sandbox library study time

i just checked out

Salmon of Doubt - Douglas Adams
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul - ditto
House of Leaves - Danielewski
Steppenwolf - Hesse

i need to buy a copy of the black dahlia at some point, i need to wipe the memory of the film clean away.

The Painted Veil - Somerset Maugham

i didn't like Hunger.

right now reading:
orhan pamuk "my name is red"

on deck:
david fromkin "a peace to end all peace: the fall of the ottoman empire and the creation of the modern middle east"
carlos fuentes "inez"
hesse "journey to the east" (still trying to get into hesse; what am i missing?)

i didn't like Hunger either. i am finishing The End of the Affair by Graham Greene, which is quite excellent

not sure about hunger. not sure about hesse, either. inspired by the cinema thread, i checked out edward burtynsky's 'manufactured landscapes' from the library. also: 'city of darkness: life in kowloon walled city'.

if my emp paper proposal gets accepted i'm gonna do a thing on the mozart playing handel on the radio part from steppenwolf.

I am reading Andre Breton's Nadja, which I have not read in quite a while.

Cosmic Trigger I - Robert Anton Wilson
The Wisdom of Sun Ra: Polemical Broadsheets and Streetcorner Leaflets - Sun Ra
Prometheus Rising - Robert Anton Wilson
Port of Saints - William S. Burroughs
Cosmic Trigger II - Robert Anton Wilson

Hunger is one of my favorite books of ever. Smart, funny and very relatable in describing its protagonistst's state of mind. Kinda endearing, even.

Almost Transparent Blue is porn. Grim, depressing sado porn. Hysterical, moralizing, tough-guy porn. On the other hand, it's fun, nasty & hot, and you can read it in about an hour. Which, I guess, is about all you hope for from text-wank... Coin Locker Babies isn't necessarily any better, but WAY more inventive, and the phony "I'm so much cooler than you" vibe is a lot less intense: therefore less annoying. Haven't read In the Miso Soup.

House of Leaves is maddening. Bad, good, bewildering, pretentious, brilliant, incoherent, etc. Kind of a magic eye thing. You have to cross your eyes funny.

The Black Dahlia is great. The book, I mean. Haven't seen the film. Won't.

At the moment, I'm reading Pamhuk, too. The Black Book. Is insanely great. One of the best I've read in years. Slooooow going, though.

On the side, I'm chewing through Lem's The Cyberiad, Borges' Labyrinths and Calvino's Invisible Cities. Read 'em all a bunch of times, but I like to read a few pages here and there every once in a while, just to keep in touch.

Waiting to read an omnibus of early Naguib Mahfouz novels. Looks dense...

Hooray for Cosmic Triggers & Prometheus Rising! I enjoyed those way more than much more popular Illuminatus/Shroedinger's Cat trilogies. Prometheus Rising makes me feel like a superman.

If you guys didn't see it on real ilx Office thread, Rainn Wilson (Dwight Schrute) is RAW's son btw.

Soooo boring, lately:
The Invention of Tradition, by Hobsbawm and Ranger
American Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s, by Isserman and Kazin

About to start:
Language and Gender, by Eckert and McConnell-Ginet

xpost: hells yes! Illumantus/etc:Cosmic Trigger/etc::Tropics:N/PL/Sexus
I'm gearing up to tackle something major like Gurdjieff or Finnegans Wake so I'm warming up the engine with RAW.
That Sun Ra book is a major doozie...

where does one get such a sun ra book? ebay?

I gots it thru amazon