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GroupesAmerican Postmodernism, Asian Fiction & Non-Fiction, Author Theme Reads, Beat Literature, Beat-itific, Comics, Famous voluminous novels, Japanese Literature, Le Salon du Faulkner, Le Salon Litteraire du Peuple pour le Peuple

Auteurs préférésRichard Adams, Paul Auster, Will Christopher Baer, Donald Barthelme, John Barth, Jonathan Baumbach, Arthur Bradford, Richard Brautigan, Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, Albert Camus, Caleb Carr, Raymond Chandler, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Joseph Conrad, Robert Coover, Gregory Corso, Michael Crichton, E. E. Cummings, Mark Z. Danielewski, Don DeLillo, James Dickey, Philip K. Dick, E. L. Doctorow, Tim Dorsey, Dave Eggers, Bret Easton Ellis, Richard Fariña, William Faulkner, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Ian Fleming, Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Franzen, John Gardner, Allen Ginsberg, H. Rider Haggard, Oakley Hall, Dashiell Hammett, Joseph Heller, Ernest Hemingway, Hermann Hesse, Joe Hill, Jerry Holkins, John Irving, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Bob Kaufman, Jack Kerouac, Ken Kesey, Stanisław Lem, Tao Lin, David Mamet, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Cormac McCarthy, Herman Melville, Mike Mignola, Alan Moore, Toni Morrison, Haruki Murakami, Vladimir Nabokov, Flann O'Brien, Frank O'Hara, Grace Paley, Breece D'J Pancake, Kenneth Patchen, Douglas Preston, Jacques Prévert, Thomas Pynchon, Ishmael Reed, Arthur Rimbaud, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, J. D. Salinger, Gary Snyder, Terry Southern, Wallace Stevens, Peter Straub, Arkadi and Boris Strugatski, Hunter S. Thompson, J. R. R. Tolkien, John Kennedy Toole, Laozi, Brian K. Vaughan, Tony Vigorito, David Foster Wallace, Joss Whedon, Walt Whitman, Robert Anton Wilson (Favoris partagés)

Librairie(s) préférée(s)Half Price Books - Broadway, Half Price Books - North Lamar, Half Price Books - San Marcos, Half Price Books - South Lamar

À mon sujetMY LIFE.

"I am at this moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip."
--A Confederacy of Dunces

"Yes! Yes! Dig him! Now consider his soul---stop awhile and consider."
--On the Road: T.O.S.

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!”
--On the Road

I'm a 21-y/o goof from Texas.

À propos de ma bibliothèqueMy top 50 books, like, ever, man.

2010 Reardrirn' Plarrnr:
Jan.
01. Anthem by Rand. Good one, Rand. Good one.
02. Welcome to Dead House by Stine. *SQUEAL* Goosebumps! Goosebumps! childhood!
03. Stay Out of the Basement by Stine. *DOUBLESQUEAL*
04. The Sound & the Fury by Faulkner. Two parts finest writing you evah saw, two parts two steps below that.
05. Monster Blood by Stine. Ohgodohgodohgod! More Goosebumps!
06. Easy Go, or, The Last Tomb by Lange. An early novel published pseudonymously by ultimate guilty pleasure Michael Crichton. Fun, Indiana Jones-like Egyptian adventure.
07. Sanctuary by Faulkner. Not quite up to par with his other early mature novels. Pacing feels odd, off. A tad bloated, but not to the extent of Flags in the Dust.

Feb.
08. Sons of the Profits by Bill Spiedel. An humorous account of Seattle's first 50 years, focusing on the people who built the city. Helped make me love that city even more. Also the first book I've ever read entirely from the throne.
09. Waiting for Godot by Beckett. What in tarnation?
10. The Tokyo-Montana Express by Brautigan. A depressing collection of observations by an aging writer on the brink of suicide.
11. Partial List of People to Bleach by Lutz. This Gary lives up to his reputation as a virtuoso wordsmith, some of this stuff blew my mind, but, like Malmsteen or Batio, there's not a lot of depth to be found here. He has nothing to say, and the only voice he can give his characters is his own.
12. The Stingray Shuffle by Dorsey. Hilarious, as always, but the weaving together of so many plots was a tad clumsy.
13. The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings by Brautigan. A late collection of Brautigan's early poems and stories written mostly during his teenage years and early twenties. Undeniably cheerful, unlike his most mature work; the last half was vintage Brautigan, as good as he would later be during his brush with fame in the '60s. (P.S. I've now read everything ever published by Brautigan. :])
14. Blasted by Kane. Can't imagine how this plays out with an audience involved.
15. The Age of Wire and String by Marcus. ...................................
16. I Am Legend by Matheson. Great ideas, but Matheson's writing leaves a lot to be desired. A lot. Drags in the middle. Still, it's nice to have finally read it. Spent years searching for a non-movie edition with the last page intact.

March
17. 20th Century Ghosts by Hill. Short stories that show Joe may very well be a much stronger writer than his old man. Genuinely unsettling when they want to be. Can pretentiously be called "literary horror"--when it's horror. He went a little overboard on the Neal Stephenson endings, howevah.
18. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Schwartz. Hah. This was the most popular book at the elementary school library way back when. Good times.

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LieuNew Braunfels, Texas

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En cours de lectureAgainst the Day par Thomas Pynchon
Shutter Island par Dennis Lehane