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I just finished Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers by Stephen Harrod Buhner. Absolutely fascinating book. It's a history/recipe book about early forms of beer in ancient cultures around the world and it's tremendous cultural importance. After reading it I brewed a 5 gallon batch of "Heather Ale" from a 800 year old Scotish recipe. It smells divine. Should be ready to drink in about a week.

Currently, I'm reading Rats' Nests a collection of poetry by Japanese poet Hagiwara Sakutaro (1886-1942). He was heavily influenced by Nietzsche and Schopenhauer.

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Due to the hazards of drunken posting, I mentioned Peter Süskind rather than Patrick Süskind as the author of Perfume. Nevertheless, the novel is a must-read.

Until the Teatro hits town, I'll probably dive into a 1950s crime novel by Gil Brewer, Peter Rabe, or Robert Colby. Decisions, decisions....

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I am currently dividing my reading time between The Fall of the Republic and Other Political Satires by Ambrose Bierce and The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. (The Dawkins book hasn't been officially published yet. I got an ARC edition on abebooks.com)

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I've been absorbing Joe Hill's 20th Century Ghosts (thanks to Barry Wood for the recommend on that one) and Dino Buzzati's The Tartar Steppe. Both are very worthwhile reads, and make the wait for TG easier to bear...

currently reading the following:

Weaveworld by Clive Barker

Culture Jam by Kalle Lasn (the guy who founed Adbusters)

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielsomethingerother (you all know the book)

anddddd I think that about wraps it up

I cannot believe Ann Coulter is on good terms with Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead. So much for the rebellion of the Sixties.

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This doesn't surprise me at all. I was a student at UW-Madison - one of those America-hating traitorous liberal campuses on which she loves to projectile vomit her Goebbelsian(?) victim-envy delusional diatribes. The frat boys in Madison would wear tye-dyes and listen to Dead bootlegs on the weekends - sort of their way of saying ... "We're going to own you in the future, but in the mean time we're just having fun playing like we're poor." Hell! I'm surprised the frats didn't hire the Grateful Dead for one of their pledge drives! I'm getting really off-topic here. I'm almost done with Slime After Slime - it's cringe-alicious. I just bought Robert Graves' Goodbye To All That. I'm sure this will cheer me up.

Smooches!

Waffles

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Why do we all know House of Leaves? I know it, mean to read it again one day. Trippy book.

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Now, that's another one of my all time favorite books. The strangest thing about it is that it's actually three books in one. I have heard that for some people, the book being structured the way it is (with all its footnotes etc), is difficult to read. While going through it the first time I decided to skip reading the (longish) footnotes written by Johnny Truant and concentrate on Zapanos notes (I couldn't concentrate on the narrative of both novels at the same time). Now I'm planning to (re)read the whole book... right before TG get here

I've heard there is a new book by Danielewski coming out this year: Only Revolutions.

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Another book I've forgotten about! I enjoyed this one a lot. I didn't find it hard to read - not a fast read, but not difficult either. I just looked on Amazon. It said something like ... "Stephen King meets David Foster Wallace!" If I had heard that description before getting it, I don't think I would've read it. I've also heard a rumor about a new Pynchon novel coming out in December.