― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link
how did you like the hammett? i still think it's one of the best things i've read this year
― tom, etc., Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matilda Wormwood (Mary ), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link
Now I'm reading 'The Cardboard Crown' by Martin Boyd, first in a tetralogy of which I only have the first 2 books and the last 2 are out of print, alas. Yesterday I finished Max Frisch's 'Homo Faber', which must win Most Boring Narrator In Twentieth Century Literature, and come close in the Most Pseudo-Profundities category, too.
― James Morrison (James Morrison), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 22:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 7 December 2006 08:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Thursday, 7 December 2006 23:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ray Cummings (skateboardr), Friday, 8 December 2006 12:51 (seventeen years ago) link
Now I'm reading "Mawrdew Czgowchwz" by James McCourt, which I'm enjoying as a description of extreme fandom. It's heavy going in a sumptuous sort of way. I like it, but I'm not sure I'm going to finish it, what with the mind-clouding distractions of the festive season in direct competition.
― Tim (Tim), Friday, 8 December 2006 12:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― franny (frannyglass), Friday, 8 December 2006 15:38 (seventeen years ago) link
at any rate let this stand as a reminder to do a platonic dialogues thread once we get proper ILE back
― tom sandbox west (thomp), Sunday, 10 December 2006 01:28 (seventeen years ago) link
Today I read more of "Twilight of the Idols" and started that Stein book about birthdays and names, which is so completely great. Is there a 20th C. poet better than Stein? One the one hand, I don't think that statement means anything, but on the other hand, holy crap she is great.
― Casuistry (casuistry), Sunday, 10 December 2006 07:58 (seventeen years ago) link
* tho i did get round to 'the unteleported man' and 'the cosmic puppets' recently
― tom sandbox west (thomp), Sunday, 10 December 2006 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― James Morrison (James Morrison), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 01:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― tom sandbox west (thomp), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 02:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Casuistry (casuistry), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 08:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― frankiemachine, Tuesday, 12 December 2006 11:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaq (jaq), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Casuistry (casuistry), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 21:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 21:59 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Casuistry (casuistry), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― tom sandbox west (thomp), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 05:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― max (maxreax), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 06:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 13:31 (seventeen years ago) link
Somerest Maugham - The Painted Veil
― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 16:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Øystein (Øystein), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 20:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matilda Wormwood (Mary ), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 23:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 14 December 2006 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― xyzzzz__ (xyzzzz__), Thursday, 14 December 2006 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― jo ga11ucci electrix (joseph), Thursday, 14 December 2006 20:41 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm partway through George Saunders' 'The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil', which is really good, although I'm wondering whether the consistency of theme for each story is going to wear me out before I get to the end of the collection.
― James Morrison (James Morrison), Thursday, 14 December 2006 22:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― tom sandbox west (thomp), Friday, 15 December 2006 03:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dave pacey, Friday, 15 December 2006 06:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim (Tim), Friday, 15 December 2006 13:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― derrick (derrick), Saturday, 16 December 2006 04:15 (seventeen years ago) link
in the inbox are:michael herr-dispatchesdavid mamet-oleannamilan kundera-the book of laughter and forgetting (began this and abandoned for oblomov...it was good but maybe not so much the frame of mind I am in)
― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 16 December 2006 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link
Because he writes over and over again about both Bohemian New York and Blue Collar New York with that characteristic blend of anger and humor that is his alone.
― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Sunday, 17 December 2006 00:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Sunday, 17 December 2006 00:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Casuistry (casuistry), Sunday, 17 December 2006 02:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Sunday, 17 December 2006 05:25 (seventeen years ago) link
All my reading might be doomed now that I have borrowed Martin M.'s PS2 for Katamari-rolling purposes.
― Casuistry (casuistry), Sunday, 17 December 2006 09:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Sunday, 17 December 2006 15:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― derrick (derrick), Sunday, 17 December 2006 23:09 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1401210821?ie=UTF8&tag=artandlies-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1401210821
thanks dad. i love the graduation present.
― hm (modestmickey), Monday, 18 December 2006 04:37 (seventeen years ago) link
hahahahaha! See you in the spring sometime :) Once I get home again (possibly tomorrow), I still have to send you that "thing" for MM.
― jaq (jaq), Monday, 18 December 2006 06:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link
Maybe I should visit V before school starts up again.
― Casuistry (casuistry), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 03:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Hurting (A-Ron Hubbard), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 04:46 (seventeen years ago) link
now i'm finishing daphne du maurier's 'don't look now' and other stories.
― derrick (derrick), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 10:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 04:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 04:52 (seventeen years ago) link
And I'm getting the Penguin Russian Short Stories collection tomorrow too. Right now I'm reading Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim in a final surrender to Sedaris mania and Pamuk's My Name is Red for a book club.
― Arethusa (Arethusa), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 05:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Meg Busset (Meg Busset), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 12:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― tom is not at home, Wednesday, 3 January 2007 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link
Am reading Gerard Woodward's 'August' now, which I'm loving, though I'm getting to the very bleak (but still very funny) parts. Before that I reading henning Mankell's 'Depths', which reminded me of a subzero (literally and emotionally) Tom Ripley, and the Persephone books reissue of the clever and gripping 'The Expendable Man' by Dorothy hughes.
― James Morrison (James Morrison), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 22:14 (seventeen years ago) link
I finished the Sedaris yesterday and have started John McGahern's Amongst Women. I read about his works in the TLS and thought he sounded like someone I'd want to read. I was right. His clear, authentic, piercing style makes a deep impression on me. I always feel sad that I learn about such great authors after their death.
― Arethusa (Arethusa), Thursday, 4 January 2007 23:44 (seventeen years ago) link