How is it so far? This one's definitely on my list unless I get word that it's
I would highly recommend it....I have learned alot. You kinda have to take that with a grain of salt tho, cause like I said, I hadn't really followed much non-mainstream media current events.
It was just interesting to learn what birthed the insurgency and the various factors/mistakes that contributed to it. Basically the whole book has you going "hoooooly shiiiiiiiiit". It hooks you with the whole 'green zone' angle, but also has alot about who did what (like disbanding the iraqi army & the de-Baathification inititive), and how that affected the people of iraq directly.
Definitely getting into Dylan more because of it. I have slept on so many of my parents favourite artists it's not even funny - time to grow up and grow a beard. Cosign on Lunar Park, by the way.
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.
Which is actually the first of Smith's books that I've properly enjoyed from start to finish
And before that this:
Which only really struck me afterwards and, while a little contrived, I think is wortha secnd read.
Having read the dice man before these two it seemed high time to move away from the bookshop section marked "middle aged man's personal crisis" and am now getting into this:
The Weinsteins are douches, that's taken for granted, but Redford's looking pretty shitty at the moment.
and I've been dabbling in the following for the past couple of months: Maurice Merleau-Ponty Phenomenology of Perception, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari One Thousand Plateaus, Andre Lepecki Exhausting Performance, and Allen Weiss Breathless. The last two are professors in my department. I really wish that I was better at reading lots of stuff at once.
Just finished Cormac McCarthy's No Country For Old Men (very good, but not necessarily major) and Charles Mingus's Beneath the Underdog (I really liked it, although I thought there was too much of the pimping stuff). I'm currently reading Gogol's Dead Souls (long overdue) and James Joyce's Dubliners.
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.
You should also check out The Masters and the Slaves: A Study in the Development of Brasilian Civilization by Gilberto Freye. It's some heavy reading, but well worth it.
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.
How is this? I really enjoy some Brett Easton Ellis..
- spidey
If you like him - you'll love this. Cant put it down.
Serious co-sign I finished Lunar Park about a week ago and it's still with me.... Very different than some of this other stuff, more supernatural.... and very creepy!
Just started Shackleton's first hand account of his expedition to Antarctica, those guys were real fucking men, hard as nails adventurers!
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If you like him - you'll love this. Cant put it down.
Sacrilege!
Just as there is only one true rhythm of the one, there is only one true fonk bible!
I would highly recommend it....I have learned alot. You kinda have to take that with a grain of salt tho, cause like I said, I hadn't really followed much non-mainstream media current events.
It was just interesting to learn what birthed the insurgency and the various factors/mistakes that contributed to it. Basically the whole book has you going "hoooooly shiiiiiiiiit". It hooks you with the whole 'green zone' angle, but also has alot about who did what (like disbanding the iraqi army & the de-Baathification inititive), and how that affected the people of iraq directly.
-pj
Reading, not really... but it's a piece of paper, I've found some BLACK PANTHER posters earlier this week, in a old bookstore!
because i got it for free.
next'd be
really want to read this next...
Definitely getting into Dylan more because of it. I have slept on so many of my parents favourite artists
it's not even funny - time to grow up and grow a beard. Cosign on Lunar Park, by the way.
I actually read Ricky Vincent's book when it first came out.
Should I bow down in front of it and chant FUNKBOMB! ten times and repent?
I enjoyed this one. Having been a teenage fuckup I could relate to some of it. Except the jail part. I would not have survived jail.
Which is actually the first of Smith's books that I've properly enjoyed from start to finish
And before that this:
Which only really struck me afterwards and, while a little contrived, I think is wortha secnd read.
Having read the dice man before these two it seemed high time to move away from the bookshop section marked "middle aged man's personal crisis" and am now getting into this:
The Weinsteins are douches, that's taken for granted, but Redford's looking pretty shitty at the moment.
the best books are about fuck ups!
off a strutters recommendation.
and know im moving back to:
for more practical reasons
Amir
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.
Very entertaining.
Looking forward to getting further into this guys head, might not be so good for my own head though.
I think I may have seen someone mention this one here, so I asked for it for Christmas being the Michigander that I am.
Amir
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.
Serious co-sign I finished Lunar Park about a week ago and it's still
with me....
Very different than some of this other stuff, more supernatural....
and very creepy!
Just started Shackleton's first hand account of his expedition to Antarctica,
those guys were real fucking men, hard as nails adventurers!