House Of Leaves

I'm starting my 4th attempt at Ulysses.

Book on Norse Mythology. Comics as usual too.

I've yet to punish myself with Joyce. None of my local libraries carry Samuel Delaney or William Gaddis so I guess I'd actually have to buy a book if I want to attempt inflicting any of their writing on my puny brain.

It's all right as "experimental" fiction goes. I've read "Ulysses", and a lot of novels like it over the years. The experience is worth it, but I'd never read "Ulysses" (or other novels like it) a second time.

Yep. I'm doing a 3 prong attack: the book, reading the Odyssey and a 30 lecture series on DVD about the book. It helps me tolerate the "stream of consciousness" gibberish but I sure don't think I'll read it again.

Trinity by Leon Uris

Love Samuel Delany. I need to dig out some of the old stuff I got stashed.

Board is broken as fuck

I want to read Hogg in public, because I am a complete asshole.

Finished House Of Leaves. I knew it was going to be a creepy disorienting meta horror novel but I was not prepared for how brutally sad it would be. Maybe I need to take a break from these postmodern bricks.

The fact that backdoor man enjoys the writing of an old gay black dyslexic makes me feel like there is hope for the human race.

The great thing about reading Hogg or The Naked Lunch or Tropic of Capricorn or The Last Temptation of Christ in public is the fact that nobody cares. Nobody reads. They'd be pissed if they knew what you were reading. But they won't. And that...that...is kind of cool.

LIKE- lol

I would read Peter Sotos in public but I am not that big of a creep.

Started it years ago, returning to it now.



The SOB actually spat at another writer who critiqued his work.
Richard Ford v. Colson Whitehead

Reading "The Mare" by Mary Gaitskill while listening to Zeit by Tangerine Dream

EMPIRE - Gore Vidal

finally finished Pynchons AGAINST THE DAY

I am thinking the next of his I will read will be THE CRYING OF LOT 49

Also want to read Cormac McCarthys CHILD OF GOD

Someone left THE 158 POUND MARRIAGE on the free table at work that I am looking forward to plus ATLAS SHRUGGED that I might read some day when I am in the mood for some laughs

A book about the Dakota Apartments in NYC. I just finished an interesting book about Johnny Carson.

Albert Camus THE STRANGER

The Crying Of Lot 49

Just finished The Rules Of Attraction. I do not think I have ever hated a group of characters more in my life. I picked up a bunch of Brett Easton Ellis books as they are all pretty short and his prose is super flat and easy to digest quickly almost like you are reading the news paper. He seems to have a style of just pure nothingness. I found myself bored and not caring what happened to these kids at all but that was the point I guess. I felt no real sense of desperation. He does seem adept at capturing the utterly empty vapid existence of drugged out yuppie trust fund babies. I would have wrote the ending where they all had to do 30 years hard labor in a Russian gulag. Less Than Zero is up next.

Alright now having read American Psycho I can imagine that steezo only quoted from the movie and doubt the little bitch actually read the book (or that he reads anything besides the statement on his oil welfare leach dividend check) the novel is about ten trillion times more graphic and disturbing than the film. It is like the difference between getting hit with a spit ball and a hydrogen bomb falling on a toddler.

Hated and Proud. Dyal is a fucking trip.

https://www.amazon.com/Hated-Proud-Ultras-Contra-Modernity/dp/1912079232

And Warrior Cardio again.

COWS- Mathew Stokoe.

Barnes and Nobel has $5 classics

Spent about $54

Dostoevsky- Crime And Punishment
- The Brothers Karamazov

Melville- Moby Dick

Virginia Wolf - The Voyage Out

Oscar Wilde - The Picture Of Dorian Gray

Some non classics

John Irving - The World According To Garp

- A Prayer For Owen Meany

Zadie Smith - Swing Time

Tim Dorsey - Shark Skin Suite