What's a noise dude reading?

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.
[...]

― 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
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2BaDRBdoSL._SS500_.jpg

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.

bill c. malone - country music u.s.a.
glenn & henry comic
selected letters of john fante

xpost. my dad told me heinlein's 'stranger in a strange land' was his favorite book. i was gonna pick it up for my last vacation, but i wasn't really feeling it from scanning it in the store, and it was kinda too big to bring on vacay.

i ended up reading the Road, which i loved. is the movie terrible? charlize? ugh.

I loved Stranger in a Strange Land.
Huge influence on all that hippy shit, of course.
There's a reference to it in David Crosby's "Triad"

Suppose I should note that I mostly love classic sci-fi.

i'll eventually read it i think. i've never really done too much sci-fi

bill c. malone - country music u.s.a.

ian if you come across a copy of John Morthland's Best of Country Music, snap it up

will do.

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

― peacocks, Thursday, May 27, 2010 9:55 AM (Yesterday)

otm, it's really good so far too

gonna try to see if the library has a circulating copy of this http://www.amazon.com/Monument-Good-Intentions-Maryland-Penitentiary/dp/0938420674?&camp=212361 because i love the title and it seems right up my alley

not that it has an exclamation point in the title but i will probably start reading it soon, for the record

let the great world spin

i'm really starting to think i need to schedule some sit down novel reading time.

i am a fugitive...! is great and only took me like 2 days to read. i am reading "the real eve: modern man's journey out of africa" now