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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)

whats up with that book?

i am trying to reread the philosophical investigations and also a wendell berry book whose name escapes me

― artdamages, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

Up with it?

― milo z, Monday, 16 April 2007 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

this book i'm reading is great! awesome fantasy novel.

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n29/n147897.jpg

― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 16 April 2007 22:07 (nineteen years ago)

so many ppl mentioned cortazar in various thread that I picked up hopscotch

― dmr, Monday, 16 April 2007 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

*threads

― dmr, Monday, 16 April 2007 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

i also just picked up hopscotch, dave. used! i also got the neil hagerty "public works" collection

― ian, Friday, 20 April 2007 02:51 (nineteen years ago)

John Sayles' short stories are the lit equivalent of one of his lesser movies.

― milo z, Friday, 20 April 2007 04:17 (nineteen years ago)

E.O. Wilson - On Human Nature

― Dan I., Friday, 20 April 2007 04:33 (nineteen years ago)

Peter Watts - Blindsight (interesting SF novel)

― latebloomer, Friday, 20 April 2007 05:59 (nineteen years ago)

David Hare Stuff Happens (very brief)

― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 20 April 2007 06:25 (nineteen years ago)

still the same fucking book: master and margarita. almost finished.

― nathalie, Friday, 20 April 2007 07:10 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

did dave like hopscotch? i thought it was good. i did skip that one section in the ephemera about the constitution of wherever. i am reading cortazar's "blow up and other stories" now.

― ian, Monday, 14 May 2007 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

just read hammett's "the dain curse" (not so great) and chandler's "farewell my lovely" (fuckin' aces)

― elmo argonaut, Monday, 14 May 2007 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

also trying my hand at some donna harraway

― elmo argonaut, Monday, 14 May 2007 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

left book about tolkien during ww1 at mom's :(

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Monday, 14 May 2007 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

finished reading miranda july's book of short stories and it was A++. i'm now trying to make it through The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium by Harry Mathews.

― Mr. Que, Monday, 14 May 2007 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

jon savage's teenage and a fairly terrible book on the rise of mall punk

― strongohulkington, Monday, 14 May 2007 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

is it called munk?

― Mr. Que, Monday, 14 May 2007 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

i met jon savage the other week. relatively friendly chap.

― ian, Monday, 14 May 2007 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

i'm now trying to make it through The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium by Harry Mathews.

How is it so far? I haven't read that one, but I love My Life in CIA and the stories collected in The Human Country.

― C0L1N B..., Monday, 14 May 2007 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

it's all letters, half of them are written in normal English and half in this weird pidgin dialect, and those are a real slog, but it's enjoyable. I'm going to try & read The Conversions and Tlooth sometime this summer.

― Mr. Que, Monday, 14 May 2007 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

You can still get a bunch of Matthews' books for $5 at Labyrinth:
http://www.labyrinthbooks.com/all_search.aspx?sauthor=Mathews,%20Harry

Sadly, they don't have his OOP Perec bio.

― C0L1N B..., Monday, 14 May 2007 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

best friends, worst enemies: understanding the social lives of children - thompson and oneill
between the river and the bridge - ferguson
his dark materials omnibus - pullman (my students are really into it)
otis spofford - cleary
eye of the wolf - pennac

― remy bean, Monday, 14 May 2007 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

Hermione Lee - Edith Wharton
J.M. Coetzee - Slow Man

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 14 May 2007 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/228/493452264_0109573f39.jpg?v=0

― 696, Monday, 14 May 2007 23:07 (nineteen years ago)

did dave like hopscotch? i thought it was good.

still working on it. I like it though. I'm slow as shit at reading, especially now that I have a short commute.

did you read the "extra chapters" in the suggested order or just plow straight through?

― dmr, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 00:29 (nineteen years ago)

I'm reading The Final Exit by Cortazar. Brill.

― t. weiss, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 06:25 (nineteen years ago)

The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples

...pretty interesting, lots of fun facts to know and tell, but dude's writing style is a little too, uh, enthusiastic for my tastes

― river wolf, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

do any noize dudes have a librarything account?

― Steve Shasta, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

The Waterworks by E.L. Doctorow

I'm on a kick of trying to finish books I put down, and I'm glad with this one because the last 1/4 or so is pretty good.

― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

do any noize dudes have a librarything account?

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/WIZARDISHUNGRY

massively non complete

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

just bought these two for summer classes:

brazil is not for amateurs: patterns of governance in the land of "jeitinho" by belmiro v.j. castor

blackwater: the rise of the world's most powerful mercenary army by jeremy scahill (nation books; looks pretty hardcore)

― get bent, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

b.f. skinner 'beyond freedom and dignity'

― deej, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

one of my roommates swiped my Economist!

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

yuppie

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

Jane Jacobs - The Death and Life of Great American Cities

― jergïns, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

not only do I read the economist but I read this, which uses Euros and metres for everything:

http://www.monocle.com/

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

Fuckinagains Wake

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

j/k Economist is cool w/me.

SexyDancer, good luck with Fuckhead's Wake

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

Finnegan Beginagain

― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

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