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