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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)

hmm... a complete set of Micronauts fetches about $15 eh? maybe I should hit e-bay with aaaairidpfgffffftt

― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 03:43 (nineteen years ago)

raymond carver - cathedral (hi steve)

― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 03:55 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - hahahhahahhalol

in the future, men will hurl women encased in concrete blocks! are you ready?

i remember when the time came to sell my comics collection only to find out that they're worth no more than used toilet paper unless they are encased in a plastic bags with mylar having never been read once. it also helps if you don't own shit like ROM Spaceknight

― DUMBOCLAAT (eman), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 04:00 (nineteen years ago)

lot's of tom strong, y, blab back issues, various oreillys as usual... jack cole bio...

― msp (mspa), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 04:14 (nineteen years ago)

milton do you have any dr. strange from the seventies?

― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 04:27 (nineteen years ago)

I had forgotten that the Dire Wraiths fought by ROM, Spaceknight, were actually an offshoot of the Skrull race. Whew.

-- TOMBOT (tombo...), May 11th, 2006.

― DUMBOCLAAT (eman), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 04:48 (nineteen years ago)

just finished reading a bunch of frustratingly conservative anti- "smart growth" commentary (basically anti-bureaucratic pro-market ayn rand bullshit, blah blah urban growth boundaries are containment and exclusionary and are driving up land prices in cities and anyway ppl's REAL preference is the suburbs and stop trying to inhibit the noble autonomy that our nation's values are based on, blah blah blah)

― beverly sills ninja (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 05:36 (nineteen years ago)

i mean these articles go on and on about the "euphemisms" of the smart-growth movement and then continue to flog the good old reliable reason mad lib jargon that feeds into america's psychotic fear of any sort of governance whatsoever.

― beverly sills ninja (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 05:41 (nineteen years ago)

milton do you have any dr. strange from the seventies?

no, I never even read those, don't know why -- Gene Colan's art was always incredible, I have the Howard The Ducks and the Draculas (bad stories but unbelievable artwork) but not the Stranges, were they good?

they were all in mylar bags, but they weren't taped up. so they're all yellowed and not worth much money. I think I'm keeping the Kirbys and everything else I kind of need to give away.

― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 07:18 (nineteen years ago)

Tomb of Dracula DID have killer art. Some of those Dr. Strange's were pretty cool--lots of psychedelic hippy nonsense.

― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

Reader's Digest Into the Unknown
A Decade of Masterpiece Theatre

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 01:40 (nineteen years ago)

just finished:

game of shadows
time out of joint
flow my tears, the policeman said
the tipping point

now reading:

in cold blood

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Sunday, 1 October 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

bass culture
+
3 beach boys books:
heroes and villains
wouldn't it be nice
smile: the story of brian wilson's lost masterpiece

― am0n (am0n), Sunday, 1 October 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

what PKD should i read next (besides scanner and electric sheep)

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Sunday, 1 October 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

jewbik

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 1 October 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

nr:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0415944635.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

it's ok.

― cuervo jones (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 1 October 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

Still reading Lucy the Carl Sandburg rootabaga books:

http://www.josephperry.net/rootabaga/img/rootabaga030.jpg

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 1 October 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

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