Last book you read?

[HighandDriving]

I'm not good with the whole who's who thing on sputnik. I don't even remember Iskandar.

[Route1]

This was good.

[The Dropper]

Originally Posted by HighandDriving

I'm not good with the whole who's who thing on sputnik. I don't even remember Iskandar.

Bullshit. Everyone remembers Iskandar. He was that pretentious dick who thought he was right about everything all the time and liked to insult and ban people for no reason.

[Smokey D]

Iskander was less pretentious than Chekov.

[Route1]

Hello smokes what are you reading lately

[Smokey D]

Um, Intellectual Property (Sixth Ed) by David Bainbridge.

Real page turner.

[Route1]

*crickets*

[Haz]

Originally Posted by The Stig

They're both named Alex

well, true... but

Originally Posted by Chekhov

Bullshit. Everyone remembers Iskandar. He was that pretentious dick who thought he was right about everything all the time and liked to insult and ban people for no reason.

as opposed to kid who is into robotripping, fantasising about crackwhores wearing candy necklaces, talking at length about the postmodern genius of Marilyn Manson and playing the synthesiser

now we can add reading every stephen king book at once to the list

[HighandDriving]

Chekhov is a pretty cool guy. Trust me, I know cool.

[FVG27]

I'm currently house sitting for an old professor of mine, so I'm taking the opportunity to exploit her library.



My first Vonnegut. Which is embarrassing... should have read this years ago. Awesome. Need to read some more. Currently, however, I'm halfway through The Wasp Factory.

[808]

i went to the bookstore today and i bought a book of short stories by chekhov.

[fingers mccoy]

gonna see this at the fringe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=solARz3pFtU

[FVG27]

I really liked it... until the end. Massive disappointment. Tried too hard to create a nice explanatory resolution which just sat really uncomfortable with the feel of the rest of the novel. Gutted.

[Limon]

Women by Charles Bukowski: A lot dirtier than Post Office, or at least it felt that way. Henry Chinaski is in his fifties and finds himself starting to get recognition for his writing. Women, often crazy, swarm him like sex-starved groupies. Really funny but I enjoyed Post Office more. Bukowski has a way of making you not know exactly how to feel. At one moment he will be writing about his encounters with women, resulting in hilarity, and then the next he will reflect upon himself and women in general in a profound way. Very enjoyable writer and quickly becoming one of my favorites. I will probably take a break from reading anything else from him for a while though.

Some lines I really liked:
"The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd."

"A man didn't have to have a woman in order to feel as real as he could feel, but it was good if he knew a few. Then when the affair went wrong he'd feel what it was like to be truly lonely and crazed, and thus know what he must face, finally, when his own end came."

"The only time a man needed a lot of women was when none of them were any good."
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[EyesWideShut]

I really enjoyed both The Wasp Factory and Charles Buko's Women.

One of my fav Women line was
" Sara had Judy Garland on. I liked Judy Garland, a little.. But suddenly she seemed very loud, screaming her sentimental horse shit..."

@ Limon, if your gonna read more of Bukowski check out Ham on Rye.

[The Dropper]

Originally Posted by HighandDriving

Chekhov is a pretty cool guy. Trust me, I know cool.

h5

i went to the bookstore today and i bought a book of short stories by chekhov.

also h5

Iskander was less pretentious than Chekov.

Come on you spelled both of those wrong on purpose.

[Rugider]

i feel like i want to tell this whole thread to just rent the movie

[Route1]

Originally Posted by Aklerc

I really liked it... until the end. Massive disappointment. Tried too hard to create a nice explanatory resolution which just sat really uncomfortable with the feel of the rest of the novel. Gutted.

yeah right the end ruled

[Limon]

Originally Posted by EyesWideShut

@ Limon, if your gonna read more of Bukowski check out Ham on Rye.

Yeah that's the one I was thinking about getting next some time down the road. I might pick up a book with his poetry first. This one just gets me:

"A Smile To Remember"

we had goldfish and they circled around and around
in the bowl on the table near the heavy drapes
covering the picture window and
my mother, always smiling, wanting us all
to be happy, told me, 'be happy Henry!'
and she was right: it's better to be happy if you
can
but my father continued to beat her and me several times a week while
raging inside his 6-foot-two frame because he couldn't
understand what was attacking him from within.

my mother, poor fish,
wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a
week, telling me to be happy: 'Henry, smile!
why don't you ever smile?'

and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the
saddest smile I ever saw

one day the goldfish died, all five of them,
they floated on the water, on their sides, their
eyes still open,
and when my father got home he threw them to the cat
there on the kitchen floor and we watched as my mother
smiled

[lose]

Do you guys like bukowski and Brent easton ellis