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dollabill
April 21, 2011 12:20PM | Re: Wha Choo Readin?
I'm at the point where my stack of to read comics is too intimidating to start. sad smiley


I've got big plans. ◊ Talking Blanket ◊ Yay, Butts! LOL!
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mike5998
April 21, 2011 12:33PM | Re: Wha Choo Readin?
start with punisher #25




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StatusFrustratio
April 21, 2011 02:36PM | Re: Wha Choo Readin?
I just got Lightning on the Sun by Robert Bingham in the post. I'm a paragraph in and have fallen for it already. Also just started The Pale King, and sort of vaguely dipping into The Lives of Ants.
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Its so nice to read a DFW novel again, feels like seeing an old friend again.
Agreed, it's exactly like this.


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dollabill
April 21, 2011 02:44PM | Re: Wha Choo Readin?
Mike have you ever read the novel called "EVERYONE'S BURNING" by Ian Spiegelman? It's pretty good, not too long and got me hooked at the first line.

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WEBSITES!!!
Pub. Date: June 2004
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Format: Paperback , 164pp
ISBN-13: 9780812972610
ISBN: 0812972619
Synopsis
A young man without prospects finds his place in the universe--as a young woman's slave.
Poised somewhere between high school and adulthood, Leon Koch roams the bars and bedrooms of Bayside, Queens, twenty minutes and a thousand psychic miles from Manhattan--a multicultural landscape where the line dividing the middle class from the street gangs has been obliterated. With his two best friends just out of prison for pipe-bombing a house, Koch discovers that cocaine and alcohol have imbued him with "superpowers," twisting his mind into a plexus where love, fear, violence, and intimacy are indistinguishable. As life becomes a waking nightmare spent fighting with police, predators, and the law-abiding, unscarred citizens he dismisses as "normals," Koch drives relentlessly toward a fantasy zone. What he finds is a fetishistic realm of worship and ritual where people are never quite certain whether they're role-playing or getting played by their roles. Testing the bounds of sensation under the constant threat of violence, Koch explores a world that is a slave to its own secrets, where freedom exists only in a 911 call from the brink of self-annihilation.
Told in a hallucinatory, street-poetic voice, Everyone's Burning depicts the lives and deaths of a generation that raised itself on Star Wars, talk shows, and Charles Manson interviews. Koch is a bleary yet gimlet-eyed tour guide through one of their neighborhoods.



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mike5998
April 21, 2011 04:42PM | Re: Wha Choo Readin?
jesus h. studebaker hoch!

what a synopsis!


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Wild Creature
April 22, 2011 12:26AM | Re: Wha Choo Readin?
you should consider reading what i wrote. here it be, that thing i just wrote.

[smoking-bong.blogspot.com]


The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone. - Martin Amis
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mike5998
April 22, 2011 10:21AM | Re: Wha Choo Readin?
printed out.

and consider it read by me today!


don't clap between movements
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Achillius
April 22, 2011 10:48AM | Re: Wha Choo Readin?
Reading Ulysses, an experience immeasurably improved by the furious consumption of beer while reading.

I hope to maybe eventually read The Pale King, but as huge a DFW fan as I am, I can't help but thinking that reading the unfinished novel he was writing before he killed himself will just be an incredibly depressing thing to do. So after the Joyce book it's either this or some more Joyce. I'm leaning toward the latter.


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Jamison
April 22, 2011 10:57AM | Re: Wha Choo Readin?
Yes, go for more Joyce. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is fantastic.


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dollabill
April 22, 2011 12:52PM | Re: Wha Choo Readin?
Going to start the Hunger Games at the gym this week... I got the audio book version of it.


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jacobfiala
April 22, 2011 01:33PM | Re: Wha Choo Readin?
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Wild Creature
you should consider reading what i wrote. here it be, that thing i just wrote.

[smoking-bong.blogspot.com]

golly, that's good writin!
is it about the alpha couple?
(every story about fighting couples is about the alpha couple)
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Moll
April 26, 2011 08:10AM | Re: Wha Choo Readin?
Just read it - it's really good (a tad creepy n'all!)


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jacobfiala
April 26, 2011 09:36AM | Re: Wha Choo Readin?
I did. That's why I said, "Golly, That's good writing!"
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dollabill
April 26, 2011 10:21AM | Re: Wha Choo Readin?
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Wild Creature
you should consider reading what i wrote. here it be, that thing i just wrote.

[smoking-bong.blogspot.com]

damn, good stuff WC!


I've got big plans. ◊ Talking Blanket ◊ Yay, Butts! LOL!
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killebrew
April 26, 2011 03:34PM | Re: Wha Choo Readin?
i know there are a couple of george saunders fans on the forums, so i thought i'd direct you to this terrific new interview with one of his former students: [bombsite.com]
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thug4lyfe
April 27, 2011 04:03AM | Re: Wha Choo Readin?
Buddhism and healing
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mike5998
April 27, 2011 11:57AM | Re: Wha Choo Readin?
who needs healing when you've got buddhism?

KNO WUT EYE IS SAY NG?


don't clap between movements
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mike5998
April 27, 2011 04:45PM | Re: Wha Choo Readin?
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Wild Creature
you should consider reading what i wrote. here it be, that thing i just wrote.

[smoking-bong.blogspot.com]

that's spooky, kooky, and horrifically terrific.

i can't believe you got away with all that.


don't clap between movements
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betamax
April 27, 2011 05:25PM | Re: Wha Choo Readin?
I enjoyed that.

Was the reference intentional? ("from the bathroom to the bedroom to the living room to the kitchen " )



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thug4lyfe
April 28, 2011 09:50PM | Re: Wha Choo Readin?
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mike5998
who needs healing when you've got buddhism?

KNO WUT EYE IS SAY NG?
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Wild Creature
April 30, 2011 12:22AM | Re: Wha Choo Readin?
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mike5998
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Wild Creature
you should consider reading what i wrote. here it be, that thing i just wrote.

[smoking-bong.blogspot.com]

that's spooky, kooky, and horrifically terrific.

i can't believe you got away with all that.

gracias.


The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone. - Martin Amis
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Wild Creature
April 30, 2011 12:22AM | Re: Wha Choo Readin?
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betamax
I enjoyed that.

Was the reference intentional? ("from the bathroom to the bedroom to the living room to the kitchen " )

there are 2 plays on MGs lyrics in there, and 1 play on a well-known bukowski poem.


The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone. - Martin Amis
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jacobfiala
April 30, 2011 12:52PM | Re: Wha Choo Readin?
And let's not forget that it's about the alpha couple
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Wild Creature
April 30, 2011 01:10PM | Re: Wha Choo Readin?
for the record, it is not about the alpha couple.


The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone. - Martin Amis
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jacobfiala
April 30, 2011 07:30PM | Re: Wha Choo Readin?
im sure you're mistaken
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