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likeaghost,
If you have not read it,go find The Crack-up, the essay I read by Fitzgerald. Perhaps you might find a realtion or two personally as I did.
A few years ago, I attempted to read Naked Lunch after seeing the movie. I was in no way preapred to deal with the type of acid prose he displayed. I am not knocking it, but I was more ready for Henry Miller’s Tropics at the time. I suggest him as weel, but he is old hat, but worth the time indeed.Hang in there wireland!!!
Naked Lunch is not what I would recommend for your 1st Burroughs experience
Exterminator is a good place to start, short stories of all sorts, Junky is another good one 
His Thanksgiving Day poem is definitely a cool thing 
Allison
I’ve been reading Mary Doria Russell’s "The Sparrow" (vewy good) and "Children of God" (so-so) by order of a coworker. It’s an enjoyable science-fictionesqe romp, Sci-Fi for people who don’t ordinarily read the crap
holidays on ice – david sedaris. man he cracks me up.
also, started don delillo ‘the body artist’, but it’s kinda thick.
hey wireland – I will have to check out holidays on ice
did you read me talk pretty someday? – if so, be sure to check out the audio book to if you can find it. he reads it and his delivery adds a good bit to it
Joyce – Ulysses (very hard to read because it’s about one single day and the book is about 1000 pages long :[ )
next one will be: franzen – the corrections
a friend of mine just bought me "Galileo’s Daughter" by Dava Sobel, and it’s fucking great so far. he was a truly fascinating man. and db, i have a shitload of bukowski books, never get tired of him. one of my favorites: "the shoelace"
a woman. a tire that’s flat, a disease, a desire;
fears in front of you,
fears that hold so still
you can study them
like pieces on a chessboard..
it’s not the large things that send a man to the madhouse.
death he’s ready for, or murder, incest, robbery, fire, flood. . .no it’s the continuing series of small tragedies
that send a man to the madhouse. . .
not the death of his love
but a shoelace that snaps
with no time left. . .
the dread of life
is that swarm of trivialities
that can kill quicker than cancer
and which are always there
license plates or taxes
or expired driver’s license,
or hiring or firing,
doing it or having it done to you, or constipation
speeding tickets
rickets or crikets or mice or termites or rocahes or flies
or a broken hook on a screen, or out of gas
or too much gas,
the sink’s stopped-up, the landlord’s drunk,
the president doesn’t care and the governor’s crazy.
lightswitch broken, mattress like a porcupine;
$105 for a tune up,
carburetor and fuel pump at Sears Roebuck;
and the telephone bill’s up and the market’s down
and the toilet chain is broken,
and the light has burned out-
the hall light, the front light, the back light,
the inner light; it’s darker than hell
and twice as expensive.
then there’s always crabs and ingrown toenails
and people who insist they’re your friends;
there’s always that and worse;
leaky facet, Christ and Christmas;
blue salami, 9 day rains, 50 cent avocados
and purple liverwurst.
or making it as a waitress at Norms’s on the split shift,
or as emptier of bedpans,
or as a carwash or a busboy
or a stealer of old lady’s purses
leaving them screaming on the sidewalks
with broken arms at the age of 80.
suddenly 2 red lights in your rear view mirror
and blood in your underwear;
toothache, and $979 for a bridge
$300 for a gold tooth,
and China and Russia and America,
and long hair and short hair and no hair;
and beards and no faces, plenty of zigzag but no pot,
except maybe one to piss in and the other one around your gut.
with each broken shoelace
out of one hundred broken shoelaces,
one man, one woman, one thing
enter a madhouse.
so be careful when you bend over.Reading ‘The Dedalus Book of Absinthe’.
Sounds like an interesting way of getting shiters & passing the time!
i just started "Longitude" by Dava Sobel, the same woman who wrote ‘Galileo’s Daughter’. good so far, but i’m not that far into it.
Hope to pick up this book soon…Sync:The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order :aliensmile:
Probably scare myself reading it but Hey!
Joining in the anti-U.S.A. hype I´ve started reading Stupid White Men… after seeing Bowling for Columbine last christmas.
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