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the Aeneid of Virgil
good casual toilet reading
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He can die?
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It's funny. I started with some of Ballard's more recent stuff years and years ago, not getting to his older work until more recently. Almost exactly a year ago I bought a copy of Crash in an english book store in Chiang Mai, finally read it in a security booth in Alaska.

Picked up the Crystal World and related after returning to Oregon and read them before the new year.

It was like he grew younger and more vital as time went on.
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I appreciate Hard Target because JCVD will shoot someone fifteen time in the chest with his beretta and then decide that it's still necessary to spin-kick them in the face.

Just to be sure.

He does this multiple times.

There's a work print floating about the internet that's longer and may have even more exposition, possibly more mayhem too idk I never had the patience.

Hey guys I'm rereading Sutree.
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When I was at the family Thanksgiving in Pierce, Idaho last year everyone was talking about how, if Palin were too run for president, they would vote for her.
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Hey Louis L'Amour is big in northern Idaho too maybe there is an inexplicable family reunion all the way in Texas that I wasn't told about.
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a dictionary of borges
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But.
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What curious purposing of cliches.
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I like The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea. It reflects interestingly on the absurd contrivance of his life and character.

I tend to have a copy of Sun and Steel around. It's a little embarrassing.
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Hello selectfuton.

I have very slow internet for up to five minutes.

Here:

-Richard K. Morgan likes adverbs too much, could use to be more comfortable with being trash

-The Invention of Morel reminds me of the twenty-seven year-old virgin I live/work with who won't stop watching the Disney channel (as did Last Year at Marienbad go figure)

-I want to read some of the gay shit from The Wild Boys at open mic night at a local bar and see how long it takes before mountain guides and/or train employees drag me away from the mic

-the guy I work with that used to work with my grandparents/uncle at the mill was reading The Killer Angels and of-a-sudden shouted FUCK THIS FLOWERY SHIT and threw the book across the kitchen; approved of a vietnam war memoir because the author describes killing a man by tearing off his testicles

Yours,

Shrug
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midnight melonmounter
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In closing out Jerry Cornelius proves surprisingly poignant.
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Enjoy him making his metaphors even more painfully explicit than usual in The Crystal World.
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I am trying to read a Paul Auster book that isn't The Invention of Solitude or The New York Trilogy.

It is making me so mad why am I doing this
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X-posted from that other more-travelled subforum because why not:

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drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead
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I often long for a free-roaming Dead Man game.
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Dostoyevsky is best because he wrote Notes from Underground

and Notes from Underground is short

and I am so lazy
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The latter's very clever and otherwise worthless.
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how odd
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I am reading Janet Frame's Intensive Care on the recommendation of another and it's kind of devastating.
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