What are you reading?
01-24-06 | 07:17 PM
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I am several chapters into Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants.
It also is largely set in New York.
It also is largely set in New York.
01-24-06 | 07:23 PM
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this is always an ongoing reading project:
right now...nothing else. i've been thinking about picking up either:
or
i've read those sooo many times, though. just finished
great book...got the reccomendation here, off another thread. such good storytelling in that book...
right now...nothing else. i've been thinking about picking up either:
or
i've read those sooo many times, though. just finished
great book...got the reccomendation here, off another thread. such good storytelling in that book...
01-24-06 | 07:26 PM
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how about an idea of how you feel about it just so we know, anyway
i'm reading
glue by irvine welsh and duchamp: a biography by calvin tompkins
glue is good, similar in style to trainspotting in that it's dark and funny and dirty and sometimes gross, it took my a while to get used to the writting as it's written with a scottish accent, but it's really good, everytime i read a book with an accent it takes me a while to get around the accent
duchamp is really good, if you're into art history, if you're not into the art scene in and around paris in the early 1900's it's probably not the best choice..
i'm reading
glue by irvine welsh and duchamp: a biography by calvin tompkins
glue is good, similar in style to trainspotting in that it's dark and funny and dirty and sometimes gross, it took my a while to get used to the writting as it's written with a scottish accent, but it's really good, everytime i read a book with an accent it takes me a while to get around the accent
duchamp is really good, if you're into art history, if you're not into the art scene in and around paris in the early 1900's it's probably not the best choice..
01-24-06 | 07:27 PM
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crotchety young dude
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Hope I don't get totally flamed, but...I really don't like Tim O'Brien. He's too full of himself.
Anyway, I'm currently reading Asphalt Nation for my hatred of cars and Huck Finn for American Lit.
Anyway, I'm currently reading Asphalt Nation for my hatred of cars and Huck Finn for American Lit.
01-24-06 | 07:30 PM
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i don't know about him as a person, but i like his storytelling style. it has the same...i dunno...resonance as garrison keillor's storytelling. and i really like his stuff, too.
01-24-06 | 07:30 PM
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i just got done reading these 2
and am about to start reading this once i get it in the mail
and am about to start reading this once i get it in the mail
01-24-06 | 07:33 PM
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Pretty cool short essays. If it weren't a library book it would have a place of honor next to the shi!tter.
01-24-06 | 07:40 PM
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that looks cool...i'll look it up sometime.
how's that kurt vonnegut book, metallo? i've wanted to read it for a while now, but haven't gotten my hands on a copy.
how's that kurt vonnegut book, metallo? i've wanted to read it for a while now, but haven't gotten my hands on a copy.
01-24-06 | 07:41 PM
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Originally Posted by dustinlikewhat
and random math text books
01-24-06 | 07:45 PM
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Originally Posted by metallo pesante
i just got done reading these 2
i saw a girl reading this on a plane a month or so ago, she was pretty but i thought the cover was interesting so i was trying to read the title, i think she thought i was staring at her, she smiled at me and i could feel myself turning red, i shouldn't be so easily embaressed but you know how it is
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01-24-06 | 08:00 PM
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Originally Posted by popluhv
100 Years of Solitude: Garcia Marquez
and the newest issue Cabinet
and the newest issue Cabinet
im re-reading oedipus rex for school and on the side i got Kafka's the Castle
01-24-06 | 08:02 PM
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evasion's all right. i don't like how he sets himself up as a modern day robin hood. interesting, though.
