been reading a range of different books, but most recently this one
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anyone read dc comics ? when i stopped a few yrs ago there was the battle of the cowl , legion ended , a new red robin , but my fav storyline at the time was the whole chris kent thing w/ him somehow leaving the phantom zone . i recently went to a comic shop and it looks like the dcu got rebooted afuckingain . anyone know how the chris kent storyline ended ? what about connor kent , i didnt see any superboy titles on the shelf . did they bring him back after all these yrs only to get rid of him post reboot ?
was thinkin bout pickin up some dc books again but from what i saw , and i didnt spend much time in the store tbh so i didnt see a whole lot , i didnt see anything that interested me enough cept maybe detective comics
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Originally posted by Lane View Postreading Ham on Rye and The Idiot, and they are becoming my favorite books...
here are some nice quotes from Under The Volcano:
"...Night: and once again, the nightly grapple with death, the room shaking with daemonic orchestras, the snatches of fearful sleep, the voices outside the window, my name being continually repeated with scorn by imaginary parties arriving, the dark spinets. As if there were not real noises in these nights the colour of grey hair."
"He lay back in his chair. Ixtaccihuad and Popocateped, that image of the perfect marriage, lay now clear and beautiful on the horizon under an almost pure morning sky. Far above him a few white clouds were racing windily after a pale gibbous moon. Drink all morning, they said to him, drink all day. This is life!
Enormously high too, he noted some vultures waiting, more graceful than eagles as they hovered there like burnt papers floating from a fire which suddenly are seen to blowing swiftly upward, rocking.
The shadow of an immense weariness stole over him... The Consul fell asleep with a crash."
"M. Laruelle set the writhing mass in an ashtray, where beautifully conforming it folded upon itself, a burning castle, collapsed, subsided to a ticking hive through which sparks like tiny red worms crawled and flew, while above a few grey wisps of ashes floated in the thin smoke, a dead husk now, faintly crepitant..."
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Originally posted by Lane View Postwhy? lol
FIREFLYGRAVE, Snowcrash is an excellent book. with a name like Hiro Protagonist...every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage
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Originally posted by Lane View Postreading Ham on Rye and The Idiot, and they are becoming my favorite books...
why? lol
Originally posted by Graygoose View PostReading American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis and The Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Originally posted by fireflygrave View Post
How is Cloud Atlas?
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Originally posted by Macro View PostReading Bukowski is akin to a bludgeoning. Watch his interview series (posted on youtube) for eerie insights.
Originally posted by Simari View PostI love Bukowski, been wanting to read some of his stuff lately, but no time. Last think I read of his was Post Office...apart from poems and such.
1. Ham on Rye
2. Women
3. Post Office
Factorum ??? dunno yet
love his work, prefer it over a lot of pretentious bullshit out there.
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Originally posted by Simari View Post
How is Cloud Atlas?put a tiger in your tank
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Originally posted by fireflygrave View PostPretty great. I am on the middle section, so I haven't got everything figured out yet. It's a really good story, and also an interesting study in different types of narrative (3rd person, oral tradition, interview, diary, etc) if you're into that sort of thing! I would definitely recommend it
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Originally posted by Simari View PostHow is the course looking for you? I ran into some issues at work, so I'm still reading on In Our Time...I should finish it up tomorrow. I guess I'll start the lessons once I finish reading.Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
StyleZeitgeist Magazine
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