i'll read pretty much anything that can keep me engaged. i'm currently reading:

the golden compass
zodiac
lucifer rising

Just finished The High Window, by Raymond Chandler. Hollywood Noir writing at it's finest. I can't explain it, but I love it. When I grow up I want to be able to drink and kick ass just like Philip Marlowe.

mike:

Just finished The High Window, by Raymond Chandler. Hollywood Noir writing at it's finest. I can't explain it, but I love it. When I grow up I want to be able to drink and kick ass just like Philip Marlowe.

AWW MAN, I love Raymond Chandler. So, I grew up pretty quickly between the time I turned 18 and the time I turned 19, and ran into an old friend that I hadn't seen in awhile. We started flirting, and he was was pretty blown away that in the space of five months, I'd COMPLETELY changed the way I present myself. The flirting got pretty heavy, and he said the following about my style:
"it's like flirting with lucca brazzi"
and
"when did you get to be such a tough guy? you're talking like Philip Marlowe all of a sudden."
"really?"
"Yeah, you've become very...film noir, very Raymond Chandleresque."

maybe he was just drunk but GODDAMN I felt sexy

hudsong:

Reading:
Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller (intense)
The Box Man - Kobo Abé (hilarious and interesting)
The Bells of Bicetre - Georges Simenon (all around great)
The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann (one of my favorite books)

join my book club let's read cortazar together

I will read books with you!!!

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski has got to be my favorite book.
Also:
Only Revolutions - Mark Z. Danielewski
The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa
The Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Pulp - Bukowski, duh
Anything by Jane Austen...

There are a million more books I love, but those are the top of my list.

Ulysses is not a fun time. It has it's moments.. but sheesh.

anita:

I love Pessoa like no one's business

wanna read ulysses?

re: bukowski: http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban/catalog/productdetail.jsp?itemdescription=true&itemCount=60&id=14637607&parentid=A_FURN_WALL&sortProperties=+product.marketingPriority,-product.startDate&navCount=14&navAction=poppushpush&color=

i feel wrong for wanting this but R. Crumb is pretty much my favorite

also how can I not support the following: "You know, before there was an Internet, people read books! And it was pretty sweet, too, because some of the books were really good. Really."

so trill

Haha. Yes.

stumptown:

but plato is the true baller.

no way dude, aeschylus

also sophocles, aristotle backs me on this

Oh yeah, also, right now, I'm reading Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas, 'cause let's face it, Tom Robins is awesome.

And, Anita, I haven't read much in the way of greek tragedy. That was always more my brother's thing. Honestly, I'm much more for modern authors. And a disgusting amount of Jane Austen.

HOW HAVE YOU NEVER READ ANY AUSTEN?
Aren't you like, a girl or something?

Uhm, yeah, so about this book club, we should for real do it, okay?

Pride and Prejudice is definitely NOT the best novel she wrote. I personally am really quite partial to Persuasion and Sense & Sensibility. Emma is really good too. Shit, so are Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey. Haha.

Middlemarch is something I've been meaning to read since I read my first Austen novel in like, 9th grade.

The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell

Alright, saw some good readings.

Here's my list from last month - current.

Aristotle - various : I'm a big nerd for Aristotle. I normally carry a copy of Nicomachean Ethics or the Physics whenever I travel. If you like Aristotle and/or Derrida I can give you a 40 page thesis entitled "Derridian Virtue Theory: ethics, deconstruction, and other funny shit" by a sexy, brilliant, young philosopher whose name rhymes with Dax Girchoff.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being - a book I read different parts of all the time. Most recently I was reading the later parts on Theresa.

Complete Works of ee cummings - Yea, poetry nerd too. TS Elliott too.

the brothers karamazov - If you haven't read this, you should.

As for Simone De Beauvoir, I love talking about here whenever possible, problem is that few people have read her works, let alone the later ones. Have you ever read the "Letters to Sartre" book? I want to. I've read all (most) of her theory books and want to read this one.

Yea, if anyone wants to talk philo, just let me know when and where, while Portland is an intellectual, "liberal" epicenter, I rarely get to do philosophy with people here. Odd really.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being is amazing.

And ee cummings is one of my favorite poets.

yall know i cant read

my boyfriend's brother gave me Girl on the Fridge: Stories by Etgar Keret which i'm currently reading.. it's good times. i am in a lack-of-attention-for-large-novels phase, so it's all about the books of short stories for me right now.

i would be sooo down for a books and beer club. er.. book club?

stumptown:

Max is NOW!:

yung jeezy pdx:

yall know i cant read

kid, if you wanna get laid in college you better know the difference between Jean Paul Sartre and David Sedaris.

hahaha... the hot girls are more concerned whether you're a member of beta theta pi or sigma phi epsilon than the difference between something as mundane to them as philosophers...

Maybe in "college town" colleges. In places like LA, frat boys don't get much but mocked by most of the student body.

i have trouble finishing books. so *currently* (sort of) ... off the map, if there be thorns, party of one, the ticket that exploded, maybe more.

TheBlackRider'sGirl:

jonah:

brian jacques.
all you need.

Good stuff but then again I've been reading most anything I can get my hands on right now.
I've read five books this week plus a couple of graphic novels. I have fairly eclectic reading tastes but mostly read novels. I would be into doing this. How often are you thinking of meeting?

about every two weeks

I love me some comix but they're expensive as shit plus I'm way into Biff! Bang! Pow! over at PSU. you should check it out

comix wise I am loving Kevin Huizenga so fucking hard right now

anita:

"have you read this book 'the unbearable lightness of being'? what you just said reminded me of the philosophy in it"
guy she is flirting with who is not paying attention to her: "I've heard of it"
"well remind me to explain it to you sometime, it's really complicated, but a really interesting philosophy. it's a novel by this russian author, milan kundera"

I've rarely heard anyone even mention this book. Then again, people who know me have told me they are afraid to talk about books I've read in front of me. I'm not even a jerk, apparently I'm just intimidating. I find the type of talk like above odd, since there's no "out there" philosophy behind the book, in my opinion it's just a really good account of human relations and reactions to those relations. With a little anti-USSR message.

I've been working pretty steadily on the Enid Grossman translation of Don Quixote

Don't know about this translation, but another favorite. Of course it WAS nominated greatest book ever by that one committee.

I'd really like to read Montaigne's essays with someone. I'm not sure whether this is up your alley, but lately I've been having a real thing for Simone Weil, but she's unbelievably dense and it helps to have people to talk to. I actually started wanting to read de beauvoir because of her.

Not as familiar with either as I could be. Read some Montaigne and know of Weil. Had to to do some of the work I did on the french philo movements. To be honest I don't normally read a lot of philosophy, just certain parts of it. Like when it comes to contemporary Epistemology or Metahysics, I'm basically over with it, don't read an ounce anymore.

Ever considered La Rochefoucauld for an entertaining, short group.

Watchmen, again. Trailer got me excited.

oh man I haven't seen the watchmen trailer i should look that up. best graphic novel eva.

Native Son by Richard Wright is a book that I just finished and it was so amazing. I also just got done with my yearly reading of Kafkas Metamorphosis a classic in my eyes. As far as Don Quijote goes it is still the best in it's virgin form; Spanish.

TheBlackRider'sGirl:

anita:

I love me some comix but they're expensive as shit plus I'm way into Biff! Bang! Pow! over at PSU. you should check it out

comix wise I am loving Kevin Huizenga so fucking hard right now

I haven't actually purchased any. We just go to the library a lot. Most recently I read a Tank Girl version of the Odyssey. It was...interesting. As far as graphic novelists (?) though, I really like the honesty of Craig Thompson. His "Blankets" is beautiful that way.
Every 2 weeks sounds great, by the way.

for someone just starting to read comix, the following are crucial:
fun home by allison bechdel
ghost world and any 8-ball collection by dan clowes
epileptic by david b
persepolis by marjane satrapi
sleepwalking or summer blonde by adrian tomine
heartbreak soup by gilbert hernandez
jimmy corrigan: the smartest kid on earth by chris ware

unfortunately my days as a comix lending library are OVER (they are too expensive to replace), but I think the library has all of these. join BBP though, I don't think they care if you're a PSU student, either, and they have a pretty all right discount if you buy stuff through the club