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Yep, just another "what are you reading right now" thread...
I just started "All The King's Men" by Robert Penn Warren (or as I like to call him, Bobby P.W-izzarren), I'm 130 pages into it.Almost finished with "The Head Game" by Roger Kahn (a book about pitching in the major leagues). And that's about it for now 
Hmmm...just recently finished the following books:
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien The Trial by Franz Kafka Aesthetics and Politics by Adorno, Brecht, Lukacs, Bloch, et al. Manifestoes of Surrealism by Andre Breton Antonin Artaud: Blows and Bombs by Stephen Barber As For Me and My House by Sinclair Ross
...and a bunch of parts of other books, mostly realist and modernist literature for class.
Just finished Passion is a Fashion(Clash biography) by Pat Gilbert, along with Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas by Thompson, White Noise by Don Delillo, and Shogun by Clavell.
The books I have laying around half-reading and waiting to be finished are:
I was hoping to pickup Player Piano by Vonnegut soon as I somehow missed out on that one; Yes, I am a science fiction nut.
His Holiness, The Pope wrote: Hmmm...just recently finished the following books:
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien The Trial by Franz Kafka Aesthetics and Politics by Adorno, Brecht, Lukacs, Bloch, et al. Manifestoes of Surrealism by Andre Breton Antonin Artaud: Blows and Bombs by Stephen Barber As For Me and My House by Sinclair Ross
...and a bunch of parts of other books, mostly realist and modernist literature for class.
You know what you need Churchy Boy.....a decent bird! ;) Not long finished the Soul City Crew, and I have still about 80 pages of Jarvo's e-males to complete. So that's New Order & Football hooligans, now there's a surprise:D
Shug wrote:
You know what you need Churchy Boy.....a decent bird! ;)
I've got a decent bird. And now that school is out, this kid can run away and spend lots of time with her. 
More cheery summer reading, finishing a book about the search for Timbuktu, and getting ready to start on a bio of Pol Pot.
His Holiness, The Pope wrote: Hmmm...just recently finished the following books:
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
i read this for my literature of the vietnam war class in high school. it made me cry like a baby. tim o'brien even came and spoke to us, which was a treat.
i'm reading 'brideshead revisited' by evelyn waugh as well as several nonfiction books, including 'the making of the atomic bomb' by richard rhodes (i read the sequel, dark sun, but never read this first one) and several books which attack the right-wing media and expose their lies about the left.:D
i've also started reading through 'revolutionaries,' a collection of essays by the 20th century's greatest historian, eric hobsbawm--back in print after 20 years. his history of the 20th century, 'the age of extremes' (the last in a four-part series which starts with the age of revolution in 1789), is a must for history buffs. yes, hobsbawm is a marxist, but he is as critical of soviet communist policy under stalin as he is of capitalism; trotsky would be proud. and he's ninety years old and still going strong!
and i just got the new issue of vanity fair. score!
Nothing too educational these days. Just a good spy thriler, or murder mystery will do. Currently I'm reading an Italian book in German translation by Carmen Iarrera, called Murder in La Scala.
His Holiness, The Pope wrote: Hmmm...just recently finished the following books:
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien The Trial by Franz Kafka Aesthetics and Politics by Adorno, Brecht, Lukacs, Bloch, et al. Manifestoes of Surrealism by Andre Breton Antonin Artaud: Blows and Bombs by Stephen Barber As For Me and My House by Sinclair Ross
...and a bunch of parts of other books, mostly realist and modernist literature for class.
I rhought that the Handmaid's tale was really good
:)
I haven't read anything for a while. The last thing I did read was Awaydays by Kevin Sampson.
The Philosophy of Horror by Noel Carroll The Hidden God: Film and Faith (ed. by Antonio Monda and someone else, published by MoMA) The Material Ghost by Gilberto Perez (my professor!) Phenomenology of Perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty Dracula by Bram Stoker
Church of the KLF wrote: The Philosophy of Horror by Noel Carroll The Hidden God: Film and Faith (ed. by Antonio Monda and someone else, published by MoMA) The Material Ghost by Gilberto Perez (my professor!) Phenomenology of Perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty Dracula by Bram Stoker
How is The Philosophy of Horror? It's been on my list of stuff to read for some time now. Required reading for any horror buff.
Must I be ashamed now that I'm a Horror/Suspense-Reader?
Just finished Preston & Childs "Still life with crows". I love the books of those two guys.
His Holiness, The Pope wrote:
Church of the KLF wrote: The Philosophy of Horror by Noel Carroll The Hidden God: Film and Faith (ed. by Antonio Monda and someone else, published by MoMA) The Material Ghost by Gilberto Perez (my professor!) Phenomenology of Perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty Dracula by Bram Stoker
How is The Philosophy of Horror? It's been on my list of stuff to read for some time now. Required reading for any horror buff.
I can give you the Cliff's Notes version of "The Philosophy of Horror":
If you have sex during the course of the film, you get killed by the mysterious killer.
If you don't have sex but want to, you get killed by the mysterious killer.
Odds are, any "new friends" you've introduced into your circle are mysterious killers...that will kill you.
If it's a dark and stormy night, the odds of you getting killed by a mysterious killer go up dramatically.
When in doubt, you become the mysterious killer.
The girl with the biggest chest always gets knocked off early, but not before deflowering the nerdy virgin.
If it's an M. Night Shamylan(sic) film, the odds are you're a ghost.
If you're trapped in an isolated situation (haunted house, artic station, island), you might want to consider a vacation. Otherwise, you get knocked off by a mysterious killer.
The rain in Spain falls mainly on the mysterious killer who is out to get you.
When entering a deserted forest where teenagers have disappeared years before, it might be good to take a cell phone. And leave the whiny bitch at the car. And don't actually go into the woods, but hang around the parking lot.
TLV wrote: Vurt by Jeff Noon. That vurtual reality is some weird stuff...
/TLV
I loved Vurt! I read it while going Sydney to Heathrow via Osaka. That messed up circadian rhythm goes great with Vurt.
I just finished The Corrections after avoiding it for so long because Jonathan Franzen wouldn't go on Oprah. Now I'm reading Writings on an Ethical Life by Peter Singer. Any vegetarians wanna have a fight?
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Tinny wrote:
TLV wrote: Vurt by Jeff Noon. That vurtual reality is some weird stuff...
I loved Vurt! I read it while going Sydney to Heathrow via Osaka. That messed up circadian rhythm goes great with Vurt.
True. The story evolved pretty well, and the rhythm and style was very soothing.
Now I'm reading April Witch by Majgull Axelsson. It seems very promising.
/TLV
Jim Bouton's Ball Four is at my side right now, I'm 170 pages into it. It's really good summertime reading (baseball season and all) 
Also nearly finished (100 pages or so left) with King's Men 
"I Am That" - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj excerpt:
Maharaj: I see you imagine yourself that you exist. Visitor: There are many people like that. And still everybody is different. Maharaj: The total of all projections we call mahamaya; the Big Illusion. Visitor: And if you look at yourself, what do you see? Maharaj: That depends on how I look. If I see through mind, I see an infinite number of things. If I look closer, I see the observer. Beyond the observer is the unmeasurable power of Emptiness and Silence.
His Holiness, The Pope wrote:
Church of the KLF wrote: The Philosophy of Horror by Noel Carroll The Hidden God: Film and Faith (ed. by Antonio Monda and someone else, published by MoMA) The Material Ghost by Gilberto Perez (my professor!) Phenomenology of Perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty Dracula by Bram Stoker
How is The Philosophy of Horror? It's been on my list of stuff to read for some time now. Required reading for any horror buff.
I love it. I highly recommend it. Carroll is one of my favorite film historians. His writing can be a bit dry and repetitive, but it's still very interesting and VERY worth it. He's just very thorough, is all. It makes it very easy to understand it on the first go-around, though, which can be helpful. Sometimes paragraphs require re-reading at least once, but I haven't come across any thus far in Carroll's book. Go for it, His Holiness!
A friend just passed by and dropped me off a tome of Actual Literary Merit. One Man's Bible by Gao Xingjian.
Finished "All The King's Men" a couple of days, it is fucking excellent. A little long-winded in places, but utterly fascinating. I still think "The Great Gatsby" is the Great American Novel (or at least the best novel with "Great" in the title 
), but "King's Men" comes pretty damn close
Picked up a dual biography of Laurel and Hardy a day ago, it's very good so far
I need a girlfriend to stem this tide of literary abuse 
Taboo # 7 wrote:
I need a girlfriend to stem this tide of literary abuse
I've moved on to re-reading Judy Blume books...I think I need a boyfriend to make fun of me...
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