What's a noise dude reading?

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.

Finished: http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QPkfne8FL._AA240_.jpg

Reading: http://www.rusoffagency.com/covers/fiction/Angelica_100_140.jpg

BTW what is exact title of this oral history of Sly & Family Stone ppl were talking about?

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

word. the letters are were it's at. Proud Highway also great.

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Thomas S Kuhn

Yes, I kept Proud Highway in my bathroom for years!

i've got like little dogears and post its and scraps of paper all over the place in F&L in America. Read most of it when I was living in Dublin; the letters were perfect bus reading. Also, lived in Aspen a few years later, which made the whole running for sheriff business double hilarious, especially seeing what a weirdo place that town is now.

If the upcoming third volume of letters is as great, this could be Thompson's Rosy Crucifixion Trilogy.

some of that stuff must be anthologized in more than one book because I feel like I definitely read the Aspen running for sherriff thing as part of The Great Shark Hunt (which I never finished)

So I have a $25 gift card my sister in law gave me to Barnes & Harbl. Leaning toward using it on the most recent WT Vollmann, Poor People.

Bataille - Story of the Eye
Jim Thompson - A hell of a Woman
Marx - Capital vol 1 (Chapter is gd noize readin')

Chapter ONE.

finished - "Jimmy Corrigan" (was really good)
now - "Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bronx is Burning"
next - William Gibson "Spook Country"

finished The Recognitions yesterday--really great in places. Didn't drag so much the second time around. overall=not too boring.

upcoming oliver sacks "musicophilia" abt music-related neurological conditions, good stuff, more case history/anecdotal & easier to read than daniel levitin's "this is yr brain on music"

there's a form of amusica -- inability to perceive music -- where people can't recogonize dissonance due to mild brain damage. according to dr sacks they dont have the "normal response" to dissonant music but instead find it "slightly pleasurable" HA bring the NOIZE!!!!

later dudes

did anyone read Richard Powers' latest, The Echo Maker? Gerald Weber seemed really obviously based on Oliver Sacks to me. anyway, I loved it.

Just finished: William T. Vollmann- Poor People
Now resuming: Mervyn Peake- Titus Groan

b4: transmigration of timothy archer
now: the wind-up bird chronicle
l8r: the brothers karamazov