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I think I'm too old for this, I can't wait to finish it so I can start something else (like my signed copy of Neuromancer, woop!).

if you like travel writing i can not recomend this book enought, so funny and well written:

written in 1887, its about a man who goes to sleep and wakes up in a utopian future

Seppo Heikinheimo - The electronic music of Karlheinz Stockhausen: studies on the esthetical and formal problems of its first phase

  On 12/5/2010 at 2:31 PM, funkaholic said:

if you like travel writing i can not recomend this book enought, so funny and well written:

 

*jots it down*

RE: Travel Writing

Also, you must read Bruce Chatwin - In Patagonia.

^^yeah^^

Just finished Blood Meridian. Goddamn...

Judge Holden eh? Best character ever

rereading this. i am not a fantasy fan at all, but i had pat rothfuss as a prof when i was in college. really funny nerdy type guy. and this book is phenomenal. i mean i am a bit biased being that he was a great professor but i mean here's what fuckin' ursula leguin said about this book:

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It is a rare and great pleasure to find a fantasist writing not only with the kind of accuracy of language absolutely essential to fantasy-making, but with real music in the words as well. Wherever Pat Rothfuss goes with the big story that begins with The Name of the Wind, he’ll carry us with him as a good singer carries us through a song.

anyways, yeah. rereading it because the second book is due out in the next month or two. great stuff, i've never read a fantasy novel where the world didn't feel like something you'd read in a fantasy novel, which is why i've never actually liked fantasy at all. but he manages it.

  On 1/17/2011 at 1:50 PM, Philip Glass said:

Judge Holden eh? Best character ever

awesome fucked up book about slavery, sex and history

  On 1/17/2011 at 2:11 PM, Yegg said:

  On 1/17/2011 at 1:50 PM, Philip Glass said:

Judge Holden eh? Best character ever

 

 

Great novel, I love McCarthy.

I've just finished up Bend Sinister by Vladimir Nabokov. It was decent, funny and very sad. Although not really up to the standard of his later work.

In the past couple of weeks I've also read This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald which was as good as I expected, and I've just started re-reading Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino which is one of my favourite books. All this along with the poems of Nazim Hikmet and Gottfried Benn.

I bought myself a kindle for xmas.Im reading Chaucers Canterbury Tales in middle english.Also a book about Naturopathy and self healing as Im fasting from tomorrow til Thursday.

My most recent read of a book thats not been electronic was last week when I read,World War Z by Max Brooks and My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George.I read the latter for the first time as a child and it inspired me to run away from home with nothing but my book,a jotter and a pencil.I returned home after three hours because my tummy said it was teatime.

Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis

I'm almost done

just finished freedom by jonathan franzen. i liked pieces of the corrections, although his first two novels aren't very good. freedom was mostly boring, sort of attempting to be about "america now" and just coming off as overreaching. i guess if you're in your thirties and listen to a lot of npr this might be an amazing book, but after an eight year wait and so many accolades, i expected a lot more.

The Old Man and the Sea - Hemingway.

I got this recently and it's completely BADASS, I'm tempted to make it my life goal to see every film in it.

Venus In Furs - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  On 1/19/2011 at 1:24 PM, Dan C said:

The Poop That Took A Pee - Leopold Butters Scotch

Reading Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

Just finished January's National Geographic and am patiently awaiting February's.

about halfway into Slavoj Zisek's "Living in the End Times".....the guy is brilliant and an awesomely entertaining speaker, but this book is nothing but name-dropping it seems....i really want the man to elaborate more on his own ideas, not Lacan.

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