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Jedi |
Big day at the bookstore today!
I bought the new, big, fat Einstein biography. Sini, who is out of school and has tons more free time than me, bought: Crime and Punishment, Thank you for Smoking, Dubliners, The Sirens of Titan, I Claudius. He is almost done with The Trial. He's a pretty fast reader, but I think Doestoevsky is going to slow him down a bit!  Although, an English lit teacher friend of mine claims that Crime and Punishment would be the easiest book in the world if the characters were all named Frank, and John, and Bruce, etc. --------------- My basic objection to religion is not that it isn't true; I like plenty of things that aren't true. It's that religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. -Philip Pullman |
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I just started The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño. It's been compared to the films Amores Perros and Y Tu Mama Tambien as well as to Henry Miller, and The Dirty Havana Trilogy. I'm not far enough along, but I'll update.
--------------- My basic objection to religion is not that it isn't true; I like plenty of things that aren't true. It's that religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. -Philip Pullman |
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Bought the dark river - book two of twelve hawks anti establishment /scoiety trilogy on friday, finished it by sunday
started 13 by richard morgaon the lightening theif by richard riordan and a book called vellum All in various statges of being read |
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I just finished 100 Years of Solitude the other day (Gabriel Garcia Marquez). Wow. What a read.
Since then I picked up Essays in Zen Buddhism by D.T. Suzuki. This one's also looking up, also maybe not with the fireworks and the emotion of Cien Anyos, but hey, they can't all do that. It's still the most I've enjoyed nonfiction in a while. |
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haha! Yeah, those multiple Russian names and the diminutive and whatnot confused the bejeezus outta me. Sinister's books are all favs of mine except Thank you for Smoking and I Claudius, both of which I haven't gotten to yet. That Bolano book sounds interesting. That also reminds me I need to check some Henry Miller out. |
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I'm a third of the way through Philip Roth's The Plot Against America.
Roth is a long time favourite of mine, but I am finding this a little long winded. Roth spends an inordinate amount of time relating details of the central family, caught up in this insane alternative US. Roth clearly has never had any skill with genre style writing, he is always too concerned with character to race into plot and broad strokes, but I would appreciate in an alterna-history a bit more Robert Harris, and a little less Dickens. Still, its great writing, and paints an intensely plausible past. Oh, could I feel as I have felt, or be what I have been, Or weep as I could once have wept, o'er many a vanished scene; As springs in deserts found seem sweet, all brackish though they be, So, midst the withered waste of life, those tears would flow to me. |
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"Forum Moderator" Super Bad-Ass Jedi |
 How long did it take you (the other day?), and when are you gonna hit it up again?"Naked Woman, Naked Man Where did you get that nice sun tan?" |
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I urge you to stick with it. It's ultimately quite satisfying. Of course, I haven't really liked Roth for years, so maybe I'm not the best judge. I lost patience with him around the second Zuckermann book. He seems so terribly self absorbed. The Human Stain, in particular, seemed icky to me. --------------- My basic objection to religion is not that it isn't true; I like plenty of things that aren't true. It's that religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. -Philip Pullman |
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Jedi |
Chabon's "The Yiddish Policeman's Union."
As expected, excellent. ------ Aren't there any girls out their who like good music? I need to and want to meet them. My favorite bands are Overkill River, The Nife, Songs:Ohio, and Nuetral Milk Hotel. Please let me know if your into indy music and like to go to show's and drink beer's and makeout. |
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I have just finished Engleby by Sebastian Faulkes. I looked it up on Metacritic to confirm that others thought it as good as I did and was amazed to find no mention of Sebastian Faulkes's books there at all. Has no-one read Birdsong. One of the greats. anyway Engleby comes highly recommended.
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Oh, good for you. Sini and I read that a few months ago. Let me know what you think. --------------- My basic objection to religion is not that it isn't true; I like plenty of things that aren't true. It's that religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. -Philip Pullman |
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What am I currently reading? Nothing, but I just read Harry Potter 7: Revenge of Harry Potter (or is it Son of Potter? or Potter Strikes Back?
 )☺☻☺☻☺☻☺☻☺☻☺☻☺ Go Liminal State Bobcats! |
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say nothing, sin....say nothing......(slithers away with hands over ears and blindfold on)
Oh, could I feel as I have felt, or be what I have been, Or weep as I could once have wept, o'er many a vanished scene; As springs in deserts found seem sweet, all brackish though they be, So, midst the withered waste of life, those tears would flow to me. |
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I'll spill the secrets if I must. Even if ish strangles me....
☺☻☺☻☺☻☺☻☺☻☺☻☺ Go Liminal State Bobcats! |
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Jedi |
Thats it!!!
I'm boycotting all sin's posts until I read the damn book!!  Oh, could I feel as I have felt, or be what I have been, Or weep as I could once have wept, o'er many a vanished scene; As springs in deserts found seem sweet, all brackish though they be, So, midst the withered waste of life, those tears would flow to me. |
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Jedi |
I'd mail you a copy, but will China confiscate it?
 ☺☻☺☻☺☻☺☻☺☻☺☻☺ Go Liminal State Bobcats! |
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Jedi |
Dang. This thread has been fallow for a while. I desperately tried to like Roberto Bolaño's The Savage Detectives. I stalled about 1/3 of the way into it. It's dead dull. So, I went back to two old favorites, with a brief detour to read "Then We came to the End," a moderately funny send up of Madison Ave. I'm re-reading "The Three Musketeers," and "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintence."
--------------- My basic objection to religion is not that it isn't true; I like plenty of things that aren't true. It's that religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. -Philip Pullman |
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I think I'm going to start Concerning The Spiritual In Art by Kandinsky. I've had it forever, and it's pretty short. He was influenced by Madame Blavatsky, and I've read the book borrows from theosophical ideas. Kandinsky may be my favorite artist, especially from about 1905-1915, which chronicles his progression toward his abstract expressionist works.
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Jedi |
I, and especially Sinister, have always loved Kandinsky. The whole constructivist movement, really. I don't know much about him as a character, however. Let me know what you think!
Parenthetically, I've always thought he was an artist who reproduces poorly. If you haven't seen his works in person, I think you haven't really seen them. I know that's true for many (most?) artists, but I think its especially true for him. --------------- My basic objection to religion is not that it isn't true; I like plenty of things that aren't true. It's that religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. -Philip Pullman |
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I am loving me some Dostoevsky. The Idiot right now.
☺☻☺☻☺☻☺☻☺☻☺☻☺ Go Liminal State Bobcats! |
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