I still havn\'t read alot of Burroughs, but I have had my share of beat works. I love junky.
For what its worth, I started to watch the movie naked lunch and I lost it after the type writter started yelling at him. Still on the ever growing \'to read\' list.
Burroughs is good. Zappa loved Naked Lunch you know.
I am pretty Beatnicked-out at this point. I don\'t want to read any Burroughs, Kerouac, Ginsberg, etc for a quite a while.
"This doesn\'t surprise me. I don\'t know one woman who likes Robbins stuff. It\'s kind of ironic since many of his lead characters are woman."
^^^ For some reason this statement really annoys me. I\'m not quite sure why. I can say however that I know A LOT of women who love Robbins.
Also... I LOVE buying books. Me in a used book store = kid in a candy shop. I waste a lot of money in there though.
I love the way bookstores smell.
I love the way bookstores smell.
I\'ll have to show you my
vitalogy sometime
I\'m the same way in a book store. I try to stay out of them because of it. I went up to boston one time to visit some friends and we hit some stores, I came home with about 30 books and a depleted checking account. One of them is an excellent book on stravinski, who zappa also sights as a major influence.
^^^ For some reason this statement really annoys me. I\'m not quite sure why. I can say however that I know A LOT of women who love Robbins.
I love the way bookstores smell.
Didn\'t mean to annoy. I was friends with this girl in college, she read the first paragraph of "Even Cowgirls..." and threw the book at me yelling "I ain\'t reading this sexiest bullshit!!". And I couldn\'t really argue. The woman in his books are a little closer to a male pornagraphic fantasy then any kind of reality.
Couldn\'t agree with you more about the smell of used bookstores. Milford Center has "The Village Wench". If you go to the GTB Show in Mlfd. it\'s spittin\' distance. It is stocked floor to selling with books, most priced b/w $1 - $3. And it\'s got the smell.
Damn^^^I gotta go to that place. I can\'t believe I didn\'t know it was there. I was looking to go up to that book barn in (I think?) Woodbridge/bethany.
Damn^^^I gotta go to that place. I can\'t believe I didn\'t know it was there. I was looking to go up to that book barn in (I think?) Woodbridge/bethany.
you\'ll get a good chuckle when you see the woman that owns it. she LOOKS like a village wench.
Hey, we are an eclectic bunch - everything from Harry Potter to Gilgamesh!
Walsh, I\'ll be interested to see what you make of Zola - had to read him in Uni. Thought him very good, though what I personally preferred of all the eras we had to read was the 20th century stuff we had to do - Camus, Sartre, Ionesco etc. Still think Baudelaire was one hell of a poet though.
Glad to see DNA getting a couple of mentions - at least two of you should understand my avatar now!
Have just racked up a pile of books by the bed to read when I\'ve finished Colony by Rob Grant (Co-creator of Red Dwarf - ask leith - he may know it). In no particular order, there\'s Desolation Angels by Kerouac (already read On the Road and Big Sur), Douglas Adams\' Last Chance To See, a Peter Mayle (Year in Provence) book whose title escapes me and a book on the place of Liverpool in the history of pop music.
Best book I\'ve read recently was by Tom Sharpe - Riotous Assembly, which had me laughing out loud.
there\'s Desolation Angels by Kerouac (already read On the Road and Big Sur),
desolation is great. When you leave the fire station to catch the boat is one of my fav parts of any books. (Don\'t worry, near the begining and not giving anything away.
i personally thought the two dan brown books were about equal, although the first one, Angels and Demons was a bit coolerin imo a bit more farfetched but cooler none the less.
now=holy blood, holy grail and the sign and the seal by graham hancock
after reading the da vinci code and angels and demons i kinda got into the whole holy grail/falsity of catholicism thing. which i enjoy thoroughly
The Wall St. Journal mentioned that The Da Vinci Code is on its way to becoming the $1 billion story - especially since there is a movie, DVD and special edition book on the way.
The Wall St. Journal mentioned that The Da Vinci Code is on its way to becoming the $1 billion story - especially since there is a movie, DVD and special edition book on the way.
I just checked out the nytimes best seller list. Da Vinci Code is currently #1 on the hardcover fiction list, and has been on that list for over 140 weeks. 2 of his other 3 books are on the paper back fiction list (Angels and Demons = 121 weeks). I would imagine that Dan Brown sleeps on a giant pile of money.
prolly fills his swimming pools up and does the backstroke through the franklins.
Dark Tower series, stephen king. best story i have ever read
Dark Tower series, stephen king. best story i have ever read
OY!
go here, you\'ll laugh yourself silly:
http://dtcartoon.net/
Keep this up and we\'re gonna need a book forum. I suggest either:
"Book-quebus" or "Spacey, Don\'t Even Bother Clicking This"