Currently Reading:

The Velvet Underground Companion: Four Decades of Commentary by Albin Zak III (an early birthday present from me lady Sexy Sadie)

High Fidelity by Nick Hornby (borrowed from IWantElvis)

im starting the new harry potter tommorrow.

"The Chinese Maze Murders" by Robert Van Gulik. Not a bad read, interesting if 7th century China intrigues you and you are in need of a good mystery.

To Kill a Mockingbird

God, what a wonderful book. It's delightful to read it again after all these years.

Books i have read lately:

Mansion on the hill by Gooddman
Permanent midnight by Jerry Stahl
A Seemly man by Larry Flynt

By the way Token...Mockingbird is one of the best stories ever told...The movie is fantastic as well...good call!

Laughter in the Dark -- Vladimir Nabokov

The End of the Affair -- Graham Greene

is that how they spell tomorrow in that series? those crazy brits...

I just picked up "Generation X" off of my bookshelf to read again. Gonna see how dated it is.

I've been slogging through this biography of Adolph Hitler for the past 6 months or so. It was writtten by a Jewish Harvard professor. His argument in the book is that Hitler wasn't inherently evil. So far it seems like a splitting hair case, but fascinating none the less. Its just not one of those books you whip out on an airplane for fear of looking like a skinhead. Its also not a very light, breezey read. Lots of footnotes and thesis paper references.

I've been reading "Loser: The Real Seattle Story" from time to time lately. I have to admit, though, it pretty much reads like a family tree. Too many names, too many bands, too many "labels", too many clubs, etc. It's still pretty interesting, though, to read about Seattle as a typical run-of-the-mill scene that doesn't know what to do with itself when "grunge" hits big. Maybe we'll all know what that feels like very soon...

"Atlas Shrugged" - Ayn Rand

WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG?!?!


i don't have time for fun reading . . . english major . . . emerson . . .boo.

i didnt want to spend 30 bucks on it so i was waiting around for friends to finish it-- then forgot about it. someone was supposed to bring it monday so i could start but i still havent received it.

I feel your pain, SOS. As a history major, I read probably just as much as you do. I am currently working on about three books. Each of them on fascinating subjects such as the first crusade, slavery, and historiography. I actually felt guilty for reading a magazine the other day because I knew that I should be reading history.

I love history! If I had it to do over again, I think I'd have majored in history.

being a history major has its advantages! i've enjoyed the switch these last few semesters. as for the reading, believe it or not its quite interesting.

over the summer i read:

Our Band Could Be Your Life - Micheal Azzerad
Catch Me If You Can - Frank Abignale Jr
Game Over: Press Start To Continure, The Story Of Nintendo

Stuff I still need to read:

Fight Club
Drop City - T.C Boyle

(Edited by ghostflower at 5:42 pm on Sep. 9, 2003)

I just read Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut and enjoyed it.
I also picked up "Look Listen Vibrate Smile," the complete anthology of the Beach Boys smile era as told in press clippings and essays. It is good as a reference book, but a little slow to read because alot of the articles say the same thing. Those 60's teen magazines had alot of bad information though.. I kind of wish the articles were edited. "Smile will be even more progressive than the band's recent album, 'Pet Animals.'