Now Reading

currently perusing:

sexual politics, sexual communities by john d'emilio

santa olivia by jacqueline carey

and

marriage, a history: from obedience to intimacy, or how love conquered marriage by stephanie coontz

and i just finished "this common secret" by susan wicklund, which was absolutely astounding. it's the memoirs of an abortion doctor.

I'm actually going to finish Ulysses this time, I swear.

then move on to finnegan's wake!

  On 10/22/2013 at 6:46 AM, hello spiral said:

 

  On 10/22/2013 at 3:07 AM, auxien said:

I don't think I ever mentioned it, but i read Exquisite Corpse a few months back. It was pretty great, and quite disgusting, all at once. Anyone else picked it up?

Poppy Z. Brite? Read it years ago. Was very disturbing to my young self iirc.

I'd grown up feasting on SK and Clive Barker and any other pulp gory horror books I could get my hands on, but that book is something else entirely.

Might need a reread.

 

Yeah, that's it. Pretty graphic and odd. I'm sure there's other fiction that touches on these darker areas, but the author does it with such a great writing style that I couldn't help but love it.

I just got a call from my local comic shop that this just came in, despite me cancelling the order:

I still have to figure out if I want to go and get it: I loved the movies and stand alone complexes. Wasn't too fond of Arise, but still I'd like to delph into this.

Choices choices..

Has anyone read The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton? I've learned to ignore the Booker Prize lately, but this actually sounds decent.

  On 10/24/2013 at 2:46 AM, disparaissant said:

then move on to finnegan's wake!

Life is only so long, you know.

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  On 10/24/2013 at 5:34 PM, doublename said:

Has anyone read The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton? I've learned to ignore the Booker Prize lately, but this actually sounds decent.

My wife is reading it presently and likes it quite a bit. From what she's said about it I'll prob check it out when she's done.

  On 10/25/2013 at 4:46 PM, Alcofribas said:

 

  On 10/24/2013 at 5:34 PM, doublename said:

Has anyone read The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton? I've learned to ignore the Booker Prize lately, but this actually sounds decent.

My wife is reading it presently and likes it quite a bit. From what she's said about it I'll prob check it out when she's done.

 

Cool, I'll add it to the list.

Reading Asimov's The Naked Sun at the moment, it's good so far. I was quite surprised when I flicked to the front and saw it came out in 1957, the dude was well ahead of his time.

Been reading cerebus. Up to book 15, Latter Days.

I've been enjoying the series on and off, there are definitely good and less good moments, but I'm finding this unreadable. *n* !!

finally decided to read the new Pynchon, which i mention only to point out that on page 282, right after a brief discussion of preference for Nas over Jay-Z, he describes "a TB-303 clone with built-in speakers."

flol

Recently finished one, now on to this piece.

About half way through DFW's The Pale King

Recently finished Kafka on the Shore and Catch-22. Now reading Mason & Dixon.

i hope you guys aren't starting with kafka on the shore when you read murakami. it's probably his worst novel...

reading THE GOLDFINCH by donna tartt. so far so good. little clunky on the style side, but i'm into it.

Kafka on the Shore was fantastic! Also my first Murakami novel and it sucked me right into his world

It was my fourth. Anyway, I liked it.

i've been lent this to read, i'm still reading Nietzsche though

  On 11/1/2013 at 9:39 AM, Dpek said:

Kafka on the Shore was fantastic! Also my first Murakami novel and it sucked me right into his world

I recommend Dance Dance Dance. It's the sequel to A Wild Sheep Chase but you can begin wherever you want.

  On 11/2/2013 at 12:31 PM, poblequadrat said:

  On 11/1/2013 at 9:39 AM, Dpek said:

Kafka on the Shore was fantastic! Also my first Murakami novel and it sucked me right into his world

 

I recommend Dance Dance Dance. It's the sequel to A Wild Sheep Chase but you can begin wherever you want.

The wind up bird chronicle is a great murakami.

I don't have a frame of reference (considering I haven't read any of his others work), but I found it a very engaging novel to read.

  On 11/2/2013 at 12:47 PM, MadameChaos said:

 

  On 11/2/2013 at 12:31 PM, poblequadrat said:

 

  On 11/1/2013 at 9:39 AM, Dpek said:

Kafka on the Shore was fantastic! Also my first Murakami novel and it sucked me right into his world

I recommend Dance Dance Dance. It's the sequel to A Wild Sheep Chase but you can begin wherever you want.

 

The wind up bird chronicle is a great murakami.

 

Yeah, that's probably my favorite so far.

plenty of obscure words and references to look up. great prose, dense with charged ideas. some real cool stories, too.

  On 11/3/2013 at 2:53 PM, very honest said:

 

plenty of obscure words and references to look up. great prose, dense with charged ideas. some real cool stories, too.

Fuck yeah!

Love me a bit of Lovecraft. Inspired me to dig some out, haven't actually read any in years.

I do fall asleep to this most nights though:

http://youtu.be/dSsZbfTOMHk