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Old 08.14.2006, 12:45 PM   #321
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I'm re-reading Herbert Farjeon's Cricket Bag, which funnily enough is by Herbert Farjeon.
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Old 08.14.2006, 01:45 PM   #322
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What other Clowes books have you read? (if any) Like i ahve said before, i read ...Velvet Glove... not too long ago, and really loved it, and i don't know whether to get Eightball or Ghost World next..

I've read Velvet Glove. Didn't care much for it--seemed like Clowes was just being weird to be weird, if you know what I mean. I've also read Caricature, which I liked much better. Ghost World's probably my favorite Clowes--this is a re-read, this time.
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Old 08.14.2006, 02:34 PM   #323
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I've read Velvet Glove. Didn't care much for it--seemed like Clowes was just being weird to be weird, if you know what I mean. I've also read Caricature, which I liked much better. Ghost World's probably my favorite Clowes--this is a re-read, this time.

after i read 'like a velvet glove cast in iron' i just thought "what the fuck was he on when he wrote that?", Caricature is the only Daniel Clowes book i dont have, i recently got '20th Centuary eightball' and liked that alot.
Ghost Worls is still his best, then Ice Haven, then David Boring, then 20th Centuary Eightball, then the rest.

i really really really reccomend to everyone who likes Daniel Clowes to read anything you can find by Adrien Tomine, he is just like him!!!, his drawing style is exactly the same, but he is far far more realistic than Daniel Clowes.


At the moment i am reading "staring at sound", its about the Flaming lips, its pretty great so far.
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Old 08.14.2006, 02:38 PM   #324
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Oh yeah, I read David Boring, too. That's a good one.
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Old 08.14.2006, 02:43 PM   #325
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I've read Velvet Glove. Didn't care much for it--seemed like Clowes was just being weird to be weird, if you know what I mean. I've also read Caricature, which I liked much better. Ghost World's probably my favorite Clowes--this is a re-read, this time.

really? i thought the surrealism of it was cool.i guess some things were just weird to be weird, but i still thought it was cool, and funny as hell. like the women who had a child with the mermaid..man...
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Old 08.14.2006, 02:47 PM   #326
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Yeah, I mean, on one level, I dug it. But it doesn't have lasting appeal for me like Ghost World & other more straightforward work.
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Old 08.14.2006, 03:44 PM   #327
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Re-reading the Upinishads and Joyce's Ulysses. Do I win the prize? Can it be Lady Sov?
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Old 08.14.2006, 04:15 PM   #328
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Old 08.14.2006, 07:21 PM   #329
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actually it's not boring. but very entertaining. quite addictive as a matter of fact.

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Old 08.15.2006, 09:22 AM   #330
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Some short stories by Cora Sandel,
A book by Jens Bjørneboe.
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Old 08.15.2006, 09:24 AM   #331
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And yeah, Haruki Murakami - Windupbird. I don't what the english title is, so ecxuse me.
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Old 08.15.2006, 09:26 AM   #332
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I am reading Our Band Could Be Your Life

Pretty good book, but I thought cutting off the history once the band went "corporate" was a bit arbitrary.
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Old 08.15.2006, 11:48 AM   #334
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books on a sonic youth forum!...i can do that...i was reading dharma bums...i brought it to milwaukee to read while waiting for the doors to open for the syouth concert...well i ran to the hotel connected and asked if they'd hold it for me and i never remembered to pick it back up...good book though
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Old 08.15.2006, 03:07 PM   #335
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right now im reading BARREL FEVER by david sedaris
ON THE ROAD by jack keruac, i know i had been putting it off
and short stories by flannery oconnor
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Old 08.15.2006, 05:19 PM   #337
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A friend lent me a Dave Eggers book. How We Are Hungry, I think, is the title. I've got the first two stories in. I like his style (even though it doesn't really seem new or inventive), but the stories - again, that I've read - are kind of boring..
Actually boring's not a good word. Easy? I'm not sure.
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Old 08.15.2006, 05:23 PM   #338
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