hey estela guess what

the ballad of peckham rye is one of my favourite books, i <3 muriel spark, she is so evil and funny.

AND

:) !!!

The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett

a favorite

"I don't like crooks, and even if I did, I wouldn't like crooks that are stool-pigeons, and if i liked crooks that are stool-pigeons, I still wouldn't like you."

t.c. boyle's 'road to wellville' (about kellogg and his sanitarium). this is the 3rd novel of his i've read - not totally loving his stuff, but they're easy to digest. his short stories are waaaaaay better - really weird and unpredictable.

i really liked World's End waaaay back when i read it - 20 years ago? but i heard him read one of his short stories on npr after that which sounded horrible, and the reviews of his other novels made me think maybe he just had one good book in him

'tooth and claw' is amazing - it's the first collection of his i read. there's a story about a down-on-his-luck guy who ends up agreeing to buy this mountain lion (i think? or some other big cat) from some old guy at a bar, and what happens when he gets it home is just bizarre.

ytth told me he teaches/taught at USC and is apparently a really arrogant asshole.

yeah i saw him read at a bookstore in LA and hes a real pompous jackass

i saw dave eggers at a reading on saturday - for all the ilx hatred of him, he's actually a very affable guy, not smug or anything. is it just some kind of weird jealousy thing that ppl hate him?

the reading was full of annoying old ppl who asked stupid questions at the end.

i think people mostly hate him due to the whole narcissism of small differences thing

Berlin, Pierre Frei

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I'm at the chapter where gay guys inherit their shallow, passive, childlike nature from their oppressed housewife mothers. I'm half-convinced that Betty wasn't a homophobe at all — she just really, really hated Tennessee Williams.

(er, great book in almost all other respects...)

that's interesting, unreg! i always meant to read that but never got around to it. i'm curious about it.

i think i am secretly interested in outdated pseudopsychology too

the early history of dream interpretation fascinates me, probably because I did a project on it in lolinto to psych. like there was this 19th century French psychologist/philosopher who believed dreams were our way of expelling (peeing & pooping, in technical terms) wasteful images from the brain. and he thought people who didn't dream went loony because their brains were overstuffed with useless memories that had no outlet for escape. I'd pay good money for a bathroom reader full of batshit psych theories, & I'm sure such a thing exists somewhere...

"lolintro to psych," even

intro to the interpretation of dreams has some good overviews of previous dream theories.
i should get back on that book... i read it in bits and pieces.

yeah, I read the entire intro & some excerpts assigned by the class, but I've been meaning for a long time to get through the whole book on my own time. eh, summer probably isn't the best time to read Important Books that Changed the Way We Live. I feel like I should be using this time to catch up on all the Matt Christopher books I didn't get to read in elementary school.

i also read the entire intro and some excerpts and now i have the book and i didn't read it. i also have the mass psychology of fascism by wilhelm reich and i have not read that either, but i know i would like it. i don't read books when i own them! but i like that stuff. i don't like science fiction but i like crazy theories.

somebody gave me sexual personae a few years ago and i haven't read it bc i am scared but i tried to ask about it once on ile and it resulted in a huge clusterfuck.

thats because its a stupid ridiculous book written by a challops robot

yeah i'm not curious about that one at all

i'm trying to weed some books out of my collection including a bunch my mom got me for xmas that i never read so i'm reading a book about a lady who got divorced and built a cabin for herself in the adirondacks and just lived there and carried a gun and stuff. i don't know why i never read it before but now i am thinking maybe i should do the same thing..............

the first step is finding a husband to ditch.

don't remind me, estela

any old no good will do.

the death of a beekeeper by lars gustafsson
i've had it for like 6-7 years. so so swedish. good though.

now i am reading "as far as my feet will carry me." it's very riveting. it has everything i like including mining and long treks.

the extraordinary true story of one man's escape from a siberian labor camp, btw

^^^would read!

estela i am mostly reading magazines. at least i'm getting paid to

do you have the 10 steps to a brand new you! down now?

no but i been takin a lot of Cosmo quizzes and also i know soooo much about the leads in Twilight

do u know how to please ur man

wakeup BJ?

*scribbles notes*

oh my

label this thread nsfw please

today i read part of a large print romance over an old lady's shoulder in the waiting room at the doctor's, a spirited girl called cassandra had accidentally offended a duke and an older woman was advising her about what to do next, she said ordinarily she would never countenance anything so forward as a young woman of her station commencing a correspondence with a gentleman but this time was different because an explanation was warranted, so they wrote him a letter saying he could come and see them to get filled in and then they waited around all day for the return post which arrived at last but unfortunately his reply was two curt lines saying no explanation was necessary, signed A.D., so it all seemed pretty hopeless just as it should at the 67% mark. i didn't get any further with the story because i became distracted by the old lady's bookmark, which was a long list of capitalised praise words like wise, heroic, altruistic, top-notch, erudite, virtuous, excellent, remarkable- it was nice, i guessed a friend or a grandchild had given it to her, then i realised it was an acrostic that spelled out WHATEVER.

i love reading

whatever

estela is WHATEVER

i heard a woman in my store on friday, chasing her little girl round, yell out YOU LITTLE ROTTER and i thought of estela and loled

i love that word.

hey estela i finished heart of darkness yesterday but i don't think i understood it.

q for english majors: how many papers did u write about heart of darkness being racist in college

i personally wrote 3, also i got in a VERY heated argument with a red-faced british exchange student who insisted that heart of darkness wasnt racist, because conrad was actually in africa, and was writing the truth about the cannibalistic savages living deep in the heart of the congo

i suppose one of those papers was more about how vs naipaul was racist, with conrads racism as a corollary

it was a VERY good paper by the way

i am re-reading neuromancer for the millionth time and loving it