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Check out Susan Sontag over here...

So wait... Yegg is a hipster?

  On 12/5/2009 at 3:24 AM, CondenseWindow said:

Check out Susan Sontag over here...

I am her protégé. *snob*

Now I know Susan Sontag is for hipsters!

Yes and also that dub =/= dubstep!

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Don't you twits have a pair of jeans to be squeezing into?

One pair between the two of us? Yes, it would probably help alleviate the sexual tension.

lol how is bataille a hipster?

Have you seen the sort of people who actually read that book? "Art" students, college dykes, and losers in their sister's jeans.

And if you could explain how it's not pervy, pretentious trash that would help too. Thanks. If I wanted to read that sort of thing I'd go for American Psycho, which at least had a modicum of social commentary and humour.

  On 12/5/2009 at 5:40 AM, Yegg said:

One pair between the two of us? Yes, it would probably help alleviate the sexual tension.

  On 12/5/2009 at 1:00 PM, CondenseWindow said:

Have you seen the sort of people who actually read that book? "Art" students, college dykes, and losers in their sister's jeans.

You read it too, didn't you?

I skimmed it...

i would be reading PG wodehouse and HP lovecraft if i actually had enough free time to read shit for pleasure right now. but i do not. curses

I am ecstatic not to have to read anything for a little while.

One pretty interesting book that I just finished reading for some research was "The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea." by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge.

It's not about the CIA by the way.

Also just finished reading a book called "With Their Backs to the World" by Asne Seierstad. An interesting look at Serbians in the middle of the Balkan conflict of the 90s

PLanned reading for Xmas break: 2 books on the history of Korea, re-reading "Guns, Germs and Steel" and something else for fun.

Oh yeah, and Susan Sontag is a despicable cunt.

Collection of extracts from writings by and about British mountaineers, with some lovely photos of their climbs...

Just started James Joyce - Ulysses... not really getting into it so far. But will continue

After a short break I'll go ahead and finish up the last few sections of The Brothers Karamazov

Cosmicomics

Flatland

Hiding In The Mirror

huxley's - crome yellow

whilst on holiday in mexico I reread The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood. very nice book.

then I picked up Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pyncheon and fuck me I'm 60 pages in after hours of reading and I still have zero fucking idea what is happening. what the fuck is with this book?

last xmas kaen recommended 'only forward' by michael marshall smith as his favourite book of all time so i got it for my brother - he lent it to me today and said it's one of his favourtie books of all time. really enjoying it so far. also reading 'finland, cultural lone wolf' so i can be boorish and nationalistic when drinking.

i'm reading mao II by don delillo. well written at times but the dialogue is really weird. i'm not liking his style very much although he seems to be a sort of thematic cousin of william gibson.

just picked up FINCH by Jeff Vandermeer http://www.amazon.com/Finch-Jeff-VanderMeer/dp/0980226015

can't wait to read it