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  On 3/13/2011 at 5:47 PM, thanks robert moses said:

 

and last but not least, I've been making my way through One Thousand and One Nights. Woopty woop.

Should take you about 2.7 years in my experience.

lol

  On 3/13/2011 at 8:42 PM, Iain C said:

  On 3/13/2011 at 5:47 PM, thanks robert moses said:

 

and last but not least, I've been making my way through One Thousand and One Nights. Woopty woop.

 

Should take you about 2.7 years in my experience.

Yes. I like it, but it is too easy to stop when something else comes along.

and a book of criticism called "Hart Crane's Holy Vision", of which no pictures seem to exist online.

how is the crane crit?

Finished Blade Runner by Philip K. Dick, now reading Neuromancer by Wiliam Gibson.

^cyberpunk world history tour

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^cyberpunk world history tour

yeah... Recently, I found all these cyberpunk jewels (around 10 books) in a bookstore nearby so I am giving them a spin.

re-reading Borges' collected fictions

my most favourite author.

im listening to 'naked lunch' on audiobook at work. i forgot how fucking filthy this book is.

Myth Today by Roland Barthes

  On 3/18/2011 at 4:37 PM, Alcofribas said:

how is the crane crit?

interesting enough - i've only really skimmed it to be honest, but the author seems to read White Buildings as a cycle, with Crane striving towards a sort of abstract religious ideal. i'd like to see more on the themes of bisexuality and the balance between masculinity and femininity that John Logan identifies in this edition's introduction, but there you go. since leaving university i barely touch criticism any more and my ability to digest it has atrophied.

i did find this picture:

i also got a copy of this explosive little book in the post yesterday:

I just got a kindle last week, and one of the first free books I grabbed was a collection of letters between R.W. Emerson and Thomas Carlyle. Pretty cool insight into their friendship.

tv guide.

scintillating.

Atonement by Ian McEwan for my english class. It's pretty good so far.

A good insight into the start of it all by 1 of the 2 who started it. Pretty good so far.

I've been slowly working my way through the Scar Tissue, the autobiography of Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers... It's an interesting read so far, he had a really crazy life growing up to say the least.

Guillermo Del Toro : The Fall

Book 2 of a quite good triology. A new take on the butchered theme of vampires.

Boning up for on some plays by Brian Friel for a composition project. Highly recommended reading.

Class Warfare - noam chomsky

eh

Ulysses - james joyce [still]

Tibetan Book of the Dead [kind of]

and random crap online about self actualization / maharshi

and maybe A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

I read the first half of Underworld in a few days and it was brill but I can't touch it again until I get some sort of vacation where I can just sit down and read the last 400 pages. It's slow going if you lose the momentum and try to dip in and out before bed or sommat.