Official Book Reading Thread

[O.P.S.]

Got a lot of textbook stuff going at the moment, this is what I'm reading now before I get drunk.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511YSXJVEFL._AA240_.jpg

It's actually pretty interesting. It has many historical comparisons, cultural accounts and ethnographies. My Property teacher actually cowrote it.

[Francis Wolcott]

I love the thread title.

I'm reading Terry Pratchett's Soul Music right now.
It had been a while since I wandered through discworld.

After that, I feel tempted to become a pretentious cliché and read Castañeda.
And I may read Carlo Ginzburg's Cheese & the Worms... if its even called that in english.

[thewarning]

I wonder if he ever got to those books and what he thought of them.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PZVAPZ3ML._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41coRqfVpOL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

[Tom]

http://www.avclub.com/content/files/images/avclub_review3199.article.jpg

[O.P.S.]

he had to at least read one of them.

[Schismal]

http://trashotron.com/agony/images/2007/07-news/02-05-07/watts-blindsight.jpg

Full Text Here (http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm)

[Francis Wolcott]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41coRqfVpOL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

I require an explanation.

[Jerz]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51iSA%2BzW34L._AA240_.jpg

[ACE Money]

http://a1055.g.akamai.net/f/1055/1401/5h/images.barnesandnoble.com/images/10240000/10245542.jpg

[Gordon Bombay]

House of Leaves.

[garrettchristmas]

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n2/n12997.jpg

[El Twio]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41M16H3N4CL.jpg

Honestly, one of the best books I've read in awhile. As everyone here knows, I'm committed toward a revolutionary transformation of society. I think the only way to go about that is to have a population with a high level of political consciousness. Well this book talks in detail about how to achieve that.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514R7Z2JB2L._SL210_.jpg

One of the classics.

[YogoFatso]

http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/colorofwater.gif

[Daniel]

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/c2/c12232.jpg

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/c1/c5796.jpg

[Fatterrific]

This Boardlol

[dan for the win]

http://www.avclub.com/content/files/images/avclub_review3199.article.jpg

I'm reading that right now too. I like his stuff.

I recommend "Slammerkin" by Emma Donoghue. Prostitutes from the 17th century? Yes please.

[Serpent Boy]

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n10/n50349.jpg

As well as some Debra Hawhee essays on gesture speech theory.

[flipp jackson]

Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die

http://www.amazon.com/Final-Exits-Illustrated-Encyclopedia-How/dp/0060817410/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1206858926&sr=8-1

[eom]

i'm still trudging through ulysses and two guides (stuart gilbert's and a large book of annotations).

things i started long ago and haven't finished:
adorno & horkheimer - dialectics of enlightenment
rabelais - gargantua & pantagruel
groucho marx - the groucho letters
twain - adv of tom sawyer

[Ovulator]

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Y108C79ML.jpg

[Severed]

Read Siddhartha, 2001: a Space Odyssey, Alien Agenda and Cosmic Trigger since my last post.

New material:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51JNEXCSCXL._SL500_BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41EC2Q4QVML._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

[Francis Wolcott]

I hold such a soft spot for Cosmic Trigger...

[Synthesis]

http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/education/modules/teachingthetwenties/assets/txu-hrc-5045a/txu-hrc-5045a-250.jpg

[Francis Wolcott]

Gee, Synthesis, I wonder what made you pick up that book!

[ACE Money]

Read Siddhartha, 2001: a Space Odyssey, Alien Agenda and Cosmic Trigger since my last post.

Are you stopping at 2001 or are you going to read the whole series?

[Biscuits & Schlitz]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41W08HDDP8L._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

[Eyelikepoon]

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0380813815.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

[Cardinal]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41M16H3N4CL.jpg

Honestly, one of the best books I've read in awhile. As everyone here knows, I'm committed toward a revolutionary transformation of society. I think the only way to go about that is to have a population with a high level of political consciousness. Well this book talks in detail about how to achieve that.


we had to read a chapter out of this for class.
good shit.

as for me:
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n3/n17124.jpg

[KissHumpStabKill]

Mysterious Skin - Scott Heim
The Crimson Petal and the White - Michel Faber

[KissHumpStabKill]

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n2/n12997.jpg

I love this book.

[garrettchristmas]

I love this book.

yeah, i have around 30 pages left, and liked it a lot more than i was expecting.

[Hot Carl]

I'm gonna pick up blindness tommorow. I trust you guys completely on this.

[mondrarytomic]

Not reading anything right now, which is rather embarrassing.

If I go back to school in the fall, I need to reread this first:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/413C5T9SMAL._BO2,204,203,200_.jpg

A very good read for anyone interested in the topic.

[Ampathy]

Bunch of books on film & music, (post) feminism and consumer culture. For 'fun', Insomnia by Stephen King.

[Mezgarth]

http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~mhabbiyy/the_dirt.jpg

[RandomHero]

http://www.booksamillion.com/bam/covers/1/41/653/790/1416537902.jpg

[shakerattleroll]

A Game of Thrones
the 2nd dark tower book
The Brothers Karamazov.

ALL AT THE SAME TIME!

[thewarning]

I require an explanation.
Guy realizes his family were SS soldiers, decides to make up for it by being really nice to Jews. It's all really fucked up, though.

[yakacack]

http://www.bookcourt.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/magus.jpg


This was a damn good book, as was "The Collector" so I'll probably continue reading the rest of his stuff knowing they probably wont match these two.

[8-Bit Artist]

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/74/f3/5e5812bb9da0cc68e2b2c010._AA240_.L.jpg

[Severed]

Are you stopping at 2001 or are you going to read the whole series?

I'll get to the whole series. I use a random number generator when deciding what to pick up next

[supafuzz]

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Y108C79ML.jpg

good book.

i'm reading:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517KKMHJKML._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

[O.P.S.]

who edited the thread title??

[House]

http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/10860000/10867395.jpg

Dude has talent.

[SWD]

http://a1055.g.akamai.net/f/1055/1401/5h/images.barnesandnoble.com/images/10240000/10245542.jpg
when i was little, this book cover freaked me out a whole lot and i'm not sure why.

[Foo Radley]

http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/10860000/10867395.jpg

Dude has talent.

You think so? Real up-and-comer, eh?

[House]

I enjoy his books.

[cp.]

recommend me some books

I am reading this

http://adobebookcafe.com/images/0061147788.jpg

Former director of the CIA talks about his yrs during the Clinton and Bush administrations. Its very good, but you can't really trust much of its accuracy. Afterall the guy was head spook. Anyone interested in espionage/politics may dig it.



and this

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0224064452.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg


Not normally the type of stuff I read, but its pretty good. Very strange and all over the place. Sort of like Canterbury tales on acid. This dude wrote Fight Club and he got notoriety off it, but this book really is a fucking out there.


and also this


http://karatethejapaneseway.com/photos/5_rings.jpg


its hard to describe, so here is a quick blurb I found....

It was written in the 1600's by an unbeatable samurai who fought his opponents only by using a wooden sword. In 1643, Musashi retired and went into seclusion in a cave. He composed The Book of Five Rings and died in 1645a few days after completing it.


Basically, it was written by a killer and his philosophy is win to at all costs.

[Neva]

http://www.northamericanrarities.net/shop_image/product/15611.jpg

[tleetx2012]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51iHQYy8M7L._SL500_AA240_.jpg

[Grimg00wy]

read this awhile back, its short but a very enjoyable read.

http://www.fearzone.com/content/images/medium/medium-302.jpg

[Synthesis]

Gee, Synthesis, I wonder what made you pick up that book!

Because I loved The Jungle?

;)

[InvalidSacrifice]

Essentials of Human Anatomy & Physiology, Eight Edition.

[tleetx2012]

i'm reading:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517KKMHJKML._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

That's one of my ex's faves of all time. She wouldn't shut the fuck up about it. Talked about it so much...it ended up making me not even try to read it myself.

[josh air balloon]

I just finished Kingdom of Fear by Hunter S Thompson. If youve never read anything from him before, then this book might not make any sense to you, but its a good read none the less. Its about different stories from his life, and most of them are intense.

I also recently finished "Altered States of America" by Richard Stratton. Heres a descirption of it from amazon:
"Altered States of America is a riveting collection of journalism by outlaw-turned-author Richard Stratton. Stratton's years as an international marijuana smuggler, his 8-year bid in a federal prison system, and subsequent ascendance to acclaimed author and filmmaker, give him the credibility with which to wrest an uncommon truth from his subjects. The stories in this collection read like adventure fiction. To name a few: the story of Greg Scarpa, a Columbo mob captain turned informant; Bonecrusher, a guard at Corcoran penitentiary who witnessed the bloody gladiator fights between convicts; the CIA's top-secret MK-ULTRA program in which the CIA secretly dosed unsuspecting civilians and its own agents with LSD, or the heartbreaking profile of Joe Stassi, America's oldest living gangster, who was ordered to murder his best friend. Each piece is linked by Stratton's reflections on and connections to the people and places he describes. Whether he is talking with Oliver Stone or a prison guard, Hunter S. Thompson or a gangster, Sean Penn or a CIA agent, Stratton has an empathetic understanding of his subjects. This collection truly embodies Bob Dylan's famous line: "To live outside the law, you must be honest."

[internecine coitus]

you should probably just delete that people who read part since this is a message board
we do have a lot of pictures i suppose but

[Vega]

http://www.exorcising-ghosts.co.uk/images/hear(english).jpg
http://www.exorcising-ghosts.co.uk/images/HM-Wild_Sheep_Chase_USA.jpg
http://www.exorcising-ghosts.co.uk/images/pinball1973(colour).jpg

[AFHAERO]

on the murakami kick, hard boileded wonderland and the end of the world. One of my favorite murakamis

[BeeTs]

If you've never read anything from him before..

are you kidding me??

[thewarning]

on the murakami kick, hard boileded wonderland and the end of the world. One of my favorite murakamis
Boiled*

The best Murakami and the only one I will ever reread. Wouldn't recommend it to this guy though who seems to be much more interested in non-fiction.

There are a lot of boarders here who enjoy non-fiction, but I'm not really one of them...

[AFHAERO]

Boiled*

The best Murakami and the only one I will ever reread. Wouldn't recommend it to this guy though who seems to be much more interested in non-fiction.

There are a lot of boarders here who enjoy non-fiction, but I'm not really one of them...
yea. as alwys my typing is subpar; That is my favorite Murakami thus far. I do like really enjoy one of the short stories in The Elephant Vanishes though.

I read a lot of Nonfiction, but certain levels of fiction are always enjoyable. I picked up a month or so ago:
http://www.popmatters.com/books/reviews/w/images/winslow-in-love.jpg
One of the best novellas I have read in a long time. My girlfriend has it now. I am going to look into that authors other works. I think the people on the board would like it, especially some of the ones making constant reminders to us of their feeling older.

[Vega]

i just started reading this again yesterday
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0192836293.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

[gnutella]

don't we already have a book thread?

[thewarning]

We also have a dozen and a half "favorite" threads

[Somehow]

I just finished the book "Adams v. Texas," it's a true crime book about a guy wrongfully convicted of murder. It's pretty damn compelling.

[O.P.S.]

mods, merge with other book thread.

kudos to vega for the kipling book.

[Francis Wolcott]

The format of these threads rock.
X person lists what he likes + asks for recommendations ->Everybody ignores OP, and brags what they've recently read.
So yeah, get some Deleuze.

[eom]

The format of these threads rock.
X person lists what he likes + asks for recommendations ->Everybody ignores OP, and brags what they've recently read.
So yeah, get some Deleuze.

he didn't seem to be asking for recommendations, he was just posting things he read (as though they were recommendations).
what deleuze did you read?

[Francis Wolcott]

well, apparently I have no reading comprehension.... I figured (book recommendations) meant the opposite of what it meant
hello private reality, how are you?

# Cinéma I: L'image-mouvement (1983). Trans. Cinema 1: The Movement-Image (1986).
# Cinéma II: L'image-temps (1985). Trans. Cinema 2: The Time-Image (1989).

I want to read Difference and Repetition... and Anti-Oedipus has been queued like forever.

[eom]

i started anti-oedipus awhile ago but shelved it after a few pages. i've only read his book on kafka and coldness & cruelty, both of which i really enjoyed (and made up part of the core of my senior thesis).

[halftempo]

The elephant vanashes is the only murakami that i've read

http://www.b4aband.com/images/project/flatlands.gif

Terence McKenna's work is always an interesting read

[Weirdoradio]

http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/colorofwater.gif

Some girl whipped this out on the shuttle bus and got me all confused.
As for me:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51lJYBY7PPL._SL500_AA240_.jpg
http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0571201571.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V1114067028_.jpg
http://artfiles.art.com/images/-/I-Robot-Print-C10100822.jpeg

[chintzy]

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0978970764.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

[El Twio]

Looks like a vagina on the cover.

[thewarning]

I pick up Deleuze's Thousand Plateaus every now and then, read for a little bit and put it down for a while. It's the book he wrote that was meant to be read from any sentence at any time.

[yakacack]

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0978970764.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

I've only heard of this because of an insanely hot chick I was in a class with once was in love with it. Is it actually any good? Man, that chick was hot.

[gnutella]

I've only heard of this because of an insanely hot chick I was in a class with once was in love with it. Is it actually any good? Man, that chick was hot.
yakacack!

[woolgatherer]

i am reading murakami's "hard boiled wonderland.." it's very good so far. wind-up bird chronicles was fucking awesome.

[yakacack]

yakacack!

haha it's good to be back my man :)

W.A.L.L.

[EatAFetus4Jesus]

Getting bored with:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51M9MTN5QFL._SL500_BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

Thinking of starting:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514E9A0MPEL._SL500_BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

[Severed]

are there any good recommendations for Japanese novelists like Murakami? I love all his works and I'm curious to know if there are others of his style.

[thewarning]

I would recommend Genichiro Takahashi's Sayonara Gangsters. It's a little more Vonnegut-y, but definitely has some quality similar to Murakami's wandering-fantasy prose and no real coherent structure (which is fun, but can definitely be off-putting to some)

I can think of other Japanese writers but they are all more "realists" than Murakami, so maybe they wouldn't be such good recommendations.

[Severed]

I guess I should have said any first-hand experience with Japanese writers is more what I'm looking for. Murakami is the tip of my ice burg.

thanks though I'll check Genichiro Takahashi out

[thewarning]

Okay, then other books I recommend:

Kenzo Kitakata, Wintersleep - Crime story about a painter. My least favorite of his (currently available) works, but probably his most accessible. Others by the author: Ashes (<3), The Cage
Yusuke Kishi, The Crimson Labyrinth - A sort of surrealist Battle Royale. Works better if you haven't yet read BR because the two are so similar. Or if you prefer a more direct, realistic story, check out Battle Royale instead.
Ryu Murakami, Coin Locker Babies - One of the greatest surreal/horror novels I've ever read. Pretty fucked up shit, here.

[dalton]

Just finishing this:
http://www.kerouac.com/images/beats/burroughs_interzone.jpg
WORD is fucking awesome and crazy.

I've been on some sort of Burroughs kick lately. Im probably gonna start QUEER soon, I've been saving naked lunch for some reason, I think gonna read it on a trip or something, maybe.


I actually just found this yesterday at work..
http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/c5/d4/2bb17220eca0a5865949a010._AA240_.L.jpg
started reading it on the clock and in the shitter.

[Yust]

http://conspiracycomics.com/images/zombie.gif

[supafuzz]

i saw a presentation by this guy last night on cspan and it was really interesting so i'm going to go pick up this book tonight:
http://www.randomhouse.com/images/dyn/cover/?source=9780385520690&height=300&maxwidth=170

[Jerz]

i saw a presentation by this guy last night on cspan and it was really interesting so i'm going to go pick up this book tonight:


I'm about halfway through this book (see page 1 of thread).

It's fucking fascinating. Michio Kaku writes makes to you feel like you can actually understand some of the most complicated theories in Physics. It gets complicated, but it never loses you.

I've read all of his books this is one of his better ones.

Look into "Visions" too. It's similar to this except he discusses theoretical technologies that MIGHT exist is the near to far future.

[dalton]

http://conspiracycomics.com/images/zombie.gif

i heard about this, ive been meaning to check it out. How is it?

[mwarkentin]

I thought it was pretty good.. some really cool stories in there.

I'm wondering how the movie's gonna turn out.

[Vega]

http://www.iupui.edu/~crbs/Bradbury/Bradburyjpegs/ill_man5.jpg

[O.P.S.]

today I read:
http://www.topshelfcomix.com/catalog/previews/blankets/blankets_01.jpg

tomorrow i'm starting and most likely finishing:
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d166/donkeyfly69/ronbook.jpg

then this immediately after:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51SvEa7AOWL._SL500_BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

[thewarning]

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/dailypix/2002/Dec/30/il02a1_b.jpg

Wishes it was Shogun so badly. Kind of a bother

[overactive blatter]

http://www.blacksabbath.co.uk/cover1-400.jpg

http://www.thecommentary.ca/images/books/hart.jpg

http://www.actionfigureinsider.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2007_2/COMIC_batman_the_killing_joke.jpg

[Francis Wolcott]

http://flann4.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/game.jpg

[AFHAERO]

I buy/borrow books, and try to read them in some sort of order. I have read in the last month or so:
Palahniuk "Diary"
Ayres' "Super Crunchers"

Reading now:
Murakami "Norwegian Wood"

and under that, to read next:
Brian Fagan's "The Great Warming"
Ron Paul's "a manifesto"
last two stories in Stephen Kings "The Bachman Books"

[M.Ho]

The Hitman book is awesome if youre a fan of wrestling.

[overactive blatter]

so far it is amazing.

[cp.]

Executive Power - Vince Flynn

[eom]

i finished watt and began sodom & gomorrah..

[Severed]

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/d1/3b/3f3e793509a018b44d304110._AA240_.L.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51m6-LrY7sL._SL500_BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515Y37ZGHVL._SL500_BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

as of right now. the lucid dreaming I read before bed, and Sitchin for a class paper. waiting for my copy of Ron Pauls "Manifesto" to arrive, also.

[CBC]

http://www.avclub.com/content/files/images/avclub_review3199.article.jpg
He spoke at UW recently...'twas awesome.

Currently Reading: Freakonomics, Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf

[freshinthehouse]

Just finished up a summer course that had us reading 11 adolescent lit novels in in two weeks. A couple were surprisingly solid (American Born Chinese, Adventures of a Part-Time Indian), the rest were pretty blah. Glad its over.

Plan on starting on Stud Terkel's Working.

[Vega]

i thought we had one of these did a search got nothing
discuss books reading suggest titles and authors


anyone messing with the new bond book? was thinking of picking it up
http://commanderbond.net/resources/sections/news/images/4697_dmc_cover/devilmaycare_cover.jpg

[thewarning]

What exactly did you search for

[Vega]

reading and books
and didnt see anything
with reading 5 pages popped up

maybe i glanced over it but i went through twice

do you like bond?

this doesnt have to with books but last week
i watched the pierce brosnan 007 flicks
those were the worst

[internecine coitus]

http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/8510000/8519936.jpg
so far so awesome

[JayCal]

lye, give me drugs k thx

[Francis Wolcott]

I don't know nothing of James Bond, but what's the point of saying "Writing as Ian Fleming" if its in the cover and its recent.
To avoid confusion of people going "oh, what a talented cadaver he turned out to be!"?

[bank manager.]

just read for school:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/78/Mason_n_dixon.jpg/200px-Mason_n_dixon.jpg

surprised how enjoyable it actually was.

and
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1182/836595003_c27075fe14.jpg

was great

but now i'm coming back down to earth with

http://blog.news-record.com/staff/culture/The%20Rum%20Diary-thumb.jpg

[internecine coitus]

lye, give me drugs k thx

like you'd take them

[JayCal]

oh i'd take them

[internecine coitus]

i'm holding you to that

[bingle]

Finished http://www.randomhouse.com/doubleday/legacyofashes/images/Legacy_big.gif and http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51tSy0q-BdL.jpg recently, now picking http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/x1/x5763.jpg back up

[Cardinal]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/99/Whatisthewhatbook.jpg

[The Drizzle]

http://www.bookcourt.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/dubliners.jpg

[chintzy]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41YgGq8BALL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

[BeeTs]

just finished Hyperion by Dan Simmons...didn't like it very much

just started A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin

[Francis Wolcott]

high five

[neuromancer]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41M16H3N4CL.jpg

Honestly, one of the best books I've read in awhile. As everyone here knows, I'm committed toward a revolutionary transformation of society. I think the only way to go about that is to have a population with a high level of political consciousness. Well this book talks in detail about how to achieve that.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514R7Z2JB2L._SL210_.jpg

One of the classics.

pedagogy of the oppressed changed my life. i'm in a social justice focused teacher education program and we read all sorts of critical pedagogy sources, its awesome. i try to model a freirian philosophy in my teaching, but i pretty much suck at this point...

i hear pedagogy of indignation is a must read.

[O.P.S.]

http://crosshatch.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/marjanesatrapicompletepers-copy.jpg

just read both 1 and 2... great comics.

[Synthesis]

Comic:

http://www.temp.sfbok.se/kat/img/59279.jpg

Book:

http://www.bookreporter.com/art/covers/140w/0385722192.jpg

[desiretheend]

just finished "society of S" by susan hubbard... decent. would recommend it if you have plenty of free time.

[Seven To Nothing]

http://www.bookreporter.com/art/covers/140w/0385722192.jpg

lullaby is his best work, imo

this is what i started today.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0684818868.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

[dalton]

Just finished:
http://www.madprofessor.net/images/uOMCVOrPiD9Hk-tm.jpg

Almost done with:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41WTC8VP4GL.jpg

[aspect]

http://www.geocities.com/wesjohnsonink/shockvalue.jpg

[thewarning]

You Can't Win was a lot different than I expected, I think I liked it pretty well

I've just finished another book, not sure where to go from here just yet

[Badwong]

Take a Walk on the Dark Side: Rock and Roll Myths, Legends and Curses by R. Gary Patterson

[eom]

Just finished:
http://www.madprofessor.net/images/uOMCVOrPiD9Hk-tm.jpg

i'm a big fan of this.

[dalton]

yeah You Cant Win was absolutely great, one of my favorites.

anyone have recommendations for similar reading? my stack of books to be read is starting to get low again.

[Dogmapod]

I just started reading again recently, so I've been brushing up on the classics. Finished these yesterday:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51668m5olUL._SS500_.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41FNVTRGE8L._SS500_.jpg

I picked up Game of Thrones a while back and keep meaning to start it. Those who have read it, how is it?

[eom]

i don't know anything else that's really like it (which is probably just because i'm largely unacquainted with the genre - you might want to browse this list of other books published by nabat http://www.akpress.org/search?action=find_book&search_key=publisher&query=nabat&x=0&y=0 ). there is of course junky, which you've probably read and which really isn't nearly as good.
stylistically, i think that lenny bruce's autobiography comes pretty close - and it's also about a guy who gets sent to jail a lot for doing his job. again, it isn't as good and not all that similar, but it is worth reading.

[dalton]

I've read quite a bit of burroughs including junky, which was all right. Its easy to tell that junky was heavily inspired by you cant win, which kind of makes me like junky less for some reason.

The rest of Nabats catalog definitely looks promising, i'll probably start picking those up soon. I wikipedia'd lenny bruce. In doing so, i may have ruined the story for myself but it looks interesting and i'll still give it a read none-the-less.

arigato, mworth.

[bmfbooby]

im currenly readin Perfectly Legal, its all about how rich people get out of paying taxes.
best book ive read recently or ever even=Shantaram by gregory david roberts

[Vega]

ANTHONY BOURDAIN BOOKS

WHERE SHOULD I START?

[InvalidSacrifice]

ANTHONY BOURDAIN BOOKS

WHERE SHOULD I START?

If you want to read about restaurant work - Kitchen Confidential.

If you want to read about traveling and eating - A Cooks Tour.

Both are good reads.

[Vega]

WILL GET BOTH THANKS

[gnutella]

my wife just picked up this for me the other day and it's pretty good so far

http://www.columbiachronicle.com/paper/images/3846_1.jpeg

[InvalidSacrifice]

I'm just about finished with Rumor of War by Phillip Caputo. It's a pretty good Vietnam War book, if you are into that sort of thing.

[7Stringlather]

I just finished reading "Pet Semetary" by Stephen King for the first time...very awesome book indeed. Now I'm reading "Hearts in Atlantis" by the same author...I guess I'm on a Stephen King kick as of late.

[the exploded rage]

i havent red anything for year.the last and the only things that i red in 4 years was lord of the rings

[Razzle]

Moby Dick

[WhoWantsPie]

http://www.baudejogos.net/imagens/colunas/har1.jpg
http://www.thelavinagency.com/articles_covers/Chang/cantstopwontstop.jpg
http://batman.ugo.com/images/galleries/batman_thelonghalloween_comics/batman_thelonghalloween_1.jpg

[Razzle]

I need to read more books now. I realized after 23 years that I need to wear glasses.

[Thrash!]

The World According to Garp
Blood Meridian

[Hollow Light]

Bernard Cornwell - The Last Kingdom

[Ampathy]

Having a swatch at some books in the airport yesterday, has anyone read 'Five People you Meet in Heaven'? It's about, unsurprisingly, the five people who explain 'your' life and what motivated you to act as 'you' did before your death. Quite interesting.

[Ampathy]

I've read quite a bit of burroughs including junky, which was all right. Its easy to tell that junky was heavily inspired by you cant win, which kind of makes me like junky less for some reason.

The rest of Nabats catalog definitely looks promising, i'll probably start picking those up soon. I wikipedia'd lenny bruce. In doing so, i may have ruined the story for myself but it looks interesting and i'll still give it a read none-the-less.

arigato, mworth.
Just finished Junky here. Good short read.

[Meathead Jock]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QK3SM4W8L._SS500_.jpg

[downgrade]

The World According to Garp

[Schismal]

http://www.pittamsa.org/HouseofGod.jpg

[Tom]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7b/Our_Band_Could_Be_Your_Life_book_cover.jpg

reading it for the third time, still rules all
if you think you are a serious music fan, and havent read this, YOU ARENT

[Lisa the Gnome]

I highly recommend my husband's new book:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519prdHgvxL._SS500_.jpg

[Hollow Light]

I highly recommend my husband's new book:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519prdHgvxL._SS500_.jpg

I have the original circa 1971 or something in storage.

[Lisa the Gnome]

It's new in gnome years anyway...

[WhoWantsPie]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QK3SM4W8L._SS500_.jpg

I know it's insensitive, but watching him wrestle scares the shit out of me. It's like some kind of spider in a man suit.

[fxstone11]

I know it's insensitive, but watching him wrestle scares the shit out of me. It's like some kind of spider in a man suit.
because you're known for your sensitivity...

[dalton]

Just finished Junky here. Good short read.

yeah its not a bad read, you should check out You Cant Win.



also, the fact that i didnt know who lenny bruce was until now is absolutely awful. :(

[Mave]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7b/Our_Band_Could_Be_Your_Life_book_cover.jpg

reading it for the third time, still rules all
if you think you are a serious music fan, and havent read this, YOU ARENT

ahaha this really is an awesome music book

love the black flag section the most

[InvalidSacrifice]

http://www.cornichon.org/Elements%20of%20cooking.jpg

and

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519538XD2BL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

[KissHumpStabKill]

I'm currently reading every Orange Award Winner for Fiction in an attempts to sway my own opinion on female writers. A few of these bitches can actually write.... however, explorations of some certain author's other, non-award winning, work leads me to believe they enjoy rehashing the same old story.

[gnutella]

lies, no good fiction has ever been written by a female author.

[drd1203]

"the stand" by stephen king. this book is going to take me forever but it'll be worth it.

[WhoWantsPie]

because you're known for your sensitivity...

I currently work with mentally challenged children. I try to be as sensitive as possible to those who deserve sensitivity. A high horse riding dickhead with a Good Will Hunting complex like you doesn't qualify.

[fxstone11]

I currently work with mentally challenged children. I try to be as sensitive as possible to those who deserve sensitivity. A high horse riding dickhead with a Good Will Hunting complex like you doesn't qualify.

Why shouldn't I work at the NSA? That's a tough one, but I'll take a shot at it. Let's say I'm working at the NSA and somebody puts a code on my desk, something no one else can break. Maybe I take a shot at it and maybe I break, and I'm real happy with myself cause I did my job well. But maybe that code is for the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East, and once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels are hiding. Fifteen hundred people I never met before, never had no problem with get killed. So now the politicians are saying, "Send in the marines to secure the area," cause they don't give a shit. It won't be their kid over there, gettin' shot, just like it wasn't them when their number got called, 'cause they were pullin' a tour in the National Guard. It'll be some kid from Southie over there takin' shrapnel in the ass. He comes home to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from, and the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, cause he'll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile he realizes the only reason he was over there in the first place was so we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And of course the oil companies used the skirmish over there to scare up domestic oil prices, a cute little ancillary benefit for them but it ain't helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon. They’re takin their sweet time bringin the oil back of course, maybe they even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and fuckin' play slalom with the icebergs. It ain't too long til he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So now my buddy's out of work and he can't afford to drive, so he's walkin to the fuckin job interviews, which sucks cause the shrapnel in his ass is givin him chronic hemorrhoids. And meanwhile he's starvin cause every time he tries to get a bite to eat the only blue plate special they're servin is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State. So what did I think? I'm holdin' out for somethin better. I figure fuck it, Why not just shoot my buddy, take his job and give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected president.

[Ampathy]

oh fuck off

as for the Stand, yeah enjoy it. I was 300 pages deep (the 1, 000 page version) and some cunt in work ruined the ending for me. I decided to watch the TV version instead which was fucking garbage.

[Logg]

http://www.pagesandpages.com.au/images/ebility/9780805080759.jpg

and
http://www.pokerstars.com/fpp/store/images/detailed/cashgames1.jpg

[fxstone11]

i'm going on vacation to northern minnesota in the middle of the woods. i'm taking "what happened?" the new book from former press sec scott blah blah blah.

tell me what you fuckers have been reading these days.

[eom]

habermas - the philosophical discourse of modernity
lowry - under the volcano
waugh - the loved one

the habermas is fantastic.

[ghostchant]

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

[eom]

nrok, merging threads like this is so unnecessary.

[AFHAERO]

Ron Paul's "The Revolution"
Read it.

[WhoWantsPie]

V and The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon

Ron Paul

I've heard the name. Who is this?

[thewarning]

Crying Lot is so fucking tightly written




http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/418FDY8%2BJUL._SS500_.jpg

[flipp jackson]

i'm looking forward to the new michael ian black book

[eom]

V and The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon

i really like both of these which came a surprise to me.

[WhoWantsPie]

They are both currently surprising me as well.

[SimpleSimon]

Clapton: The Autobiography, pretty decent so far

[eom]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/418FDY8%2BJUL._SS500_.jpg

i watched zizek! (the movie) recently and was surprised to hear him call lacan's style an obstacle. especially since zizek's style, i think, is as crucial to his work as lacan's.

[thewarning]

Over the course of his last works I think he has been abandoning his style in favor of more sincere writing. That's not to say he is without his jokes and reversals and such, but hes definitely become more dynamic. This book is quite good so far.

I met Zizek at the screening of the film and he signed one of my books :)
Director Astra Taylor is a New School alum, but that doesn't really mean anything because I didn't think it was anything particularly good.

[eom]

i haven't read any of his recent work (the only book i've read in its entirety is looking awry and the next thing i plan to read is the sublime object of ideology) but it seems like i should.
and i agree, the movie wasn't remarkable. except for, perhaps, zizek's appearance on that talk show and a couple of other moments.

[thewarning]

"My Vertigo shot"

[eom]

and then there's http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii178/eomfap/zizek.png for awhile.

[sean so good]

has anyone read howard sounds' charles bukowski: locked in the arms of a crazy life or down the highway: the life of bob dylan? are they worth my time?

i try to switch between fiction and nonfiction, but i've been in a nonfiction mood as of late.

[sean so good]

i suppose i should say just any nonfiction someone can recommend, anyone with a good tale to tell.

[321Drum!]

Just got this e-book cause my buddies haven't finished reading theirs.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/411K1X7ZD5L._SL500_BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

[Cardinal]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0c/Cell_by_Stephen_King.jpg

thought it looked dumb a few years ago
but then i found out it was about zombies
it's turning out to be one of my favorites from him

[Vega]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0c/Cell_by_Stephen_King.jpg

thought it looked dumb a few years ago
but then i found out it was about zombies
it's turning out to be one of my favorites from him

zombies?
looks like im going to borders after work
thanks Ace

[CBC]

Lester Bangs-Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung

[Cardinal]

zombies?
looks like im going to borders after work
thanks Ace

cell phones turn people into zombies
shit is entertaining as hell
i really hope they follow through with a movie, even if eli roth might direct it

[ballsniffer]

cell was sweet.

here's my list

just read:
http://grayskyeyes.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/a-heartbreaking-work.jpg

currently reading:
http://a5.vox.com/6a00c2251ded1f8e1d00f48d0261ad0001-500pi

next up:
http://thebreakthrough.org/blog/2008/04/28/collapse.jpg

[Cardinal]

i just finished what is the what
i was pretty pleased
liked it a lot more than i was expecting to

[O.P.S.]

just REread this one:

http://a2.vox.com/6a00c2252884d88fdb00e398f42fd20005-500pi

and this soon:

http://www.nathanielturner.com/images/New_Folder/equianocover.jpg

[Cardinal]

currently:http://www.ofertondelibros.com/images/large/isbn978037/9780374281588-l.jpg
it's not that good, kinda corny, but i wont abandon it.

up next:
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0375760393.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

[InvalidSacrifice]

I still need to read The Botany of Desire. I really enjoy Michael Pollan.

Currently reading:

http://www.fr.com/practice/kw/GodIsNotGreat-Large.jpg

I like the information and all, but it's kind of boring.

[thewarning]

just REread this one:
http://josephfinn.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/04/10/longgoodbye.jpg

[mondrarytomic]

Finished this, mad awesome:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51zSNLMoyNL._SL500_BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

Up next, waiting to come in the mail:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510YZKF1CJL._SL500_BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

[thewarning]

Currently:

http://www.fanboy.com/images/Explainers-01.jpg

and

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/418FDY8%2BJUL._SS500_.jpg

[yakacack]

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/41fafkIky5L._SS500_.jpg


Started this a bit ago. I love Pynchon's writings.

[thewarning]

I really liked it but I just couldn't get through it. Recently have been thinking about picking it up again from the beginning.

[ACE Money]

I just started Animal Farm. It actually came in the same book as my copy of 1984. I just forgot to go back and read it.

http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/7070000/7076521.jpg

[yakacack]

I really liked it but I just couldn't get through it. Recently have been thinking about picking it up again from the beginning.

I travel a ton now and though its a bit hefty to carry on the plane, its good for the longer flights as so far (about halfway through) as its been holding my attention

[thewarning]

And the first third of the book certainly goes well with flight :D

[yakacack]

And the first third of the book certainly goes well with flight :D

Haha, most definitely. It's amazing to me how many characters he introduces as he moves forward and continues each storyline. I only wish I could write like that :)

[freshinthehouse]

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n2/n12997.jpg

Just finished this. Loved it.

Now I'm working One Hundred Years of Solitude.

[WhoWantsPie]

Now I'm working One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Probably my all-time favorite. Write that down somewhere.


Currently working through The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry and finally getting around to Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World.

[AFHAERO]

Hard...World is my favorite Murakami. It really comes together; as you read it you try to anticipate, succeed, and still feel a little down about it.

[AFHAERO]

Whats the story on 100 yrs solitude>?

[thewarning]

Hardboiled Wonderland is the most "complete" Murakami book and its fantastic.

[WhoWantsPie]

"The novel chronicles a family's struggle and the history of their fictional town, Macondo, for one hundred years. The book is widely considered García Márquez's magnum opus, metaphorically encompassing the history of Colombia or Latin America."

[FunkNinetyNine]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51erDICZL3L._SL500_BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

About half way through it and its been pretty entertaining.

[fxstone11]

100 years is a classic, but not the best of gabo. i'm reading junkie right now.

[AFHAERO]

http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/25880000/25881787.JPG
Year Million: Science at the Far Edge of Knowledge, by Damien Broderick

(per Amazon)This volume of fifteen new, specially commissioned essays by notable journalists and scholars such as Rudy Rucker, Jim Holt, and Gregory Benford presents a series of speculations on the most radical but well-grounded ideas they can conceive, projecting the universe as it might be in the year 1,000,000 C.E. Their collective effort—first attempted by H. G. Wells in his 1893 essay "The Man of the Year Million"—is an exploration into a barely conceivable distant future, where the authors confront far-flung possibilities, at times bordering on philosophy of science. How would the galaxy look if it were redesigned for optimal energy use and maximized intelligence? What is a universe bereft of stars?


I read a review making this an amazingly thought provoking book, changing the way one might conceive the future. I am going to try to bang out a few of the essays tonight.

[WhoWantsPie]

100 years is a classic, but not the best of gabo. i'm reading junkie right now.

You a Love in the Time of Cholera guy?

[Neckface]

http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/10860000/10867395.jpg

Never read any Sedaris prior to this. This guy has me laughing out loud

[fxstone11]

You a Love in the Time of Cholera guy?i enjoyed it very much, but my favorites are no one writes to the colonel and memories of my melancholy whores.

[Lost Misery]

Just started reading this today - flying through it and surprisingly enjoying it:
http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/7131/badmonkeyswn8.jpg
From Publishers Weekly
In this clever SF thriller from Ruff (Fool on the Hill), almost everyone is a bad monkey of some kind, but only Jane Charlotte is a self-confessed member of The Department for the Final Disposition of Irredeemable Persons. Or is she? In a series of sessions with a psychotherapist in the Las Vegas County Jail nut wing, Jane tells the story of her early life in San Francisco and her assimilation into the Bad Monkeys, an organization devoted to fighting evil. Crazy or sane, Jane is still a murderer, whether she used a weapon like the NC gun, which kills someone using Natural Causes, or more prosaic weaponry. Still, nothing is quite what it seems as Jane's initial story of tracking a serial killer janitor comes under scrutiny and the initial facts about her brother, Phil, get turned on their head. At times the twists are enough to give the reader whiplash. Ruff's expert characterization of Jane and agile manipulation of layers of reality ground the novel and make it more than just a Philip K. Dick rip-off.

[Razzle]

i'm almost done with moby dick. next is sometimes a great notion or the watchmen

[Ovulator]

i have 40 pages left of Atlas Shrugged. ive been reading this book on and off for 4 years. i agree with most everything in this book as a libertarian, but my god, it is still one fucking awful book.

[fxstone11]

i dont see the point of finishing a book if i think its awful.

[O.P.S.]

I just started Animal Farm.

loooove animal farm. read it 4 times.

[thewarning]

i dont see the point of finishing a book if i think its awful.
For the final plot twist!!!

[Ovulator]

i dont see the point of finishing a book if i think its awful.

because i wasted enough time reading most of it, i might as well have wasted my time to at least read the book, rather than just partly read it. that's as much of a point as there it.

[Lost Misery]

Just started reading this today - flying through it and surprisingly enjoying it: Philip K. Dick rip-off.

Ending sucked. Went back and read some glowing reviews of this thing and wondering what drugs they were on. Do not waste your time. If you are curious, just read some Dick. hehe. Dick.

[cp.]

it wouldn't be a bad idea to start a prp book club where we could paypal the shipping cost and send eachother books (no homo) cuz there is some good shit on here.

I am currently reading

http://www.arewerome.com/wp-content/themes/arewerome/images/cover.gif

Editor synopsis - Murphy lists six parallels to support his argument of why the U.S. today is much like the Roman Empire: a powerful military but not enough people to fill it; a practice of contracting government work to private agencies; immigration problems and immigrant communities that threaten us from within; prideful ignorance about the outside world; accelerating decadent national character; and leaders influenced by moralizing religion and superstition. Murphy points out that the U.S. is seen as "dangerously overcommitted abroad and rusted out at home, like Rome in its last two centuries." He quotes the historian and columnist Chalmers Johnson: "Roman imperial sorrows mounted up over hundreds of years. Ours are likely to arrive with the speed of FedEx." Murphy, editor at large at Vanity Fair, believes that improvement is possible. Whether readers agree with him or not, the book is bound to be persuasive and provocative.

[O.P.S.]

cp, if you like that, go ahead and continue on with Chalmers Johnson's books... they're fact heavy and amazing.

[O.P.S.]

http://media.unswpress.com.au/webimages/0868407356.jpg

and

http://mqup.mcgill.ca/images/books/edgar_habermas_lg.jpg

...after that, I'll read some selected stuff from the Johnathan Edwards Reader.

[SERIOUSLY GUYS]

just started Notes from Underground

should be a quick interesting read

[cp.]

cp, if you like that, go ahead and continue on with Chalmers Johnson's books... they're fact heavy and amazing.

thx I'll check on abebooks for some of em

[PAFM]

i've only recently gotten into habermas but it's some of the best stuff i've read.

[InvalidSacrifice]

http://www.dogpolitics.com/my_weblog/images/2007/09/05/redemption_by_nathan_winograd.jpg

[downgrade]

http://www.skybooksusa.com/images/books/historytemplars.jpg

[ballsniffer]

http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/10860000/10867395.jpg

Never read any Sedaris prior to this. This guy has me laughing out loud
i read naked at my gf's behest and loved it.

[downgrade]

Never read any Sedaris prior to this. This guy has me laughing out loud

I got a taped recording of Naked in the bargain bin at Barnes and Noble. Not bad, but I can only take so much self-deprecating homo greekness. Though if he wrote a book almost entirely about his mother I could probably handle that. I had no idea he sounded like such a transvestite, I refused to believe it was actually him reading it until I looked up some of his stuff on youtube. For all my bitching it was pretty enjoyable. I think I also remember hearing him on NPR and thinking, "who the fuck would put this guy on the radio?" Though I guess that's the point...

[ballsniffer]

yeah he's on this american life every now and again. but then again, a lot of their contributors have terrible voices (sarah vowel is pretty bad too)

[Neckface]

i agree on every Sedaris point

[thewarning]

I'm reading all my school texts now. Give me another week and I'll post something interesting hopefully. Lots of interesting stuff coming in October too.

[WhoWantsPie]

yeah he's on this american life every now and again. but then again, a lot of their contributors have terrible voices (sarah vowel is pretty bad too)

I actually enjoy Sarah Vowel's voice. It's fuckin' Ira Glass who sends me up a wall. It isn't his voice, which is nasally like mine. It's his meter. Gives me fits, and that's why I don't listen to the show all that often.

[MattyCakes]

i just finished orientalism by said. everyone should read

[Neckface]

just started:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41796CZ3XKL.jpg

[cp.]

just started:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41796CZ3XKL.jpg

great book, I actually just started Mayflower which is Philbrick's other book.

[ballsniffer]

starting this week
http://www.tadhana.com/detour/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/world.jpg

up next
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c118/richlayers/told_tales/AnansiBoysNeilGaiman11360_f.jpg

others i have but have not read yet
http://cdn.harpercollins.com/harperimages/isbn/large/0/9780061252020.jpg

http://scienceblogs.com/omnibrain/upload/2007/06/palahniukcoverrant.jpg

http://www.freezedriedmovies.com/blog/uploads/choke-bigcover.jpg

[Tom]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41HW269R4AL._SL500_.jpg

[CBC]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41HW269R4AL._SL500_.jpg

They should have done this with Neil Strauss.

[woolgatherer]

http://media.npr.org/programs/watc/features/2008/july/atkins_cover_200.jpg

[CBC]

http://media.npr.org/programs/watc/features/2008/july/atkins_cover_200.jpg

Pigface guy?

[MMFAP]

i recently started huysmans' a rebours and it's pretty much what i hoped it would be.

[thewarning]

Its no Maldoror

[Razzle]

i just finished moby dick

some guy at work gave me think and grow rich so i'm reading that

next it's going to be some lem or the watchmen or the road

[MMFAP]

really though, i haven't come across much to compare to maldoror.