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billygomberg

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Reading!
« on: January 05, 2010, 07:45:07 pm »
at the moment, two slim volumes

Chronology by Daniel Birnbaum (about the phenomenology of narrative and temporality in video/installation art)

OXO by Pierre Alferi (revisiting this one after more than a few years)
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taylordeupree

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Re: Reading!
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2010, 08:08:58 pm »
spook country by william gibson

and then the next in the culture series by iain m. banks (the one after Phlebus.. forgot the name)
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Re: Reading!
« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2010, 08:19:05 pm »
Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem (it was annoying at first but now getting into it)
next: Hold On to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-1992
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Re: Reading!
« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2010, 08:56:43 pm »
The Great Derangement by Matt Taibbi, about just how messed up American socio-political life is at the moment.

After that, not sure, possibly Nicholson Baker's Human Smoke if I feel up to it.
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billygomberg

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Re: Reading!
« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2010, 09:08:58 pm »
Quote from: taylordeupree on January 05, 2010, 08:08:58 pm
spook country by william gibson

and then the next in the culture series by iain m. banks (the one after Phlebus.. forgot the name)

that would be "player of games"

how was the Gibson?
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taylordeupree

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Re: Reading!
« Reply #5 on: January 05, 2010, 10:28:49 pm »
yes, player of games...

don't know on the gibson yet... only 4 pages in!
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Re: Reading!
« Reply #6 on: January 06, 2010, 05:17:03 am »
I reread "Pattern Recognition" all the time, its one of my favourite books.

Half way through "Snow" by Orhan Pamuk - very good - and quite appropriate given the weather in the uk at the moment!
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Re: Reading!
« Reply #7 on: January 07, 2010, 06:05:46 am »
Oliver Sacks - Musicophilia - Tales of Music and the Brain - non-musical people stroke by lightning and suddenly feeling compulsive urge to listen to and compose music, music brainworms, absolute sense of hearing (your dad sniffles in d-minor), music savants, etc. - amazing. 

Michal Viewegh - The Blissful Years of Lousy Living
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Re: Reading!
« Reply #8 on: January 07, 2010, 03:06:10 pm »
seduction of the minotaur by anais nin.  I've read several of her books... and I think that this is my favorite so far.

I've actually started an anais nin book club.  any NYC peeps interested should send me a PM.
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Re: Reading!
« Reply #9 on: January 07, 2010, 04:57:03 pm »
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and then the next in the culture series by iain m. banks (the one after Phlebus.. forgot the name)

been meaning to get into these for ages...

has anyone tried one of those kindle/sony readers? any thoughts on them?
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Guy Birkin

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Re: Reading!
« Reply #10 on: January 08, 2010, 10:59:59 am »
Just finished Thomas Pynchon's latest - Inherent Vice. Bit different to his earlier work (less surreal), but a decent detective romp through hippy California, with the usual crazy-named characters. Not as good as Gravity's Rainbow.
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billygomberg

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Re: Reading!
« Reply #11 on: January 08, 2010, 11:26:08 am »
Quote from: Guy Birkin on January 08, 2010, 10:59:59 am
Just finished Thomas Pynchon's latest - Inherent Vice. Bit different to his earlier work (less surreal), but a decent detective romp through hippy California, with the usual crazy-named characters. Not as good as Gravity's Rainbow.

well...what books are as good as GR?
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billygomberg

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Re: Reading!
« Reply #12 on: January 08, 2010, 11:26:44 am »
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and then the next in the culture series by iain m. banks (the one after Phlebus.. forgot the name)

been meaning to get into these for ages...


well get started and then you can BECOME ONE OF US
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Re: Reading!
« Reply #13 on: January 08, 2010, 12:00:37 pm »
I...can't...reeeaaddddddd!  :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(

Kidding, of course.

Currently slogging through Cities Of Salt by Abdelrahman Munif. The first half was excellent, the second...not so much. It just kind of keeps dragging on with no apparent direction or coherent narrative. Can't wait to finish it and move on to something new!
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Re: Reading!
« Reply #14 on: January 08, 2010, 12:48:07 pm »
Quote from: radere on January 08, 2010, 12:00:37 pm
Currently slogging through Cities Of Salt by Abdelrahman Munif. The first half was excellent, the second...not so much. It just kind of keeps dragging on with no apparent direction or coherent narrative. Can't wait to finish it and move on to something new!

I think there is nothing wrong just putting down a book that you haven't finished if it just isn't getting you anywhere.
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