books on tour

[Baliset]

i have bought the following:

american gods - neil gaiman
the strange case of dr. jeckyll and mr. hyde - robert louis stevenson
even cowgirls get the blues - tom robbins
deathbird stories - harlan ellison

 

[Nut Butter]

american gods - neil gaiman

OMG what an awesome book!! I've no doubt that you'll enjoy it, and that afterwards, you'll invest in all 10 volumes of Gaiman's seminal graphic novel the Sandman.

Yup.

 

[Baliset]

already invested in most of the sandman stuff. i think i am on volume 8? but i am starting to pursue his novels and stuff.

 

[xfer]

greg i seriously encourage you to stab at moby-dick. get the annotated version.

 

[BigFakeSmile]

haha i was totally going to post in this thread about swinging the conversation back towards moby dick
maybe i'll invest in that sexy version you guys were discussing since my copy was destroyed in the recent flooding of my basement, poetically enough. i finished it, but i like to own books i read and liked.

 

[Astral Poetry]

I had a serious aversion to Moby Dick after reading 2 chapters for an English class I was taking, 2 chapters in which nothing happened. But I think that was before I actually understood and could fully enjoy naturalistic, cynical writing (thanks to Hemingway and Faulkner), so now I'm actually quite interested in taking a stab at it.

 

[Astral Poetry]

oh, i posted a nice argument towards Hemingway's cynicism here, but it got deleted. ce la vie

 

[Josh Seipp]

great list! american gods is amaaaaaaaazing

 

[azal]

because of the topic of this post I have been singing "girls on film" for the past half hour.