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ColdSoreSuperstar
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Mon Oct 22, 2007 12:38 am
Rev.Mike wrote:The Dalkey Archive by Flann O'Brien and Gravity's Rainbow by Pynchon. Waiting for some Chabon to arrive in the mail.
Nice. I liked O'Brian's "The Third Policeman" in high school. And "Gravity's Rainbow" is on my to-read list.
I think "The Master and Margarita" is next on my list. Or one of a hundred others.
not dead
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edderlyj
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Mon Oct 22, 2007 8:23 am
cocobean wrote:I just finished The Road by Cormac McCarthy. A post-apocalypse novel that's seriously depressing. Before that, Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan, which is set in Burma.
My all time favourite author is Ian Rankin and I have big collection of his stuff.
The Road, serisously, so good, so simple, so f'ing dark...
Fingerprints of the gods, Graham Hancock. It's a little non-fiction (speculative, but well researched) that'll give you some serious pause.
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jcporter
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Mon Oct 22, 2007 9:32 am
I finished CM's "the road" a couple of months ago. It reminded me of a Steven King book. It was "after the great disaster" stuff but didn't make me go all sad and weepy. I'm re-reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance right now.
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ISO: Uncle Charlie's 22" by 33" silkscreen version of Metallica / Alice in Chains 1994 Austin - signed & numbered run of 250
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funkin
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Mon Oct 22, 2007 11:33 am
ColdSoreSuperstar wrote:Rev.Mike wrote:The Dalkey Archive by Flann O'Brien and Gravity's Rainbow by Pynchon. Waiting for some Chabon to arrive in the mail.
Nice. I liked O'Brian's "The Third Policeman" in high school. And "Gravity's Rainbow" is on my to-read list.
I think "The Master and Margarita" is next on my list. Or one of a hundred others.
finished "The Master and Margarita" recently. good stuff.
working on "Journey to the End of the Night" by Celine
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Rev.Mike
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Mon Oct 22, 2007 12:23 pm
I need to read Celine. And the Master and Margarita. Gravity's Rainbow is fantastic, but I've been stalled out on it like Ulysses...amazing book, can't finish it.
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rssesq
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Mon Oct 22, 2007 12:26 pm
Just finished reading Mearsheimer and Walt's latest book and it was quite a read.
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MJBuck
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Mon Oct 22, 2007 12:40 pm
my wife bought me Clapton's autobiography last week. I'm going to try to read it while on vacation next week.
out and perfect.
norelation wrote:quit with the sniveling and just sell the damn poster. i don't care about your life story, we all got problems. just tell me about bent corners, or if your cat has used it for target practice.
mistersmith wrote:That means I'm going to touch you.
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billthebassist
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Sun Nov 04, 2007 1:59 am
So I just finished
Into the Wild and really enjoyed it. I hope the movie can go as deep as the book. I'm going to request from the library another of the author's books next, "
Under the banner of heaven : a story of violent faith by Jon Krakauer," since I enjoyed his writing style so much.
But right now I've jumped into "
Walk Away Rene - the Art of Hipgnosis" from 1978 - OOP but found on the 'bay. GREAT images. This company did a TON of album cover art for bands from Floyd to Sabbath to Yes (and a whole lot in between). So far it's an amazing account of just how much work went into designing album covers, their sleeves, stickers etc - it all sounds so archaic now! Truly a historical documentation of how laborius art production was before the advent of Photoshop etc. More importantly it reminds us of how important the ART was before dinky CD pics.
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morst
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Tue Nov 06, 2007 1:30 pm
Rev.Mike wrote:Gravity's Rainbow is fantastic, but I've been stalled out on it like Ulysses...amazing book, can't finish it.
I stalled out on that one too. SO MANY CHARACTERS and strangeness. Thomas Pynchon is a strange bird, I s'pose.
Recently I read Ken Kesey's Sometimes A Great Notion, and it was kinda slow getting going but around page 150 I realized I should slow down and savor it, cause it started going really fast! 700 pages flew by me in a couple weeks! Then I tried the Pynchon book and didn't get to that point, if there is one. . .
I'm currently in Electric Don Quixote, the Frank Zappa book by Neil Slaven
It's great!
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DeltaSigChi4
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Sun Mar 16, 2008 6:58 pm
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Last read:
*not this cover; Recorded Books LLC version
*not this cover; Recorded Books LLC version
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scattergood
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Sun Mar 16, 2008 8:37 pm
"1421 - The Year China Discovered America"...interesting read on how the Portugese explorers basicly found the new world on the maps and ino gained from various chinese explorations...
"The Butlerian Jihad" - 1st of the prequesl trilogies of the Dune epic saga.
Books Rule
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galactus43
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Sun Mar 16, 2008 9:57 pm
"The Day After Tomorrow"" by Alan Folsom....and no, the movie is not based on this book.
'Today - He catches a glimpse of his father's killer, Tomorrow - He is drawn into the web of a vast international conspiracy, The Day After Tomorrow - He confronts a terrifying future which threatens us all...'
I am inbetween the Today and Tomorrow plot sections at the moment.