What's a noise dude reading?

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.

Cool, I always thought that book looked great.

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(also i'm sure you were kidding but pls don't call dashiell hammett dumb!)

respect the hammett

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just started spook country

well it was nowhere near as good as Pattern Recognition but I liked it ok

interesting setup but when it gets to the payoff it's like "huh. that's it? huh."

finished - GLITZ, Elmore Leonard
now - HEAT, Bill Buford
next - DUNE (never read it, only seen the movie)

monosyllabic trifecta

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slow at first, but it's starting to pick up.

Atonement, Ian McEwan

Death and Life of Great American Citites

it's good, but i predict that i will not finish it.

also read recently: Hope in Hell, about MSF. good, quick, read.

The Postman Always Rings Twice
Mildred Pierce

PHILLIP PULLMAN'S HIS DARK MATERIALS TRILOGY.
this is spottily written but still decently engaging.

also, brian chippendale "Maggots"

u gonna go say hi to chippendale tonight ian?

is that black pus show tonight? i had forgotten about it. i probably SHOULD...

no the book signing at Spoonbill Sugartown, with Frank Santoro and C.F.

oh jeeze, what time? i should definitely head over after work if it's not late.
i thought there was originally planned a black pus/kites show to coincide.

check "are we getting drunk tonight" thread, I posted it there this morning (didn't know where else to post it!)

Mysterium Coniumctionis - Jung
Book 4 - Crowely

sD, what Jung is fun

Death and Life of Great American Citites

it's good, but i predict that i will not finish it.

yeah, same happened to me. loved it, made it through less than 200 pages.

From Jaq, I'm getting through A Man with No Talents: Memoirs of a Tokyo Day Laborer by Oyama Shiro and Edward Fowler. it's kind of interesting, kind of difficult. he actually describes a room of 1 1/2 tatami mats (about 2.5 sq m) as being big.

xp: start with "Psychological Types" for secret history of the war between the extroverts and the introverts, then dive into "Pyschology and Alchemy" for mystic vision funnies.

sD is training for sorcery @_@????

just brushing up

Philip Roth - Ghost Writer
Ann Finkbeiner - The Jasons
Philip Pullman trilogy audiobook while I go to sleep. Two chapters to go with the last one. Pullman narrates very well. I imagined he would sound like a reedy nerd, not Laurence Olivier.

Watching Dallas.

finished:
pattern recognition (gibson)
norwegian wood (murakami)
^thx again dave, i really liked both

reading:
simulations (baudrillard)
targeting iran (barsamian)

no prob!

we watched a murakami-related movie last night (tony takitani)

unfortunately it was booooooring

oh yeah i saw that
that was before i knew about murakami
yes it was totally boring and i was disappointed, netflix recommended the shit out of that movie to me :[

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the yellow arrow - victor pelevin

Hm let's see:
Joseph's Bones: Understanding the Struggle Between God and Mankind in the Bible (Jerome Segal)
Od Magic (Patricia McKillip)
Moonheart (Charles deLint)
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger (Marc Levinson)

Constance Kuriyama "Christopher Marlowe: A Renaissance Life"
Christopher Marlowe "Doctor Faustus (A Text)", "Doctor Faustus (B Text)"
Austin Grossman "Soon I Will Be Invincible"
Aleister Crowley "Snowdrops from a Curate's Garden"
Christopher Hill "The World Upside Down"
Philip K. Dick "Time Out of Joint"
the new issue of Critical Inquiry (guest edited by Lauren Berlant)

cereal boxes
microwave instruction manual

man who was thursday - g.k. chesterton
dear mr. henshaw - beverly cleary
big old essay on zbigneiw preisner

john fowles - the magus
bits of japrocksampler at work. will buy a copy eventually.

I read The Magus earlier this year. We should discuss incoherently/drunkenly when next we meet.

i found the magus... frustrating.

i am not super far into it yet, maybe 150 pages. so no spoilers.

Definitely a "problem book". Which is fine. I like a mess.