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Posted by buzzorhowl on 2006-11-08 16:57:05 +0000

All-purpose book thread

Whatcha reading? I just finished "Killing Yourself To Live: 85% Of A True Story" by Chuck Klosterman. Good stuff. Now it's back to "Veronica" by Mary Gaitskill.

Posted by tgl on 2006-11-08 17:02:16 +0000
Half-way through Brothers K.

Posted by MF DU on 2006-11-08 17:09:42 +0000
Danielewski. Weird Shit.

Posted by ConorClockwise on 2006-11-08 17:12:51 +0000
"Drawing: Space, Form, and Expression" Entice/Peters

Posted by pamsterdam on 2006-11-08 17:26:29 +0000

Posted by tendiamonds on 2006-11-08 17:25:35 +0000

Posted by tommy on 2006-11-08 18:39:26 +0000

Posted by ConorClockwise on 2006-11-08 18:50:48 +0000
Wow. A topology book? Impressive.

Posted by tendiamonds on 2006-11-08 19:01:36 +0000

Posted by jbcardinale on 2006-11-08 19:02:21 +0000
Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain by Rose Menocal curledup.com Bible and Sword England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour Written by Barbara W. Tuchman randomhouse.com

Posted by tgl on 2006-11-08 19:02:37 +0000
Why did the topologist eat his book?

Posted by tendiamonds on 2006-11-08 19:57:22 +0000
He thought it was an apple.

Posted by buzzorhowl on 2006-11-09 00:17:21 +0000
Donut.

Posted by Corby Trouser Press on 2006-11-09 07:22:53 +0000


Posted by G lib on 2006-11-09 16:00:40 +0000
But I just finished and I need something else!

Posted by MF DU on 2006-11-09 16:04:59 +0000
that looks kinda saucy

Posted by G lib on 2006-11-09 16:10:51 +0000
A lesbian hooker from Chelsea MA works in brothel on Boylston st. in Boston-- the book chronicles her life and relationships. It's a graphic novel with a lot of nudity and sex, but written in a kind of melancholic, detached way. It's a pretty interesting book I picked up used at the Brookline Booksmith.

Posted by G lib on 2006-11-09 16:13:58 +0000
But this is the book I'm obsessed with-- I think I've read it 3 times. Dolly Freed and her daddy "the old coot" tell you how to live off the land in suburban PA. Includes instructions on how to grow and skin bunnies and build your own still.

Posted by buzzorhowl on 2006-11-09 16:16:54 +0000
Sounds like porn to me!

Posted by Miriam on 2006-11-09 16:22:00 +0000
Still working my way through "A Confederacy of Dunces" and loving every minute of it. One thing that makes me chuckle about it is that the Levy family is not Jewish.

Posted by Miriam on 2006-11-09 16:22:44 +0000
One of my favorite books of all time. Trying to get a rabbi who wrote "Up, Up, and Oy Vey" to come speak here in February or March!

Posted by tgl on 2006-11-09 16:25:40 +0000
LOL LOL LMAO A topologist would never confuse his apple and donut. Unless it was a Munchkin(tm).

Posted by MF DU on 2006-11-09 16:30:01 +0000
saucy. BTW, Buzz: Ed Meese called. He wants his old job back.

Posted by MF DU on 2006-11-09 16:31:01 +0000
bunny killer

Posted by tendiamonds on 2006-11-09 17:35:41 +0000
Oh yeah! I killed a bunny this morning before my shower.

Posted by MF DU on 2006-11-09 17:51:34 +0000
hygeine needing bunny killer

Posted by Praisegod Barebones on 2006-11-09 18:25:47 +0000
THE BIBLE!

Posted by tommy on 2006-11-09 20:26:12 +0000
Or a kreme-filled. Mmmmm.... kreme.

Posted by pchippy on 2006-11-11 20:59:09 +0000
Frederick?

Posted by pchippy on 2006-11-11 20:59:41 +0000
Lorbering-- this is actually GLib, posting on Pchippy's username.

Posted by tgl on 2006-11-12 12:31:18 +0000
Sorry, is that LOGOUT link too far away?

Posted by tgl on 2006-11-12 12:33:13 +0000
Taking a break from the Karamazovs to plough through Sarah Vowell's 2002 essay collection "The Partly Cloudy Patriot". I'm thinking of sending her a fan letter.

Posted by pchippy on 2006-11-12 12:39:29 +0000
I think she did it on accident.

Posted by tgl on 2006-11-12 20:06:24 +0000
Both times?

Posted by MF DU on 2006-11-12 20:18:44 +0000
LOL geez - RSN isnt as secure a site as I thought. What bit encryption is up in this piece, SYSOP?

Posted by G lib on 2006-11-13 15:52:08 +0000
Oh! Snap!

Posted by Praisegod Barebones on 2006-11-13 20:50:10 +0000
Blasphemy!

Posted by Miriam on 2006-11-17 14:25:31 +0000
Finished "A Confederacy of Dunces" and now reading "The Magnificent Ambersons," the first Fiction Pulitzer Prize winner...in 1918. Still working my way through the introduction.

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