i now read 2 things concurrently (i do that a lot): Fortunate Son, an excellent, well researched & very damning biography of George W. Bush by J.H. Hatfield, & also El Topo: The Book of The Film by Alejandro Jodorowsky, a rare, out of print book which i printed out from:
www.subcin.com
so...tell me *your* current reading.
www.subcin.com
so...tell me *your* current reading.
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Sun, November 19, 2006 - 6:42 AMI've just finished reading Cormac McCarthy's "Border Trilogy" which I thought was magnificent. I've just started the same authors novel "Suttree" but I'm not getting into it. It's brilliantly prose but I think I'm suffering from overload with his writing. I'm clearing my palette so to speak with Shakespeare's Sonnets and a book of counterhistorical short stories by Paul Difillipo (sic?) called "The Lost Pages. One story features a Kafka who emigrated to the US and became a pulp fiction type crime fighter called the Jackdaw that was good.
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Sun, November 19, 2006 - 8:12 PMI'm reading The Ethical Slut (authors names I've forgotten) and The Psychoanalysis of Fire (by Gaston Bachelard). -
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Mon, November 20, 2006 - 5:39 AMjust started the stupidest angel by christopher moore for a book tribe group read. it's about christmas zombies who want to go to ikea. deep. -
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Mon, November 20, 2006 - 7:18 AMRight now...I am reading The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier and Widow of the South by Robert Hicks.
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Tue, November 21, 2006 - 6:27 PMI keep almost reading The Stupidest Angel.
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Mon, November 20, 2006 - 8:30 AMConcurrent reading, yeah, I do that a lot too but I seem to be at an all-time peak.
So, I'm currently reading:
Healing the Addictive Mind by Jampolsky -- it has some good insights that are helping me personally with understanding myself and those around me.
Healing the Shame that Binds You by Bradshaw -- Yeah, I have had some pretty serious issues surrounding my recent separation. Both these books are helping and I like to take them in little snippets.
I'm also reading Helmet of Horror by Victor Pelevin. It is a retelling of the Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur told in a chat room setting. Very bizarre but compelling. This is part of a series of Penguin books that are retellings of ancient myths. I just finished Atwood's The Penelopiad which was a really quick, fun read.
I'm also reading the Half Blood Prince with my kids at bedtime.
Oh, and the Cub and Scout handbooks ;-)
Maybe some day I'll get a grip and just read one book at a time. But it has usually been my inclination to read one "heavy" book with breaks for brain candy along the way. The intensity of the self-help books is just a phase because of where I'm at with my life but I generally like to have one on the go at all times.
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Mon, November 20, 2006 - 11:05 AMI am reading The Fourth Turning, by William Strauss and Neil Howe and listening to the audiobook Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
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Mon, November 20, 2006 - 3:26 PMBlair, this may be way off base, but have you seen the film 51 Birch Street? It's on my mind because I just saw it yesterday, but it's really a lovely and insightful documentary about healing in families. I recommend it. -
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Mon, November 20, 2006 - 5:00 PMThanks Jane! I took a look at the website. It looks really good! I'll make a point of seeing it. -
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Mon, November 20, 2006 - 5:15 PMIt's just a little film about one guy's family, but I love his honesty and his willingness to look at the hard questions.
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Mon, November 20, 2006 - 3:18 PMjust finished slaughterhouse five a week or so ago.
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Mon, November 20, 2006 - 3:26 PMI'm reading some fluff right now "The Onion Girl" by Charles de Lint, he's one of my favorite fairy tale writers.
After that I start "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson for my Dangerous Knowledge Bookclub then in January I begin reading "Women Who Run With Wolves" for a bookclub here on Tribe.
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Last week I was reading all the National Book Award fiction nominees
Mon, November 20, 2006 - 3:24 PMwell, not all of them. I own but just can't read Danielewski's Only Revolutions. I can't decide whether it's interesting and unusual or simply posturing. Maybe some day.
Right now I'm re-reading Donna Tartt's The Secret History. I didn't intend to. I had a great new novel all lined up, and I'm also reading Imperial Life in the Emerald City (which was nominated for the NBA in nonfiction), but the last novel I read was Special Topics in Calamity Physics, by Marisha Pessl, and it reminded me SO much of The Secret History that I couldn't keep my mind on either Imperial Life or the new novel (new to me, although not NEW new -- it's Citizen Vince, by Jess Walter -- Walter's NEW novel, The Zero, was an NBA nominee and it. was. great. Seriously great. Strongly recommended. Definitely one of the best new books I've read this year)
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Mon, November 20, 2006 - 4:43 PMArt of Memory, Secret Teachings of all Ages, Last of the Really Great Whangdooles (book from my childhood that I'm re-reading out loud to my hubby for "fluff") Nag Hammadi Library, and more magickal books than I can list! -
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Sun, January 14, 2007 - 11:51 AMStill working on "Art of Memory"?? I started that years ago, but it was pretty hard slogging and I never got very far. I love Frances Yates, but her books are pretty challenging - and I think this is her densest one - but possibly one of her most important ones. I'd really love to hear how you're doing with it.
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Mon, November 20, 2006 - 6:33 PM"The Ego and His Own; the case of the individual against authority" by Max Stirner
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Mon, November 20, 2006 - 8:42 PMi just recently decided to take a bit of a break from the Bush bio to pick up where i left off months ago in a book of a much lighter nature: The Grand Panjandrum & 1,999 Other Rare, Useful and Delightful Words and Expressions by J.N. Hook. in a similar vein, i also currently re-read parts of The Meaning of Tingo and Other Extraordinary Words From Around The World by Adam Jacot de Boinod. i especially enjoy the latter because it focuses particularly on words that have no exact equivalent in English. the author has a website:
www.themeaningoftingo.com
now...to Gerbil: if you'd like to follow up Slaughterhouse 5 with something else by Vonnegut...try Cat's Cradle (my personal favorite & a real classic) or Galapagos...if you haven't already read those.
to Blondie: funny story about The Secret Teachings of All Ages: an aquaintance bought the deluxe, hardcover, large-format edition from a thrift store for...guess how much?....SEVENTYFIVE CENTS!!! geez, can you stand it? if i saw that, or, say, Codex Seraphinianus in a thrift store marked for so far below its market value...i think i'd fall out of my seat & laugh like hell!...then do the smart thing & buy the book right away! he showed me the book, & there wasn't a thing wrong with his copy! -
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Tue, November 21, 2006 - 2:54 PMMAAAAAN! They were at the right place at the right time.
Was it the huge coffee table one (big white leather signed one that usually retails for over $300) or the oversized one with blue canvas (and then its with or without the color plates)? Just so I know how jealous to be;)
I accidentally fell into the big white one rather cheap. But, it was too big to read (hard to sit up at night in bed). Amazon finally had the blue one with color plates almost the same cost as the paperback so I snagged it. But not for $0.75!
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Tue, November 21, 2006 - 2:29 AMI'm reading *A Language Older than Words* by Derrick Jensen (honest and gripping, but a tad too irrationalist for my taste), the third volume of *The Sandman* by Neil Gaiman & al. (fine, dark comic book, which I should have read earlier), and occasionally picking a poem/text from *L'Espace du dedans* by Henri Michaux. -
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Tue, November 21, 2006 - 6:54 AMRight now I am not reading a book. I am making my way through a magazine called Morbid Curiosity. Pretty interesting.
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Tue, November 21, 2006 - 9:59 AM<<the third volume of *The Sandman* by Neil Gaiman >>
what an amazing series ... i just finished 'DMT: The Spirit Molecule' by Rick Strassman, and I'm diving into Ulysses for about the fourth time... i've never made it past the first couple pages and i'm determined to do it this winter.
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Tue, November 21, 2006 - 2:56 PMYep!
Nag Hammadi Library and Dead Sea Scrolls. I've tried for several years to read them and fall asleep every time :) -
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Tue, November 21, 2006 - 3:12 PMa chance encounter gave me a fairly thick text written about biodomes, i'm currently reading that.
I hope that bush and co do get booted out, i can't follow the logic of pelosi etc in not pursuing impeachment.
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Tue, November 21, 2006 - 7:23 PMI'm another concurrent reader: "The Big Cats and Their Fossil Relatives" by Alan Turner, especially for the paintings of sabertooths by Mauricio Anton. Last week I re-read "Wonder Boys" by Michael Chabon, a funny/sad novel about writers that I'd recommend to the UK cousins, being curious about Archie and Holden's reaction. Lots of dipping into books for a few pages at a time when I get curious about something. Comic books for mental snacking: "Ex Machina" by Brian K. Vaughan, a series of graphic novels about a superhero being elected mayor of New York City after 9/11; "Fables", "Love and Rockets". "The New Yorker" cover-to-cover every week.
Re. Blondie's comment about the Nag Hammadi Library and Dead Sea Scrolls: "The Gospel of Thomas" and the "Gospel of Mary Magdalene" are definitely worth it, but the rest put me to sleep as well. -
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Fri, November 24, 2006 - 10:42 AMMichael: I've seen the film of Wonderboys but I've never read the novel. The only novel of Chabon's I've actually read is Kavalier and Klay, which I loved, being a fan of golden age comics. Love and Rockets is consistently a great series, I think it should be given out free to people when they ask what comics would the average person enjoy.
Than: What's the Peter F. Hamilton 2 book series like? I was hooked on his "Nights Dawn" series but then was left cold by the novel he did after that, the title of which I've forgotten... Are his new books big, mad space opera or more down to earth so to speak? -
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Fri, November 24, 2006 - 8:21 PMBig mad space opera, several somewhat connected books at once. It's good, but I'm halfway through the second book and the mystery enemy has yet to be revealed, as though it's a loooong exercise in suspense maintenance. Which gets up me a bit, but not too bad.
Be seeing you.
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Fri, January 26, 2007 - 5:26 AMBlondie,
I've found if you read them in sections, with something light in-between; you'll actually get through them more easily than trying to read them all at once.
Worked for me, anyway!
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Tue, November 21, 2006 - 6:23 PMAli, if & when you do complete Ulysses, let me know. Holden the Joycehead always desires good conversation about it! :)
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Tue, November 21, 2006 - 7:20 AMSchlafes Bruder by Robert Schneider
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Tue, November 21, 2006 - 3:19 PMI'll read anything that falls into my hands, but for the past year I've sought out historic and fantasy fiction. Any book with the right amount of reality and surrealism gets my attention. Unfortunately I can only focus on one book at a time all the way through.
Right now I'm on the 3rd book in the Wayfarer Redemption series. They haven't been the greatest but I just have to know what happens, so I've stuck with them. I like the Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. Martin lots better.
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Tue, November 21, 2006 - 6:55 PMI'm ripping through The Hot Kid by Elmore Leonard. It's US Marshalls, mad dog killers and gun molls in the West of the Depression. Much closer to the Westerns he started with, and he obviously had a grand old time writing it. His characters and dialogue are sharp as ever.
Also reading Peter F Hamilton's Judas Unchained, book two of a two parter, but these books are fat. I got so impatient waiting for it to come out in paperback here that I ordered the british paperback from Amazon.UK. It's good, it's fine, but I could easily have waited.
Just finished Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys, very whimsical mystical, very English, another fun one to rip through. Sandman sounds darker.
Orson Scott Card just came out with Empire, a red vs blue states civil war scenario in which the Left are the mad usurpers and the Right are, of course, right. Sigh. Kind of like when I found out Mark Helprin was a speechwriter for the Republicans. Ah well.
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Tue, November 21, 2006 - 7:48 PMAli what do you think of the DMT book? I have it but havent finished it yet. I do think it's very interesting.
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Wed, November 22, 2006 - 3:28 AMI have started but put down for the moment the book the “Disappearance of the Universe” which runs a bit counter to Prometheus’s argument that Christianity is the Devils work shop for True Spirituality… Although from his prospective I can agree. It is the introductory book to “The Course in Miracles.” However getting back into school and personal pursuits will have me digesting “Heat Treating” by the ASM (American Society of Materials) and Microstructures and probably my books in RT,PT,MT, and UT and any other related materials. I have been tempted though to re read “Why Men Love Bitches” Sherry Argov. Or escape into some Sci-Fi… I want to read T Rex about Theodore Roosevelt.
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Wed, November 22, 2006 - 11:16 AM
I'm reading Genderspeak: Men, Women, and the Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense by Dr. Suzette Hayden-Elgin.
If you're familiar with the Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense series, you know Dr. Elgin has a very practical set of theories on communication styles. This book takes her theoroes and explores them in context of male-female communication.
For example, Random Male and Arbitrary Female are discussing something and both are getting irritated. AF says "You never listen to what I'm saying!" To which RM replies, "You refuse to see my point of view!"
Dr. Elgin would say that their problem has nothing to do with whatever they disagree on; the problem is that she is trying to communicate aurally and he's communicating visually. Look again at their words. Understand?
Use and choose your metaphors wisely, Dr. Elgin advises.
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Thu, November 23, 2006 - 1:19 PMWell...I'm reading the History of Philosophy while I listen to lectures on Philosophy 101 that I downloaded from podcast.
Also: Beyond Modernism (about NYC art from the 60's-70's) I was there so I recognise a lot of people in it. In fact on page 25 is a sculpture by C. Simonds, I was working in the gallery as he was constructing it...I also saw him make a piece in Richmond Va , a year earlier.
I started to reread Hamlet but a client wanted to read it so I gave it to him.
I'm also reading Fritz (about Fritz Perls).
I'm reading Beowulf again because my neighbors' daughter needed help with her homework.
I'm still reading Schroedinger's Cat (the search for).
And the Math Gene.
And A Mood Apart.
And Readings in Reality an anthology
....and some textbooks for class
....and some journal articles for research I'm working on regarding white privilege and counseling Native Americans.
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Thu, November 23, 2006 - 2:20 PMholy smokes, Palma, & i thought I was a book addict! LOL! regarding Fritz Perls...ever read Gestalt Therapy Verbatim? read that one when i was in high school. also: what class do you take? -
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Thu, November 23, 2006 - 8:11 PMHa! Well I'm just finishing a Master's in counseling ...and I just finished statistics...not my cup o tea but ...
Yeah I use half.com a lot and check out local thrift stores for books. I give away a lot of books to clients at the treatment center where I work , so the charities often give me books. I've given away six copies of Man's Search for Meaning. Four Siddhartha's , Two Plato's Republic and several Shakspeare ...I like to heal people's minds through good reading.I set up a bookcase of free books at our agency. In addition to the above I have stocked a bunch of Farley Mowat, Jack London, Heyerdal, Maugm (sp?), ML King, etc.
I read mostly non fiction: psycholgy, Theory, philosophy, biographies of scientists, mathmaticians, artists, humanitarians and classic of all sorts ...the guys whose pics I have on my profile...
Don't think I've read Gestalt verbatum. I have read In and Out of the Garbage Pale...weird stuff. Fritz did not take his own advice...
I like to have on hand just the right book for a person in need ...and I often do.
I'd love to pick out a book for you Holden. You are so ecclectic, it would take awhile, and it would be a challenge to come up with something you haven't read!?!!! Hmmm...I think I'll start rummaging for something obscure... ;) -
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Thu, November 23, 2006 - 10:21 PMwow, I'm really impressed! this place is crawling with bookworms! As for moi, I'm readin Stephen Baxter's dry sci fi book, Exultant and Evolutionary Witchcraft by T.Thorn Coyle, medical assisting textbooks, Strange Fits of Passion by Anita Shreve and any poetry that strikes my fancy. -
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Thu, November 23, 2006 - 11:51 PMI keep a copy of Michel de Montaigne (The Essays) beside me
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Fri, November 24, 2006 - 1:31 PMZahir by Paulo Coehlo
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Sat, November 25, 2006 - 11:45 AMThe last book I read was Ann Coulter's Slander. (Yuck!) Here's a summary of it:
Republican/conservativism = Good and perfect
Democrat/liberal/any other ideology = Pure evil and horribly imperfect
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Fri, December 8, 2006 - 9:19 PMi currently read the latest issue of a sporadically published zine called Prakalpana Literature, a literary publication originating from Calcutta, India, printed in Bengali & English, & including content from contributors from all over the world. I get this because i trade my zine Short Fuse (a literary/art publication) for it. -
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Fri, December 8, 2006 - 9:24 PMHave you ever read Mcsweeney? www.mcsweeneys.net/ -
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Fri, December 8, 2006 - 9:48 PMnope, can't say that i have. that web page looks interesting!
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