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« Reply #840 on: February 04, 2011, 10:07:10 AM »
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just started this.


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finished this a few weeks ago...it gave me lots of boners!
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nearly finished it...zero so far.
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I pushed myself through half of this book and still didn't see what made it a classic. maybe back when it was written a lot of the stuff was some new age, out the box type ideas but...i don't know, the story line was cool enough I guess, but his style of writing didn't do a damn thing for me.

yeah, his prose was pretty bad, i can see how people may have found some of the ideas exciting back in the day but they've all be rehashed so many times now and seemed pretty old hat.

i've just started invisible by Paul Auster.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #841 on: February 04, 2011, 10:08:47 AM »
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i'm too lazy to look if anyone's mentioned em. but the last book I finished was Breakfast of Champions, that was really good.
i just got Atlas Shrugged, hoping to be as interesting as I've been told.
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i don't get it.
I'm guessing you didn't read Atlas Shrugged?

Fuck Ayn Rand though.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #842 on: February 09, 2011, 02:53:59 PM »
World War I and hamburgers




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Re: books to read
« Reply #843 on: February 09, 2011, 04:41:53 PM »
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Seriously so excited about the pale king; it's out  in a couple months isn't it. Have you read any of the extracts - it sounds amazing

i read the excerpts that were in the new yorker.  so good.  i'm so mad at him for killing himself.

the past two month or so's reads (and re-reads)--
humboldt's gift, by saul bellow
the collected stories of lydia davis
sixty stories, donald barthelme
half a life, darin strauss
wildlife, richard ford
the corrections, jonathan franzen
freedom, jonathan franzen

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Re: books to read
« Reply #844 on: February 09, 2011, 09:53:43 PM »
Khalil Gibran was fucking brilliant.


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« Reply #845 on: February 10, 2011, 12:53:22 AM »
just finished Invisible by Paul Auster.

it was good, he's pretty good on sexy incest.

notes from the underground next.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #846 on: February 10, 2011, 02:35:47 AM »
Just finished reading Stephen King's Full Dark No Stars. One of the only few books that has creeped me out. King at his best!

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Re: books to read
« Reply #847 on: February 10, 2011, 04:33:33 PM »


Pretty good although sometimes it was hard to follow.  In this one, Pynchon tends to switch from past to present without any transition. I'm sure it's intentional, but sometimes it gets irritating and confusing. That being said, it still has humorous insight into the failure of the counter culture, the rise of Ronald Reagan and the War on Drugs.



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« Reply #848 on: February 10, 2011, 08:02:57 PM »
First chapter is so good.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #849 on: February 14, 2011, 04:39:29 PM »
Just finished "The Shining" from Stephen King, before that I read "It". Though King truly is the king, I need a break from him now. Currently reading "The Pelican Brief" by John Grisham (getting tired of him too), after that I'll give "White Noise" from Don DeLillo a go.

Kindle makes it hard not to read everyday. Probably my favorite gadget, considering it's limited use.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #850 on: February 14, 2011, 05:29:41 PM »
kite runner and his second a thousand splendid suns are both really good. douglas adams wrote a heap of good ones especially Dirk Gentlys hollistic detective agency. A weird one.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #851 on: February 14, 2011, 06:48:20 PM »



just picked this one up..it's killing it so far

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Re: books to read
« Reply #852 on: February 14, 2011, 08:12:31 PM »

this book has some interesting points and facts. Wish I owned it.

rereading this at the moment.
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Re: books to read
« Reply #853 on: February 15, 2011, 12:48:33 AM »
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just picked this one up..it's killing it so far

I'm 700 pages into Infinite Jest and it is by far the most mind-blowing book I've ever read. DWF has more interesting stuff in a single chapter than most writers manage to come up with in an entire body of work. Absolutely mind-boggling stuff.
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Re: books to read
« Reply #854 on: February 15, 2011, 03:42:45 PM »
700 pages in is way past the giving up point too. I was getting pretty jaded up until around page 300, then it describes the formation of ONAN, the failure of cable TV with the rise of InterLace, and the Great Concavity. At that point it was too interesting to give up and I went through the rest fairly quickly (because I wasn't doing anything else).
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Re: books to read
« Reply #855 on: February 15, 2011, 04:40:45 PM »
Finished this last night:


And started this:




I've been really into the Paul Auster lately and I hadn't read The Old Man and the Sea since 9th grade.  


Sitting home with the flu the past few days has given me a good amount of reading time.  I've got to pull myself together and get out of the house to grab a couple more books now.  

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Anybody ever read anything by John Kaye?



He comes in to my work and gets the same thing for lunch every day.  He's a real character.  I was thinking about picking one of his books up just for the hell of it. 
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Re: books to read
« Reply #856 on: February 15, 2011, 05:27:46 PM »
all Vonnegut, ever
asimov's foundation books, I Robot, and Bicentennial man
Elect MR Robinson for a better world (awesome little book)
most of patterson's alex cross books
the golden compass, subtle knife, amber spyglass (phillip pullman)
Crichton: Congo, jurassic park and such, Prey
terry goodkind's sword of truth series (stay with the first book past the first couple hundred pages and you are fucking hooked. Seriously the best creator out there)
the once and future king
hg wells like the time machine and the island of dr moreau
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BRADBURY's the martian chronicles, fahrenheit 454, et al

there's a few to keep you occupied

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Re: books to read
« Reply #857 on: February 17, 2011, 10:31:21 AM »
700 pages in is way past the giving up point too. I was getting pretty jaded up until around page 300, then it describes the formation of ONAN, the failure of cable TV with the rise of InterLace, and the Great Concavity. At that point it was too interesting to give up and I went through the rest fairly quickly (because I wasn't doing anything else).

Wish I had time to just sit down for a couple of days and finish it. Right now I'm just reading twenty pages whenever I can. 

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Re: books to read
« Reply #858 on: February 17, 2011, 01:59:01 PM »

rereading this at the moment.

Is it super dense?
I've wanted to read it for a while but I'm kind of torn between taking it on in Spanish or just copping out and just getting the English translation.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #859 on: February 17, 2011, 08:33:56 PM »
"child of god" by Cormac McCarthy is pretty fucking gnarly.

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« Reply #860 on: February 17, 2011, 08:42:38 PM »
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Re: books to read
« Reply #861 on: February 18, 2011, 12:35:58 AM »

Glengarry Glen Ross next

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Re: books to read
« Reply #862 on: February 18, 2011, 02:29:56 PM »
Finished a couple books recently:
Saturday-McEwan

I liked it, even through some of the more drawn out parts. It's nice to kind of hate a protagonist sometimes.
Clear-Nicola Barker

Amazed by this, couldn't stop reading it.
In the Skin of a Lion-Michael Ondaatje

Fine, fine novel, really loved this.

Now I'm reading The Autograph Man now:

Spray it like a high-rank sniper in the West Bank.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #863 on: February 20, 2011, 06:21:09 PM »
I'm about 100 pages into "the things they carried" by Tim O'brian. Pretty fucking good.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #864 on: February 24, 2011, 08:29:37 PM »


It's hilarious. If mall culture took over the world, this is what it would look like. Also, for being almost 20 years old, its depiction of the internet is surprisingly accurate.
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Re: books to read
« Reply #865 on: March 12, 2011, 04:07:54 PM »
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« Reply #866 on: March 12, 2011, 04:13:35 PM »
in the middle of reading this (pretty good so far):



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Re: books to read
« Reply #867 on: March 12, 2011, 08:26:50 PM »
Borrowed this from a friend, it's pretty interesting so far.


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Re: books to read
« Reply #868 on: March 13, 2011, 12:58:28 PM »
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rereading this at the moment.
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Is it super dense?
I've wanted to read it for a while but I'm kind of torn between taking it on in Spanish or just copping out and just getting the English translation.

the quality of the writing makes it flow despite it being a bit dense with all the characters. its density is subtle. theres a family tree mapped out in the first page that helps you keep track of who's who.

gabriel garcia marquez has actually said that he prefers the english translation by gregory rabassa over the original spanish, if that helps you decide which to read.


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Re: books to read
« Reply #869 on: March 13, 2011, 01:12:49 PM »


about to finish this one today (prolly) It's pretty great. I liked her first novel WISE BLOOD better. But this is still pretty good.




This one I just finished a bit ago, before I started the one above. It was really great. Lots of wonderful conversations that happen in the book between characters. enlightening ass shit in there. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

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