― nathalie (nathalie), Monday, 16 September 2002 08:30 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 16 September 2002 17:05 (twenty-two years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Monday, 16 September 2002 18:31 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 16 September 2002 19:22 (twenty-two years ago) link
― donna (donna), Monday, 16 September 2002 19:26 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Josh (Josh), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 02:55 (twenty-two years ago) link
― unknown or illegal user (doorag), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 03:07 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 03:23 (twenty-two years ago) link
avoid halperlin's writing on him like the plague.
― mike (ro)bott, Tuesday, 17 September 2002 04:26 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Josh (Josh), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 04:51 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 11:48 (twenty-two years ago) link
Any recommendations much appreciated.
― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 11:54 (twenty-two years ago) link
― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 12:31 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 12:34 (twenty-two years ago) link
That's all I can think of right now, but I'll scan my bookshelves when I get home...
― nory (nory), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 14:21 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 14:30 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 14:38 (twenty-two years ago) link
Perhaps, but White Noise is a killer.
― OCP (OCP), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 14:56 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 15:35 (twenty-two years ago) link
― the pinefox (the pinefox), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 16:57 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Josh (Josh), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 17:27 (twenty-two years ago) link
From memory, isn't Breakfast At Tiffany's New York? That's terrific (Truman Capote, obv). Malamud, Potok and Singer for Jewish New York. The present tense stuff in Leone Ross's Orange Laughter are in New York (my brief involvement with the author is not the point: it really is terrific). Damon Runyon for the old days. (Lots of books here that I can lend you if you like, Tim.)
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 18:32 (twenty-two years ago) link
― donna (donna), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 18:53 (twenty-two years ago) link
Oh oh oh--and canonical--Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities...
Susan Minot's book of short stories, Lust is also a good read...
― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 18 September 2002 00:57 (twenty-two years ago) link
See, the thing is that you're wrong on that one! White Noise deserves all of the praise heaped upon it. I can see, however, that DeLillo himself, as an author, could be perceived as overrated, you know, as a literary figure. But whatever, I really enjoyed the book, I don't give a fuck.
― OCP (OCP), Wednesday, 18 September 2002 02:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
E.L. Konigsberg - From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
― rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 18 September 2002 03:12 (twenty-two years ago) link
― nathalie (nathalie), Monday, 23 September 2002 11:53 (twenty-two years ago) link
― gareth (gareth), Monday, 23 September 2002 12:01 (twenty-two years ago) link
― chris (chris), Monday, 23 September 2002 12:06 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 23 September 2002 12:12 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Josh (Josh), Monday, 23 September 2002 14:50 (twenty-two years ago) link
P. Auster: New York TrilogyL. Tillman: No Lease On LifeS. Minott: Monkeys G. Adair: Love and Death on Long IslandL. Block: The Devil Knows You're DeadC. Carter: Rhode Island RedW. C. Williams: White MuleJ. F. Bardin: The Deadly PercheronJ. F. Bardin: The Devil Take The Blue-Tailed FlyE. McBain: BreadS. Tesich: KarooN. Aldyne: SlateF. Eberstadt: When The Sons Of Heaven Meet The Daughters of EarthC. Carter: DrumsticksElsa Lewin: I, AnnaA. Isler: The Prince of West End Avenue
Faves: Williams, Bardin, Eberstadt. Each has had something to recommend it. Am somewhere between loving Auster and really not liking it at all. I've just started Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis, which is shaping up very nicely.
― Tim (Tim), Friday, 18 October 2002 11:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Friday, 18 October 2002 12:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 18 October 2002 12:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 18 October 2002 14:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
William Kennedy - "Legs" (***)William Kennedy - "Billy Phelan's Greatest Game" (***)William Kennedy - "Ironweed" (***)Saul Bellow - "Ravelstein" (***)Allan Bloom - "The Closing of the American Mind" (****)Plato - "The Republic" (*****)
Currently reading:
Halldor Laxness - "The Fish Can Sing"
― o. nate (onate), Friday, 18 October 2002 14:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 18 October 2002 14:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
QUITE RIGHT. Oh yeah, I also read Batavia's Graveyard recently. People are horrible creatures.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 18 October 2002 14:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 18 October 2002 18:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
and so far, they're all good. the third one counts as philosophical, i guess. the second is just logic puzzles (some of which i can't figure out, but they're cute and fun).
― Maria (Maria), Friday, 18 October 2002 19:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 18 October 2002 22:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 18 October 2002 22:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― unknown or illegal user (doorag), Friday, 18 October 2002 23:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
yeah, that's def 'the man in the high castle'.
Martin- I'll chase that book once I'm through reading as much Phil and burroughs as the local library has.
doorag- indeed he a great singer. i had to revive the thread on ilm once i heard them.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 19 October 2002 10:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 19 October 2002 10:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
reading a scanner darkly, i started it yesterday and do androids dream is under the bed. i'll prob need ubik and dr bloodmoney after that so maybe that one.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 19 October 2002 10:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 19 October 2002 17:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 19 October 2002 18:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 19 October 2002 19:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 19 October 2002 23:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 20 October 2002 08:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andrew L (Andrew L), Sunday, 20 October 2002 09:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/04/24/i-only-read-books-by-minority-authors-for-a-year-it-showed-me-just-how-white-our-reading-world-is/?hpid=z3
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 26 April 2015 16:02 (nine years ago) link