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Re: books to read
« Reply #1290 on: June 12, 2012, 11:21:50 PM »
Finished:



Multi-narrative sci-fi.  Not sure if the Nabokov comparisons are apt but it's a fun read.



Franzen talking about his transition into adulthood. Vacillates between moments of profound insight into what it means to grow up and be a person, and moments of Franzen being a terminal precocious bitch.



Cyberpunk novel about future biotech industrial espionage in South East Asia. Not as awesome as I'd hoped but everyone else loved it.



Favorite Hemingway novel so far. From what I understand, women are not to be trusted.

Reading:



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but I'm also finishing my Master's thesis right now, so the Jared Diamond book is on the back-burner until September probably.
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Re: books to read
« Reply #1291 on: June 13, 2012, 03:03:22 AM »
Finished this


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« Reply #1292 on: June 13, 2012, 05:37:47 AM »
It's nice to read books of my choice now that class is out... I've been doing one or 2 a week. I've been tearing apart the free book shelves outside faculty offices at the University and have come out with some great reads.

Last night I finished Island Under the Sea- Isabel Alende

War is a Force that Gives us Meaning- Chris Hedges

dem- William Melvin Kelley

Faith and the Good Thing-Charles Johnson

Dreamer- Charles Johnson (fictionalized account of the final 2 years of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's life, drawing strongly on time spent with Mohandas Gandhi.)

Existentialism is a Humanism- Sartre

No Fear, No Death. Comforting Wisdom for Life- Thich Nhat Hanh

Kevin Carey- The One Fifteen to Penn Station (book of working class Massachusetts poetry)

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1293 on: June 13, 2012, 06:36:52 AM »
Finished this



I loved that series so much. sci-fi at its very best. make sure to read the rest of them, they are pretty amazing.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1294 on: June 13, 2012, 06:55:56 AM »
just finished:

a book about books wrapped in a detective novel set in a 14th century Italian monastery, pretty entertaining.


halfway through this:




I need to get onto this
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I loved that series so much. sci-fi at its very best. make sure to read the rest of them, they are pretty amazing.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1295 on: June 13, 2012, 07:24:24 AM »
Talking about books is weird for me.  There's just so many out there, that when someone names an author they're into, I've usually never heard of them.  I've mostly been reading "classics" that everyone has heard of.  I finished Robinson Crusoe not long ago, and last night I started Tarzan the Untamed.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1296 on: June 16, 2012, 09:40:31 AM »
Happy Bloomsday everyone! Celebrating by reading some Finnegans Wake.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1297 on: June 16, 2012, 09:42:02 AM »
Talking about books is weird for me.  There's just so many out there, that when someone names an author they're into, I've usually never heard of them.  I've mostly been reading "classics" that everyone has heard of.  I finished Robinson Crusoe not long ago, and last night I started Tarzan the Untamed.

I love the classics.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1298 on: June 16, 2012, 09:45:54 AM »
It's nice to read books of my choice now that class is out... I've been doing one or 2 a week. I've been tearing apart the free book shelves outside faculty offices at the University and have come out with some great reads.



Faith and the Good Thing-Charles Johnson




I took a novel writing class at UCLA and in it we read Middle Passage by Charles Johnson. Then he did a q and a with us over Skype. Super humble, mellow guy.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1299 on: June 16, 2012, 04:44:49 PM »
I never knew that the movie Fletch was based on a series of novels. 

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1300 on: June 16, 2012, 04:55:48 PM »
I never knew that the movie Fletch was based on a series of novels. 


Is it a comedy or serius ?

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« Reply #1301 on: June 16, 2012, 05:23:29 PM »
It is both serious and funny.  He is basically just a dick to everyone.  It is good so far.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1302 on: June 16, 2012, 05:48:47 PM »
the movies were kinda funny . Guess the book would be better though

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« Reply #1303 on: June 17, 2012, 02:26:05 PM »
That seems like a good read I loved the first movie.  Chevy Chase should record audio books

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1304 on: June 19, 2012, 08:13:14 PM »
about to start the summer reading list. On deck I have:
On the Road- Still haven't read it. Read other Kerouac shit and loved it.
Grapes of Wrath- Steinbeck is rad. I read Of Mice And Men recently and loved it. I feel like I have to.
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« Reply #1305 on: June 19, 2012, 10:04:57 PM »



Just finished it the other day, was a little bit tough to get into at first but I ended up enjoying it.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1306 on: June 19, 2012, 10:07:32 PM »
about to start the summer reading list. On deck I have:
On the Road- Still haven't read it. Read other Kerouac shit and loved it.
Grapes of Wrath- Steinbeck is rad. I read Of Mice And Men recently and loved it. I feel like I have to.

i thought you were teaching high school, not still attending it.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1307 on: June 19, 2012, 10:55:39 PM »
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about to start the summer reading list. On deck I have:
On the Road- Still haven't read it. Read other Kerouac shit and loved it.
Grapes of Wrath- Steinbeck is rad. I read Of Mice And Men recently and loved it. I feel like I have to.
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i thought you were teaching high school, not still attending it.


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Currently reading this:



It's pretty crazy. Like all of Danielewski's stuff, the layout/formatting is fucked up. But at least House of Leaves still had a (for the most part) discernible plot and understandable details. This is a novel told through stream-of-consciousness poetry. I've only read a little bit, but I'm intrigued by what I've read so far, so hopefully I'll get more of it as I go along.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1308 on: June 19, 2012, 11:13:30 PM »
got this one for birthday, was quite a funny read. feels a lil bit awkward when reading in a public transport, but whatever



now I started to read guenther grass "cat and mouse" in polish. this is a tough one. I've never learned to read polish, so this is pretty hard. 4year old children have a bigger vocabulary then me, which makes reading real literature a not easier. anyway, I'm very proud of myself that I started this project. next time I'll get myself some french books.


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Re: books to read
« Reply #1309 on: June 20, 2012, 06:59:45 PM »


it was too long, but it has its moments
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Re: books to read
« Reply #1310 on: June 20, 2012, 09:44:05 PM »
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Re: books to read
« Reply #1311 on: June 21, 2012, 01:43:25 AM »
now I started to read guenther grass "cat and mouse" in polish. this is a tough one. I've never learned to read polish, so this is pretty hard. 4year old children have a bigger vocabulary then me, which makes reading real literature a not easier. anyway, I'm very proud of myself that I started this project. next time I'll get myself some french books.

Quite a difficult book in any language, but a really important novella. Enjoy!

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« Reply #1312 on: June 21, 2012, 07:02:40 AM »
The Possessed by Dostoyevsky is a good one so far. It's the first of his that I have picked up and I'm appreciating the mode of story telling through the thus far unnamed narrator.

I also scored a collection of Hemingway titled "By-line: Ernest Hemingway Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades" which should be cool.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1313 on: June 21, 2012, 07:12:38 AM »


Just finished this last weekend. Book Four is fucking weird.

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Re: books to read
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Re: books to read
« Reply #1315 on: June 21, 2012, 09:33:11 AM »
I think you're the only person I know who has also read The Wasp Factory.  Good and a little fucked up.

no joke dude. had to put it down a few times. cause it was fucking with my mood,but definitely a good and short read.

also :




Regarding "The Butcher Boy" :There is also a movie that was made with Stephen Rea. Fucking immaculate. Peep it:

http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/5862405

or

The Butcher Boy Part 1
netflix probably has it too.

anyhow. yeah a dope read and fucked up, but fun.
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Re: books to read
« Reply #1316 on: June 21, 2012, 11:00:21 AM »
about to start the summer reading list. On deck I have:
On the Road- Still haven't read it. Read other Kerouac shit and loved it.
Grapes of Wrath- Steinbeck is rad. I read Of Mice And Men recently and loved it. I feel like I have to.

I read that recently, the ending is one of the most amazing endings I've ever read. Also great from Steinbeck, Cannery Row.

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« Reply #1317 on: June 21, 2012, 01:16:45 PM »
Just found a copy of Denis Johnson's "Jesus' Son." It started off in a way that made me think of Bukowski but most of the stories were good and not as dark as I had expected.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1318 on: June 25, 2012, 04:23:08 AM »
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now I started to read guenther grass "cat and mouse" in polish. this is a tough one. I've never learned to read polish, so this is pretty hard. 4year old children have a bigger vocabulary then me, which makes reading real literature a not easier. anyway, I'm very proud of myself that I started this project. next time I'll get myself some french books.
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Quite a difficult book in any language, but a really important novella. Enjoy!
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Pretty badass just reading any book in a foreign language.
I read it already in my German class in school, but this happened 12 years ago. This book cought mostly my attention, because I grew up in the area that Grass is writing about. He even mentions the hospital I was born(the book takes place in german Nazi Gdansk, while I was born there in polish cummunism, still being half polish, half german). This was the first time I could contribute something about a book in class (I had straight D's in German for most of my school life). 
and hate, thanks for the compliment. Making the first step is the toughest part, but it works after a while. you gotta accept that you won't understand everything. my cousin is kind of responsible for that. she gave me a murakami book and although it was written in English, it wasn't hard to read.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1319 on: June 25, 2012, 04:30:00 AM »
Hosin' out the cab of his pickup truck
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