What have you been reading lately? V. 24

I'm currently alternating between Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and Cormac McCarthy's The Road. I find the material in both particularly sweet and comforting. I'm looking forward to reading the scenes about Cannibalism in The Road.

 

Nothing yet, I'm going to the book store soon. I'm going to pick up some stuff off of my list of reads that others enjoyed.

 

Do you like bukowski? A friend of mine, who looks a lot like you and reminds me of you, bought me a copy of "Factotum" for christmas one year. I loved it, and so did everybody I lent it to. I can see you liking it.

 

I'll add it to my list.

 

Don't buy mine. Please. Just re-read Illiad or something.

 

Fine. I'll wait until they finish the library and check them out. I'm still going to read them though.

 

Sweat of the Sun, Tears of the Moon
by Peter Lourie

Fascinating book about Treasure Hunters in Ecuador.

 

Homeless Joe, what do you recommend? I'm curious.

 

I just started the invisible hook - pirates and economics

I just ordered Talent is overated: what really separates world class performers from everyone else which I should get on Friday

Also reading through Kelly baggetts vertical jump bible

 

This Buddhist book with a long title.

...and re-reading 100 Years of Solitude for school.

 

I just finished reading Steph Meyers "Breaking Dawn", and now I'm reading "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor for the 50th time.

 

Nothing but legal documents and heavy books lately. I started reading Devil Bones by Kathy Reichs ages ago, still haven't had time to finish it. Tooooo many essay deadlines coming up, ugh..

 

The Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley

 

Das Kapital - Karl Marx
Just started reading it though.

 

Neuromancer by William Gibson :1984

Two reasons.

1 - I read the book as an 8 year old in the year it was published and has sentimental importance.

2 - It was his first novel and won the "triple crown" of sci-fi awards: the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the Hugo Award.

I concede most sci-fi gains merit form the scientific content of the work over writing. This book is gains alot of status ( beyond the awards ) from pushing the Cyberpunk genre into the mainstream. We have the word " cyberspace " due to this book ( it was coined by Gibson in an earlier short story ).

"The matrix has its roots in primitive arcade games. … Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts. … A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding"

 

I was reading Trump Style Negotiation, but for some reason I put it down 20 pages in and haven't read shit in 3 weeks.

I gotta fix that.

 

What a great compilation of quotes and thoughts that is.


I'm reading The Poetry Repair Manual by Ted Kooser

and The Elephant Suite by Paul Theroux.

 

Stefan Canev`s "Ants and Gods"

 

Its okay.