What's a noise dude reading?

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

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

there were some good parts in the interview section but some of it really dragged

I think I was a little put off by how self-serving / self-mythologizing it was (even though there was some self-deprecation too), it seemed like there wasn't a ton of purpose to it other than trying to immortalize himself and his friends

naomi klein - the shock doctrine

i can see your point dmr, but that's not really how it read to me. at first you see them through the eyes of a teenager who thinks they're way cool, and then you spend the next 500 pgs getting a sense of how they're just normal dudes who don't really know what they're doing in life, and who may or may not be any good at writing poems.

donald barthelme - the dead father

i really want to read a book but i don't like anything

Then the Internet could be for you!

Yevgeny Zamyatin - We (liked this more than 1984 or Brave New World, the originals usually are better. closer to Dostoevsky than most clinical SF. also interesting for a book written in Russia in 1920 that it eliminates all the Cold War discussion -- a dystopia with only one Socialist government is much more terrifying) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel)

Fernand Ouellette - A Biography of Edgard Varese

Robert Katz - Love Is Colder Than Death, The Life and Times of Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Eckhart Tolle - The Power of Now (Gaaaaaaahhhhh)

Modern Music - Volumes 18-22, 1940-1945 - http://www.ripm.org/journal_info.php5?ABB=MMU - hardbound annuals collecting each year's issues, duplicates from the Prelinger Library -- incredible how many of the articles & reviews are struggling to justify the energies spent on avant garde music during wartime. wish even the remotest shadow of this kind of discussion were going on today.

repost of wikipedia link to Zamyatin's WE

i don't like dystopias or science fiction or new age shit or biographies (especially autobiographies). those are the things i don't like the most.

but how is that fassbinder book because i love fassbinder and would be willing to read a biography about him if it does not suck

it's kinda dishy & very judgmental. I have no doubt about how sadistic the man treated his troupe, but it's hard to square how moralistic a tone the book takes when it's also clear how much the man was loved by his friends. but if you love Fassbinder, it's a book that breaks down the personal affairs that inspired each film, imagine if 'Beware of a Holy Whore' were 15 hours long and covered his entire career

Interzone - Burroughs collection of early stories and Tangier-related odds n ends including some relatively straight travel journalism, pretty interesting

currently trying to read The Road real fast before the movie comes out (appearance of the Now a Major Motion Picture version of the paperback spurred me to action)

anyone planning to tackle the Bolano? doubt I'm gonna try it since I barely made it through Savage Detectives (see above) and this one is even more sprawling. the section about the Ciudad Juarez murders sounds pretty interesting though.

put it on hold at the library, but i can't imagine i'd get through it in three weeks

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3f/Earth_Abides_1949_small.jpg/200px-Earth_Abides_1949_small.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Abides

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http://100sf.blogspot.com/2006/10/6-limbo-1952-by-bernard-wolfe.html

Ramon Sender - Naked Close-Up (fictionalized novel about Stan Brakhage's stay at the San Francisco Tape Music Center in the early 60's, Subotnick & Oliveros are central characters)

Ross W. Duffin - How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care) - answered every last question I had about the 19th/20th century transition to ET

Tom Siegfried - The Bit and the Pendulum

'Limbo' is way over-the-top cyborg manifesto fun from 1952, and it's interesting to read a hilariously macho channeling of Freud before the 70's completely emasculated most forms of therapy. but 'Earth Abides'... I have no idea why it isn't regularly mentioned as one of the best American novels of the 20th century. (well, yes I do: most people still can't consider science-fiction as literature)

i like this thread but i never read anymore except on the bus so i can't make a contribution. this is a placeholder post :(((

in fact adam made it just for me!

i'm like 300 pages into the bolano so far, but it's the first one i've read by him so i got nothing to compare it to

i love the bolano stories in the new yorker. been trying to figure out where to start with his books.
also really want to read the Road.

really want to read the bolano, but i'm just finishing up infinite jest and i think i need to put a couple short books in between.

haha, i am supposedly reading infinite jest. it mainly just sits there next to my bed.

i played it using brushes at a rehearsal.

(nice sounding book)

Atkinson- Telepathy and Mental Influence
Hirschman- The Passions and The Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism Before Its Triumph
Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Sigmund Freud - The Uncanny
Pater - Appreciations

i need to get some new sf books those two upthread look good.

the empire as a way of life - william appleman williams
rules for radicals - saul alinsky
the importance of living - lin yutang

I've been going back and reading Guy DeBord -- it's actually a lot of fun to me now, as opposed to back when I was all wigged out in college and taking everything (and myself) way too seriously.

His essay on the Watts riots is kind of awesome even though I don't think I'd ever take up that radical a position.

I just started Waking Giant, the new book on the Age of Jackson.

in the middle of the third policeman--i love it while im reading it but i never feel like picking it up

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translator of 2666 supplies notes and annotations

Yates - Revolutionary Road

dashiell hammett short stories

the sound and the fury

Tortilla Flats

Growing Up In Tier 3000 - Felix C. Gotschalk
A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller, Jr.

oh my god, I love you wikipedia

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junot diaz - drown
dash shaw - bottomless belly button
william gass - the heart of the heart of the countr & other stories
lester bangs - mainlines, blood feasts

*country

crime & punishment

how's drown so far?

good! not as good as oscar wao but I like it. it's short stories

got a couple don delillos from the library

running dog - good, pulpy, kinda reads like william gibson (or I guess, later gibson reads like '70s delillo). post-vietnam nazi sex film conspiracy
end zone - football at a small-town texas college. not liking this, I think I'm gonna bail out and finish the lester bangs instead