currently reading?

I am currently reading a collection of all of poes works.
I have also started re reading some of the books of blood by clive barker.

The complete hitchiker's guide to the galaxy
And I just finished Half empty by david rakoff which was fantastic. Its a series of essays about the nature of negativity for the most part, and argues that negativity isn't necessarily worse than positivity and both are acceptable ways to deal with problems.

just started the original script of kerouac's on the road. this fucker is one entire paragraph, it kinda sucks.

chrislynch wrote:The complete hitchiker's guide to the galaxy

Favorite book ever.

I'm rereading Mick Foley's second book, Foley is Good.

A The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy reference might be one of my first tattoos, if I ever get any. Been one of my favorite series since I was 11. I was reading them through again, but I took a break to read other authors after The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe.
I just finished Mother Night by Vonnegut, and I'm currently reading The White Tiger by Arivand Adiga and When You Are Engulfed In Flames by David Sedaris. Both are pretty good so far.

got all these for christmas. i've only cracked the first two. have a nice day is cool but a pretty good read is really underwhelming and more of a lengthly review of their records than a biography. really disappointed in that.

Less Than Zero is his best book in my opinion. Imperial Bedrooms, the supposed sequel, reads too much like Glamorama and Lunar Park. And has a very, very haunting chapter. Not in a good way. I wish Ellis went back to writing things like Less Than Zero and Rules Of Attraction, although I very much did enjoy Glamorama.

brummy wrote:just started the original script of kerouac's on the road. this fucker is one entire paragraph, it kinda sucks.

Do you feel like a paragraph change makes reading more interesting? I ask because i have this same problem, if I read something and a paragraph is really long I get discombobulated, so I could only imagine what just one long paragraph would do to me.

i really love all of mick foley's books. super entertaining, and whoda thunk, he's actually a fantastic writer.

damienthulhu wrote:

brummy wrote:just started the original script of kerouac's on the road. this fucker is one entire paragraph, it kinda sucks.

Do you feel like a paragraph change makes reading more interesting? I ask because i have this same problem, if I read something and a paragraph is really long I get discombobulated, so I could only imagine what just one long paragraph would do to me.

having it be one paragraph doesnt make it any less interesting, just a lot more difficult to read. i actually got pretty used to it once i got a few pages in.

the worst part about the book is that it's not finished. at the very end it claims kerouac's friend's dog got a hold of the last few pages of the original transcript, so the publisher of this version included what he thought the last few pages might be based on the first released draft.

i am reading a collection tolstoy's short stories currently. well, reading it again.

d.Nihl wrote:

oh man, how is that? there's a movie about this shit coming out supposedly in june called the last mountain. im glad more and more people are hearing about this now, shits gotten out of hand

also, rereading the wasteland by t.s. eliot.*

*read as, trying to make more sense of the wasteland by t.s. eliot.

Eliot is great. Every couple of years I reread The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock. Every time I read it it means something different.

brummy wrote:

d.Nihl wrote:

oh man, how is that? there's a movie about this shit coming out supposedly in june called the last mountain. im glad more and more people are hearing about this now, shits gotten out of hand

I'm liking it so far. It's a journalistic account of the Mountain Justice Summer stuff from a couple of years ago. The author's style makes it seem less like you're just absorbing facts, and it spends a lot of effort in giving various activists a connection with the reader. Also, the book does a good job of showing West Virginian's tendency to be weary of outsiders coming in, whether they're here to "help" or not.

I had been trying to find this book back in Huntington for a while, but never could. My first week living in New York, I found it in a bookstore near my apartment. Friends of mine out in Washington have been praising this book, as well. It's weird that a lot of West Virginian's I hang around with don't give a shit about this stuff, but people on the other side of the country do.

I'd like to find more things to read pertaining to coal mining, unionization, and mountain top removal. I'd definitely make a point to check out that movie, too!

d.Nihl wrote:

brummy wrote:

d.Nihl wrote:

oh man, how is that? there's a movie about this shit coming out supposedly in june called the last mountain. im glad more and more people are hearing about this now, shits gotten out of hand

I'm liking it so far. It's a journalistic account of the Mountain Justice Summer stuff from a couple of years ago. The author's style makes it seem less like you're just absorbing facts, and it spends a lot of effort in giving various activists a connection with the reader. Also, the book does a good job of showing West Virginian's tendency to be weary of outsiders coming in, whether they're here to "help" or not.

I had been trying to find this book back in Huntington for a while, but never could. My first week living in New York, I found it in a bookstore near my apartment. Friends of mine out in Washington have been praising this book, as well. It's weird that a lot of West Virginian's I hang around with don't give a shit about this stuff, but people on the other side of the country do.

I'd like to find more things to read pertaining to coal mining, unionization, and mountain top removal. I'd definitely make a point to check out that movie, too!

that's surprising cause ive always thought we were the only ones who knew and/or cared about mtr. it's cool to see people all over the country talking about it, though, maybe something will actually get done.

coal river by michael shnayerson and the buffalo creek disaster by gerald stern are both pretty good books on the topic. theyre mostly about legal battles, especially the latter.

Hoarse Pat wrote:Eliot is great. Every couple of years I reread The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock. Every time I read it it means something different.

exactly, that's something i like about him a lot.

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