Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2013 10:04 am
aeonrevolution wrote:Just started trying to read House of Leaves. Wish me luck.
It's never too late to stop doing bad things.
It's never too late to stop doing bad things.
Page 61 of 152
It's never too late to stop doing bad things.
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2013 10:53 am
D.o.S. wrote:futuresailors wrote:And you're Irish! Home of probably the only Great Writer of the past century.
James Joyce is rad, but 1913-2013 has a whole host of Great Writers.
Lots of great writers for sure, but i think the criteria for getting them caps is influencing the course of literature . Alright, and I guess Faulkner makes the cut.Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2013 5:22 pm
D.o.S. wrote:aeonrevolution wrote:Just started trying to read House of Leaves. Wish me luck.
It's never too late to stop doing bad things.
I enjoyed it when I was 20. if you wanna go all footnotes, go infinite jest.
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 2:06 pm
futuresailors wrote:And you're Irish! Home of probably the only Great Writer of the past century.
I don't think I've read any James Joyce since my high school days, or the Irish equivalent. My ex-girlfriend loved Irish literature. I met her when she was visiting my home town of Sligo where Yeats was buried.
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 2:30 pm
Let us not forget James Joyce's crazy-ass love letters.
http://loveletters.tribe.net/thread/fce ... fa6ac7142d
Her name was Barnacle...she had to be down for some dirty stuff.
http://loveletters.tribe.net/thread/fce ... fa6ac7142d
Her name was Barnacle...she had to be down for some dirty stuff.
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 10:41 pm
So I finally finished The Road. The last paragraph is so beautifully crafted.
Cormac McCarthy wrote:Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 10:50 pm
That book smashed me.
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 1:46 am
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 11:12 am
Reading the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series by Tad Williams. Halfway through book 2 so far. It's good but has frustratingly long slow parts.
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 1:05 pm
jfrey wrote:Reading the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series by Tad Williams. Halfway through book 2 so far. It's good but has frustratingly long slow parts.
Yeah, I kind of felt the same about the Otherland series.
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 1:48 pm
Twangasaurus wrote:jfrey wrote:Reading the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series by Tad Williams. Halfway through book 2 so far. It's good but has frustratingly long slow parts.
Yeah, I kind of felt the same about the Otherland series.
I really liked the Otherland series, but I didn't finish it and now I can't remember where I am, so I would probably have to start it over.
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 2:12 am
kbithecrowing wrote:So I finally finished The Road. The last paragraph is so beautifully crafted.Cormac McCarthy wrote:Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.
God, that book is awesome. I read a bunch of his others. There's always some passages that are so beautifully astounding. There's some shit in Blood Meridian that is mesmerising.
Reading Lunar Park by Brett Easton Ellis for the second time.
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 10:12 pm
I'm reading Rant by Chuck Palahniuk for the 3rd time. Twisted stuff.
Other recommendations:
And The Ass Saw The Angel - Nick Cave
House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski
Jasper Jones - Craig Silvey
Other recommendations:
And The Ass Saw The Angel - Nick Cave
House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski
Jasper Jones - Craig Silvey
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 11:54 pm
A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman, a history book about life in the "disastrous" 14th century when plague, war and all forms of awfulness were at a peak. i've read it before, and it always makes me feel better about my current circumstances.
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 5:12 am
dubkitty wrote:A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman, a history book about life in the "disastrous" 14th century when plague, war and all forms of awfulness were at a peak. i've read it before, and it always makes me feel better about my current circumstances.
Sounds like it should be mandatory reading for all those idiots that glorify the medieval age.
I hope there is a translation.