Next is Suttree by Cormac McCarthy. I read his Child of God a few years ago and really enjoyed it (what's not to like when the protagonist is a necrophiliac serial-killer), so, I'm giving this one a shot.

I loved his book All the Pretty Horses. The narration is weird, but works very well. It's probably my favorite book out of those I've read recently.

Right now I'm reading Notes From the Underground. I also started rereading the Exorcist which I read when I can't think so well. I plan on reading The Long Goodbye next.

Anyone a fan of the the Conan books?

Slapstick - Kurt Vonnegut

Currently reading:

History of Western Philosophy - Bertrand Russell

The Confusion - Neal Stephenson

Moneyball - Michael Lewis

Hold'em Poker for Advanced Players - David Sklansky

Small Stakes Hold'em - Ed Miller (over & over)

Tarantula - Bob Dylan

Books I've recently read and enjoyed:

The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time - Michael Craig

Chronicles, Vol. 1 - Bob Dylan

Lynch on Lynch: David Lynch interviewed by Chris Rodley

What's Welsh for Zen?: John Cale's autobiography, written with Victor Bockris

Cryptonomicon

(still)

I don't read a lot of books when I'm not in school - summer is to avoid burnout. I did however, finish "Miss Behavior" a book on how to be the girliest of all girls, circa 1948. My favorite line is: YOU ARE A GIRL. MAKE A SUCCESS OF IT. This was right after the part on homosexuality being a medical problem.

I am also working on select bits of "Etiquitte for Moderns - Now with a new section on War Etiquitte" circa '42.

I'm reading Confederacy of Dunces for the second time. I'm experiencing a fallow period in my reading, so I thought I'd reread Mr. Toole's book to get back into the swing of things.

Has anyone else experienced this? If so, what do you do to break it?

nice use of the word "fallow." (or does the period go outside the quotation marks here?)

took me like three tries to get all the way through Brothers Karamazov. (i generally don't care for long books.) before i read it from start to finish, i spent about a week and a half just reading random chapters. i can't explain how this helped but it did. (maybe i was just anxious to re-read the awesome ass "Delirium" chapter in a new context.)

Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty - Buster Olney

Ecology of Fear - Mike Davis

Confessions of an Economic Hitman - John Perkins

Roaches Have No King - Daniel Evan Weiss


-Jeremy