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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)

reading *mystery and manners* the collection of prose pieces by flannery o'connor

― scott seward, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

*mystery and manners* the collection of prose pieces by flannery o'conno

Great shit! I was struck at the time by how steely lots of her advice is.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

I found a big pile of stolen library books on a park bench, from which I took Drown by Junot Diaz. I like it! Great title too.

― gnarly sceptre, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

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

― m coleman, Thursday, 17 May 2007 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

Drew: how was that Amanda Anderson book? it sounds interesting.

am back into Against the Day and some Bunny Wilson novel ... Memoirs of Hecate Co., i think.

― bb, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

neil hagerty "public works" wow this guy only pulls it off abt 1/3 of the time; his batting average is much better with da music makings.

― ian, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

at the dump last weekend i found a copy of Dion's autobio and it was inscribed and signed by him! it looks good too. i heart dion.

― scott seward, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://www2.wwnorton.com/cover/032336.jpg

A Dog's Ransom

― dmr, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.lilatheatre.com/truth.jpg

http://z.about.com/d/bestsellers/1/0/H/1/-/-/Exile_on_Main_St.jpg

― jeff, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

just picked up the granta best new novelists issue cause i have a freind in there. i wonder if ill read any other selections.

otherwise: picked up a book on the underground press and something called "six little-known birds of the mind" that google produces no results for.

― bb, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

craigslist help wanted, mostly.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

notable american women, ben marcus

― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

I got that Exile book as a gift and it annoyed me almost immediately so I put it down

most of it seemed to boil down to "I hung out with the Stonez, lol, they do drugs"

lemme know if I'm totally off base and it's worth reading

― dmr, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

I'm breezing through it because there are a few interesting parts, but it's pretty annoying.

― jeff, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

feynman lectures on physics

― river wolf, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

craigslist help wanted, mostly.

oh, i've reading that a lot myself...not as life changing as i'd like

has anyone read the a loog oldham books? ive been tempted, but rock books ahve been less than enrapturing recently

― bb, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

I started reading The Mysteries of Pittsburgh again, which I liked much better the first time when I didn't realize that it was set in the '80s.

― milo z, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

You guys are always reading such interesting shit. I am reading Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys which is hilarious.

― nickalicious, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

Have you read American Gods?

― milo z, Thursday, 7 June 2007 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

Finishing up Chandler's 'Little Sister' -- next up is probably some Ionesco?

― elmo argonaut, Thursday, 7 June 2007 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't read American Gods yet. I was told I should read it first but it wouldn't be problematic if I read Anansi Boys first.

― nickalicious, Thursday, 7 June 2007 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

* After Dark by Murakami (pretty weak)
* The Collected Stories of Leonard Michaels

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

got the Mingering Mike book in the mail yesterday, it's pretty sweet

http://www.curiosityshoppeonline.com/mingeringmike.html

― dmr, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

woah

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

has the mingering mike thread been bumped

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

i just bumped it.

woah, there's an exhibit in DC. I guess I know what I'm doing this weekend.

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

FWIW I finished Anansi Boys and am now pretty deep into American Gods; FYI I think this may actually be the better strategy, AB teases at the mythology that is more thoroughly explored in AG.

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

don delillo - the body artist

― dmr, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

bought when it came out but never read

― dmr, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

The Yiddish Policemen's Union - kinda bad. Chabon kinda does that Lethem thing where he overloads the detective story with detective story-isms and there are increasingly diminishing returns.

― milo z, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

Mulligan Stew--Gilbert Sorrentino. Good, but it lost a lot of steam towards the end. Really funny, though. Next up is Motorman by David Ohle.

― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

annie dillard - pilgrim at tinker creeeeek, from which ive been reading excerpts for like eight years, without having ever gone str8 thru - rules just like i always thought...

hey mark, did you ever see that mingering mike exhib? wanna?

― 69, Monday, 9 July 2007 03:21 (eighteen years ago)

i love pilgrim. i wanna write a book like that. pilgrim at metal creek.

i'm reading this:

http://www.lopezbooks.com/images/kl/017079.jpg

funny. dry. rustic. rural. Fargo-esque.

― scott seward, Monday, 9 July 2007 03:23 (eighteen years ago)

oh and i just finished reading this which i really liked:

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n0/n2856.jpg

― scott seward, Monday, 9 July 2007 03:26 (eighteen years ago)

except my cover looked like this:

http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/covers/0-671-43532-9.jpg