thats right....a literature thread.

Sumer: Cities of eden. More of a book for kids. But hey I did go to gifford.

oooh, nice

right now I'm reading
WIDDERSHINS, The First Book of Ghost Stories by Oliver Onions
ROAD WORK, Among Tyrants, Heroes, Rogues, and Beasts by Mark Bowden
and Milton's Paradise Lost (still--it's very dense)

swamplorddvm said:

And the statue on the cover looks alot like Alicia grace, only with a unibrow. and it's legs aren't spread open.

Motley Crue's The Dirt
Catcher In The Rye

litacore said:

I agree. I've been reading this for two months now, and I'm only about half way through. What book are you on?

The bible. That has some of silliest shit ever.

I got "Choosing Death" for my b-day. Have been readingthat and am almost done.

Albert Camus- The Plague
William Faulkner- The Sound and The Fury
Celtic Myths and Legends

swamplorddvm said:

I've read that like 5-6 times through and through. I laugh every time!

moran said:

haha, I'm a very slow reader, but this one is just GLACIAL

I'm not very far, I pick the book up, read a page or two, put it down, come back to it after a few weeks

so it's early on. Satan's advising the minions against attacking Heaven. He hasn't appled the garden of eden yet.

Some book called the Exes and it was kind of crappy. About a Boston rock band who wants to ''make it big in the boston scene''. It's pretty funny actually.

edit: Pagan Kennedy is the author.

Cryptic Anthony said:
My girlfriend introduced me to my main man AC and I think he's fucking rad. We found some rare book of his plays at a store in Burlington VT but didn't have enough money to pick it up.

yeah I tried reading The Exes

I like Cintra Wilson and J.T. Leroy better though

I'm the same way. I read it opn the train, I usually only get 1 or 2 pages done before I fall asleep. That part's pretty good, but it gets a little slow after that.

BobNOMAAMRooney nli said:

that book of plays has an awesome play 'The Misunderstanding'
the Innkeeper and his daughter off their guests to supplement their income (kinda like Motel Hell), but they unwittingly kill their long lost son

one of my favorite short stories is by Sartre, 'The Wall."

It's a have-a-nice-night-before-your-morning-execution story. Very cool.

http://www.nd.edu/~ggutting/the%20wall.html

litacore said:

Haha, then Mersault read a newsclipping about those bitches in jail. Wasn't Mersault's trial mentioned in The Plague or The Fall?

damn, i haven't read a book in a while

dark tower 5, 6, 7 are really good

books i have actually read:

hitch hikers guide
grapes of wrath
of mice and men
red badge vag
lord of the flies
brahm stokers dracula (so boring)
mary shelley's frankenstein
dr. seuss
my name is david, im an alcoholic

books i have been meaning to read:

anything by kurt vonnegut
lies my teacher told me

last time i actually read a book: in 1998 at 17 years old while in oaks D lockup facility.

Lord of the Flies is a great book

'Kill the pig! Kill the pig!'

ATTN:

I'm going to be at Barne's N' Noble for a possible 3 hours tonight looking at pictures in magazines and maybe drinking some cocoa in portsmouth, nh next to best buy. Anyone want to join me on this adventure feel free but don't get mad if I suddenly need to leave.

Anyone recommend any books on stuff that's cool?

Sound of the Beast : The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal
by Ian Christe

I just finished re-reading Dune. Forgot how good that was.

Just started Diary of a Drug Fiend by Allister Crowley. Pretty sick for 1922.

I'm reading the memoirs of this navy seal guy. He's a maniac. He was pissed that he only got to do two tours in Vietnam. Before that, 'Tis by Frank McCourt.

The Da Vinci Code, Angela's Ashes, and Twilight of the Idols and the Anti-Christ.

rachel said:


'Tis is the follow up to Angela's Ashes. It's not as sad. Most of the time it's pretty funny.

I read Nickel and Dimed a little while ago. I need to find another book though.

reading?!? that's unpossible!

Touching from a distance

I plan on picking this up tonight.

Here's a tip. DON'T read Paul Di'anno's book.
Whoever edited that thing should have his eyes gouged out.

Currently reading "A Prayer for Owen Meany" by Irving and "The Wolves of the Calla" by King.

Oh yeah and "recipes for disaster" too

Primary Colors

currently reading "Goblet of fire" (harry potter 4)

the_reverend said:

I'm waiting for my roomate to finish that one.

still reading choosing death. i'm taking forever cause i get wicked depressed whenever i read that book.

Actually, I just read 3001 and was kind of bummed. Read Rendevoux With Rama by A.C.Clark.

last book i read was the Lord of the Rings, i finished it a few months ago....really good book, fucking insanely long and drawn out though.....haven't really read anything since, besides school books

the_reverend said:

i gave up on harry potter for a while, 'cause i read the first 3 all in a row, so i got a little tired of it....i've been kinda meaning to try the rest

"American Gods" - Neil Gaiman

currently reading "The Anubis Gates" by Tim Powers

american gods was great

i'm in the middle of With Lawrence in Arabia by Lowell Thomas, and i'm about to read a ton of graphic novels over.

"Where You're At"-Patrick Neate
"And It Don't Stop"-Various
"Kill Your Idols"-Various

currently reading Journey Into Darkness (J.Douglas)

Josh_hates_you said:

i'm reading Slaughter House 5 by Vonnegut Jr.

as well the Dharama Bums by Kerouac
Tropic of Caprocorn by Miller
the Lizard King by Hopkins
World of Fear by Hartwell

and i just was cleaning out my garage today and found an old trunk with a shitload of books left by my brother !

only novels:
"the da vinci code" by dan brown
"the last generation" by arthur clarke (fantastic!)

and of course books from austria (don't know if they're publicated in america):

"die klavierspielerin" (--> means: the piano player) by elfriede jelinek (very great but little bit strange story... [won the european Nobel Prize 2004 in literature for this book])
"silentium" by wolf haas (very new and great [about church and priests and girls...!] and got filmed)

Henry Miller - Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymous Bosch
Henry Miller - The Air Conditioned Nightmare

'the enemy within' - michael savage

Logans Run is a great short read. took me 2 hours. right now im reading The Plague Tales. two stories in one about a Physician who has to protect King Edward III from the Plague in 1348 and about recent outbreaks in the year 2005 and the Plague is dug up and let loose in England. The chapters rotate between the two stories. its pretty good.

A collection of short stories by H.P. Lovecraft,Right now I'm on The doom that came to Sarnath

Lovecraft is metal

Ungl unl... rrlh ... chchch...

Reading the new Choosing death book right now. Picked it up this morning.

KillerKadoogan said:

can i borrow those when you're done i'm reading Tropic of Capricorn right now and it's blowing my mind.

i'd like to see whatelse this fucks got in his head Ha !

Conversations with Iannis Xenakis by Balint Andras Varga

I forgot I had this--Xenakis is one of those composers who makes dissonant arrangements by default. Great for horror soundtracks.

The Secret Teachings of all Ages- M.P. Hall 800+ pages of philosophy,numerology,symbolism, interesting stuff. Behold A Pale Horse, Haven't read the whole thing yet,but it is the first book that gave me chills,and Rule By Secrecy by Jim Marrs,and 9/11 The Road to Tyranny by Alex Jones, good read but the Documentary film is better.

Dancers at the End of Time by Michael Moorcock

grundlegremlin said:

cool you're interested in such things. i'm too.

litacore said:


"Tom was husky but he had too much fat. I thought how rifle bullets or the sharp points of bayonets would soon be sunk into this mass of tender flesh as in a lump of butter.

It wouldn’t have made me feel like that if he’d been thin. "

woo, that was good. hooray for absurd!

whiskey_weed_and_women said:


my brother's gonna read both of them first, and then probably a couple other people are gonna borrow them.

but after that, yes.

all you cold dark winter bm kids should read some Jack London. his descriptions of freezing and/or starving to death are awesome - true horror. get yourselves a compilation of his short stories. if you are lucky, somebody will be eaten by wolves - mad cool. he also wrote "the Iron Heal" which is a good read if you're into socialism or politics in general.

since my last response, I've read
Celtic Myths and Legends
The Motorcycle Diaries
1984

Now, what to read now?

BornSoVile said:

try Snow Crash by neal Stephenson

just finished "Insomnia"-Stephen King
now i'm reading random Lovecraft stories until i find another book.

Trying to find something on the Order of the Skull and Bones.
Any suggestions?

just picked up Crimes against Nature - How George W. Bush & His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country & Hijacking Our Democracy by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr

funny i was going to bump a reading thread
i'm reading jenna jameson's "how to make love like a porn star"
it's about her life

DomesticTerror said:
America's Secret Establishment is a great skull and bones book. I forget the author, you can find it in current events/political science.

Hmmm, I'm surprised I didn't post on this thread back in February. I bet I missed it due to computer troubles.

Lately I've just been reading Harry Potter. I started the first one the week the new one was released and I'm on the fifth one now.

succubus said:

lucky Aaron

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

anything by Tom Robbins or Tom Wolfe

Last book I read was Harry Potter 6. Good shit.

grundlegremlin said:

thanx

BornSoVile said:

does that have the shit about the mercury based immunizations/rise in autism jazz?!!! I read a little about that in a Kennedy excerpt in Rolling Stone recently, but never got the publication. please say yes...

KillerKadoogan said:

anyluck on those !

Killing Yourself To Live - Chuck Klosterman

DomesticTerror said:

YES! It also "skims" over the 300 various roll backs he's arranged as well as restructing several Clinton laws, not to mention how he dismantled the EPA into a regulatory committee for big business. Very well written, not alot of big talk you'll forget, non partisan too.

Josh_hates_you said:

I liked Dracula. Everyone says it's boring.

i've got about 20 pages to go on Winesburg, Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson. decent stuff.

Now reading, Chain of Command - The Road From 9/11 to Abu Ghraib by Seymour M. Hersh

I'm reading some of Lovecraft's early stories. Some decent stuff mixed with some pretty bad.

im reading the bio of joe christianni its all about how he used funds from a bake sale with the norwood football team to finally meet hatebreed at ozzfest of course thats after he gets his tit signed by zakk wylde

Liberalism is a Mental Disorder - Michael Savage
Generation Kill - Evan Wright

Henry Rollins - Black Coffee Blues
Clive Barker - Books of Blood anthology
Henry Shapiro - Jimi Hendrix Electric Gypsy
Herman Hesse - Knulp

right now i'm reading Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey

whiskey_weed_and_women said:



haha wow i forgot all about this. if i remember to bring em with me, i will let you borrow them next time i see you.