WeepingBanana
12.22.12 | of course there's no fucking apostrophe on that tom waits album. fuck. anywho yeah |
ViperAces
12.22.12 | lol what a nerd |
Uranium
12.22.12 | I've heard a lot about GR being dense. I wanted to check it out over xmas break but doubted three weeks was enough time to fully register it. Same goes for Atlas Shrugged. So I'm going to wait until summer break, damnit. |
jefflebowski
12.22.12 | 15 is simultaneously the best and worst book i've ever read.
have you tried any foster wallace yet? |
mynameischan
12.22.12 | dogg you should be reading like three or four times this many books per year
although i will say that it did take me three months to read gravity's rainbow |
Uranium
12.22.12 | Moby Dick was the most dense book I've ever read.... Never again. |
WeepingBanana
12.22.12 | this semester was just so busy channing, especially since i spent about half of it with pneumonia. and yeah grav's rainbow is gonna take me a while. shit takes like an hour to read 20 pages.
i've read some of DFW's essays and what not but never a full book. just pretty daunting really. i plan on reading infinite jest soon though |
carouse
12.22.12 | Heart of Darkness and Breakfast of Champions are two of my favorite books good job
and yes get some melville asap, try bartleby |
jefflebowski
12.22.12 | you should enjoy infinite jest if you like gravity's rainbow, it's longer but still an easier read. the pale king's got some genius moments too, but it's all over the place |
WeepingBanana
12.22.12 | "and yes get some melville asap, try bartleby"
i sort of glossed over bartleby cause i had to read it for a class, but didn't feel like actually reading it. i'll probably revisit it some time |
Winesburgohio
12.22.12 | m8 read The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, trust me i like Party Down and therefore am reputable |
WeepingBanana
12.22.12 | Party Down rules so i will therefore take your recommendation seriously |
Winesburgohio
12.22.12 | Good. Most good.
Also good luck with GR, if it does get too dense (like admittedly it did for me) switch to V., it's a lot more engaging/rewarding imho |
Blackbelt54
12.22.12 | I wish I read for pleasure more, but I'm going to start now
I read 1 for class and yeah it's super dense, I also read Camus (the stranger) and I d/l'd the myth of Sisyphus which I'm about to read |
Uranium
12.22.12 | anybody read king rat by james clavell? or the god delusion by richard dawkins? im trying to decide
which to read first. |
jefflebowski
12.22.12 | the god delusion starts of really good, then dawkins tries to do philosophy, which is a bad idea
because he's clueless |
Uranium
12.22.12 | ah damn, well as long as it has some structure to it i'll take a swing at it |
jefflebowski
12.22.12 | oh yeah, it's worth a read for sure |
lyon1535
12.22.12 | You should read Brothers Karamazov, it's absolutely brilliant. I finished it recently and it is definitely one of the greatest books I've ever read.
Right now I'm starting to read In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust, I'm at page 10, or about 1/400th of the way through it :/. It's already incredibly engaging though. Has anyone here read it/attempted to read it? |
jefflebowski
12.22.12 | that's awesome, i'm getting the complete 6 volumes for my 18th in a couple of months, it better be good |
ViralOblivion
12.22.12 | I need to read again I wanna read Slaughterhouse 5 |
liledman
12.22.12 | Really want to check out Gravity's Rainbow, and Pynchon in general. I have far too many books that I want to read right now. This is my year in books: http://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/311898 |
jefflebowski
12.22.12 | only a 4/5 for orwell and dostoevsky? scandal! |
liledman
12.22.12 | Well C&P is more like a 4.5 but you can only give whole stars. Animal Farm is a solid 4 I think. I need something more out of the writing to reeeally love it.
More people should jump on Goodreads though. Great site. |
Uranium
12.22.12 | animal farm is a 5 in my opinion |
liledman
12.22.12 | Get on Goodreads and prove it (by rating it). |
WeepingBanana
12.23.12 | i've always pondered making a goodreads account. i may actually do it |
MichaelSnoxall
12.23.12 | fuck yeah, I read 6 this year too. Amazing book. My favourite of all time already. |
WeepingBanana
12.23.12 | it's certainly up there for me |
hydora1171
12.23.12 | Awesome list, looks like you had a really productive year or reading. Forster is one of my all-time favourites - i took a class in Indian decolonization and the book is amazing, considering it was written 1924.
have you looked at his other stuff/essays? props for even picking up 15. |
FromDaHood
12.23.12 | 3 is one of my least favorite books ever. I read it in like 8th grade and will never touch it again.
Gravity's Rainbow is cool as fuck from what I've read though. I really like Pynchon (although I've only read The Crying of Lot 49 all the way through). |
Hyperion1001
12.23.12 | i also read a passage to india for class this year
agree with what you said about it too, it was probably my least favorite book i read this year |
Trebor17
12.23.12 | I read one book this year
quite a feat for me |
Uranium
12.23.12 | congrats treb |
WeepingBanana
12.23.12 | @hydora, nah man i'd be down to read some of his essays though
that's a shame FDH, i loved it |
WeepingBanana
12.27.12 | o wait i also read the first hunger games lol |
dimsim3478
12.27.12 | I read "The Fall" as more of an essay, and the way Camus' prose operated seemed quite natural and flowing if you excuse the fact that the person he's talking to doesn't say anything. |
