Author Topic: books to read (Read 508033 times)

sven thorkel · « **Reply #750 on:** January 02, 2011, 01:41:36 PM »

Quote from: VictoriousOG on January 01, 2011, 03:13:33 PM

Yeah I totally agree, people just take skateboarders for retards, but we're really not with the exception of a few people.

Wait, I think you lack reading comprehension skills.

floop · « **Reply #751 on:** January 02, 2011, 01:54:35 PM »

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I forgot about this thread for a while. Here's what I've been up to for the past while (as if anyone cares)

Really good. Funny insights into phony intellectualism and consumerism. I haven't read any other DeLillo novels but this one seems to be a good starting point.

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This is a great book and also the only one of his that I have read. I hear good things about his other works. I should re-read this one.

WHITE NOISE is fantastic. i enjoyed MAO II and AMERICANA also

Locbrew · « **Reply #752 on:** January 02, 2011, 02:47:33 PM »

The only book at the beach house that looked interesting, about Megalodon sharks and shit.

weedpop · « **Reply #753 on:** January 02, 2011, 03:05:29 PM »

Quote from: VictoriousOG on January 01, 2011, 03:13:33 PM

Yeah I totally agree, people just take skateboarders for retards, but we're really not with the exception of a few people.

That is the exact opposite of what he just said. You should probably try to master the reading of short paragraphs before you attempt that novel, big guy.

Mackattack · « **Reply #754 on:** January 02, 2011, 03:34:04 PM »

Leonard Cohen is one incomprehensibly talented son of a bitch...

I'm 14 pages into this book, and it's already one of the top ten books I've read in my relatively short lifetime.

Strange Firefighter · « **Reply #755 on:** January 03, 2011, 02:19:06 AM »

GISM · « **Reply #756 on:** January 03, 2011, 12:19:44 PM »

picking this up again after only getting a hundred or so pages in when I put it down. I have a hard time finishing books sometimes.

Bipsmound · « **Reply #757 on:** January 03, 2011, 12:33:02 PM »

Quote from: Smell Good on January 01, 2011, 06:57:08 PM

I'm surprised that not more of you SLAP dudes read Raymond Carver's stories.

I read a collection of his called "Where I'm Calling From" recently. Some good stuff in there. I like how his stories are all pretty basic plotwise, but there's good depth to 'em. He manages to squeeze a lot into a few pages.

sametelt · « **Reply #758 on:** January 03, 2011, 02:01:29 PM »

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I'm surprised that not more of you SLAP dudes read Raymond Carver's stories.
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I read a collection of his called "Where I'm Calling From" recently. Some good stuff in there. I like how his stories are all pretty basic plotwise, but there's good depth to 'em. He manages to squeeze a lot into a few pages.

I've only read "Cathedral" in some antology, been meaning to check out some more of his stuff. I remember some guying referring to Carver's style as "Post-Alcoholic Blue-Collar Minimalist Hyperrealism". Pretty fitting.

CUDDLEMONSTER · « **Reply #759 on:** January 03, 2011, 02:46:02 PM »

Quote from: GISM on January 03, 2011, 12:19:44 PM

picking this up again after only getting a hundred or so pages in when I put it down. I have a hard time finishing books sometimes.

it only gets harder. enjoy the pages that require a mirror to read or that are written in a spiral.

i'm kind of taking a break from "serious" literature and am reading clive barker's "books of blood 1-3." i usually hate people that act like low brow is somehow always more fun than serious or interesting anything, but i totally forgot how breezy reading can be until you pick up someone like stephen king again. a lot of stories in books of blood are good writing wise, clive barker isn't going to be getting a nobel or anything, but i'll be damned if 50 pages minimum don't go by every time i pick it up. it's like popcorn.

macgruber · « **Reply #760 on:** January 03, 2011, 07:10:17 PM »

just got a couple new ones for christmas:

a moveable feast by hemingway

everything is illuminated by foer

revenge of the lawn/the abortion/ so the wind won't blow it all away by richard brautigan

self help by lorrie moore

a confederacy of dunces by john kennedy toole

toque · « **Reply #761 on:** January 03, 2011, 11:14:15 PM »

I read A Movable Feast and it made me want to read some F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby was a good short read. I couldn't put it down. This one is a bit slower but I'm still enjoying it.

I also got a Paul Auster book for Christmas that was a real page turner. I want to read more from him,

My older sister keeps recommending White Noise so I'm sure I'll pick that one up at some point.

Smell Good · « **Reply #762 on:** January 04, 2011, 05:27:49 AM »

Quote from: forks/knives save lives on January 03, 2011, 11:14:15 PM

I read A Movable Feast and it made me want to read some F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby was a good short read. I couldn't put it down. This one is a bit slower but I'm still enjoying it.

I also got a Paul Auster book for Christmas that was a real page turner. I want to read more from him,

My older sister keeps recommending White Noise so I'm sure I'll pick that one up at some point.

Yes! I just started New York Trilogy, it's my first foray into Paul Auster's books.

deaner · « **Reply #763 on:** January 04, 2011, 07:34:19 AM »

Quote from: CUDDLEMONSTER on January 03, 2011, 02:46:02 PM

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picking this up again after only getting a hundred or so pages in when I put it down. I have a hard time finishing books sometimes.
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it only gets harder. enjoy the pages that require a mirror to read or that are written in a spiral.

i'm kind of taking a break from "serious" literature and am reading clive barker's "books of blood 1-3." i usually hate people that act like low brow is somehow always more fun than serious or interesting anything, but i totally forgot how breezy reading can be until you pick up someone like stephen king again. a lot of stories in books of blood are good writing wise, clive barker isn't going to be getting a nobel or anything, but i'll be damned if 50 pages minimum don't go by every time i pick it up. it's like popcorn.

that book is crazy

i just started this

David · « **Reply #764 on:** January 04, 2011, 08:23:49 AM »

Quote from: ??? on December 30, 2010, 10:19:18 AM

Quote from: sven thorkel on December 29, 2010, 12:55:52 PM
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I forgot about this thread for a while. Here's what I've been up to for the past while (as if anyone cares)

Really good. Funny insights into phony intellectualism and consumerism. I haven't read any other DeLillo novels but this one seems to be a good starting point.

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This is a great book and also the only one of his that I have read. I hear good things
about his other works. I should re-read this one.

'Hitler Studies.'

This one's for the Gipper,
http://www.geist.com/essays/leading-men

Buddy G · « **Reply #765 on:** January 04, 2011, 02:52:04 PM »

Quote from: forks/knives save lives on January 03, 2011, 11:14:15 PM

I read A Movable Feast and it made me want to read some F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby was a good short read. I couldn't put it down. This one is a bit slower but I'm still enjoying it.

I also got a Paul Auster book for Christmas that was a real page turner. I want to read more from him,

My older sister keeps recommending White Noise so I'm sure I'll pick that one up at some point.

i love f scott fitzgerald and the whole jazz age thing, the ending of this side of paradise killed me.
i'm reading the beautiful and the damned at the moment and it's a pretty good read. after that i'm going on to invisible by paul auster, i'm looking forward to it, new york trilogy is an amazing book.

i got a kindle recently and fucking love it, definitely think i'll be reading more now.

CigaretteBeer · « **Reply #766 on:** January 04, 2011, 03:56:20 PM »

Quote from: VictoriousOG on December 30, 2010, 10:28:39 PM

Has anyone here had their hand at writing they're own novel?

I once tried but gave up after about 20 pages. It felt like I was trying to stretch everything out and it just got boring as hell. I really enjoy writing short stories though. Maybe I'd have to think of each chapter as a short story.

I just read Catcher in the Rye for the first time. It's a great book and I suggest reading it if you haven't.

kilgore. · « **Reply #767 on:** January 07, 2011, 01:34:18 AM »

Quote from: Macklin on January 02, 2011, 03:34:04 PM

Leonard Cohen is one incomprehensibly talented son of a bitch...

I'm 14 pages into this book, and it's already one of the top ten books I've read in my relatively short lifetime.

yes.

Blue Fescue · « **Reply #768 on:** January 07, 2011, 02:02:29 AM »

I got a kindle for christmas which is pretty sweet. I read 3 Raymond Chandler books and am starting Dashiell Hammett books my dad read to me when I was young.

sven thorkel · « **Reply #769 on:** January 13, 2011, 04:20:08 PM »

Just finishing this one. It's amazing but long (you need quite a bit of free time). I would suggest it to anyone interested in old timey baseball and the Cold War. However, don't let the cover fool you. It has nothing to do with the war on terror or anything like that which might be a buzz kill for you 9/11 conspiracy types (it was written before 9/11).

Hexagon · « **Reply #770 on:** January 13, 2011, 07:50:39 PM »

Nathanael West - Collected writings

Jerzy Kosinski - "The Painted Bird"

F. Scott Fitzgerald - "Pat Hobby Stories"

David Sedaris - Everything by the man

Albert Camus - "The Stranger"

Denis Johnson - "Jesus' Son"

penguin meat · « **Reply #771 on:** January 13, 2011, 07:59:18 PM »

I feel like I posted this before when I was drunk sometime, but recently I was walking my dog and found a box of books in the road under a tunnel. Picked up a copy of "On the Road" and it's turing out to be pretty decent.

Then I saw some mexicans drinking smirnoff on the curb in front of their house. They were very nice and had a lot of questions about finding a dog like mine.

3.14 · « **Reply #772 on:** January 14, 2011, 09:24:05 AM »

wait till the 22nd?
http://www.amazon.com/Boob-Collection-Stories-Nonsense-Magazine/dp/098666250X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1295025779&sr=8-1

Inbred Jed · « **Reply #773 on:** January 14, 2011, 10:00:05 AM »

I left a library book on the light rail. After running out of renewal chances I now owe $138. If I had that kind of cheddar I wouldn't be riding the light rail and getting my entertainment from the damn library.

sven thorkel · « **Reply #774 on:** January 14, 2011, 03:51:45 PM »

You could be even cheaper. Transit systems are usually good forms of entertainment in themselves; no need to go to the damn library.

Ronald Wilson Reagan · « **Reply #775 on:** January 14, 2011, 06:14:06 PM »

Not to mention by not going at all you'd save transit fare.

On topic though, I just read Of Mice and Men. I guess most people read it in middle/high school, but somehow I never actually had it assigned. That's one fucked up book. Really amazing. The characters are so well written, which really makes the story. I totally understand why a teacher would assign it.

On the non-fiction front, I just read a book that is kind of esoteric, but if anybody is into education, particularly transformative education, this book is both practical and inspirational. If you are thinking of becoming a teacher and want something to inspire you, are interested in education and social issues related to it, or already are a teacher, I recommend:

background on the authors: Myles Horton founded the Highlander folk school, a school for organizers that educated leaders such as Martin Luther King jr. and Rosa Parks, as well as many other leaders of the civil rights and labor movements, his theories helped form the model for the freedom schools in Mississippi in the 1960's.
Paulo Freire is pretty much the guru of transformative education. His book "pedagogy of the oppressed" is the most assigned book in in the top 100 education programs today, which is crazy because it is very radical.
oh, the book is available for free here:
http://books.google.com/books?id=zU8uFA4hlY0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=We+make+the+road+by+walking&hl=en&ei=pgIxTcG1H4L4sAO5wLSPBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

Buddy G · « **Reply #776 on:** January 16, 2011, 11:10:58 AM »

just started this.

Claude Tanner · « **Reply #777 on:** January 16, 2011, 01:12:12 PM »

Just finishing up this one today. I like it a lot, pretty easy read (however, some of the Sumerian Mythology stuff is a bit confusing) and pretty funny.

About to start this one,

Lately I've been thinking that being a homicide detective would be a pretty bad ass career (mostly because I have been watching the Wire alot), so I'm hoping that this book scares me out of ever trying to pursue becoming a po-lice.

GISM · « **Reply #778 on:** January 16, 2011, 01:41:03 PM »

How long does it take you guys to finish books? There's a lot I only get 1/2 to 3/4 before putting down and forgetting about it. I got to like it a lot to finish or else I'm just forcing it.

Blue Fescue · « **Reply #779 on:** January 16, 2011, 06:40:26 PM »

I didn't see the movie but I heard it wasn't very good.
The book is really good. All about secret military programs

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