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  On 7/13/2010 at 5:46 AM, doorjamb said:

Oprah told me to read One Hundred Years of Solitude... so of course I didn't.

Actually her book club is quite good, it's a nice balance of important intellectual novels and more mainstream stuff.

I mean she is actually telling American plain people to read GGM's Love in the Time of Cholera or Ken Follett's Pillar of Earth or East of Eden instead of Da Vinci code crapolas or Twilight

  On 7/13/2010 at 1:13 PM, bacteriatastic said:

  On 7/13/2010 at 1:03 PM, dese manz hatin said:

  On 7/9/2010 at 11:19 PM, Candiru said:

  On 7/9/2010 at 10:52 PM, viscosity said:

recently read Breakfast for Champions and Clockwork Orange

 

reading Kafkas Trial, good but not very captivating

 

i need something that results in:

 

suggestions?

House Of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewsi

 

Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis

anything burroughs? or bob dylan's "tarantula"

 

books that don't make sense

yes

im going to read some hermann hesse next. what should i start with? steppenwolf?

ridiculously entertaining. i hope they dont fuck it up with a shitty film adaptation...

  On 7/13/2010 at 1:57 AM, Capsaicin said:

Someone recommend me some Delillo, I've already read White Noise and loved it.

  On 7/27/2010 at 12:02 AM, dese manz hatin said:

 

im going to read some hermann hesse next. what should i start with? steppenwolf?

I like this

My gf is reading Harry Potter to me before sleep. We're at book 5 now. It's awesome. Actually not awesome but you get the picture.

  On 7/13/2010 at 1:20 PM, thanks robert moses said:

just finishing..

How does that compare with Eco's other works? I've read "The Name of the Rose" and "Foucault's Pendulum" (i think I preferred "Foucault's Pendulum, but it's a tough choice...).

Currently reading for the chen:

Barrington Moore: "Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World"

currently reading:

Faulkner - "As I Lay Dying"

Joseph Campbell - "Myths to Live By"

Frank Bacon - "Of Empire" (on the john)

  On 5/28/2010 at 8:08 AM, vamos scorcho said:

i have crying of lot 49 sitting in my apartment

 

i'm looking for an enjoyable trip

 

should i read it?

 

i've never really read pynchon

 

i also have vineland

 

is it based around paranoia?

after having finished lot 49, i'd highly recommend it. great novel! he flows between scenes and voices with such ease!

Just picked up Naked Lunch for cheap $. Does watmm think it's worth reading?

yes burroughs is weird and amazing

duh

Time traveller's guide to medieval england...Its fucking awesome

just finished reading

wasnt too impressed with it. kinda lost interest in it halfway through but still finished it since I am a huge Rushdie fan.

I wouldnt recommend it though.

reading

Underworld by Don Delilo

  On 7/27/2010 at 12:40 AM, chenGOD said:

  On 7/13/2010 at 1:20 PM, thanks robert moses said:

just finishing..

 

 

How does that compare with Eco's other works? I've read "The Name of the Rose" and "Foucault's Pendulum" (i think I preferred "Foucault's Pendulum, but it's a tough choice...).

 

Currently reading for the chen:

 

Barrington Moore: "Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World"

I've read both Foucault's Pendulum and The Name of the Rose as well, and I would say that Baudolino is my favorite of the three, though the narrative is a lot different than both, I think. The way events transpire and unfold is almost similar to a Terry Gilliam film. I wouldn't say that this is exactly why I like the story so much, but the approach came across as very fresh. You are bombarded with so much that it can feel very frantic (in a good way) at times, and you are sort of propelled through loads of historical events, religious time lines and mythological settings. Thumbs up from me.

reading Americana by Don DeLillo

just finished Post Office by Charles Bukowski (who is my new favorite author)

  On 7/27/2010 at 4:41 AM, HerculesCzar said:

Just picked up Naked Lunch for cheap $. Does watmm think it's worth reading?

oh yes ive just finished it some days ago....as i put it somewhere else on this board, it reads like the literary rendition of wrong mspaint thread sometimes

  On 7/29/2010 at 12:10 AM, dese manz hatin said:

it reads like the literary rendition of wrong mspaint thread sometimes

That thread rubs me in ways previously unrubbed

Recently finished House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski which I reccommend a different and occasionally difficult read but very worth it. Now I'm kinda very slowly making my way through Jean Paul Sartre's Nausea and The Devil In The White City by Erik Larson... Also re-reading through all my old Spawn comics lately for kicks.

Disappointed, but I completely lost my momentum with The Idiot... I kind of like where I think its going but I'm about 1/3 into it and it's so slow. Found a copy of High Fidelity by Nick Hornby in a pub and read most of it in 2 days. Reminded me reading books shouldn't be such hard work. I think I've been trying to read The Idiot the whole of two thousand and god damn ten. Now that is ridiculous.

east of eden

Isaac Asimov - Fantastic Voyage

Murakami - Kafka On The Shore