recently read good books

[exciar28]

Theodore Gracyk - Rhythm And Noise: An Aesthetics of Rock

: really great book. have you dot guys read this book? I was blown away by a quote from Charles Ives.

David Fontana - The Secret Language of Symbols

: still reading. I think I have a big trickster in myself.

 

[NAD]

Jack Kerouac - Dharma Bums
Tim Burton - The Melancholy Death of Oysterboy and other stories
Salman Rushdie - Fury

These are the best of the books I've read over the past several months. Oh yeah, and book 3 of Harry Potter ruled too.

 

[xfer]

hey exciar, are you into semiotics? is that what the david fontana book is about?

 

[lizard]

James Bradley: Flags of our Fathers
Jim Bouton: Foul Ball (wherein the former rebel pro baseball player, takes on small town corruption and neglect in Pittsfield MA)

 

[avi]

I am sad to say that I haven't read jack shit recently

 

[exciar28]

hey exciar, are you into semiotics? is that what the david fontana book is about?

no, it's a bit different. it is about symbolic mysticism/occultism. many pictures and symbols make eyes happy.

 

[AndICried]

I am sad to say that I haven't read jack shit recently

Me too :'(

The last good books I read:

Shamanspace - Steve Aylett

Teranesia - Greg Egen

I was also reading The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula Le Guin, but that kind of ground to a halt. Has anyone else read that/what thinks ye?

 

[xfer]

I guess the last books I read were:

Gogol's Dead Souls (the Pevear/Volokohnsky translation)
Nabokov's Glory
bunch of Nabokov short stories
and a few before those, over Christmas break, which I don't recall.

 

[mindspell]

I am sad to say that I haven't read jack shit recently

Same thing here. I only read when I use public transportation and/or I have a craving (which usually results in reading 5 books in 6 days and not doing much else).

 

[avi]

I read the newspaper on the train to and from work each day and I sit in front of a computer for at least 9hrs at work. I'm done with reading when I get home.

 

[FrostGiant]

I don't read much but I did just read The DaVinci Code. I thought it was rather entertaining.