iB::Topic::World/Inferno Book Club

jackterricloth
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hey everybody, somebody left a computer at my apartment, here's what it's distracting me from right now. actually the title sounds a bit cliche coming from me but it's called 1929 by frederick turner.
It's a fictionalized biography of jazz cornetist Bix Beiderbeck. it's real gosippy featuring such historical figures as al capone, louis armstrong, bing crosby, the dorsey brothers, clara bow(!

and to tell you the truth pretty much on the too liscentious side of being able to read it on the subway.

i'll be done with it in 30 pages, anybody at someting i should pick up?

hm?

readie (reedy?) cloth

posted on May 19 2003,19:51
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Brainy
can't think of a good title.

Joined: Mar. 2002

I got a copy of Tale of the Body Thief I could lend ya!

That 1929 thingy looked pretty interesting, but alas I did not get to read any of it (Andromeda was just too engrossing). Is there a line for it?

I know you're a Paul Auster fan, did you read the New York Trilogy? I have a copy if you want.

posted on May 19 2003,19:59
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Sean Normal
There's no crying in Baseball

Joined: May 2002

Well Im between 3 books ( i dont know how im doing it )

What Liberal Media? - Eric Alterman (i reccomend this for all)
Art of War - Sun Tzu (read it before but 13 yrs ago)
Night Watch - Terry Pratchett (humour, must read humour)

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posted on May 19 2003,20:01
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nevets
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i am reading do androiods dream of electronic sheep? by phillip k. dick very good book but i am stuck at the last 20 pages. just haven't picked it up lately. i need to finish it so i can finally see the movie blade runner

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posted on May 19 2003,20:02
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whoputa
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Joined: Mar. 2003

I'm actually reading The Inferno. I don't remember whose translation off the top of my head. It's for a Latin project!

posted on May 19 2003,20:06
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beefy
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Joined: Mar. 2003

current reading:
heart of darkness - joseph conrad
1984 - mr. orwell
red azalea - anchee min... except it was for my government class and i lost interest in it when we stopped discussing communist china.

my to read list:
the uses of enchantment - bruno bettelheim
the bell jar - sylvia plath
the old man and the sea - ernest hemingway

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the other other white meat.

posted on May 19 2003,20:49
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jackterricloth
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oh the last 30 pages were so sad- eeeeouch. musicians have such crappy lives.

let's see- the master tsun zu is of course a must, if only one could listen to advice ever.

never read austin's ny trilogy, just his "the boy who could fly" was it? maybe i'll pick that up.

the Dante translation i like best is the one done by that rutgers professor whose name escapes me in the early fifties, no offense to the recently lauded boston comittee.

yes, phillip k. dick is sometimes painful to work through, as i've mentioned before he often makes me hostile.

poor bix, i'm going to go google him and see how much of this book was true.

thanks,

cloth

posted on May 19 2003,20:51
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Brainy
can't think of a good title.

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It was Mr. Vertigo, and I've found NYT was just as good. I'll bring it to the next show or something of that sort.

posted on May 19 2003,21:16
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Bananafish
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The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Not sure which translation.

Starting slow, but I'm hoping it picks up soon like all good russian books do. Such interesting tales!

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posted on May 19 2003,21:40
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iamapawn
quietly hiding

Joined: Dec. 2002

Film Art: An Introduction
(honestly, ma, i'm studying!

Just Finished-
Naked by David Sedaris

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posted on May 19 2003,22:11
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watchmaker
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Joined: Aug. 2002

the pat hobby stories by f. scott fitzgerald

geek love by elizabeth dunn

giovanni's room by james baldwin

peyton place by grace metalious (you must think about the historical context of this to really appreciate it)

i actually haven't read very many of the books you people have posted. looks like i have quite a bit of interesting summer reading ahead of me..

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posted on May 19 2003,22:49
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coweatman
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currently writing a paper on "the yenan way in revolutionary china" by mark selden. it's dense, and i don't like his writing style because he takes far too long to say anything and tries to sound important in the process.

posted on May 19 2003,23:43
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coweatman
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posted on May 19 2003,23:45
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Psyonide
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Or if you ever want something you can read in bursts, go search out a copy of Peter Carey's 'Collected Stories'. I'm not how available his work would be over there (an Aussie author), but he's fairly well recognised to my knowledge.
I'm aware that many people shun short stories, but they are some of the best and most interesting stories I've read.

Stories to note:
Concerning the Greek Tyrant
Life & death in the South Side Pavillion
American Dreams
The Fat Man in History

hell, they're all good.

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posted on May 20 2003,03:52
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I'm A Somebody
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I'm a big fan of The Zoo Story by Edward Albee. My copy of it also has The American Dream which is not as good if you ask me, but most people don't.

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posted on May 20 2003,05:34
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I'm A Somebody
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well, would you look at that:
The Zoo Story

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www.noats.com for the best band to hit the medio-core scene since Bob Johnson and the Unspectaculars

posted on May 20 2003,05:36
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respectable weirdo
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Re-reading William Gibson's "Neuromancer" for the...ummm...358th time in my life.
I'm gonna pull out from the Matrix now and do some real-life stuff, though.

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posted on May 20 2003,06:14
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Rat
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Ahh Clothy, always to our rescue when the board relents to tedium...

As for my current read...

The Birth Partner by Penny Simkin

Only 9 days left until the little infernite is due to make an appearance!

Raton

posted on May 20 2003,06:37
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watchmaker
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zoo story is great.
so is: who's afraid of virginia woolf?
edward albee rules!

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posted on May 20 2003,07:37
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Brett
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Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Threepenny Opera - Bertolt Brecht
Dead Souls - Franz Kafka

posted on May 20 2003,07:47
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Devin Opposed
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I'm currently finishing Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac. I'm going to be reading all of his works in the following summer weeks, along with the books I was given for my birthday--The Master and Margarita (requested because of the previous post started by cloth about the novel) and The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner. I also want to get into Camus. Any thoughts on a good piece by him for me to check out?

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posted on May 20 2003,08:09
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Devin Opposed
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oooh and Kingsley Amis, Burroughs, Norman Mailer....what am I going to do with myself

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Never Trust An Artist who Tells You he has a Choice
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posted on May 20 2003,08:16
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Justafriend
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A book I am currently enjoying is called the "Boys of Summer"

It chronicles the life growing up just doors away from the famed Ebbits feild in Brooklyn during the "glory" years of the Dodgers. It's written by Roger kahn. Some say it is the greatest "sports" book ever written.

And for those who prefer football there is a book called "Friday Night Lights" . its a tad dated (late eighties) but it details a season of Texas highschool Football team and how obsessed they (the community) were to winning.

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posted on May 20 2003,08:26
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Kit
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if you're into historical fiction at all Caleb Carr is great, particularly The Alienist and its sequel Angel of Darkness, takes place in 19th c NY and has some of the characters i came across in The Gangs of NY, also has Teddy Roosevelt in it, i love that! it's amazing how lil the city has changed in some respects...
i need a good book myself but im too sick right now to go out and get one

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posted on May 20 2003,09:36
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miss joy
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i'm rereading "the handmaid's tale" by margaret atwood. "please kill me" is fun for a little historythe origins of nyc punk rock. i've been carrying around "100 years of solitude"...someone bought it for me.

i've also been paging thru "the dead sea scolls"...
--melissa

posted on May 20 2003,09:45
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Sean Normal
There's no crying in Baseball

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If you havent tried it
try the Egyptian Book of the dead I dare anyone to get past page 50 and not go nuts.

The proof is in the puddinLook At Me!

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Those who would give up essential liberty
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posted on May 20 2003,12:45
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cindeshelli
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I also want to get into Camus. Any thoughts on a good piece by him for me to check out?

The Stranger was recommended to me recently. I intend on reading it soon. I am also planning on reading Nausea by Jean Paul Sartre in the near future. So yeah, off to the library I go...

posted on May 20 2003,12:57
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lola
love detective

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in my opinion, camus is fucking philosophicrap, and anyone who says any differently is pretentious, unless i like them.

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posted on May 20 2003,13:56
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Allegra
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I just finished reading "Fast Food Nation" by Eric Schlosser. It was very enlightening, and I doubt I'll ever eat from any major fast food chains again. I'm about to start "Reefer Madness" which is by the same author.

posted on May 20 2003,14:05
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SkaJoe
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Quote (jackterricloth @ May 19 2003,23:51)

the Dante translation i like best is the one done by that rutgers professor whose name escapes me in the early fifties, no offense to the recently lauded boston comittee.[/

I do believe you speak of Dr Mandelbaum, athough I could be very wrong.

I'd Recommend As I Lay Dying, by that author who's name escapes me. Faulkner, methinks.

posted on May 20 2003,14:05
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