i just started The Air Conditioned Nightmare-By Henry Miller
i just read the 15 page preface and its pretty good stuff. he is an amazing writer, i hope the rest of the book is as good!

I've wanted to read some Henry Miller, but I've read that when he begins philosophizing it gets quite dry. (I believe I read that in a Bukowski poem.)

Thomas Wolfe- Look Homeward, Angel

I stumbled across a bunch of Kerouac novels and journals and bio's at a secondhand book store today. Bought half of them and will buy the rest weekly.

Also among the books I found were 2 Charles Bukowski: Letter vol 1 & 2.
Also some Ginsberg.

Great finds.

i want to hold a howl party but i dont know how to go about doing it.

Neuromancer-William Gibson.

Next week, I think I'm gonna start reading the Tale of Two Cities for English.

Murakami - Wind-Up-Bird. or whatever it's called in the English translation.

Celine's influence seems to be pretty widespread. This novel's quite modern for it's time.

Nova Express by William S. Burroughs.

I'm reading "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson and "Wonderland Avenue" by Danny Sugerman. (Learning all about neatrons, protons, Iggy Pop and heroin.)

I've started reading more than one book at a time. Something I NEVER used to do. I don't know if it's a good thing or not.

I read "The Consolations of Philosophy" and "Status Anxiety" by Alain de Botton last week. I liked the Montaigne chapter of the first, only some of the latter.

i never read more than one book at a time. i can't consciously focus on more than one.

Me either.

Speaking of modern novels, though (my other post), can someone reccomend some? 50's or so and up.
I'm stuck in the past. I haven't read a novel that wasn't written before the 50's in some time and I hardly know any good authors in the latter 20th century. (I have read the quite obvious ones like On the Road, Fear and Loathing and the such)
Reccomendations will be much appreciated.
Oh yeah, any genre.

Orwells 1984.

Read it like 5 times now. Can't get enough.

Ways of Seeing- John Berger

a collection of Philip K. Dick short stories
Count Zero by William Gibson
and some stories for my Sci-fi/Fantasy Lit class

Charles Bukowski: Selected letters 1960s-1970s (Living on Luck vol.2)

And have been contemplating for a few weeks now to start one of the many Kerouac novels I bought.

Posts.

Just finished Bram Stoker's "Dracula" will start either Dostovesky's "House of the Dead" or Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure".

i have wanted to read this for a while now is it any good at all?