Randy Reed 0 Posted July 27, 2009 Share Posted July 27, 2009 If you like Gibson, you will probably like Neil Stephenson. Cryptonomicon was excellent.I read Anathem and really enjoyed it. I have to put that on the list.I guess I'll check out Gibson as well as Infinate Jest.Currently on Scarpetta (reading) and Pillars of the Earth by Follett (audio). Link to post Share on other sites
Graydon 0 Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris Link to post Share on other sites
Dirtydutch 8 Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 Holidays on Ice by David SedarisI like Sedaris a bunch in the right doses. His Esquire columns were intermittently hysterical. Link to post Share on other sites
Graydon 0 Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 I like Sedaris a bunch in the right doses. His Esquire columns were intermittently hysterical.I like nearly all of his work. "SantaLand Diaries" and the story where they tried to get their youngest sister ran over were pretty hilarious. Link to post Share on other sites
Jadaki 0 Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 Currently reading The Gang They Couldn't Catch: The Story of America's Greatest Modern-Day Bank Robbers-And How They Got Away With ItI'm reading it because book is the story of a guy I play poker with regularly. It's nice to know the FBI still follows him around, especially since I talk to the guy 3-4 times a week. Link to post Share on other sites
Graydon 0 Posted August 10, 2009 Share Posted August 10, 2009 Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs. There were a couple pretty graphic chapters in there about Augusten's young sex life...Still a hilarious memoir IMO. Link to post Share on other sites
BigDMcGee 3,352 Posted August 10, 2009 Share Posted August 10, 2009 I'm reading The family about a group of power brokering Evangelical christians in DC..http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Family_%2...organization%29this books is giving me the creeps. Link to post Share on other sites
Dirtydutch 8 Posted August 10, 2009 Share Posted August 10, 2009 McGee turned me on to some graphic novels, with mostly fantastic results. Most nobably:- The Preacher- Transmetropolitan - Sandman Link to post Share on other sites
frautotenkinder 1,025 Posted August 10, 2009 Share Posted August 10, 2009 McGee turned me on to some graphic novels, with mostly fantastic results. Most nobably:- The Preacher- Transmetropolitan - SandmanThe graphic novel series I'm loving is Fables, by Bill Willingham. Recommend highly. Link to post Share on other sites
CaneBrain 95 Posted August 10, 2009 Share Posted August 10, 2009 Preacher graphic novels are very good.My wife picked up "God is not great" by Christopher Hitchens. I am sure Crow, VB, LLY et al could give me a good synopsis but I am looking forward to reading it. Link to post Share on other sites
GeneralGeeWhiz 0 Posted August 10, 2009 Share Posted August 10, 2009 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Link to post Share on other sites
runthemover 39 Posted August 11, 2009 Share Posted August 11, 2009 posting of graphic novels, I read 100 Bullets a few weeks ago. =thumbs up=, of course.as I said elsewhere, I read the latest Psych book (no not a textbook sillies) called Mind Over Magic. the author is quite good at capturing the spirit of the show. it really feels like an episode which is seemingly quite a difficult task.I'm just starting Seinfeld's Seinlanguage book (I've read it before). Link to post Share on other sites
BigDMcGee 3,352 Posted August 11, 2009 Share Posted August 11, 2009 The graphic novel series I'm loving is Fables, by Bill Willingham. Recommend highly.I love Fables a whole lotposting of graphic novels, I read 100 Bullets a few weeks ago. =thumbs up=, of course.as I said elsewhere, I read the latest Psych book (no not a textbook sillies) called Mind Over Magic. the author is quite good at capturing the spirit of the show. it really feels like an episode which is seemingly quite a difficult task.I'm just starting Seinfeld's Seinlanguage book (I've read it before).100 bullets, not so much. I liked the way it started off, but I lost interest in it quickly when it didnt' seem to go anywhere. Link to post Share on other sites
Dirtydutch 8 Posted August 11, 2009 Share Posted August 11, 2009 The graphic novel series I'm loving is Fables, by Bill Willingham. Recommend highly. I love Fables a whole lotI'll add it to the queue. 100 bullets, not so much. I liked the way it started off, but I lost interest in it quickly when it didnt' seem to go anywhere.It sounds interesting to me as a man of revenge, so I'm still adding it to the queue. Link to post Share on other sites
LongLiveYorke 38 Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 WTF?Anyone a Thomas Pynchon fan: Link to post Share on other sites
Dirtydutch 8 Posted August 14, 2009 Share Posted August 14, 2009 WTF?Anyone a Thomas Pynchon fan: Yeah, I haven't started reading it yet, but that video is el-oh-el weird, and I'm not really sure what to expect. Link to post Share on other sites
RonBurgundy 0 Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.great book, as is kesey's other classic 'sometimes a great notion'.been into dostoevsky lately: 'memoirs from the house of the dead'<'notes from underground'<'crime and punishment''brothers karazamov' is probably next in my "serious reading" queue.also read a lil vonnegut to split up the heaviness mentioned above- 'slapstick'it was okay but certainly not near 'slaugherhouse 5'/'cats cradle'/'breakfast of champions' level.just started 'new orleans, mon amour' by andrei cordescu, which is basically a series of vignettes about new orleans. he calls himself a surrealist, and the style lends itself well to that crazy place. Link to post Share on other sites
RonBurgundy 0 Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 Anybody have any suggestions for reading on Linguistics or Stylistics or something?. jacques derrida- 'of grammatology'probably one of the most influential books of the past half-century (within the field at least) Link to post Share on other sites
RonBurgundy 0 Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 also, i would delve into infinite jest but the hardcover copy i have (recently stolen from a beach house where its absence will go unknown among the orgy of romance/action/spy novels) is currently maintaining my tv in an upright position.also, a little intimidated by the sheer size of it.i did read a collection of DFW's essays, consider the lobster and really enjoyed it (although if pretension had a voice, his would be in the running).there are worse things than pretension after all. idiocy, for one. Link to post Share on other sites
LadyGrey 6 Posted August 16, 2009 Author Share Posted August 16, 2009 I'm on Hocus Pocus by Vonnegut right now. Not sure what to read next, maybe The Age of Reason by Sartre. Anyone read it/other Sartre stuff? Recommend it or not? Link to post Share on other sites
loogie 115 Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 An Utterly Impartial History of Britain. I like it even though a lot of the jokes fly overhead. Link to post Share on other sites
LongLiveYorke 38 Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 I just finished "The Sound and the Fury." It was insanely difficult to read, and I had to reread parts several times when I felt myself getting lost in the stream of consciousness. I'm going to have to reread it before I can say that I understand the book in any meaningful way. In case you haven't read it before, it's narrated by several different characters throughout the book and by an external narrator at the end. The characters freely (without warning) jump around throughout time, make references to events that haven't yet taken place for the reader, and focus more on what they're thinking than what they're doing. This makes it a real challenge.I think my next book will be "Sons and Lovers" by D.H. Lawrence. The only Lawrence I've read before is "The Fox," and I really enjoyed that at the time. And "Sons and Lovers" is supposed to be insanely good. Anyone read it? Link to post Share on other sites
Graydon 0 Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 Dry by Augusten Burroughs. What can I say, when I find an author I like, I buy or "library" anything I can get on em. Link to post Share on other sites
CrookedLink 0 Posted August 20, 2009 Share Posted August 20, 2009 Just finished the graphic novel adaptation of Fahrenheit 451. I thought it was extremely well made and really enjoyed it. I would definitely recommend it to anyone who is a fan of the original book. Other comic stuff I'm starting to get into right now are DMZ and the Surrogates. Link to post Share on other sites
dapokerbum 0 Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 I feel like such a teenage girl right now, but I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. So I am reading the Twilight series now. Finished book 1 and while there was a ton of stupid teenage girl drama it was still an okay book overall. I am 225 pages in to New Moon and it started off terrible, but is starting to make some headway into the storyline so we'll see ... Link to post Share on other sites
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