This is what's on my plate:

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Corey Doctorow: Very good very good. 1/4 through.

You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers: Not as good as his debut, but very entertaining still. Halfway through.

De Capo's 2002 Best Music Writing: Interesting to see what people consider the best writing about music..


What about youse? Surely you read more than just porn.

one at a time for me, i'm kinda slow...

currently reading:
noam chomsky - understanding power

on the horizon: something a little less intense, maybe a calvin & hobbes retrospective, or the history of shampoo....

A whole smattering of books about the Holocaust for my Form and Theory of Fiction class...

"The best subversive political cartoons"

"Your Career in the Comics"

i am also reading you shall know our velocity, and i pretty much agree with you so far, but we'll see by the end. also:
phantoms in the brain - v.s. ramachandran
radio on - sarah vowell
the blank slate - steven pinker
exploring consciousness - rita carter
rational mysticism - john horgan
myth and the movies - stuart voytilla
and i'm looking forward to the amazing adventures of kavalier and clay, and rereading the his dark materials books.

yes, i have no attention span. yes, it takes me like 4 months to finish a book because i'm always reading like 40 at once.

i remember my college days when i'd be reading 10 books at a time, and have to finish them all in a week or two. how in the hell?

now i read maybe 1 every two months. much better.

currently: Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan. it's pretty fun. this sci-fi / crime novel. basically it's a bunch of killing. in the future.

i think the movie rights have been bought by the Matrix people.

just finished empire falls by richard russo. now into harry potter and the goblet of fire. next up: probably straight man by russo. i get kind of obsessed with an author/band and do an intensive dig on them until i find out all i want to know; including influences, contextual info., bio., etc.

McSweeney's Quarterly #10
Considering starting Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace again.
The new magnet magazine

I need to return to the Eggers book. I got about halfway, had loved bits of it, been bored by bits of it, and then I just stopped.

Is the De Capo book something to do with Nick Hornby ? Is it edited by him or something? If so, then I think I bought that one as well. I wonder what I did with it

I've just read (for the first time) the LA Quartet by James Ellroy, and found them very vivid, very enjoyable.

And a the mo, I'm reading Fast Food Nation but I have to keep taking breaks from it !

Picked up a giant stack of comic books at SPACE today...now I've gotta try to get through all of them.

Oh, and I have to read "Antigone" by Tuesday.

Hornby edited one year, but the one I have isn't it... I have a newer year.

rob.

Re : Da Capo ...

You're right. The one I have is 2001.

Having had a quick look on amazon, I see that Steve Erickson is mentioned in the blurb for the 2002 edition, AND this triggers the recollection that I may have bought the 2001 edition purely because it had Erickson's piece on Neil Young.

So I guess I'll be looking out for the 2002 one as well. Cheers mate

in the process of re-reading the 'tao te ching' [a different translation] and then next in line is the 'i ching'.

May Edition.

Surely y'all READ.

Re-Reading: Return of the King

Perusing: The Art of Looking Sideways
Always Reading and Re-Reading: Bhagavad Gita, Dropping Ashes On the Buddha

Anybody want a signed, numbered first edition of Place of Dead Roads by one William Seward Burroughs? Don't know if there are any lunatic fans on the board that would cherish it. Right now, it is just taking up space on my bookshelf.

Still re-reading Infinite Jest - David foster Wallace
and just started YSKOV - Dave Eggers, but as it's a 7 day library book i have a feeling i won't finish that one.

Attacking my required reading about the Holocaust for school, as well as a billion more plays (got through Antigone, Dr. Faustus and Hamlet).

No outside reading at the moment...school is killing me.

I tried to read this, really I did, but after getting 200 pages or so into it & still not being able to see even any small semblance of a plot starting to emerge, as well as beginning to wish I'd taken notes on the characters, I decided to give up. Right now I'm (re-)reading Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, & then the girl I've been seeing has told me I should read Tom Robbins' Still Life With Woodpecker, so I think that's up next.

I think a lot of people probably feel that way about Infinite Jest. My brother teaches a high school english great books class and has offered to give an A (at least on one project) to any student who reads the whole book...but i don't think any of them have succeeded yet. It's also one of those books that just kind of stops rather than ending...so consider that a warning to anyone thinking about reading it. I think it's the best book i've ever read though, and it definitely makes a lot more sense the second time through (a lot like Mulholland Drive in that respect).

Who knew Tom Robbins had a new book out?

I just found out.

YEE HAWG.

rob.

Yes! an amazingly good book. And once you've finished it, be sure to dig up a copy of the McSweeney's where Chabon 'continues' the tale (kind of an addendum to the action.) It's a great chance to revisit these characters that you will love by the end of K&C. (I believe that particular McSweeney's fetches high prices on Amazon though. When you're ready, leave me a message and I can send or fax some photocopies of the story.)

I am on my second attempt to read [url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385721404/soldierant-20]
Holy War: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today's World[/url]. It's fascinating, and it moves fast - I just find that I move through non-fiction w-a-y too slowly. Sometimes I need a couple of tries to get through it. I'm only up to 'The Peasants Crusade' so far...

Next up is more non-fiction: The Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession which is, of course, about Gold.

what the?? really? well hells bells. too bad i ain't never learnt to read!

I just started reading:
The War on Freedom: How and Why America was Attacked, September 11, 2001 by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed .

The last book I finished was:
Un-Jobbing The Adult Liberation Handbook by Michael Fogler .

Kinda ironic as I have a job interview tommorow and hopefully will be gainfully employed for the first time in years with a well-known company that has been called 'evil' elsewhere on this board. Ah well, I had a good run of being 'unjobbed', but I want health benefits again and I don't feel like becoming a Canadian citizen.

ayn rand - the fountainhead

been putting off reading it for too long, its a great read if you're a neocon like me.

Still muddling through required reading.
It'll be so nice to get back to my graphic novels.

On my plate:
The House of Bernarda Alba
Garden, Ashes

a spanish play and a holocaust novel
yay

Just finished "Samaritan" by the dude that wrote "Clockers." Good insight into how fucked up parents can be. Now I'm reading "Forever" by Peter Hammill. It's about a Irish guy born in the 1700's who goes to Manhattanm to avenge his family. While there he is granted immortality. The catch? If he leaves Manhattan island, he dies. Kind of a Highlander rip, but at least it's a smart one.