You mean the space ship!

Does it say Burns Mansion on the door?

Purty! I think you brought that to CM once?

I think those are the doors to the ROM... Based on the ROM on it

yes, franzen. in knew it was one of the johnathans. lethem is also a good read (and published by eggers' company).

You are correct Sir!;)

i wouldn't call him unreadable, challenging maybe. in fact i liked that book because of the boundary breaking style of it. i actually enjoy the mild pretention of it. have you read his friend neil pollack? the pretention takes on a life of it's own and i guess that's the point.

what publisher do you work for? my wife and i are former publishing world / book people.

here's one mcsweeney's title everyone here could enjoy.

I live with a Pole, he can be annoying at times, and he likes to wear a wife beater and short shorts around the house.

as long as you throw on a new chain while you're at it! and i could use my bar tape redone too...

:fight:

Eggers managed to have 70 brilliant, breathtaking pages in heartbreaking work out of what 300? I like some of his short fiction but Delillo owns him (Pafko at the Wall anyone? You may also know it as the opening chapter of Underworld) Delillo takes Franzen too. Cory Doctorow's "Someone come to town Someone leaves town" is brilliant too. I agree that the McSweeney's guys have grown a bit big in the britches and Eggers is way too easy to dislike for me to want to defend.

Oh and for my two cents the best Hemingway is "For Whom the Bell Tolls" everyone should be forced to read Capote's "In Cold Blood" "Kafka On the Shore" Murakami is awesome too.

Yes. That was the day after my Fixie tire exploded in the night, nearly giving me a heart attack. My MTB was also in the shop for some reason so I was forced to ride the road bike. Of course, taking every precaution and mothering it like nothing else. I like how careless I can be on my Surly.

FTW~! *Looks outside* Will we ever be able to do the snow ride?

I take my road bike to CM all the time in the summer. No need to baby it, but it is kinda annoying riding the brakes for an hour!

Snow ride- Just start riding north. You'll find snow eventually

Road trip to Ungava Bay, Quebec anyone?

"challenging" isn't the word i would use... maybe i just couldn't understand why a novel should take form over function with little diagrams and bizarro designs.

i work for green candy press. it's an interesting experience, to say the least.

Ha ha! What awesome books. I wish I'd seen that site before I finished my Christmas shopping.

Book talk... be gone! *poof*

I'll stop talking about books if you stop talking with l33t speak.

on topic:
http://toronto.craigslist.org/bik/257239651.html
hahahahaha what an oddball listing.

i guess he's shopping for a new cockpit and is too cheap to take it to his LBS to get the work done beforehand.

as i recall there has been plenty of computer and D and D talk here in the past. my attempts to banish have been futile.

just be glad we haven't started discussing Ulysses.

Throw in the brifters and I'll think about it. He should really be offering them up for free. The dude lives in vaughan!

Shiznaz < cool

Homer's Odyssey? :lol:
Come here and take the fork off my bike, and hammer out the head set.... hilarious

Reading the Odyssey is a light and simple read compared to Joyce. I noticed that ad and immediately thought that this guy is just trying to get out of paying his LBS to do the same job. Kind of ridiculous to charge for someone to come over and remove parts from your bike. I mean what happens if damage occurs etc?

As for Operator's request, when he shows he has mastered the full sentence and paragraph we'll move away from books.

It IS for your own good Rob. It's because we care.

i was thinking of james joyce but we can get into the greeks as well.

Of...course..*V8 forehead slap* how the heck did I associate Ulysses and Homer?

ulysses is joyces epic which was heavily influenced by homer. odysseus and ulysses are i believe the same name in different languages.

The Aenid FTW

*imagines Rob slowly hacking his way into all our systems, with his grrrr face on* :lol:
Like Case in Neuromancer