A Novel You've Always Intended to Read. - Page 7

!@#$%! · 06.25.2008, 01:34 PM

i think it was THIS ONE

and you can read the sacred wood for free (most of it anyway)

HERE

Cantankerous · 06.25.2008, 01:35 PM

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Originally Posted by gmku

I somehow missed out on The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and have always been curious about whether it's a good read. Again, not a novel, but interesting?

yeah!

acousticrock87 · 06.25.2008, 01:38 PM

Eliot scares me. He was too smart for his own good. Like Borges, but human.

!@#$%! · 06.25.2008, 01:39 PM

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Originally Posted by acousticrock87

Eliot scares me. He was too smart for his own good.

nah. he was a bit of a snob, but he's perfectly accessible.

Cantankerous · 06.25.2008, 01:40 PM

eliot as in TS eliot?

give it a read.

✌➬ · 06.25.2008, 01:40 PM

Oh, now that I have summer off I am going to read Borges. Well I'm off to the beach.

acousticrock87 · 06.25.2008, 01:40 PM

Accessible, yes. But I have a strong feeling that there was no encyclopedia sitting next to him when he wrote. It was just all there. Trying to imagine his process is too much.

Sonic Youth 37 · 06.25.2008, 01:41 PM

Slaughter-House Five

✌➬ · 06.25.2008, 01:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Cantankerous

eliot as in TS eliot?

give it a read.

My favorite Poem is The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.

Cantankerous · 06.25.2008, 01:43 PM

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Originally Posted by acousticrock87

Accessible, yes. But I have a strong feeling that there was no encyclopedia sitting next to him when he wrote. It was just all there. Trying to imagine his process is too much.

then don't take the process into consideration
just read it and enjoy it

just out of curiosity, when's your birthday? you strike me as a bit neurotic.

acousticrock87 · 06.25.2008, 01:43 PM

Borges at the beach? Now there's an idea. Look up every once in a while so the sun doesn't get too dark.

!@#$%! · 06.25.2008, 01:43 PM

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Originally Posted by acousticrock87

Accessible, yes. But I have a strong feeling that there was no encyclopedia sitting next to him when he wrote. It was just all there. Trying to imagine his process is too much.

in terms of erudition, both pound and borges blow him out of the water.

then again you have to realize that this is probably all he knew-- ask him anything about astrophysics and he would have probably stared at you with his mouth open.

in any case--intelligence in a writer, it's a good thing. that's why we read them. who has time for stupid writers? oh yeah, kerouac fans...

✌➬ · 06.25.2008, 01:44 PM

I only liked several Kerouac Fans, to me he was the least talented.

Cantankerous · 06.25.2008, 01:46 PM

you guys should read allen ginsberg. not jack kerouac. if you're going the beat writer route. william burroughs can be terribly boring.

acousticrock87 · 06.25.2008, 01:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Cantankerous

then don't take the process into consideration
just read it and enjoy it

just out of curiosity, when's your birthday? you strike me as a bit neurotic.

Hah, neurotic? Never gotten that before, but I would say a little, yes. What's my birthday got to do with it, though?

And the reason he scares me is that writing is potentially my career at the moment, and when I read people like that it's like John Keats at the Elgin Marble. I'm not that smart, and it's a bit intimidating.

Rob Instigator · 06.25.2008, 01:48 PM

I have never been entertained by burroughs. I have been intrigued, and perturbed, and bored, and irritated, but never entertained or enlightened.

when a dipshit junkie near-retard like nikki sixx says Junkie is his favorite book ever, that just adds more stink to the shit pile as far as I am concerned.

Rob Instigator · 06.25.2008, 01:49 PM

hey acousticrocks, write what you knopw, and never stop reading, and learning. that is the only way t create true great work.

Cantankerous · 06.25.2008, 01:52 PM

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Originally Posted by acousticrock87

Hah, neurotic? Never gotten that before, but I would say a little, yes. What's my birthday got to do with it, though?

And the reason he scares me is that writing is potentially my career at the moment, and when I read people like that it's like John Keats at the Elgin Marble. I'm not that smart, and it's a bit intimidating.

because of astrology and things. a lot of people don't buy into it but even if it had no merit whatsoever it is a very, very interesting topic.

don't be scared...go forth and THRASH.

acousticrock87 · 06.25.2008, 01:53 PM

June 6th.

Cantankerous · 06.25.2008, 01:53 PM

haaaaaaaa i knew it.

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Rob Instigator invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the land of the Instigator Posts: 27,930	I have never been entertained by burroughs. I have been intrigued, and perturbed, and bored, and irritated, but never entertained or enlightened. when a dipshit junkie near-retard like nikki sixx says Junkie is his favorite book ever, that just adds more stink to the shit pile as far as I am concerned. __________________ RXTT's Intellectual Journey - my new blog where I talk about all the books I read.
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06.25.2008, 01:53 PM	#139
acousticrock87 invito al cielo Join Date: May 2006 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 5,515	June 6th.
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