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Old 04.24.2016, 12:10 PM   #4221
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I've always loved the graphic novel version of City of Glass.

planning on getting it soon.
books excite me so much, oooaaah.
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Old 04.26.2016, 02:31 PM   #4223
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James George Frazer - The Golden Bough
 


I have been itching to read this seminal work for years. It will be my 100th review on my blog. http://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/
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Old 05.02.2016, 01:32 PM   #4224
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The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

Some James Joyce book I found on a shelf somewhere.
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Better Dead - Max Allen Collins - through private eye Nathan Heller, Collins writes historical detective fiction that takes an interesting look at the Rosenberg executions, Joseph McCarthy and the late Roy Cohn, who is popping up these days as the one time 'tutor' of a young Donald Trump. The 2nd half of the book is more about illegal biological warfare in Korea, chemical torture, LSD, Frank Olsen and his death, and the cover up of his death, but the stories are all based on reported facts, not conspiracy literature, since that is so important to people.

I really like the 3 Nathan Heller character books I've read and there is a list of like 15 written so I have something to look for at The Strand.
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Old 05.15.2016, 07:41 PM   #4226
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Frontiers: The Epic of South Africa's Creation and the Tragedy of the Xhosa People. Noel Mostert

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Old 05.16.2016, 10:42 AM   #4228
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I have been itching to read this seminal work for years. It will be my 100th review on my blog. http://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/

Hey, how's it coming with all this? Did you do your special 100th review yet? Are you ready to get back to business with Claw of the Conciliator? You've only barely scratched the surface of the Wolfe's world (or have you?), and I'm dying to hear what you think of the rest.
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Old 05.20.2016, 04:46 PM   #4229
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Just finished up Nick Sousanis' UNLFLATTENING. http://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2016/0...n-what-we.html

I am halfway through The Golden Bough (about 500 pages in). Dense material!

As soon as I finish up Golden Bough I am picking up the next Wolfe book !!!!
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Nick Sousanis retweeted my review of Unflattening! Sweetness.......
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Old 05.24.2016, 09:07 AM   #4231
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Nick Sousanis retweeted my review of Unflattening! Sweetness.......

Wow, that's fucking cool man!

I once had Blag Bug and HoZac records favorite some Twitter praise I posted for BB's Reflecting the Light album. Blackalicious also rt'd a comment I made about them. So did Perfet Pussy back when I was doing the whole music blog thing.

But your thing is cooler.
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Old 05.24.2016, 09:10 AM   #4232
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Can't wait for you to delve back into the Wolfe-iverse. Really, I'm giddy with anticipation over here.

Also, I can't find JACK SHIT to read, so I'm ready any time if you still want to recommend a nice, weird, literary sci-fan-horror novel for me.
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Old 05.25.2016, 06:08 AM   #4233
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Nick Sousanis retweeted my review of Unflattening! Sweetness.......
SWEEEEEET!!!

I am reading several books at the same time right now, because they all have to be read for class. Some I like more than others, as you can probably guess from the titles...

this is for my metafiction class:
 


Remix/Mashup class:
 


graphic novel class:
 


Plus, on the weekend i'll probably try and start reading either "Everywhere Antennas" or "The Nao of Brown" since i need to start thinking about a presentation topic.

GAH, also I have to read Barthes' "The Pleasure of a Text", as my presentation on that is in a week.

... only 1,5 more months before I can sleep again... :roll eyes:
(still gonna go and buy Don Quixote today...)
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Old 05.27.2016, 09:55 AM   #4234
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SWEEEEEET!!!


Looking at my blog stats today I saw a giant spike in "hits" and then I saw that Nick Sousanis quoted my review and linked to it here http://spinweaveandcut.com/teaching-...rench-edition/

supa sweeeeeeettttttt!!!!!
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A slipcased edition of Autobiography of a Secret Agent by R H Bruce Lockhart, he was in charge of the British foreign office when the Bolsheviks took power in Moscow and was also a contemporary of Sidney Reilly, the greatest of all spies and a compelling character as played by Sam Elliott.
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Old 05.27.2016, 04:04 PM   #4236
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Finished Feynman's Rainbow by Leonard Mlodinow. short book.
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GAH, also I have to read Barthes' "The Pleasure of a Text", as my presentation on that is in a week.

this is one of the very few truly beautiful "theory" books i've ever read

the pleasure of THE text (le plaisir du texte)

it is so good

vive la jouissance
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GAH, also I have to read Barthes' "The Pleasure of a Text", as my presentation on that is in a week.

this is one of the very few truly beautiful "theory" books i've ever read

the pleasure of THE text (le plaisir du texte)

it is so good

vive la jouissance

Presentation?
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Old 05.28.2016, 10:42 PM   #4239
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GAH, also I have to read Barthes' "The Pleasure of a Text", as my presentation on that is in a week.

this is one of the very few truly beautiful "theory" books i've ever read

the pleasure of THE text (le plaisir du texte)

it is so good

vive la jouissance
i read it today. it's actually nice. it's readerly vs writerly text. "easy".
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