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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)

A Most Damnable Invention: Dynamite, Nitrates and the Making of the Modern World by Stephen R. Brown

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 10 July 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

girlsarepretty.com is unusually painful today

― milton parker (Jon L), Monday, 10 July 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

box office poison
tiny giants
acme novelty date book
orthodoxy
some ginnnnsberg interview book
chunklet over-rated book
tech books of relevance, cookbooks, study guides, hacks, etc.
m.

― msp (mspa), Monday, 10 July 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

SCOTT PILGRIM VOL. 2
UMBRA

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Monday, 10 July 2006 22:59 (nineteen years ago)

Matt Briggs Shoot The Buffalo

― Igor Adkins (Grodd), Monday, 10 July 2006 23:03 (nineteen years ago)

muriel spark, loitering with intent.

― estela (estela), Monday, 10 July 2006 23:18 (nineteen years ago)

COLLISION AT HOME PLATE
YOU GOTTA HAVE WA
SEASONS IN HELL

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 01:00 (nineteen years ago)

Into the Wild
the big book of TC Boyle short stories that I bought for "The Hector Quesadilla Story"

― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 01:27 (nineteen years ago)

right now I am just reading a lot of French newspapers talking about Zidane. I really need to focus on something else soon, though!

― dar1a g (daria g), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 02:13 (nineteen years ago)

The Trouble With Tom - Paul Collins
The Know-It-All - A.J. Jacobs
The Men Who Stare At Goats - Jon Ronson
Infinite Jest. AGAIN. WHY?

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 03:24 (nineteen years ago)

a biography of Robert Mitchum & some book about flappers

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 03:25 (nineteen years ago)

you don't need to read infinite jest to be a good person. trust me, i'd never touch it and i'm a great person

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 03:33 (nineteen years ago)

Looking back at my list, if I just established a "read only books that start with THE *" rule, I could probably live out the rest of my life a much happier person.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 03:41 (nineteen years ago)

don't re-read infinite jest, it's a trap, that book is as empty as a soap dish at the local dump

― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 04:30 (nineteen years ago)

The noize biard has set me free.

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 04:36 (nineteen years ago)

i loved loved loved infinite jest but wondering how dated it is and how much i would love it now plus obv it's length stops me from rereading it.

anyhow my so-dull so-sad list

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 04:37 (nineteen years ago)

you guys all have the weirdest taste and i can't understand

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 04:42 (nineteen years ago)

ALSO:

Finley Wren - Philip Wylie (AGAIN, BUT ALWAYS WORTH IT)

― John Justen, Bataan death march of dimes. (johnjusten), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 04:48 (nineteen years ago)

The Planets -- Dava Sobel

astronomy for liberal arts dummies, explained in clear beautiful prose. if I didn't live in a city, I'd go buy a telescope.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 09:04 (nineteen years ago)

i'm reading The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics by Bruce J Schulman. i'm about halfway through it so far, it hasn't delved very far in depth about any particular issue. so no great revelations but the part about nixon's presidency was interesting because i don't think i totally grasped what a shrewd motherfucker that guy was. and he was both shrewd and a motherfucker. right now the book is focusing on the rising political and economic influence of the south and the "reddening of america". nice summer time read.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

I jsut read that awhile back, pretty much agree. I highly reccomend the recent 1973 Nervous Breakdown by Andreas Killen. He pulls a lot of disparate strands together w/o straining for effect.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

i wrote it down, will investigate.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

The Men Who Stare At Goats - Jon Ronson

this was close to being really good but in the end I just didn't believe half the shit the guy was saying (which was a drawback when he starts trying to make serious points about the Iraq war).

― dmr (Renard), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

Pulpy red-scare summer read, just finished:

http://g-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/3a/4d/015bd250fca0fb1f9e578010._AA240_.L.jpg

Apparently they made a movie of it starring:
Rutger Hauer
John Hurt
Craig T. Nelson
& Dennis Hopper

which I obviously have to rent now

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah the movie's great. Like the Big Chill with a body count.

The Shockwave Rider - John Brunner
Suicide: No Compromise - David Nobakht

― Alicia Fucking Silverstone (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

the dying animal - phillp roth (just started)
the big sleep - raymond chandler

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Sunday, 30 July 2006 03:09 (nineteen years ago)

apprenticeship of duddy kravitz - mordecai richler

only i just realized a whole signature (ie 30 pages) is missing argh

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 30 July 2006 03:44 (nineteen years ago)

forgotten how much it rules though

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 30 July 2006 03:45 (nineteen years ago)

music from inside out - ned rorem

a little pretentious, but sorta interesting nonetheless

― tehresa needs more out of this relationship than she's willing to put in (tehres, Sunday, 30 July 2006 04:14 (nineteen years ago)

Mason & Dixon -- one dude
Introductory Essays Into Zen (or something like that) -- D.T. Suzuki

― gbx (skowly), Sunday, 30 July 2006 05:42 (nineteen years ago)

still reading Lomax's Land Where the Blues Was Born (I think he's a pretty decently great writer -- no try hard, as some allege -- lots of amazing stories here..)

Blues People --- never read it before for some crazy reason, but it's pretty immense

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Sunday, 30 July 2006 05:47 (nineteen years ago)

just started all the king's men by robert penn warren, it's pretty good so far.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 30 July 2006 09:10 (nineteen years ago)

WIKIPEDIAS

This leads to a famous Jewish riddle: how can twins born minutes apart have a Bar Mitzvah 28 days apart? Answer: The first child was born just before sunset on 30 Adar, the last day of Adar I, while his twin was born just after sunset on the first of Adar II. In a non-leap year the second twin will have his birthday on 1 Adar, and the first twin 29 days later on 1 Nisan (since there is no 30 Adar in a non leap year). Thus their Bar Mitzvahs, which are held on the Saturday after the boy's 13th birthday, will take place 28 days apart (or even 35 days apart if 1 Adar is a Friday; if the birthday is a Saturday, the Bar Mitzvah takes place a week later, so the older twin will have his Bar Mitzvah on 8 Nisan, 35 days after that of his younger brother on 2 Adar).

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Sunday, 30 July 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

yo gbx i thought i was sick of one dude but i just started reading gravity's rainbow

― killy (baby lenin pin), Sunday, 30 July 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

so, you know.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Sunday, 30 July 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

reading/liking 1973 nervous breakdown now - big ups to m. coleman. finally read consider the lobster recently - considerably sucked! definitely not jumping into any infinite jest reread any time soon.

― j blount (papa la bas), Sunday, 30 July 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

I wish I could take back having ever read Infinite Jest. Or, better yet, having ever talked about having read it as if that were a positive thing.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Sunday, 30 July 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

In ninth grade I may have literally thumped it while saying "genius". :(

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Sunday, 30 July 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

I just read Lucy the last Astrid Lindgren book, Ronia, the Robber's Daughter. It was good. Reading her a Bobbsey Twins book right now; weird, I originally read her the first three, which were OK, I guess. They were written around 1903-1906 or so, I think. Then we found one in a used book store that was the seventh in the series and it seemed to have been written quite a bit later and was lamer - the kids thought of themselves as *detectives* by this point and were interested in solving mysteries and crimez. Now, we just got the fourth one out of a library and this one must have been written by a different person. They totally changed the way their maid Dinah (who is African-American) was depicted, calling her "colored" and making her speech way more stereotypical. She calls white men, "Massah!"

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 30 July 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

just finished moneyball and now i'm reading something happened

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Sunday, 30 July 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

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