what are you reading?

[Šñøü†ê®]

I have the following books on the way. The are all about 80 years old or so, but still only about $80 total with shipping from a variety of used book stores!

A Complete History of the United States by Clement Wood.

The Truth about William Jennings Bryan by Clement Wood.

The Making of the Old Testament by Clement Wood.

Psycho-Analysis of Jesus by Clement Wood.

The Glory Road: An Autobiography by Clement Wood.

[Charles]

I'm in the middle of this book right now:

[ag17330]

hey,
My name is jatin.I reading a book i too had a story.This book is love story.this book is very interested.

[Charles]

About halfway through this one. Terrifying read:
On Sept. 17, 1940, at a little after ten at night, a German submarine torpedoed the passenger liner S.S. City of Benares in the North Atlantic. There were 406 people on board, including 90 children headed for peaceful Canada, their parents having elected to send them away from Great Britain to escape the ravages of World War II. The Benares sank in half an hour, in a gale that sent several of her lifeboats pitching into the frigid sea, more than three hundred miles from the nearest rescue vessel. Not oneof the survivors had any reasonable hope of rescue. The initial "miracle" involves one British destroyer's race to the scene; the second is the story of Lifeboat 12, missed by the destroyer, 46 people jammed for eight days in a craft built for 30. Based on first hand accounts from the child survivors and other passengers.--From publisher description.Based on eyewitness accounts, a chronicle of survival at sea describes the German submarine attack on the passenger liner S.S. City of Benares, a ship carrying ninety children from war-ravaged Britain to the safety of Canada.

[the incredible b]

hey,
My name is jatin.I reading a book i too had a story.This book is love story.this book is very interested.

awesome, but...which book?

[Jim Colyer]

I stopped reading books. Now, I just print articles from the web.

[queenlillian1962]

Just started Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

and an old book called American Presidents by Whitney (only goes up to Cater).

[Guido]

Monsieur Pain by Roberto Bolano (one of his best novels)

The Least of All Possible Evils: Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza by Eyal Weizman

History of Madness by Michel Foucault

[IFF]

Monsieur Pain by Roberto Bolano (one of his best novels)

i haven't yet read that one of his.

[Guido]

Conversion Table

By Linh Dinh

A stick of carrot is equal to a gillyflower.
A gillyflower is equal to a drum of gasoline.
A drum of gasoline is equal to a stick of carrot.
“For the sake of my offspring, I think I’ll marry an outsider.”

Tamerlane has been sighted in Northern Italy.
Jesus has broken out in Inner Mongolia.
They like to kiss outside and piss inside.
We like to kiss inside and piss outside.

A mosquito has a mouth but no asshole.
After three drops of blood, he falls asleep.
He only gets up to bite another mosquito.
He sucks and he sucks.
Inside this balloon are ten thousand mosquitoes.

In my left fist is a fossil of the first butterfly.
In my right fist is a theory of why blood trickles down men’s legs.

A man gains a drop of blood per day from eating.
Each night, he gets up to slash himself
Across the face and wrist.
He must be bitten by ten thousand mosquitoes.
He sucks and he sucks.
Where would all that blood go otherwise?

Once a month, a woman drops a teacup on the floor,
A fine teacup with bones inside it.

Vietnamese and Germans now speak the same language.
Prussians and Bavarians cannot understand each other.

Brand New Products

By Linh Dinh
A vigilant gun that always picks out
The right target—even if it’s you—
No matter who you’re aiming at.


A computer that listens and blows you,
As you blow it, to your favorite tune.


Meat that cleans your teeth
As you’re masticating it.


A truck so awesome, only the President
Of the United States of America’s allowed
To careen in it, to his own beat.


A dictionary with positive adjectives only.
A dictionary with no wet verbs.
A dictionary with negotiable definitions.
A dictionary that defines words by their antonyms.


All the greatest hits from the last millennium
Performed live, on stage, on the inside
Of your state of the art, acoustically-enhanced skull.


A complete set of nude photos
Of you, taken by you and sold
Back to you—at a discount.


A sex doll with a mirror for a face.
A sex doll with a Ph.D.
A sex doll with adjustable skin tone.


A sensitive sex doll that just wants
To be friends—a Platonic sex doll.


Rain water in a bottle, sunshine in a box
And ambience sounds from a bus stop
Down the street, recorded on a CD.


A 24-hour video of what you did yesterday.
A 24-hour video of what you’ll do tomorrow.


A super realistic photo of what’s outside
Your window, pasted to your window.


A baseball game that never ends,
To be played simultaneously with
A football game that never ends.


Cluster bombs that scatter copies of Leaves of Grass
Over a thousand mile radius, for a thousand years.


Landmines made with dough,
Topped with mozzarella and all
Your favorite toppings.


An airplane that never lands.


And, finally, your favorite fairy tale
Painted on your new plastic limbs.

[Guido]

Earth Cafeteria

By Linh Dinh


Mudman in earth cafeteria,
I eat aardwolf. I eat ant bear.
I eat mimosa, platypus, ermine.

“White meat is tasteless, dark meat stinks.”
(The other white meat is pork, triple X.)

Rice people vs. bread people.
White bread vs. wheat bread.
White rice vs. brown rice.
Manhattan vs. New England.
Kosher sub-gum vs. knuckle kabob.

“What is patriotism but love of the foods one had as a child?”*

To eat stinky food
is a sign of savagery, humility,
identification with the earth.

“It was believed that after cleaning, tripe still contained ten percent
excrement which was therefore eaten with the rest of the meal.”**

Today I’ll eat Colby cheese.
Tomorrow I’ll eat sparrows.
Chew bones, suck fat,
bite heads off, gnaw on a broken wing.

Anise-flavored beef soup smells like sweat.
A large sweaty head bent over
a large bowl of sweat soup.

A Pekinese is ideal, will feed six,
but an unscrupulous butcher
will fudge a German sheperd,
chopping it up to look like a Pekinese.

Toothless man sucking
a pureed porterhouse steak
with a straw.

Parboiled placenta.

To skewer and burn meat is barbaric.
To boil, requiring a vessel, is a step up.
To microwave.

People who eat phalli, hot dogs, kielbasas
vs. people who eat balls.

To eat with a three-pronged spear and a knife.
To eat with two wooden sticks.
To eat with the hands.

Boiling vs. broiling.

To snack on a tub of roasted grasshoppers at the movies.

[Guido]

Black Dada Nihilimus

By Amiri Baraka



. Against what light

is false what breath

sucked, for deadlines.

Murder, the cleansed

purpose, frail, against

God, if they bring him

bleeding, I would not

forgive, or even call him

black dada nihilismus

The protestant love, wide windows,

color blocked to Mondrian, and the

ugly silent deaths of jews under

the surgeon's knife. (To awake on

69th street with money and a hip

nose. Black dada nihilismus, for

the umbrella'd jesus. Trilby intrigue

movie house presidents sticky the floor

B.D.N., for the secret men, Hermes, the

blacker art. Thievery (ahh, they return

those secret gold killers. Inquisitors

of the cocktail hour. Trismegistus, have

them, in their transmutation, from stone

to bleeding pearl, from lead to burning

looting, dead Moctezuma, find the West

a gray hideous space

2.

From Sartre, a white man, it gave

the last breath. And we beg him die,

before he is killed. Plastique, we

do not have, only thin heroic blades.

The razor. Our flail against them, why

you carry knives? Or brutalized lumps of

heart? Why you stay, where they can

reach? Why you sit, or stand, or walk

in this place, a window on a dark

warehouse. Where the minds packed in

straw. New homes, these towers, for those

lacking money or art. A cult of death,

need of the simple striking arm under

the streetlamp. The cutters, from under

their rented earth. Come up, black dada

nihilismus. Rape the white girls. Rape

their fathers. Cut the mothers' throats.

Black dada nihilismus, choke my friends

in their bedrooms with their drinks spilling

and restless for tilting hips or dark liver

lips sucking splinters from the master's thigh

Black scream

and chant, scream,

and dull, un

earthly

hollering. Dada, bilious

what ugliness, learned

in the dome, colored holy

shit (i call them sinned

or lost

burned masters

of the lost

nihil German killers

all our learned

art, 'member

what you said

money, God, power,

a moral code, so cruel

it destroyed Byzantium, Tenochtitlan, Commanch

(got it, Baby!

For tambo, willie best, dubois, patrice, mantan, the

bronze buckaroos.

for Jack Johnson, asbestos, tonto, buckwheat,

billie holiday

For tom russ, l'ouverture, vesey, beau jack,

(may a lost god damballah, rest or save us

against the murders we intend

against his lost white children

black dada nihilismus

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With the New York Art Quartet

[altonwilliard]

Well I love to read and right now I just read this comments and also will read the best of my life "The wings of fire" it is a great book which inspire me a lot.

[Archaix]

I liked the Linh Dinh ones better, Guido.

Just finished Laurie Lee's autobiographical trilogy Cider With Rosie, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, and A Moment of War. Thinking of moving onto Robert Graves' Goodbye To All That.

[Guido]

I liked the Linh Dinh ones better, Guido.

Just finished Laurie Lee's autobiographical trilogy Cider With Rosie, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, and A Moment of War. Thinking of moving onto Robert Graves' Goodbye To All That.

Well, Black Dada is from a different era.

Speaking of Linh Dinh, last week I finished his only novel called Love Like Hate, one of the funniest serious novels I've read, as well as Graham Greene's Ministry of Fear and now The Honorary Counsel and Shakespeare's A Winter's Tale.

[billyla]

I am about to finish a Shakespeare piece as well - Richard II

[coppersulfate]

I am reading A journey to the centre of the earth. it is not bad but i should have read this book in primary school;=)

[IFF]

Siucrá, it's been a while since i've updated this:

currently

To the end of the land - David Grossman (Set in Israel, a mother who is anxious after her conscripted son, signs up for an operation with his release from the army very shortly. The mother decicdes that if she is not around to receive the notifiers and bad news, her son can not die - akin to "what sound, does a tree make if no one is around to hear it) To avoid this, she goes hiking in Galilee with a friend.

Sweet Thursday - John Steinbeck (a follow on from Cannery row)

some books I finished.
The dead man's pedal - Alan Warner. Set in Scotland, the main character is 15 year old, about to be 16, Simon Crimmons. He longs to leave school and get a motor bike. He ends up getting a job as a train driver apprentice. He has a girlfriend, Nikki. a story of how with independence and freedom comes responsibility. I liked the book. This is the third book of his I have read

I also read The Marraige Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides. It's interesting, early in the novel, we have Madelaine trying to push her parents to get to graduation and them delaying as long as they can do so while when explaining the relation between madelaine and leonard and how they originally broke up, Madelaine received a phone call from her parents looking at organising the arrangements for graduation day and Madelaine was annoyed at their earliness in trying to organise these things. It just contrasts in that regard. A very good read. I hadn't read any of his books before, though i did see the film version of the virgin suicides. I partiularly liked the character of Mitchell Grammaticus

I also finished "vanished kingdoms" by norman davies. This explored some countries that are no longer inexistence as well as one particularly close to my heart, that got independence in the 1920's and another country which has just regained independence after being the only allied country in world war I to lose it?

[zombiemomma175]

Finished Blue Plague:The Fall waiting on the second book in this series to be released.

[IFF]

to revive this thread

i am currently reading sweet tooth by ian mcewan. this is about a girl who joins the mi5 in 1972 during the ira terrorism and the cold war and her subsequent downfall.

also i started today narcopolis by jeet thayil. set in india, this book made the longlist for the booker prize last year.

yesterday i had finished were i left my soul by jerome ferrari. this is set over 3 days in Algeria during the algerian war of independence were capitaine degorce of the french army has just arrested a leader of the fln. Degorce had previously been part of the resistence during world war II and extradicted to buchenwald after being arrested and tortured. He then had served in the France-Indochina war where he was a pow. it was good but a bit short.