What's a noise dude reading?

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

feynman lectures on physics

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

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.

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

Have you read American Gods?

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

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.

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

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

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

woah

has the mingering mike thread been bumped

i just bumped it.

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

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.

don delillo - the body artist

bought when it came out but never read

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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

except my cover looked like this:

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

and not like this:

http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/graphics/covers/34103.jpg

or this:

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/1/15/200px-Wherelate.jpg

or even this:

http://members.aol.com/siure/wherelateo.jpg

and certainly not like this:

http://dreamers.com/libroscf/novabr25.jpg

and needless to say:

http://www.temp.sfbok.se/kat/img/316.jpg

fourth cover posted is rad!

i just read cordwainer smith's norstrilia and i found this cover that is truly friggin' cool:

http://www.efanzines.com/EK/eI14/rb309.jpg

holy shit that cover rules.

i'm re-reading semi-trashy george r. r. martin fantasy novels. mmm.
and all star superman issue #8 by grant morrison & frank quitely.
and the most recent issue of The Atom.

i read some of the july (bono 'edited') vanity fair over at a friend's house - some good stuff! need to borrow it later
reading a book called "in bad taste? the adventures and science behind food delicacies" for author interview tomorrow
an issue of a journal called Public titled "Eating Things" that has electron microscope pic of taste buds on the cover (they look like frost-covered tongues with deep grooves running down their middles. there is something too clever yet unimaginative abt this cover)
the usual academic stufff that will soon not have to be read anymore
there is a reason i never participate in this thread :/
maybe i will get some sci-fi out from library this week though?

i like the 5th wilhelm cover with the red sky
but def feel an affinity with the 7th one too

do it! after i finish this drury book, i'm going back to my summer sci-fi binge.

that wilhelm book was cool and freaky and sad. very 70's. free clone love.

i don't know what they were thinking with that first cover. looks like mars or something. the whole thing takes place on post-apocalypse earth.

ooh
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oh it's post-apocalypse! maybe i will have to read it!

instead of reading sci-fi last week i just watched all the episodes of torchwood i hadn't watched (4-13)... was meant to be like a reward for work-doing but then i just wld do some work and watch like 3 in a row. ! however this is not as bad as me with a book i like b/c it seems like more of an excuse to procrastinate b/c it's y'know READING and reading's good rite. but i still think some 70s sci-fi reading wld somehow work for me right now. (have also really been wanting to watch old star trek! what is going on)

just finished:
http://imad_moustapha.blogs.com/my_weblog/images/kazuo_ishiguro.jpg

just starting:
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/RESOURCE/MEDIA/IMAGES/bookcovers/Original/0224063979.jpg

finished _man in the high castle_ and _the three stigmata of palmer eldritch_, starting _do androids dream of electric sheep_.

also, read morrison's complete run of _animal man_.

http://www.lopezbooks.com/images/kl/006363.jpg

i seem to be a verb - buckminster fuller
collection of raymond chandler novels
the duty of genius (bio of wittgenstein) - ray monk

raymond chandler <3

juggling:
A Thousand Plateaus - Deleuze & Guattari
Tao Te Ching - translated by Aleister Crowely
Fear & Loathing in America - Hunter S. Thompson

Jacques Barzun- "Berlioz and the Romantic Century"

fucking awesome, best book I've read on this subject since Rosen's "The Romantic Generation".

how is the recognitions? worth it?

The Recognitions starts out amazing and then dwindles off into impenetrability.

Cue Mr. Que to tell me I'm a moron because I didn't understand it.

no way, n/a, I'm not going to say you're a moron. it's dense and a little boring in parts. and it does dwindle. i read it once, and stopped 100 pages from the end, and I never do that. i did read the last few pages--great ending.

so far it's great, again, a little draggy in spots. the thing with a 900 page book is, you can speed read through a page or two and not miss too much. it's really funny, i'm enjoying it a lot.

I'm also using this for help:

http://www.williamgaddis.org/recognitions/index.shtml

p.s. hi stencil!

I just remember being really excited when I first started reading it, like "OMG this is the best book ever" and then like two days later I just couldn't take any more.

Fear & Loathing in America - Hunter S. Thompson

^^^ just lent a bro my copy of this book. i think i like it better than any of his journalism

currently reading:

Mason & Dixon (second try, after readus interruptus last summer)

http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/41F+uFpTbLL._AA240_.jpg

Kinda trashy and oddly apologetic for Spector, but fun.