Author Topic: books to read (Read 507372 times)

oyolar · « **Reply #630 on:** October 07, 2010, 09:09:52 PM »

Quote from: kilgore. on October 07, 2010, 01:15:02 AM

burroughs is the fucking man.

That he is. I'm taking a class called "Reading the Road Trip" and I'm re-reading Lolita for it right now. Once that's done this weekend, I'm starting on On The Road, which I'm excited for because I'm a fan of the Beats, and later on I get to finally read my first Cormac McCarthy book-The Road. I'm pretty excited for it.

Inbred Jed · « **Reply #631 on:** October 08, 2010, 09:26:51 AM »

Burroughs is terrible. He has no personality. He doesn't even mention he has a wife until halfway through the book and you don't even know where she is most of the time.

Mackattack · « **Reply #632 on:** October 08, 2010, 04:34:31 PM »

I think he was a homosexual. Might be the reason the wife is insignificant.

kilgore. · « **Reply #633 on:** October 08, 2010, 05:11:51 PM »

burroughs fucked mad mexican boys, he never had the heart to talk about his dead wife.

David · « **Reply #634 on:** October 08, 2010, 05:29:25 PM »

Finished some of Hemingway's short stories + The Old Man and The Sea.

This is next

after that I'll start on this...

he catches a lot of shit for the stuff he writes but I think I'll give it a go.

Anything by Thomas Pynchon will be after that.

don't think anyone mentioned White Noise, yet.

Edit: This

verbal ham · « **Reply #635 on:** October 09, 2010, 12:28:57 PM »

"Burroughs had one child in 1947, William Seward Burroughs III, with his second wife Joan Vollmer, who died in 1951 in Mexico City after Burroughs accidentally shot her in the head while drunk. Burroughs died at his home in Lawrence, Kansas after suffering a heart attack in 1997."

..gnarbars

kilgore. · « **Reply #636 on:** October 28, 2010, 03:21:09 PM »

Mooley · « **Reply #637 on:** October 28, 2010, 07:15:56 PM »

Finally read Gatsby for a class this semester. I'm pretty glad I left it until I had a mind to appreciate it, because that's honestly the most well-written prose I've ever read. Pretty funny that Fitz himself claimed it as the best American novel, he wasn't wrong.

VictoriousOG · « **Reply #638 on:** October 28, 2010, 07:21:10 PM »

I love the Gatsby.

Started this one last night.

RipGrip · « **Reply #639 on:** October 28, 2010, 07:27:06 PM »

Quote from: Victor on October 07, 2010, 02:40:54 PM

Just reached Part II of this. Cormac McCarthy writes so damn good.

WIN

Smell Good · « **Reply #640 on:** October 28, 2010, 07:31:45 PM »

Maybe around 3/4 or more through the book.

Narcissus · « **Reply #641 on:** November 05, 2010, 08:56:12 AM »

This book slays. Barnes is funny and sharp.

It's about how the world sucks and then you get older/mellower/more apathetic and accept it for what it is. Good British bleariness. Sort of making a case for the middle class suburban family life eventuality that becomes true for most.

Inbred Jed · « **Reply #642 on:** November 05, 2010, 10:17:53 AM »

I tried to read Electric Kool Aid Acid Test and was completely annoyed by the writing style before I got 100 pages in.

Now I'm reading this.....

Mackattack · « **Reply #643 on:** November 05, 2010, 10:27:08 AM »

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Short read. Almost a perfect book.

READ THIS BOOK.
Not a lame self help book.
READ THIS BOOK.
His philosophy is spot on. Sorts through existential confusion in a profound and eloquent manner.
Read this book... Can't stress it enough.

VictoriousOG · « **Reply #644 on:** November 05, 2010, 10:29:37 AM »

Quote from: Macklin on November 05, 2010, 10:27:08 AM

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Short read. Almost a perfect book.

READ THIS BOOK.
Not a lame self help book.
READ THIS BOOK.
His philosophy is spot on. Sorts through existential confusion in a profound and eloquent manner.
Read this book... Can't stress it enough.

I was stoked to find this in my Library's collection, I'll check it out when I'm done with these other two books.

kilgore. · « **Reply #645 on:** November 09, 2010, 12:53:27 AM »

buttpirate · « **Reply #646 on:** November 09, 2010, 02:26:54 AM »

just finished:

liked them both.

got this for cheap:

half read it and then got bored. some of the writing is okay, but all the stories are the same

about to read:

Beer Keg Peg Leg · « **Reply #647 on:** November 09, 2010, 06:39:55 AM »

sametelt · « **Reply #648 on:** November 09, 2010, 02:40:46 PM »

Quote from: buttpirate on November 09, 2010, 02:26:54 AM

Woah, that's a lot of Harold Bloom.

Acrid Avid Jam Shred · « **Reply #649 on:** November 09, 2010, 03:40:03 PM »

so good... all about SST

a play??? about the murder of children??

oyolar · « **Reply #650 on:** November 09, 2010, 07:35:06 PM »

Quote from: kilgore. on November 09, 2010, 12:53:27 AM

Good luck. Took me like 2-3 years to finish.

buttpirate · « **Reply #651 on:** November 09, 2010, 11:13:55 PM »

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Woah, that's a lot of Harold Bloom.

yeah it is a tome. I read an interview with him where he talked about his anxiety of influence theory, dismissed feminists and basically jacked off shakespeare. should be an interesting book.

S. Samyro · « **Reply #652 on:** November 09, 2010, 11:20:48 PM »

homo sacer · « **Reply #653 on:** November 09, 2010, 11:28:04 PM »

important

GISM · « **Reply #654 on:** November 10, 2010, 02:40:37 AM »

FILIFE · « **Reply #655 on:** November 10, 2010, 05:08:32 AM »

Just finished Brett Easton Ellis, American Physco.
Currently about quarter the way through War and Peace, Tolstoy is no joke!

Smell Good · « **Reply #656 on:** November 10, 2010, 12:46:37 PM »

SLAP required reading:

Brett Easton Ellis
Vonnegut
Bukowski
Cormac McCarthy

$:-\$

I swear, every goddamn page of this thread...

Des Esseintes · « **Reply #657 on:** November 10, 2010, 01:39:34 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:

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.

Inbred Jed · « **Reply #658 on:** November 10, 2010, 01:53:56 PM »

The Border Trilogy

bosnianslut · « **Reply #659 on:** November 10, 2010, 02:07:13 PM »

Quote from: Inbred Jed on November 10, 2010, 01:53:56 PM

The Border Trilogy

This is next for me, just finished The Road and Blood Meridian.

apologies if abp

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