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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)

tom johnson, 'the voice of new music'

collected village voice reviews of various ny early 70's loft concerts. look at the table of contents. hard to even imagine what it must have been like.

http://homepage.mac.com/javiruiz/English/booksenglish.html#thevoiceofnewmusic

― milton parker (Jon L), Monday, 31 July 2006 00:00 (nineteen years ago)

more barthes - writing degree zero (it is good)

― nazi bikini (harbl), Monday, 31 July 2006 00:03 (nineteen years ago)

xpost
that looks....amazing

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Monday, 31 July 2006 00:05 (nineteen years ago)

i finish the barthes and now reading "image and reality of the israel-OMG PALETSINE!!!11! conflict" by norman G. finkelstein

has anyone read this book and if so is the whole thing going to be just him pointing out how everyone who has written a pro-israel book has falsified old research data etc. about how bad and hated arabs are? i think it might be kind of a boring book but it is hard to find decent books about this topic, amirite

― nazi bikini (harbl), Saturday, 5 August 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

i think the topic is generally indecent without having to be written about

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Saturday, 5 August 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

i mean, no matter what happens everybody is going to be pissed off and make stuff up

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Saturday, 5 August 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

yup :(

― nazi bikini (harbl), Saturday, 5 August 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

invisible cities, again

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Saturday, 5 August 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

shit that is my favorite book, ian. it is the most re-readable book i know.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Saturday, 5 August 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

besides ulysses.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Saturday, 5 August 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

books i ordered at amazong recently:

for me
for school
for school
for school
for school

― rudy huxtable can't fail (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 5 August 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

i am reading Da Europeans by MC Henry Jizzames.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 5 August 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

jeebs that glitter stucco book looks totally cool.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 5 August 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

blarrgh, school books are so expensive, jody! but i guess that's school.

i just read a couple of weird books about visualization and healing. yeahhh.

and at this moment i am reading "technoculture and critical theory: in the service of the machine?" yeahhh.

― rrrobyn monsters with heat fever+stroke (rrrobyn), Saturday, 5 August 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

blarrgh, school books are so expensive, jody!

i bought 'em used! the four books came out to about $100 including standard shipping.

― rudy huxtable can't fail (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 5 August 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

yaay! that is sweet.

― rrrobyn monsters with heat fever+stroke (rrrobyn), Saturday, 5 August 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

it's the best when you can get paperback international edition from SINGAPORE for like $15 and then $15 FAST shipping for a $100 book. i don't think it's gonna work for lawyer school books :(

― nazi bikini (harbl), Saturday, 5 August 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

it's funny cuz i ordered those plannering school books two days ago w/ media mail shipping and two of them arrived this morning. i ordered the architecture book a week ago with expedited shipping (since the book was so cheap, i decided to splurge), and it still hasn't arrived. of course, that seller's in friggin' maryland...

― rudy huxtable can't fail (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 5 August 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

are you gonna be a city planner, jody? i always liked the sound of that. the only city planner i ever knew was kevin bacon's dad. he was a cool old dude.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 5 August 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, invisible cities is badass. I used to be a huge Cosmicomics fan but then i reread and it didn't hold up well at all.

i just finished John Cage:an Anthology and I'm about to reread Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal (my favoritest book) for like the millionth time.
I'm also reading some really boooring Eno-woship book called "his music and the vertical color of sound"

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Saturday, 5 August 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

are you gonna be a city planner, jody?

yeah! housing and land planning/policy and stuff. i'm about to start my master's at USC, which has one of the most solid urban policy schools in the country.

― rudy huxtable can't fail (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 5 August 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

Rising Up, Rising Down - William T Vollman
Herzog on Herzog

― Alicia Titsovich (sexyDancer), Saturday, 5 August 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

psychic soviet by "ian svevonius"
m.

― msp (mspa), Saturday, 5 August 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

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