carl t bogus - buckley: william f buckley and the rise of amerikan conservatism
never has an author's name been more appropriate - this book was half-assed in terms of content and execution. would still like to read a thorough takedown of mr. patrician smarty-pants
― demolition with discretion (m coleman), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 11:46 (twelve years ago) link
i am so slowly readingeldridge cleaver - soul on icean anthology about baltimore riots in 1968 i started in december
but i'm not allowed to start another book until i finish both
― kim tim jim investor (harbl), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 12:26 (twelve years ago) link
Soul on ice is great
― little clouds of citrus spritz as i peel (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 12:42 (twelve years ago) link
Currently reading John Calvin Batchelor's The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica which is excellent.
Preceded by:Kate Wilhelm's Juniper Time which I didn't like as much Where Late The Sweet Birds SingChester Brown's Paying For It which I found difficult to get throughVladimir Sorokin's Ice which might be better in russian, but I found the translation tough to takeChristopher Priest's The Inverted World which I also really liked
Next will be Michael Bishop's No Enemy But Time as I slowly carve me way through some late 60s-early80s sci-fi on various lists that I'd previously never read.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 23:59 (twelve years ago) link
about 200pgs into the Art of Fielding. it's aight
― dmr, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
richard stark - the hunter
Everything I've read from the Parker books has been very entertaining. I'm not usually into the whole hard-boiled style but Luc Sante's blog sold me on this series. It was nice to see them published again with Sante doing the intros.
― gutta gutta island (s. morris), Thursday, 16 February 2012 06:04 (twelve years ago) link
I actually slightly prefer the Dortmunder books, but I like pretty much everything that Stark/Westlake wrote.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 16 February 2012 14:12 (twelve years ago) link
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad, keep getting images from the Peter O'Toole film which I wish i didn't would like it more if my mind created its own images.
Also Judge Dredd/Hammerstein.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 16 February 2012 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
finished:osamu dazai - no longer human (very bleak!)gene wolfe - book of the new sungeorges simenon - maigret and the death of a harbor master
reading:charles williams - the wrong venusrobert b parker - the widening gyre (still digging these)donald westlake - get real (the first dortmunder i am reading. i have a few others that i got at thrift stores i haven't checked out yet. but i love the parker & grofield stuff, and some of the other one-off novels of his i have read as well--361 was good, so was Somebody Owes Me Money.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 13 August 2012 22:00 (eleven years ago) link
Adam Winkler - Gunfight: The Battle Over The right to Bear Arms in America
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 August 2012 22:02 (eleven years ago) link
I'm about 150 pages from the end of Bolano's 2666
― dmr, Monday, 13 August 2012 22:15 (eleven years ago) link
reading now:the jewel in the skull - michael moorcock (silly pulpy sword & sorcery but i like that stuff sometimes)the wrong venus - charles williams (dirty-book themed crime caper, love williams.)
just finished:the hot spot, also by charles williams. for fans of the usual suspects -- willeford, thompson, goodis et al. small town car salesman gets tied up with two women and several criminal activities ensue.
gave up on get real.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Saturday, 1 September 2012 02:28 (eleven years ago) link
i'll get back to it.
Any Simenon recommendations, ian? I picked up a nice Maigret omnibus yesterday and started with Liberty Bar.
― jim, Saturday, 1 September 2012 02:46 (eleven years ago) link
i am fairly new to simenon actually, but he is probably my wife's favorite writer after Raymond Chandler. She swears by all the Maigret mysteries. Of the non-Maigret stuff, I thought Dirty Snow was a-mazing.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Saturday, 1 September 2012 02:53 (eleven years ago) link
the jewel in the skull - michael moorcock
could never get into anything outside the sci fi except elric. is that corum or hawkmoon or what?
― the late great, Saturday, 1 September 2012 03:55 (eleven years ago) link
i'm trying to read "the golden space" but it's pretty hard going (see sci fi thread, recently)
― the late great, Saturday, 1 September 2012 03:56 (eleven years ago) link
tempted to switch to babel 187 or engine summer
that is some hawkmoon action.i never read anything outside the elric when i was a kid.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Saturday, 1 September 2012 04:25 (eleven years ago) link
ditched "Vineland" to do 3 barthelmes on the trot.on 4th & enjoying immensely. he clicks for me, unlike the pynch. an effortless read.also 1/2way through "the ticket that exploded". not read any burroughs in abt 15yrs & i forgot just how fantastic he gets at the top of his game.
― iglu ferrignu, Saturday, 1 September 2012 07:22 (eleven years ago) link
finished 2666. really blew me away unlike Savage Detectives which I thought was pretty overrated. not sure what I'm going to pick up next. someone left a book called "Hopeful Monsters" by Nicholas Moseley in a free pile on the sidewalk and I grabbed it but not sure if I want to read it now.
oh yeah also read Ragtime a while ago, that was good
― dmr, Sunday, 2 September 2012 01:42 (eleven years ago) link