Chabon is as pedantic as I am willing to venture, in terms of vocabulary. Then again, his syntax is a LOT easier to follow, too (in comparison to Pynchon).

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8/22/2007 2:00:41 PM

Blood Meridian.

8/22/2007 9:28:55 PM

8/22/2007 10:31:21 PM

I haven't been on TWW for about a month & a half, but since then I've read:
Homage to Catalonia George Orwell
Vol. 5 of Anaïs Nin's Diary (1947 - 1955)
The Island of the Day Before Umberto Eco.
Watt Samuel Beckett
Myths of Gender Anne Fausto-Sterling

There are so, so many things I want to read - I hope I have enough spare time.
On my list:
Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie
& Wise Blood Flannery O'Connor.

StillFuchia has the best taste on this site.

9/2/2007 8:07:44 PM

^ thank you kindly

Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Schreber
Nausea, Sartre

and Against the Day, which I'm convinced I'll never force myself to finish
despite that I love it to pieces

9/3/2007 12:24:38 AM

The Light Fantastic

9/3/2007 9:24:36 AM

Calvin & Hobbes' 10th Anniversary Collection

9/3/2007 9:37:06 PM

9/3/2007 11:05:53 PM

started 1000 Years of Solitude by Marquez today

9/4/2007 11:53:15 PM

I Just finished reading Winkie, and I hate that I wasted my time.

9/6/2007 12:03:16 AM

idoru - gibson

9/10/2007 12:37:10 PM

9/10/2007 1:24:37 PM

oryx and crake is most excellent.

9/11/2007 12:45:06 AM

well it's a lot like a lot of Margaret Atwood's other novels
which, while very interesting, always end up bothering me

^^ have you gotten to the blue penises yet?

9/11/2007 12:50:21 AM

recently finished this

10/5/2007 10:00:40 PM

I recently finished "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" and then spent 3 days reading "The Five People You Meet In Heaven" and now I'm reading "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier."

10/5/2007 10:10:01 PM

The Man Without Qualities, Musil
Great Expectations, Dickens

hooray required reading

if I had time, I'd start reading my copy of Agape Agape

10/6/2007 12:19:26 AM

Musil ftw

10/6/2007 12:22:10 AM

seriously, B

seriously

10/6/2007 12:22:56 AM

10/6/2007 12:53:08 AM

Angela's Ashe's

10/8/2007 10:58:24 AM

Just finished



and started this today:



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10/22/2007 6:12:45 PM

[Foreword by John Updike = LOL]

and Lady Audley's Secret

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10/22/2007 9:06:09 PM

10/22/2007 9:08:57 PM

10/22/2007 9:24:39 PM

world without end. not sure what to think of it yet either...

10/23/2007 3:07:54 AM

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

10/23/2007 2:25:33 PM

Picked up a copy of Gravity's Rainbow today to start during my trip this week.

10/23/2007 3:46:00 PM

The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue

10/23/2007 5:28:00 PM

& since last time:

In Cold Blood Truman Capote
Down & Out in Paris & London George Orwell

+ lots of required reading and textbooks. I wish I had more down time!

I still really want to read:
Wise Blood Flannery O'Connor
Secret Agent Joseph Conrad
White Noise Don DeLillo
Look Homeward, Angel Thomas Wolfe
so, so many more

10/25/2007 10:26:36 AM

10/25/2007 10:27:53 AM

I don't know why, but I am really enjoying this book:

10/25/2007 12:03:45 PM

Quote :

"Picked up a copy of Gravity's Rainbow today to start during my trip this week."

<3 <3 <3

I hope you don't hate it.

10/25/2007 12:34:56 PM

Love it so far.

I hated leaving behind Island of the Day Before, though...it's a library book so I didn't want to bring it with me, but I was hooked.

10/25/2007 1:32:02 PM

^^^^Snow Crash is excellent...

Just finished The Age of Jackson by Arthur Schlessinger...started Dune Messiah by Herbert last night.

frontispiece, how was The Island of the Day Before?

10/25/2007 2:38:30 PM

viva el presidente ezequiel!!

10/25/2007 2:59:53 PM

^^ Yeah, I'm really enjoying it so far. I like books with history/facts intertwined in the plot. Anyone know of other good books like this?

10/25/2007 3:10:30 PM

10/25/2007 3:39:19 PM

Quote :

"Love it so far."

Thank god. Report back when you've gotten halfway through: hopefully you won't have changed your mind.

10/25/2007 4:04:49 PM

Really liking it so far. I'm not that into sci-fi, but I loved the Foundation series.

10/28/2007 1:44:12 AM

i can't remember the last time i actually just read a book for pleasure instead of having it dumped on me for some assignment or discussion.



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11/3/2007 11:47:11 AM

11/3/2007 12:25:48 PM

I need a new book to read, I'm pretty depressed about a girl, so I would like a book to reflect my mood. Any suggestions?

11/3/2007 3:53:32 PM

^^HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA

11/3/2007 3:55:38 PM

11/3/2007 4:37:18 PM

i'm about 4/8 chapters, 200/600 pages into this The Secret History (italics or underline?) and while i'm by no means in a position to recommend titles, I used to despise assigned reading, even if it was a semi-interesting book.

That said, I can't seem to put this thing down. At least a chapter every time i pick it up and even reading it when roommates expect me to be semi-social with company in the living room and what not.

11/4/2007 4:28:33 AM

A Canticle for Liebowitz

Pretty good I must say.

11/4/2007 5:27:12 AM

Dune

11/4/2007 9:16:19 AM

No Country for Old Men

11/4/2007 10:18:54 AM

11/4/2007 11:47:10 AM