gasfacevictm Posted February 15, 2010 Share Posted February 15, 2010 Things Fall Apart is a depressing pain in the ass. I just wanted to punch Okonkwo in the face the entire time. I'm about to start Blood Meridian as well. Race ya'! Fuck Tucker Max. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackfatsoe Posted February 15, 2010 Share Posted February 15, 2010 Blooood Meridiaaannnnnn. Just read All the Pretty Horses, which was good overall but def had some slow sections. mmmm also read Portnoy's Complaint by P Roth, which I didn't really find all that funny. ehh, maybe you have to be Jewish. reading Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster, which is good so far. The first book of his I've read, and I think I like him a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Camus Posted February 15, 2010 Share Posted February 15, 2010 I liked Things Fall Apart, but I read it for a class so I guess its different than reading it for entertainment. Blood Meridian is also on my list of things to read next. This shits like a book club. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackhills Posted February 15, 2010 Share Posted February 15, 2010 ha at your name ^^ i'm reading again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HatoriHanzo Posted February 15, 2010 Share Posted February 15, 2010 I am currently reading three books because I am an uber dork and recovering from a severe arm break and need massive amounts of entertainment to break up the monotony. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnneh7 Posted February 15, 2010 Share Posted February 15, 2010 Reading The Average American Male on my kindle currently Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nerkherder1 Posted February 15, 2010 Share Posted February 15, 2010 This: pretty interesting As well as this: booyakacha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weapon X Posted February 15, 2010 Share Posted February 15, 2010 make sure you read Dark Victory, too.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackfatsoe Posted February 15, 2010 Share Posted February 15, 2010 finished Brooklyn Follies, it was good. Although the end was kind of, um, weird? I don't know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serial rapist Posted February 15, 2010 Share Posted February 15, 2010 Mannnnnnnnn, Blood Meridian is such a good book, I'm bummed that there aren't more on par with it. Seriously just the best, nihilistic and raw exploration into human nature I've read so far. It's only bolstered by the fine storytelling, sparse but material dialog and historical background it is presented with. Read it 4 times. Resonates with me the same way Moby Dick does. If anyone has any suggestions on the same track as those two I'm all ears. Bukowski is great too, lived and wrote by his own rules. I really like his poetry, and I never thought poetry was something I would come to appreciate. He's got a great perspective on just trucking though life - spending hours practicing sorting zip codes for his hated job at the post office - just kept his head down and kept it moving with not a lot more than a paper suitcase, booze and women to keep him up. Plenty has been written about women and drink, just never with as humanistic a touch. I've been enjoying Henry Miller - who touches in the same vein as Bukowski. Once I get though the 3 books I'm working on I'm excited to start this - apparently really influenced William S Burroughs. I feel like a dork sometimes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fist 666 Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 from the nihilistic aspect i'd simply say read more of McCarthy's early work. child of god and outer dark. they're less wordy, but equally dark. child of god is one of the most hilarious/disturbing books in print. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laughslast Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 my neighbor loaned this to me. i read it in one day. i really loved this book. it is a book about growing up during the Iranian revolution from the perspective of this woman as a child. to make some of the very real, intense subjects delved into it is written as a comic strip. i think the detail that this book went into the historical and political issues was excellent. from the progression of the revolution and the huge ironies that needed to be confronted by the newly installed regime. i also included a picture of the inside to kind of give you an idea of how it is written. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fictionator Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 really good book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALIgula Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 seen the persepolis movie (with subtitles). i was hesitant to read the books (theres a persepolis 2 also) because of the comic strip form. but then again i want to read maus, and thats in comic strip form too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iloveboxcars Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 re-reading god is not great along with the picture of dorian gray Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALIgula Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 i have the picture of dorian gray...it was required reading for 11th grade ap english. i should get that out and read it again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r1char Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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thecarwreck Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 English PhD field exam in American short fiction... 3 weeks in, 20+ down... • Poe, Complete Tales • Hawthorne, Twice Told Tales; Mosses from an Old Manse • Melville, Billy Budd & Other Stories • Henry/Porter, Cabbages and Kings; The Four Million • Harte, Trent’s Trust and Other Stories • James, Collected Stories, vol. 1 • Bierce, Civil War Stories • Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Other Stories • Twain, Best of… • Crane, The Open Boat and Other Tales of Adventure • Chopin, The Awakening & Selected • Wharton, Crucial Instances • London, To Build a Fire and Other Stories • Anderson, Winesberg, Ohio • Hemingway, The Nick Adams Stories; Men without Women • Faulkner, The Collected Stories • Fitzgerald, The Short Stories • Welty, A Curtain of Green and Other Stories • Hurston, The Complete Stories • Toomer, Cane • Himes, The Collected Stories • Hughes, The Ways of White Folks • O'Connor, Everything That Rises Must Converge • Olsen, Tell Me a Riddle • Baldwin, Going To Meet The Man • Wright, Eight Men • Ellison, Flying Home and Other Stories • Singer, A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories • Walker, You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down • Beattie, Park City • Kincaid, At the Bottom of the River • Ortiz, Men on the Moon • Carver, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please; What We Talk About… • Bambara, Gorilla My Love • Jen, Who’s Irish? • Alexie, Ten Little Indians; The Lone Ranger & Tonto… • Mason, Shiloh and Other Stories • Barthelme, Forty Stories • Gilb, The Color of Blood • Pancake, The Stories of… • Jones, Lost in the City • Baca, The Importance of a Piece of Paper • Kingston, The Woman Warrior • Li, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers • Yunqué, Casualty Report • Two-Rivers, Survivor’s Medicine • Campbell, Women & Other Animals; American Salvage • Santos, Dwell in the Wilderness • Yamomoto, Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories • Raymond, Livability Breece D'J Pancake is painfully good. Read more Carver. Baldwin forever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blood fart Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudpuddles Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 ^^^great read. still freaks me out sorta. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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yeaaaah baby Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 WHO CAN GIVE ME A GOOD HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK TO READ. (CAPITAL LETTERS TO GET ATTENTION, BECAUSE I WOULD LIKE A GOOD BOOK TO READ) PREFERABLY ABOUT JAPAN, OR WWII, OR ANY ANCIENT BATTLES/RULERS (I FUX WITH WHATEVER) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iloveboxcars Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 i havent really read anything about japan or ww2 other than my tank is fight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yeaaaah baby Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 i'll check that out. i just read this book: one of the 40 page or so stories in it was about how Attila the hun's conquests in the Mediterranean. pretty damn good. written by the same dude that wrote A Clockwork Orange. but boxcars, if you wanna read an incredibly good historical fiction book about feudal japan, i highly recommend Shogun by James Clavell. i am yet to have someone read this book that didnt completely enjoy it. edit: when i worked some shit job awhile back i read band of brothers by stephen e. ambrose in a couple days. pretty good book. pretty good HBO series too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 dudes. cormac mccarthy is SO spare. the dialect is definitely taking a lot of getting used to after last year (crime & punishment, war & peace, anna karenina, 1984, madame bovary, love in the time of cholera, brave new world, etc) i'll like it. i just suspect i may like The Road more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slowDown Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 Finished California Girl by T. Jefferson Parker. Thought it was a real good murder mystery. Takes place in the 60's in Orange County. A little T. Leary and Charlie Manson thrown in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fist 666 Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 dudes. cormac mccarthy is SO spare. the dialect is definitely taking a lot of getting used to after last year (crime & punishment, war & peace, anna karenina, 1984, madame bovary, love in the time of cholera, brave new world, etc) i'll like it. i just suspect i may like The Road more. no doubt, the road, imo, is his easiest read, but not his best. just finished palahnuiks (sp probably) HAUNTED. its the first of his i've tried. i am not sold on the guy, based on the hype i expected a lot more. if it weren't for his sexual deviance and general depravity i don't think he has much going for him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudpuddles Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 i've said it already and here it comes again: palahniuk's overrated. he's good for the first few books you read then it all starts sounding familiar. i would try survivor or rant or fight club before you give up on him though. haunted was the least favorite of his books that i have read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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