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I just finished Augusten Burroughs' 'Possible Side Effects'. I am currently reading a book titled 'The Magician's Assistant' by Ann Patchett. Tell me what you're reading. Keep in mind, I might use it to update our Facebook page what are you reading thing, but I'm just going to put the book cover up, not ur name. Like here: http://www.facebook.com/literary.mary(look to the bottom left.) |
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« Reply #121 on: July 08, 2010, 10:50:19 PM » |
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Re-reading The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. |
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Would it have been worth while,
To have bitten off the matter with a smile,
To have squeezed the universe into a ball
To roll it toward some overwhelming question
To say: "I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all"
T.S. Eliot
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« Reply #122 on: July 09, 2010, 02:30:39 AM » |
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Great Siege: Malta 1565 by Ernle Bradford. Definitley going to write a novel based on this now.
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« Reply #123 on: July 15, 2010, 10:25:12 PM » |
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I'm currently carrying around in my backpack: Arthur Miller - Death of a Salesman Anne Carson - Decreation Haven't opened either yet. Every time I feel like reading I decide to work on my novel instead. |
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When you get blue and you've lost all your dreams, there's nothing like a campfire and a can of beans. |
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« Reply #124 on: July 29, 2010, 09:45:29 PM » |
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It's been almost a month since I've opened a book. |
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When you get blue and you've lost all your dreams, there's nothing like a campfire and a can of beans. |
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« Reply #125 on: July 30, 2010, 04:09:43 PM » |
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 What Are You Reading/What Have You Read Recently? FAST ONE - by Paul Cain Paul Cain never got the recognition he deserves. Typical writer. And the story is good. It's really good. And I like it. In a Grimes Patterson kind of way... |
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"The castigation of fools is, of course, an ancient and honorable task of writers and, unless very poorly done, an enterprise that will usually entertain those who behold it." ~ Richard Mitchell |
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« Reply #126 on: July 31, 2010, 09:10:59 AM » |
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 What Are You Reading/What Have You Read Recently? A depressing read on all accounts. Some heavy jargon at some points compounds the aforementioned derived-depression. It is brilliant though, I think. And scurrilous in the nightmares it may induce. |
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« Reply #127 on: August 03, 2010, 11:09:41 AM » |
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Just finished reading:   |
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« Reply #128 on: August 05, 2010, 08:08:16 AM » |
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Super-Cannes by J.G.Ballard Postcards from the edge by Carrie Fisher (picked it up in a charity shop. She's as mad as a hatter, so I thought it might be amusing...though probably just shit) |
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Father Luke
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« Reply #129 on: August 05, 2010, 12:30:35 PM » |
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Postcards from the edge by Carrie Fisher...
My favorite line from that book: Instant gratification takes too long |
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« Reply #130 on: August 10, 2010, 12:16:04 PM » |
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Read Conrad's Heart of Darkness. He's the best writer I've ever read, which doesn't necessarily mean that he's the best writer of books per se; his prose is magnificentally precise, but also uncertainly haunting etc. etc. Now reading As I Lay Dying. Plan to read Woolf's The Waves after that. And then we read Hamsun's Hunger. And then we eat. Drink salt off the waves, and die in our sleep in a cove of darkness. |
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« Reply #131 on: August 10, 2010, 04:06:04 PM » |
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Issue no.63 of Peppa Pig magazine Now, why don't you get a free pirate hat and stickers with adult magazines? I may buy them if you did. |
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« Reply #132 on: August 17, 2010, 05:12:29 PM » |
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I am reading The Color of Water by James McBride. |
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Would it have been worth while,
To have bitten off the matter with a smile,
To have squeezed the universe into a ball
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T.S. Eliot
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« Reply #133 on: January 09, 2011, 02:37:02 PM » |
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While on furlough from novel writing, I've been doing a lot of reading. I just finished The Tin Drum by Günter Grass yesterday, and Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace a few days ago. On the latter, I had a lot of fun writing up a book review, which, if you're interested, you can find here. Now I'm carrying around the following: Jim Shepard - Love and Hydrogen (short stories) Martin Amis - The War Against Cliché I'm trying to always keep a fiction and a nonfiction going at the same time. Every once in a while I'll work a poetry collection or a play into the rotation, though I'm primarily interested in sharpening my creative and analytical skills where fiction and literary criticism are concerned. So far I've managed to put together some kind of feedback for every book I've read over the last couple months, and it's really helping. I'm becoming a more active reader. It's fun. Now if only I could get the whole writing thing under control. |
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« Reply #134 on: January 14, 2011, 09:20:32 AM » |
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The Tin Drum - is a mighty tom. Full of device and play. Tough at times. I have yet to complete the third book. Oskar is one of the best characters I have read, so cunning, brutal, compelling, sinister. A book full of darkness lined with fireworks. I'm reading. Edwin Morgan, Collected Poems - Mighty tome! This guy is a master. Shame he died last year. But at the fresh age of 90. Carson McCullers, The Ballad of the sad cafe - Brilliant writer, and excellent collection of short stories. She always creates such eccentric damaged charaters. Full of careful observation, colour and light, and sad, sad haunting lives. Love the woman. Going to start 'Where I'm coming from' shorts by Raymond Carver, then 'Dreams in the mirror' a biography of e.e. cummings. Too many books, not enough years. |
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Do not confuse ingenuous with ingenious - Olaf
Dedicated to bad writing - Charles Bukowski
'A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.' - James Joyce
The man that cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot -Andre Breton
Who has the courage to go into the dark places where there is nothing but feeling? - Thomas A. Clark
'For everything that is hidden will eventually be brought into the open and every secret should be brought to the light. Anyone with ears to hear should listen and understand.' - Mark 4:22-23
Many a clever boy is flogged into a dunce and many an original composition corrected into mediocrity- Sir Walter Scott
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« Reply #135 on: January 26, 2011, 12:07:10 PM » |
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My writing suffers because I'm a nerd. Give me a novel and a history book and I'll end up reading the history book. With rare exceptions this does nothing to improve my sense of language. But I love to understand what happened, and the author's take on what happened, and the author's take on why. It informs what I write in a technical way, just not often the writing itself. California: An Interpretive History by Walton Bean (1968). One of the classics, and deservedly so. I started reading to feed my interest in early Spanish exploration and the expansion of empire, but wound up enthralled by and educated about the controversial political developments of the late 1800s and early 1900s that helped lead to my homeland being so freaking unique. Of course it's all about story to me, and lessons, but that writing doesn't actually happen much. "Too much else to do," which I'm sure everyone else says. "Writers write," said Father Luke. Yes. Defenestration of everything else in life is the crucial trick. |
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