books to read

[Locbrew]

finished catch 22 last night, what a great fucking book. wasn't too stoked on the first 50-100 pages, feeling that it was getting redundant, but once i got past the hump... damn, it was good. that book tells the story of all humanity.

immediately following the conclusion of 22, i tore through WS Burroughs Queer, which wasn't really a great read, but i was through in less than 2 hours.

Post Office by Bukowski is a good read.

I also finally finished the Lord of the Rings books last week and i was kind of sad to see them go, i enjoyed company from middle earth quite a bit...

I'm going to start reading that, a coworker has it and I asked him if I could borrow it, I've only heard good things about it.

[General Cornrow Wallace]

Im reading The Tao of the Wu written by the RZA right now so far its an excellent book definitely recommended to any Wu fan

[Alan]

It's about this guy.

[Vegetable Lasagna]

Read this in one sitting. Good stuff.

[Binomial Nomenclature]

[frig deuce]

a biography of albert camus, i am absolutely in love with this man.

[weedpop]

It's about this guy.

I know it's a bit "steretypical arrogant north american" to scoff at the ineffectual justice systems of European countries but holy shit, did they ever fuck up with that guy.

[burm]

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maybe im not sophisticated or maybe i gave up too early on, but as i read into everything is illuminated i found it so hard to follow and so uninteresting i just put it away...
anyway currently hocus pocus

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it is kinda hard to read, definitely a book you have to read a few times to grasp whats going on. I really like Foer's work tho. on a side note as im reading "eating animals" i get a call from the local grocery store about the steak taquitos i just ate have been recalled because they may contain e coli... fucking great!!!

Yeah, I gave up on it as well. It just felt so uninteresting, and I had something else I wanted to read more. Might pick it up again sometime.

This is my next read, I've been eagerly awaiting to get to it:

[everypennyfedcar]

Just finished reading Blood Meridian, so fucked:

"one of the Delawares emerged from the smoke with a naked infant dangling in each hand
and squatted at a ring of midden stones and swung them by the heels each in turn and
bashed their heads against the stones so that the brains burst forth through the fontanel in a bloody spew..."
 

[Brewseph]

^haha damn, The mental picture I got from that was FUCKED.

[sven thorkel]

i liked it

[everypennyfedcar]

^haha damn, The mental picture I got from that was FUCKED.

Thing is, that's not even the worst of it. Those infants got away with their scalps it sounds like.

[tag_king]

Reading this right now. Pretty funny so far. It has come highly recommended but some really funny people I know.

[carlwinslow]

i tried to read this but the english slang got the best of me

[VictoriousOG]

Started this today, seen the movie, but never read the book.

[Blue Fescue]

Both these books by the Waughs are great.  I have never seen the movies and never want to.

Island in the Sun by Alec Waugh- about the british and a murder in a caribbean island



And Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

[everypennyfedcar]

Started this today, seen the movie, but never read the book.

book is better, have fun.

[Des Esseintes]

Last few books I read

[russ]

[All Hail Wu Welsh]

I liked this book alot, it was extremely insightful on the Hell's Angels and their mentality, as well as you giving a look a Thompson before he became the Hunter Thompson everyone knows and loves.  I just finished Fear and loathing in Las Vegas and am moving onto Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, I hope to get through most of his major works before 2010 is over.

[russ]

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I liked this book alot, it was extremely insightful on the Hell's Angels and their mentality, as well as you giving a look a Thompson before he became the Hunter Thompson everyone knows and loves.  I just finished Fear and loathing in Las Vegas and am moving onto Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, I hope to get through most of his major works before 2010 is over.

You should also check out "The Rum Diary". Thompson's shot at a semi-fiction.

[Locbrew]

Finally got it yesterday, haven't started it yet though, will tonight.

[Brandon]

reading and re-reading my copy to pieces...

[kilgore.]

[sven thorkel]

in the process of reading this for a paper i'm writing. i love learning about the zone of alienation

[carlwinslow]

Im reading The Tao of the Wu written by the RZA right now so far its an excellent book definitely recommended to any Wu fan

have you read the wu manual? anything by rza should be good, gonna check these fine american classics out fosho

[kilgore.]

[Blue Fescue]

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Im reading The Tao of the Wu written by the RZA right now so far its an excellent book definitely recommended to any Wu fan

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have you read the wu manual? anything by rza should be good, gonna check these fine american classics out fosho

about 40% of the tao of the wu is good the rest is some RZA bullshit.

Just got this



supposed to be really good, the back says:

"in the town of bundayyabba, a young schoolmaster discovers gambling, ruins himself financially, then plunges headlong toward his own destruction in many other ways, alcoholic, sexual and spiritual"

[Nosferatu]

I recently read:






A Scanner Darkly is so damn good.  The first Phillip K Dick I've read and will be reading alot more.  Celine is also really cool and I'm reading some of Death on the Installment Plan before classes really start back up.

[kilgore.]