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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)

sweet soul music: rhythm and blues and the southern dream of freedom.

i am eating this shit up with a knife and fork.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 9 March 2007 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

i am reading dr. seuss bio now.

― ian, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

just arrived:
lynch on lynch
unbearable lightness
guns germs + steel
cat's cradle

delayed for "4-7 weeks":
herzog on herzog

really disappointed in myself for not ordering:
akira manga

― sleep, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

herzog on herzog is bound to be amazing...now im tempted to order

― bb, Friday, 9 March 2007 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

hopscotch - julio cortazar

― t. weiss, Saturday, 10 March 2007 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

http://a284.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/30/l_5777562fe25367ce501b727b35fe42a3.jpg

ha...completely forgot about this untill i found a copy of it in my desk earlier

― bb, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

fortress of solitude

― dmr, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

just bought this (prof said "not required, but it'll be the coolest thing you read all semester") and am looking for a cheap copy to send to a similar-minded friend:

http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393329593.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

This unique, spectacular guide, replete with the author's striking photographs, reveals how the industrial environment rivals the natural world in its sheer dazzle. Brian Hayes explores all the major "ecosystems" of the modern industrial world, depicting what the structures are & why they're there. Objects that clutter our everyday world include streetlamps, antenna towers, satellite dishes, among the thousands of manufactured items. Larger, more exotic facilities have transformed vast tracts of landscape: coal mines, nuclear power plants, grain elevators, oil refineries and steel mills, to name a few. Further Reading, Index. Illus., 500 color photographs. 536p.

― get bent, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 00:50 (nineteen years ago)

just finished scott fitzgerald - tender is the night (!!)
gonna start the garden of the finzi-continis

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 00:58 (nineteen years ago)

ordered the new Douglas Hofstadter book the other day (yay!), so will start reading soon

― Dominique, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 01:16 (nineteen years ago)

dick "martian time-slip"
next in line is a book called "American Murder Ballads" by i forget who.

― ian, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

i actually liked that denis johnson collection mentioned upthread by milo, and i second ian's opinion on ghostwritten and recommend that he read cloud atlas.

jbr, have you read real places by grady clay?

― lauren, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

(right now i'm reading the current issue of the new yorker. ho hum. i need to hit the strand.)

― lauren, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

ordered the new Douglas Hofstadter book the other day (yay!), so will start reading soon

oh that looked cool. report back. i am still only halfway through godel esher bach - it feels like i am doing logic homework reading that thing. i liked this collection of essays he did w/daniel dennett a little better.

i am reading One Straw Revolution by [Masanobu Fukuoka]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masanobu_Fukuoka[/link]

― artdamages, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

what we talk about when we talk about love by raymond carver

― ian, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

Fitzgerald's story "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 29 March 2007 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

i am reading a story collection called "cthulhu 2000" it's not 'good' so far but it is kind of hilarious

― bell_labs, Friday, 30 March 2007 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

jbr that infrastructure book looks dope

― river wolf, Friday, 30 March 2007 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

Sometimes I wonder what Hoftstader hoped to achieve in GEB. From what I've heard, I AM A STRANGE LOOP may leave me the same way.

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Friday, 30 March 2007 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

orwell "selected essays"
calvino "baron in the trees"

― ian, Friday, 30 March 2007 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

almost done with paul auster's "music of chance" and i like it quite a bit.

i tried to read "american pastoral" because of my roommate's great enthusiasm for philip roth, but i had to give up after about 100 pages. maybe less. the only other roth i've read is "the dying animal" and i thought that kinda sucked too.

― ian, Monday, 16 April 2007 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

try goodbye, columbus.

― lauren, Monday, 16 April 2007 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1560256915.01._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_SCLZZZZZZZ_V46797369_AA240_SH20_.jpg

― milo z, Monday, 16 April 2007 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

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