you need to read at least one cormac mccarthy book if you don't want to look like a shithead

i suggest no country for old men, even if you've seen the movie 10 times it's different.

mccarthy is a master of the modern form, definitely not something that is considered breaking or hip as far as current trends go (but that mostly seems to bes smartass cynical shitbags with MLA degrees so i could care less), but certainly a timeless master of form and language.

if there's anything worse for american fiction than requiring a masters degree to write it i'm not sure what it is

mccarthy dropped out of tennessee
delilo majored in communications at fordham
i know that heller and faulkner also were not particularly good students
even Franzen says MLAs in creative writing is a motherfucking joke that's killing american fiction and i think he's one of the beneficiaries of it

like why the shit do you need a degree in "creative" writing from a college seriously major in english, read a lot and write something i don't want to hear that you were schooled in creative writing so you could get hooked up with a publisher that kind of thing makes me PUKE

SORRY I'M DRUNK AND I CARE ABOUT BOOKS

i've been listening to lots of amateur audiobooks lately:

life of charlemagne by einhard
life of charlemagne by notker the stammerer
the story of my misfortunes by abaelard
history of the britons by nennius
nibelungenlied by THE GERMAN NATION

now: the story of the decline and fall of the roman empire by edward gibbon

^___^

i thought the no country movie was one of the most exact literal adaptations i've ever seen
i guess it's been almost five years since i saw it and watched the book though

i remember one of the coens making a joke about that when they won the adapted screenplay oscar though

i've really got to finish the crossing but i have to start it over at this point
i thought i'd really read a lot with my vyvanse focus but i've mostly just been playing jRPGs

so far i've read the road no country and all the pretty horses but i can't read anything else because of my neurosis that says i have to read the entire border trilogy before the rest of his books now that i read the first one
i hate being me

i don't know how to read.

my new buddy at work told me 'the devil in the white city' is good.

i've heard a lot about that devil in white city. it's in my humongous pile of "to-read"

there are a few differences and also the fact that chigurr is never described any further than having blue eyes makes his presence even more dark and mysterious, like he's a force of nature

and no spoilers, the big undisclosed moment in the book re: Llewellyns death, unlike the movie, is a lot more satisfying.

just read 1984.

next up: slaughterhouse-five and neuromancer.


i wasn't kidding when i said in the other thread that i was getting the most cliched list of classic fiction for christmas. you have to start somewhere.

:cheers:

also, i still havent read slaughterhouse... is it rill good?

oh shut the fuck up you preening dullard

even if you are going to read gibson

hey, trots! how are you today?

just finished reading the great railway bazaar by paul theroux. uncomfortably racist at times but still pretty interesting

I just finished this lovely piece of lovecraftian cosmic hardcore horror-porn.

http://carltonmellick.files.wordpres....jpg%3Fw%3D450

The Road is also pretty much scene-for-uh-whatever-the-book-equivalent-of-scene-is-in-a-book-without-chapters. Then again, I guess if you buy the rights to a McCarthey novel, you don't exactly add alot or you've missed the entire point of ponying up for the rights in the first place.

i loved it, but i'm also a huge vonnegut fan. you could probably read it on the toilet with one good shit.

i feel weird about having liked player piano more than slaughterhouse 5

cat's cradle is my favorite

it's kind of funny that the only two vonnegut books i've read so far both have the protagonist setting out to do research to write a war themed book.

welcome to the monkey house is pretty dope

any chance there's a high res pic of this without the words on it? it looks like a good way to scare my kid if i had it as wallpaper on my desktop.

Nah sorry. Shop it!

I have a signed Vonnegut silkscreen

burn it

This

http://i.imgur.com/0SU7k.jpg

7 chapters deep into 50 shades of grey. good christ, this is tedious.
soooo many spelling and grammatical mistakes. pretty much anyone says anything , it's always "I murmured" or "Grey murmured." and what west coast american 20-something says "pram"?

and i can't stop picturing the main character as kristen stewart

:hanging:

the good news is i finally got to a dirty part, though.



fortunately i DID read a good book beforehand. 'you deserve nothing' by alexander maksik. the fact that it's based off his life aside, it was really a lovely and engrossing read.

Been reading Clive Barker's Books of Blood (early collections of short stories).

Have never read anything of the horror genre except for some Stephen King here and there when I was young. I really really really really like these. It beats listening to NIN.