What's a noise dude reading?

ill let you know. ive read good and bad chatter. i need to find a copy of mungo's total loss farm..ill be closer to that area latertoday though next week, and can maybe find some other stuff. pity i caant drive or i could try and go and talk to some of the weirdos still around.

i want to read sheryl tipping's the february house too, but thats a different sort of commune

i am reading again

philip k dick 'the divine invasion'
umberto eco 'the name of the rose'

sherril tippin...that is.

I forgot to bring a book

so I finished pelecanos' "Soul Circus" which was about a body count and not much else besides at the end both of the author's signature characters team up to clandestinely and illegally burn down a route 1 gun shop in virginia in the interest of saving lives in the district which is kind of a manifesto for him, I guess

luckily though I am now on cliff stoll's THE CUCKOO'S EGG which is really extraordinarily well written and edited and as a person who already knows everything he's talking about I haven't skipped a sentence yet

I seriously recommend this book btw for anybody who ever wonders exactly what the fuck it is I do and how it gets done. nothing much has changed, really

besides the salaries, I guess

the timmiller communes book is pretty weak..just breifly covers the same story again and again without much insight...its all to brief and too obvious...im gonna rush through the rest of it now and get into some pinchbeck tonight

had a glance at the february house, but was pretty sleepy...i await what lies ahead with certain zeal...

just read yet another bob dylan article and i dunno why

i'm reading exley's a fan's notes because a librarian friend of mine said it made her think of me. it's making me kind of uncomfortable for the same reasons that steven tyler thinks this is spinal tap is terrifying instead of funny.

go giants

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got to this cause of the commune book...a nice little lark...oh, hippies

i am reading blood meridian by cormack mccarthy and it is DEPRESSING THE SHIT OUT OF ME

i don't know if i can finish it.

i just finished the road by cormac mccarthy and while really, REALLY dark it was a fucking fantastic book.

i really like his language but it's soo bleak

there were some moments in the road where i had to put it down and just not read for a while because it just too dark.

at the job i was recently fired from they had a stack of Rolling Stones to read and one of the recent ones had an interview with Cormac McCarthy and apparently he spends almost all his spare time these days hanging out at the Santa Fe institute with a bunch of scientists.

i just inherited a copy of the road.

junot diaz - brief wondrous life of oscar wao (liked this a lot)
elmore leonard - gold coast

have this on deck as soon as my wife finishes it

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also wld like to read that new richard price but I'll probably wait for paperback

i <3 elmore leonard

the Bolanos novel was a serious disappointment.

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when i pay a library fine ill pick up the tao of physics and a book about the history of little magazines in america

i am reading JR by William Gaddis for the second time and i think i will do Oscar Wao next. i heard bad stuff about the second half of the Bolano so i took a pass on it.

oh i'm also reading Then We Came to The End bu Joshua Ferris. it's just ok. :/

just read:

Kingsley Amis "Lucky Jim"
Joshua Clover "The Matrix" (about da movie)
Joshua Clover "The Totality for Kids"
Edwin Schneidman "Autopsy of a Suicidal Mind"

now reading:
A. Brierre de Boismont "Hallucinationsd, or, The Rational History of Apparitions, Visions, Dreams, Ecstasy, Magnetism, and Somnambulism" (crazy anthology from 1853 of case histories)
Bruce Fink's new translation of Lacan's "Ecrits"

dr. drew, tell me about kingsley amis (though ifeel weve probably all tried this before)...i've always felt he wasnt right for me, but have come across some quotes and clips that force me to wonder...wheres a good leaping point?

have you read lucky jim? i'd say that's a good leaping point but then i'm not particularly knowledgeable about ka. the collected letters are great as well. talk about a doorstop, though.

finally got around to brothers karamazov, 2/3 through

kingsely amis wrote some fucking funny letters.

Alex Ross "The Rest Is Noise"
Henri Michaux "Darkness Moves"
Mario Bois "Iannis Xenakis: The Man & His Music"
"Yeti #5"
"YES Yoko Ono"

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I've only read "Lucky Jim" which I read because it's a silly academic satire novel about somebody who has just started their first real job as a professor and, er, I can relate to that. I read it on a plane in one go and it was pretty delightful. Kinda dated in a 50s sexist way but that's to be expected really. I liked it, and would compare it with recent academic satires by David Lodge, if you want a ref point. Funny and lite.

"Kinda dated in a 50s sexist way "

yeah, thats whats put me off going into him, but...i suppose i could read it with a smirk and half-closed critical eye and enjoy..i think i like his phrasing and rhythm..

thnks all

lucky jim is so good

i just bought japrocksampler but i've only leafed through it so far.

i just re-read two novels by sir kingsley:

girl, 20 -- late 60s generation gap comedy about foolish middle-aged classical conductor/fool Sir Roy Vandervane and his pursuit of ever-younger women. his wife's speculation on "when he's in his 70s his girlfriends will be under 10" and the description of Sir Roy's heavy metal symphony are priceless LOLs.

the anti-death league -- one of his odd genre exercises, a sort-of early cold war spy thriller? hard to explain but pretty easy to enjoy, but then I am a huge fan of stuff like graham greene and eric ambler.

lucky jim and the old devils are his most popular and funniest novels, also the bookends to his career. also worth checking out is the green man, one of his oddities, a supernatural mystery. i've always wanted to read the alteration, a futuristic tale that philip k dick admired!, but have never been able to find a cheap copy.

this clive james essay on amis is ace

The Noble Quran
7 steps to midnight (matheson)
humboldt's gift (bellows)
the war against cliche (amis)

Sensory and Perceptual Issues in Autism and Asperger Syndrome - Olga Bogdashina (a little dry and academic, reading it for a story idea)
On Writing - Stephen King (not as great as I'd been led to believe, but pretty good)
Saboteurs: The Nazi Raid on America - Michael Dobbs (not started yet, but fully expect it to be awesome)

Dean Wareham memoir
"The Secret History of the World as Laid Down By The Secret Societies"
John Keegan - "A History of Warfare"

que and alfred pretty much otm on The Savage Detectives, if it was terrible I wouldn't have finished the 600 some pages but it really falls off after a pretty good beginning. also being so much about poetry I wished there was some poetry in it! you're left to wonder what it was the "visceral realists" were actually writing (if anything)

just started Pynchon's Against the Day

snow crash

^^good book^^

did u ever know that yr my hiro

"The Secret History of the World as Laid Down By The Secret Societies"

^^^
Returning this. Not a history of secret societies and their teachings, or a 'history' written from their perspective - dude really seems to buy into the notion.

Chandler, The Long Goodbye -- since i have queued the Altman / Gould adaptation on netflix

it seems like people either hate the first section of the savage detectives and get into the interview section or vice versa.

(i thought the bookend journal entries were aight (but great at introducing a lot of characters quickly, from the perspective of a kid who doesn't really know any of them well) and loved the interview stuff.)

skimming on a Greyhound last night:

Orson Welles, Volume 2: Hello Americans by Simon Callow