I also grabbed The Crying of Lot 49, even though I can't figure out what the hell it's about.
Paranoia and conspiracies. Hence the Beatles parody band called The Paranoids.
I hate to break it to you, oh impotent one, but you're not the big bad anymore, you're not even the kind of naughty.
Xander ,'Showtime'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
DavidS - Jun 27, 2006 8:03:35 pm PDT #809 of 28067
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
-t - Jun 27, 2006 8:09:14 pm PDT #810 of 28067
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, cool! The Crying of Lot 49 was the first Pynchon I read, and it might be my favorite.
I should go get a library card.
DebetEsse - Jun 27, 2006 8:14:32 pm PDT #811 of 28067
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Everyone should go get a library card. You know, in the morning.
Mr. Broom - Jun 27, 2006 8:15:59 pm PDT #812 of 28067
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
I've got The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, which I hope is a good book in the "enjoyable to read" sense, not just in the "gives a brilliant picture of America at a particular time" sense.
It's both, very much. Such an engaging read. I love that damn book.
-t - Jun 27, 2006 8:19:21 pm PDT #813 of 28067
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
OK, I won't go camp out.
P.M. Marc - Jun 27, 2006 8:27:07 pm PDT #814 of 28067
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I fear I found Lot 49 too dated to finish when I finally picked it up last year.
I think I should have read it in the 80s. Or waited another decade.
Kavalier and Clay is a very enjoyable read.
Volans - Jun 27, 2006 9:48:32 pm PDT #815 of 28067
move out and draw fire
I actually didn't enjoy Kavalier and Clay, which I know puts me in the minority here. I never even finished it.
But then, I love the two Eco books you just read, P-C, so YbooktasteMV.
Sophia Brooks - Jun 27, 2006 9:56:10 pm PDT #816 of 28067
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
The spoiler, I kid you not, was in the headlines of my local 5:30 news! I don't really care at all, but I guess we must be a really boring news town.
billytea - Jun 27, 2006 9:56:53 pm PDT #817 of 28067
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I actually didn't enjoy Kavalier and Clay, which I know puts me in the minority here. I never even finished it.
Yeah, it didn't do that much for me either. And I greatly enjoyed Foucault's Pendulum.
And right now I'm reading a D&D book on the demons of the Abyss, and a Doctor Who novel. So feel free to ignore my literary pretensions.
Jessica - Jun 28, 2006 4:20:53 am PDT #818 of 28067
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I'm reading The Algebraist, and so far enjoying it muchly. (I'm not very far in, but I did remember it had been discussed in here briefly before when one of the characters used the word "kerfuffle.")