What's a noise dude reading?

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

monosyllabic trifecta

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51NPovssT3L._AA240_.jpg

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 :[

http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/covers_450/9781400081394.jpg

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.

mcluhan - understanding media
delillo - white noise

a lovecraft comp cos it's that time of the year

charles perrow - normal accidents
walker percy - lost in the cosmos

what is lost in the cosmos like, tom? the only percy i've read is the moviegoer, which i liked despite it being a bit mopey.

japrocksampler
al gore - the assault on reason (you can see how no one writing this clearly about the compromises inherent in the office could actually want to run for the office. but he really has to)
conversations with glenn gould

Bruce Chatwin - In Patagonia
Philip Roth - Ghost Writer
Peter Ackroyd - Newton
Ann Finkbeiner - The Jasons: The Secret History of Science's Postwar Elite (rad so far!)

The World Without Us - Alan Weisman

am i the only person who finds philip roth unreadable?

no! i hate philip roth. i read the dying animal and thought it was terrible. told to try american pastoral, couldn't get more than a hundred pages into it.

kinda want to read to the John Daly autobiography

also, just finished the magus. haven't picked up my next yet. maybe i'll finish the golden compass tonight, since i'm no more than 50 pages from the end anyway.

american pastoral is 100 pages too long, but it's really worth it. dying animal is considered "bad" roth too, i think?? anyway, AP is really cool but a bit of a slog.

dude, ian, don't start there. read portnoy's complaint. or better yet, read Our Gang. Our Gang is noize. Sabbath's Theater is total punk rock as well. and brilliant.

all the later stuff is just phil itching for a nobel.

anyway, i am reading:

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/c2/c12224.jpg

which is great.

i also own the hardcover, which has this cover:

http://archive.salon.com/special/1998/bookawards/src/19gaitskill.gif

newest trade paperback cover (and the worst):

http://a7.vox.com/6a00c2251c7d24604a00c22523031f604a-500pi