Comments | missingyourbed: diversionary tactics

missingyourbed

diversionary tactics

Jan 01, 2012 12:12

lullaby - chuck palahniuk
the rum diary - hunter s. thompson
the winter of our discontent - john steinbeck
east of eden - john steinbeck
the lovely bones - alice seboldhouse of leaves - mark z. danielewski ( Read more... )

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wishingfortime January 27 2003, 00:03:48 UTC

read slaughterhouse 5 next. its SO FREAKING GOOD.

missingyourbed January 27 2003, 09:44:27 UTC

whatever i can get my hands on at the podunk school library will be next. but slaughterhouse five is towards the top of my list.

anonymous January 27 2003, 21:48:21 UTC

angry candy is an amazing book and i'm really hoping you'll like it. i have not read troublemakers, and am curious if it's a retrospective/collection of older stories or what. dangerous visions is interesting, but ellison is the editor, not the author.

vonnegut is really good also. i enjoyed both the books by him that are on your list.

my friend tom recently mailed me a copy of the brothers karamazov, but i haven't started reading it yet. it's supposed to be a hard read, both literally and psychologically, but worth it. i recall he said something about chapter 5 containing some important observations about religion. i've read crime and punishment, and liked that as well, though it was quite some years ago.

-- B (making a habit of this, it seems)

missingyourbed January 27 2003, 22:23:49 UTC

i wish i had the money to buy all of these books and stack them on my desk.
::who's next in line to be devoured?::
the university library here is a little lacking so i'm going to have to start buying stuff soon. either that or start moving towards a public library and seeing what rural MO has to offer me.

i haven't read any vonnegut yet, i'm quite excited to start.

yeah, dostoyevsky is supposed to be a very hard read, but it's also supposed to be very rewarding in the long run. i'm looking forward to it but it may just fall at the end of the list since i'm not quite up to speed with literature yet. i have to grow seeing as i have read the same amount in the last week that i have read in the last three years.

it's ok if you make it a habit.
just don't get addicted, i'm not that interesting.

ashinfulleffect January 28 2003, 08:23:54 UTC

add house of leaves to that list, and it would almost be perfect.

<3ash

missingyourbed January 28 2003, 08:26:37 UTC

author?

ashinfulleffect January 28 2003, 14:04:37 UTC

mark z. danielewski.

its a hard read. yes yes. but its worth the effort.

have you read the perks of being a wallflower? i know its the trendiest book ever. but its really good.

exxohh.

missingyourbed January 28 2003, 15:59:31 UTC

i added it to my list but that's one that i will have to buy, so don't feel offended if i put it off until i'm un-poor.

i love perks. i actually posted (before i posted this list) for people to not suggest that book because EVERYONE does. and rightly so, it's a good book. thanks.

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a couple of thoughts... citizentanner January 28 2003, 12:47:00 UTC

1: if someone were to ask my opinion on the matter, i would put slaughterhouse 5 higher on my list of priorities than breakfast of champions... but that is mainly because i prefer more linear stories.

2: as far as dostoyevsky, i would suggest reading crime and punishment in tandem with albert camus classic the stranger. camus' book is much more accessable, and deals with a lot of the same themes and issues. in many ways it is a more modernist/postmodernist portrait of dostoyevsky's book. even if youve already read the stranger, i'd revisit it briefly, just to get back into that mindset. i can attest... having read the stranger not long before i began working with dostoyevsky's text made crime and punishment that much easier to understand.

i'd also recommend checking hitchcock's the rope, which is the most notable of a handful of films based on the 1924 leopold & loeb murders. the movie is somewhat hackeneyed, but the murders themselves were taken right out of crime & punishmentanyway, that was a mouthful. enjoy in whatever ( ... )

Re: a couple of thoughts... missingyourbed January 28 2003, 16:07:26 UTC

1.) i don't really have priorities. i just read whatever is in the library and i'm in the mood for. slaughterhouse five is high on the list but the library is out of it. bummer.

2.)dostoyevsky is low on my list because i have a feeling that reading more intensive novels will kill my desire to read entirely. i will most definitely add camus' the stranger though.

3.)the rope will also be added, thanks man.

lustversuslove February 6 2003, 21:35:01 UTC

you should check out A Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. it's an amazing book. xo

missingyourbed February 6 2003, 21:41:54 UTC

i shall add it to my list, thank you very much. nice username by the way, makes me think.

misschalupa April 5 2005, 22:50:52 UTC

So good! I absolutely love A Hundred Years of Solitude. Love in the time of Cholera is also amazing.