[Adilegian]

[Ronnoc]

I don't think it was copyrighted, and the article did say anyone could read them if they went there.

[Adilegian]

[Winona Ghost Ryder]

Thomas Pynchon's technical writing for Boeing.

[amadeus3000]

Stephen King is most certainly not literature. But does one have to read him? So far I made sure to avoid his works, but I still keep wondering: Has he written any good books? And which three should I get, if any?

[Ronnoc]

I thought his latest book was pretty good, you might want to just go with that. The Shinning and Pet Semetery would be my other recommendations off the top of my head.

[amadeus3000]

Ok thanks, might be the perfect easy summer reading. And with the weather looking rather bleak I should get into the right mood.

[boojiboy7]

Just keep in mind how much the dude needs a good editor. Which is to say BADLY.

[Winona Ghost Ryder]

Jose Saramago died last Friday ;_;
He was truly one of the best living writers. I highly recommend The Year of The Death of Ricardo Reis, Blindness, and The Gospel According to Jesus Christ.

[Dracko]

:(

If you want a good laugh, though...

[Winona Ghost Ryder]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jul/19/lawyers-open-unpublished-kafka-manuscripts

[Ronnoc]

:o

[Adilegian]

So this is kind of a big deal to some.
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[Dracko]

Stating the obvious.
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[Winona Ghost Ryder]

Ishiguro and Coetzee are the only contemporary non-american english writers that strike my fancy. Any recommendations?

Also Martin Amis

Is

An

Ass

[Dracko]

David Britton.


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[Adilegian]

[Winona Ghost Ryder]

I've just finished The Jokers by Albert Cossery. It's about a varied group of dissidents in an unnamed Middle Eastern city, who decide to create subversive pro-government propaganda as a means to undermine the state. The novel is ironic to the bone, and is able to display it in such a powerful yet effortless way, that it's kind of outstanding.

Before that I read The White Hotel by D.M. Thomas, a novel about a troubled young woman who is treated by Sigmund Freud for a good portion, and eventually succumbs to the holocaust. The structure provides an interesting read in that it begins as a long poem, and heavily uses the epistolary format of letters.

It should also be noted that the later novel is somewhat of a legend in its numerous failed attempts at adaptation by a who's who of directors. It's not surprising to see that Malick (with his unproduced project The English Speaker), and Cronenberg (with A Dangerous Method), were associated with it.

[Adilegian]

Interview with the dude who's being scouted as a potential replacement of Rick Barthelme as the head of the fiction program at my grad alma mater's PhD program. The guy drips with more machismo and snarling than interests me, but I'm curious if anyone here's read his novels.
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[Dracko]

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[elvis.shrugged]

Started reading Gravity's Rainbow yesterday. 25 pages in. Already one of the most fucked-up books I've ever read. Digging it.
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[Shiren the Launderer]

[boojiboy7]

I really need to sit down and read AtD. I should pick up a paperback copy of it, because lugging the hardback around is really a pain in the ass. But, at the same time, I want to reread GR, which is the only longer Pynchon I have finished. We should have a GR book club thing here or something.

[Dracko]

Frank Miller designed a cover for it.



It would be pretty amazing if he ever felt like trying to adapt it.
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[elvis.shrugged]

That's by Frank Miller!? One of the things that drew me to it was how awesome that cover art is. The sleeves and back are amazing, too. The back cover depicts a German D-Day leaflet, showing England being bombed to Hell.

I'm looking forward to slogging through this book. I'm glad to hear that it's worth it.
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[Shiren the Launderer]

Yeah the Penguin graphic classics book covers are done by comic artists.

[Anonymous]

I just happen to have started trawling through this as well. I think this is the third time I've tried - the first time with pencil and paper at hand and its certainly helping. Being a bit anal with books it did rankle initially to scribble on the deluxe penguin edition seeing as its so beautifully put together.

I'm about 120 pages in now the furthest I've got in my three attempts. I'm finding the note taking helps me from zoning out in the longer passages as people seem prone to do with Pynchon and man I'm really enjoying it this time. I've read V and Vineland in this past but this is definitely a step above - the sort of HOLY CHRIST moments you get when he starts tying loads of threads together and the writing starts clouting you in the head with the magnitude of his ideas are on a much higher level here I think.

And it has been pretty fucked up so far but nothing yet as ball-shrivellingly discomforting as the nose-job chapter in V - now theres some fucked up shit.

[Winona Ghost Ryder]

is absolutely amazing. 99 retellings of the same story in styles ranging from olefactory to dog latin.

[Adilegian]

I now have Suttree.

I am going to read Suttree.

It was a toss between this, No Country, and All the Pretty Horses.
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[Dracko]

Good choice.
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[Adilegian]

There is a moonshaped rictus in the streetlamp's globe where a stone has gone and from this aperture there drifts down through the constant helix of aspiring insects a faint and steady rain of the same forms burnt and lifeless.
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[CubaLibre]

Adi I think you will like McCarthy even more than most because of your poetical background.
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Let's Play, starring me.

[Adilegian]

[shrugtheironteacup]

midnight melonmounter
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[Winona Ghost Ryder]

flittermice

[negativedge]

I don't like McCarthy what do I do.

[Winona Ghost Ryder]

b&

[CubaLibre]

[Winona Ghost Ryder]

[negativedge]

but I am good at reading

life, maybe not so much

[Dracko]