Now Reading

A Drink with Shane MacGowan.

revisiting Desmond Morris' wonderful "The Soccer Tribe" as well Frederick Foer's moderately interesting "How Soccer Explains the World".

On top of that, a stack of books on violence against women. Really light-hearted stuff

reading through ulysses again... i don't really see how anything could ever match this!

Molloy by Samuel Beckett

first novel i actually enjoy so far this semester

Just finished Sagan's 'Demon Haunted World' which was mostly delightful, reading 'Manufacturing Consent' by Herman and Chomsky, 'Gravity's Rainbow' by Pynchon, first fiction after falling into a bit of a black hole when 'Infinite Jest' was finished, read 'A supposedly fun thing...' right after but don't want to go through DFW's work too quickly.

Bedside reading is 'The Oxford book of modern science writing' compiled by Richard Dawkins, he also writes a short introduction to each extract.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_and_First_Men

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/bergson/#4

archive.org/stream/matterandmemory00berguoft#page/n5/mode/2up

Very lovely so far...

Divided Soul by David Ritz

A biography on Marvin Gaye. David Ritz most famously penned the lyrics for 'Sexual Healing'.

It's really good. I've had it knocking about for years.

shit I was scrolling and saw DFW, thought they released THE PALE KING.

I mean why can't they release it finally? Don't Nabakov-it on us

I'm not sure if I'd want to read the Pale King, it's new DFW but it's also unfinished DFW...

It might be torture.

Midnights Children

and this essay http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0403/is_4_47/ai_91653350/

have a presentation on it tomorrow

and one on Volpone the next day

slaughterhouse five

  On 4/6/2010 at 4:06 AM, viscosity said:

Midnights Children

and this essay http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0403/is_4_47/ai_91653350/

 

have a presentation on it tomorrow

 

and one on Volpone the next day

I am a huge Salman Rushdie fan and Midnight's Children is one of my favorite books. I havent read that other essay you linked so I am going to check it out.

What did you think of the book??

good luck on the presentation.

  On 3/3/2010 at 7:24 AM, chenGOD said:

revisiting Desmond Morris' wonderful "The Soccer Tribe" as well Frederick Foer's moderately interesting "How Soccer Explains the World".

On top of that, a stack of books on violence against women. Really light-hearted stuff

morris was briefly my shrink as a kid (no, rly).

he's fucking awesome - told my folks to buy me a computer and a bunch of fighting fantasy gamebooks.

and midnight's children is awesome. a nose and some knees. knees and a nose.

  On 3/3/2010 at 4:49 PM, the anonymous forumite said:

immensely enjoyed this.

just finished: (Charlie Chaplin's son's autobio, written at age... 20?!)

first two-thirds: growing up super rich with maids and chauffeurs and a famous daddy is harder than it sounds (whine, moan).

final couple chapters: gee, this marijuana stuff really is "quite good!"

epilogue:

now re-reading: because it's ancient and raunchy and awesome

you're reading a movie?

epic

about living in the now and shit

  On 4/6/2010 at 7:10 PM, Alcofribas said:

you're reading a movie?

 

epic

ha, no I just like that picture better than any actual book cover I've seen, and since the author is technically unknown I figured he/she wouldn't mind

  On 4/6/2010 at 8:00 PM, patternoverlap said:

love that book

this cover looks much nicer tho

two books about Middle Ages (culture history + general life in Middle Ages) for my semestral work...