what are you reading today?

[into the rain]

Also, what is the best collection of Raymond Carver short stories?

Where I'm Calling From.

It has almost all the stories from his other collections and additional stories that were never published.

[Al K]

[Baeyer-Drewson]

Anyone here have a goodreads account? Need some book friends

[ktothe]

Thanks to this thread I am now diving head first into Richard Price (having just rewatched Clockers also helped). So, thanks.

[NESK]

lush life be the shit.

[e0d9n0b5]

science for dummies

[GOOSHI]

richard price is unfukkwittable

[jyoni]

Anyone here have a goodreads account? Need some book friends

Don't have an account but I'd be willing to start one if you cringe at pansy ass shit. I've been looking for more new stuff rather than re-reading. Jonathan Miles is the only glimmer I've seen, but there has to be more out there.

Anyway, starting this again, will probably go through the pile.

[bfan]

first one from murakami that i've read, and I have to say I think he's a bit overrated. then again I finally finished gravity's rainbow recently, so my standards are pretty skewed right now.

[jyoni]

Yeah, a bit.

[samsikle]

i go through binges of reading. i'll read a ton of books then not read for a really long time. anyways

just finished this

and i just got this lol, not much for reading but i like fun facts.

[HBlack]

recently realized reading is a ton of fun

stereotypical selection? having a great time with all of them, it's a fairly self-expplanatory progression between each, thinking of reading dune next

[into the rain]

it's for class.

[MGC3]

just finished:

so good, love the way Hesse is able to express the struggles the human mind and personality can go through so well. Probably going to read the Glass Bead Game next.

[gramps]

Good sportswriting is like hen's teeth.

[AntiHero84]

[scubademon]

girl who kicked the hornet's nest

[gramps]

Now onto:

Despite being the author of quote I seem to be incorrigibly compelled to repeat when drunk ("no one calls my dog a faggot.") I think Norman Mailer was a over-opinionated, maniacal misogynist. When people talk about the Dead White Men of American letters, I have some sympathy for Bellows, Updike et al. But Mailer I'd toss into the fire. That being said, when he writes about something he truly, honestly loves, like Boxing, I can see what's there to like. This book's pretty good.

[ericdw]

[NESK]

can we discuss imperial bedrooms now that all the fanboys are through it?

[ericdw]

i'm actually still waiting for it via amazon, but don't wait for me. thanks for the spoiler alert.

[denimdestroyedmylife]

why don't you start an imperial bedrooms thread?

i like sifting through this one without having to avoid spoilers

i poked through Calvino's italian folktales jumpoff last night

enjoyable in a 1001 nights kind of way

nice break from Proust anyway

[american_hearts]

[gramps]

To tranquilize my employment woes.

[e_train]

[wild style]

[NESK]

why don't you start an imperial bedrooms thread?

cause all the lit nerd already have a thread to congregate in. and theres been enough discussion of the book already to warrant further dissection.

if you just havnt read it yet, i can wait.

[jyoni]

[Baeyer-Drewson]

Considering going to this event as an excuse to grab a signed copy of Imperial Bedrooms. Worth AU$27 entry? I'm broke at the moment, suddenly former non-decisions become choices to be made

[gramps]

A theme has emerged.