What Are You Reading?

[phantasmagorovich]

Oh, and for History check out Oswald Spengler's The Decline Of The West.

[futuresailors]

I've been on a Haruki Murakami bender as of late. Now I'm trying to track down Dance Dance Dance...

It's alright.

He's really hit or miss isn't he?

[PanicProne]

Started it yesterday. "The Earth Hums In B Flat" by Mari Strachan. So far so good.

[smile_man]

Recently started the Blind Assassin and Journey to the End of the Night.

[hclapp219]

Just started Franny and Zooey. It's been sitting on my shelf for the longest time, so I figured it was finally time to read it. We'll see how it goes; I liked Catcher in the Rye when I read it five years ago, so I have high hopes for this.

[floating opera]

Recently started the Blind Assassin and Journey to the End of the Night.

^ love Celine !!!

recent reads for me were Idris Shah/the Sufis & Unknown Legends of Rock 'n' Roll/Richie Unterberger. started Vineland earlier today & i'll probably read that the Collected Prose of Walt Whitman Vol 2 & a book on conspiracy theories. i also tried to check out/place a hold on Confusion is Next but apparently my library card expired December 1st 2009...

[phantasmagorovich]

Salinger and Celine ftw!!

I loved Franny and Zooey but admittedly it was years ago when I read it.
Journey to the end of the night was not that long ago and it has a quality I love about long and complex books. After a hundred or so pages the whole thing turns into a whirl, like being stoned. I can not remember what it was all about but I do remember some scenes in it. Just like the best nights, those books fall out of my conscious mind and stay somewhere in the subconscious.

Anyone read Only Revolutions by Mark Z. Danielewski? House of Leaves is one of my favourite books, but somehow this one scares me. It seems like a monolith of complexity. I have it sitting on my shelf, looking at me and I wonder what it thinks.

[Gunner Recall]

Anyone read Only Revolutions by Mark Z. Danielewski? House of Leaves is one of my favourite books, but somehow this one scares me. It seems like a monolith of complexity. I have it sitting on my shelf, looking at me and I wonder what it thinks.

It's a rough read, and thinking back I'm not sure I remember exactly what happened
I probably need to go back and read it all at once instead of over a period of months.

It's all in a poetry/stream of consciousness style. A radical departure from house of leaves.

There is a familiar element to it though...it builds a sort of distrust in the characters retelling the story, a bit like how you had lingering doubts about Johnny (or Zampano for that matter) being a credible source.
The same story is told twice, but from two different points of view...and it's never entirely clear which one was accurate, as neither really adds up in the end

[CBGB]

Just finished Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat... very droll

[Companda]

I just finished "Secret Rendezvous" by Kōbō Abe. It had everything you could want in a book - sex, horse-men, sex with horse-men, sort-of-sometimes-melty girls, sex with sort-of-sometimes-melty girls, penis machines, amateur sleuthing. Everything.

Only thing is, now I've read every book that I own. Need more.

[smallsnd/bigsnd]

tales of a shaman's apprentice, by mark plotkin, ph.d
no one belongs here more than you, by miranda july

[ashdown]

oryx and crake by atwood and just finished up once a runner by john l parker jr again.

[smile_man]

He's really hit or miss isn't he?

Trufax, couldn't agree more.

[culturejam]

Naomi Klein's No Logo is an essential read.

Yep. As are "Culture Jam" and "Fast Food Nation".

[deadbeatriot]

He's really hit or miss isn't he?

Trufax, couldn't agree more.

hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world was great, though.