― 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