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(I'm just kidding)

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:02 (twenty years ago)

it's bookstore, dude. quit denyin'

no it's technically a giftshop but who buys the junk in there that ain't books?

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:04 (twenty years ago)

...did anyone else read that piece in Harper's by the dude that invented the "flash mob?"

xpost call it a giftshop then! also: i have bought a pen before, but that's because I needed one.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:05 (twenty years ago)

Just started Household words : bloomers, sucker, bombshell, scab, nigger, cyber / Stephanie A. Smith.
Read most of Consider the Lobster. The porn article and the title article were my favorites. Some of it just didn't interest me at all, like the big Grammar Usage and the new dictionary thing, and I'd already the McCain thing in Rolling Stone.
Too many books in the library.

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:05 (twenty years ago)

xpost i read that

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:06 (twenty years ago)

Currently reading:

Bright Lights, Dark Shadows: The Real Story of ABBA

from the library:
Patricia Campbell Hearst - Every Secret Thing
Emily Wortis Leider - Becoming Mae West
Donald Spoto - Lenya
Simon Winchester - A Crack on the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:06 (twenty years ago)

no it's technically a giftshop but who buys the junk in there that ain't books?

me!

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:06 (twenty years ago)

i died a little bit inside.

xpost

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:07 (twenty years ago)

Patricia Campbell Hearst - Every Secret Thing
Emily Wortis Leider - Becoming Mae West
Donald Spoto - Lenya
Simon Winchester - A Crack on the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906

three of these are on my list!

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:08 (twenty years ago)

adam, in lovely SARF LAHNDAN

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:09 (twenty years ago)

I've been threatening to pierce Jung's Mysterium Coniunctionis but really haven't been reading much outside Grant Morrison comics and issues of MOJO.

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:13 (twenty years ago)

gbx - actually, i just skimmed the article. usually i read the notebook, the index, the puzzle and forget that i haven't read the rest of it.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:14 (twenty years ago)

How is that ABBA bio?

I am reading:

Varese - a looking glass diary, Louise Varese
Electric Sound - Joel Chadabe

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:18 (twenty years ago)

I learned that Frida recorded a cover of "Life on Mars" for one of her solo albums.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:19 (twenty years ago)

killy - it was a good read, actually. Pretty funny, well-written, etc. Just made me embarassed to be even remotely linked to "hipster scum" in even the loosest way. Which was the point, I think.

hey cunningh4m: is that DFW book any good? I read A Supposedly Fun Thing and that it was outstanding (esp the titular essay).

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:23 (twenty years ago)

i have wanted to have a noise dude book thread but i suspected it would die quickly? i'm glad. thanks adamrl.

i have just started:
albert camus - the plague
frantz fanon - the wretched of the earth

i have just recently finished:
sigmund freud - 3 essays on the theory of sexuality
slavoj zizek - welcome to the desert of the real
stewart home - assault on culture

wreckers of civilization sounds good

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:23 (twenty years ago)

we're avid penny pressers. (re: giftshops.)

― msp (mspa), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:24 (twenty years ago)

i knew a book thread would be prime caitlinbait

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:25 (twenty years ago)

omg my roommate has such a boner for zizek it's not even funny.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:26 (twenty years ago)

is he single?

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:27 (twenty years ago)

caitlin would like to meet him

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:27 (twenty years ago)

yes he is!

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:27 (twenty years ago)

I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO MEET HIM

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:28 (twenty years ago)

he's a good looking dude, too.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:28 (twenty years ago)

i want to see the zizek documentary

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:28 (twenty years ago)

There's a copy around here someplace.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:29 (twenty years ago)

it's boring, don't watch it

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:31 (twenty years ago)

whozizek?

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:31 (twenty years ago)

>I learned that Frida recorded a cover of "Life on Mars" for one of her solo albums.

this is definitely of fringe interest but here's a mashup of Frida and Penderecki I made for a fellow noiseboarder's birthday

http://s61.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2TMMBBTFPU1PN07HF3MC683BWI

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:31 (twenty years ago)

i've never read zizek... compare him to somebody.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:35 (twenty years ago)

oh, he's a professor at the European Graduate School -- what the hell is with that place? i was convinced it was a hoax, but now i am afraid it is real!

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:38 (twenty years ago)

...did anyone else read that piece in Harper's by the dude that invented the "flash mob?"

yes, and that douche was on brian lehrer today too. ugh.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:40 (twenty years ago)

i bet it's made up. all these famous people "teach" there. i don't know who to compare him to. welcome to the desert of the real is only like 150 pages (and it's one of those tall, skinny verso books so the pages aren't normal size) so you should just read it, it's good!

xpost

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:41 (twenty years ago)

My friend Megan is smitten with Zizek.

Unfortunately, he's taken:

http://jdeanicite.typepad.com/i_cite/images/zizek_wedding_2.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:41 (twenty years ago)

he had a spread in Film Comment last issue.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:42 (twenty years ago)

In which he Commented on Films.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:42 (twenty years ago)

haha is that really his wife? i don't know whether to say wow or ew, creepy old man

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:42 (twenty years ago)

the boy done good.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:43 (twenty years ago)

That is really his wife. I love that photo. It's hilarious.

hey cunningh4m: is that DFW book any good? I read A Supposedly Fun Thing and that it was outstanding (esp the titular essay).

-- gbx (in....), March 8th, 2006 2:23 PM. (skowly) (later) (link)

Sk0w, I've only read one of the essays so far. But yeah, good. Supposedly Fun Thing is my favorite book of his (including the fiction).

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:43 (twenty years ago)

I made a go at Infinite Jest in, like, 11th grade or so but gave up after a few hundred pages. Besides being a bit dense, it was heavy and people teased me for lugging around such a ridiculously sized book.

Also, I had acne.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:45 (twenty years ago)

once i read a page of it because my friend was reading it and i thought i might puke or die if i went any further

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:47 (twenty years ago)

yes! i hate that dude.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:47 (twenty years ago)

caitlin why aren't there more cool girls like you? n_n

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:49 (twenty years ago)

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:49 (twenty years ago)

i exist only inside the internet ^_^

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:49 (twenty years ago)

xpost BUZZ OFF, BRIT!

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:50 (twenty years ago)

hey! lay off adam. he's special.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:51 (twenty years ago)

I made a go at Infinite Jest once when I was 17 and again when I was 23. Neither time did I make it past the first 100 pages. That, and I got sick of a couple friends of mine waxing rhapsodic about it in a really sickening way. Eff that.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:51 (twenty years ago)

never mind, caitlin! i take it back!

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:51 (twenty years ago)

[email protected]

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:52 (twenty years ago)

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about 200pgs into the Art of Fielding. it's aight

― dmr, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 18:15 (fourteen years ago)

richard stark - the hunter

Everything I've read from the Parker books has been very entertaining. I'm not usually into the whole hard-boiled style but Luc Sante's blog sold me on this series. It was nice to see them published again with Sante doing the intros.

― gutta gutta island (s. morris), Thursday, 16 February 2012 06:04 (fourteen years ago)

I actually slightly prefer the Dortmunder books, but I like pretty much everything that Stark/Westlake wrote.

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 16 February 2012 14:12 (fourteen years ago)

Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad, keep getting images from the Peter O'Toole film which I wish i didn't would like it more if my mind created its own images.

Also Judge Dredd/Hammerstein.

― Stevolende, Thursday, 16 February 2012 17:00 (fourteen years ago)

five months pass...

finished:
osamu dazai - no longer human (very bleak!)
gene wolfe - book of the new sun
georges simenon - maigret and the death of a harbor master

reading:
charles williams - the wrong venus
robert b parker - the widening gyre (still digging these)
donald westlake - get real (the first dortmunder i am reading. i have a few others that i got at thrift stores i haven't checked out yet. but i love the parker & grofield stuff, and some of the other one-off novels of his i have read as well--361 was good, so was Somebody Owes Me Money.

― one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 13 August 2012 22:00 (thirteen years ago)

Adam Winkler - Gunfight: The Battle Over The right to Bear Arms in America

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 August 2012 22:02 (thirteen years ago)

I'm about 150 pages from the end of Bolano's 2666

― dmr, Monday, 13 August 2012 22:15 (thirteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

reading now:
the jewel in the skull - michael moorcock (silly pulpy sword & sorcery but i like that stuff sometimes)
the wrong venus - charles williams (dirty-book themed crime caper, love williams.)

just finished:
the hot spot, also by charles williams. for fans of the usual suspects -- willeford, thompson, goodis et al. small town car salesman gets tied up with two women and several criminal activities ensue.

gave up on get real.

― one dis leads to another (ian), Saturday, 1 September 2012 02:28 (thirteen years ago)

i'll get back to it.

― one dis leads to another (ian), Saturday, 1 September 2012 02:28 (thirteen years ago)

Any Simenon recommendations, ian? I picked up a nice Maigret omnibus yesterday and started with Liberty Bar.

― jim, Saturday, 1 September 2012 02:46 (thirteen years ago)

i am fairly new to simenon actually, but he is probably my wife's favorite writer after Raymond Chandler. She swears by all the Maigret mysteries. Of the non-Maigret stuff, I thought Dirty Snow was a-mazing.

― one dis leads to another (ian), Saturday, 1 September 2012 02:53 (thirteen years ago)

the jewel in the skull - michael moorcock

could never get into anything outside the sci fi except elric. is that corum or hawkmoon or what?

― the late great, Saturday, 1 September 2012 03:55 (thirteen years ago)

i'm trying to read "the golden space" but it's pretty hard going (see sci fi thread, recently)

― the late great, Saturday, 1 September 2012 03:56 (thirteen years ago)

tempted to switch to babel 187 or engine summer

― the late great, Saturday, 1 September 2012 03:56 (thirteen years ago)

that is some hawkmoon action.
i never read anything outside the elric when i was a kid.

― one dis leads to another (ian), Saturday, 1 September 2012 04:25 (thirteen years ago)

ditched "Vineland" to do 3 barthelmes on the trot.
on 4th & enjoying immensely. he clicks for me, unlike the pynch. an effortless read.
also 1/2way through "the ticket that exploded". not read any burroughs in abt 15yrs & i forgot just how fantastic he gets at the top of his game.

― iglu ferrignu, Saturday, 1 September 2012 07:22 (thirteen years ago)

finished 2666. really blew me away unlike Savage Detectives which I thought was pretty overrated. not sure what I'm going to pick up next. someone left a book called "Hopeful Monsters" by Nicholas Moseley in a free pile on the sidewalk and I grabbed it but not sure if I want to read it now.

oh yeah also read Ragtime a while ago, that was good

― dmr, Sunday, 2 September 2012 01:42 (thirteen years ago)

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