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Postby botanical illustrations » Mon Dec 14, 2009 6:39 pm

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re-starting the new lydia davis' translation of proust's swann's way.
hoping to have it done by the end of january.
awesome so far.

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Postby Timothy » Mon Dec 14, 2009 6:41 pm

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Postby Maze » Mon Dec 14, 2009 6:43 pm

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i've had it sat on my bookshelf for over a month, but i'm finally going to start reading it.
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Postby toph » Mon Dec 14, 2009 6:43 pm

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Postby powderfinger » Mon Dec 14, 2009 6:44 pm

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Really good so far
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Postby goateebird » Mon Dec 14, 2009 6:44 pm

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Postby Intersectoid » Mon Dec 14, 2009 6:44 pm

Charlie Wilson's War
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Postby adamtrask » Mon Dec 14, 2009 6:45 pm

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This should be coming to the library soon:

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Postby hbb » Mon Dec 14, 2009 6:45 pm

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Ridiculous but fun. The guy is obsessed with race.
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Postby hbb » Mon Dec 14, 2009 6:46 pm

On Food and Cooking is great, it never fails to fascinate when I flip it open to a random page
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Postby TASKER, JERRY L » Mon Dec 14, 2009 6:47 pm

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I just finished

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How sad. He really does loves you its just that your now too famous to be considered "cool" to listen to.
So is the life of a hipster/emo/punk/goth/ and the many forms insecure gays guise themself as throughout the ages.
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Postby botanical illustrations » Mon Dec 14, 2009 6:47 pm

yeah!
how's that 2666?
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Postby winj » Mon Dec 14, 2009 6:48 pm

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just finished The Snow of the Admiral

so great, thanks hipinion
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Postby Timothy » Mon Dec 14, 2009 6:49 pm

ho bag brown wrote:On Food and Cooking is great, it never fails to fascinate when I flip it open to a random page


i'm gradually reading it cover to cover
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Postby splasm » Mon Dec 14, 2009 6:49 pm

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Postby Lampwick » Mon Dec 14, 2009 6:50 pm

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It's more about gay culture than I thought it was going to be.
You smoke like my grandmother.
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Postby Destroid » Mon Dec 14, 2009 6:50 pm

Random short stories:

Sonny's Blues, James Baldwin
Paul's Case, Willa Cather
Some Peter Taylor, whom I don't recommend. Dullish.
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Postby botanical illustrations » Mon Dec 14, 2009 6:51 pm

also, i'm reading sarah riggs' water work & barbara guest's collected poems. both poetry (obviously the barbara guest is poetry...)
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Postby adamtrask » Mon Dec 14, 2009 6:55 pm

botanical illustrations wrote:yeah!
how's that 2666?


I just started 2666 because I'm nearing the end of The Savage Detectives. But I really like Bolano's work so far.
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Postby Mouse Face Killah » Mon Dec 14, 2009 6:57 pm

A little Cronon
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Postby botanical illustrations » Mon Dec 14, 2009 7:01 pm

adamtrask wrote:I just started 2666 because I'm nearing the end of The Savage Detectives. But I really like Bolano's work so far.


i should pick that up with the christmas amazon gift cards i'm bound to receive.
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Postby ununennium » Mon Dec 14, 2009 7:07 pm

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both are great
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Postby Timothy » Mon Dec 14, 2009 7:10 pm

borges is the fucking man
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Postby McDermott » Mon Dec 14, 2009 7:27 pm

I'm just about finished with Labyrinths. I really like it a lot, and now I need to track down more Borges.

Although I will admit that some of the essays and parables drag a bit. I prefer his short stories.
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Postby i piss on jed clampett » Mon Dec 14, 2009 7:29 pm

how is the book of basketball so far?

ive read a lot of pretty terrible reviews for it
fuck art, lets fart
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Postby pissydan » Mon Dec 14, 2009 7:31 pm

finishing up inherent vice, then to start chronic city.
As life would have it, Johnny did somebody wrong and they filed a complaint.
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Postby Percy Dovetonsils » Mon Dec 14, 2009 7:33 pm

here's what I've got ready for the xmas break

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Postby Riverchrist » Mon Dec 14, 2009 7:34 pm

Woody Allen's Side Effects

also Heller's Something Happened but having read stuff from both before it and after which is very similar (Cheever, Americana, etc.) makes it kind of/more boring.
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Postby brownlights » Mon Dec 14, 2009 7:39 pm

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Some great architectural imagery and set in a fantasy-ish, steampunk-y dream world.

On a side note, has anyone read Iain Banks' Culture novels?
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Postby Ted Pikul » Mon Dec 14, 2009 7:41 pm

Was gonna start The Ghost Writer but Ive been lazy
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