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Henry Adams – The Jeffersonian Transformation
Margaret Drabble – The Ice Age

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

Dashiell Hammett - The Maltese Falcon
Dashiell Hammett - Red Harvest

Hard-Boiled Wonderland & The End of the World - Haruki Murakami

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

i've heard Against the Day is pretty bad :/

i would like to hear otherwise

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

ill weigh in in 6 months...

― bb (bbrz), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

Reading my copy of J.G. Ballard's new book, Kingdom Come, and a huge collection of his short stories. For some reason neither is out in the US so I had to hit up amazon.co.uk.

Read Hard-Boiled Wonderland a while ago, it was great.

the only thing needed to qualify for ultimate all-time pseud status is chuck palahniuk!!

What about Bret Easton Ellis? I thought he was necessary for pseud status. I finally got around to reading his last one, not so great. He can actually write occasionally though, unlike Palahniuk.

― mh. (mike h.), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

I have been kickin it lowbrow with some Elmore Leonards that I got 4 free

Hot Kid was kinda bad but Maximum Bob is cool. also have Glitz lined up.

― dmr (Renard), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

i think i'm gonna read a thousand patrick o'brian books over break

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

Very "The Killer Inside Me":
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/158567849X.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V35690145_.jpg

― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

orhan pamuk, my name is red

― CROWS don't FLY in STRAIGHT LINES (orion), Thursday, 23 November 2006 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

against the day

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 23 November 2006 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

hunger by knut hamsen

― T. Weiss (Timmy), Friday, 24 November 2006 00:15 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1555533647.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

pretty good, but you might find it boring

― nazi bikini (harbl), Sunday, 14 January 2007 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

low life - luc sante

― dmr (Renard), Sunday, 14 January 2007 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

^^one of those books w/great rep I've never got around to reading. is it good? I've always liked Sante's journalism.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 14 January 2007 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

some james ellroy thing

― Rebel.yell.For.Internet.cakes (nordicskilla), Sunday, 14 January 2007 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

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― hstencil (hstencil), Sunday, 14 January 2007 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

is it good? I've always liked Sante's journalism.

just started! I will report back.

― dmr (Renard), Monday, 15 January 2007 00:45 (nineteen years ago)

The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker

― Dominique (dleone), Monday, 15 January 2007 01:08 (nineteen years ago)

I like Low Life. I think everyone who ever wrote a crime novel set in 19th century NYC has read it though.

Sante has posted on ILX, I think, we should get him on noize board.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Monday, 15 January 2007 02:58 (nineteen years ago)

YETI is publishing a collection of Sante's essays in May, FYI -- it's thick and really rad. I'm super psyched/ feel really lucky that this gets to be the second real book we publish! Not surprised he's been on here before. Anyway, sorry for the self-promo. I love 'Low Life' a lot...

I'm reading a lot of stuff at once: several histories of the African-American church, that Musil short works collection 'Posthumous Papers,' the Dylan book from two years ago which I finally found cheap used, the last Portis book I've yet to finish ('True Grit' -- reading it extra slowly as I'll be so bummed when there is no new to me Portis to read), and about to re-read 'Baron in the Trees' by Calvino since that always makes me super happy and I've been extra bummed the last few weeks.

― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Monday, 15 January 2007 05:16 (nineteen years ago)

i just finished Deyan Sudjic's 'The Edifice Complex.' a bit poorly written at times-- guy doesn't know how to say the same thing twice without blatantly repeating himself-- but enjoyable. i especially liked the fact that he LOVES the Casa del Fascio, but his dissing of every other architect in 20th c. architecture ('oh boo hoo he built a building for a repressive dictatorship' 'who cares bro the building is either a good building or a bad building'

― the table is the table (treesessplode), Monday, 15 January 2007 06:10 (nineteen years ago)

er, anyway, his dissing is totally out of hand.

― the table is the table (treesessplode), Monday, 15 January 2007 06:12 (nineteen years ago)

I am also reading Peter Shapiro's Turn the Beat Around, what i would say is the best non-fiction book about disco eva. the guy did his research, and other than his somewhat lukewarm treatment towards european disco, his taste is great and so is the book. two whole pages on baldelli! encyclopedic, too.

― the table is the table (treesessplode), Monday, 15 January 2007 06:16 (nineteen years ago)

The last couple of weeks:
Ruth Reichl, Tender to the Bone
That Johnny Cash biography by Michael Streissguth
Tom Perrotta, Little Children
New Carl Hiaasen and a Kinky Friedman I'd already read but mostly didn't realize it 'til I was near the very end.

― A Radio Picture (Rrrickey), Monday, 15 January 2007 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

I read The Edifice Complex.

― Rebel.yell.For.Internet.cakes (nordicskilla), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

The Shakespeare Wars by Ron Rosenbaum

― latebloomer aka freedom williams sr (latebloomer), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

"ronin" by frank miller

― msp (mspa), Monday, 15 January 2007 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

currently reading "a walk on the wild side" by nelson algren. i remember taking it out of my bag to read on saturday and then i couldn't find it again for the rest of the weekend. it turns out i put it back in my bag, i found that out when i got to work this morning. also, my nephew bought me "chicago: a city on the make" for my b-day, on the back cover is a picture of the cover of the first edition. it's a shot of the chicago river and wacker drive from the late 40's or so, i totally want to hunt down this picture.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Nader: Crusader, Spoiler, Icon by Justin Martin

Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

Just finished The Truth About Diamonds for book club.

So fucked. It's not about Nicole Richie, but about semi-fictionalized version of herself. And yet, despite this fact, Nicole manages to be a major supporting character in the book? WTF. I was sincerely hoping it was going to get all Fight Club at the end.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

Low Life is pretty great

every other page there is some sentence like this: " ... Hellcat Maggie, who filed her teeth to points and wore sharpened brass fingernails, later made an independent career of freelance saloon brawling."

― dmr (Renard), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

James Tiptree Jr./Alice Shelton story collection

― T. Weiss (Timmy), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.methuen.co.uk/images/475/0413771113.jpg
not so good, struggled to make it through his telling of some hippie gathering, fell asleep halfway through recounting a Christian biker gathering.

starting instead: David Goodis, Black Friday and Other Stories

― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

that's a bummer .... I love Denis Johnson
never read any nonfiction by him though

― dmr (Renard), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

just finished "ghostwritten" by david mitchell. i was really into it until the end where it got all wannabe phil dick with talking satellites. that was the weak link.

library haul:
phil dick! - martian time slip
calvino - marcovaldo
tim powers - on stranger tides (lol monkey island book)
and for nonfiction:
"dr. seuss & mr. geisel" by judith & neil morgan
"herodotus" by romm
"dragon hunter: roy chapman andrews and the central asiatic expedition" by charles gallenkamp

― ian, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 00:59 (nineteen years ago)

some murakami crap
gygax on Wednesday, 28 February 2007 00:59 (19 minutes ago)

Whoa hi dere

― JW, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 01:22 (nineteen years ago)

I Feel Good *by* James Brown -- worst/least convincing ghostwriting ever

― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 02:23 (nineteen years ago)

Been reading Lucy some of the Moomintroll books. Right now we are reading Moominland Midwinter

― Tim Ellison, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 02:59 (nineteen years ago)

he lives

― gbx, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 03:08 (nineteen years ago)

not reading anything tonight! i have a new class starting tomorrow, but the professor hasn't posted the syllabus yet.

loads of reading to do for thursday, including this (WF is my prof for this class):

http://images.bestwebbuys.com/muze/books/46/1559637846.jpg

― get bent, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 05:54 (nineteen years ago)

Weeds -- Guardians of the Soil by Joseph A. Cocannouer, An Agricultural Testament
by Sir Albert Howard and The American As Anarchist by De Leon

― artdamages, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 06:22 (nineteen years ago)

Julia reinhard Lupton "Citizen Saints: Shakespeare and Political Theology"
Brian Vickers, ed. "English Renaissance Literary Criticism"
Elizabeth I "Collected Works"
Steven Marcus "The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth Century England"
Manuel DeLanda "Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy"

― Drew Daniel, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 06:26 (nineteen years ago)

hi drew! you're playing across the street from my school this friday but i can't go because i promised NED RAGGETT i'd go to his birthday party!

― get bent, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 06:34 (nineteen years ago)

just finished 2 classic spy thrillers :
THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD -- john le carre
A PASSAGE OF ARMS -- eric ambler

contemplating reading this next:
TEENAGE -- jon savage. it's a history of adolescence 19th century thru WWII

― m coleman, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

Le Corbusier 'Towards A New Architecture'

it"s pretty snooze but the pictures are decent

'Ancient Voyagers in the Pacific'. Did y'all know that the Polynesians probably accidentally settled the islands of the eastern pacific?

yeah i need to go to the bookstore.

― jergincito, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d171/pink_playdoh_princess/blubber.jpg

― elmo argonaut, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

i took these out of the library for a paper i was doing on the role of parking (and land use decisions relating thereto) in smart-growth strategies:

lots of parking: land use in a car culture by john a. jakle and keith a. sculle

parking requirements for shopping centers: summary recommendations and research study report - 1982 book-length study by the urban land institute, sponsored by the international council of shopping centers. (it's as awesome as it sounds, if that kind of thing sounds awesome to you. the cover is k-cool early '80s computer-generated op-art.)

― get bent, Friday, 9 March 2007 07:33 (nineteen years ago)

they both sound interesting

― jergincito, Friday, 9 March 2007 10:14 (nineteen years ago)

we need to bring back trains for real.

i am reading harvest wobblies by greg hall

― artdamages, Friday, 9 March 2007 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

the confessions of st. augustine

― bb, Friday, 9 March 2007 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

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