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The other day I bought a Ray Bradbury collection of short stories called "I sing the body electric" I read one story "The Women" on the bus ride home it was good.
i am more used to read french author but i also read stephen fry books and i liked them.
and roy lewis has a very good humour i think.
High Fidelity
Well actually I finished it two days ago and its fucking great. It’s in my Top-5 for sure.
Summerland-Michael Chabon (so-so)
I’m reading "Please Kill Me" because I don’t know what else to read while waiting for Cobains Diary to be released.
Beneath The Underdog – Charles Mingus…i read this one a few years ago, and just dug it up out a box of books out in the shed…forgot how good it is.
Been reading quite a lot of stuff at the mo. Went and re-read a couple of Brett Easton Ellis books – Rules of Attraction & The Informers.
They really are both very good, even though every single character is a shallow, vapid, ugly (body & mind), drug addict.
You wouldn’t think you’d be able to read so much about Upper Class college kids in New Hampshire without wanting to throw the book through the window of your local Dolce & Gabbanna boutique, but it works (though I still want to throw SOMETHING through the window of a D&G boutique – who wouldnt?).
I heartily recommend it to anyone who went to Uni/college, did drugs/booze and hates our wonderful consumer society.
due to my current house arrest situation, i’m forced to start re-reading some books – (cause i can’t go to the library or the book store. just finished "billions and billions" by carl sagan, and just started a william s. burroughs trilogy, i’ll never get tired of burroughs, R.I.P Bill.
The Caffeine Advantage, tips & science behind specifically targetting your caffeine use, how to get the most out of the bean. Thinking I need to ingest some soon <img>
Allison
ps I don’t know why, but something feels like it’s missing here… <img> <img>
Hehe, nice find Allison. I am still sucking down 7-11 Dark Mountain Roast to get through my last round of school reads, which are, by the way:
Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier
This was the only book her ever wrote, as he was killed fighting for France in WWI, if the intro is correct. Think "On the Road", but with an emphasis on enemies, pursuit of love, coming of age, and how people hold up as objects defined by other people and the searching to see if those definitions are true. A read that quite took me buy suprise for its enjoyable parts.
Various essays by Montaigne, Samuel Johnson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Joan Didion, Walter Benjamin, Addision and Steele, Gayle Pemberton, and Marcel Proust over the topics of spectacles of the cinema, the city and on solitude. Pm me if you want more info I am not commenting on them all.
P.S. Allison, I put the Fog and Penguin stickers on this plastic 7-11 mug. Took it to a Clark show and some dude wanted to buy it off me! I still have it :0
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Too funny, hope he at least made a decent offer for you to turn down. I’m drinking a tall double latte currently, on my way to work soon <img>
Allison <img>
At the moment I am reading "Das Abenteuerliche Herz" by Ernst Jünger. I don’t know how it is called in English unfortunately. <img> But it’s quite interesting.
take two…the mourning period is over, words I lost, a post it cost, never to be but here goes nothing…
Anyway, I tried to post something in a drunken stupor a few nights ago, but the pale ale outweighed the common sense 🙁
I think I started commenting on Wireland and his interest in Burroughs who was a fine writer. Good books are hard to find but they are so darn good when you do find them. Also, house arrest must suck so hang in there…
I just finished reading a book of letters by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This might cause a stir based on a previous comment I made about not being interested in reading Kurt’s journals. I guess my comment their came from an incident in 11th grade American literature class where I refused to read aloud an Emily Dickenson poem becasue it said in the introuduction to her works that she never wanted anyone to read her writings. I have no idea what Kurt wanted, or Fitzgerald for that matter. Context and situation make every moment unique. Blake wrote that he who sees the Infinite in all things sees God. That really doesn’t have anything to do with this, but that is what I’m reading now, some collection of his works I got from the library. I dig libraries. They are a dying part of the social and functional aspect of life…
I’m rambling almost as much as I did drunk.
I really only was interested in reading Fitzgerald’s letters to his daughter, Frances Scott (Scottie) Fitzgerald. Which in a way is funny being that some of the only stuff Courtney Love held out of the book were letters to Frances Bean. I just wanted to see some of the advice Fitzgerald would give to his daughter; specifically the books he wanted her to read. I guess looking at the moment upon us, I wish not to read Kurt’s words today, or anytime soon, but there will be other moments and times and I’m sure I’ll feel better about it. I did read where that there are track lists from mix tapes he made, and that is probably too darn intriguing to pass up…
Alright, anyway, Fitzgerald’s letters were interesting; and so is Blake, even though he was probably too smart for his own good.
Sorry this is so long and scattered; since I’m in the middle of retracting and revising, I miswell mention to anyone that read my review of J’s Pittsburgh show, which was my first post, that the first song was actually "Someone Said", not a crazy sort of half version of That’s how it’s got to be, Aparently the pale ale did me in that night as well…
The first version of this was better I swear…
I promise to spell check; and Allison, thanks for your words and encouragement 😉 🙂 😀
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likeaghost
I am reading Death is a lonely business. by Ray Bradbury. Any opinions on that novel from those who have read it?
I’ve gotta agree with both Wireland & Likeaghost, Burroughs is a great read anytime, anywhere, & every place in between
Also, with Likeaghost on the house arrest thing, almost over Wireland…enjoy yourself this week-end 
Currently reading Gender differences in Mood Disorders…it’s driving me nuts
It’s a have to read versus an actual choice, the pain 
Nothing seems to be missing anymore, seems a certain limit has been increased…11 smilies in this message
Allison
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