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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)

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

In the order suggested.

― ian, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

ok, i created a librarything page too, although there isn't much there yet:

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

― get bent, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

http://trybecca.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/millipedecover.jpg

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

White Bicycles.

Recently finished bios of Judy Chicago and Charles Addams.

― tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

best friends, worst enemies: understanding the social lives of children - thompson and oneill

Okay I'm going to find this and read the shit out of it.

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, it's a great book. also michale thompson's other book raising cain: protecting the emotional lives of boys is pretty great.

― remy bean, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

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

stopped at 200 because I'm unwilling to pony up $$$

― milo z, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

current reading:
James Crumley, The Last Good Kiss
and just purchased this afternoon
Dianne Purkiss, English Civil War: Papists, Gentlewomen, Soldiers, and Witchfinders in the Birth of Modern Britain

― milo z, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 22:31 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=Colinpb

― C0L1N B..., Tuesday, 15 May 2007 22:55 (nineteen years ago)

Just finished:
Colin Wilson "The Mind Parasites" (thanks Milton for the recommendation!)
G. E. Aylmer "A Short History of 17th Century England"
Michel Houellebecq "H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life"
Mark Hansen "New Philosophy for New Media"
Aleister Crowley "Book 4"
Amanda Anderson "The Way We Argue Now"

Just purchased:
Edward Fenton, ed. "The Diaries of John Dee"
Marsilio Ficino "Three Books on Life"
E.K. Chambers "The Medieval Stage"
Ricky Vincent "Funk: The Music, The People, and the Rhythm of the One"
Aleister Crowley "Magick in Theory and Practice" (I sprang for the big tome this time)
John Aubrey "Brief Lives"

― Drew Daniel, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 07:34 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=fogindex

i think it's about 1/3 of my current bookshelves

― Steve Shasta, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 08:56 (nineteen years ago)

hows the houellebecq/lovecraft? i think im still one of the few that actually likes houellebecq sometimes

― 696, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 09:27 (nineteen years ago)

Jane Jacobs - The Death and Life of Great American Cities

this keeps coming up in other books/articles etc, gonna read it after I finish The Life of Kingsley Amis by Zacary Leader. how's it so far?

― m coleman, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 10:08 (nineteen years ago)

written in the 50s so dated in places, but really interesting, getting me to look at cities in ways i hadn't before. if you're not into urban planning type stuff it could be somewhat of a slog, though.

― jergïns, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

milo, I have that English Civil War book out from the library.

― tokyo rosemary, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

i like jane jacobs but she's problematic in places. you have to read her in a context-specific way, and keep in mind the era and some of the batshit things people were thinking and doing back then. the libertarians have really latched onto her because of her suspicion of government.

― get bent, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

she makes a great case for le corbusier being a dumbfuck though

― jergïns, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

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