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Geddy 03-11-2009 02:15 PM

Big Sur, by Jack Kerouac.

Papillon Noir 03-12-2009 11:25 AM

Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse by Victor Gischler

Awesome. Very Tarantino.

Doc Faustus 03-12-2009 11:29 AM

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Originally Posted by The_Return (Post 793288)
Read F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button yesterday. Great story...movie mangled it though.

People forget what a great surrealist Fitzgerald could be sometimes. The haunting imagery in the Great Gatsby is proof enough of that. Have you read a Diamond as Big as the Ritz or any of his other short works?

The_Return 03-13-2009 04:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Doc Faustus (Post 793684)
People forget what a great surrealist Fitzgerald could be sometimes. The haunting imagery in the Great Gatsby is proof enough of that. Have you read a Diamond as Big as the Ritz or any of his other short works?

Not yet, but I plan to - I picked up a collection of his short works not long ago, which is where I read Benjamin Button. Diamond as Big as the Ritz is in there, plus a ton of others. Planning to dig into the rest of 'em in the near future.

siorai 03-13-2009 08:58 AM

Spook Country by William Gibson
Infoquake by David Edelman
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemmingway

Although Hemmingway is on hold at the moment. I find his writing style to be pretty annoying. Huge amounts of near-pointless dialogue separated by long, drawn out sections of compound sentences. I don't think I have ever read the word "and" so many times in my life.

Doc Faustus 03-13-2009 11:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Geddy (Post 793150)
No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan, by Robert Shelton.

I must warn you to steer clear of Bob Dylan Chronicles. Blood on the Tracks is my favorite album ever, I know every word to Desolation Row and Dylan's book pissed me off. It's sad how the greatest post Ginsberg poetic voice in America can turn into your senile great uncle at the drop of a hat.

Geddy 03-13-2009 01:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Doc Faustus (Post 793886)
I must warn you to steer clear of Bob Dylan Chronicles. Blood on the Tracks is my favorite album ever, I know every word to Desolation Row and Dylan's book pissed me off. It's sad how the greatest post Ginsberg poetic voice in America can turn into your senile great uncle at the drop of a hat.

Really? I was actually looking forward to reading that. What made it so bad?

Doc Faustus 03-13-2009 01:40 PM

It has some nice anecdotes, but it's dull, disjointed and positively maddening. The story straight from the horse's mouth is quite confusing and ranty. It's readable if you're prepared to skip pages to get past really obtrusive digressions.

Disease 03-13-2009 04:40 PM

Complicity by Ian Banks....

novakru 03-13-2009 04:50 PM

Berlitz Korean Phrase Book and Dictionary

Beowulf
The Script Book as told by Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary

While My Sister Sleeps by Barbara Delinsky

Bushido By Inazo Nitobe (2nd attempt, it's hard to absorb)

Crafts For The Spirit by Ronni Lundy


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