What's a noise dude reading?

it's his best, his others are super uneven but gascoyne would probably be the closest runner up

that looks interesting but possibly out of print? might have to track it down.

xp

it just got reissued recently

i bought a bunch of stuff today; local used bookstore got in a big collection of music books.

how to play bluegrass guitar (by my hero HAPPY TRAUM)
outside the dream syndicate: tony conrad and the arts post-Cage
that greil marcus book abt the basement tapes
a book called "the blues revival" which is alright

and i also got a paul bowles autobio.

carver is short & quick/'easy' to read but gets pretty brutal after 5-6 stories--for me at least

same here; i had to take a break from "will you please be quiet" a couple of days ago; struck a nerve at a certain point

i really need to start reading less depressing shit.. lol "terror and consent" by bobbitt and canetti's "auto da fe" are next in the queue

i wanted to read something non-depressing after a few weeks of crews & flan o'connor, so I am reading the Bob Dylan "Chronicles" book which is a lot better than i thought (only 20, 30 pages in.)

'tooth and claw' by t.c. boyle is good collection of short stories - they're all a little bizarre and they read pretty quickly.

that greil marcus book abt the basement tapes

really enjoyed this, curious what you'll think since you're probably a lot more into some of the music referenced (dock boggs etc.) whereas for me it was an education, hadn't heard any of that stuff at the time (and still not that much of it now)

also that reminds me I borrowed Lipstick Traces off a friend and it's been sitting on my shelf

right now I'm reading this Times reporter's 2007 book abt exploring immigrant neighborhoods in nyc called The World in a City

ian you shd watch I'm not there when you're done w/ Marcus and the Dylan book.

I don't rad many short stories, but I think the great George Saunders one I've read is called "Isabelle," 7 devastating pages.

I'm trying to stop writing and job-hunting so I can start Shusaku Endo's Silence.

(I do find Greil M almost unreadable tho)

Not sure what to read next.

Paul Bowles memoir? Book about Minimalism? Sam Charters' book on the Country Blues?

ANYWAY, don't ever suggest "A Feast of Snakes" to anybody--they'll hate you. And I wonder why the fuck an ex would suggest it to Mookieproof! It's almost like saying, "Here, I hope u puke."

― ian, Friday, April 17, 2009 12:45 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark

this made me want to read a feast of snakes fyi

also read the paul bowles and tell me what he says about jane, loev her

hated emperors children more than any other book in recent memory

^^only book I've ever wanted to throw at wall in disgust

From Publishers Weekly
Marina Thwaite, Danielle Minkoff and Julian Clarke were buddies at Brown, certain that they would soon do something important in the world. But as all near 30, Danielle is struggling as a TV documentary maker, and Julius is barely surviving financially as a freelance critic.

puke. why would you even think to pick that up?? no offense to you guys & your tastes, but "clever" contemporary urban dramas are MUST AVOID for me.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

to be fair though, that's why i avoided american psycho for so long, only to read it and actually think a lot of it was v v funny and enjoyable.

whos the bigger shithead: me for trusting an amazon booklist or me for reading nearly 200 pages of that crap

clever" contemporary urban dramas

i loved Then We Came to the End

Jim Thompson - The Alcoholics <--- most twisted/funny/weird Thompson I've read yet. also taught me that "Crapping You Negative" by the Grifters has a Jim Thompson reference for both band name and album title.

Denis Johnson - Nobody Move <--- quickie crime/noir, read this start to finish on Saturday during snow-hampered air-travel day, liked it

James Ellroy - Blood's a Rover <--- xmas present, just started it

stuart kaufman - at home in the universe
john r pierce - an introduction to information theory

one day, I will discover the secret of reading fiction!

thomas keller and david cruz - the ad hoc cookbook

i've been in a mostly nonfiction rut for a while too. just not interested in fiction. i'm becoming one of *those* people O_o
reading leonard zeskind - blood and politics
started flannery o'connor - the violent bear it away but wasn't concentrating :/

i was sufficiently not-concentrating on that to think flannery o'connor had written a novel called the violent bear

what's wrong with the dorkily-titled ILB 'what are you reading' threads anyway guys

i never want to post on them bc i feel embarrassed about (1) being too slow and (2) reading nonfiction

the book is called "the violent bear it away but wasn't concentrating"

i think i would possibly stand a chance against a violent bear if he wasn't concentrating

ppl on that board will talk about non-fiction just as happily tbh

i figured, i just never noticed it

i only finished 14 books this year!

u read that many in a week thomp

what's wrong with the dorkily-titled ILB 'what are you reading' threads anyway guys

oh nothing, I just have never posted on that board and don't use site new answers so this is the thread title I remember to search for when I'm thinkin' baout some books

that is nearly a plausible title for a flannerybook, sad it does not exist

christopher small - music society education
brian greene - the elegant universe
the anarchy of silence - john cage & experimental art - MACBA / curated by julia robinson

milton parker i have that fassbinder book you recommended upthread out of the library. i wonder if i'll get to it. awesome dayglo cover.

frederick exley - a fan's notes

Morris Dickstein - Dancing in the Dark

(cultural history of Depression-era America)

xpost oh definitely get to it, it's a quick fun read. like I said upthread though, it's mostly just the dirt

xpost want to read Dancing in the Dark. I took Morris' 60's class at UCSB, he taught Gates of Eden.

also reading: janet cardiff - the walk book

Richard II
Alice Munro - Too Much Happiness
Stephen Spender - Worlds Within Worlds: A Memoir

i have only finished 5 books this week. and three of them were short and the other two were trashy

xpost oh definitely get to it, it's a quick fun read. like I said upthread though, it's mostly just the dirt

ur otm this is good, i like it!

i had to give up on Dancing in the Dark -- 30 pages in about a week. I don't always get a seat on the train, so i don't have much time to read books. :(

(also, weirdly, Dickstein doesn't deal w/ Walt Disney at all)

re-reading pieces of fahey's 'how bluegrass music destroyed my life'

Zizek - Violence
Galbraith - The Great Crash 1929

graham lambkin - dumb answer to miracles

swedish police novels

Henning Mankell?

Girl with the Dragon Tattoo? (I read that one actually, it was decent but kinda weird. Like two separate books ... a corporate techno-thriller with a Silence of the Lambs grisly detective story sandwiched in the middle.)

wahloo!!!

griselda pollock - vision and difference
william borroughs - the naked lunch
leo tolstoy - confessions

after that im gonna read me some st augustine i think?

xpost - yes these

so far: wahloo!!! >>>> Hanning Mankell?

but I like both

Girl with the Dragon Tattoo? Like two separate books ... a corporate techno-thriller with a Silence of the Lambs grisly detective story sandwiched in the middle.

totally. haven't read the sequel yet but plan to