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Fave Books / Currently Reading
Rainer:
Dear FOT Brain Trust,
Watcha read? Watcha reading?
My faves:
Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
Knickerbocker's History of New York by Washington Irving
The Devil And Sonny Liston by Nick Tosches
Masters of Atlantis by Charles Portis
The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler
The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
Hitchcock by Francois Truffaut and Helen Scott
The Jesus Mysteries by Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy
Currently Reading:
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
Emily:
currently reading:
"left behind" by tim lahaye & jerry jenkins (its christian fiction week in library school ;-)
also was reading "the lucifer effect" (philip zimbardo) for like 1 day before i realized i can't recreationally read right now.
recently recommended to me & on my 'to read' list:
"the devil in the white city" by eric larson
"manhunt: 12 day chase for lincoln's killer" by james l. swanson
(pointless?) book title contest:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6553497.stm
John Junk:
Later on I'll edit this and put the right author's names in... maybe.
Favorite books ever (some of them) in no particular order:
Books of short stories by T. Coraghessen Boyle.
Drop City was good, but not an all time fave....
Civilwarland In Bad Decline - George Saunders
This Is It - Alan Watts
The Possessed, a.k.a. The Devils - Dostoevsky
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
Sons And Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
Journey To The End Of The Night - Celine (I could never read this now, but at the time it changed my life)
Minor Histories - by Mike Kelley
Behind The Mouse - multiple authors, anthropological essays about Disney World.
Currently Reading:
The Decline And Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon
Nero - Some Guy
Surrealism and the Politics of Eros - Alyce Mahon
The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Roman Empire
The Book - Alan Watts (hey, I got it at the Henry Moore Library in Big Sur, and got a special stamp in it)
Also just trying to keep up with my subscriptions to the New Yorker and Harpers. It's a lot of type.
Sarah:
Rainer, one of my biggest work-related regrets is that I didn't get to work on that Perec book. Godine first started considering it when I was working there (Perec was still alive at the time, I do believe): I read the original and was in charge of getting a couple of outside readers to review it. At the time, it was too ambitious a project for the company to take on. I was very pleased when I saw that David had finally pubished it, but by the time he did I was long gone.
Ah well. Tongue or pen . . .
bruce:
Let's see what am I currently reading:
For future review over at Bookgasm:
The End of The Story - Clark Ashton Smith
Bloodlines - F. Paul Wilson
Shakedown - Charlie Stella
Big Ike - Andrew Fenady
What's So Funny - Donald Westlake
Stone Rain - Linwood Barclay
Covet - Tara Moss
Tailed - Brian Wiprud
The Big Bamboo - Tim Dorsey
2 Stark House books
About to be sent another package of stuff can't remember whats in it
On top of the regular crap I read for my column comin up on my one year writing for the site.
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