I'm reading Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones. I recently read "The Known World" by him and it was incredible. This book, a collection of short stories all set in DC, is also good, but really heavy and violent and depressing and not at all making me wanna visit DC.
That's what I'm reading too...so heavy. I have one story left. I read All Aunt Hagar's Children early last year on an advance, and the stories continue to haunt. Really indelible. Beyond DC, there are some tangential connections between Lost and All Aunt Hagar. To me Jones is like the Faulkner of our time. I can't think of a better book than The Known World published in the last 25 years.
I'm also reading The Man Without Qualities for a book club I'm in with my dad, but that's a year long project. Slow flowing, but brilliant.
Highly facinating read about an Italian Journalist who spent 1993 traveling around SE Asia by ground and sea, never taking a single flight, on the advice of a fortune-teller.
-A friend of mine read this and suggested it to me. I didn't realize that the second half of the book is about this cat I know. I read his angle on it. It is the third link below. Check out the others.
-Recently I had a friend lean on me hard about reading Ishmael. Normally I would be like maybe I will get around to it, but I go ahead and pick it up. I had to read each chapter and let it just marinate. Some chapters made me . I read the sequel My Ishmael. It too was an interesting read. Providence is more autobiographical and there is no monkey. Some of it is about how he came to write Ishmael.
-I am also reading the script of a film I will be in. Trying to get my lines down before my day of the shoot.
Just started Shackleton's first hand account of his expedition to Antarctica, those guys were real fucking men, hard as nails adventurers!
Check out Apsley Cherry-Garrard's "The Worst Journey in the World," if you dig this. Amazing book. His account of the Scott expedition that lost men in the race to the South pole. Probably the best non-fiction book I've ever read.
Highly facinating read about an Italian Journalist who spent 1993 traveling around SE Asia by ground and sea, never taking a single flight, on the advice of a fortune-teller.
Will get both of these, not reading much myself at the moment, just started with:
I'm reading Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones. I recently read "The Known World" by him and it was incredible. This book, a collection of short stories all set in DC, is also good, but really heavy and violent and depressing and not at all making me wanna visit DC.
That's what I'm reading too...so heavy. I have one story left. I read All Aunt Hagar's Children early last year on an advance, and the stories continue to haunt. Really indelible. Beyond DC, there are some tangential connections between Lost and All Aunt Hagar. To me Jones is like the Faulkner of our time. I can't think of a better book than The Known World published in the last 25 years.
Good to know (about All Aunt Hagar's Children). That one's on deck and already sitting on my bookshelf.
One thing I love about "Lost in the City" is that I can usually read a complete story between my morning and afternoon commutes. Of course, it's a really heavy, jarring story, but still.
Very entertaining.
I just finished that book a few weeks back. I'd had it in my hands several times over the years, but always avoided it because of the comic book content (I've never ever been into comics--sorry to the comic heads on here). I'm really glad I read it, though. Very entertaining, indeed.
Bob Woodward - "State of Denial" interesting to know what goes on in the white house, but not a real page turner so far (i'm about 100 or so pages in).
Books on my Ipod:
"The Confessions of Max Tivoli" by Andrew Sean Greer -> Not bad. Its about a guy who starts his life out in the body of a 70 year old man and as he gets older, his body gets younger. So when he is 20 years old, he actually looks like a 50 year old. Writing is above average, story is something an old man would be into (life, death, life-lessons, etc.).
"A dirty job" by Christopher Moore-> kinda shitty. Its about a guy who owns a vintage clothing store who finds out that him and several other vintage sellers (including used record store owners) are responsible for taking people's souls to the after-life. The main character is a typical witty nyc jewish guy, but its just not an intereting story. kinda creepy too.
"Elements of Style" by Wendy Wasserstein-> not bad, but i'd only recommend if you like sex and the city. i didnt pay for this audiobook, but its actually better than i expected. basically, it just follows a bunch of rich couples who live in nyc but are constantly vacationing. sounds like a trashy novel, but the author writes well and the story moves along.
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My girlie and I trade books that we "have to" read from time to time. I think she must have been heated at me or something. This tepid terd is so tepid in it's terdliness, that it makes me want to be a socialist, just to piss this dead fucker off. I can just imagine all those private school fucks reading this shit and using it as reaffirmation in their heads of their self-serving, anti social welfare program political views. People who buy this guy's line have never been broke.
Milton Friedman and this dude passing was sad though: the developing world lost a couple of punching bags.
That's slated to be the next Coen Brothers movie (it was originally written as a script and then converted to novel form). I'm thinking that should be a perfect match.
Yeah, no doubt. As a fan of the Coen's, I'm hoping they'll deliver after a couple of dry years-- with material like that and Tommy Lee Jones in the lead it shouldn't be too difficult. I'm really curious to see what they'll come up with for the ending.
Yeah ... the book is pretty dark. McCarthy definitely doesn't hold your hand. Should make a hell of a film.
PS ... love the Bronson avatar. "The Family" kills it ... and the following clip is
and hating it. it's like a ribald vodka-soaked Jane Austen book, and still it doesn't help. gonna have to kick the guilt of not finishing a book and put it away.
finished this last and even though i hardly know anything about Irish politics/history - which was a a big part of it - i loved it. it really is a beautiful book. Iris Murdoch is one of my faves.
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That's what I'm reading too...so heavy. I have one story left. I read All Aunt Hagar's Children early last year on an advance, and the stories continue to haunt. Really indelible. Beyond DC, there are some tangential connections between Lost and All Aunt Hagar. To me Jones is like the Faulkner of our time. I can't think of a better book than The Known World published in the last 25 years.
I'm also reading The Man Without Qualities for a book club I'm in with my dad, but that's a year long project. Slow flowing, but brilliant.
dudes a genius, straight up
engrossing
an astonishing story of archaeology, nefarious dealings, and uberraer
guilty sci-fi pleasure, pretty good
(all 8 volumes, they go addictively fast)
(4 volumes and counting)
I hadn't heard about this one. I have Oh Snap[/b], so I'll have to look into this.
Highly facinating read about an Italian Journalist who spent 1993 traveling around SE Asia by ground and sea, never taking a single flight, on the advice of a fortune-teller.
Am I Late on this one?
-A friend of mine read this and suggested it to me. I didn't realize that the second half of the book is about this cat I know. I read his angle on it. It is the third link below. Check out the others.
http://www.betterthanyourboyfriend.com/the-infamous-ghetto-indoor-pool.htm
http://www.betterthanyourboyfriend.com/night-swinging.htm
http://www.betterthanyourboyfriend.com/how-i-became-a-famous-pickup-artist-part-1.htm
-Recently I had a friend lean on me hard about reading Ishmael. Normally I would be like maybe I will get around to it, but I go ahead and pick it up. I had to read each chapter and let it just marinate. Some chapters made me
-I am also reading the script of a film I will be in. Trying to get my lines down before my day of the shoot.
Achtung. Gott im Himmel. Banzai. Spitfeuer.
Check out Apsley Cherry-Garrard's "The Worst Journey in the World," if you dig this. Amazing book. His account of the Scott expedition that lost men in the race to the South pole. Probably the best non-fiction book I've ever read.
Will get both of these, not reading much myself at the moment, just started with:
His best by a mile.
Good to know (about All Aunt Hagar's Children). That one's on deck and already sitting on my bookshelf.
One thing I love about "Lost in the City" is that I can usually read a complete story between my morning and afternoon commutes. Of course, it's a really heavy, jarring story, but still.
I just finished that book a few weeks back. I'd had it in my hands several times over the years, but always avoided it because of the comic book content (I've never ever been into comics--sorry to the comic heads on here). I'm really glad I read it, though. Very entertaining, indeed.
Bob Woodward - "State of Denial"
Books on my Ipod:
"The Confessions of Max Tivoli" by Andrew Sean Greer -> Not bad. Its about a guy who starts his life out in the body of a 70 year old man and as he gets older, his body gets younger. So when he is 20 years old, he actually looks like a 50 year old. Writing is above average, story is something an old man would be into (life, death, life-lessons, etc.).
"A dirty job" by Christopher Moore-> kinda shitty. Its about a guy who owns a vintage clothing store who finds out that him and several other vintage sellers (including used record store owners) are responsible for taking people's souls to the after-life. The main character is a typical witty nyc jewish guy, but its just not an intereting story. kinda creepy too.
"Elements of Style" by Wendy Wasserstein-> not bad, but i'd only recommend if you like sex and the city. i didnt pay for this audiobook, but its actually better than i expected. basically, it just follows a bunch of rich couples who live in nyc but are constantly vacationing. sounds like a trashy novel, but the author writes well and the story moves along.
I dunno, I really liked this one...
My girlie and I trade books that we "have to" read from time to time. I think she must have been heated at me or something. This tepid terd is so tepid in it's terdliness, that it makes me want to be a socialist, just to piss this dead fucker off. I can just imagine all those private school fucks reading this shit and using it as reaffirmation in their heads of their self-serving, anti social welfare program political views. People who buy this guy's line have never been broke.
Milton Friedman and this dude passing was sad though: the developing world lost a couple of punching bags.
Yeah ... the book is pretty dark. McCarthy definitely doesn't hold your hand. Should make a hell of a film.
PS ... love the Bronson avatar. "The Family" kills it ... and the following clip is
and hating it. it's like a ribald vodka-soaked Jane Austen book, and still it doesn't help. gonna have to kick the guilt of not finishing a book and put it away.
finished this last and even though i hardly know anything about Irish politics/history - which was a a big part of it - i loved it. it really is a beautiful book. Iris Murdoch is one of my faves.