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Post by saulgoodman on Aug 24, 2018 14:49:06 GMT -7
reading Deep Blues by Robert Palmer--very good, but more historical and, thereby, less insightful than essays of his I have read. Also reading Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman (by which i mean i am listening to the CD's when i am in the car).
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Post by saulgoodman on Sept 5, 2018 17:29:50 GMT -7
Been reading from a couple of mid-20th century short story collections: Going to Meet the Man - James Baldwin & The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner - Alan Sillitoe
lots of take it to the man talk. good stuff!
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Post by lordkundalini on Sept 10, 2018 8:41:06 GMT -7
reading Deep Blues by Robert Palmer--very good, but more historical and, thereby, less insightful than essays of his I have read. Also reading Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman (by which i mean i am listening to the CD's when i am in the car). ive been reading Chuck Klosterman ON rock, off and on-- a collection of essays from Fargo Rock City; Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs; Chuck Klosterman IV; and Eating the Dinosaur
good stuff!!
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Sept 15, 2018 8:09:20 GMT -7
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2018 8:09:20 GMT -7
I picked up the new Christopher Moore book, Noir. I only read the first 20 pages or so but I have a feeling it's going to be good.
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Sept 17, 2018 7:27:57 GMT -7
Post by saulgoodman on Sept 17, 2018 7:27:57 GMT -7
I'm reading a bunch of books at once right now.
Finnegans Wake - James Joyce (ya just can't read a lot of this one at one time--or at least I can't--so it's the reason I am reading several at the same time).
The Most Dangerous Book - Kevin Birmingham (it's about Joyce, more specifically about Ulysses, but it's still a natural companion piece to Finnegans Wake, especially since I intend to re-read Ulysses later this year).
Motherless Brooklyn - Jonathan Lethem (it's my 'in the car' novel right now--i.e. listening when i drive to the CD's - get about 30 minutes a day that way).
IV - Chuck Klosterman (a book of previously published essays. Since I've read almost everything else--@ least all the books--by Klosterman, I am pulling from his essay collections kinda randomly until I finish the whole collection--will do the same with X when i finish with IV.)
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Sept 18, 2018 12:03:51 GMT -7
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Post by EddieBlake on Sept 18, 2018 12:03:51 GMT -7
Just started read A Confederacy Of Dunces today.
So damn good.
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Sept 18, 2018 13:04:11 GMT -7
Post by ferd on Sept 18, 2018 13:04:11 GMT -7
Maybe I'm dim, but that book bored me so much. Not to mention the main character is so loathsome that I just couldn't get into it.
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Sept 18, 2018 13:37:06 GMT -7
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Post by EddieBlake on Sept 18, 2018 13:37:06 GMT -7
Maybe I'm dim, but that book bored me so much. Not to mention the main character is so loathsome that I just couldn't get into it. He's incredibly off-putting. It's a bit like Lolita. |
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Sept 18, 2018 17:03:23 GMT -7
Post by ferd on Sept 18, 2018 17:03:23 GMT -7
I feel like "incredibly off-putting" is a gross understatement, lol.
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Sept 18, 2018 17:08:23 GMT -7
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Post by EddieBlake on Sept 18, 2018 17:08:23 GMT -7
I feel like "incredibly off-putting" is a gross understatement, lol. It is. He's an awful human surrounded by other incredibly bad people. It's pretty sad. |
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Post by ferd on Sept 18, 2018 17:11:31 GMT -7
Yeah...I guess I'm not dim...I just can't get into stuff like that.
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Sept 18, 2018 18:07:44 GMT -7
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Post by EddieBlake on Sept 18, 2018 18:07:44 GMT -7
It's a pretty grim view of society.
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Sept 26, 2018 12:31:21 GMT -7
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Post by EddieBlake on Sept 26, 2018 12:31:21 GMT -7
Yeah...I guess I'm not dim...I just can't get into stuff like that. I just finished the book. It's a masterpiece but definitely not a full fledged comedy. |
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Sept 26, 2018 17:38:52 GMT -7
Post by EddieBlake on Sept 26, 2018 17:38:52 GMT -7
How much of the book did you read Ferd?
There are many points where I was pretty shocked. It's insanely filthy for a book written in that time and he was not shy at all about language.
I was also looking into all the attempts there have been to turn A Confederacy Of Dunces into a movie. They got really close with Will Ferrell attached as the lead and it was written by Steven Soderbergh.
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Oct 1, 2018 10:56:44 GMT -7
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Post by EddieBlake on Oct 1, 2018 10:56:44 GMT -7
Started reading The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury today.
It's damn good.
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Oct 1, 2018 11:09:22 GMT -7
Post by lordkundalini on Oct 1, 2018 11:09:22 GMT -7
been reading these among others: www.amazon.com/Way-Iceman-Health-Using-Cold-Training-Commitment-ebook/dp/B01N1UGTF9The Way of The Iceman: How The Wim Hof Method Creates Radiant Longterm Health--Using The Science and Secrets of Breath Control, Cold-Training and Commitment by Wim Hof (Author), Koen de Jong (Author), Jesse Itzler (Foreword
How to Make Love All Night (and Drive Your Woman Wild): Male Multiple Orgasm and Other Secrets (And Drive a Woman Wild : Male Multiple Orgasm and Other Secrets for Prolonged Lovemaking) Kindle Edition
by Barbara Keesling PhD (Author)
both excellent self help books
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Oct 3, 2018 6:38:14 GMT -7
Post by saulgoodman on Oct 3, 2018 6:38:14 GMT -7
I'm reading a bunch of books at once right now. Finnegans Wake - James Joyce (ya just can't read a lot of this one at one time--or at least I can't--so it's the reason I am reading several at the same time). The Most Dangerous Book - Kevin Birmingham (it's about Joyce, more specifically about Ulysses, but it's still a natural companion piece to Finnegans Wake, especially since I intend to re-read Ulysses later this year). Motherless Brooklyn - Jonathan Lethem (it's my 'in the car' novel right now--i.e. listening when i drive to the CD's - get about 30 minutes a day that way). IV - Chuck Klosterman (a book of previously published essays. Since I've read almost everything else--@ least all the books--by Klosterman, I am pulling from his essay collections kinda randomly until I finish the whole collection--will do the same with X when i finish with IV.) Seems that I am going through a 'kid in a candy store' phase with my book reading these days. I have not completed any of the 4 books listed above. Nevertheless, I am adding a couple to the mix.
The Ground Beneath Her Feet - Salman Rushdie (this is a re-read. I read it pretty close to when it was originally published circa 2000 and couldn't really get into it. I recently decided this was because I was not familiar enough with the source material from which Rushdie writes his story, that source story being the Orpheus and Eurydice myth. FWIW, i probably won't reread the entire novel, but I'll reread at least 200 of its 600 pages.)
The Georgics - Virgil (this is the aforementioned source material, a pre-A.D. poem - well, yall know who Virgil was - it contains the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, and a whole lot about beekeeping taboot!)
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Oct 5, 2018 7:30:49 GMT -7
Post by saulgoodman on Oct 5, 2018 7:30:49 GMT -7
^ So, I finished the Virgil (it was short) and finished Motherless Brooklyn (wasn't for me--the hard boiled detective thing didn't do it for me) and have set Finnegans Wake aside for the time being (only 1 chapter remains but i want to wait and take that one slow i think). I am still reading IV but very sporadically. But, I still find myself, for the time being, reading a bunch of books at once, cuz i started a couple of more recently too. so now, I'm on: The Most Dangerous Book - Kevin Birmingham The Ground Beneath Her Feet - Salman Rushdie MASH - Richard Hooker (have always loved both the Altman film as well as the TV series yet never read the short source book--decided the time had come) "listening to Richard Brautigan" - Richard Brautigan (of course) (this 1 is my in the car listening book at the moment).
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Oct 5, 2018 7:32:12 GMT -7
Post by ferd on Oct 5, 2018 7:32:12 GMT -7
Have you read Inherent Vice by Pynchon? I always recommend that when someone says they're reading a crime drama/detective book.
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Oct 5, 2018 7:38:04 GMT -7
Post by saulgoodman on Oct 5, 2018 7:38:04 GMT -7
I haven't read Inherent Vice. Did see the movie. liked it but didn't love it.
I have read The Crying of Lot 49 by Pynchon, and I have Bleeding Edge on my bookshelf. Plan to read it up the road (I keep a neverending long list of books I'll read later, and BE is on it). I think Bleeding Edge is a crime/detective book too--think that is one of Pynchon's recurring motifs. but I'm not sure (cuz I haven't read it yet). I could be talked into adding Inherent Vice if you think it's worth it, but Bleeding Edge was selected because I can't make myself commit to Gravity's Rainbow, and I figure I can try at least one more Pynchon "shorter" novel and decide if Gravity's Rainbow is gonna be worth the time and effort to me.
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