What's a noise dude reading?

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

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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

What's a noise dude reading? has new answers

the above is appearing mysteriously at the top of every page/thread on ILX that I visit ("has new answers" is colored blue")

ok so well

"the four noble truths" by the dalai lama tenzin gyatso (not sure i'm interpreting this one correctly as it seems to be merely reaffirming my pessimistic worldview)
"city of quartz" by mike davis (so far a great history of los angeles)

had to stop reading "angler", the 2008 book on cheney because it was just bumming me out so much

i also finally read the booklet to the ozzy-era sabbath box the other night as well as the "o.o.b.e. adventure" orb maxi-booklet

the above is appearing mysteriously

maybe you bookmarked a post by accident?

just finished Raymond Carver - Cathedral

xp that must have been it;

strange; just reserved a raymond carver short stories collection at the library today

had to stop reading "angler", the 2008 book on cheney because it was just bumming me out so much

ha, i bought this but i doubt i'll be able to stomach it either

about to finish crime and punishment; moby-dick is next.

crime & punishment/moby-dick both work as alt-titles for cheney!

haha

reading flannery o'connor short stories for a bit, then planning to dig deep into faulkner.

recently:
harry crews "the knockout artist" (v good, if a slightly unsatisfying conclusion)
"might as well live" a bio of dorothy parker
john fowles "the aristos"

Just finished the Patternmaster quartet (never read Clay's Ark or Mind of My Mind before--those were great!) Starting on either Jack Womack's Random Acts of Senseless Violence or Pohl's Gateway next.

i couldn't find my copy of sound & the fury so i am reading more harry crews--this time "feast of snakes" and holy shit is it bleak. there is something really distressing every ten pages or so, from a crazy girl rubbing shit in her hair, to brutally training pitbulls, to a guy thinking about concentration camps while he assfucks his travel companion. oh, harry crews, you love to be appalling.

btw ian i just ordered warlock cuz of that cormac thread

oh, warlock is good! it's more of a traditional western than most of the mccarthy i've read, but it's a good book and enjoyable to read.

fine by me! i'm just queuing up a bunch of books for this summer. so far:

against the day
warlock
suttree

this time "feast of snakes" and holy shit is it bleak

eep I almost got that at the library last time. instead I got Cathedral which was pretty fuckin bleak in its own right

have not heard of warlock, I'm interested

this time "feast of snakes" and holy shit is it bleak

an ex gave me this : /

la carre _smiley's people_
atwood _handmaid's tale_
plus, borges short fiction here & there