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Action -> Booklists? (3/6/2008 3:54:05 PM)

Booklists, do they say anything about you?
Post your book lists and maybe make some book list friends if you see any book lists you like say hay and recomend to others books you think they will like based on thier lists.
Example:

Booklist:
Literary Cowboy by Ted Morgan
Cursed from Birth

Im hoping to find some more obviously counter culture reads and obviously being the site this is fetish/hipster/beatnik reads, oh and photography reads.



faerytattoodgirl -> RE: Booklists? (3/6/2008 3:57:07 PM)

booklist: i dont read books...makes my brain hurt.



Action -> RE: Booklists? (3/6/2008 3:58:04 PM)

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ORIGINAL: faerytattoodgirl

booklist: i dont read books...makes my brain hurt good.



Level -> RE: Booklists? (3/6/2008 4:24:36 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Action

Booklists, do they say anything about you?
Post your book lists and maybe make some book list friends if you see any book lists you like say hay and recomend to others books you think they will like based on thier lists.
Example:

Booklist:
Literary Cowboy by Ted Morgan
Cursed from Birth

Im hoping to find some more obviously counter culture reads and obviously being the site this is fetish/hipster/beatnik reads, oh and photography reads.



Gotta love Kerouac; I'm putting Angelheaded Hipster in the mail tomorrow, for a friend. It's a bio on JK, with tons of great pics.

Good source for counter-culture reading: http://www.lastgasp.com




Action -> RE: Booklists? (3/6/2008 4:26:44 PM)

I've read that one! Ahhh title coming from Howl by Allen Ginsburg that I have on CD. Yah I know where to get counter culture reads, lets just say Im old fashioned and prefer hearing word of mouth a book should be read and why

Plus makes for a fun thread. Post your booklists!



kittinSol -> RE: Booklists? (3/6/2008 4:46:24 PM)

Le Deuxieme Sexe - Simone de Beauvoir.

The Female Eunuch - Germaine Greer.

Otherwise, anything by Enid Blyton.


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KaraLady -> RE: Booklists? (3/6/2008 4:50:30 PM)

House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski
The Ground Beneath Her Feet - Salman Rushdie
Shame - Salman Rushdie
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

There's a lot more, but I can't remember right now.



kittinSol -> RE: Booklists? (3/6/2008 4:53:18 PM)

House of Leaves is a fantastic novel. Frightening, but brilliantly erudite.

(I add my "list" was a complete joke, and on purpose too [8D] .)



KaraLady -> RE: Booklists? (3/6/2008 4:56:46 PM)

My friend got me Only Revolutions for Christmas, but I haven't had the time to get to it. It looks...odd, too. Like highly metaphorical poetry instead of actual running narrative.



Level -> RE: Booklists? (3/6/2008 5:10:42 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Action

I've read that one! Ahhh title coming from Howl by Allen Ginsburg that I have on CD. Yah I know where to get counter culture reads, lets just say Im old fashioned and prefer hearing word of mouth a book should be read and why

Plus makes for a fun thread. Post your booklists!



Hmm, let's see.
 
Short list:
 
Charles Bukowski - Post Office
Henry Miller - The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
John McWhorter - Winning the Race
Kate Christensen - The Epicure's Lament
Jack Kerouac - Desolation Angels
Henry Rollins - One From None



Level -> RE: Booklists? (3/6/2008 5:12:59 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: kittinSol

House of Leaves is a fantastic novel. Frightening, but brilliantly erudite.

(I add my "list" was a complete joke, and on purpose too [8D] .)


Good, I was wondering if you had a severed male member for a bookmark..... [:D]



Action -> RE: Booklists? (3/6/2008 5:15:10 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Level

quote:

ORIGINAL: Action

I've read that one! Ahhh title coming from Howl by Allen Ginsburg that I have on CD. Yah I know where to get counter culture reads, lets just say Im old fashioned and prefer hearing word of mouth a book should be read and why

Plus makes for a fun thread. Post your booklists!



Hmm, let's see.
 
Short list:
 
Charles Bukowski - Post Office
Henry Miller - The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
John McWhorter - Winning the Race
Kate Christensen - The Epicure's Lament
Jack Kerouac - Desolation Angels
Henry Rollins - One From None



I have to say I like your taste in books, half of those I've already read. Ill have to definatly add anything by Henry Miller to my list since he's all over my current read (Literary Outlaw)



Level -> RE: Booklists? (3/6/2008 5:17:39 PM)

I believe I've read every Miller book, except for Sunday After the War. He was a brilliant and funny man. I recommend the collections of his letters, too, good stuff.
 
Literary Outlaw, by William Burroughs? Another interesting writer..... I have The Adding Machine around somewhere, a collection of some of his essays.



Action -> RE: Booklists? (3/6/2008 5:20:43 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Level

I believe I've read every Miller book, except for Sunday After the War. He was a brilliant and funny man. I recommend the collections of his letters, too, good stuff.


Will have to add to my list, suddely Im reminded of Farewell to Arms, ever read that? Im a fan, I need to reread it someday, and White Cadillac with Fins is a great book too, both authors names elude me at the moment.

And no not by Burroughs but an Bio of Burroughs by Ted Morgan, great read, Im sucked into it all.



dragonnette -> RE: Booklists? (3/6/2008 5:22:42 PM)

I read mostly science fiction and fantasy.  At the moment, I should be reading my geography assignment.  



Level -> RE: Booklists? (3/6/2008 5:29:54 PM)

I've never read any Hemingway; my knee-jerk reaction to him, is that I find the man more intriguing than his work. Guess I need to actually read something of his to find out, huh? [:D]
 
Another good read: God Is A Bullet, by Boston Tehran.
 
I've never  heard of the White Caddy book.



Action -> RE: Booklists? (3/6/2008 5:35:17 PM)

Its an english read, kind of along the lines of Lock Stock and Two Smoking barrels kinda read, I remember it being fun, and your view of Hemmingway is almost how I view Burroughs but that sure didn't stop me reading his books.



badprofessor -> RE: Booklists? (3/7/2008 6:13:13 PM)

The Killer Inside Me and/or Pop. 1280 - Jim Thompson (lots of other great and shitty ones too)
Filth - Irvine Welsh
The System of Objects - Jean Baudrillard
Molloy/Malone Dies/The Unamable - Samuel Beckett (his great prose trilogy)
Trout Fishing in America - Richard Brautigan
The Archaeology of Knowlege - Michel Foucault

That's a short list.




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