Currently Reading[views:9522][posts:85]_______________________________ [Oct 22,2006 11:54pm - CNV ""] [img] and it rules so far!!! |
| _____________________________ [Oct 23,2006 3:51am - Dar ""] Looks good to me |
| _____________________________ [Oct 23,2006 4:00am - Dar ""] [img] for me some stuff I dig some less so |
| _______________________________ [Oct 23,2006 10:38am - Yeti ""] i am reading The Two Towers. |
| _____________________________________ [Oct 23,2006 10:40am - paganmegan ""] The Nibelungenlied |
| ___________________________________ [Oct 23,2006 10:41am - brian_dc ""] Reading "Only Revolutions" by Mark Z. Danielewski [img] it's pretty out there. |
| ________________________________________ [Oct 23,2006 10:43am - brianpeepers ""] wish i had the patience to read. maybe it would make me smarter? |
| _________________________________ [Oct 23,2006 10:46am - xmikex ""] brian_dc said:Reading "Only Revolutions" by Mark Z. Danielewski [img] it's pretty out there. What do you think of it? I was a HUGE fan of House of Leaves, and I was dying for Danielewski to put something new out, so much so that I spent an hour trying to order The Fifty Year Sword (a book he wrote and released only in the Netherlands 500 copies in Dutch 500 in English) off a Dutch website. I went to Borders to buy Only Revolutions, read a half a dozen pages and just got mad. Is there any solid prose in the whole book or is it all weird poetic stuff? |
| _________________________________ [Oct 23,2006 10:48am - xmikex ""] I'm trying to read James Joyce "Portrait of An Artist as a Young Man" but it's taking a back seat to GRE studying. Recently I've read some pretty great stuff though: Tom Perotta "Little Children' (10x better than the movie) James Baldwin "Go Tell it on the Mountain" John Fante "Full of Life" John Fante "1939 Was a bad Year" Charles Bukowski "Factotum" |
| _____________________________________________ [Oct 23,2006 11:04am - FuckIsMySignature ""] Just finished the Dark Tower series from Stephen King. Absolutely amazing. Now I'm reading Catcher In the Rye - which aint bad. |
| ___________________________________ [Oct 23,2006 11:07am - brian_dc ""] xmikex said:brian_dc said:Reading "Only Revolutions" by Mark Z. Danielewski [img] it's pretty out there. What do you think of it? I was a HUGE fan of House of Leaves, and I was dying for Danielewski to put something new out, so much so that I spent an hour trying to order The Fifty Year Sword (a book he wrote and released only in the Netherlands 500 copies in Dutch 500 in English) off a Dutch website. I went to Borders to buy Only Revolutions, read a half a dozen pages and just got mad. Is there any solid prose in the whole book or is it all weird poetic stuff? I kind of feel the same way as you. I think the only reason I'm still reading it is because I'm waiting for it to come together somehow. I don't know whether or not to just stop reading the historical stuff on the side along with it or not...I think if I did that I might be able to follow the parallels in the two parts better. |
| ___________________________________ [Oct 23,2006 11:08am - brian_dc ""] oh, but it's all poetic stuff. I haven't found any real prose in there yet. |
| ____________________________________ [Oct 23,2006 11:11am - dreadkill ""] i don't have time to read right now, but i'll probably pick up a book to read in january. |
| __________________________________ [Oct 23,2006 11:13am - Anthony ""] I'm reading a book about the Coelocanth called A Fish Caught in Time, it rules. |
| _________________________________________ [Oct 23,2006 11:15am - brad weymouth ""] Demon Haunted World-Carl Sagan |
| _________________________________________ [Oct 23,2006 12:16pm - DestroyYouAlot ""] [img] |
| __________________________________ [Oct 23,2006 12:27pm - dunwich ""] In the Lion's Court: Power, Ambition and Sudden Death in the Reign of Henry VIII by Derek Wilson |
| _______________________________ [Oct 23,2006 12:37pm - Yeti ""] FuckIsMySignature said:Just finished the Dark Tower series from Stephen King. Absolutely amazing. Now I'm reading Catcher In the Rye - which aint bad. i recently finished "Wizard and Glass" and it was fucking amazing. there is still so much fucking reading left to finish the series. |
| _______________________________________ [Oct 23,2006 12:57pm - BlackoutRick ""] xmikex said:I'm trying to read James Joyce "Portrait of An Artist as a Young Man" but it's taking a back seat to GRE studying. Recently I've read some pretty great stuff though: Tom Perotta "Little Children' (10x better than the movie) James Baldwin "Go Tell it on the Mountain" John Fante "Full of Life" John Fante "1939 Was a bad Year" Charles Bukowski "Factotum" Bukowski Rules!!!! Go rent Barfly with Mickey Rourke. Loosely based on Charles. |
| _____________________________________________ [Oct 23,2006 12:59pm - FuckIsMySignature ""] Wolves of the Calla was probably my favorite in the series |
| ________________________________ [Oct 23,2006 1:02pm - xmikex ""] BlackoutRick said:xmikex said:I'm trying to read James Joyce "Portrait of An Artist as a Young Man" but it's taking a back seat to GRE studying. Recently I've read some pretty great stuff though: Tom Perotta "Little Children' (10x better than the movie) James Baldwin "Go Tell it on the Mountain" John Fante "Full of Life" John Fante "1939 Was a bad Year" Charles Bukowski "Factotum" Bukowski Rules!!!! Go rent Barfly with Mickey Rourke. Loosely based on Charles. I have the Bukowski "Born into This" documentary, and he pretty much said he hated the Barfly movie. I haven't seen it myself. I'm kind of scared to see the Factotum movie. |
| _________________________________________ [Oct 23,2006 1:06pm - giggityfuckoff ""] i'm ready for a drink |
| ________________________________________________ [Oct 23,2006 1:07pm - babyshakernotloggedin ""] [img] this comic book kicks ass im going to get the second volume in a few minutes |
| ____________________________________________ [Oct 23,2006 1:11pm - FuckIsMySignature ""] yay for zombies! |
| _______________________________________ [Oct 23,2006 1:42pm - y_ddraig_goch ""] [img] better than the movie |
| ________________________________ [Oct 23,2006 2:14pm - xmikex ""] brian_dc said:xmikex said:brian_dc said:Reading "Only Revolutions" by Mark Z. Danielewski it's pretty out there. What do you think of it? I was a HUGE fan of House of Leaves, and I was dying for Danielewski to put something new out, so much so that I spent an hour trying to order The Fifty Year Sword (a book he wrote and released only in the Netherlands 500 copies in Dutch 500 in English) off a Dutch website. I went to Borders to buy Only Revolutions, read a half a dozen pages and just got mad. Is there any solid prose in the whole book or is it all weird poetic stuff? I kind of feel the same way as you. I think the only reason I'm still reading it is because I'm waiting for it to come together somehow. I don't know whether or not to just stop reading the historical stuff on the side along with it or not...I think if I did that I might be able to follow the parallels in the two parts better. Danielewski is a great prose writer, and it's really disappointing to see him put out a book that doesn't demonstrate that. I mean, Borges is obviously a huge huge influence on him, and Borges was always pretty far out there, but the guy at least put together recognizable sentences. House of Leaves afforded him a lot of creative license (I guess he had to walk away from a couple publishers intitially with HoL because they refused to do the weird typesetting) and it seemed like he used it all to put together a show-offy pile of shit instead of the real novel we'd all been - very patiently - waiting for him to write. I dunno, you tell me. I'll probably pick up a copy of it at some point, but I just didn't want to pay $30 when I'm sure there'll be PLENTY of used copies on Amazon in a month. |
| ________________________________ [Oct 23,2006 3:13pm - Ryan_M ""] I've been wanting to read "The Shining" again. |
| _____________________________ [Oct 23,2006 3:15pm - pam ""] [img] |
| _____________________________ [Oct 23,2006 3:16pm - pam ""] Also: yay for book threads. |
| _____________________________________ [Oct 23,2006 3:20pm - Allah That ""] Zarathustra's Secret |
| ________________________________ [Oct 23,2006 3:27pm - xmikex ""] Anyone else hate Maya Angelou as much as I do? |
| _____________________________ [Oct 23,2006 3:27pm - pam ""] xmikex said:Anyone else hate Maya Angelou as much as I do? Right here. |
| ______________________________ [Oct 23,2006 3:30pm - Yeti ""] for a minute i was thinking of Jade Angelou, the daughter of Sean Connery's character in "The Rock". hahahahahahahaha that movie is awesome. Womack?! i should have known you piece of sssshhhit. |
| ________________________________ [Oct 23,2006 3:36pm - xmikex ""] Yeti said:for a minute i was thinking of Jade Angelou, the daughter of Sean Connery's character in "The Rock". hahahahahahahaha that movie is awesome. Womack?! i should have known you piece of sssshhhit. What a glorious film. Sean Connery wipes his ass with "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" |
| __________________________________ [Oct 23,2006 3:41pm - niccolai ""] DestroyYouAlot said:[img] I used to have the same book and back when I was like 11 I used to jerk off to all the female monsters who have crudely sketch boobs. there was a sphinx looking chick in the back with a nice pencil'd-on rack. She was my favorate. |
| ____________________________________ [Oct 23,2006 3:43pm - anonymous ""] pam said:xmikex said:Anyone else hate Maya Angelou as much as I do? Right here. have you ever formed an original opinion in your entire life? |
| _____________________________ [Oct 23,2006 3:48pm - pam ""] So I have to like a terrible, pretentious, overrated writer or I am unoriginal now? Why don't you grow a name before you speak. |
| ______________________________ [Oct 23,2006 11:51pm - Dar ""] Bukowski is king That Joyce book's on my list too, but I bet it is trying huh? I haven't seen Factotum yet either, I was also scared but my father (who is the only person I know who loves Bukowski more than I do) loved it so I think it's worth checking out |
| _________________________________________________ [Oct 24,2006 4:56am - animalrampage in spain ""] trying to get through the hot zone. It was reccomended to me by a girl who said that it was like 1984 with gore. So far, there is just gore and no '84. |
| ________________________________________ [Oct 24,2006 8:02am - VoidExpression ""] y_ddraig_goch said:[img] better than the movie Nice! So are all of the books in English now? I'm going through My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist by Leyner and Leopold's Ghost, a pretty cursory account of Leopold's rape of Africa. |
| ________________________________ [Oct 24,2006 9:11am - xmikex ""] Dar said:Bukowski is king That Joyce book's on my list too, but I bet it is trying huh? I haven't seen Factotum yet either, I was also scared but my father (who is the only person I know who loves Bukowski more than I do) loved it so I think it's worth checking out Portrait of An Artist... is a little trying, yes. There's a lot of Irish political history, and coloquialisms used, and you have to constantly refer to the footnotes. Joyce has got some pretty interesting stuff to say if you can get past all that. |
| ____________________________________ [Oct 24,2006 12:59pm - ariavette ""] Yeti said:for a minute i was thinking of Jade Angelou, the daughter of Sean Connery's character in "The Rock". hahahahahahahaha that movie is awesome. Womack?! i should have known you piece of sssshhhit. how can you like that nick cage is in it? |
| ______________________________ [Oct 24,2006 1:00pm - Yeti ""] its not the movies i hate, its Nicolas Cage. i like alot of movies he was in, i just think he was terrible in them. |
| ___________________________________ [Oct 24,2006 1:04pm - ariavette ""] ahh i see. .what others? con air?face off? both pretty good movies.. but while i like nick cage.. i agree the acting is pretty mediocre in most of his movies |
| __________________________________________ [Oct 24,2006 1:54pm - SinisterMinister ""] I know it sounds cliche, but I took it from the BornSoVile collection. [img] |
| ________________________________________ [Oct 24,2006 3:02pm - Granny_Monster ""] CNV said:[img] and it rules so far!!! Good to know! I finished Apocalypse Culture just recently and have been interested in checking out some other Feral House publications. I'm also interested in checking out The Omnivore's Dilema. The author was on the Colbert Report a while back and had some interesting things to say about how our diets are (d)evolving. I'm also reading Dante's Divine Comedy again, although this particular translation is a bit dissapointing so far. |
| ____________________________________ [Oct 24,2006 3:20pm - RichHorror ""] A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti Buddhism - Plain and Simple by Steve Hagen Zen Keys byThich Nhat Hanh |
| ______________________________ [Oct 24,2006 3:23pm - Yeti ""] SinisterMinister said:I know it sounds cliche, but I took it from the BornSoVile collection. [img] is that any easier to read than Beyond Good and Evil? |
| _____________________________________ [Oct 24,2006 4:26pm - BSV@school ""] yeti - it's a shorter work altogther. relentless Nietzsche nonetheless. |
| ____________________________________ [Oct 24,2006 7:16pm - anonymous ""] CABAL- Clive Barker Movie=Night Breed |