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Just finished Vicki Hendricks' Miami Purity, twisted noir with an extremely horny main character. I liked it so much I just checked out 2 others by her from the library. They haven't got the latest Richard Marinick or Archer Mayor novels in yet.
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Yes, but I associate it with my college sophomore lit class (I was an English minor) and studying it was not as enjoyable as reading it. Bad memories. |
I ordered Brandon Boyd's books White Fluffy Clouds, and From the Murks of the Sultry Abyss, for Christmas and they arrived yesterday. Fantastic books. Talented guy.
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I'm reading it for non-school related, me-related purposes. It's excellent.
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Mirrors of the Unseen: Journeys in Iran.
Really good travel writing - focuses in on the history and Persian art, and skims much of the off-putting modern day politics. |
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yesterday i've received in the mail a cheap copy of a book called junkie by a certain mr. william lee.
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Kimberly Akimbo.
Actually one of the funniest things I've ever read. |
Naked Lunch. I read parts of it at a younger age, but gave up. People tend to develope a better understanding and appreciation for literature at a more mature period in life.
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The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
should be finishing that up today and then moving on to Goethe's Faust. |
finished turgenyv (or however his name is)- fathers and sons
very good book. liked it better than gogols dead sould (both of which i am reading fior a russian lit class) also reading, some dante and boccacio and anintroduction to structuralism book. lots of reading to do in a lit degree |
I'm reading a couple at the moment, taking some of them really slowly though.
I'm almost finished the Rick Mercer Report book. It's pretty hilarious. (for the non-Canadian (I don't really think he's aired in the US...), Rick Mercer is a Can. television comedian/personality. Comparable to like... Jon Stewart's Daily Show I guess. Yeh... And the others: J.G. Ballard's Kingdom Come and John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath. The Grapes of Wrath is incredible so far, but I'm taking it really slowly, and rereading a lot of the sections. I find it's written so beautifully that I can't help but reread certain bits. |
Anne Somerset - Unnatural Murder
Michael Dibdin- Ratking |
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After I finish those two I have this one lined up:
Zadie Smith - White Teeth |
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![]() i'm only on page 15 and already he has this to say about his memories of being sworn in as a senator: "Afterward, I watched the girls skip down the east Capitol steps, their pink dresses lifting gently in the air, the Supreme Court's white columns a majestic backdrop for their games." ![]() he's talking about looking up his daughter's skirt! |
Currently Furious Gulf by Gregory Benford. "Hard science fiction" to be sure, but plenty of action at the black hole in the center of the galaxy.
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