what are you reading now?
satanmcnugget
Well-known member
im tearing thru Lullaby by Chuck Pahalniuk (sp?), the guy who wrote Fight Club
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simon silverdollar
Guest
arthus koestler- darkness at noon.
good. as seminal as anti-stalinist fiction gets, apparently.
good. as seminal as anti-stalinist fiction gets, apparently.
finished cormac mccarthy's "blood meridian" over the weekend- totally blew me away... the subject matter (scalp-hunters along the texas-mexico border in the 1850s) and level of violence as much as the writing
yesterday started paul bowle's "the sheltering sky"- which i'm really enjoying so far
yesterday started paul bowle's "the sheltering sky"- which i'm really enjoying so far
jenks
thread death
i rate pretty much all the cormac i have read - about half a dozen or so - all uniformly excellent and all deal so well with violence - the one about the guy who keeps the bodies in the caves was both gripping and nauseating which is as it should be.
as for the sheltering sky - someone sent it to me and it is the only book i have ever finished and then started to read again straightaway. that was in 91 and i haven't returned to it since, frightened the magic may be gone but god i loved that book at the time, remember that all my letters were full of it - then they made that dreadful film - only good thing was bowles himself at the end intoning about how many more times would we watch a sunrise etc.
any proustians out there? i am just about to start the final volume
as for the sheltering sky - someone sent it to me and it is the only book i have ever finished and then started to read again straightaway. that was in 91 and i haven't returned to it since, frightened the magic may be gone but god i loved that book at the time, remember that all my letters were full of it - then they made that dreadful film - only good thing was bowles himself at the end intoning about how many more times would we watch a sunrise etc.
any proustians out there? i am just about to start the final volume
stevienixed
i suffer rock
Porn Studies - articles are compiled by Linda Williams
Extremely interesting take on porn in all its forms (from white trash to gay).
Extremely interesting take on porn in all its forms (from white trash to gay).
jenks said:
i'm going to track his other books down for sure. i've had "all the pretty horses" for a while but never read it. the thing about "blood meridian" that got me is that so much of the violence he describes was based on real events- like john joel glanton- the info about him on this page is pretty much what we get in the book
originaldrum
from start till done
today i am reading my old 'groo the wanderer' comics by sergio aragones
Manuel DeLanda
INTENSIVE SCIENCE AND VIRTUAL PHILOSOPHY
i've been dipping into this for about a year now.
Each time, it is so elegantly convincing, well
considered and tuned-in that I cannot resist
whirling off with my own speculations on the questions
he poses and the solutions he proposes. At which
point, I stop reading and put it down for a further
three months. It's a book with less than a billionth
of a part bullshit, which is some achievement as the
book is focused solely on the big questions about time,
space and everything that matters in between.
INTENSIVE SCIENCE AND VIRTUAL PHILOSOPHY
i've been dipping into this for about a year now.
Each time, it is so elegantly convincing, well
considered and tuned-in that I cannot resist
whirling off with my own speculations on the questions
he poses and the solutions he proposes. At which
point, I stop reading and put it down for a further
three months. It's a book with less than a billionth
of a part bullshit, which is some achievement as the
book is focused solely on the big questions about time,
space and everything that matters in between.
Ness Rowlah
Norwegian Wood
when I started out my blog I thought it would be a lit one. It never will be. So I might as well put it down
here (no music books just now, but I did like "Give the anarchist a cigarette").
here (no music books just now, but I did like "Give the anarchist a cigarette").
- "The Longest Silence : A Life in Fishing"/McGuane - on trout(&others) fishing, a bit too godly for me, but not bad
- JG Ballard's complete short stories (will take ages)
- "The Biggest Game in Town" / Al Alvarez (one of the best books on poker ever written).
- "Living to Tell the Tale"/ Marguez' autobiography. Bought on the back of the extracts in the Guardian.
I read the first 150 pages of "100 Years of Solitude" - and could not believe
it's was the same writer. It might be the translation, but I did not like "100 years" at all. - James Lee Burke (well not at the moment, but anything in his Robicheaux series)
- Q - Special Edition on synthpop (rather good so far).
satanmcnugget said:
I'm just reading All Fires the Fire now ... blown away by a couple of the stories—especially "The Southern Thruway." Someone said to me that they thought there was a film adaptation of "The Southern Thruway," but I can't seem to find it. The only thing I can think of is Week End, which has the same effect but it somehow inverted.