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Jul 5th, 2007 06:44 PM
FartinMowler I read a book called The one armed Art Fag
Jun 24th, 2007 05:40 AM
Darryl Yay, Books!
Jun 18th, 2007 05:28 PM
glowbelly and that is how you make a big ego-head meanie second guess himself, folks.
Jun 18th, 2007 02:42 PM
Jaeger S Meistersen A bit of a mess?

fuck...
Jun 18th, 2007 02:34 PM
glowbelly yes, he sure did and it's not that bad, either. the story is solid and extremely entertaining. the first half is a bit of a mess, but he knows it and i think he's rewriting it, i'm not sure. the last half is really darn good and i couldn't put it down. i think he's posted some of it on his livejournal. and he'll probably send you an electronic copy of it if you hit him up on gmail.

apportioner: i have wanted to read gravity's rainbow forever, but i can never seem to find a copy

i married a communist by philip roth is one of my favorite books. yes.
Jun 15th, 2007 10:00 AM
AChimp Jaeger wrote a book?
Jun 12th, 2007 09:42 PM
theapportioner Has nobody mentioned Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow"? Mind you, I've tried twice but haven't been able to get through it, but it's considered essential.

Philip Roth is another important author, though I can't say I care for him that much.
Jun 7th, 2007 03:51 PM
Girl Drink Drunk Read all of Chris Crutcher's books.
Jun 1st, 2007 05:12 PM
J. Tithonus Pednaud I recall reading somewhere on this board that you were headed back to school. Best of luck, sincerely.
Jun 1st, 2007 03:40 PM
glowbelly we're not talking 'bout any specific novels, buddo.

i've read rabbit, run, one flew over the..., and lolita.

i think i'm going to have to put this on hold because i just started classes and this summer term is going to kick my ass.
May 31st, 2007 11:38 PM
J. Tithonus Pednaud If we are just talking 'classic' 20th century novels, your list should include:

Rabbit, Run by John Updike
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

A few years back, I managed to read all 100 of Time's proclaimed Books of the Century. I was traveling a lot and had a lot of free time. I was most surprised by Lolita, given the subject matter, but the writing style is stellar.

I recently read Never Let Me Go and I enjoyed it quite a lot. I don't read many novels these days...more eclectic texts on odd subjects like Edison's Eve, which deals with the history of animatronics and the quest for mechanical life, and very old natural history and medicine texts.

I also just bought a television, the first I have owned in well over a decade so I am rotting my brain with television these days as well.
May 29th, 2007 02:18 PM
kahljorn Yea, I read about it on Amazon. The book by fante is only about 200 pages, but it's part of a series.
May 29th, 2007 05:57 AM
glowbelly i hope i like it, too, but if i don't i'll still finish it. i read all of moby dick and hated the thing 2 pages in.

warning: infinite jest is VERY LONG.
May 29th, 2007 05:49 AM
kahljorn awesome. I'll check out infinite jest because toni morrison's writing style reminds me of children's books.
i think you'll probably like it. Hopefully I'm not suggesting something that you will take as utter shit :o
May 29th, 2007 05:40 AM
glowbelly kahl, i shall read this book that you suggest, but you have to do me a favor:

read either infinite jest by david foster wallace, or beloved by toni morrison. those are 2 of my all time faves.

it'll be like we traded smartsies.
May 28th, 2007 03:53 AM
kahljorn add the road to los angeles by john fante. He is very easy to read, much like Kurt Vonnegut. I read his book overnight.

i read that again yesterday it's a good book about LIFE. I think him and Dostoevsky are some of the most realistic writers I have ever read. Very few other writers can write believable characters, that seem to be real and have real psychologies. Probably both of these writers are so realistic because they write about themselves.
Right now I'm reading Kafka's the trial and he's so fucking boring i hate him so far why do people like him? It is an intriguing book but still irritating and if I saw kafka writing this book i would punch him in the face.

alright the first quarter or third of the trial is shit. I don't know if it's because I have a bad translation or what, but the common dialogue is so horrible. Now that I'm almost done with it, it has gotten better, and it strikes me as hilarious that all the courts are in attics when this guy talks to him he says that there's scarcely an attic in town that doesn't have a court of inquiry in it.
May 22nd, 2007 10:13 PM
glowbelly i added 3 more so nyah. i'll add the dubliners by james joyce in a couple of days (hopefully). then i think i'll be attacking portrait of an artist as a young man just for the hay of it.
Apr 27th, 2007 06:31 AM
Zomboid Andy: And check this out - I found this movie called "Barfully!"
Posey: Andy, I think that movie is actually called "BarFLY!"
Andy: Not 'barfully' like the adjective?
Kevin: 'Barfully' is not a word, and if it were, it would be an adverb, as in 'the sewage oozed barfully.'

ahh I miss mission hill
Apr 20th, 2007 10:20 PM
executioneer i always thought that was the adverb form of "barfy"
Apr 20th, 2007 07:22 PM
FartinMowler Barfly
Apr 11th, 2007 08:04 PM
kahljorn i just watched barfly the other day that is a really good movie there's supposed to be a new documentary about him soon

"I hate plants"

also if you like bukowski again you'd like john fante since bukowski basically got his writing style from john fante and was bukowskis favorite writer.
Apr 9th, 2007 02:44 AM
executioneer read some old agatha christie mysteries!
Apr 8th, 2007 08:40 PM
glowbelly the only writer i'd read more of off that list is bukowski and that's just because i love the movie 'barfly.'

i forgot to add a book, so i added it up there. see if you can find it!

ps: actually, i added 2
Apr 7th, 2007 09:57 AM
sloth some of my favourite books:

dostoevsky - the idiot
bukowski - post office
conrad - heart of darkness
cocteau - the miscreant
suskind - perfume (forget that godawful movie)

and if you're running out of time, anything by gogol, luis borges, kafka and e.t.a. hoffman.
Apr 5th, 2007 05:19 PM
Fathom Zero The Phantom Tollbooth.
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