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Re: books to read
« Reply #630 on: October 02, 2010, 12:21:46 PM »
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Women by Bukowski and Tropic of Cancer by Miller
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I lent my copy of Women to my friend and he went and lost it :(
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That is a damn shame.  that book is excellent.
It sure is, i am on my 4th copy now, i always keeps giving em away.
I enjoy most of Bukowskis books thought

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Re: books to read
« Reply #631 on: October 02, 2010, 12:28:33 PM »
i did that once, my ex was on this site, you could leave a book at some place and then put it on the site and others who would want the book could go there and get it, i left a Bukowskibook out once.
Cant remember the website for my life unfortunally

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Re: books to read
« Reply #632 on: October 02, 2010, 12:35:21 PM »
yes, it?s universal.
Last time i was on there was 2005 so i dont know if its still there.
I?ll PM you if i remember the name of it

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Re: books to read
« Reply #633 on: October 02, 2010, 02:59:41 PM »
I got the book "All The Pretty Horses".

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Re: books to read
« Reply #634 on: October 02, 2010, 04:03:05 PM »

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Re: books to read
« Reply #635 on: October 02, 2010, 05:59:08 PM »
Women by Bukowski and Tropic of Cancer by Miller
this book gave me countless boners.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #636 on: October 02, 2010, 07:45:25 PM »
I just finished "breakfast of champions" and I bought "helter skelter" at an estate sale last week for a dollar, I'll read that next.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #637 on: October 03, 2010, 03:31:48 PM »
Just finished:


About 2/3 through:



About to start:


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Re: books to read
« Reply #638 on: October 03, 2010, 06:32:32 PM »
The Sound and The Fury is one of my favorites.
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Re: books to read
« Reply #639 on: October 05, 2010, 02:40:01 PM »


I'm about 2/3's of the way thru it and I'm enjoying it so far. I like that the main character is a smartass, because he reminds me a lot of myself.
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Re: books to read
« Reply #640 on: October 05, 2010, 05:22:32 PM »
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I plan on reading all of Dashiell Hammet's novels sequentially.
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Re: books to read
« Reply #641 on: October 06, 2010, 02:22:50 AM »
went to the library today (haven't gone in months) and found some keepers. couldn't find any burroughs or crowley, but i did get





picked up these graphic novels too













i really like that it's getting colder in california. i love to read when it's all chilly & shit. get some cocoa/coffee, smoke some trees and crack open a book. i'm psyched ;)

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Re: books to read
« Reply #642 on: October 06, 2010, 03:57:58 AM »


I'm about 2/3's of the way thru it and I'm enjoying it so far. I like that the main character is a smartass, because he reminds me a lot of myself.

Couldn't sleep tonight so I finished the book. Definitely one of my new favorites.
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Re: books to read
« Reply #643 on: October 06, 2010, 09:25:27 AM »
I recently read Factotum and by the end was bored. I really like Ham on Rye. Factotum was just more of the same. Then, I read Junkie by William Burroughs which was even worse. What a dull ass dude.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #644 on: October 06, 2010, 09:24:00 PM »
don't read the soft machine. it's the biggest waste of time
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Re: books to read
« Reply #645 on: October 07, 2010, 01:01:37 AM »
I recently read Factotum and by the end was bored. I really like Ham on Rye. Factotum was just more of the same. Then, I read Junkie by William Burroughs which was even worse. What a dull ass dude.
ham on rye is by far his best novel.  i liked factotum but it's a lot like ham on rye.  i read women, hollywood, and post office in between, so by the time i got to factotum i wanted more ham on ryeness.  try post office.  william burroughs is a weirdo.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #646 on: October 07, 2010, 01:15:02 AM »
burroughs is the fucking man.
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Re: books to read
« Reply #647 on: October 07, 2010, 01:26:47 AM »
don't read the soft machine. it's the biggest waste of time

I've never really "got" his cut up narrative stuff.  I can never remember who's who or whether I'm supposed to or what the hell's going on.  But I do remember enjoying The Soft Machine just for the images and page by page even though I didn't get any bigger picture or probably even finish it.

I'm reading Don Quixote for a class and it's great. 

I probably already recommended this but seriously dudes, Sometimes A Great Notion is the shit.  I dare you not to love it.
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Re: books to read
« Reply #648 on: October 07, 2010, 02:40:54 PM »
Just reached Part II of this. Cormac McCarthy writes so damn good.


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Re: books to read
« Reply #649 on: October 07, 2010, 09:09:52 PM »
burroughs is the fucking man.

That he is. I'm taking a class called "Reading the Road Trip" and I'm re-reading Lolita for it right now. Once that's done this weekend, I'm starting on On The Road, which I'm excited for because I'm a fan of the Beats, and later on I get to finally read my first Cormac McCarthy book-The Road. I'm pretty excited for it.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #650 on: October 08, 2010, 09:26:51 AM »
Burroughs is terrible. He has no personality. He doesn't even mention he has a wife until halfway through the book and you don't even know where she is most of the time.

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« Reply #651 on: October 08, 2010, 04:34:31 PM »
I think he was a homosexual. Might be the reason the wife is insignificant.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #652 on: October 08, 2010, 05:11:51 PM »
burroughs fucked mad mexican boys, he never had the heart to talk about his dead wife.
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Re: books to read
« Reply #653 on: October 08, 2010, 05:29:25 PM »
Finished some of Hemingway's short stories + The Old Man and The Sea.

This is next


after that I'll start on this...

he catches a lot of shit for the stuff he writes but I think I'll give it a go.

Anything by Thomas Pynchon will be after that.

 don't think anyone mentioned White Noise, yet.


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Re: books to read
« Reply #654 on: October 09, 2010, 12:28:57 PM »
"Burroughs had one child in 1947, William Seward Burroughs III, with his second wife Joan Vollmer, who died in 1951 in Mexico City after Burroughs accidentally shot her in the head while drunk. Burroughs died at his home in Lawrence, Kansas after suffering a heart attack in 1997."

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Re: books to read
« Reply #655 on: October 28, 2010, 03:21:09 PM »
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Re: books to read
« Reply #656 on: October 28, 2010, 07:15:56 PM »
Finally read Gatsby for a class this semester. I'm pretty glad I left it until I had a mind to appreciate it, because that's honestly the most well-written prose I've ever read. Pretty funny that Fitz himself claimed it as the best American novel, he wasn't wrong.

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« Reply #657 on: October 28, 2010, 07:21:10 PM »
I love the Gatsby.

Started this one last night.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #658 on: October 28, 2010, 07:27:06 PM »
Just reached Part II of this. Cormac McCarthy writes so damn good.


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Re: books to read
« Reply #659 on: October 28, 2010, 07:31:45 PM »


Maybe around 3/4 or more through the book.