WHAT ARE YOU READING?
Dude - is the Crying of Lot 49 not the hardest book to read in one , or even several sittings? It just will not hold my attention or capture my imagination in any meaningful way. I get that it was pretty radical when it was written but to anyone who had IRC as a kid, is just seems like, I dunno, a story about a haunted spatula. Maybe I’m just still pissed about Gravity’s Rainbow, also by Pynchon. Also, I never finished Lot 49, so if it gets less tedious at the end, let me know.
Anywhores,
The Unbearable LIghtness of Being- Milan Kundera (and guess what Ryan, it was Marie-Claude who divided day books and night books, not Tereza.)
The Progress of Love - Alice Murno - Short stories. An exceedly tender but merciless writer.
Huck Finn- Mark Twain (and guess what, other person who I can’t recall who said it I know you stole the quote “Huck Finn is an underrated book” from Vonnegut, and you didn’t credit him.)
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut (what, you never listened to the same song 100 times in a row?)
Call of Cthulu - HP Lovecraft (Because, I just realized I’m a science fiction nerd and that nobody ever gets the joke that I stole from Mack about Giant Squid from Another Dimension)
I’m not well read, I just don’t have a TV anymore. To the person who started this: stick with Infinite Jest, even though the punchline isnt until about page 623. SO WORTH IT. The book radically altered my entire self-image. Keep watching Kate and Remy.
off and on: crying of lot 49 - pynchon; better than sex - H.S.T.; people’s history of the world - harman; parting shots from my brittle bow - eugene mccarthy;
but not underworld, ha!
underworld by don delillo, guns, germs, and steel by jared diamond, a short history of progress by ronald wright, and some others I forget. I’m often in the middle of several books at once. I just pick them up at random intervals. I’m real good at starting books, usually bad at finishing them.
Almost done Underworld. Don DeLillo. It is not about Kate Beckinsale’s ass, as I was led to believe. Good, though.
Followed soon by a Stephenson - Anathem.
On the Wealth of Nations by PJ O’Rourke, rereading End of Oil by Paul Roberts, and dabbling in Mere Christianity by CS Lewis. Because I have different reading for different times.Survivor - Chuck PalahniukHateship Friendship Courtship Loveship Marriage, Alice MunroExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by JSF
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, y’all.
Infinite Jest by DFW, and I’m currently about knee deep.
“Stumbling Upon Happiness” by Dan Gilbert. Link
