i am re-reading neuromancer for the millionth time and loving it
― max max max max, Monday, 10 August 2009 16:35 (fourteen years ago) link
i was not a liberal arts major so i only wrote boring philosophy papers on occasion. it was obviously racist but also somewhat not racist (mostly racist though). but i just felt it didn't live up to the blurbs calling it the worst nightmare or whatever. i mean i kept waiting to get to the most nightmarish part. the ending was like huh? maybe i'm just not smart enough. there are other "great books" i "don't get" so i just throw this one on the pile i guess.
― spite n ease (harbl), Monday, 10 August 2009 17:49 (fourteen years ago) link
law school sort of destroyed my ability to really read things tbh. i read way way too fast and like the way they teach you to read in 3rd grade, look for the "main idea" or whatever.
― spite n ease (harbl), Monday, 10 August 2009 17:50 (fourteen years ago) link
i need to stop or whatevering. WHATEVER.
― spite n ease (harbl), Monday, 10 August 2009 17:52 (fourteen years ago) link
for a lot of people, like for example me, heart of darkness is not a "great book" and maybe there isnt so much to "get" really
― max max max max, Monday, 10 August 2009 18:10 (fourteen years ago) link
also what blurbs have called it "the worst nightmare" except like george plimpton writing in 1944
for example, the thread about oral sex on i love tmi was a "worse nightmare" for me than fuckin heart of darkness
― max max max max, Monday, 10 August 2009 18:17 (fourteen years ago) link
i dunno i don't remember. i don't usually expect books to live up to blurbs really. i feel better that you said it's not so great. i mean i liked it ok but, meh
― spite n ease (harbl), Monday, 10 August 2009 18:21 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah
― max max max max, Monday, 10 August 2009 18:30 (fourteen years ago) link
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― spite n ease (harbl), Monday, 10 August 2009 20:11 (fourteen years ago) link
HOT HOT HOT!
― te,he (tehresa), Monday, 10 August 2009 20:41 (fourteen years ago) link
i wrote one paper about heart of darkness for a post-colonial/colonial lit paper. i did not like the book - way way too grim.
― smoove operator, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 02:11 (fourteen years ago) link
hey estela guess what
― jergins, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 02:33 (fourteen years ago) link
estela, plz guess! the suspense is killing me!
― te,he (tehresa), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 02:58 (fourteen years ago) link
i guess not.
― estela, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 03:09 (fourteen years ago) link
tsk
― te,he (tehresa), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 03:39 (fourteen years ago) link
" "
― estela, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 06:24 (fourteen years ago) link
but it wasn't that grim imo :(
― spite n ease (harbl), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 10:48 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm reading 'the selected works of ts spivet" - it's pretty good so far. not much about it on ilx except for one person who doesn't like it and some others who agreed that it sounds stupid.
― ytth, Sunday, 16 August 2009 02:49 (fourteen years ago) link
not really a book that id expect ilx to like frankly
― max max max max, Sunday, 16 August 2009 15:24 (fourteen years ago) link
just finished:veronica by mary gaitskillduplicate keys by jane smiley
both v v good - mostly character-driven, introverted stories. the smiley was a sort of airport thriller, in terms of the basic plot outline, but was actually an interesting study of friendships and relationships.
― smoove operator, Sunday, 16 August 2009 17:58 (fourteen years ago) link
jaq, what was the name of that kansas/republicans book you were talking about? i think i will read it.
― te,he (tehresa), Sunday, 16 August 2009 19:32 (fourteen years ago) link
What's the Matter with Kansas? by Thomas Frank - it's kind of dated, published about 5 years ago.
― jaq, Sunday, 16 August 2009 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link
i like 2 read
― spite n ease (harbl), Saturday, 26 September 2009 20:26 (fourteen years ago) link
me 2
even tho the books i'm reading i am not loving
book about soccer formationsmemoir about a guy's mom
― jergins, Sunday, 27 September 2009 00:01 (fourteen years ago) link
i am almost done with go tell it on the mountain. i read so slow these days :(
― spite n ease (harbl), Sunday, 27 September 2009 17:25 (fourteen years ago) link
i am almost done with the human stain
― spite n ease (harbl), Friday, 2 October 2009 14:06 (fourteen years ago) link
was disappointed by the meaning of the title. i thought it was about a man who was little more than a stain.
― spite n ease (harbl), Friday, 2 October 2009 14:07 (fourteen years ago) link
lxy: i finally remembered that author's name!!! it's MINETTE WALTERS
― smoove operator, Monday, 12 October 2009 00:02 (fourteen years ago) link
the human stain was bad btw, don't read itnow i am reading "memoirs of an anti-semite" and i like it
― spite n ease (harbl), Monday, 12 October 2009 01:34 (fourteen years ago) link
i read most of the human stain. wish i hadn't.
― lxy, Monday, 12 October 2009 07:34 (fourteen years ago) link
i kept reading it because i wanted to know what would happen but every time something happened i was like UGH WTF even though when things happened in that book i thought "what's the point of this happening"
― spite n ease (harbl), Monday, 12 October 2009 13:00 (fourteen years ago) link
i re-started that amelia earhart and was more into it this time but then i forgot about it again. i am determined to read middelsex, which has gone from sitting near bed in ny to sitting near bed in seattle without more than 5 pages being read. gah. years i've been trying to read this book!
also really wanna read the james hamilton patterson stuff.
i am bad at reading :(
― te,he (tehresa), Monday, 12 October 2009 17:26 (fourteen years ago) link
james hamilton patterson will be fumigated 4 u.
― jaq, Monday, 12 October 2009 18:09 (fourteen years ago) link
aw <3feeling better?
― te,he (tehresa), Monday, 12 October 2009 18:14 (fourteen years ago) link
I've upgraded to meh. Mr. Jaq is still deep in the viral clutches.
― jaq, Monday, 12 October 2009 19:13 (fourteen years ago) link
the used bookshjop on dixon gave me $15 credit for three books. good!
the clerks got in a funny discussion about carbon footprints and how not having a baby is the best way to reduce ur footprint. i snickered as i looked through the stacks
― jergins, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 08:33 (fourteen years ago) link
the thin manthe miracle of castel di sangrowhat i loved
from 'what i loved'
Lucille's complaints were banal-the familiar stuff of joyless intimacy. I've always thought that love thrives on a ceratin kind of distance, that it requires an awed seperateness to continue. Without that necessary remove, the physical minutiae of the other person grows ugly in its magnification
― jergins, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 08:35 (fourteen years ago) link
still working on memoirs but it has 5 parts so i take breaks in betweenreading because it is bitter and because it's my <3 by joyce carol oates
― spite n ease (harbl), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 12:21 (fourteen years ago) link
i really liked 'what i loved'!
i finished two alice munro short story collections (she is amazing, maybe the best short story writer ever, can't wait for the new book coming soon!), 'the things they carried' by tim o'brien (v v good kind of war-story vignettes), and 'bad behavior' by mary gaitskill. now onto a collection of essays by siri hustvedt and 'another you' by ann beattie.
― smoove operator, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 15:29 (fourteen years ago) link
i like that excerpt!
― te,he (tehresa), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 19:25 (fourteen years ago) link
hey, if you're into a book, and read it before bed, how long after you wake up do you start thinking about it?
― jergins, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 22:00 (fourteen years ago) link
i hate (like) when i wake up on a saturday or sunday and pick up the book again right away and lay in bed for 2 hours being really hungry and really having to pee. i don't know the answer to your question but i think it is 0 seconds. i'm going to go read a book and drink rum drink in my bed.
― spite n ease (harbl), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 00:49 (fourteen years ago) link
sounds like the life
― jergins, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 02:17 (fourteen years ago) link
drink rum drink is fun to read
― te,he (tehresa), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 02:55 (fourteen years ago) link
closest i've come to crying @ a book in a looooong time
― jergins, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 08:12 (fourteen years ago) link
sandbox book club pick
― spite n ease (harbl), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 13:22 (fourteen years ago) link
crying because it moved you or crying because you hated it so much??
i think i mentioned this on an ILB thread, but one of my favourite things about hustvedt's writing is how she slips in all these really sinister events and stuff, but in the end they're really only marginal to the story - they're never what the plot revolves around.
― smoove operator, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 15:27 (fourteen years ago) link
i am very intrigued by this book.
― te,he (tehresa), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 17:42 (fourteen years ago) link