Those all look new. I can't tell if you're totally broke or very wealthy.



I used "highly recommended" too, and now I wonder why the phrase "lowly recommended" isn't ever used.

"Is Dirty a good album?"
"I'd recommend it, but lowly."

SEE ROB!

Ahhhh pony.. its too bad we're all not in college anymore, when the forum was mostly college folks we used to talk about books and shit all the time. Now, its just you with a great reading list..

I'm starting back up in grad school again this Fall but that shit is all Ed and Ed Psyc books.. no fun at all I miss reading all kinds of obscure and boring historical monographs and digging through primary source materials :(

I scored this today and I am so happy
I should visit the webstore of my fav used book shop more often so I don't miss out on the good stuff (usually only go there once a month cause once I go in there I won't leave for 2 hours... :/ )

DO I LOOK BROKE TO YOU???
but really, do I look broke? :/
(not buying much besides books these days and if you're smart and bored at uni you will find books pretty cheap on the internet most of the times)

i like john giorno, i wanna lick his beautiful face behind which his beautiful brain is hiding. IT MUST BE SO BEAUTIFUL, that genius brain, I wanna cry

Why cry when you can dance with a fish?

evollove, YOU ARE A GENIUS, let me lick your face and then dance with a fish!!

Just finished these three this week:

For real, if you want to read a deeply disturbing account of one man's life in Jazz and drugs and crime, STRAIGHT LIFE by Art Pepper. Just finished it. wow. the turn up was REAL

Now reading this



pdf available here http://downloads.umu.nu/Books/Michae...B1992 %5D.pdf

I started reading this last night at work:



I really like it. The pieces actually read like something a stoned person would put on their tumblr account, or whatever. I think it's entertaining and there are a lot of honest thoughts which I am thinking about sometimes (all the times) too and I find it really nice that someone had the chance to put out a book like that.
The same with Gabby Bess and Heiko Julien's work. Really easy to read, funny but still very thoughtful and good for reading at work or on a train when you can't really read more than a page at once cause STUFF IS GOING ON and you can't .. say.. read a whole chapter in a novel or something.
I need to do some more research and find more people that do similar stuff.
IT'S NICE, me thinks.

edit:
Also, I found out about this book last night and googled a bit and found some quotes from it. Liked them. Want to read it. Have to wait til I get MONEY next week though (WHY CAN'T I HAVE EVERYTHING THE SECOND I WANT IT!!!!..................... ok)

Recently finished All the Pretty Horses (McCarthy), about to embark on Infinite Jest (Foster-Wallace),

Currently still juggling Underwold (DeLilo), Bleeding Edge (Pynchon) etc.

Thanks.

Realized I haven't posted in this thread since like June 20th of last year. I've been working through A Song of Ice and Fire, and I'm about halfway done with the 3rd book. Would be interesting to get done with it by the end of Game of Thrones season 4.

Reading a comic that a co-worker lent me.



I am on the 3rd book so far. Good stuff!

i tried reading that some months ago, but i couldn't stomach the prose.

i'm gonna have to get the cliff notes.

I work with a lady who is HUGE into fantasy novels and she has read all of the fire & ice books, and she says the same thing about the prose. She said that she likes how the TV show is cutting so much extraneous character background exposition that the books are rife with, especially books 3 and 4.

that's great to know, thanks.

plus on tv, there's the khaleesi



purty

I wonder if I don't read enough to not mind. It doesn't bother me, though I know my mom didn't care for all the armor detail.

White Noise - Don Delillo

Tend to blow hot and cold with his stuff but this is great

it is. i ended up reading it twice.

It's my second time too. Some of his stuff feels too distant, knowing to really do it for me. This has the same virtuosity in terms of style and the same 'classic Delillo' set-pieces, but it also seems to have a bit more of a heart. I still hate his dialogue though. People try to use theory to justify it but it's his one real flaw as far as I'm concerned.

the collected stories of lydia davis.

i laughed so hard at that i forgot to post an answer the other day. i have no opinion of his dialogue but the "people use theory to justify…" is so very true in so many ways and places i'm still laughing a week later.


oh, i didn't make it to the armor i think. the sentences just caused me pain. hard to explain really. i could go on a phrase by phrase analysis if i could copypaste a text here, but i don't want to kill other people's joy or suggest anything is wrong with their pleasure. i'm the one with the liver problems. definitely enjoy it if you do!

Nici's books in May:


Still Life With Woodpecker - Tom Robbins
Birthday Stories - Selected and Introduced by Haruki Murakami
Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Joan Didion
The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
The Collected Stories of (-) Lydia Davis
The Collected Stories - Lorrie Moore
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy - Tao Lin
Everything Was Fine Until Whatever - Chelsea Martin
During my Nervous Breakdown I Want to Have a Biographer Present - Brandon Scott Gorrell
Baby Babe - Ana Carrete

damn, you're on a roll!

i'm jealous.

I feel like I am not reading enough, tho.
Can't wait to spend next month's money on some Richard Yates stuff, haven't read anything by him yet and people seem to like him. I WANT! I WANT!

ha ha ha

Have you read Humbold's Gift? For some reason that one's my fav. I have a lot of his later stuff sitting around. Can't really muster the energy to read Dean's December or anything beyond, just like I haven't read his first few books. I certainly like a lot of the middle books, but I'm squarely in the "way the fuck overrated" category.


Fuck off Still Life With Woodpecker - Tom Robbins
Eh. Birthday Stories - Selected and Introduced by Haruki Murakami
Yeah Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Joan Didion
Yes The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
The ULTIMATE bathroom book. Took a year of shits to finish. The Collected Stories of (-) Lydia Davis
Sentence by sentence, she's a master. Kind of mean though. The Collected Stories - Lorrie Moore
? Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy - Tao Lin
? Everything Was Fine Until Whatever - Chelsea Martin
? During my Nervous Breakdown I Want to Have a Biographer Present - Brandon Scott Gorrell
? Baby Babe - Ana Carrete

I want to buy a book today, someone post an author in here and I will see if my bookstore has books by him/her and if so i will get it and praise you forever if i like the book

djuna barnes

also



out in the uk on 19th june, so you'd have to preorder it.

okay, i am weak.
just ordered nightwood by djuna barnes and the jeff jackson novel cause i found them used and for cheap
thank you guys!
(will probably go to the used bookstore later and try and find something...)

jean rhys

esp. quartet

ding ding ding

http://www.textundtoene.com/10513429.html

my fav bookstore has it!!
so it's gonna be mine later.
buying books/planning on buying books makes me so happy

i forgot to ask what languages you read. i mean besides german & english, if any.