Weapon X Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 I'm a huge Hemingway fan. I read The Sun Also Rises in jail, years ago, and that was when I first fell in love. I will say, if you don't like him off the bat like I did, read the short story collection, "Men Without Women". It is as the title says. And incredible work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatGatsby Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 Gave up on this. It lost my attention after he actually gets what he wants and turns into a pig. That and it's really dense, not really a pleasure read. Currently burning through this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 ha. speak of the devil. i also tried lolita and it did not interest me at all. read about ten pages and just did not care. maybe i'll try men without women but his style of prose isn't really my taste. maybe some of his other characters aren't snots . ha. dunno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatGatsby Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 The first half had some really great writing. I just hated having to flip back and forth to the index 6 times page only to find that he was making a pun about an obscure 17th century French poet that only snobby literature grad students would care about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 haha you reminded me, all the endless endnotes in infinite jest killed it for me. i had a bookmark in the back just so i could flip back quickly. sometimes it would be some weird name of a psychoactive drug, other times it would be a short story in and of itself. sometimes you'd have to read it to understand what was going on, other times it was just some short bit that didn't matter. strange how authors do in their own books. i couldn't finish it and have tried to read it twice, only to make it about halfway through and move on i hate endnotes. footnotes aren't as bad but still a little annoying Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fist 666 Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 i loved lolita i've got a collection of hemingway short stories that i've read a bunch of, and i do remember enjoying some of those, but i've read 3 or 4 novels (finished atleast 3) of his and couldn't deal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laughslast Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 damn i haven't been in here in a minute! ya'll have some awesome book choices. i just haven't been able to stick with one thing for a minute so i have been reading a few books at the same time. !@#$%- the last book i actually finished was heart of darkness. and i can't help it. if something has footnotes i cant not check them. i just gotta know what the fuck is being referenced. but that book did its footnotes with an astrik and just listed them all in the back without numbers or anything. i was like what the fuck i wanna read a book not decipher a cipher man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackfatsoe Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 "Decipher the Cipher" , my next spoken word album Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 hahahaa that's a sweet phrase and srsly WTF. that's so lame. i read heart of darkness in high school, well, pretended to read it. i didn't like it but i did well on the tests.. the guy's points were a little obvious. maybe to the point of being ham-handed. i know what you mean, i'd prolly have gotten through it if i hadn't HAD to keep checking the endnotes. if they'd been footnotes, at the bottom of the page, it would have made so much more sense i have no idea why the editor/publisher did that to the readers. just cruel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatGatsby Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 Just finished Better in a day after struggling with Lolita for a month. Moving onto Gawande's first book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soup Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 Im reading "White Noise" Right now. At first i was like this but now im like this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mushu Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 Read both of these recently for the second time. Siddhartha not as good as the first time, Costello still good, still unsettling. Going to read: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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thecarwreck Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 started flipping through some Diaz stuff again last night and forgot how good it is. now i want some pasteles en hojas and an x-men comic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fist 666 Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 i've been waiting for this for a couple years now. i'm sure a few of you have read it, but tommy lee jones and samuel L have done 'the sunset limited' by cormac mccarthy and it airs on saturday. i'm pretty amped. its the single most depressing thing i've ever read. after my little brother read it he told me to go fuck myself, that the book had been a more poetic and logical argument for why to commit suicide than he had ever thought possible. http://www.hbo.com/movies/sunset-limited/index.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abrasivesaint Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 whats that all about? i've never read it. watched the trailer, and am kinda juggling a few ideas of what i think it could be. i like the Great Gatsby so i never returned it in highschool, same with Slaughterhouse 5, the teacher still has 1 of my books, and i also had Sidhartha which was her personal book but she got that back about 2-3 years after i graduated ha.. so it worked out i suppose. same teacher explained to the class what a pearl necklace was figuratively, and sexually, that was a interesting day in english. "hey guys wanna learn a new a way to bust on your girl if she doesnt want it on her face, give her the ole pearl neckalce!" ..is basically what every dude took from that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayeplus Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 "Discipline and Punish" Michel Foucalt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fist 666 Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 not to spoil it but Black (jackson) finds white (lee) during a suicide attempt, drags him back to his apartment and makes him talk about life. basically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abrasivesaint Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 ahhhh, i figured it was either that, or basically the same situation but Jackson was a angel, but thats probably just because he started talking angels, and i thought maybe itd be one of those movies where you find out hes a angel at the end or some shit sent to save the dude. word, good book though? worthy of reading, or am i probably gonna hang myself afterwards haha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 i've been waiting for this for a couple years now. i'm sure a few of you have read it, but tommy lee jones and samuel L have done 'the sunset limited' by cormac mccarthy and it airs on saturday. i'm pretty amped. its the single most depressing thing i've ever read. after my little brother read it he told me to go fuck myself, that the book had been a more poetic and logical argument for why to commit suicide than he had ever thought possible. http://www.hbo.com/movies/sunset-limited/index.html mccarthy devastated with me with blood meridian i was so affected by it i don't know if i'll read his stuff again ..doesn't surprise me at all, what your brother said. the writing is totally annihilating it just about snuffed out what little faith i had left in humanity powerful stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fist 666 Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 blood meridian is shaking, no doubt, it took me like 4 tries over a year to finish it. but that was just terrifying, where sunset limited is basically sound reasoning to kill yourself. though a lot of mccarthy's work is that misanthropic, *holy shit what did i just read* experience i would highly recommend either 'the orchard keeper' or 'suttree.' both great tales that are less focused on the atrocity of man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fist 666 Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 and boston: i don't know whether to recommend it or not. mccarthy is a heavy hitting dude. i loved it, but its taken me a decade to work through all of his work and to learn how to deal with his violence and ideas. its very well written, a quick read, moving. but its fucking dark. its your call. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abrasivesaint Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 word, im intrigued, probably gonna look into it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fat ralphy Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laughslast Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 Damn ayeplus, getting down with foucalt. Much respect. Man was a genuis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noam Chomsky Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 Les Miserables-Victor Hugo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yot1 Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 Been copying a dictionary... ebay item 330530381037. Get a page up and see for yourself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noam Chomsky Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 just finished a few days ago.... Os Cangaceiros -A Crime Called Freedom: The Writings of Os Cangaceiros (Volume One) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laughslast Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 Man funny thing about cormac mccarthy, my weed guy just gave me all the pretty horses to read Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Police Story Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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