soon:

100 collected stories

by O. Henry

love that shit.

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soon:

100 collected stories

by O. Henry

love that shit.

I read that a while ago and really liked it. There's one called Telemachus's Visit or something that's really funny.
Right now, I'm reading the Illiad on and off. It's kinda slow going but the language is beautiful.

raymond carver - what we talk about when we talk about love
cs lewis - mere christianity
vladimir nabakov - pale fire

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100 years of solitudes is pretty mean!

I'm still reading Les Miserables. I've enjoyed it, because even with all the French history details it's a wonderful story. But after that I have J.D. Salinger's Nine Stories and Tolstoy's Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories.

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The Lovely Bones Today.
Saw the movie, loved it. The book is tasty so far.
I got 9 more earlier, but am too lazy to fetch them.

Y'all like really mature stuff.
O. Henry?
Les Miserables?
C.S. Lewis?
<.<

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raymond carver - what we talk about when we talk about love
cs lewis - mere christianity
vladimir nabakov - pale fire

I haven't read Pale Fire but I was told very recently (yesterday, I think?) that it's Nabokov's best work. So I'm sure I'll get to it sometime soon. How is it?

Also, I'm reading:
Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina
JD Salinger - Franny & Zooey
Percival Everett - I Am Not Sidney Poitier

Which are all quite good.

just finished: Plainsong
2/3 through: Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself

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the story of a shipwrecked sailor, gabriel garcía márquez

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raymond carver - what we talk about when we talk about love

win.

currently reading ohn Cheever - The Wapshot Chronicle
and John Berryman - Love and Fame
next up
Luther Blissett - Q
or the new one from wu ming as soon as i get me a copy!

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The Lovely Bones Today.
Saw the movie, loved it. The book is tasty so far.
I got 9 more earlier, but am too lazy to fetch them.

Y'all like really mature stuff.
O. Henry?
Les Miserables?
C.S. Lewis?
<.<

But the New Zealand Herald reckons the movie is pretty average....

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But the New Zealand Herald reckons the movie is pretty average....

1. New Zealand?
2. Well, I loved it. Not enough for my top ten, but definitely worth a watch.
3. The book was better.

Back to books:
Today: Mayada Daughter of Iraq by Jean Sasson
Love by Toni Morrison

Do you folks prefer owning books or library-ing them?
(How many do you own?)

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raymond carver - what we talk about when we talk about love

Snap...I am enjoying it in the slightly cold way I enjoy songs with content removed from my experience. Also Minority Report & OS, The Dunwich Horror & OS, Brief Interviews With Hideous Men & Girl With Curious Hair. My boy's appalled at the idea that I will stop a short story in one book and start one in another.
I've given up on Rabbit, Run for now because the sex was getting frustrating. The rest was wonderful though. Started In Place of Fear - Aneurin Bevan today, but only the foreword.

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2/3 through: Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself

I'm not, because Foyles told me it wasn't coming out until August, Waterstone's said they couldn't get it for a month, Blackwell's couldn't find it on the computer, Amazon was out of stock when I'd failed to give my cash to the high street. How is it?

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Do you folks prefer owning books or library-ing them?

I surround myself with physical things, I derive comfort from them and I've a thick tendency to hoard. It's a bit unsettling, but it's true of me. I feel bad every time I see my library card in my wallet but I know it's not so right for how I read.
I: fold page corners and spill drinks and drop in baths and smear chocolate cake and rip and write in endpapers and drop in the snow by the supermarket for someone who's housemate owns the same edition to find and take back and then that receiving housemate to discover the mistake and happen to live my street and to get it back to me. I'm bad for other library users.
I don't know how many I own, but it's obscene how many are unread...

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I surround myself with physical things, I derive comfort from them and I've a thick tendency to hoard. It's a bit unsettling, but it's true of me. I feel bad every time I see my library card in my wallet but I know it's not so right for how I read.
I: fold page corners and spill drinks and drop in baths and smear chocolate cake and rip and write in endpapers and drop in the snow by the supermarket for someone who's housemate owns the same edition to find and take back and then that receiving housemate to discover the mistake and happen to live my street and to get it back to me. I'm bad for other library users.
I don't know how many I own, but it's obscene how many are unread...

Well.
Now my day is ruined.
I feel so bad for the books. (Not crazy, books are the only inanimate objects I feel emotions for.)
You have them and don't read them?
I feel guilty writing in books. <.<

HOWEVER.
I love folded corners and spilled drinks (dry and unsticky). It's like unintentional things you've said to me.
Like reading a diary, except it's filled with only accidental mistakes.
I love highlighting, that's my favorite.

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Well.
Now my day is ruined.
I feel so bad for the books. (Not crazy, books are the only inanimate objects I feel emotions for.)
You have them and don't read them?
I feel guilty writing in books.

I don't buy 'em not to read them - I can't keep up because I feel bad about going into a charity shop without buying anything. (Also why I have ~15 ties.) The new plan is to just not go into them. But I failed today and bought that Nye Bevan book for 50p and "Encyclopedia of Snow" because it's full of someone's annotations that I'd like to read because I'm nosy.
31 I've started but not finished, 26 I've not started in this room, if you need the no.s.

Well I guess this is as opportune place as any to tell someone that I finished Infinite Jest today.

Going to start Siddhartha by Herman Hesse later.

I much prefer owning books but I don't know how many I own because I currently live in two houses. I have about 70 books in my current location (excluding reference and textbooks).

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Going to start Siddhartha by Herman Hesse later.

That is a wonderful read! Enjoy! I am constantly referencing it. In fact I quoted it today with one of my photos on Flickr.

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I agree with Mtn. Girl. Siddhartha is one of the books that changed my life, up there with "Illusions" by Richard Bach.

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wooooo, more buddahist hippy mafuckahz?!

Make that Buddhist/Taoist/Christian hippy mafuckah,Thug, and you would be correct.

ETA: Meh, scratch the hippy cuz I'm prolly a tad too much of a capitalist to be a hippy. lol!

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raymond carver - what we talk about when we talk about love

Oh man, Carver's one of my favorite short story writers. "Popular Mechanics" is my favorite short story of all time. (that's in What We Talk About but by a different name). That book is really heavy. I think I've read half of it. It got too heavy to read all at once. I guess because it's not just one or two unhappy people but dozens.

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31 I've started but not finished, 26 I've not started in this room, if you need the no.s.

I do enjoy the numbers. (Not sarcasm.)
It really weirds me out when people start good books and don't finish.


I have put a lot of these books on my reading list.
So thanks ^^

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Make that Buddhist/Taoist/Christian hippy mafuckah,Thug, and you would be correct.

ETA: Meh, scratch the hippy cuz I'm prolly a tad too much of a capitalist to be a hippy. lol!

oh, those new age books for Westerners to feel better about themselves!!!

I only be a hippy ta smoke da ganja and drop acid!

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2/3 through: Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself

I'm not, because Foyles told me it wasn't coming out until August, Waterstone's said they couldn't get it for a month, Blackwell's couldn't find it on the computer, Amazon was out of stock when I'd failed to give my cash to the high street. How is it?

it is really really good. good discussions on the strengths/role of literature; realism vs post-modernism; a little dishy stuff; and tossed off asides that make me miss DFW even more. at the same time, brings back some great memories. some of the discussion is heartbreaking, looking back. (lipsky says this so much better in his foreward)

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currently reading ohn Cheever - The Wapshot Chronicle

I have that on shelf shelf ready to go. I loved Falconer and his collection of short stories is amazing from what I've read of it. I'm currently dipping in and out of it.

I just finished Willy Vlautin's The Motel Life. I thought it was a great book. Not the cheeriest but really powerful.