Yo it's June People!

"The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath" by Sylvia Plath

I thought there is a June thread, the month of Karbunkle or something like that wasn't it?

[QUOTE=PGoutis01]You guys - it's in teh middle of June yo. Why the hell is everybody still posting in the May thread?

I am currently flipping through -

The Redneck Manifesto by Jim Goad. It's an awesome book with a lot of awesome facts. Everybody should read this book.[/QUOTE]

Redneck Manifesto is one of my favorites. Goad is a crazy motherfucker.

Right now I'm reading Infinite Jest.

Taking a break at the moment to read "Ecstasy" by Irvine Welsh.

The Stranger is rocking.

Naked Lunch, Franney & Zooey, The Sunflower, and Three Sisters.

I read Tricky Business by Dave Berry last weekend at the airport to and from Austin, it was pretty funny, though not quite as funny as Big Trouble

I'm currently reading
[B]
The Book of Disquiet[/B] - [I]Fernando Pessoa[/I]

after that my list will consist of these few books before touching anything else.

[B]The Favorite Game[/B] - [I]Leonard Cohen[/I]
[B]The Cosmic Puppets[/B] -[I] Philip K. Dick[/I]
[B]On Writing[/B] - [I]Stephen King[/I]
[B]A Man Without A Country[/B] - [I]Kurt Vonnegut[/I]
[B]The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death[/B] - [I]Corinne May Botz[/I]

I just finished [i]Fear of Flying[/i] by Erica Jong. The whole thing left me very unsettled.

[QUOTE=jane s.]I just finished [i]Fear of Flying[/i] by Erica Jong. The whole thing left me very unsettled.[/QUOTE]
so it created a fear of flying in you ?

Nah I always had that.

[QUOTE=mikandrewz]I thought there is a June thread, the month of Karbunkle or something like that wasn't it?[/QUOTE]
yeah i started that one in GD because i wanted to make an ego-strokin thread about myself but i didn't want it to be [i]just[/i] about that so i threw in the what book are ya reading stuff because i saw no one had made one yet

[QUOTE=jane s.]Nah I always had that.[/QUOTE]
what caused your settleness to become ajar then ?

[QUOTE=jane s.]Nah I always had that.[/QUOTE]

I wanted to also say something witty about how it created a fear of men in me, but then I realized I already had that too.

[b]Guerilla Marketing[/b], Jay Conrad Levinson
[b]Way of the Guerilla[/b], Jay Conrad Levinson
[b]Guerilla Beach Party USA[/b], Jay Conrad Levinson
[b]Guerilla Marketing vs. Gamera[/b], Jay Conrad Levinson
[b]Guerilla One-Armed Swordsman vs. Guerilla Master of the Flying Guillotine[/b], Jay Conrad Levinson
[b]Hey We Got a Buttload of Guerillas[/b], Jay Conrad Levinson

thats a lotta gorillas !

L.A. Confidential, and I now remember why I am reluctant to start James Ellroy novels.

JPod
A Long Way Down
The Acid House

I read Dermaphoria and In The Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami...still reading The Idiot by the big D.
Probably going to re-read Ham On Rye cause I feel really Bukowski-ish and things. In fact I'm in a real re-read mood, I'd like to read The Rules Of Attraction again pretty soon.

About to finish 'Haunted" (I know, late to the party)
Next on the docket:

A Scanner Darkly
Kiss Me Judas
Deadeye Dick - Vonnegut
Parts of "Extrodinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds"

I'm currently reading....

[B]The Trial[/B]- Franz Kafka
[B]Myths of Sisyphus[/B]-Albert Camus
[B]Brief Candles and other Short Stories[/B]-Aldous Huxley

The Pack, Serenity Falls Book 2 -by James A Moore

[QUOTE=Federov]JPod
A Long Way Down
The Acid House[/QUOTE]

A Long Way Down is one of my favorite books as I actually read myself into depression with it. Also, is The Acid House good? I found it online and am in search of it now although I highly doubt my library will have it. Currently on a David Sedaris kick thanks to a recommendation by a random person I used to go to school with. Just finished Me Talk Pretty One Day and Dress Your Family in Corduoroy and Denim. Next on the list: Barrel Fever and Naked.

Alright, the stranger rocked. All around. No more existententialism for a while though, because from what I hear, this was some of the best and it's hard to find good lit along those lines.

Heading to the library to pay off that overdue fee and get something.

[QUOTE=188416]I read Dermaphoria and In The Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami...still reading The Idiot by the big D.
Probably going to re-read Ham On Rye cause I feel really Bukowski-ish and things. In fact I'm in a real re-read mood, I'd like to read The Rules Of Attraction again pretty soon.[/QUOTE]I feel you about the re-reading feel. My re-read books are in the bathroom, always. If it's there, you know it is one of my favorites. Currently, KISS ME, JUDAS and ANN FRANK'S DIARY and a National Geo Graphic that happens to be a bad ass issue

btw amy, i remember that you are a Bukowski fan and his work has influenced yours and ive read a few of your reviews and always kind of wonder when your work would be upped.. let me know when it is. later and good luck-
kabol

Legacies ~ F. Paul Wilson

This Repairman Jack is pretty popular according to the critic remarks on the book. Stephen King was president of the fan club.

Finished a collection of [I]Sam Shepherd's [/I]plays.
[I]Decadence [/I]a "play" (more like frantic feverish poetry) by Steven Berkoff (didn't read it, saw it performed, made me drool.)
[I]Bleed into me [/I](the opening story Halloween has neck breaking impact in a matter of THREE pages!)
Two hundred pages into [I]The Idiot[/I]...has to be one of the funniest books I've ever read.
And still waiting for the [I]Bird is Gone: a Manifesto[/I].

Just finished Elmore Leonard's 'Split Images.' I haven't been reading as many books the past week or two, I've been more active in the workshop (finally) and that takes a lot of my reading time.

That and trying to write, raise two kids, work, date, etc.

Thought I'd pick up with AM Homes' 'Things You Should Know' again, have several stories in there I haven't read yet. Also have about half of 'If the River Was Whiskey' by T.C. Boyle going.

In the on-deck circle, novel wise, it's either try a J.G. Ballard book (I have 'Super-Cannes,' but don't know if it's a good leaping off point for him), or do 'Amsterdam' by Ian MacEwan.

[QUOTE=JKabol]

btw amy, i remember that you are a Bukowski fan and his work has influenced yours and ive read a few of your reviews and always kind of wonder when your work would be upped.. let me know when it is. later and good luck-
kabol[/QUOTE]
by "upped" im [i]guessing[/i] you mean her submitting something to the workshop? and not Upped to Bukowski's level of writing, because, not to say she's not good but damn thats a tall order!

[QUOTE=Dr.Jekyll&Mr.Hyde]Finished a collection of [I]Sam Shepherd's [/I]plays.
[I]Decadence [/I]a "play" (more like frantic feverish poetry) by Steven Berkoff (didn't read it, saw it performed, made me drool.)
[I]Bleed into me [/I](the opening story Halloween has neck breaking impact in a matter of THREE pages!)
Two hundred pages into [I]The Idiot[/I]...has to be one of the funniest books I've ever read.
And still waiting for the [I]Bird is Gone: a Manifesto[/I].[/QUOTE]
did you ever finish that Kafka on the Shore? Murakami isn't it?
is it even about Franz or just a clever title?
thoughts, opinions, blind groundless criticisms?

[QUOTE=nathaniel parker]did you ever finish that Kafka on the Shore? Murakami isn't it?
is it even about Franz or just a clever title?
thoughts, opinions, blind groundless criticisms?[/QUOTE]
oh shit, thanks for reminding me, actually I need to start a thread. I thought you read it! Was expecting good discussion. Anyway, yeah, I need to pull my thoughts together on that one, so will do, where's the mop?

I'm about a third of the way through Wallace's Infinite Jest. I think I'll be trudging my way through this fucker for the next couple of months. Lord, give me strength.

My June reading has consisted of
1984
Hunter S. Thompson's The Proud Highway (Awesome... just got the second volume in the mail today)
Hey! Nostradamus (Half way through and really digging it)
Fahrenheit 451 (For some reason I never read this in school)

Presently reading 'The Sound of No Hands Clapping.'

[QUOTE=Frogwart]

I just finished "This Book Will Save Your Life," by A.M. Homes. First of hers I've been able to get through--I both laughed and cried several times in this one.
[/QUOTE]

What other Homes have you tried? End of Alice and Jack are both excellent, though especially with the former, the subject matter means there's no way it can be a breezy light read like This Book Will Save Your Life.

just finished these:

The Trial- Franz Kafka
Myths of Sisyphus-Albert Camus
Brief Candles and other Short Stories-Aldous Huxley

Currently beginning these:

Metamorphosis-Kafka
High Fidelity-Hornby
Cannery Row-Steinbeck.

[QUOTE=jmizair]just finished these:

The Trial- Franz Kafka
Myths of Sisyphus-Albert Camus
Brief Candles and other Short Stories-Aldous Huxley

Currently beginning these:

Metamorphosis-Kafka
High Fidelity-Hornby
Cannery Row-Steinbeck.[/QUOTE]

(Psst, It's JULY!) You should start a new thread

Not for me and my time traveling machine [B][I]![/I][/B]

[QUOTE=UbikRex]Not for me and my time traveling machine [B][I]![/I][/B][/QUOTE]

You make the baby Nano weep..