books to read

[SFblah]

About to start this which I’ve been stalling on because it’s 1,336 pages. All about the guy who basically built modern day New York.

[handsclapanin]

The Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter.
This was the best book I've read in a while. A fast easy read.
About a orphan raised by his Cherokee indian grandparents in the 30's.
So good. Had me laughing and crying on the same page.

[Alan]

Just finished this. I quite like Tabucchi's prose. Not sure if it's the right description, but it's just on the right side of sparse.




Reading Our Band Could Be Your Life now. I kinda always ignored music non-fiction, but so far I like it.

[Peter Zagreus]

[childhood]

David Lynch-Catching the Big Fish
https://wetransfer.com/downloads/a2216a850e4f3559a779c340d0de8b1920180905232042/1ec5de6e5495c2ff5bfce66c6759d34320180905232042/8fdf17

The complete (I think?) writings of Kurt Vonnegut
https://wetransfer.com/downloads/cc2c29f877e097d68d196c11bc5f605120180905232502/2e37f443eb67016e5a376f7260baeab120180905232502/fd070f

[AnotherHardDayAtTheOffice]

I just tore my ACL and meniscus, which sucks really bad, because I won't be able to skate for a while (if at all...). At least I found the time to finish this motherfucker of a book:



Definitely one of the more readable "classics". I really enjoyed it, even though it was sort of a challenge at times.

With so much time at hand, I also read some other books on the sides. I'm not sure anyone's familiar with Tuvia Tenenbom. Born in Israel, he mostly writes for German newspapers and also founded the Jewish Theatre of New York. For these two books, he travelled around Germany and the States for months, talking to people and trying to find out makes both countries' national identity. Sounds strange, but he has a way of being both funny and asking the right questions that bring to light people's true beliefs. Pretty much some kind of gonzo journalism. His books are both hilarious and chilling at the same time, because it reveals how racist and antisemitic most people are once you scratch below the surface. Really, really good stuff!

[Mystical Leader]

Recently I've been reading early 20th century soviet poetry; Hlebnikow, Tsvetajeva,Ahmatova, Mandelstam, Pasternak.. I like how they describe the horrors of their times in a different more personal and colourful ways than say historybooks, news or documents..

I find a lot of similarities with current times and post WW1 era world.. It's a trip to realize life is all just a loop and we humans do the same mistakes and things again and again..

And also this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_the_Dead Just some spells and stuff like that about how to achive the best in after life.. ..cool stuff though. Those ancient egyptians were up to something we hopefully will some day understand..

This isn't the right thread about this but I've noticed similarities about current day use of emojies and .gifs as to what hieroglyphs were in ancient times.. Are pictografs more efficient way of expressing than say typography? Where are we heading with it? Could there be a universal language/system that everybody would use, like numbers or something like that. I know of esperanto but but that quite never hit the mark..

[I sniff Jim Gagne's butthole all the time]

And also this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_the_Dead Just some spells and stuff like that about how to achive the best in after life.. ..cool stuff though.

don't read that book out loud. next thing you know your wife will be host to candarian demons and you'll be forced to lock her in the fruit cellar.

[ChuckRamone]

the rest is noise is good so far. it’s about 20th century composers. nonfiction/history written in a narrative style.

[Peter Zagreus]

Copped the paperback.
I love paperbacks.

[Alan]

That's one of my favourite books of all times. Enjoy.

[LB]

get your cock out by mark manning aka zodiac mindwarp.  the sickest funniest most wrong love story ever written.  hialrious.

1177bc the year civilisation collapsed.  within 100 years all the bronze age empires were gone

the power of now by eckhart tolle.  a life changing mindset

[Peter Zagreus]

That's one of my favourite books of all times. Enjoy.

Thanks, man. I'm really peeling through this thing. Loving it.
I haven't read a lot of fiction in the last few years, so I've kind of lost my thread as far as finding new stuff to read. Do you (or anyone else) have any recommendations, maybe in the same vein as Eco?

[woodinbrine]

My attention span has been too short for novels lately, so I've been reading short stories.
Two of my favorites that I've read the last few months are Norwegian and unlikely to be translated any time soon so they may not be that relevant to post here but yeah anyway; Det Ble en Rotte! by Maia K. Siverts and Korte Meisterverk by Gaute M. Sortland. The first one was really surrealistic and hilarious, one of the funniest books I've ever read. Korte Meisterverk was funny too, but with a really relatable sadness to it as well.
A little while back I read Welcome to the Monkey House and Palm Sunday by Kurt Vonnegut, he's one of my all time favorites. Both funny and serious and also his stuff is well worth reading more than once.
Right now I'm re-reading 21 Stories by Graham Greene, I like his style of writing.
Next book on the list is The Wall by Jean-Paul Sartre, my girlfriend just read it and thought it was great so I'll have to check it out too.

[FROTHY]

Just found out in the Alexander Hamilton biography that people used "cannon" for plural and singular.

[7 year old]

neat!

[smellsdead]

just finished fight club
cant believe that was chucks first book

next up is the melancholy resistance by laszlo krasznahorkai http://www.mediafire.com/file/dmtkqyq734qdyht/


then probably some phillip k dick

and agreed about multiple readings of vonnegut

this thread is so great. endless material from you folks
i love it

[I sniff Jim Gagne's butthole all the time]

ask the dust by john fante. it inspired bukowski. goku's dad recommended it to me. i haven't finished it but thus far, i like that shit more!

[eight two fives]

I just got this app for my phone called Libby. It links to you library card and you can check out ebooks and audiobooks. Pretty stoked on the audiobook part, it helps pass the days at work.

[Jollyoli]

Digging Up Mother, A Love Story by Doug Stanhope.
Can't help but read it in his voice. Funny fucker.

[FOGDOG]

Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon. Its what I would call "burnout noir." Long-winded, but funny as fuck.

[oyolar]

Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon. Its what I would call "burnout noir." Long-winded, but funny as fuck.

Super funny. Compared to a lot of his other stuff though, it's not too long-winded. It moved at a healthy and even pace in my opinion.

Summer by Knausgaard for me, the last of his seasons books and man did he mess up a compelling formula in the second half of the four. Spring was a compelling confessional to his daughter of his wife's breakdown during/after her birth so it deviated from his "one short piece on an everyday object a day" concept, which I liked because it felt very different from his My Struggle writing, but it eventually wore out its welcome. Summer brings back the daily essays but breaks up the two months with entries from his personal diary and they really fuck up the flow of the overall book and drag it down.  The diary selections are longer than the rest of the book and each of the previous three volumes (separately) and are the worst of Knausgaard's tendencies: rambling, unrefined, somewhat shallow. There are decent enough moments in them but they really detract from the rest of the work. If anyone does read this, I highly recommend skipping them.

[botefdunn]

Every once in a while I want to read an anarcho-western, and nobody does it like Abbey.

[childhood]

Collection of H.P. Lovecraft short stories
https://wetransfer.com/downloads/3df1fa908988cfe156b9fa99a53a6e0d20181006150459/a811f2c3e9862d22694acf90f186e6c220181006150459/dc4a09

[AnotherHardDayAtTheOffice]

Expand Quote

Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon. Its what I would call "burnout noir." Long-winded, but funny as fuck.

[close]

Super funny. Compared to a lot of his other stuff though, it's not too long-winded. It moved at a healthy and even pace in my opinion.

Summer by Knausgaard for me, the last of his seasons books and man did he mess up a compelling formula in the second half of the four. Spring was a compelling confessional to his daughter of his wife's breakdown during/after her birth so it deviated from his "one short piece on an everyday object a day" concept, which I liked because it felt very different from his My Struggle writing, but it eventually wore out its welcome. Summer brings back the daily essays but breaks up the two months with entries from his personal diary and they really fuck up the flow of the overall book and drag it down.  The diary selections are longer than the rest of the book and each of the previous three volumes (separately) and are the worst of Knausgaard's tendencies: rambling, unrefined, somewhat shallow. There are decent enough moments in them but they really detract from the rest of the work. If anyone does read this, I highly recommend skipping them.

Thanks for the heads-up. I haven't picked up any book from his Seasons series and I'm not feeling compelled to do so now.

My Struggle 6 is out! Do you have a copy already? Due to a lack of time, I'm only 20 pages in. My only complaint so far is that the hard cover has the dimensions of an encyclopedia. Easily the heaviest and largest book in my collection. I don't think I will ever take it out of my apartment and I can only read it lying on my side. Kind of a weird complaint, I know...

[givecigstosurfgroms]

Anais ninn is the only author I've read (5or6 of her books which are expurgated and unexpurgated diaries a novelette and a collection of erotic short stories) except I read a book about the author of 'in search of lost time' which was fasinating.

[Peter Zagreus]

Every once in a while I want to read an anarcho-western, and nobody does it like Abbey.

Thanks for posting. I'm gonna have to look into this guy's work!

[oyolar]

Expand Quote

Expand Quote

Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon. Its what I would call "burnout noir." Long-winded, but funny as fuck.

[close]

Super funny. Compared to a lot of his other stuff though, it's not too long-winded. It moved at a healthy and even pace in my opinion.

Summer by Knausgaard for me, the last of his seasons books and man did he mess up a compelling formula in the second half of the four. Spring was a compelling confessional to his daughter of his wife's breakdown during/after her birth so it deviated from his "one short piece on an everyday object a day" concept, which I liked because it felt very different from his My Struggle writing, but it eventually wore out its welcome. Summer brings back the daily essays but breaks up the two months with entries from his personal diary and they really fuck up the flow of the overall book and drag it down.  The diary selections are longer than the rest of the book and each of the previous three volumes (separately) and are the worst of Knausgaard's tendencies: rambling, unrefined, somewhat shallow. There are decent enough moments in them but they really detract from the rest of the work. If anyone does read this, I highly recommend skipping them.

[close]

Thanks for the heads-up. I haven't picked up any book from his Seasons series and I'm not feeling compelled to do so now.

My Struggle 6 is out! Do you have a copy already? Due to a lack of time, I'm only 20 pages in. My only complaint so far is that the hard cover has the dimensions of an encyclopedia. Easily the heaviest and largest book in my collection. I don't think I will ever take it out of my apartment and I can only read it lying on my side. Kind of a weird complaint, I know...

Haha. A very specific but real complaint. I do have my copy but I'm going to start reading it around the holidays since I'll be stuck in airports and traveling a lot. I hope that lets me power through a lot of it quickly.

I've got two shorter books I'm reading now: The Incest Diary by an anonymous author and Incest by Christine Angot. Supposed to be compelling to read together and I have a work trip to Europe this week/weekend so am hoping to finish one on that.

[JB]

Anyone ever read any of these 33 1/3 books? They've got a whole bunch and cover tons of classic albums that I love. I'm not a big reader, but I love these kind of musical history stories and these don't look too daunting to get through.

http://333sound.com/33-13-series/

[botefdunn]

Anyone ever read any of these 33 1/3 books? They've got a whole bunch and cover tons of classic albums that I love. I'm not a big reader, but I love these kind of musical history stories and these don't look too daunting to get through.

http://333sound.com/33-13-series/

I read the belle and sebastian one, it was somewhat interesting. The one by cometbus is worth checking out if youre a fan of his (I am). You're corrext in thinking they are easy reads, enjoyable though.