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[Cosmic Bus]

Wanted to get a hold of a copy of this after watching and very much enjoying Bogdanovich's They All Laughed a couple of months back. His affair with Stratten essentially began during filming, but she was murdered by her estranged husband shortly after they completed work on it. Bogdanovich clearly never fully recovered from the incident, and the book is a strikingly personal and damning account of the events leading up to and beyond. As a genre, "true crime" has never really been of interest to me, but this is something else quite entirely.

Also, simultaneously excited and terrified about Roberto Bolano's 2666 coming out next week. At nearly 1,000 pages, this thing looks obscenely daunting, but I'm fascinated by the promise of the story and reviews are amazing.

 

[AstroLad]

Been wanting to read this for a while after I finished Code 2.0, and some Jessical Litman stuff. I just started digging in, but I love his (highly optimistic) thesis that the new information enables an unprecedented amount and quality of participation from non-market actors. Jibes somewhat well with election time too. Especially interesting to read this two years after it was written.

 

[Aulatori]

Wealth of Networks

That looks interesting - adding that to my list.

This months I'm trying to stay away from the usual fantasy/scifi/fiction I usually read, so here's my list:

About 1/2 way through this, and I like it so far. I really enjoy Hitchen's style of writing - I feel like I'm actually learning as I read (if nothing else, I learn a bunch of vocabulary ).

Again about half way through this guy too. I had heard a lot about this book and enjoy Michio Kaku whenever he's on random science shows like The Universe and Nova. I actually hadn't heard of the Kaluza-Klein theory and didn't know what to expect going into this book, but although the content can be a bit dense at times it's incredibly well explained and you can tell Kaku loves this stuff.

Just about to start this once I wrap up Letters. I'd seen a few people recommend it in the past so I thought I've give it a shot.

 

[sikkinixx]

Reading Michael Psellos, specifically the article by Dimitri Krallis.

Supposed to have been for pleasure, but has since turned into more school shit. Fucking school's job is to ruin everything *grumble*

 

[JDSN]

I havent been so depressed because of a book since I got to the ending of 100 years of solitude.

 

[p01ar]

I'm reading the Twilight Series, because I heard it was awesome and that I "wouldn't be able to put it down."

But it sucks, I'm on the second book and a I hate it. It's pacing is all off, the character development is weak and the author treats the audience like they are stupid.

I'm probably going to give up on it, I don't think I can handle it anymore.

 

[Meliorism]

I havent been so depressed because of a book since I got to the ending of 100 years of solitude.

I am also reading The Road. And I have Cien Años de Soledad also, but I haven't read it.

 

[Danne-Danger]

Fighting the urge to replay Deus Ex every day while reading it, soon I'll move on to I, Robot.

 

[theBishop]

Just finished this:

Starting This:

After that, this:

 

[sikkinixx]

After that, this:

My old Poli Sci TA is screaming at you right now :lol

 

[theBishop]

My old Poli Sci TA is screaming at you right now :lol

Heh... I don't have to agree with it. But after Naomi Klein spent 500 pages tearing him a new asshole, I think I should give him the opportunity to defend himself.

 

[swoon]

Also, simultaneously excited and terrified about Roberto Bolano's 2666 coming out next week. At nearly 1,000 pages, this thing looks obscenely daunting, but I'm fascinated by the promise of the story and reviews are amazing.

i'm finishing up savage detectives now in preparation for it. i'm pretty excited.

 

[Night_Trekker]

I havent been so depressed because of a book since I got to the ending of 100 years of solitude.

Yeah, it keeps you on edge the entire time you're reading it. I went in half-expected some badass Mad Max-esque stuff and was shocked by how bleak it is.

 

[Salazar]

Anathem - Neal Stephenson.
Jimmy Corrigan - Chris Ware.
How Fiction Works - James Wood.
The Iliad - Homer (trans. Robert Fagles).

GAF doesn't need me to tell it that all four of these are awesome.

 

[bggrthnjsus]

an awesome sentence:

A legion of horribles, hundreds in number, half naked or clad in costumes attic or biblical or wardrobed out of a fevered dream with the skins of animals and silk finery and pieces of uniform still tracked with the blood of prior owners, coats of slain dragoons, frogged and braided cavalry jackets, one in a stovepipe hat and one with an umbrella and one in white stockings and a bloodstained wedding veil and some in headgear of cranefeathers or rawhide helmets that bore the horns of bull or buffalo and one in a pigeontailed coat worn backwards and otherwise naked and one in the armor of a spanish conquistador, the breastplate and pauldrons deeply dented with old blows of mace or sabre done in another country by men whose very bones were dust and many with their braids spliced up with the hair of other beasts until they trailed upon the ground and their horses' ears and tails worked with bits of brightly colored cloth and one whose horse's whole head was painted crimson red and all the horsemen's faces gaudy and grotesque with daubings like a company of mounted clowns, death hilarious, all howling in a barbarous tongue and riding down upon them like a horde from a hell more horrible yet than the brimstone land of christian reckoning, screeching and yammering and clothed in smoke like those vaporous beings in regions beyond right knowing where the eye wanders and the lip jerks and drools.

 

[Cimarron]

Awesome book. Somebody needs to make a movie about the Maroons. Or at least make a documentary.

 

[tedtropy]

 

[Shard]

Oh god, you are taking The Craft, I feel your pain and wish the best wish the best of luck to you.

Excellent chronicle of the Eisner Era at Disney, gets a bit dense at times, especially when trying to keep track of everybody, but it really is a good read of the transmogrification of Disney from also-ran that was nearly taken over to the juggernaut of today.

 

[Jack Scofield]

Perfume by Peter Suskind. Fantastic book, and may be my new favorite novel. I can't recommend it enough.

Sorry for the bad image quality.

 

[Guileless]

Come on GAF. 20 posts and no George R.R. Martin yet?

This is really funny.

This one is too.

 

[Judderman]

Sociology professor gave us an extra credit assignment and this book was on the list so I can't wait to read it.

Spoiler

Preemptive one, I know. But I was gonna get to it soon anyways

 

[Ghost]

 

[Jube3]

First time reading it

 

[Monroeski]

Reading Now -

Will start one of these next -

If comics and manga count, I'm going to start Maus soon, and I have a ton of Berserk and Lone Wolf and Cub to catch up on. Don't feel like tracking down pics, though.

 

[ElectricBlue187]

almost finished

 

[Forsete]

English title: Let the right one in
For the 2nd time.

Also got his other books which I havent read yet.

Human Harbor

Handling the Undead

 

[Ronabo]

I'm about half way through this.

Pretty good so far.

 

[Deleted member 20415]

Cormac McCarthy The Road Just amazing.

 

[Durante]

I just finished

Kind of a steampunk fantasy setting, unusually well written.

Next I'll try to complete

It's flagrantly pretentious but it has moments of brilliance.

 

[S. L.]

pretty fun so far

 

[theBishop]

First time reading it

I found it overrated, but I'm not a big comic book guy. Moore does a great job showing what a comic book could be by taking advantage of the medium in interesting ways. However, the actual story wasn't very interesting to me.

 

[Sol..]

 

[NimbusD]

Started reading this a few weeks ago and still on it:

 

[Davidion]

I've been on this for a while but it's hard to stay with it sometimes. Saramago's writing style really is interesting and satisfying to read. However, the fact that it's translated and there are often pages upon pages of text with no paragraph breaks can make it a little tedious to go through in long sittings. I'm determined to stick through it though.

 

[mjc]

I'm about 100 pages in, and I'm really enjoying it so far. Very cool premise.

 

[Raist]

The Liveship Traders

 

[way more]

It's perhaps too bloated for the story of a completely artificial man but I re-read the first page to better understand the ending and found myself reading the first 50 pages again.

Now I'm debating wither to read,

Or,

Carter Beats the Devil was the book I thought I was reading when I picked up The Amazing Adventures of Kaviler and Clay but that was mistake I don't regret making.

 

[roosters93]

Really good, encouraged me to finish 1984.

 

[Fritz]

i still have to finish Faulkner's Big Woods but my plans for Nov involve:

German editions though. I get most of my books from the fleamarket these days as I tend to catch up on the classics anyway. They are cheap as hell and old books are just much better crafted. I bet they last me longer then a new paper-back would. And they look awesome on the bookshelf

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

With World War Z on the shelf ready to follow-up.

 

[Salazar]

Carter Beats the Devil was the book I thought I was reading when I picked up The Amazing Adventures of Kaviler and Clay but that was mistake I don't regret making.

Carter Beats the Devil is an excellent book. I'd definitely reread it if I hadn't sold my copy back to the store (for credit, with which I picked up an also brilliant James Herriot omnibus).

 

[Alucard]

I am still making my way through Hyperion. It has taken me well over a month and I am only a little over the halfway mark, currently reading The Scholar's Tale. I am enjoying it a fair bit, and love the variety in the storytelling, but I wish I could just get through it a lot quicker. Sadly, I have just been really busy. I will likely move on to The Fall of Hyperion once I complete the first book. I just hope I will be able to use my time more effectively and will be able to get some more reading done.

 

[Flakari]

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[JzeroT1437]

Reading this:

to enrich this (which I'm reading for class):

These next two are for class as well:

And finally, this (in my free time):

The life of an English grad student sucks.

 

[Anasui Kishibe]

no time for books this month, but I recently started

and it's like a orgasm

 

[bob_arctor]

In preparation for Left 4 Dead:

Cuz the mini-series freaked me out as a kid:

(very slow so far though)

 

[Alucard]

Reading Now -

How are these books? I'm always tempted to pick them up when browsing for new material, based on the sleek cover designs alone.

I also have less than 100 pages left to read of Hyperion, and am glad to be so near the end. For a book of such modest size, 481 pages, it has taken me far too long to get through. It is not that I do not enjoy the book, though parts of it have been a slight chore, but I have just been very busy and have found much of the material to be quite dense for a travelling adventure story.

 

[SetUhatU]

The Doctrines of Grace: Rediscovering the Evangelical Gospel

 

[Darias]

Not intending humor, I think this is one of the most fascinating books I have ever read...

 

[Uncle]

Just started:

Jens Lapidus: Snabba cash (the cover above is form the finnish translation)
Not apparently available in english.