Skyscrapers of the Midwest by Joshua W Cotter

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I've got big plans. ◊ Talking Blanket ◊ Yay, Butts! LOL!

picking this up from the library today

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/09/2011 03:58PM by mike5998.

what have I done? I try an in depth analysis and it turns into people in denial over how shitty twilight is and weird movie references. although, if I liked science fiction, I would be interested in the c s Lewis stuff.

yeah, and let that be a lesson to you.

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jacobfiala
what have I done? I try an in depth analysis and it turns into people in denial over how shitty twilight is and weird movie references. although, if I liked science fiction, I would be interested in the c s Lewis stuff.

the only good science fiction is an ornette coleman album.
























BUTTSLAM!

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that buttslam was disorienting. at first I thought you reccomended some science fiction that wasn't Ornette Coleman, and then said Coleman was the only good scifi, so I bent down to check and out of fucking nowhere, BUTTSLAM!



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that's just how much sense i make.

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Great start Dude...

About me, I love my gadgets – I’d dare say all my gadgets regardless if its GIGANTOUS, BIG or small. You get the idea.



So you can imagine the kind of excitement I got when I picked up my iPad 2 about 4 months ago. I caressed every inch of it and did all sorts of almost impossible acrobatic moves including recording a video of my face… and ad also purchased a smart cover for my iPad to protect it. My iPad 2 Cases are jut awesome .. Love them..

Thanks
Jude Zuccarelli

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I'm reading Valencia Street by P William Grimm and the Steve Jobs book by Walter Isaacson

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I've got big plans. ◊ Talking Blanket ◊ Yay, Butts! LOL!

i'm not sure if i've read valencia street.

I just stumbled upon Roberto Bolano recently and am now reading his huge novel "2666". Even though it's not only huge in literary terms but also in the sheer number of pages, I'm so in love with it and his other work I read so far. I'm really stunned...

...just to tell someone...

this thread reminded me,
(to mike)
i found that cs lewis sci fi trilogy for like a buck, so i grabbed them. are they actually good/worth reading?
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they are FUCKING AWESOME.

i remember the third one was a little weird, but since the first two were so solid i finished the third no problem and told myself to remember that THESE ARE GOOD.

tell me that i'm WAY OFF if you read them and you don't like them.

WAY THE HELL OFF.

eta, there is nothing not worth reading. reading makes you smart!

i should read more!



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reading makes my braaaiiin huuuwwrrt!
but ill crack em open, see what is goin on in there.

Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf, Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, On the Plurality of Worlds by David K Lewis.

Kristin Hersh - Paradoxical Undressing (issued in the US as Rat Girl)

Got to say, the best book I've read this year (a year which has seen me mostly reading indie-rock autobiographies) by some distance. Based on Hersh's teenage diaries from the earliest days of Throwing Muses it's a well-written & intelligent (as expected) insight into her life & songwriting.

I've been a Muses fan for 20+ years but I don't think that necessarily makes my judgement biased. It's just a great read and heartily recommended for music lovers in general.

[/gush]

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"You know it is, it really is."

A book I bought myself for christmas titled Opium for the Masses: A Practical Guide to Growing Poppies and Making Opium. Very entertaining, and I can't wait for spring.

it's awesome, and hilarious.

Shit I read over winter break so far:

1Q84 - Haruki Murakami
The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway
Factotum - Charles Bukowski
Jekyll and Hyde - Stevenson
first book of the Narnia series (didn't care for it)
The Importance of Being Earnest - Wilde

Currently reading:
The Ethical Slut
After Dark - Murakami

I just finished That Is All by John Hodgman and now I'm reading Oblivion by David Foster Wallace.

hey butter, let me know how The Ethical Slut works out. I've been looking to read that for a short while now.

I've currently got the following on the go:

Don Quixote - Cervantes
The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
Monsignor Quixote - Graham Greene
Master and Margarita - Bulgakov

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the only good science fiction is an ornette coleman album.

Or maybe a Sun Ra album... oh wait... that's science FACT!


I must admit a predilection for Philip K Dick. I used to like sci-fi a lot as a youngster, but Dick is probably the only thing I like from the genre these days. I like the way he tells a story and I like his characters and I like the way he infuses all of his supposed (but I sometimes suspect as-put-on-as-Bukowski) Gnostic Psychosis into his later books (the best ones in my opinion, though I like it all). He sometimes strikes me as an undercover misogynist though, but Lovecraft was a not-so-undercover racist, so what can you do...?

Speaking of gnostics and gnosis and all of that, I checked out the Nag Hamadi shit from the library for lyrical inspiration. So that's what I've been reading.

Speaking of segues, mike, you may now commence with the dick jokes.

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tell one dick joke, and see what happens?

Cleopatra's Wedding Present - Robert Tewdwr Moss

Really enjoyable read. It's an account of the author's travels through Syria, and it really brings the trip to life. Completely captivating from the first page. It does help to have a map on hand while you're reading it though, so you can trace the journey for yourself.

I've just finished one of the best books I've read in the last few years - Stoner by John Williams.

Goodreads link

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