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(it's only a loaner though)

― milton parker (Jon L), Friday, 12 May 2006 00:21 (twenty years ago)

who cares... looks cool.

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xsl book
random safari.oreilly titles
"aeiou" by jeffrey brown
complete shorts of mark twain

― msp (mspa), Friday, 12 May 2006 02:00 (twenty years ago)

mimi sheraton: the bialy eaters: the story of a bread and a lost world
joshua gamson - the fabulous sylvester
marion nestle - what to eat
t.j. english - paddy whacked: the untold story of the irish american gangster
michael bronksi - culture clash: the making a of a gay sensibility

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Friday, 12 May 2006 02:12 (twenty years ago)

thanks to cut number i finally understand the numbers racket.

flann o'brein's at swim-two-birds
raymond queneau's stories and remarks.

both entirely recommendable

― bb (bbrz), Friday, 12 May 2006 12:25 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

killy: lover's discourse, c/d? i am reading barthes' mythologies now and it is really noize. what's a noise dude reading.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 00:55 (twenty years ago)

winston churchill the second world war volume 2: their finest hour

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 01:00 (twenty years ago)

& just finished evan eisenberg's the recording angel, which is fantastic, especially once he reaches the middle chapter 'phonography', ditches the anthropology and just sails away into abstract truest space

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 01:04 (twenty years ago)

caitlin: my post up above was just a joek in response to allocryptic's post. can't remember shit about that book, but i can see the spine from across the room, so C. last time i said something positiv about barthes i got yelled at by some drunk dude at sun city girls show who was like "what are u, 25? get a life! barthes is gay! john barth rules!"

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 01:12 (twenty years ago)

Wouldn't 25 be a compliment?

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 01:18 (twenty years ago)

I started a really boring novel about junkies last night (Luke Davies, 'Candy'), but I think I'm going to toss it aside in favor of the new Pevear translations of The Double and the Gambler.

I'm on a Russian kick for the summer, do any noizers have a favorite translation of The Death of Ivan Ilyich?

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 01:23 (twenty years ago)

john barth? does anyone read stuff by that guy? i don't even know who he are

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 01:30 (twenty years ago)

i know lots of peeps who are into john barth, matter of fact. he writes fiction.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 01:34 (twenty years ago)

ok i knew that but i didn't know people cared! i thought he was just some guy

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 01:37 (twenty years ago)

he's "just some guy" to most people on this Earth, i'd imagine.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 01:38 (twenty years ago)

I found Barth's Chimera at a thrift store and read the first of the 3 sections .... the Arabian Nights one ... I could see how it was probably groundbreaking as far as metafiction goes but since meta is so played out now (or at least, I have read my fill of it for a long time) it seemed pretty dated

most recently I read Secret Rendezvous by Kobo Abe. It was OK but I liked The Ruined Map better ...

― Renard (Renard), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 02:00 (twenty years ago)

I don't know what is a good translation of Ivan Ilych.. but I usually like translations that are pointing a little more at the source language that they sound somewhat different than modern English, even awkward at times, not so polished. I tried to learn Russian (didn't give enough time/effort to be good at it) but with the way the language is structured it seems to configure space differently. weird.

I was reading "In a country of mothers" by AM Homes - just a whim - it's OK, I think she's probably written better stuff though.

― dar1a g (daria g), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 02:23 (twenty years ago)

the book of revelation

― latebloomer's potater chip of the proletariat (latebloomer), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 02:24 (twenty years ago)

The only good Barth I've read has been The Sot-Weed Factor. Everything else has been cutesy indie rock shit.

Currently reading PAMELA which is v good and Watson's book about Zappa which is slightly less good. Also The Book of Margery Kempe which is not by choice and less good (or at least less interesting) than all three of the above.

― adam (adam), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 02:36 (twenty years ago)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0752860399.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 03:02 (twenty years ago)

jimmy mcdonough's bio of andy milligan
saramago "blindness"
mailer "the naked and the dead"
howard "conan the conqueror"

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 03:41 (twenty years ago)

i just read "the three stigmata of eldritch palmer" in one evening. did a lot better than when i was a sixth-grader. i think i stopped "getting it" sometime around the sixth or seventh chapter back then ... this time i could follow it almost all the way to the end. i got more of the jokes and references this time around, too. particularly the dirty ones and the ones about religion. weird, that.

now back to "miles runs the voodoo down" (phil d freeman is the shit!)

― renegade bear shot by cops on frat row (vahid), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 05:17 (twenty years ago)

hmm...I almosted posted this on the enemies list yesterday:

The Plugged Nickel box is amazing, most of all because Miles is the weakest link in the band a lot of the time (and I really don't like Wayne Shorter very much at all).
-- pdf

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 09:10 (twenty years ago)

http://www.zaalbooks.nl/BookImages/1068.jpg

― and what (ooo), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 12:40 (twenty years ago)

http://pictures.abebooks.com/COPPERHILLBOOKS/438781610.jpg

― and what (ooo), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 12:41 (twenty years ago)

The only good Barth I've read has been The Sot-Weed Factor. Everything else has been cutesy indie rock shit.

YA RLY. anything that can be described as "smart and funny" usually doesn't sit well with me.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 12:43 (twenty years ago)

well, not anything. i just have some specific, annoying writers in mind.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 12:47 (twenty years ago)

First part of Chimera is pretty great.

― danski (danski), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 20:33 (twenty years ago)

kevin lynch's the image of the city, which is on my summer reading list for school. i bought it today at the art/architecture bookstore on wilshire in santa monica.

― sometimes it takes an earthquake to know where the fault lies (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 8 June 2006 00:44 (twenty years ago)

that looks like a good read. please give update when finished.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Thursday, 8 June 2006 01:41 (twenty years ago)

http://www.curthoppe.com/Penthouse_letters.jpg

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Thursday, 8 June 2006 01:46 (twenty years ago)

my dad reads those

― i shouldn't know this (baby lenin pin), Thursday, 8 June 2006 01:50 (twenty years ago)

that looks like a good read. please give update when finished.

the "image" he means is kind of a photographic image people mentally take of cities as they walk around them and navigate them -- a kind of moment-to-moment spatial analysis, or the way people are able to figure out/remember directions by recalling notable buildings and intersections and public spaces, and how dead areas and drab neighborhoods without any real nodes of activity make it easier for visitors to get lost. he looks at cities very systemically, by going into detail and then asking how those details function within the larger system. only problem from the reader's end is that it was written in 1960 and some of the places he's talked about have changed or are undergoing changes. what he writes about is still very relevant though.

― sometimes it takes an earthquake to know where the fault lies (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 8 June 2006 02:02 (twenty years ago)

jameson talks about that book in his postmodernism book. he draws kind of a tardish (like duh, but also wrong) conclusion from it though. i want to read books about cities/buildings but not that one. a different one.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 8 June 2006 02:51 (twenty years ago)

JBR: THAT WAS FAST
CAITLIN: HUH? my favorite book about cities is Invisible Cities (Calvino). read that one.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Thursday, 8 June 2006 02:53 (twenty years ago)

I DON'T LIKE CALVINO, BARELY AT ALL. is it nonfiction though? the only thing i have read by him is the one about the winter night and the traveler and i got 2/3 done and i was like fuck, i don't even like this, so boring. then i quit. i like realism.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 8 June 2006 02:55 (twenty years ago)

ok, you won't like invisible cities.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Thursday, 8 June 2006 02:56 (twenty years ago)

i don't know what kind of book about cities i want though. i want to know about architecture and poor people and politics. i don't mean like mike davis (is that his name i forgot), that guy that writes about slums and stuff, i mean like stuff about cities that is like, harder to read.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 8 June 2006 02:59 (twenty years ago)

i liked this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262024519/103-3321431-1142242?v=glance&n=283155

― killy (baby lenin pin), Thursday, 8 June 2006 03:03 (twenty years ago)

what about de Certeau's 'The Practice of Everyday Life'? or Henri Lefebvre's 'The Production of Space'? might be up your alley. I've never read 'em though. I just know they are supposed to be "the shit". and like hard and stuff.

I am reading the Peter Green biography (still). I bought Alan Lomax's 'Where the Blues Began' for cheap at the book fair on Sunday, and I hope to finish the Green and start the Lomax before the blues fest starts on Friday.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Thursday, 8 June 2006 03:08 (twenty years ago)

oh yeah! those were both on my mental list and i forgot them. i think i would really like lefebvre but i don't know very much about certeau. i think adamrl read that book.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 8 June 2006 03:29 (twenty years ago)

i like pretty girls.

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Thursday, 8 June 2006 04:30 (twenty years ago)

ok I like books AND pretty girls.

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Thursday, 8 June 2006 04:34 (twenty years ago)

Its allaout the plightofconcering art verys love in humun bonage.philipcaresthe doctorsdaughterbecauceshepovide

I AM AN ASSHOLE.

duh.

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Thursday, 8 June 2006 04:40 (twenty years ago)

those were my drunk roommate.

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Thursday, 8 June 2006 04:55 (twenty years ago)

she's a funny one, she is.

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Thursday, 8 June 2006 04:55 (twenty years ago)

finished the frank kogan book. now onto THE UNB EARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 June 2006 05:30 (twenty years ago)

a man without a country
david boring
ice haven
identity crisis
the metamorphosis (comic version)
.net gotchas
ajax hacks
c# cookbook
xpath
xslt 2.0

― msp (mspa), Thursday, 8 June 2006 11:46 (twenty years ago)

Ball Four (in anticipation of meeting the author in 3 weeks)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 June 2006 12:38 (twenty years ago)

wtf @ dissing barth & loving calvino

― and what (ooo), Thursday, 8 June 2006 13:08 (twenty years ago)

i like italians.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Thursday, 8 June 2006 13:28 (twenty years ago)

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