So i've been living in london for the last 3 months, and it seems that i've read 7 of Tom Robbins novels...
He's unbelievably well written, and his language is extremely playful, and his insight is marvelous. If you like Chuck Palanhuik, this guy happens to make him look like a bitch.
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Also, i managed to get Alan Moore & Kevin O'Neill to sign the new League Of Extraordinary Gentleman for me.... Probably one of the best 1-2 punch combo's to ever live.
Oh and i've been reading this guy, they call him "Billy" Shakespeare.
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Wizard wrote:Also, i managed to get Alan Moore & Kevin O'Neill to sign the new League Of Extraordinary Gentleman for me.... Probably one of the best 1-2 punch combo's to ever live.
I just started reading Franken Fran by Kigitsu Katsuhisa, really fun manga
Summary Fran can make anyone into anything, raise the dead, switch heads and bodies and give you those eyes that you've always wanted. But do you actually want them? Is it a good thing to raise the dead? Do the ends justify the means? And does Fran care?
I am completely entranced by Labyrinths, the collection of stories by Borges. Anyone who can start a story like this...
No one saw him disembark in the unanimous night, no one saw the bamboo canoe sinking into the sacred mud, but within a few days no one was unaware that the silent man came from the South and that his home was one of the infinite villages upstream, on the violent mountainside, where the Zend tongue is not contaminated with Greek and where leprosy is infrequent.
...can do no wrong! His writing is all about esoteric and mystical ideas, labyrinths, books, time, shifting perceptions... stuff like that. Amazing.
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Borges is also one of William Gibson's favourite writers. From his blog:
"Speaking of Borges, here's my totally atemporal reading suggestion for the new year: JLB's Selected Non-Fictions, as edited by Eliot Weinberger for the 1999 Viking edition. Not only can you find things here like Borges' review of the original King Kong, but you can also savor him flipping off Argentina's many Hitler fans, in essays like the exquisite "I, A Jew". When Viking mailed out promotional copies of their great three-volume JLB set, they included one of my favorite bumper-stickers of all time: "HONK IF YOU LOVE BORGES". And I do, I always do."
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Books: Anything by Charles Bukowski, Breakfast of Champions, Muhammad Ali's autobiography, and, although non-fiction, Paul Mattick is probably the one author I've read the most. Comics/Manga: Berserk, Sandman Poetry: Nils-Øivind Haagensen.
I've been reading Ulysses. A few pages in I told a friend that I was going to move to a monastery and speak only Latin, because motherfucker just did everything humanly possible with the English language. I've been reading it very slowly, and I realize it's not simply because of the density, but because every few lines I have to stop to have a brain-orgasm.
So good to see love for Borges here! I'm just finishing up a Creative Writing / English Lit sort of program, and I'm always amazed at what people read... or don't, rather.
Other favorites include: Cormac McCarthy, Marie-Claire Blais, Michael Ondaatje, and Stephen Heighton. The 'canon' authors everyone reads and loves are up there, as well (Chekhov, Hemingway, Rimbaud, Ginsberg, Ginsberg, Ginsberg, and Kerouac) but I think it's more important to push newer, perhaps less well-known writers.
As far as music writing goes, I love Chuck Klosterman's ideas, but his rambling style rubs me the wrong way--particularly in Killing Yourself to Live, I kind of wish he'd stick with his original point instead of writing page after page about his ex-girlfriends.
But has anyone read Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem? It's a great book about growing up in New York, influenced by the various comings and goings of style and musical taste since the '60s. I read it last year, and I really enjoyed it. There's some GREAT punk rock moments set in the '80s.
On a personal level, Freaking Out is a process whereby an individual casts off outmoded and restricting standards of thinking, dress, and social etiquette in order to express creatively his relationship to his immediate environment and the social structure as a whole.
--Frank Zappa, liner notes to "Freak Out"
Drazden wrote:So good to see love for Borges here! I'm just finishing up a Creative Writing / English Lit sort of program, and I'm always amazed at what people read... or don't, rather.
Other favorites include: Cormac McCarthy, Marie-Claire Blais, Michael Ondaatje, and Stephen Heighton. The 'canon' authors everyone reads and loves are up there, as well (Chekhov, Hemingway, Rimbaud, Ginsberg, Ginsberg, Ginsberg, and Kerouac) but I think it's more important to push newer, perhaps less well-known writers.
As far as music writing goes, I love Chuck Klosterman's ideas, but his rambling style rubs me the wrong way--particularly in Killing Yourself to Live, I kind of wish he'd stick with his original point instead of writing page after page about his ex-girlfriends.
But has anyone read Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem? It's a great book about growing up in New York, influenced by the various comings and goings of style and musical taste since the '60s. I read it last year, and I really enjoyed it. There's some GREAT punk rock moments set in the '80s.
i have not read Lethem. i think i did see a couple copies of that book at the thrift store last month & did not buy it.
it is good to see both Joyce & Borges here. & Lethem...
so.. good...
