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Re: books to read
« Reply #690 on: November 12, 2010, 11:08:17 PM »
The Slap demographic seems to be violent tinfoil wearers, it's true.

Grow a beard, wear some half-cabs, drink whiskey and moan about how the government is keeping you down. Man.

Meself, I just finished reading this:



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Anyone recommend me some Cormac McCarthy? I read Blood Merridian a whiles back and loved it. Not too familiar with his other work.

this motherfucker just tried to call out some slap demographic shit and then posted a buk book about barfly?
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Re: books to read
« Reply #691 on: November 13, 2010, 08:50:34 AM »
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The Slap demographic seems to be violent tinfoil wearers, it's true.

Grow a beard, wear some half-cabs, drink whiskey and moan about how the government is keeping you down. Man.

Meself, I just finished reading this:



And starting on this:



Anyone recommend me some Cormac McCarthy? I read Blood Merridian a whiles back and loved it. Not too familiar with his other work.

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this motherfucker just tried to call out some slap demographic shit and then posted a buk book about barfly?
HA.

yeah i was thinking the same...i just finished reading democracy by joan didion for class, and to the dude reading gravity's rainbow, good luck.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #692 on: November 13, 2010, 11:27:30 AM »
Gravity's Rainbow takes alot of concentration.  I got about 200 pages in one summer, I enjoyed it but more than that I was just kind of amazed by it.

100 Years of Solitude is alright.  I was pretty over it after they stopped talking about the oldest guy though.  The inventions/gypsies/tied to tree was rad.

This one is rad.  About a real little kid who lives in the slums of Paris with a former prostitute and has something funny to do/say in every situation.
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Re: books to read
« Reply #693 on: November 13, 2010, 02:43:23 PM »
Just finished:


Just starting:


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Re: books to read
« Reply #694 on: November 13, 2010, 04:58:33 PM »
I too fall into the SLAP violent/tinfoil wearer category.?  Ah well.

Just finished rereading Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer.?  Not sure what is next, possibly a book on Swedish Death Metal or something with short stories.?  Humor wouldn't be bad either, I've been reading some dark ass shit lately.

What do you think of Tropic of Cancer? I think i have it on my bookshelf but I've never gotten around to it.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #695 on: November 13, 2010, 06:48:47 PM »
You would love it based on that one excerpt of yours someone posted.
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Re: books to read
« Reply #696 on: November 13, 2010, 09:29:09 PM »
I do love me some fuckin'.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #697 on: November 14, 2010, 11:20:21 AM »
That's actually the first Bukowski novel I ever read, and my favorite of his work. Top 5 books all time.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #698 on: November 16, 2010, 10:27:53 AM »

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« Reply #700 on: November 16, 2010, 11:30:09 AM »




I just got all of his works. I also down loaded william s burroughs lectures with alan ginsberg.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #701 on: November 16, 2010, 12:13:13 PM »



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Re: books to read
« Reply #702 on: November 16, 2010, 06:25:19 PM »

suddenly thermodynamics makes a little more sense, but i still don't understand how fucking magnets work.
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Re: books to read
« Reply #703 on: November 18, 2010, 09:07:42 PM »
supposedly one of the greatest books ever written.  it had no plot and was insanely hard to get through.  i guess it was good, though.  some of the stuff on human nature was pretty genius.


this book fucking rules.  it should be required reading for every kid in this country.  if you're fat, read this.  everything we eat is corn.  it's so fucked.


a friend lent me this.  had no interest in reading it, but it was pretty decent.  the dude's fairly douchie, but some of his stories are funny.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #704 on: November 20, 2010, 10:00:30 AM »


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« Reply #705 on: November 25, 2010, 03:35:20 PM »


really captivating and tragic story.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #706 on: November 25, 2010, 10:29:11 PM »

 Books are weird man.  Such a long personal experience.  It's really difficult to talk to people about what you liked about a book.  I find that even when I am talking to someone who has read the same one as me the conversation is usually just "Yeah, that's a good one."  Only time it really works is when you and the other person are reading it at the same time.
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« Reply #707 on: November 25, 2010, 10:33:31 PM »
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Re: books to read
« Reply #708 on: November 26, 2010, 12:01:47 PM »
Keeping with the Hemingway theme:



Seriously amazing.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #709 on: November 26, 2010, 02:45:28 PM »
Junkie by William Burroughs which was even worse. What a dull ass dude.
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Re: books to read
« Reply #711 on: November 28, 2010, 12:34:16 AM »
Anyone here read the Rabbit novels by John updike?  I saw the whole collection hardback for $20 at a local bookstore and considered picking it up, but it'd be cool to get some feedback on this guy first.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #712 on: November 28, 2010, 12:06:16 PM »
On the topic of William Gibson, this book is real relevant to all keyboard wranglers.


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Re: books to read
« Reply #713 on: November 28, 2010, 02:23:12 PM »
What's the deal with italo calvino? Good? My friends used to be real into his stuff and i never got around to it.
I've read If on a Winter's Night a Traveller. I had heard great things about him as a writer but
to be honest I wouldn't even bother with this particualr novel. The epilogue sounded great but it doesn't even touch on the nondescript format of the book - I ended up struggling to get the urge to finish the book as it is basically a book about a twenty different other books. However, saying that I am still willing to read some of his other stuff.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #714 on: November 28, 2010, 02:27:49 PM »
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« Reply #717 on: November 29, 2010, 12:39:15 AM »
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« Reply #718 on: November 29, 2010, 12:42:03 AM »
On the topic of William Gibson, this book is real relevant to all keyboard wranglers.


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Re: books to read
« Reply #719 on: November 30, 2010, 09:31:32 PM »
I think I've seen this in before, but I read it yesterday and was pretty blown away.