What's a noise dude reading?

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)

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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

i'm re-reading semi-trashy george r. r. martin fantasy novels. mmm.

a friend says the song of ice and fire books are the best
is it true
are they the best

They're the best of their type-- that plot-twist-driven/bazillion-characters/detailed world-building kind of fantasy. Vivid characters, painfully suspenseful, sharp grasp of the eternal verities. There's not much atmosphere or style to his prose, though. It's kind of existential high fantasy. But totally fun and awesome and deserves its cult.

i see. maybe i'll borrow a game of thrones and give that a shot. i've never read fantasy book in my life but i have a feeling i could dig it.

oh i just finished a game of thrones and moved onto the next one. i haven't read fantasy stuff before really either.

It's pretty fukcing solid, right?

Incidentally the audiobooks of the first 3 books are excellent, read by this awesome somewhat hammy old british stage guy named Roy Dotrice.

FWIW my favorite series-form fantasy other than LOTR is The Book Of The New Sun by Gene Wolfe (1st book is Shadow Of The Torturer). Wolfe is dense, lyrical, doomy, atmospheric as fuck, allusive, sometimes impenetrable. His text itself is a kind of magic.

it took me about a hundred pages to get into it but i ended up really liking it!

i guess HBO is making a series of the books. i think that could potentially be awesome.

sleep i will lend u a game of thrones, but lindsay has it rite now.
i love this shit.

i am reading HARRY POTTERS AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS now. the highpoint of this series was book 5. this one is.. okay. but there were parts of it that i was reading this morning on the train that were really cringey. i guess this is what i get for reading books designed for people ten yrs younger.

The Sufis by Idries Shah

william gibson on radio now

xpost-- I'm really glad it got picked up as a cable serial instead of a movie. Even a 3hr film would just butcher it, the plot's way too intricate.

i'm done with the first one, sleep can have it!

Finished:
William Gibson - Spook Country
Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood
Analog In, Digital Out - Brendan Dawes
(yeah, it's a book on computer art crap)

Colin Thubron - Shadow of the Silk Road

sweet thanks ian and lindsay! i will read all this fantasyz.

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YES^^^

yah totally

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass

recently finished the warhol diaries, now reading "the westies" by t.j. english.

lady snowblood.

lots! of design/arch mags, delerious ny, and some dashil hammet thing...(because i need a dumb book and thats as low as ill go)

YAY.

i found a like-new, not expensive copy of lanark, so that's what i'm (re)reading. people in the nyc area who haven't read it are welcome to borrow it (after signing pledge to treat it humanely) once i've finished because it's one of the best books ever.