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Re: What Are You Reading?
Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 3:41 pm
by thelonelyweeblo
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.
Re: What Are You Reading?
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 6:29 am
by thezeng
Re: What Are You Reading?
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 10:49 am
by blahquaker
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?
Re: What Are You Reading?
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 11:11 am
by gururyan
Re: What Are You Reading?
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 12:56 pm
by smile_man
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.
Re: What Are You Reading?
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 12:59 pm
by gururyan
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.
Re: What Are You Reading?
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 1:01 pm
by smile_man
Would you say they are just fun to read? Or are they "good" novels?
Re: What Are You Reading?
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 1:21 pm
by gururyan
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?
Re: What Are You Reading?
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 2:23 pm
by smile_man
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.
Re: What Are You Reading?
Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2010 5:48 am
by phantasmagorovich
Neil Stephenson - Diamond Age.
I like this a lot.
Re: What Are You Reading?
Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2010 7:40 am
by smile_man
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.
I finished House of Leaves last week.
Re: What Are You Reading?
Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2010 8:46 am
by phantasmagorovich
You, dear sir, have sparkling literary tastes.
I thank you for bringing Dennis Cooper to my attention.
Re: What Are You Reading?
Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2010 8:08 pm
by StudioShutIn
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.
Re: What Are You Reading?
Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2010 3:08 am
by CBGB
Fernando Pessoa,
The Book of Disquiet. About 20 pages in and
Re: What Are You Reading?
Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2010 3:30 am
by tuffteef
crackpot by john waters
