Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 12:49 pm
I'm quite interested in that, myself. Looks like even more of a beast than Gravity's Rainbow so best of luck!saurus wrote:Taking on Infinite Jest and I have no idea what to expect
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Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 10:51 pm
I've said it so many times on this board, but Infinite Jest is one of the best novels ever written.
Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 9:49 pm
Anyone out there own or read Carl Jung's The Red Book ???
I kinda want to buy it.
I kinda want to buy it.
Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 10:23 pm
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891-1924by Orlando Figes. Having just finished the superb Red Plenty by Francis Spufford, my love affair with Russian history has drawn me in deeper..
Also The Snowman by Jo Nesbo for my light lunchtime disengage-brain, Scandinavian surly detective / gorefest reading needs.
Also The Snowman by Jo Nesbo for my light lunchtime disengage-brain, Scandinavian surly detective / gorefest reading needs.
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 2:25 am
textbooks on semantics, sociolinguistics, and the history of english.
interesting stuff.
interesting stuff.
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 1:03 pm
1Q84
Liking it a lot! Just about to start book three.
Liking it a lot! Just about to start book three.
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 1:19 pm
I have to read this yet. In the thick of Wild Sheep Chase right now.Treefingers wrote:1Q84
Liking it a lot! Just about to start book three.
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2012 4:34 am
Classic stuff, in French, of course
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2012 4:36 am
your mother
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2012 7:18 pm
I just finished reading "Let's Pretend This Never Happened" by Jenny Lawson (The Bloggess). Loved every single word.
Torn between continuing The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo or a Chuck Palahniuk book.
Torn between continuing The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo or a Chuck Palahniuk book.
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2012 9:22 pm
Just finished re-reading 1984, almost done with Fahrenheit 451, and I'm about to start Carl Sagan's Cosmos.
It's been a while since I've read for fun.. just getting back into it!
It's been a while since I've read for fun.. just getting back into it!
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2012 10:32 pm
Jim Holt - Why Does the World Exist
Nice bedside stuff, plenty of entry. Hear about it on Peter Woits blog which is interesting to me:
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/
Nice bedside stuff, plenty of entry. Hear about it on Peter Woits blog which is interesting to me:
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/
Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2012 5:09 am
i spend waaaaaaay too much time on the computer and not enough time behind a good book. i need to get back into reading.
unfortunately, the last used book shop within a comfortable distance of the center of town has been kicked out of the building it has occupied for the past age to make way for a cheese shop which will pay higher rent. fuck.
on the other hand: libraries! <3
unfortunately, the last used book shop within a comfortable distance of the center of town has been kicked out of the building it has occupied for the past age to make way for a cheese shop which will pay higher rent. fuck.
on the other hand: libraries! <3
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 1:42 pm
A Peoples Tradegy is SO awesome !Mexicola wrote:A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891-1924by Orlando Figes. Having just finished the superb Red Plenty by Francis Spufford, my love affair with Russian history has drawn me in deeper..
Also The Snowman by Jo Nesbo for my light lunchtime disengage-brain, Scandinavian surly detective / gorefest reading needs.
Great looking book too, I bought it for my birthday, great buy.
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 7:33 pm
It certainly is! It's also so heavy I could commit murder with it. Seriously, it's a bugger to read in bed - the damn thing weighs a tonne!!fujee wrote:Great looking book too, I bought it for my birthday, great buy.
Just bought Siberian Dreams by Andy Home too, which looks at a modern Siberian mining town, drawing (not so) oblique parallels between life there now and life in the Gulag. Looks good, just waiting for it to arrive.
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 10:08 pm
I just finished White Teeth by Zadie Smith. Pretty good debut (I know I am 12 years late, but whatever)
I think I am going to buy "How Life Imitates Chess" by Gary Kasparov, looks interesting.
Becoming increasingly interested in Chess in general actually.
I think I am going to buy "How Life Imitates Chess" by Gary Kasparov, looks interesting.
Becoming increasingly interested in Chess in general actually.
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 10:18 pm
Eric Clapton's autobiography:
Great guitarist
Knew some very cool people
Bit of a tit.
In summary.
Great guitarist
Knew some very cool people
Bit of a tit.
In summary.
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 10:34 pm
Feeding Back-Conversations with Alternative Guitarists from Proto-Punk to Post-Rock by David Todd. Has interviews with Thompson, Marr, Frusciante, Verlaine, Kramer, Ranaldo ect.
Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2012 12:23 am
Decided to get into the classics recently.
Am currently reading Ulysses by James Joyce. It is mind boggling.
Half the time I am completely lost and the other half I am completely blown away.
Am currently reading Ulysses by James Joyce. It is mind boggling.
Half the time I am completely lost and the other half I am completely blown away.
Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2012 3:38 am
I recently recognized the fact that I spend a bit too much time on my computer, absorbed in my cyber-world. I decided to get back into reading; I love the idea of books, but rarely made time to read.
Ironically, one of these first things I did after realizing this was to join Goodreads.
Anyway, I went to my local bookshop and purchased the following this past weekend:
The Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, and Selected Stories
by Nikolai Gogol (Translated by Ronald Wilks)
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami (Translated by Jay Rubin)
and one other book which I can't remember the title of just now.
Ironically, one of these first things I did after realizing this was to join Goodreads.
Anyway, I went to my local bookshop and purchased the following this past weekend:
The Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, and Selected Stories
by Nikolai Gogol (Translated by Ronald Wilks)
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami (Translated by Jay Rubin)
and one other book which I can't remember the title of just now.