What's a noise dude reading?

i'm reading cradle to cradle: remaking the way we make things by william mcdonough and michael braungart.

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next up is counterculture green: the whole earth catalog and american environmentalism by andrew g. kirk.

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hmm lemme know how the kirk is. first one looks good too

have you read that book plenitude by rich gold?...my ladyfriend was reading it...and speaks v.v. highly of it

i want that book on the whole earth catalog too.

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plenitude is on my "i'll get around to it eventually" list. :-)

there's so much to read on this subject; it's overwhelming and more than a little repetitive sometimes.

true,very true...its hilarious in that regard...soon there will be landfills full of them

except cradle to cradle's zero-waste production/packaging means it can be UPCYCLED and used as biological and technical nutrients, resulting in a CLOSED-LOOP SYSTEM and saving everyone from getting cancer and having six-eyed mutant babies!

*pats self on back*

Got some nice books for my b-day! proven fact: friends give better books than parents.
charley patton bio by calt & wardlow
blood meridian
breakfast on pluto - mccabe
that book abt TG & COUM that i started a thread about

also was at the bookstore today and saw a few books that looked interesting. new A1an Licht book on "sound art" and a new moondog bio. not to mention my ever-lengthening list of novels and novelists.

im confused by alan lichts book...its all pictures of sound art

i think ill pick up the moondog book after xmas

Faulkner - The sound and the Fury and As I Dying.
Coleridge's brilliant and confusing (both qualities peak at the exact same points) Biographia Literaria.
Bukowski - Post Office
Lenin - What is to be Done?

Might start on E.P.Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class. If not now then probably never.

attention williamsburgles:
good book table at bedord & north 6th today, in front of the muffin shop. might have to go check back--other books on witchraft, two compies of Lucky Jim (one hardback, one soft.), some PKD i already had, lots of post-war european lit.

picked up:
-anthology of soviet sf
-kundera "farewell party"
-calvino "difficult loves"
-carver "where i'm calling from"
-muldoon "projections of the astral body"
-mccarthy "all the pretty horses" (started blood meridian on the train today, liking it very much.)

oliver sachs "musicophilia: tales of music and the brain"

david markson "reader's block"

i love where i'm calling from. its very manly.

The Armies of the Night
by Mailer (that's "Mailer")

the magus by john fowles

that book (the magus) is ... goddamn, i don't know what it is. am i glad i read it? yes, i think. or maybe not. at the end of it i thought 'huh, that is an interesting thing, but then again maybe it isn't.'

in short: what the hell is the that book?

the magus would have been better with extreme editing applied to the final hundred pages.

(started blood meridian on the train today, liking it very much.)

nice

ended up getting Tree of Smoke for xmas so I'm readin that now

just read:

austen - persuasion
bill buford - heat

reading:

j roth - the radetzky march

magazines

in past several days, in order:
en r0ute (air canada mag)
arthur
fashion
us weekly
hello! canada
oprah
drome
vanity fair (in progress)
harpers (in progress)

bear aware: a homeowner's guide to preventing bears in your backyard phamplet

i look forward to taking this thread to heart and to the return of books

Kingsley Amis - The Old Devils
Sheldon M. Novick - Henry James
Joseph Ellis - American Creation
That big-ass collected Joan Didion.

Here are books that I like:

Post Office
Rivethead
Lucky Wander Boy
Tobias Wolfe, Raymond Carver, Nicholson Baker
How to be Alone

Now, what should I check out from the library?

PP, see if they have any collections by Andre Dubus (esp. the 'We Don't Live Here Anymore' book of novellas)(not Andre Dubus III) or Richard Yates's Revolutionary Road.

starting Miss Lonelyhearts tonight

those appear to be excellent suggestions. Thanks, mz.

How should I read Hopscotch? Starting in the middle or from Chapter 1?

uhm, i don't remember which way it is but read the one where you skip around a lot. i don't remember if it starts at the beginning or in the middle.

you read 1 to 56 straight through and then start skipping around (altho I didn't re-read chapters I had already read, just glanced at enough of it to remind me which one it was)

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just used xmas gift cards to buy this .... psyched

got ^^ for my birthday. read the first 15 pages or so this AM and I'm already so hooked. truly awesome.

ill be picking that up soon

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WRENTHAM: A HISTORY 1673-1973 -- WRENTHAM, MASSACHUSETTS
WIZARD OF EARTHSEA 1
ECONOMIST
NEW SCIENTIST
ALICE WATERS ART OF SIMPLE COOKING

getting sick of having books opacked

ALICE WATERS ART OF SIMPLE COOKING

want. keep flipping through at bookstore.

Monica Youm = Ignatz

o Ignatz!
he’s a stalker

or a snicker or
a stain the v

on his forehead
stands for villain

or for vain o
tongueless talker

will you never teach him shame?

mispelled that. Monica Youn.

also that Alex Ross book which is OKAY

still picking through that stress book from upthread. thickest skinny book I ever read. and steve friedman's the agony of victory which is a collection of features he did from a bunch of magazines and was okay but nothing I'd get for myself. and the omnivore's dilemma which seems like it might be a little below my weight but I'm just starting out and maybe I can skim all the shit I know already

I am a quietude dude but I just stocked up:

Wapshot Chronicle - Cheever
The Half Brother - Christensen
Lover's Discourse - Barthes
two 33 1/3 books
new collected Grace Paley cause I lost it in a bar

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the alex ross is probably better for classical noobs like me rather than people who actually know the music

just finished:

Mohammed Hafez "Suicide Bombers in Iraq: the Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom"
Aristotle "De Anima" (On the Soul)

still working my way through:
Parker's enormous bio of Milton
William Empson "Milton's God"

re-reading:
Frances Ferguson "Pornography, The Theory"

just starting:
Alex Ross "The Rest Is Noise"
Daniel Boyarin "Dying for God: Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity and Judaism"
Marshall Grossman ed. anthology "Reading Renaissance Ethics"

thomas hine: the rise and fall of the american teenager
boris vian: heartsnatcher (too cute, i think)
maeve brennan: the visitor (a bit flat, but i really like her voice and pacing)

rendezvous with rama

the alex ross is probably better for classical noobs like me rather than people who actually know the music

I think that's otm .... in any case that's why I'm reading it, to try to find a starting point on music I don't know much about but am interested in .... I'm not that far yet (still reading Tree of Smoke at the same time) but I thought the Schoenberg/Webern/Berg chapter was pretty good

Iain Banks - The Wasp Factory

Post-Pop Cinema tipsy mothra
Oil! Upton Sinclair