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The Sleepwalkers - Christopher Clark. A detailed and intelligent examination of the forces that led to World War One. A great book.

bob.

Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon

so i read this for one reason and one reason only....this is the source material for the new P T Anderson film

it's going to be a wonderful film....although i'm not sure if Benicio del Toro will be able to pull of a constantly stone lawyer with an edge for conspiracy theory

the book is great....set in 1970 LA....it's almost a perfect blend of The Big Lebowski's The Dude mixed with the best film Noir detectives and adding a smidge of the acid soaked wackiness of the Illuminatus trilogy

lots of concentration on both classic film and underground music of the 60s are weaved into the sometimes very confusing plot....but it all comes together at the end...and turns out to be just a damn riot of a book....can't wait for the film later this year

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Bob I'll be really interested to know what you think of the Jerry Stahl book. I still haven't quite made up my mind in regards to whether I thought it was a waste of time or completely revolutionary. Ultimately I think I liked it, but I can't be sure why. At times it was bizarre just for the sake of being bizarre but it also has some truly brilliant scenes.

I started reading Doctor Sleep to keep in line with my reading challenge but I've given up after about 30 pages. I like Stephen King's ideas but really can't stand his writing. Maybe I'm just being snobby but I don't really care, there are far too many books out there to waste my time on those that don't impress me.

That said, I've just started



It's a collection of flash fiction, something I'm quite fond of, and is, like Happy Mutant Baby Pills, endearingly bizarre.

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bob.

it is already locked and loaded for my next read ......i should have quite a bit of down time this week so hopefully i can blast right through it

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bob.

kind of

i spent all day yesterday with my nephew who had major hip surgery the day before

he is an ICU unit in Sacramento (not so much because he needs to be in there....but more for the fact that it is the hospitals policy until he can manage his own pain without the help of the Epidural....he's doing great considering all that he has gone through in the last couple days )

anyways....i did sit there and read a book....called Happy Mutant Baby Pills.....which is very much about heroin addiction and mentions Bill quite a bit

also as i was hanging out with my nephew....he is right now under what could be one of the most wonderful drug mixtures i've never had the pleasure of trying....Dilaudid both intravenous and injected into the cerebrospinal fluid....and 7mg of Ketamine

^Burroughs would be proud

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I hope your nephew has a speedy recovery but ffs there is no better setting to read that book

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bob.

reading it in a children's hospital thinking to myself...."if a staff member asks you what you're read....just fucking lie to them"




so at that i finished Happy Mutant Baby Pills a few days ago....and i have to say i would not call it a waste of time but i would not call it revolutionary either....defiantly a wonderful example of modern transgressive literature

i hate to say it....but not a book for everyone....as in i could not see my mother or sister enjoying this book....especial the latter half of it and anything involving Round Up!

just due to the over the top substance abuse i certainly had an idea of what would happen at the end but was surprised with what ultimately happened to Nora....and i loved Lloyd's "junkie" deception

Miss Donner.....please tell me you have read Geek Love by Katherine Dunn.....if you haven't i highly suggest it....and i'm sure it will seep it's way into your brain at some point.....

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When I reviewed it I believe I called it "bizarre just for the sake of being bizarre" but the more I reflect on it the more I realize that I did ultimately enjoy it for its eccentricities. I gave it 2/5 stars and certainly wouldn't put it on my recommendations shelf at the bookstore, but I'm glad to have read it if only for the novelty of the experience.

I haven't read Geek Love but you're not the first person to suggest I do, so I'll move that to the top of my list.

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100 years of solitude. This thread just reminded me I need to read Catch 22, again.