What are you currently reading?

Bob Loblaw · Post by **Bob Loblaw** » Thu November 21, 2013 4:48 pm

Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung -Lester Bangs

Simple Torture · Post by **Simple Torture** » Thu November 21, 2013 4:51 pm

Bob Loblaw wrote:Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung -Lester Bangs

lol wut

Post by **epilogue** » Fri November 22, 2013 7:42 pm

The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Simple Torture · Post by **Simple Torture** » Fri November 22, 2013 8:24 pm

There's just been too much floating around on TV, on the radio, online...today I started Libra.

Bob Loblaw · Post by **Bob Loblaw** » Mon November 25, 2013 4:22 pm

Simple Torture wrote:
Bob Loblaw wrote:Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung -Lester Bangs
lol wut

It's groovy.

Post by **Mickey** » Tue November 26, 2013 3:54 am

I wasn't that into Aira when I read Ghosts but I just finished this one and loved it so much that I ordered another two (How I Became a Nun and Varamo):

And also this for a paper:

red calzolaio · Post by **red calzolaio** » Tue November 26, 2013 4:12 am

The back of the Pacific Rim blu-Ray.

dkfan9 · Post by **dkfan9** » Tue November 26, 2013 4:40 am

durdencommatyler wrote:

The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

i quit this book.

Simple Torture · Tue November 26, 2013 12:55 pm

"Ghosts" was actually where I started to "get" Aira...had started with "Landscape Painter" and wasn't wowed except for a few passages, but I thought "Ghosts" was excellent throughout. "Nun" is probably my next favorite (haven't read "Varamo" or the newer ones).

Post by **Mickey** » Tue November 26, 2013 1:48 pm

Simple Torture wrote:"Ghosts" was actually where I started to "get" Aira...had started with "Landscape Painter" and wasn't wowed except for a few passages, but I thought "Ghosts" was excellent throughout. "Nun" is probably my next favorite (haven't read "Varamo" or the newer ones).

I mean, I liked Ghosts a lot, actually, it just didn't stick with me or really push me to read more. At the time, I was also heavily into Bolaño and Castellanos Moya (I still am, but that was all I was reading) so I think the more comic elements of Aira threw me off. Maybe I'm more ready for that now/less self-serious. This is also the first book of fiction I've read in maybe a year? I did pick up some weird echoes of Deleuze in there, but that's probably just my own mental overlap.

Post by **Mickey** » Tue November 26, 2013 1:49 pm

Speaking of which, I've barely read fiction since 2011 and almost completely lost touch with world fiction in that time. What's been going on?

Simple Torture · Post by **Simple Torture** » Tue November 26, 2013 2:00 pm

David Foster Wallace is still dead.

Post by **Mickey** » Tue November 26, 2013 2:58 pm

Whatever, all white people write the same to me.

Simple Torture · Post by **Simple Torture** » Tue November 26, 2013 3:26 pm

I'm not saying you're wrong.

Post by **epilogue** » Tue November 26, 2013 10:41 pm

dkfan9 wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:

The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
i quit this book.

Why?

malice · Post by **malice** » Tue November 26, 2013 11:37 pm

durdencommatyler wrote:
dkfan9 wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:

The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
i quit this book.
Why?

the girl characters weren't sexy enough

Post by **epilogue** » Tue November 26, 2013 11:39 pm

malice wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
dkfan9 wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:

The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
i quit this book.
Why?
the girl characters weren't sexy enough

dkfan9 · Post by **dkfan9** » Wed November 27, 2013 8:53 am

durdencommatyler wrote:
malice wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
dkfan9 wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:

The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
i quit this book.
Why?
the girl characters weren't sexy enough

i think it was really about the guy, in this case.

Harry Lime · Post by **Harry Lime** » Sat November 30, 2013 2:05 am

He's a little wordy, but Thomas Wolfe is another guy who just gets it.

Harry Lime · Post by **Harry Lime** » Sat November 30, 2013 9:39 pm

This morning I was awaken with a call from a number from the Asheville, North Carolina district, home of Thomas Wolfe himself. No message was left. But hours earlier, I quoted Mr. Wolfe in a text message to my brother.

You quote Thomas Wolfe and he will call.

Red Mosquito

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