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Morbo, the history of Spanish football, it's a cracking read. full of very interesting little snippets of information.

― chris (chris), Monday, 23 September 2002 12:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

Was thinking of getting that myself, actually...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 23 September 2002 12:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

sorry nath I have since started a number of other books. I'll finish it within a few months though!

― Josh (Josh), Monday, 23 September 2002 14:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Here (in no order) is my list of NY / Boston books read so far as part of my ongoing NY / Boston book reading thing:

P. Auster: New York Trilogy
L. Tillman: No Lease On Life
S. Minott: Monkeys
G. Adair: Love and Death on Long Island
L. Block: The Devil Knows You're Dead
C. Carter: Rhode Island Red
W. C. Williams: White Mule
J. F. Bardin: The Deadly Percheron
J. F. Bardin: The Devil Take The Blue-Tailed Fly
E. McBain: Bread
S. Tesich: Karoo
N. Aldyne: Slate
F. Eberstadt: When The Sons Of Heaven Meet The Daughters of Earth
C. Carter: Drumsticks
Elsa Lewin: I, Anna
A. 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

I haven't read much lately.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 18 October 2002 12:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Lives of the Monster Dogs" is excellent indeed.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 18 October 2002 12:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

Crucible of War by Fred Anderson, which so far is a really engaging and often quite revealing study of the Seven Years/French and Indian War, the more so because it consciously avoids the retrospective eschatology that considers it to be the inevitable prelude to an equally inevitable American Revolution.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 18 October 2002 14:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

Here are the last few books I've read:

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

I'm reading _Neuromancer_ for the third time. I should renew my library card.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 18 October 2002 14:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

I should renew my library card.

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

I'm reading Steve Erickson's Tours Of The Black Clock at present, and loving it. He might be my favourite writer by now. I think I'll probably start a thread on him when I finish this.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 18 October 2002 18:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

I haven't managed to finish a book in awhile but currently I'm reading:
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (English class)
The Lady or the Tiger? by Raymond Smullyan
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by I-forget-who

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

william burroughs- 'naked lunch'
philip k dick- 'Valis'. also 'the man in the high castle'.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 18 October 2002 22:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ooh, good stuff Julio. In fact The Man In The High Castle is what the Erickson I mention a few posts up reminds me of very strongly indeed - because in both there is the concept of two histories existing alongside one another, in the other of which the Axis won, and in the current one our hero feels something is wrong about that. That's a pretty strong similarity! Erickson may be supplanting Dick as my favourite writer.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 18 October 2002 22:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

roky erickson is my favourite writer.

― unknown or illegal user (doorag), Friday, 18 October 2002 23:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

''Ooh, good stuff Julio. In fact The Man In The High Castle is what the Erickson I mention a few posts up reminds me of very strongly indeed - because in both there is the concept of two histories existing alongside one another, in the other of which the Axis won, and in the current one our hero feels something is wrong about that.''

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

Julio, you should take advantage of someone working at your uni who has, I think, all of Dick's books, quite a few Burroughs, and all the Steve Ericksons I've been able to find. Loans available!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 19 October 2002 10:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

Thanks martin: just remembered abt the citizen kane thread where you were going to give me a loan on the kael review comp too.

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

Yep, I have both those. Remind me about these and the Kael (actually I have two collections of her criticism) when we're to meet next.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 19 October 2002 17:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

I am reading "Finn Family Moomintroll" by Tove Jansson.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 19 October 2002 18:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

cheers martin.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 19 October 2002 19:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

julio i just found that kael book i promised to send you down the back of my telephone table

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 19 October 2002 23:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

kewl mark. if you want to send it to me then do so. if you want my home addy email me.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 20 October 2002 08:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm really enjoying 'Ravelstein' by Saul Bellow - I'd give it more than three stars (but out of how many, o. nate?)

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Sunday, 20 October 2002 09:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

twelve years pass...

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

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