Gravity's Rainbow; Pulitzer committee called it 'unreadable & pornographic'; I rather think it's wonderful.

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sounds wonderful to me

brian evenson - the wavering knife

If you like stories, Barry Hannah's Airships is one of the best collections.

tryin to get through huxley's "doors of perception."

so far, just makes me want to buy a keyboard, get drunk, and fuck witches.

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the hunger games.

aw yeah.

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I am on chapter six of that jd salinger bio.

Chapter five was brutal but I love the way he ended that chapter. It really made me reconsider some of my previous conclusions so far. Which is good.


I also discovered there is apparently another Glass family story I havent read.

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which one?

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Where my Murakami fans at?

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Where my Murakami fans at?

Representing big time, my non-gender defined internet friend!

that's a top book, if a little bizarre (been a while since i read it). Just finished the Wild Sheep Chase which is a wonderfully constructed novel, both sad and infuriating at the same time and Norwegian Wood remains my second favourite book of all time. I love how his main protagonists are, in their own way, fucked up somehow and i love the little things - like how his characters are happy to just sit, put a record on and drink whiskey until their pain goes away. That's basically my goto mechanism for getting over shit and it blew me away to read that his characters were doing it too!

In other news, i picked up a copy of Haunted at the weekend. From the way you guys described it, i felt kinda scared taking it to the counter and i had to peek a bit at Guts to see what it was all about. I feel this book is going to be a kind of challenge to read - proving something to myself in doing so.

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which one?

Let's see, if "one" = biography then the answer is the one by your pal, Mr Slawenski.

If "one" = which Glass family story then the answer is I lied. I was thinking I hadn't read 'Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut" which I had as it appeared in Nine Stories. I just didn't recognize it by it's title.

Or I forgot the title.

It's been a while since I've read them all.

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Bought it because it was on sale, the cover looks great, and I kind of like werewolves.

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Just finished the Wild Sheep Chase which is a wonderfully constructed novel, both sad and infuriating at the same time

Did you read the whole Trilogy of the Rat or just Wild Sheep Chase (the last book of the trilogy)? The first two were kind of weak as stand-alone novels but they give a lot of context to the final culmination of the story in Sheep Chase.

I've read the trilogy, Kafka on the Shore, and now I'm on Hard-Boiled blah blah.

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which one?

Let's see, if "one" = biography then the answer is the one by your pal, Mr Slawenski.

If "one" = which Glass family story then the answer is I lied. I was thinking I hadn't read 'Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut" which I had as it appeared in Nine Stories. I just didn't recognize it by it's title.

Or I forgot the title.

It's been a while since I've read them all.

now, did you really think i didn't know what bio you were reading?

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which one?

Let's see, if "one" = biography then the answer is the one by your pal, Mr Slawenski.

If "one" = which Glass family story then the answer is I lied. I was thinking I hadn't read 'Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut" which I had as it appeared in Nine Stories. I just didn't recognize it by it's title.

Or I forgot the title.

It's been a while since I've read them all.

now, did you really think i didn't know what bio you were reading?

I try really hard not to think.

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Just finished the Wild Sheep Chase which is a wonderfully constructed novel, both sad and infuriating at the same time

Did you read the whole Trilogy of the Rat or just Wild Sheep Chase (the last book of the trilogy)? The first two were kind of weak as stand-alone novels but they give a lot of context to the final culmination of the story in Sheep Chase.

No, i didn't know there was a such a trilogy. I wondered about the Rat, but assumed it was just his way of writing him into the story. The style of it was correct, and the fact there was a lot of unknown about the Rat added to the mystery.

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I've read the trilogy, Kafka on the Shore, and now I'm on Hard-Boiled blah blah.

My book buying ploicy is largely (for fiscal reasons, and because i like old books that have been thumbed by someone else) based around what i can pick up from second hand stores so i've not read Kafka on the Shore.

I've been told Wind Up Bird Chronicles is excellent.

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i didn't know there was a such a trilogy. I wondered about the Rat, but assumed it was just his way of writing him into the story.

The first two books of the trilogy were Murakami's first books and he didn't feel they were good enough to warrant being translated and published in America or Europe. However, they were translated to English and released by a company that publishes English books intended for Japanese people learning English. You can find them on ebay (for a little more than they're worth to be honest) or in a digital copy if you can stand looking at a computer screen to read or have an eBook reader.

They are worth a read if you are set on devouring everything Murakami (like I am, now) but the $20-30 a pair price on eBay is too rich for my blood.

1984 by george orwell.

commemorative edition, printed in 1984.



so it says on the cover!

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I've been told Wind Up Bird Chronicles is excellent.

i will agree with that assessment. Great read.

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I'm currently reading Stuart Murdoch's "The Celestial Cafe" but haven't yet read enough to comment on it.

The reason I stopped by here though is to mention that 2 friends have now recommended Nick Hornby's Juliet, Naked to me, although why they think I'd be interested in reading about a middle-aged British guy who's obsessed with an American singer-songwriter I really don't know...

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my reaction was not so visceral, but i did feel i had a "fight or flight" thing going on. i definitely wanted to stop reading for some reason. but i kept going. good thing, because i might not have picked it back up.

never read something that made me feel that way. i wanted to punch the book and run away, actually. and punch myself while i ran away for reading that story. and then eat the book and punch my haunted poop when it came out.
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my reaction was less visceral than this, but then i was warned by you guys so i read it on the train with a permanent 'expecting to be horrified' look on my face.

that chapter makes for grim reading, that's for sure.

6 chapters in, it's a gripping read.

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junk 4 da mind!

pay no mind, thuggy.

edit: HEY, how would you know unless you read it!

NOW

richard brautigan's "trout fishing in america, the pill versus the springhill mine disaster, and in watermelon sugar."

still on the first story, and liking it.

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I just started the Steve Jobs biography. Only 1 chapter in, will reserve judgement until I finish.

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