The Little Prince.. and it makes me cry like a baby every single freaking time. :|
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I am a bit less than halfway through The Orphan Palace by Joseph Pulver. I am really impressed. I love the poetic writing and the darkness of it. In the introduction, it is described as "if On the Road had been written about Henry Lee Lucas," which seems accurate to me. It is full of fun references to other classic weird fiction and horror. The writing is just gorgeous, without being the slightest bit lush. The violence is graphic and frankly a bit upsetting. But that is what I want in this sort of a book. It is highly recommended.
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Almost done with "Moby Dick" and figured I could use a little high adventure, straight to the point brain candy. I think I'll read some Robert E. Howard "Conan" stories for a few bit
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Hey, I just started Moby Dick the other day! :)
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I'm enjoying the overall story, but the way Melville seems to get sidetracked with random stuff is frustrating. However, one must carry on when reading a classic :)
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Do You Think What You Think You Think? by Julian Baggini and Jeremy Stangroom. I like it. It is more of a read and then take a quiz type book, but it definitely makes me think. It challenges point of view without being annoying or irritating about it.
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I've been sifting through Joyce Carol Oates shorts. I'm even more into her stories now that I've been living in the south.
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Just got done reading Edgar Switchblade. Pretty cool and very strange. Writte by L. Wyatt. (lonesome Wyatt from Those Poor Bastards and Lonesome Wyatt and the Holy Spooks)
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I'm too embarrassed to list the books I'm reading at the moment. I'm so broke, I can only afford books from the recycle centre, and most of those are historical romances, or books that are so bad, they don't even get into second hand book shops, but they are however 50cents a book...
Although I do have Thoreau's Walden for xmas from a second hand book shop. Or may be it was the picture book on dinosaurs that was meant for me. |
Reading before bed is "R@pe: Sex Violence History" by Joanna Burke after seeing MissA and Saya discuss it in another thread. It's one of the most informative, and difficult, non-fiction books I've ever read.
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Oh, sweetie.. it is not 'before bed' type of reading. :(
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Yeah, I kinda figured that. The stats and even the arguments that have been made just in modern times alone are fucking infuriating.
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I really appreciate the focus she puts on rapists though. I wish there was a statistic for how many people are rapists alongside how many people are victims.
That said, the book made me appreciate how awful the criminal justice system can be, even for rapists and alleged rapists (did you get to the part yet about the black guy who was falsely accused, but became a rapist in the prison system? The one To Kill A Mocking Bird was based on? Can't remember his name...) |
Yeah, I remember that part. I was so pissed off I put the book down for a few days. I'm just now working my way through the exhibitionist chapter.
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A bunch of Flannery O'Connor shorts.
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I've been skimming the Vivekachudamani.
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Sandman Slim. It's okay thusfar, nothing brilliant.
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Columbine by Dave Cullen. Only a little ways in and already its making me realize that we still have huge assumptions about it.
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I read The Contract With God trilogy by Will Eisner, it was pretty good. I gotta trust the Goodreads recommendations more.
I also read The Exorcist, was actually not scary. It was obscene, and I'm not for censorship or anything like that, but I notice a huge difference between how men write sexual violence and how women and everyone else writes sexual violence. Like I notice with men it feels more gratuitous, its shocking and gross but it also doesn't feel as horrible as it should be; in the Exorcist yeah the demon making Regan masturbate in front of everyone is gross and what I mean when I say obsence, and its truly the worst the book has to offer. But its gross for the spectator, Regan herself is totally unaffected, has no memory, is not traumatized, etc, it has nothing to do with her. The movie did include those scenes only it was way toned down and overall I think the movie is way scarier and way better. Now reading A Tree Grows In Brooklyn. |
Just finished the third volume of Sandman, by Neil Gaiman, and so far I'm just completely blown away. I've gotten a lot of enjoyment out of Neil's fiction, but perfect it ain't... this, though... it's without flaw. Fucking brilliant. I've been meaning to read it for years, and am just kicking myself for taking so long to get around to it.
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The Taker By Alma Katsu.
The main character's thirst is something else. |
Just finished "Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline and rather enjoyed it. Full of amusing moments if you get the 80's references plus it's a total gamer's story.
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A Small Killing by Alan Moore. I think this might be my favourite thing by him.
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Shhh... don't tell anyone but I'm reading Why people hate america. I'd hate for it to get out that I occassionally reed books that arnt fiksion.
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