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Re: books to read
« Reply #1920 on: January 19, 2014, 11:17:42 AM »
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Yeah, Only Revolutions was super difficult.  It required a lot of internet help and just heads down reading through it regardless of understanding.  It was meant to be a reinvention of music and (love) poetry, like how HoL is a re-imagining of film and literary criticism.  It made more sense once I realized that, but it still wasn't easy.  I know that I definitely missed a lot.  The Fifty Year Sword is awesome.  I actually went to see Danielewski read it right before the reissue came out and it was really cool and well done.  It's a super quick read since it's basically a ghost story (the reading lasted about an hour and a half I want to say and it was the entire book).  It's a lot better than i]Only Revolutions[/i].
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Word up, I am going to see if I can get my hands on a copy of The Fifty Year Sword ASAP.  Glad I am not the only one who felt that way about Only Revolutions though.  Been reading up about Danielewski today and found out that he has a cult-like following.  http://forums.markzdanielewski.com/  -  a whole forum dedicated to his work.  Pretty intense.   
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I'm a huge Danielewski fan - I think House of Leaves is his best, being such a cool fucking story. Only Revolutions was pretty cool too - what did you need help with while reading it? doesn't it say in the beginning to read like six pages in one side than flip it and carry on that way. It was cool. I finally found a copy of Fifty Year Sword and wasn't too impressed with it. I've read his next book (or books) are going to be released as mini books or something over a period of time. Should be interesting.

House of Leaves would be a pretty cool movie - I've also heard he refuses to sell the rights thus denying anyone the chance to make a movie from it.

I didn't expect it to be a novel in free verse so that's what took some getting used to.

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« Reply #1921 on: January 19, 2014, 04:53:06 PM »
I've been reading On the road by Kerouac and it's rad.
Of course I'm hyped to do something similar, although I have the feeling I'm going to get raped/shot/robbed of a kidney while doing it.

Finished it about a week ago, it was pretty interesting. 

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I've been reading a lot of Cormac McCarthy. So far my favorite of his is Outer Dark. That may change because I'm only half way through Blood Meridian.
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Haven't read that but I fuckin loved Blood Meridian. Will check that out.


Now my debate is whether to start Dharma Bums or All the Pretty Horses, haven't read any Cormac McCarthy in a long time.   What's his book about the dude that bangs his sister and has a kid?

Anyways have to finish this book first:


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Re: books to read
« Reply #1922 on: January 22, 2014, 09:54:51 PM »

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1923 on: January 30, 2014, 02:07:55 PM »


Rad novel about resistance movements during WWII.
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Re: books to read
« Reply #1924 on: January 30, 2014, 05:24:17 PM »
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« Reply #1925 on: January 30, 2014, 06:09:15 PM »
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I've been reading On the road by Kerouac and it's rad.
Of course I'm hyped to do something similar, although I have the feeling I'm going to get raped/shot/robbed of a kidney while doing it.
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Finished it about a week ago, it was pretty interesting. 

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I've been reading a lot of Cormac McCarthy. So far my favorite of his is Outer Dark. That may change because I'm only half way through Blood Meridian.
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Haven't read that but I fuckin loved Blood Meridian. Will check that out.

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Now my debate is whether to start Dharma Bums or All the Pretty Horses, haven't read any Cormac McCarthy in a long time.   What's his book about the dude that bangs his sister and has a kid?

Anyways have to finish this book first:



That would be Outer Dark.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1926 on: January 30, 2014, 07:09:29 PM »
Anyone ever heard of John Bellairs? He wrote Eyes of The Killer Robot, Trolley into Yesterday, House With Clocks in its Walls, and a hand full of others I never got around to reading. Favorite author. It looks like they're all out of print though. At least with the original artwork.

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« Reply #1927 on: February 17, 2014, 02:50:49 PM »


Took a little project upon myself. Made it through the first 150 (small-printed) pages and I must say that it's pretty interesting. It's hard to remember all those different characters, but I guess that's part of the fun.

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« Reply #1928 on: February 18, 2014, 02:54:11 PM »
I know some people will keep cheat sheets of all of the characters in their copies of War & Peace.

Speaking of Russian authors, I'm reading this:



I already read the second half, so I figured I should go fill in the gaps.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1929 on: February 18, 2014, 07:54:04 PM »
Man, I've read a bit of Nabokov before.

Can't recall if it was one of his short stories or novels but it was a few years ago and I just couldn't finish it. Just the wrong time in my life I guess. There was a melancholy quality to it that just hit me too hard, maybe melancholy isn't the right word but that's the closest word I can find. It didn't make me feel good.



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« Reply #1930 on: February 18, 2014, 08:56:34 PM »
Man, I've read a bit of Nabokov before.

Can't recall if it was one of his short stories or novels but it was a few years ago and I just couldn't finish it. Just the wrong time in my life I guess. There was a melancholy quality to it that just hit me too hard, maybe melancholy isn't the right word but that's the closest word I can find. It didn't make me feel good.



justified ain't on tonight, much to my displeasure. that reminded me of elmore leonard's 'raylan novels'. i didn't start reading them before the series but they come in good when FX be boolshitting. i haven't read 'fire in the hole' which the whole series is based off of but i've read a few and asides raylan having a larger estranged family and some other minor differences they are pretty faithful to the show. vice versa.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1931 on: February 19, 2014, 07:12:17 AM »
shame on me for not reading it way earlier.


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« Reply #1932 on: February 19, 2014, 12:38:00 PM »
I know some people will keep cheat sheets of all of the characters in their copies of War & Peace.


Yeah, I actually thought about doing that, too. But then I found that homepage that gives a good overview of characters and their relations to each other without giving away too much of what's going to happen. I'm through the first part now and I feel like I can still distinguish between characters. I have always made sure to link a specific trait to each character (e.g. Anatol? Oh, that's one of the "bear guys). Now the military part sets in and I feel like I'll lose track of who's who pretty quickly...

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1933 on: February 20, 2014, 06:27:27 AM »
No holds barred, til labias say "free us"
then its straight to your kids' school, wine coolers in the Prius

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1934 on: February 21, 2014, 05:55:25 AM »
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I've been reading On the road by Kerouac and it's rad.
Of course I'm hyped to do something similar, although I have the feeling I'm going to get raped/shot/robbed of a kidney while doing it.
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Finished it about a week ago, it was pretty interesting. 

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I've been reading a lot of Cormac McCarthy. So far my favorite of his is Outer Dark. That may change because I'm only half way through Blood Meridian.
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Haven't read that but I fuckin loved Blood Meridian. Will check that out.

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Now my debate is whether to start Dharma Bums or All the Pretty Horses, haven't read any Cormac McCarthy in a long time.  What's his book about the dude that bangs his sister and has a kid?


Speaking of McCarthy I just finished "The Orchard Keeper". I don't really know.
Starting soon "The House by the Medlar-Tree" by Verga!
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Re: books to read
« Reply #1935 on: February 21, 2014, 08:59:02 AM »
Just finished "S" by JJ abrams last night. One of the better books i have read in the past couple months. It's really unique and very engrossing. Plus there are tons of fun puzzles to solve. Shit is even comes with a decoder ring. If your looking for something enjoyable and not looking for the greatest book of all time; Would recommend.

Also given a lot your massive boners for Scientology you should have all already read "going clear." Which is the best book I have read in the past few months.
more heaven-cruise than hell-ride.

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« Reply #1936 on: February 21, 2014, 11:33:01 AM »
Just finished this, really good quick airport, holiday, book.


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Re: books to read
« Reply #1937 on: February 21, 2014, 11:55:01 AM »
I'm about 250 pages into The Brothers Kamarazov right now. It's one of my brother's favorite novels and he's been trying to get me to read it for awhile. I just always lean more towards reading three or four shorter books than one super long one. Prior to this I've only read shorter stuff by Dostoyevsky like Poor People, Notes from the Underground, and The Crocodile (I think that's it) all of which I really liked. I'm liking The Brothers too, but it's kind of dragging for me, kind of like the British and American Romantic novels from around the same time that were also printed in serial where  it just seems like there's a lot of fat that could've been trimmed around the gems. The characters are a lot more interesting than the hoity-toity characters in a lot of those books though. Maybe it will all come together further along or maybe I'm just off on this but have about 500 pages left and am already looking forward to reading something else.

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« Reply #1938 on: February 21, 2014, 12:00:20 PM »
I'm about 250 pages into The Brothers Kamarazov right now. It's one of my brother's favorite novels and he's been trying to get me to read it for awhile. I just always lean more towards reading three or four shorter books than one super long one. Prior to this I've only read shorter stuff by Dostoyevsky like Poor People, Notes from the Underground, and The Crocodile (I think that's it) all of which I really liked. I'm liking The Brothers too, but it's kind of dragging for me, kind of like the British and American Romantic novels from around the same time that were also printed in serial where  it just seems like there's a lot of fat that could've been trimmed around the gems. The characters are a lot more interesting than the hoity-toity characters in a lot of those books though. Maybe it will all come together further along or maybe I'm just off on this but have about 500 pages left and am already looking forward to reading something else.
i really enjoyed that and crime and punishment. the latter got me all curt and vodka drunk but i more identified w/ the ivan brother in karamazov. maybe all the brothers and goofball dad at different points. when i lived in cleveland there was a band named 'stinking lizaveta' which i thought was sick. never listened to them but nice homage.

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« Reply #1939 on: February 21, 2014, 02:59:21 PM »
There are some fuckin' great parts in Brother Karamazov but it's a really long read... It's rewarding tough. It gives some fascinating views about Russia.

Recently finished this :


As always with this king of meta-writers there's stuff that I will not get before I've read it a least twice but this is always a pleasure to read Pynchon. Really funny as well.

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« Reply #1940 on: February 21, 2014, 06:56:02 PM »
I really liked Bleeding Edge.  I picked it up the day it came out and started the day after.  It felt almost like "Pynchon-lite" when I think about Gravity's Rainbow.  Probably because it had a more easily followed plot.  Very funny though and very well done.  I listened to this after I finished because I wanted to discuss it with people, but no one I knew read it.  It's a really cool discussion and I really liked Pynchon's treatment of everything.

http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/the_audio_book_club/2013/11/two_thirds_of_the_audio_book_club_liked_pynchon_s_new_novel_one_third_hated.html



Man, I've read a bit of Nabokov before.

Can't recall if it was one of his short stories or novels but it was a few years ago and I just couldn't finish it. Just the wrong time in my life I guess. There was a melancholy quality to it that just hit me too hard, maybe melancholy isn't the right word but that's the closest word I can find. It didn't make me feel good.


I wish you could remember which one it is, because for as melancholy, cruel, or "grotesque" as Nabokov can be sometimes, he is also an extremely uplifiting author and artist too in my opinion.  Except it comes out in different ways than being simplistic and sappy.  I've always known that, but the cool thing about this biography is it's reminding me of that aspect of his works.

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« Reply #1941 on: February 22, 2014, 01:25:35 AM »
I agree with you, It feels like Pynchon's last two books (especially Inherent Vice) are lighter, and that's obvious if you compare it to V or Gravity's Rainbow; yet it doesn't hurt or change much in the end, I still enjoy reading him a lot !

And thank you very much for the Podcast !

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« Reply #1943 on: February 26, 2014, 11:47:32 AM »
Finished the biography, so now I'm reading The Eye by Nabokov.  It's one of his shorter works (barely 100 pages).  I have a goal of 30 books this year and my last two took up a lot of time, so I'm focusing on some shorter ones to make up for it.

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« Reply #1944 on: February 26, 2014, 03:54:54 PM »
just finished 100 years of solititude, now reading the secret agent by joey joe joe jr. shabadoo conraad. both are dank as some purple nuggets of chronic

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« Reply #1945 on: February 26, 2014, 04:21:08 PM »
just finished 100 years of solititude, now reading the secret agent by joey joe joe jr. shabadoo conraad. both are dank as some purple nuggets of chronic

what did you think of 100 years of solitude? i tried to get into love in the time of cholera but it just never clicked for me.
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« Reply #1946 on: March 03, 2014, 07:34:13 PM »
just started 'lies my teacher told me' and so far it's stuff you already know [columbus was a mean motherfucker, helen keller was a socialist] but i'm guessing at some point it'll be all eye opening and shit. it goes into a little bit about how for brevity's sake people are deified in history so we don't learn that woodrow wilson was racist or mlk had affairs or whatever. stuff like that usedta be more important to me when i was a kid. i assume anyone who gets famous is half an asshole in their private life or else they'd only live a private life.

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« Reply #1947 on: March 03, 2014, 08:34:35 PM »
anyone is half an asshole.

One of the liberating truths literature offers.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1948 on: March 04, 2014, 02:58:43 AM »
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what did you think of 100 years of solitude? i tried to get into love in the time of cholera but it just never clicked for me.

it was great. when reading it you feel almost as if you are pulled into the temporality of the narrative, you could be reading for five minutes and it would feel like two hours or vice versa. it feels disorienting at first but once you get used to his style and begin to differentiate between all the characters with the same/similar names (the family tree at the front of the book helps) you can't put it down.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1949 on: March 04, 2014, 05:42:04 AM »