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Re: books to read
« Reply #810 on: January 17, 2011, 05:46:10 PM »
i'm too lazy to look if anyone's mentioned em. but the last book I finished was Breakfast of Champions, that was really good.
i just got Atlas Shrugged, hoping to be as interesting as I've been told.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #811 on: January 17, 2011, 05:50:59 PM »
I'm re-reading Tropic of Cancer. Great book.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #812 on: January 17, 2011, 06:20:42 PM »
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breakfast of champions is awesome, as it Akira.

Im still waiting for my library to get the last book for me but Im pretty excited to get it done.

X'ed out looks interesting, whats it about?
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X'ed Out is about? ? a drug addled youngster having a hard time dealing with reality.? ? I enjoyed it, but it's supposedly only the first part of a three part storyline.? ? Charles Burns takes forever to come out with new stuff because he does like 10 drafts of each panel or something regular like that, so that book might leave you hanging a bit.? ? He's fuckin stellar though if you haven't read him before, so I'd recommend any of his other stuff, Black Hole, Big Baby, Skin Deep, it's all gravy with biscuits.

Since writing that I actually discovered and interview with him in a recent issue of vice that was in my toilet. It pretty interesting, he talks about the influence of his childhood Tin Tin obsession on his later work, which come to think ? of it you can see pretty clearly even on that cover posted above.

So yeah a trip to the library is in order...and here is the interview if you are interested.

http://www.viceland.com/int/v17n12/htdocs/charles-burns-640.php
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Re: books to read
« Reply #813 on: January 17, 2011, 10:33:50 PM »


the lost city of z-

really interesting read about exploration in the amazon and particulary colonel fawcett. people just arent made like this guy anymore. crazy story, give it a try.



Maus. A graphic novel/comic about the authors father and his relationship with him. Highly recommend this to anyone, its a quick read and the terrors are masked by the cartoon animals. read this for an english class.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #814 on: January 18, 2011, 12:16:03 AM »
Haaaaaa so stoked. Ordered some books saturday, one of which "Ol' Mah & teh C" by Hemingway, just because of it's legacy, stoked!

Also after some spiritual drug trip(xtc) I decided to get The Dharma Bums


aand I was thinking of getting The Electric Kool-Aid Acid test, but should I try LSD myself first? Won't reading it first spoil my un-acid ass?

I was super excited to read The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, but I just could not get into it. I think I just wasn't in the mood to deal with figuring out the acid trip narrative for the class I was reading it for. Or maybe it's just because I've never done acid.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #815 on: January 18, 2011, 04:45:53 AM »
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breakfast of champions is awesome, as it Akira.

Im still waiting for my library to get the last book for me but Im pretty excited to get it done.

X'ed out looks interesting, whats it about?
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X'ed Out is about  a drug addled youngster having a hard time dealing with reality.  I enjoyed it, but it's supposedly only the first part of a three part storyline.  Charles Burns takes forever to come out with new stuff because he does like 10 drafts of each panel or something regular like that, so that book might leave you hanging a bit.  He's fuckin stellar though if you haven't read him before, so I'd recommend any of his other stuff, Black Hole, Big Baby, Skin Deep, it's all gravy with biscuits.

black hole sounds good, going to read that next.  I can understand the 10 drafts of each panel thing, because none of the panels in X'ed out ever feel superfluous.  I was surprised by how thin it was, and then by how much detail you pick up on the second read.  definitely worth checking out

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Re: books to read
« Reply #816 on: January 19, 2011, 01:48:35 PM »

From Max Brooks, bestselling author of World War Z, an original story about a global war between humans and zombies seen through the eyes of Vampires. Or you can just call it the vampire version of An Inconvenient Truth.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-01-14/max-brooks-original-zombie-story-from-world-war-z-author/

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Re: books to read
« Reply #817 on: January 20, 2011, 10:55:57 AM »
If anyone has an interest in early Christianity texts, canonical and non-canonical, read anything by Bart Ehrman; he is one of the authorities on the subject. I just read Lost Christianities: The Battle for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew and The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot. Both of those are great.
Im currently reading Lost Scriptures: Books That Did not make it into the New Testament, by Ehrman.

Also reading A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin.
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Re: books to read
« Reply #818 on: January 24, 2011, 02:17:29 PM »
I'm reading all these books at once. i haven't finished them but damn are they good.

I first read this along with his Expressions book in 7th grade and it was really difficult to understand but i think i grasp it better now

My mother dated a black panther when we lived in a Hebrew commune and he gave me this book.


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Re: books to read
« Reply #819 on: January 24, 2011, 03:01:39 PM »

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Re: books to read
« Reply #820 on: January 24, 2011, 08:55:14 PM »
just started this.



finished this a few weeks ago...it gave me lots of boners!

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Re: books to read
« Reply #821 on: January 25, 2011, 02:40:43 PM »
Finished "The Sirens of Titan" last week and since the Dave Carnie book still isn't on amazon, I started on "Trainspotting". It's not bad so far, the literary style reminds me a little bit of "The Rules of Attraction"
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Re: books to read
« Reply #822 on: January 25, 2011, 03:58:52 PM »
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just started this.


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finished this a few weeks ago...it gave me lots of boners!

nearly finished it...zero so far.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #823 on: January 26, 2011, 12:56:21 AM »
the layout in house of leaves is nothing short of fucked up

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Re: books to read
« Reply #824 on: January 26, 2011, 01:19:48 AM »
i meet jonathan safran foer tomorrow, i'll tell you if he's as much of a prick as i've heard.
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Re: books to read
« Reply #825 on: January 26, 2011, 02:23:30 AM »
i meet jonathan safran foer tomorrow, i'll tell you if he's as much of a prick as i've heard.

Are you in the NYU Creative Writing program or something?


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Re: books to read
« Reply #826 on: January 26, 2011, 10:11:06 AM »
the layout in house of leaves is nothing short of fucked up
i'm half way through it.  It's a difficult read, but entertaining. 

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Re: books to read
« Reply #827 on: January 26, 2011, 11:35:50 AM »
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i meet jonathan safran foer tomorrow, i'll tell you if he's as much of a prick as i've heard.
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Are you in the NYU Creative Writing program or something?



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Re: books to read
« Reply #828 on: January 28, 2011, 01:52:39 PM »
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i'm too lazy to look if anyone's mentioned em. but the last book I finished was Breakfast of Champions, that was really good.
i just got Atlas Shrugged, hoping to be as interesting as I've been told.
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Re: books to read
« Reply #829 on: January 28, 2011, 05:14:48 PM »
i meet jonathan safran foer tomorrow, i'll tell you if he's as much of a prick as i've heard.

Does he look as much like Harry Potter in person as I've been lead to believe?

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Re: books to read
« Reply #830 on: January 28, 2011, 05:42:40 PM »
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just started this.


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finished this a few weeks ago...it gave me lots of boners!
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nearly finished it...zero so far.


I pushed myself through half of this book and still didn't see what made it a classic. maybe back when it was written a lot of the stuff was some new age, out the box type ideas but...i don't know, the story line was cool enough I guess, but his style of writing didn't do a damn thing for me.

I know its a book people have to read in high school, but I just read The Grapes of Wrath and fell in love with steinbeck. That book totally humbled me. I'd say a must-read for anyone caught up in the fast paced lifestyle of the 21st century.
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Re: books to read
« Reply #831 on: January 28, 2011, 08:25:21 PM »
Even better than the film.




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Re: books to read
« Reply #832 on: January 28, 2011, 11:40:58 PM »
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i meet jonathan safran foer tomorrow, i'll tell you if he's as much of a prick as i've heard.
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Does he look as much like Harry Potter in person as I've been lead to believe?

yeah, he sort of looks like a grown-up, vegan harry potter.  he's actually a really nice guy, he just kept turning the conversation back around to himself, haha.  i'm going to be working with him a lot in the next year and a half.  let's see how it goes.

i'm supposed to write a short story for him by sunday, and i have a page and a half.  dope

anybody want to be my ghostwriter?  i think that skating is what makes my creativity run, because since winter hit, and i haven't been able to skate, i haven't been able to write shit.
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Re: books to read
« Reply #833 on: January 29, 2011, 12:45:22 AM »
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i meet jonathan safran foer tomorrow, i'll tell you if he's as much of a prick as i've heard.
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Does he look as much like Harry Potter in person as I've been lead to believe?
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yeah, he sort of looks like a grown-up, vegan harry potter.  he's actually a really nice guy, he just kept turning the conversation back around to himself, haha.  i'm going to be working with him a lot in the next year and a half.  let's see how it goes.

i'm supposed to write a short story for him by sunday, and i have a page and a half.  dope

anybody want to be my ghostwriter?  i think that skating is what makes my creativity run, because since winter hit, and i haven't been able to skate, i haven't been able to write shit.

I tried to read Eating Animals but it seemed like he just kept repeating the same things

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Re: books to read
« Reply #834 on: January 29, 2011, 02:05:04 PM »


Really liked this one. I recommend it to any Dick-head.



Soo good. A good combination of intelligent humor and slapstick comedy. I wish David Foster Wallace wrote more fiction novels (can't wait for The Pale King). 
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Re: books to read
« Reply #835 on: January 29, 2011, 04:01:59 PM »

Soo good. A good combination of intelligent humor and slapstick comedy. I wish David Foster Wallace wrote more fiction novels (can't wait for The Pale King). 

i know, he ruled.  why do so many awesome writers kill themselves? 
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« Reply #836 on: February 01, 2011, 05:37:51 AM »


I was looking at book on sale and I picked up this Irvine Welsh book and then next to it I saw this book that had an Irvine Welsh recommendation on the cover so I thought it must be good as well. I'm often amazed at how the publishers are so effective at styling the covers of books, since most times I can just pick book by judging the spines and know I'll like them.

This one's been fun. It's mainly about drugging and boozing and written in a candid vivid druggy-boozy funny way with absolutely no chapters or even paragraphs so it's really hard to stop reading at any point.
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Re: books to read
« Reply #837 on: February 03, 2011, 08:44:49 PM »
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Re: books to read
« Reply #838 on: February 03, 2011, 10:09:54 PM »
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Re: books to read
« Reply #839 on: February 04, 2011, 07:21:22 AM »
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Soo good. A good combination of intelligent humor and slapstick comedy. I wish David Foster Wallace wrote more fiction novels (can't wait for The Pale King). 
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i know, he ruled.  why do so many awesome writers kill themselves? 

Seriously so excited about the pale king; it's out  in a couple months isn't it. Have you read any of the extracts - it sounds amazing