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SwansSoilMe/SwansSaveMe

SwansSoilMe/SwansSaveMe

Chymist
Hey y'all.
Lessee... I'm clearing out some stuff I wanted to reread forever, like Thomas Tessier's Phantom and James Herbert's Sepulchre. These two are a couple pf the ones horrorwise I find worth it. Herbert kicks Clive Barker's ass...this is his best book.

Just makin' way for the master. A girl reading Lovecraft on the Metro this morning, she had earplus (music) so I jotted a note on her newspaper: "Thomas Ligotti, the modern-day Lovecraft."

Think I'll score? She did smile in thanks... :)
 
For the time being, I'm reading a solid mystery: The Cabinet of Curiosities. There are definitely disturbing moments (the anonymous madman daintily polishing and sharpening an ancient surgical kit is unnerving), but the purpose is more in the plot. Fun. Probably not in the tastes of many readers here, but very clever nonetheless.
 
Right now I'm reading The Gardens of Lucullus by richard Tierney and Glenn Rahman. It's a page-turner indeedy!

After that I have Slime After Slime by Mark McLaughlin and In Matto's Realm by Friedrich Glauser.

After that, I don't know. I might pull out some of my old math books from grad school and pretend I'm taking notes in one of Instructor Carniero's lectures.

After that I'll go to the bookstores and put all of the Ann Coulter books in the comedy section.


"I do this to pass the hours. Only to pass the hours."
 
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After that I'll go to the bookstores and put all of the Ann Coulter books in the comedy section.
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LOL. Coulter is a contemptible banshee. I hope the USA is just going through a phase that we can all look back on in shame in the future (similar to the McCarthy years). I'm not so sure, though, churches are springing up like mushrooms in Ohio.

S.T. Joshi is coming out with a new book: The Angry Right: Why Conservatives Keep Getting It Wrong. This book is due out on September 6th of this year. It would be great if Joshi put his formidable intellect in play as a columnist. We need another H.L. Mencken now more than ever before. But that begs the question: what paper would print it? My guess would be none.
 
Silent One, it reminds me of the novel Perfume, by I forget who, but the killer ws completely up on all the scents of everything inluding victims.

This Goldman book about John & Yoko pretty scary at times.
 
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Silent One, it reminds me of the novel Perfume, by I forget who
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Swans, Perfume was written by Peter Süskind. It is one of the best novels I have ever read! (And this is not the first time I've commented on this novel here at TLO.)
 
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Silent One, it reminds me of the novel Perfume, by I forget who
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Swans, Perfume was written by Peter Suskind. It is one of the best novels I have ever read! (And this is not the first time I've commented on this novel here at TLO.)
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The scent of the victim, eh? Have to check it out.

I'm also going through various horror collections I've acquired o'er the ages. I'll be bringing some to Poughkeepsie.
 
I forgot about this novel. I loved it at the time I read it. The movie looks promising too - no dark hand of the usual Hollywood Illuminati soiling a great tale. This makes me want to rent Quills.

Cheers!
 
Teattro is not getting here ... :(
But anyway I am reading "The Girl With The Golden Eyes" by Balzac...a dreamy novella.This is my first Balzac and surely won´t be the last.
And in my shelf "Bartleby & Co" awaits.
 
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.
 
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)
 
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
 
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
 
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.

Only Revolutions: A Novel: Danielewski, Mark Z.: 9780375421761: Amazon.com: Books

Only Revolutions: A Novel [Danielewski, Mark Z.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Only Revolutions: A Novel
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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.
 
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