What's a noise dude reading?

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:

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which is great.

i also own the hardcover, which has this cover:

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newest trade paperback cover (and the worst):

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DON QUIXOTEEEE

Sabbath's Theater is my favourite Roth book (I have read two, so whatevs). Don Quixote is awes. I finished Part I a year or so ago and was kind of exhausted. I should go back and read II.

dude, ian, don't start there. read portnoy's complaint.

yea Roth's older stuff is less self-conscious, Goodbye Columbus was always my fave, see the movie too w/Rich Benjamin and Ali McGraw. But avoid The Ghost Writer and other Zuckerman novels like the plague.

American Pastoral gets too cerebral/weighty but I loved that character "The Swede"

g marcus made me want to like roth..but the fucker is so mannish and exhausting...based on i married a commie

im trudging through todd gitlins the 60's...
some book of original sources from the 60's.
berkowitz's something happened (cult/political overview of the 70's)
anderson's: revolution the reagan legacy
rosen's masks and mirrors:gen x and the chameleon personality
generation me: why todays young americans are more confident, assertiv, entitled -- and more miserable than ever
and some other bad book about the babyboomer generation that ic ant find on my desk right now

will also dig into my old friend xtian t3b0rd0's book called we go liquid...which is about a kid who gets spam emails from his mather after her death

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I went ahead and read that Rolling Stones Exile on Main St. book, it was pretty awful

the dude does all this authorial dick-swinging like "my book rools, ur book sucks, I am god of all Stones lore, all your facts are rong"

then at least three times later on in the book he cites wikipedia as a source

there are a few good anecdotes but mostly it was pointless, he spends a whole page on a takedown of Liz Phair. "her record didn't even have anything to do w/ Exile and yet the critics nutted all over it wtf!!?!"

will probably read this next once shannon finishes it

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i'm not all that noise, tho

I am reading Foundation for the first time since jr. high and I'm seeing a lot of acid in the ideas of psychohistory.

After this, I do not know what I'll read. Maybe a book I found on the street about how to get personal grants.

I had Asimov sign my copy of Foundation Trilogy at a Star Trek convention in the '70s, ian!

I'm reading I Am Legend.

cormac mccarthy - blood meridian

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No Country For Old Men

re-reading in the name of the rose

...in penn station

right now:

Rereading: The Europe of Trusts by Susan Howe
Reading: A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes
Recently Read: Crush by Richard Siken, Singularities by Susan Howe

cormac mccarthy - blood meridian

^^ my grandfather recommends this. i have never read mccarthy; do i read this one or no country for old men firsts?

blood meridian is bloody and gory. supposed to be the "best" mccarthy, i've never been able to click with it and i've tried 3x. i can't get past page 100. the road is awesome, no country for old men is just okay.

everyone seems to hate no country for old men

ive only ready all the pretty horses, the crossing and the road. i liked them all tho the 1st 2 might be a little cowboy-y for some.

ian I can lend you blood meridian if you want. I liked it a lot.