blicero wrote:haha reading gr and house of leaves at the same time... that's pretty hardcore
anyone read any cormac mccarthy books? blood meridian is probably my favourite book (up there with confederacy of dunces at least). it's just so incredibly violent but at the same time starkly beautiful. mccarthy's prose is unparalleled imo
"...the slant black shapes of the mounted men stenciled across the stone with a definition austere and implacable like shapes capable of violating their covenant with the flesh that authored them and continuing autonomous across the naked rock without reference to sun or man or god."
badass.
I definitely have to re-read Blood Meridian. Took me a little while to get use to his style.
Success has many fathers, but failure is always an orphan.
just finished The Dharma Bums. it was okay. not my favorite. now I'm reading The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. loved the first 5 Murakami books I read, so why not read another?
Is that book any good? I've heard it was Harry Potter for adults, not in a magical way but how EVERYONE loves to read them. I'm very skeptical about them because a newspaper told me that I should be reading these and not Ulysses, because it's too hard for summer reading.
I've enjoyed the series, this one being the last of three. Everybody I have suggested it to has also enjoyed them. I'm about to go see the 2nd movie, the 3rd I'll catch in October. I think they are remaking them in Hollywood right now, hope they don't butcher them.
smile_man wrote:Would you say they are just fun to read? Or are they "good" novels?
Not quite sure I know how to answer that? Umm, I enjoy reading them? They're not "diet" or "light" novels if that's what you mean, there is plenty of substance. Is that what you mean?
Sorry, I suppose my wording was a bit off. I meant to ask if they had any substance, or if they were just entertainment. That's not to say that those two can't go together.
It takes me a long time to finish any book because usually half way through I will hear about another book/author that I would like to read so I go out and buy that and start reading it instead.
Right now I'm reading A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe, and Ugly Man by Dennis Cooper, it's fucking fantastic.
Last summer I was on a major Bill Bryson kick...read just about every book he ever wrote...some more than once. Still haven't found many books that are like his..except A year in Provence by Peter Mayle. I love these kind of funny/insightful travel memoirs. Also, tried reading "Don't Go Near The Water" but just couldnt really get into it may try again one of these days..if I can ever find a copy again.
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet. About 20 pages in and
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may try again one of these days..if I can ever find a copy again.
