read the first couple pages, and it looks cool, but there's other books I need to finish first.

Put aside some other stuff to start [I]Haunted[/I] and I am regretting it. So far, I can't find anything redeeming about this book. Perhaps this will change, but as of right now my hopes are slim. I'm really bummed too, because I f'n hated [I]Diary[/I] and was hoping that it was just a speed bump. Now I'm thinking it's a full on lull. I really like the premise, but I can't say I like the stories.

After I'm done I'm going to start up on Wayson Choy's [I]All That Matters[/I] , or Jay McIerney's [I]Brightness Falls[/I] .

Read Tumbling Home in 2 days. Started Charity by Mark RIchard today. Started White Noise by Delillo a coupla days ago. Started Haunted today. it seems to hit and miss on different occasions. I dont understand why he couldnt have made it wonderfully kickass cuz its a great concept.

I had to put other books aside to read Jesus' Son and The dog of the marriage. After that I started reading House of Leaves and The Man who feel in love with the moon, i'll be back to the other books (Diary, The Tessaract, Jennifer Goverment) after those.

I just finished Five Mile House last night. It's not the usual type of writing that I read, but it was an awesome story. I couldn't put it down once I was 2/3 of the way through. I think I read over half the book in one day.

Today I started The Boys of My Youth by Jo Ann Beard. I'm just flipping through the stories until Haunted arrives.

To read this month.
The Devine Comedy
Gunslinger by king. (finish the first one, finish second)
Haunted (100 pages in so far...yum!)
The zombie survival guide.
I have some others, but cant remember at the moment.

I just finished Rules of Prey, which was even cooler cause it was set in the tiwn cities and I knew all the places where things were happening. I'd been to most of the major plot backdrops.

Now I'm reading The Beach. It's not [I]super [/I] interesting, but it's really well written.

Next in line is Chinese Takeout.

[QUOTE=ireLocus]Now I'm reading The Beach. It's not [I]super [/I] interesting, but it's really well written.[/QUOTE]

Exactly as you put it. Definitely Garland's best work to date.

Still on a lot of the books I was before, as I have not been reading much lately.

Poppy Z. Brite - [I]Liquor[/I], which I don't reccomend to anyone who isn't in food service, but since I am it's alright.

William S. Burroughs - [I]Junky[/I], mostly very blah so far. Most heroin books keep me glued, but I could shelf this and not really mind at all.

Chuck P. - [I]Haunted[/I], still too early to tell.

Douglas Coupland - [I]Shampoo Planet[/I], not started yet.

Just finished Goat by Brad Land and Dogrun By Arthur Nersesian. I'm in the middle of Lance Armstrong's autobiography and an encyclopedia of Urban legends for a research paper. Also in the middle of Fight Club (for like the tenth time).

I forgot to mention that I started Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing by kierkegaard

Im in a total Bukowski frame of mind

Ham On Rye
The Most Beautiful Woman...

some of the classics I haven't read yet: 1984, Slaughter House Five, Moby Dick.

[QUOTE=PGoutis01]Today I started The Boys of My Youth by Jo Ann Beard. I'm just flipping through the stories until Haunted arrives.[/QUOTE]
OK, well I pointed my finger and laughed at Mr. Brown for doing this exact same thing. So, Mr. Brown, if you see this - feel free to make fun of me.

I just wanted to say that anybody who is a fan of Hempel or Junot Diaz will probably like this book. I'm half way through it now and the stories are really really well written. The story "The Fourth State of the Matter" is worth buying the book for.

[QUOTE=PGoutis01]OK, well I pointed my finger and laughed at Mr. Brown for doing this exact same thing. So, Mr. Brown, if you see this - feel free to make fun of me.[/QUOTE]

Nah, it's allright.

PS. Auster is a fuckin' madman.

HaHa

I can't wait to read Oracle Night for the book club... Actually, I think I'm leading that one.

If you're a writer also, be prepared to really really really like the shit out of it.

i'm on Flow My Tears the Policeman said. should finish it by tommorrow, went very quickly. i also thumbing through a Philip K. Dick Biography -- the worst biography ever, don't read it -- and it's funny reading this book becasue i just read a part where the main character does mescaline and, well, PKD liked mescaline in real life too.

[QUOTE=snuffy]i'm on Flow My Tears the Policeman said. should finish it by tommorrow, went very quickly. i also thumbing through a Philip K. Dick Biography -- the worst biography ever, don't read it -- and it's funny reading this book becasue i just read a part where the main character does mescaline and, well, PKD liked mescaline in real life too.[/QUOTE]That's one of my favorites of his. Maybe Number one.

[QUOTE=Parkaboy]That's one of my favorites of his. Maybe Number one.[/QUOTE]

i made a note in my journal, there are at least a half dozen concepts in this book that he could have based entire novels on. the man is NOT HUMAN.

[QUOTE=snuffy]i made a note in my journal, there are at least a half dozen concepts in this book that he could have based entire novels on. the man is NOT HUMAN.[/QUOTE]
Dude, duh... He a pink laser caled VALIS. [I]Puh-leasse[/I]!

[QUOTE=snuffy]i'm on Flow My Tears the Policeman said. should finish it by tommorrow, went very quickly. i also thumbing through a Philip K. Dick Biography -- the worst biography ever, don't read it -- and it's funny reading this book becasue i just read a part where the main character does mescaline and, well, PKD liked mescaline in real life too.[/QUOTE]
Which ones, it's been awhile since I read it. I remember the non-existence being my favorite. You ever see tha TV show Nowhere Man? It was on UPN 1995-1996?

[QUOTE=Parkaboy]Which ones, it's been awhile since I read it. I remember the non-existence being my favorite. You ever see tha TV show Nowhere Man? It was on UPN 1995-1996?[/QUOTE]

never saw it, i will look for it though.

existence or non-existence is a central theme in the book. the notion of one day being a major global celebrity, and then completely not existing the next day -- on paper or on file or in the minds of people -- is nearly impossible to fathom!

modern society has no knowledge that you exist. nobody knows you at all anymore, not even people close to you.

none of the articles or the TV shows you were on have any recollection of you. none of the things you spent your career doing: making music records, making movies, writing books, whatever: none of the stuff that is supposed to survive after you are gone exists. not even the central database and the entire extended computer network of people data has any record of you ever existing!

do you know how hard it would be to achieve this in this day and age, even if you wanted to? I mean, no matter how hard I try, i know there will probably always be, floating around the internet somewhere, a photo of me slipping on the ice on New Years 2000.

take any person on the cult, for example. if you have posted a photo of yourself on here, chances are dozens of cultists have that photo on their computer hard drives right now. and they have shown it to other people. sent it to other people in email maybe.

what if you suddenly had to hide from the FBI or the Yakuza or something? you're screwed.

It's horrifying.

but even the little conceptual stuff that PKD writes in this book could be the settings for novels. like the taxis! do you remember the taxis in Flow My Tears? a normal cab ride will take you anywhere in the world. you could write a whole book about a taxi driver who flies all over the world for a living.

[QUOTE=snuffy]

take any person on the cult, for example. if you have posted a photo of yourself on here, chances are dozens of cultists have that photo on their computer hard drives right now. and they have shown it to other people. sent it to other people in email maybe.
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Great, now I have to retire all of you.
[QUOTE=snuffy]
but even the little conceptual stuff that PKD writes in this book could be the settings for novels. like the taxis! do you remember the taxis in Flow My Tears? a normal cab ride will take you anywhere in the world. you could write a whole book about a taxi driver who flies all over the world for a living.[/QUOTE]
The cabs I never really thought about too much as he (and many sci-fi authors at the time) really liked their flying cars.

Luc Besson did sonething with the flying car cabbie angle though. Alas, I doubt Mila would drop into a real flying cab.

[QUOTE=Parkaboy]Great, now I have to retire all of you.

The cabs I never really thought about too much as he (and many sci-fi authors at the time) really liked their flying cars.

Luc Besson did sonething with the flying car cabbie angle though. Alas, I doubt Mila would drop into a real flying cab.[/QUOTE]

they do. but they usually have cars flying at the same speed as they do on the ground. i magine if i could get to figi in 15 minutes. man. i'm going.

and milla falls into cabs all the time. big badda boom.

I read Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West today. It was so good, I laughed out loud at some points (not sure if I was supposed to).

I've just started The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers. Seems okay.

i'm not sure what to do next. William Gibson i thin, if i can find a copy of one of his books lying about.

[QUOTE=joeyjord]To read this month.
The Devine Comedy
Gunslinger by king. (finish the first one, finish second)
Haunted (100 pages in so far...yum!)
The zombie survival guide.
I have some others, but cant remember at the moment.[/QUOTE]
Everysingle on of these books where stolen from me. (my entire backpack got stolen FROM MY HOUSE!) So now I'm just re-reading books. I'm so pissed. So now i'm reading The Catcher In The Rye, and Hey Nostradamus.

[QUOTE=joeyjord]Everysingle on of these books where stolen from me. (my entire backpack got stolen FROM MY HOUSE!) So now I'm just re-reading books. I'm so pissed. So now i'm reading The Catcher In The Rye, and Hey Nostradamus.[/QUOTE]

it;s interesting that yiou had the Divine comedy thrown in there, was that for a class?

[QUOTE=snuffy]it;s interesting that yiou had the Divine comedy thrown in there, was that for a class?[/QUOTE]
Nah, I wanted to read it to see if I could understand all the deeper meanings in it. I was only halfway through The Inferno. I liked it, I'll have to get it some time again.

[QUOTE=joeyjord]Nah, I wanted to read it to see if I could understand all the deeper meanings in it. I was only halfway through The Inferno. I liked it, I'll have to get it some time again.[/QUOTE]

You read The Divine Comedy by choice. excellent.

I was fortunate enough to have a class in The Divine Comedy with Rosanna Warren. She was something else, she really opened my eyes to the work. It was the best class I had in college. Or maybe the top two. I also had a class in Faulkner which totally kicked my ass all over the place.

This is Rosanna Warren:

[url]http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?45442B7C000C070C08[/url]

I finished The Member of the Wedding this morning, of course I enjoyed it as I enjoy most Southern Literature. The author has a good grip on what a total headfuck it is to be a twelve year old girl.

Now I've started The End of the Affair by Graham Greene, I'm only one chapter in but it's just the kind of style of writing I enjoy reading, quietly witty, nicely detailed with a smooth way about it.

VE DAY - of course

Haunted came in the mail yesterday. So, guess what I'm reading? I'm over a hundred pages into it. I love the short stories, but the things between them are sort of boring.

I'm gonna have to fly through it though so I can read both the BC books before the deadline too.