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Just started this a few days ago:

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Amazing so far! I've been sitting on this copy for over a year...shoulda started it sooner.
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I'm making slow measured progress through PKD's Exegesis right now and ripping through A Scanner Darkly while I'm at it.

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multi-book!!

i'm back into Children Of Men. it's...... even more bleak than the movie. because it's first person. and the main character is NOT a happy or even good person. it's ok. kinda making myself keep going at this point. it's kinda interesting, hope it gets better.

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I broke my post-apocalyptic streak...shit was gettin me down bro. This shit right here is amazing. I highly recommend it to anyone looking for something a little different. inb4 brian eno
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Completed Design drafts of the new project :!!!:

And I'm rereading this masterpiece:
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Starting Xavier de Maistres "voyage atour de ma chambre" only read the preface, but already loving it.
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I just finished "The Road."

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McSpunckle wrote:I just finished "The Road."

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RR Bigman wrote:Image

I broke my post-apocalyptic streak...shit was gettin me down bro. This shit right here is amazing. I highly recommend it to anyone looking for something a little different. inb4 brian eno

want to read this.

currently reading brief interviews with hideous men. just finished a portrait of the artist as a young man. i fucking love a portrait of the artist.
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James Joyce always looks like a badass.
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unownunown wrote:want to read this.

currently reading brief interviews with hideous men. just finished a portrait of the artist as a young man. i fucking love a portrait of the artist.


David Foster Wallace is great. If you haven't already, I'd suggest reading Infinite Jest. It's biblical in page count, but well worth the work in the end.
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actually i was reading infinite jest ages ago but i haven't picked it up in a while. it sits on my shelf taunting me. i think i'm going to attempt to actually do a dedicated read through once i'm done with brief interviews. i love dfw's style.
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Haven't started it yet, but this is next in my queue:

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Don't really know what it's about, but it was given to me with much praise.
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I heard it was good, so.


I read that book a couple years ago. Bukowski is pretty dang unlikeable in that, so much so that it made me try stop all self-loathing/misanthropic attitudes. Cool book, though. I like reading other people's lives.
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im almost done with ham on rye, i like it. second book of his ive read. got hat one and post office for christmas, read post office in one night, loved it.

im about to finish hunger games, started it about 12 hours ago haha havent put it down since, the hype was true
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