I'm planning on borrowing that from a friend pretty soon.

bumping to stop all of crypto's shit...

at first i thought it was a bit stupid but it has since picked up and i'm liking it.

I picked up The Naked and the Dead at the library today. Anybody familiar?

elephant and other stories by Raymond Carver.

Not read anything by him b4, but thought i'd explore as H.Murakami seems to cite hime alot and after reading this i can see why, gonna track down the rest of his stuff..

I'm reading that now (see: last page)

I'm really going at a snails pace though. I'm on page 102. THere are a lot of really great parts, but then a lot of the stuff drags.

Don Quixote.

More than two-thirds through Pattern Recognition. Very sympathetic protagonist considering my similar nameplusinitial screen name and own, though less severe, allergy to trademarks. Fortunately no techno/business intrigue.

The part with the asian porn that she found on the history of her computer scared me. That would freak me out.

John Barth - The Floating Opera. I'm actually getting pretty tired of this overly self conscious post modern stuff. Vonnegut is one of the few authors in that style who I'm not sick of. I'm moving onto Graham Greene next. Probably the Comedians.

It does drag, more than I thought it would. I'm around the 100 page mark, too. I might not make it all the way through.

Life's too short to read boring books.

Great book cover! I could develop a fetish about buying new copies of the books I love with new cool covers.

well, to be honest, I'm reading that in Czech edition. The cover is pretty interesting too though:

Definitely. When I get to page 300 (which could take ages), I'll decide if I don't want to keep reading it or not.

City of Thieves by David Benioff

Raymond Carver is the man....one of my favorite writers. One of my creative writing teachers got me into him when I was in college.


I highly recommend getting this:

Right now I'm reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

And at some thrift stores, I bought these books:

The Complete Plays of Aristophanes
Brave New World - Huxley
Much Ado About Nothing - Shakespeare
Hamlet - Shakespeare
A Room With a View - EM Forster
The Nature of Emotion - some random psychology book that looked cool

the sorrows of young werther