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"Action' Philosophers...nice! I can picture Nietzsche in a cape and tights battling the Evil Forces Against Existentialist Thinking.

In the pile/in progress (I bounce from book to book depending on time & level of intoxication):

i have such bad luck with the Thommy Coevenah series. i've brought the trilogy to three different parts of Asia on three separate times so far, on each i lose the 2nd book in the first trilogy. and it wrecks my whole readong strategy. l

i might erase them off my Kindle before i go back. just to protect it.

lately, just hella donald barthelme.

i have to read steven johnson's the ghost map too, but i haven't cracked it open. it seems boring.

unownunown wrote:lately, just hella donald barthelme.

I've only read two of his, but I loved both. Hard to come across his stuff over here. Most book salesmen haven't even heard of the dude.

Astrophysics is a huge interest of mine and I kicked it's ass in college, but man, the math in some of these chapters is fucking intense.

As of last week, I've been re-reading Great Expectations by Dickens...I didn't realize it was such a long book
The writing is really small and the pages are little, so it makes it seem like it's gonna be short...but noooooo!
I still like it though

Working on the Wilco book "Learning How to Die", pretty cool. I'm a Wilco nerd, so its pretty sweet.

Also working on 1984

phantasmagorovich wrote:

unownunown wrote:lately, just hella donald barthelme.

I've only read two of his, but I loved both. Hard to come across his stuff over here. Most book salesmen haven't even heard of the dude.

definitely. i went to a bookstore the other day that had his biography but none of his actual writing. what have you read of his?

I've just discovered Jeff Smith's 'Bone'...I found the first book, 'Out From Boneville,' at a used bookstore over the weekend and now I want the rest.

unownunown wrote:

phantasmagorovich wrote:

unownunown wrote:lately, just hella donald barthelme.

I've only read two of his, but I loved both. Hard to come across his stuff over here. Most book salesmen haven't even heard of the dude.

definitely. i went to a bookstore the other day that had his biography but none of his actual writing. what have you read of his?

The Dead Father and Overnight to Many Distant Cities. I really liked the dead father, that is a cool book in how it seems to reference freudian thought but never really does. Or if it does it's in such a weird way that it's hard to grasp. There are many moments when it seems like it would go the obvious way and take a freudian turn but in the next page something completely out of this freudian universe happens and that's cool. Overnight is actually so fractured that I only have vague memories of what it was about but I remember that I liked it. I might have to track down another.

Just finished this:



Really dig his work...I read Perdido Street Station on a whim earlier this summer and have been hooked ever since.
I picked up Kraken this afternoon, can't wait to start it

Gunner Recall wrote:Just finished this:



Really dig his work...I read Perdido Street Station on a whim earlier this summer and have been hooked ever since.
I picked up Kraken this afternoon, can't wait to start it

Kraken was a slight disappointment for me. Don't get me wrong, it's still a great book, but not as good as his other stuff. Also I really like the feel of the New Crobuzon world. Have you read the Iron Council already? That's my favourite of his.

Your Brain On Music in the Kindle. The Waste Lands (third book in the Dark Tower series by Stephen King) in paperback for my upcoming vacation.

phantasmagorovich wrote:Kraken was a slight disappointment for me. Don't get me wrong, it's still a great book, but not as good as his other stuff. Also I really like the feel of the New Crobuzon world. Have you read the Iron Council already? That's my favourite of his.

I was tempted to go straight into iron council but I felt I needed a break from Bas-Lag...too much of a good thing and all that
Something to look foward to