n8galicia Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poes Posted April 2, 2010 Share Posted April 2, 2010 Read this when I was like 15/16... trippy shit! Just got done reading this... Interesting story. Motivating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abcs Posted April 2, 2010 Share Posted April 2, 2010 i'm gonna have to read lolita, it's on so many best novels lists and i'm trying to read the classics. that would prolly also include stuff like burroughs, which i can't say i'm too keen on reading. as for all the weird kids shit, literally haha, no thx I looked for Lolita at the library and couldnt find it :( Not reading Burroughs is a mistake tho. I recommend you start off with something like Junky. If you were to hop right in with Naked Lunch may be a mistake. The book is just short of schitzo jibberish. When i say im better read than 95% of the literate population isn't boasting. Ive just been reading 2-4 novels a week or a decade. Naked Lunch is on some other shit. Its way different. A class of its own but a classic nonetheless Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poes Posted April 2, 2010 Share Posted April 2, 2010 Damn thats a lot of books! Can you recommend some? i just started reading this year after a 6 year break. This year Ive read: We need to talk about Kevin, Kody Scott the autobiography of an LA gangmember, the Alchemist, the last harry potter (needed to finish the set) and Darkly Dreaming Dexter. Average about a book a month which is good for me. Although I read The Alchemist in under a day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abcs Posted April 2, 2010 Share Posted April 2, 2010 well yea. what genera do you like? Alan Furst is one of my favorite authors. He writes about WW2 from the Perspective of the spy inside Europe in the time of war.. His prose is fucking silky. There is no better way to describe it. Rum Diary. by Hunter S Thompson was fucking amazing On the Road by Jack Kerouac. Same deal. Junky By William S Burroughs. insanely good. I consider these running narratives. Instead of a concrete plot and a pre defined conclusion anything can happen. Start with these and you will not be disappointed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abcs Posted April 2, 2010 Share Posted April 2, 2010 I find an author i like and i usually read everything they wrote. I quit keeping track so if someone was to say that they liked a certain book i am pretty adept at suggesting another book that the author wrote that i enjoyed If you are into spy novels per say i would fully endorse reading Tom Clancy. But to read them IN THE ORDER THEY WERE WRITTEN. I made that mistake. It sucks when you are reading a book and contained therein are references to the books he wrote previously. infinitely annoying Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RubberbandBanks Posted April 4, 2010 Share Posted April 4, 2010 this is really fucking good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackfatsoe Posted April 4, 2010 Share Posted April 4, 2010 It took a while for me to get into this, but it's really picking up. Auster is melancholy in a way that is so satisfying sometimes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Camus Posted April 6, 2010 Share Posted April 6, 2010 Nicholas Sparks (douche bag) bashes Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian calling it "probably the most pulpy, overwrought, melodramatic cowboy vs. Indians story ever written." http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2010-03-11-lastsong11_CV_N.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iloveboxcars Posted April 7, 2010 Share Posted April 7, 2010 anyone want to suggest some history books to me? greek/middle ages. something that is well written and isn't just fact after fact. i'm not entirely sure what im looking for.. hopefully someone gets it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iloveboxcars Posted April 7, 2010 Share Posted April 7, 2010 Nicholas Sparks (douche bag) bashes Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian calling it "probably the most pulpy, overwrought, melodramatic cowboy vs. Indians story ever written." http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2010-03-11-lastsong11_CV_N.htm this fool wrote a walk to remember... what else is there to say really? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudpuddles Posted April 7, 2010 Share Posted April 7, 2010 i get what you are talking about ibc and that sounds dope..... but i don't have suggestions. pointless post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceman Spiff Posted April 7, 2010 Share Posted April 7, 2010 Very nice short stories not made for children Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% Posted April 7, 2010 Share Posted April 7, 2010 I looked for Lolita at the library and couldnt find it :( Not reading Burroughs is a mistake tho. I recommend you start off with something like Junky. If you were to hop right in with Naked Lunch may be a mistake. The book is just short of schitzo jibberish. When i say im better read than 95% of the literate population isn't boasting. Ive just been reading 2-4 novels a week or a decade. Naked Lunch is on some other shit. Its way different. A class of its own but a classic nonetheless public libraries may censor lolita. cop it somewhere like a used books store i dunno. burroughs, is not really my thing. i looked at naked lunch a long time ago and put it back. and i have spent time around junkies waxing philosophical. i'm not a fan. he had such a great cameo in drugstore cowboy i suppose i will give him the respect he deserves, but i have a ton of other books i'd rather read first. i might do the Dark Materials Trilogy next. sounds fascinating. still trying to shake off blood meridian. what a fucking book. i felt the overarching theme was basically that in this miserable and cruel world, he who is most depraved shall triumph over all. kinda true and really sickening. i'll never see the wild west the same way. and i even knew some of the truth before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abcs Posted April 7, 2010 Share Posted April 7, 2010 Naked Lunch is more prose poetry than anything. It was more about putting the perfect imagery down on paper. It is Burroughs work but also a collaboration with his peers whom I consider a very distinguished crowd. The restored text discusses among other things his struggle with the format of the text. Trying to arrange it so it would make sense. He pretty much distilled and mashed together notes, passages, and concepts from Junk, Queer, and Yage and also letters he wrote to Ginsburg. Reading is pretty subjective. To each his or her own but i will say this. If books like Naked Lunch didn't exist... books like Naked Lunch wouldn't and couldn't exist. Actually, the final texts were rushed out as publishers were trying to capitalize on the controversy. This pretty much marks the end of literary censorship in America that said... much of it is in questionable taste and psychobabble I just really enjoyed it is all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% Posted April 7, 2010 Share Posted April 7, 2010 word. i'll get to it sometime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banana fishd Posted April 10, 2010 Share Posted April 10, 2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALIgula Posted April 10, 2010 Share Posted April 10, 2010 Very nice short stories not made for children wow...this looks interesting. the witches was one of my favorite books when i was a kid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
famecrazy Posted April 10, 2010 Share Posted April 10, 2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
{OneSevenNine.com} Posted April 10, 2010 Author Share Posted April 10, 2010 Read this when I was like 15/16... trippy shit! Just got done reading this... Interesting story. Motivating. He is an interesting author. This book reminded me of khalil Gibran The Prophet. It get's a little too preachy for me at times. There is another book of his where he goes on this spiritual quest in Spain with his guide and has to pass all these tests. That one from what I remember was interesting and thought provoking. For the life of me I cannot remember it. Quick search, found it, The Pilgrimage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FruityLexia. Posted April 10, 2010 Share Posted April 10, 2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceman Spiff Posted April 10, 2010 Share Posted April 10, 2010 ^^Just read that. Can't say I was too impressed, but I'd need to read another translator's version to say for sure. wow...this looks interesting. the witches was one of my favorite books when i was a kid. Some of the stories are very interesting, and very surprising since I've only read his children's books before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALIgula Posted April 10, 2010 Share Posted April 10, 2010 so are they vulgar or something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceman Spiff Posted April 10, 2010 Share Posted April 10, 2010 Not vulgar at all. I mean one or two are dirty, but most have deaths, murders and odd "happenings." There are a couple light-hearted stories as well. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar is very nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
{OneSevenNine.com} Posted April 10, 2010 Author Share Posted April 10, 2010 For the life of me, I could not get into Kafka's The Trail. Metamorphosis I enjoyed thoroughly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bayboss1er Posted April 10, 2010 Share Posted April 10, 2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro dePaca Posted April 10, 2010 Share Posted April 10, 2010 i just started this yesterday. the style of it is kind of bugging the shit out of me. oh well, only a couple hundred pages to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dose-ink Posted April 11, 2010 Share Posted April 11, 2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elorock Posted April 11, 2010 Share Posted April 11, 2010 JG Ballard, The unlimited Dream Company Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fist 666 Posted April 11, 2010 Share Posted April 11, 2010 i read tuesdays when i was a junior in highschool and remember liking it, but don't remember anything about it. the only thing i've read in the last week are articles and reviews in moutain bike and mountain bike action and product descriptions for wheels and frames on websites. /no excuses Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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