thebhoy: Thebhoy's Summer Reading

thebhoy 04.29.11	just some light, breezy summer reading.
pizzamachine 04.29.11	Neat albums.
klap 04.29.11	james joyce the hack
FromDaHood 04.29.11	I read some Borges in Spanish class. That dude is way out there and fucking brilliant. Good choice.
ConsiderPhlebas 04.29.11	Incredible list. 6 is perfect summer reading and my favourite of all his books. The whole trilogy is mindblowing. D.H Lawrence - Women in Love Michel Houellebecq - Atomised M. John Harrison - Viriconium
Trebor. 04.29.11	That's a lot of books for one summer.
pizzamachine 04.29.11	There's always a lot of summer.
killrobotmusic 04.29.11	Nice I have to take a graduate level James Joyce course next sememster... should be pretty absurd.
thebhoy 04.29.11	that's not all I'm going to be reading this summer... Phlebas read some Coetzee if you haven't. I read Waiting for the Barbarians for school this year and it was brilliant. and wut Xeno, McCarthy is one of the best writers around at the moment.
robertsona 04.29.11	ulysses is really awesome but i mean that's just completely my style tbqh. i think he's maybe my favorite author? i don't know, pretentious shit that totally "gets me". i'm reading mrs. dalloway by virginia woolf right now and really like it for similar reasons
thebhoy 04.29.11	I'm hoping there is at least one seminar course offered next year at my school on something to do with the modernists.
thebhoy 04.29.11	Mrs. Dalloway is fantastic.
ConsiderPhlebas 04.29.11	Cool, will have a look. Looking forward to just reading for fun over the summer. edit: had a whole module on Modernism this semester - so good...so hard to write about, though.
ConsiderPhlebas 04.29.11	Dude, The Road is amazing
robertsona 04.29.11	the road is gorgeous. thebhoy, HIGHLY recommended is the book tinkers by paul harding. won the pulitzer last year i think
robertsona 04.29.11	tinkers is just breathtaking. absolutely essential imo
thebhoy 04.29.11	Yeah, what, The Road is awesome. And it's hardly pretentious, you can't just throw that word around, the ambiguity is the entire point-- his novels are always about trying to struggle goodness out of the very lowest points of humanity.
thebhoy 04.29.11	ooh, I will look into that Robertsona
ConsiderPhlebas 04.29.11	I'd highly rec Modernism: An Anthology, ed. Lawrence Rainey. It's a meaty book with some of the classic modernist texts included, including the major manifestos. It also has a lot of helpful footnotes in stuff like The Wasteland, pointing out all the allusions etc.
thebhoy 04.29.11	Norton's Anthology of English Literature has a good volume on the modernists.
aok 04.29.11	impressive list. i'm hoping to get into some bret easton ellis and my friend can't stop raving about 'house of leaves', but we'll see if i get around to any of it. i'm sure you've read dorian gray but that's one of my favorites so i just had to throw it in
thebhoy 04.29.11	Dorian Gray is pretty awesome.
ConsiderPhlebas 04.29.11	The manifestos are awesome by themselves. Crazy futurist mofos.
klap 04.29.11	i just read house of leaves last winter, book was legit.
aok 04.29.11	you had me at 'i just read'
aok 04.29.11	yea i know -- i read 'american psycho' and seen the movies for 'rules of attraction' and 'less than zero.' which one should i do first? i liked the cinematography of rules and the story of less than zero so i was leaning on the latter
thebhoy 04.29.11	I'm skeptical on House of Leaves. Part of me thinks it would be interesting. Part of me is thinking a small pretentious literature major part of me would lol at it. I hate that side of me, but I must admit it comes out every once in a while. Please advise.
Aids 04.29.11	thebhoy you should read Ishmael (and you'll probably want to read the sequels after you're done, My Ishmael is better but there's no way it would work without the context of the first book). I think the author's name is Daniel Quinn or something. Life-changing literature right there, for realz.
foreverendeared 04.29.11	I hope you read A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man before you read Ulysses. and read The Odyssey before you read A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. This is my suggestion. You'll take away a lot more from James Joyce that way.
SeaAnemone 04.29.11	I think part of you will probably scoff at House of Leaves, but I also think the interested side of you will be too interested to let you scoff at it to the point of uninterest, if that makes sense.
thebhoy 04.29.11	will look into it Aids. And yes, forever, I know I should probably read A Portrait before Ulysses, but I know enough about it to have the proper foundations. I've read a bunch of The Odyssey and again know enough about it to not be lost in reading Ulysses (plus Ulysses is essentially a rewriting of the Odyssey anyways).
thebhoy 04.29.11	and yes, that does make sense Eric... it's more of the satirical criticism of academia that worries me, mainly because very few contemporary writers are any good at satire, I find.
Vesper 04.29.11	House of Leaves has parts that will make you scoff, but, as a whole, it's really interesting. Some parts of it really messed with me, because my bed was in the middle of my loft and I just had my bed lamp on, haha. I tried reading Only Revolutions by the same author, but that was a pretentious pile of crap.
klap 04.29.11	nothing more annoying than a pretentious author. i didn't find house of leaves pretentious at all except for a few passages regarding the main character but it sort of made sense in the context of the book
SeaAnemone 04.29.11	it's honestly my favorite book of all time (and I say that knowing I haven't encountered 1/50th the great literature you have keelan I'm sure)... so I can't NOT recommend it. On the other hand it's a pretty hefty read, and might take up more of your summer than you're willing to allow haha. And I can sympathize Vesper... granted, this was a few years ago, but I've still never been scared more by any music/movie than I was by House of Leaves, where he spills the ink in the closet. Ugh that really got to me.
thebhoy 04.29.11	I'm sure I'll read it at some point. But seriously I cannot recommend Borges enough. I just got his complete collected fictions today and I've already read a few of the short stories and they're beautiful.
aok 04.29.11	really dug 'death and the compass' when i read it in spanish class a while back
AggravatedYeti 04.29.11	All The Pretty Horses is such a good book. 3 is quite possibly my favorite ever. 7 is also quite good and I love Borges. ok Keelers now i remember why you rule.
Electric City 04.29.11	dunno about suggestions, but this summer I'll be trying to finally get through Gravity's Rainbow
AggravatedYeti 04.29.11	oh if you can find the graphic novel "Blankets" I think you'd really enjoy it (assuming you haven't read it already). It'll take like a day and a half at most to get through if you just read it straight front-to-back; but it's completely worth it. the same man who did the art for Menomena's 'Friend and Foe' is the author/illustrator: Craig Thompson.
thebhoy 04.29.11	ooooh, normally I don't dig graphic novels but then you told me it was Craig Thompson so I'm interested, that guy is really creative. Edit: wait a minute, you forgot I was awesome before Yetigeddon?
foreverendeared 04.29.11	I still have Gravity's Rainbow and House of Leaves on my bookshelf that I need to read. I'm currently juggling 6 other books though, so I need to get through those first.
AggravatedYeti 04.29.11	never. it is just always nice to have more confirmation. you're my fellow PhD.
AggravatedYeti 04.29.11	http://www.dootdootgarden.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/blankets409410.jpg great set of slides from the beginning.
foreverendeared 04.29.11	Read Catch-22 if you haven't yet. Incredible book.