What book are you reading?

Cree Nations

I just received my copy of "Louis RIel & Gabrial Dumont" by Joseph Boyden, its hot off the presses and part of the "Great Canadian Series" by PEnguin books, really looking forward to reading it

he still stands

East of Eden by John Steinbeck.

next: Gravity's Rainbow by Pynchon

chadwick

from time to time i read 11 different dictionaries
still my vocabulary is hillbilly

myra

catefrances wrote:

high fidelity - nick hornby

That's a great pick ! I always go back to Hornby. Just started "Juliet, Naked". But High Fidelity is a classic :-) .

catefrances

myra wrote:

catefrances wrote:

high fidelity - nick hornby

That's a great pick ! I always go back to Hornby. Just started "Juliet, Naked". But High Fidelity is a classic :-) .

ive ummed and ahhed about high fidelity for years and last week i just needed to buy a book even though i couldnt really afford it and so knowing this penguin edition was $10 i decided it was time. imagine my joy when it rung up at $6. bargain!


locked in the arms of a crazy life - howard sounes

myra

catefrances wrote:

ive ummed and ahhed about high fidelity for years and last week i just needed to buy a book even though i couldnt really afford it and so knowing this penguin edition was $10 i decided it was time. imagine my joy when it rung up at $6. bargain!


locked in the arms of a crazy life - howard sounes

Well, Bret Easton Ellis, Nick Hornby .... if you happen to enjoy reading Douglas Coupland as well, we might trade libraries ... that would be a bargain

catefrances

myra wrote:

catefrances wrote:

ive ummed and ahhed about high fidelity for years and last week i just needed to buy a book even though i couldnt really afford it and so knowing this penguin edition was $10 i decided it was time. imagine my joy when it rung up at $6. bargain!


locked in the arms of a crazy life - howard sounes

Well, Bret Easton Ellis, Nick Hornby .... if you happen to enjoy reading Douglas Coupland as well, we might trade libraries ... that would be a bargain

OMG!!! holy fuckballs. ive read all ellis and all coupland. we could totally swap librares... if i didnt have a policy of lending my books out.

swear by sin

JaneNY wrote:

(re)Reading The Vampire Lestat (Anne Rice)

I've read Scar Tissue myself - entertaining read to say the least.

I'm also reading The Vampire Lestat...for the first time, really good.

catefrances

swear by sin wrote:

JaneNY wrote:

(re)Reading The Vampire Lestat (Anne Rice)

I've read Scar Tissue myself - entertaining read to say the least.

I'm also reading The Vampire Lestat...for the first time, really good.

what a brat.

myra

catefrances wrote:

myra wrote:

Well, Bret Easton Ellis, Nick Hornby .... if you happen to enjoy reading Douglas Coupland as well, we might trade libraries ... that would be a bargain

OMG!!! holy fuckballs. ive read all ellis and all coupland. we could totally swap librares... if i didnt have a policy of lending my books out.

Now there's a way to dispense with the hassle to try and find a new author I might like.... I could just ask you Cool.
By the way .... you do have great taste when it comes to books

Nastasja

Violence by Slavoj Zizek

MK1980

Cobra by Frederick Forsyth. Just got through second reading of blood's a rover by James Elroy - brilliant finish to my favorite trilgy of all time!

catefrances

myra wrote:

catefrances wrote:

myra wrote:

Well, Bret Easton Ellis, Nick Hornby .... if you happen to enjoy reading Douglas Coupland as well, we might trade libraries ... that would be a bargain

OMG!!! holy fuckballs. ive read all ellis and all coupland. we could totally swap librares... if i didnt have a policy of lending my books out.

Now there's a way to dispense with the hassle to try and find a new author I might like.... I could just ask you Cool.
By the way .... you do have great taste when it comes to books

thank you.


im a little bored atm so ive decided to reimmerse myself in bukowski... am in the middle of a bukfest... cause you know i need a kick in the teeth. :roll:

myra

catefrances wrote:

thank you.


im a little bored atm so ive decided to reimmerse myself in bukowski... am in the middle of a bukfest... cause you know i need a kick in the teeth. :roll:

Wow. That's hardcore immersion ! Bukowksi .... Haven't read him for so long ... I was an anarchist back then (ie a teenager)

catefrances

myra wrote:

catefrances wrote:

thank you.


im a little bored atm so ive decided to reimmerse myself in bukowski... am in the middle of a bukfest... cause you know i need a kick in the teeth. :roll:

Wow. That's hardcore immersion ! Bukowksi .... Haven't read him for so long ... I was an anarchist back then (ie a teenager)

ive never been an anarchist. i like order even if its only in my mind. perhaps its the pretense of order... who knows?


jack kerouac: king of the beats - barry miles.

One Song Glory

"They Shall Inherit the Earth" by Morley Callaghan and "Player One" by Douglas Coupland. I'm frantically trying to finish "Player One" before the Massey Lecture on Monday...but I doubt it will happen. Stupid schoolwork getting in the way of my own geekiness and "research"!!

Also, props to the other Coupland lovers! I've kind of been obsessed with him since high school...it's truly unhealthy...and his work is going to be a big part of my dissertation.

catefrances

One Song Glory wrote:

"They Shall Inherit the Earth" by Morley Callaghan and "Player One" by Douglas Coupland. I'm frantically trying to finish "Player One" before the Massey Lecture on Monday...but I doubt it will happen. Stupid schoolwork getting in the way of my own geekiness and "research"!!

Also, props to the other Coupland lovers! I've kind of been obsessed with him since high school...it's truly unhealthy...and his work is going to be a big part of my dissertation.

do you think the fact that coupland is canadian made you seek him out originally? or did you find that out later?

One Song Glory

catefrances wrote:

One Song Glory wrote:

"They Shall Inherit the Earth" by Morley Callaghan and "Player One" by Douglas Coupland. I'm frantically trying to finish "Player One" before the Massey Lecture on Monday...but I doubt it will happen. Stupid schoolwork getting in the way of my own geekiness and "research"!!

Also, props to the other Coupland lovers! I've kind of been obsessed with him since high school...it's truly unhealthy...and his work is going to be a big part of my dissertation.

do you think the fact that coupland is canadian made you seek him out originally? or did you find that out later?

I think I always knew he was Canadian; I can't really remember. He gets taught a lot in high school English courses in Canada so he's pretty much always been on my radar. I think I read "Shampoo Planet" back in grade 10, which started my addiction.
Curiously though, he hardly ever gets taught at the university level and is completely ignored in Can. Lit. courses. He's probably too ultra-modern for the Canadian canon (yes, we have a "canon"!). I'm sure "Gen. X" still gets taught on certain courses but I haven't encountered him on a syllabus since high school. My supervisor just started teaching "Generation A" in both his undergrad and grad level courses.
Coupland's writing has been a huge influence for me and was my first big leap in the "Digital Humanities" direction of my research, so it's always a treat when he comes to town. Looking forward to it!

AELARA

myra wrote:

catefrances wrote:

thank you.


im a little bored atm so ive decided to reimmerse myself in bukowski... am in the middle of a bukfest... cause you know i need a kick in the teeth. :roll:

Wow. That's hardcore immersion ! Bukowksi .... Haven't read him for so long ... I was an anarchist back then (ie a teenager)

Bukfest...! How nice! I haven't read him for long time too. I think I want a reimmersion to buk too...

myra

catefrances wrote:

ive never been an anarchist. i like order even if its only in my mind. perhaps its the pretense of order... who knows?
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Down the line, isn't that always so ? As it is, it seems the more rules, the less order. But when things get out of control, we come up with new rules to add up to the existing ones .... so yeah, rather a pretense of order.