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that edition, actually...i reread it about every two yrs, but im getting to thinking it just makes me savagely unhappy every two years.

also:
susan sontag against interpretation
douglas rushkoff get back in the box
new york schools of music and visual art
bob dylan the essential interviews
paul goodman communitas
raymond queneau the blue flowers
oakley hall warlocks

― bb (bbrz), Friday, 25 August 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

douglas rushkoff get back in the box

i quite liked this, as the only 'business' book i've ever read that was actually insightful in any way

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Friday, 25 August 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

yeah..im into it..but since its a business book, i get bored with it easily...its been on the desk for a week now..should get back to it and finish it...his last collumn in arthur was utter trash though. sure, he was mostly right, but i expect more smarter things...

― bb (bbrz), Friday, 25 August 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

"what the frog's eye tells the frog's brain" lettvin, mccullouch, maturana, pitts

― milton parker (Jon L), Sunday, 27 August 2006 01:15 (nineteen years ago)

I HAVE A REQUEST FOR JBR:

PLZ TO RECOMMEND AN URBAN PLANNING BIBLIOGRAPHY, PLZ.

(email, if you like, to my login plus gmail)

― gbx (skowly), Sunday, 27 August 2006 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

zola - NANA

― killy (baby lenin pin), Sunday, 27 August 2006 03:56 (nineteen years ago)

RJ Smith's "The Great Black Way" and Peter Guralnick's Sam Cooke biography.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 27 August 2006 05:16 (nineteen years ago)

how's The Great Black Way? I'm waiting for it at my library.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 27 August 2006 11:41 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://www.schwartzbooks.com/mas_assets/full/1594480184.jpg

― señor citizen (eman), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

focusing now on the queneau mentioned above...its become a hillarious little romp.

also an occasional wodehouse story and cortazar's hopscotch

― bb (bbrz), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1592401996.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0767903277.01._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_AA240_SH20_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

lame girl stole my queneau! (crosslist on bummerz)

― Lazy Comet (plsmith), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

the thin man - hammett
the big sleep - chandler
pale fire - nabakov

looking to try some elmore leonard, any starting recommendations?

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

It is hilarious.

Also got this book called BEERS OF THE WORLD, which is like a coffee table book for people who only ever have beer on their coffee table.

― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

ive heard good things about the warlocks by oakley hall..input anyone?

― bb (bbrz), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

My old man only read Elmore Leonard. He offered "Rum Punch" and "Ryan's Rules" aka "SWAG" as starting points. I read "Ryan's Rules" it has ten rules on how to not get busted doing crime. Note: the protagonists do not follow these rules.

― Dr. Alicia B. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

still reading:
Rising Up Rising Down - William T Vollman (3,000 pgs to go, yo)
also:
Illuminatus! - Roberts Shea and Anton Wilson (only read 1st book as kid)
45 - Bill Drummond (recently read "The Manual" had to follow up)

― Dr. Alicia B. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - Haruki Murakami
new short story collection, not a fan of the translators, but oh well

The Mind of Bill James: How a Complete Outsider Changed Baseball - Scott Gray
not bad, though my expectations were low. found a few typos/grammar problems, maybe i should go into editing?

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

How is Rising Up, Rising Down? Other than long.

― John Justen,a ninja slapboxing fajitas out of J. Casablancas dental dam. (johnju, Wednesday, 13 September 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

Pretty great. I read the abridgment so I found a "cheap," ($100) slightly damaged copy of the volume set online. Vollman's writing for clarity here, so it's an easy read, despite the length. So far, I read great stuff on Napoleon and Stalinist Russia.

― Dr. Alicia B. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

just finished Easy Riders, Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

how long is the abridgement? i'm too lazy to ask the internet.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

500 pgs.

― Dr. Alicia B. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

no wait, 750

― Dr. Alicia B. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

wow i'm still reading zola - nana, though i'm almost done (10 pages left). i guess that's what happens when you only read on the train.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 23:03 (nineteen years ago)

Reading:
-Loos essays for Modern & Post-Modern Architecture
-Vectors and Smoothable Curves, amazing essays by this poet
William Bronk
-William Bronk poetry
-and I just started reading Houellebecq's new book, which is looking to be a stinker so I might drop it

― trees (treesessplode), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 23:33 (nineteen years ago)

i love loos! he wrote some crazy essays, huh.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 23:34 (nineteen years ago)

ahhh, nana or the cunt as metaphor for paris, as a former proffessor once put it..killy, how do you do with his little protige huysmans?

forgot before: edward young: complete prose and poetry...but mostly resignation...

― bb (bbrz), Thursday, 14 September 2006 03:28 (nineteen years ago)

Huysmans? I dunno about Huysmans, if it's who I think yr talking about. Maybe a bad translation?

The Loos essays are awesome and insane, yes.

― trees (treesessplode), Thursday, 14 September 2006 05:54 (nineteen years ago)

Ngugi wa Thiong'o Wizard of the Crow
Patrick O'Leary Door Number Three

― Igor Adkins (Grodd), Thursday, 14 September 2006 10:53 (nineteen years ago)

Thomas Sugrue - The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit

[I've more or less made up my mind to pick up where I left off and get my Ph.D in political science. An M.A. just doesn't get you very much outside of professional degree programs. Also: Sugrue is the awesome when it comes to urban histories.]

― blackmail (blackmail.is.my.life), Thursday, 14 September 2006 11:04 (nineteen years ago)

also finishing _manhattan transfer_.

― blackmail (blackmail.is.my.life), Thursday, 14 September 2006 11:07 (nineteen years ago)

JK Huysmans, student of Zola, wrote against nature, la bas, etc...basically the epitome of decadent literature

― bb (bbrz), Thursday, 14 September 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I hated 'Against the Grain.' A friend who posted on ilm early in the summer (the perhaps infamous 'white soul' thread) gave it to me many years ago. Read it. Hated it. Never gave it back, and he never remembers giving it to me, and I do not know where it is. Though it honestly could have been a terrible translation...

― trees (treesessplode), Thursday, 14 September 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

The Juice - Will Carroll

and now
Reflections in a Golden Eye - Carson McCullers

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 September 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

Flann O'Brien - At Swim-two-birds. Somehow challenging when English is not your first language.

― Pom (pom), Thursday, 14 September 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

whoa i just started reading that. noize jinx

― killy (baby lenin pin), Thursday, 14 September 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

http://yoyurec.spn.dp.ua/wp-content/uploads/2006/04/gtdpictures4la.jpg

― Really cool, wickedly cool, cooly cool bon apetit! (ex machina), Thursday, 14 September 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

git r done

― dmr (Renard), Thursday, 14 September 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTD

― Really cool, wickedly cool, cooly cool bon apetit! (ex machina), Thursday, 14 September 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

that gtd shit is a cult, beware

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 14 September 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

hmm thought i posted this already...

but at swim is rugged even if youve read a bunch of flann before

― bb (bbrz), Thursday, 14 September 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

still working on pale fire but just bought

the secret agent - jospeh conrad
the spy who came in from the cold - john lecarre
the long goodbye - raymond chandler

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 14 September 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

Pale Fire is probably my favorite book ever. Certainly in the top 5.

― John Justen,a ninja slapboxing fajitas out of J. Casablancas dental dam. (johnju, Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

the long goodbye is pretty damned excellent too...

― bb (bbrz), Thursday, 14 September 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

Reading this to Lucy - I had no idea about this book; it is so good.

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/f/f9/180px-RootabagaStories.jpg

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 00:03 (nineteen years ago)

finally got my own copy of this, yaay!
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0415267374.01._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_AA240_SH20_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― rrrobyn, the situation (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 00:28 (nineteen years ago)

stefan zweig - beware of pity

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 00:46 (nineteen years ago)

going through four boxes of old comics retreived from my parents as they moved out of the old house... mostly worthless, but boy was jack kirby weird in the 70's

most of these I just have to find some place to ditch, but I got to find some place to sell the x-men 123-154 & daredevils 150-190

― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 03:07 (nineteen years ago)

OMAC One Man Army? Issue #1

― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 03:08 (nineteen years ago)

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