What's a noise dude reading?

Just finished The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
It's problematic but worth the time.

i didn't think crash was 'out' at all. i thought it was boring. and seriously, if i had to read the words "chromium" or - i forget what the word was now, probably "labia", i thought i'd barf. they were used twice a page. i was pretty bummed. for so many amazing musicians claiming it to be a major influence and i couldn't even finish it. i dunno.

a lot of people prefer reading the interviews of Ballard talking about Crash to actually reading it, if you find it boring it's a good sign, probably. there are certainly times I wish I hadn't read all those Delany & Dennis Cooper books & Lautremont etc. but Crash I love. I think musicians like Crash not just because of the extreme pathology because it's got a very musical repetitive structure, but safe to say with that one people know by the second chapter whether it's their thing or not. his other books are more traditional / expositional SF

Just finished The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
It's problematic but worth the time.

― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, March 17, 2010 1:29 AM (5 hours ago)

i have this on hold at the library, not sure if i'll read it.
i also have crash but have not read it. i am prob reading too many books atm.

Michael Moorcock - City of the Beast
HP Lovecraft - The Dunwich Horror

and about to start George Mandel's Crocodile Blood

people know by the second chapter whether it's their thing or not

I read it a while ago but for me it was more that I felt I "got" the thesis early on and the book just went on and on banging the same drum

what's a soon-to-be noise dad reading

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Outside of Time: Ideas About Music - Robert Ashley

^^^ WANT

reading a book i found at my friend kate's place called "A History of Secret Societies."

the masonic secret rules there, iirc.

the human stain

hated that book if i recall correctly

it was a quick read and i didn't love it. not sure if i want to read any more roth.

also read:
inside the painters studio (great for painters)
hollywood monster (not surprisingly, a very quick read with little substance)

Ian, are you enjoying Saunders? Love that dude.

I'm only reading boring library school shit, and ILM :/

i did enjoy saunders. hoping to find cheap or borrow a copy of pastoralia.

hate roth btw.

people go apeshit for american pastoral and a few of his others and they have never done anything for me; made it 100 pages into am. pas. before giving up. finished the dying animal, felt like i was waiting for some type of resolution or revelation but nothing ever happened.

yeah pretty much the same w/ human stain. i guess i didn't really *hate* it but all the characters were super annoying and stuff kept not happening, and it was just weird and dirty old mannish.

he is a dirty old man! but yeah. i hated the human stain, loved american pastoral. been trying to catch up on the barry hannah i haven't read. oh i read the ask by sam lipsyte, that was awesome, and the steve martin book, born standing up. that was ok.

i really like some early roth but human stain felt empty & ridiculous

read lately:

c schine the three weissmanns of westport, gg kay under heaven, steven erkison dust of dreams. the copy of the ask that i ordered came in so i will be reading that next

hoping to find cheap or borrow a copy of pastoralia.

I'll check to see if I still have it but I think it either got sold to the Strand or at my last yard sale. I'll look though.

if I did sell it it wasn't because it's bad btw! it was pretty funny. just making space.

finished lush life
started hp lovecraft tales collection. stoked!!

stoked for the madness tbh

i've been wondering where you've been vic!

Just finished The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
It's problematic but worth the time.

― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, March 17, 2010 1:29 AM (5 hours ago)

i have this on hold at the library, not sure if i'll read it.
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― harbl, Wednesday, March 17, 2010 7:10 AM (1 week ago)

meh i let the hold go and didn't read it. i got this instead bc housing segregation is like my favorite topic? i dunno why
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lol hueg sorry

i really read too much nonfiction :(

its fun to learn about the world & whats in it :)

yeah but i am already reading Waiting for Gautreaux: A Story of Segregation, Housing, and the Black Ghetto, by Alexander Polikoff

Mildred Pierce by James M. Cain

The Given Day

Ayn Rand & The World She Made by Anne C Heller.

never read Rand and after reading this bio never want to. pretty interesting portrait of a messianic cult leader, tho. rand was increasingly creepy and finally, sad cause even "heroes" get old and ill and lonely.

fun fact; Alan Green$pan was a longtime Rand devotee and member of her inner circle...

finished: The City and The City by China Mieville

reading: J.G. Ballard autobio

my friend megan's unbelievably awesome new book: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/science/space/09space.html?scp=1&sq=megan%20prelinger&st=cse

sounds wild. the sample pages look amazing

Yeah that bk sounds fantastic!

i had to bring back waiting for gautreaux (we only get 3 weeks + one renewal, sux) so i am reading a sentimental education

seems pretty sentimental so far

space book looks awes. her husband was here (montreal) several months ago for presentations about open/online archives - cool, important stuff (esp for coms/media nerds like me obv)

i am reading a book abt the 'history of anxiety'
and a v poetic, slightly creepy novel by pascale quiviger

bolano 'by night in chile'
started last night, very good so far.

juggling a buncha books right now:

rick perlstein - nixonland
james ellroy - american tabloid

...and the Lord of the Rings audiobook lol

about to start The Girl Who Played w/ Fire

tara rodgers - pink noises, women on electronic music and sound
elizabeth hinkle-turner - women composers and music technology in the united states
christopher small - musicking (rereading)
christopher r. weingarten - it takes a nation of millions to hold us back
slavok zizek - in defense of lost causes
juji ito - uzumaki

i feel like i am starting to be a reader again

what are u reading

Henry James - The Tragic Muse
Johnny Rogan - Morrissey
David O Stewart - Impeached (about Andrew Johnson's impeachment)

oh oops
i started "i am a fugitive from a georgia chain gang!" by robert e. burns because i've had it for a while

how fun is it to read books with exclamation points in the title!

Picked up Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and I am excited.