Book Club

[NESK]

i might could read some rushdie with yall

[mpcec]

Lets do it, I'll pick it up tomorrow.

[Servo2000]

I'm going to check Borders tomorrow to see if they've got a paperback copy otherwise I'll get it off Amazon marketplace tomorrow evening.

[Halifamous]

Well I read it.

Anyone else?

[broneck]

Good club!

[mpcec]

I bought it... didn't read it though.

[Bislane]

I'm still reading, enjoying.

subscribed to thread in case this goes anywhere

[Halifamous]

It won't.

We might as well state we're reading the Koran. I mean, no-one is going to get through it anyway, so lets go big.

[broneck]

I am reading the quran right now. It sucks.

[Servo2000]

Bought it from Amazon used and it still hasn't arrived. I'm beginning to suspect that it may not. If I get over to Borders anytime soon I'll just pick up a new copy and read it - I'm a fast reader so I bet I can finish it the next week. I'll try and get it this weekend.

[Halifamous]

It's short and easy. Just keep the charcters straight, a-rab names confuse me.

[NESK]

yo gimme your copy and ill kill it in a couple days.

[Servo2000]

We should do Show Adult next it's only $500 on amazon and otherwise impossible to find

How does Sotos make any money?

[broneck]

Anyone else happen to be in the midst of infinite jest and looking for some discussion?

[american_hearts]

I'll talk about that book all day

[broneck]

I'm about 125 pages in. I didn't expect it to be this funny. I'm starting to think Infinite Jest isn't really a particularly clever title, but just a straight-up description of the book.

[american_hearts]

keep going. it's funny, but in a way that's more sad than funny, and in a way that's more real than sad, and then you see it's all the same thing and it's all anyone feels all the time.

[NESK]

clo - the levels to the title havnt even really exposed themselves to you yet. you havnt really started working until about 1/3 through. then it gets better by becoming significantly harder to decipher for a while.

[broneck]

Hit the 1/3rd mark. "infinite jest" is fucking right, never before have I been jerked around so hard by an author. you wish he was alive and within reach so you could call him and say "by the way, I SKIPPED THAT REALLY LONG END NOTE!" but you know he wouldn't care anyway, which is what makes it really frustrating.

[Bislane]

So I finally finished shame today,

when omar was shot the first time I didn't care because he tried to confess, but then when he was still alive I was glad for some reason. When sufiya chomped his head off however I didn't know what to think. but it was a great ending.

Besides a couple of slow spots a little after the midway point I don't know why this book took me 4+ months to read, Book V was :eek: with rushdie's exploration of alternate realities and everything. sad about raza tho

[american_hearts]

Hit the 1/3rd mark. "infinite jest" is fucking right, never before have I been jerked around so hard by an author. you wish he was alive and within reach so you could call him and say "by the way, I SKIPPED THAT REALLY LONG END NOTE!" but you know he wouldn't care anyway, which is what makes it really frustrating.

The thing is, he would care. He cared more than any other author you could consider a contemporary.

[Baeyer-Drewson]

Anyone down for Gravity's Rainbow book club in the near future? Will set date soon. So far:

Me

NESK

Hahaha probably needs a few more members before it can be properly considered a "club"

[FranklinCosgrove]

You know I'm down. Reading it right now.

[Servo2000]

I've read gravities rainbow but would definitely bust it out for a discussion / would join in if people pick another book. Reading The Savage Detectives / White Noise / Infinte Jest right now. Almost done with the first two, about halfway through infinite jest and saving the rest for plane rides in the next month or two.

[broneck]

I'm not yet halfway through but I'm going another round at infinite jest with a crony of mine.

next is the Corrections but I really need to do white noise as well.

Thoughts on Jest so far servo?

[mpcec]

White Noise is great! I own Gravities Rainbow and have read the first 50 pages probably ten times over the last few years but something always distracts me...

[NESK]

i could redo white noise in a metter of hours if need be.

[Baeyer-Drewson]

Picked up HC 1st ed of White Noise at a garage sale when I was about 14. Had no idea who Delillo was, and had never read any heavy lit. Needless to say, it blew me away. Want to read it again soon.

Savage Detectives is also on my shelf, but 2666 took almost all of a weekend away, and then a few several-hour sessions...

[NESK]

i met teh producers of the cosmopolis film the other day, they came into my work with pual giamatti, im pretty pumped to see that film realized even if i have to endure RPAT for it. i think white noise was my first delillo, but it may have been great jones street.

[NESK]

...and the one take 1 vs 30 dudes with a hammer scene is recreated because theres no brothers on the wall so homeboy s has to keep it real.