What are you reading?

[Illithid Dude]

Halfway through with Infinite Jest. Took about 300 pages for me to get into it, but when I got in, I got in. Amazing book.

[Macro]

Finished WOMEN by Charles Bukowski. Feel disgusting.

Starting on JUSTINE by De Sade.

[MJRH]

no, if it's disgusting you want, you should taste juliette instead

[fireflygrave]

Just finished:



Just started:



I can't stop...

[profondo nero]

This is more or less:

[MJRH]

the diagram mostly makes sense, but in what setting would you pretend you'd read 50 shades of grey?

[profondo nero]

Welp, let's say this is the part where it doesn't make sense.

[Faust]

The entire thing makes no sense to me. Though I am in need of sleep right now...

[MJRH]

it's just one literary critic's idea of snark is all. the left-hand column is comprised of commonly-discussed books which, so the list insinuates, are not really worth reading. if you dislike dickens or salinger, it might make you snicker...

[LOVE]

Replying from something in WAYWT as to not derail.

DFW was all over everything. I can hardly think of another being of our time who was so aware of all things avant-garde. Check out his extremely self-conscious interviews on Charlie Rose

Thanks for the story tip. I'm all all over that, too! It saddens me that I can't correspond with him to discuss his thoughts on that matter, which he undoubtedly held in great detail (because like Aristotle, DFW had an opinion about just goddamn everything.)

MBD

He's so avant-garde that he seems much more at-home in this 1996 chat room session than any other interview format I've seen him in.

Funny you mentioned Aristotle at the end because I was going to say he was probably the last person before DFW to know so much about so much.

Out of all the video I've seen ft. him he's probably in top form here, he's got the bandanna on, after all. The post-Infinite Jest interview for some German station is hard to watch. You can really tell how much effort he's putting into just staying alive at that point.

[profondo nero]

it's just one literary critic's idea of snark is all. the left-hand column is comprised of commonly-discussed books which, so the list insinuates, are not really worth reading. if you dislike dickens or salinger, it might make you snicker...

It was captioned as follows: 'Literate Liars and the Lying Lies We Tell'

[DamageX]

I finally read this for the first time, and being a huge fan of Philip K. Dick, I naturally loved it. It was a fantastic read.

That being said, I thought Hampton Fancher's adaptation was much better than the original text. I am a bit biased because Blade Runner is my favorite film, but I preferred how the script focused more on the Androids wanting to be human and their fear of death and the meaning of existence/life.

I just bought PKD's Clans of the Alphane Moon and Maze of Death which I'm looking forward to reading next.

[DamageX]

Such a sick book, Macro! I know you will enjoy it (though "enjoy" is not exactly the right word for it.)

Oh, you can enjoy it! I thoroughly enjoyed the brutality of that book, it is beyond epic!

[Macro]

These are my two favorite works by Murakami i've read, Hard Boiled Wonderland being my personal favorite and Wind-Up Bird, well, it's his masterpiece. The novella South of the Border, West of the Sun is a wonderful, terribly sad book I highly recommend.

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I can't stop...

[Macro]

no, if it's disgusting you want, you should taste juliette instead

i'll get around to all of his cannon eventually, this was the first book of his i've gotten around to reading. 'Disgusting' literature is fun to read... it gives the conscious mind a taste of freedom... of 'Libertinage.'
So far, enjoying Justine, save for the style of writing. I understand it was a popular technique to be tumid during the puplication of this book, but jesus, from a 2013 perspective it's akin to reading law.