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also working on a pdf (hi, tedious!) of the libretto for britten's the rape of lucretia. ok, the libretto is actually by duncan, but i hear britten in my head while i read.

― tehresa, who will here remain anonymous (tehresa), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 03:26 (twenty years ago)

an advance copy of This Is Your Brain On Music by Steven Leviten, he's a neuroscientist and former record producer who explains how we perceive and process music. It's written for a general audience but he doesn't gussy up the cognitive or mathematical underpinnings of music theory w/fancypants prose.

this book is blowing my mind, bros.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 09:03 (twenty years ago)

neat.

I have a safari sub as well (@work) but would it kill them to make the interface better so that the books are actually readable?

― dar1a g (daria g), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 10:32 (twenty years ago)

its Daniel Levitin - i saw the webpage for that bk a couple of weeks ago:

http://www.yourbrainonmusic.com/

― xyzzzz__ (jdesouza), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 10:38 (twenty years ago)

oops early AM posting is my downfall. i'd be interested in yr take Julio. Dr. Daniel is really takin this liberal arts dude to school.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 11:53 (twenty years ago)

Walter Tevis' The Man Who Fell to Earth (unexpectedly included in the library's Criterion Collection DVD of the Roeg film)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 18:47 (twenty years ago)

I made it through high school and part of college without ever reading a word of Philip Roth, so I started Portnoy's Complaint. Thru 125 or so, I am not sold.

― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 19:40 (twenty years ago)

wait till you get to 129

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 02:04 (twenty years ago)

Do I get another long description of Daddy Portnoy's unit?

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 02:19 (twenty years ago)

I'm reading some ghost stories by Sheridan Le Fanu and really loving them.

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 03:02 (twenty years ago)

oooh, those information architecture books and links... thanks dar1a. god, i love information. i'm reading stuff about discourse analysis, still. your brain on music looks awesome too.

i just finished reading age of innocence and a few books of poemtry. i have house of leaves and have had it for a few years but still haven't read it (was a present). i mostly just don't want to be freaked out and unable to sleep properly.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 03:12 (twenty years ago)

read the first chapter of Valis on the subway today

― Renard (Renard), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 03:54 (twenty years ago)

i just spent like $300 on amazon and ium drunk!

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 04:41 (twenty years ago)

woah, that shit cost $300!??!?! it didn't seem like that much!

― tehresa, who will here remain anonymous (tehresa), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 05:06 (twenty years ago)

haha .. been there ... hello Duke Ellington Anniversery Box

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 05:14 (twenty years ago)

ha it was only $24 !

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 05:24 (twenty years ago)

am reading italo svevo, "a life"

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 06:22 (twenty years ago)

http://products.listal.com/images/nodrop/180/0321305256/books/stylin-with-css-a-designers-guide.jpg

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 11:43 (twenty years ago)

screw it, i started Victor Hugo NOTRE DAME. this old rotten mildew copy with cigarette paper pages.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 13:11 (twenty years ago)

THE WALKING DEAD VOLUMES 1-3.

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 13:12 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

Jesus, reading Lucy the original Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie - intense.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 9 July 2006 00:20 (nineteen years ago)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0802130135.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Sunday, 9 July 2006 02:47 (nineteen years ago)

am reading italo svevo, "a life"

-- cozen (skiplevel...) (webmail), June 14th, 2006 12:22 AM. (Cozen) (link)

So, so good!

(I'm reading a Hans Christian Andersen bio).

― Damn, Atreyu! (x Jeremy), Sunday, 9 July 2006 02:58 (nineteen years ago)

an instance of the fingerpost by iain pears
and from hell by allan moore & eddie campbell

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Sunday, 9 July 2006 03:07 (nineteen years ago)

Chuck Palahniuk's Diary, and all four of John Fante's Arturo Bandini books are the most recent reads for me. May reread Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics next.

― ALLAH FROG (Mingus Dew), Sunday, 9 July 2006 04:00 (nineteen years ago)

from hell by allan moore & eddie campbell

I just finished Watchmen .... pretty cool. I had never read of Allan Moore's stuff before.

also PKD's Valis was great

― dmr (Renard), Sunday, 9 July 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

read *any* of

― dmr (Renard), Sunday, 9 July 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

i just read who's afraid of virginia woolf? as an easy one for times when brain is not functioning. i started pride and prejudice cause somehow i never read it and i had it but i'm like 5 pages in and annoyed by girls who just wanna get married.

― tehresa, who will here remain anonymous (tehresa), Sunday, 9 July 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

I just finished Watchmen .... pretty cool. I had never read of Allan Moore's stuff before.

wha????? I read Watchmen like once a year.

Currently into The Economy of Cities, by Jane Jacobs. It makes me want to punch every hippy and/or redneck nimby right in the face.

― gbx (skowly), Sunday, 9 July 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

After taking a long break from it, I am now back to Pessoa's "The Book of Disquiet". It's amazing, and it is a weirdly potent kind of mood-intoxicant. It kind of paralyzes you with ennui.

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Sunday, 9 July 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

wha?????

haha I knew that was coming .... playing catch-up over here! don't laugh!

― dmr (Renard), Monday, 10 July 2006 01:00 (nineteen years ago)

guys our lady of the flowers is the best book i have ever read (maybe) and i'm only on pg 112

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Monday, 10 July 2006 01:16 (nineteen years ago)

new yorker summer fiction issue

― killy (baby lenin pin), Monday, 10 July 2006 01:28 (nineteen years ago)

The best novel I've ever read is The Green Knight by Iris Murdoch.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 10 July 2006 01:50 (nineteen years ago)

VALIS is really trippy, innit? The PKD I've read:

Three Stigmata of Palmer Erdrich
Valis
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
Man in the High Castle
Scanner Darkly

so what should I scoop up next?

― Damn, Atreyu! (x Jeremy), Monday, 10 July 2006 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

UBIK.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 10 July 2006 12:33 (nineteen years ago)

yeah Ubik is good, I read that one a few months before Valis. Valis is probably better, a little more of a mind-fuck ... but I liked both ...

I think that list above names all the other ones I've read ...

― dmr (Renard), Monday, 10 July 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

definitely ubik. also try now wait for last year, time out of joint, and do androids dream of electric sheep.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 10 July 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

the world jones made is pretty good, too.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 10 July 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.jazzrecordcenter.com/store/images/miles1021.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0738202037.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― Dominique (dleone), Monday, 10 July 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

along the jane jacobs line i just started paul goodman's communitas

a silly academic (perhaps too much so) thing called greenwich village 1963: the avant garde and the efervescent body

also a bunch a breton and alfred jarry and joseph cornell's diaries

spent sat night rereading another country..a deathwish encouraged by a bottle of whiskey.

will pick up some djuna barnes at the library later

x-post I: i don't buy our lady of the flowers...when i started it, years ago, i was entranced...finished it about two years ago without a care. sometimes depravity just ends up vacant? i don't know...what do people get from it?..i'm always a bit envious when i fail to see the charm in things, gluton that i am.

x-post II: i should reread the book of disquiet. i started it in college, but it didn't feel right at the time. maybe it will never feel right, but im glad you reminded me of it, drew

― bb (bbrz), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

Autobiography of Betrand Russell
Time Enough for Love - Heinlein
Playgrounds of the Mind - Niven

― Songbirds of Darker Florida (cprek), Monday, 10 July 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

ny people i am new - where is a good used book store?

― tehresa, who will here remain anonymous (tehresa), Monday, 10 July 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

THE STRAND.
BROADWAY & 12TH.

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Monday, 10 July 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

tx ian!

― tehresa, who will here remain anonymous (tehresa), Monday, 10 July 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

in one of those modes where I've started all these books and can't really get into one (they all seem good, it's no knock on the books themselves):

Neil Gaimen - American Gods
David Foster Wallace - Consider the Lobster
Joseph Conrad - Lord Jim
Steve Kent - The Clone Republic (sci-fi paperback a friend of mine recently god published)

― M@tt He1geson, Rendolent Ding-Dong (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

the strand is amazing. don't go there looking for anything in particular, though. you need to have some free time and be in a serious browsing mood. alabaster on 4th ave and 12th st is really good as well, but a completely different style - small and orderly. there's also a fantastic place run by an eccentric old man that i found in the west village during a rainstorm a few years ago, but it seems to have disappeared brigadoon-style.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

there's also a second Strand near Wall St if you happen to be way downtown .... but the Union Sq one is better

― dmr (Renard), Monday, 10 July 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

isn't the strand where michael caine buys that ee cummings book in hannah & her sisters?

― Dominique (dleone), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

i like e village books on st. marks...but they can be pricey...lots of good people on the street near nyu library on saturdays...but again..can be pricey...if yr just looking for nothng in particular and are in brooklyn theres the thing and that dude's wife's place down the street on manhattan ave. piles of stuff, some good, some not even fit for toilet paper.

― bb (bbrz), Monday, 10 July 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

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