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2010 - What are you reading?
in what words are you currently buried?
:: STARTED BY squib
:: 44 REPLIES, LAST AT 06:56 17.03.10
CG Jung Collected Works torrent?
Lugging around a hundred pounds of print when I go on retreat is a tremendous hassle. Anybody know where I can score compleat PDFs, or am I gonna get stuck digitizing these things myself?
:: STARTED BY sine
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:40 05.03.10
Poetry of your life
Poetry that articulates your stance/thoughts/actions at any given time of life whether it be past, present or possibly future (with discussion).
:: STARTED BY Shrug
:: 43 REPLIES, LAST AT 11:20 05.03.10
Haruki Murakami
Norwegian Wood you join the army/that likes Haruki Murakami?/The Wild Sheep Chase you'll glady run/ South of the Border, West of the Sun
:: STARTED BY anchovy
:: 99 REPLIES, LAST AT 11:00 05.03.10
Bond. James Bond. Book series.
Ian Fleming, spy series, James Bond, M, Moneypenny. A series of novels with recurring characters.
:: STARTED BY Benny the Ball
:: 18 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:44 04.03.10
Welcome to 2009. Let's read!
What's on your nightstand at the moment?
:: STARTED BY Kali, the Original Gangsta
:: 139 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:54 26.12.09
What the hell was That Book called? You know, the one where That Stuff happened in it...
Read a book ages ago, want to find it again, but can't remember its title and/or author? Post about it here, and see if anyone on Barbelith can figure out what book you're on about. Sort of like the "Identify That Tune" thread, but for books.
:: STARTED BY Hydra vs Leviathan
:: 140 REPLIES, LAST AT 01:43 26.11.09
Everybody's a critter
The Reader From Beyond Sense.
bad reviews, "literary" "criticism"
:: STARTED BY deja_vroom
:: 6 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:05 03.11.09
New Thomas Pynchon novel "Inherent Vice" out tomorrow.
Soon after Against The Day, Pynchon offers us his new work, again returning to a California of decades ago.
:: STARTED BY Mistoffelees
:: 12 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:33 26.08.09
NEW IAIN SINCLAIR BOOK! That's me happy...
Iain Sinclair, his work & London.
Slow Chocolate Autopsy, Liquid City, Rodinsky's Room, Lud Heat, Landor's Tower.
:: STARTED BY STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
:: 19 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:43 13.08.09
Greatest Books you've NEVER read?
You know of them, maybe you bought them. You haven´t read them.
:: STARTED BY Mistoffelees
:: 42 REPLIES, LAST AT 06:06 27.07.09
Lesbian coming-of-age/coming out stories
Girls in late teens with a love for the beans.
:: STARTED BY Tripolata
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 08:46 27.05.09
Glamorama
Bret Easton Ellis, <i>Glamorama</i>
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:: 20 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:45 11.05.09
BRICK OUTHOUSE: A Jack Reacher novel
About the Jack Reacher novels by Lee Child. Their spare prose. Massive hero. Men want. To be him. Women? To bed him. No foe he cannot defeat. No female colleague? He cannot BED. The books: should suck. But... they rock.
:: STARTED BY miss wonderstarr
:: 178 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:04 04.05.09
RIP J.G. Ballard
No summary available
:: STARTED BY MrKismet
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 06:43 22.04.09
Pynchon rumours....
A new novel by Pynchon, or just a hoax?
:: STARTED BY Trebor
:: 21 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:32 17.04.09
EBooks - are you interested, tempted, bored, indifferent, eager?
eBooks - real or unreal? Waste of time and money, or the next big thing?
:: STARTED BY We're The Great Old Ones Now
:: 11 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:32 16.04.09
Crossroads of Twilight
I hate Robert Jordan, no doubt he hates me, screw the Crossroads of Twilight: a book I don't want to read. Comments here-
:: STARTED BY Tryphena Absent
:: 29 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:37 02.04.09
Louis Cha
One of the world's most popular novelists (THE most popular novelist in Chinese speaking communities across the world). And what do you know, he's really good.
:: STARTED BY Dusto
:: 9 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:43 09.03.09
Quicksilver - SPOILERS
For to discuss Quicksilver, a new novel by Neal Stephenson.
:: STARTED BY nedrichards is confused
:: 39 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:39 04.03.09
House Of Leaves
Discussing Danielzewski's House of Leaves. Warning to the curious: This thread is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.
:: STARTED BY casemaker
:: 42 REPLIES, LAST AT 08:27 21.02.09
Barbelith Commonplace Thread
Favourite (favorite - hello search function) extracts, old or new. You don't have to provide an explanation, but do if you can. Also, can we keep quotations to about 300 words or under? People skim over longer ones, and it would be nice to keep things succinct...
:: STARTED BY Kit-Cat Club
:: 88 REPLIES, LAST AT 11:42 19.02.09
John Updike dead.
US novelist John Updike has died of cancer aged 76 - thoughts, feelings and memories of his work here.
:: STARTED BY I scream for ice cream
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:26 27.01.09
Sacher-Masoch; "Venus in Furs" (and other works?)
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's most famous work; "masochism"; consent; power, sex and love; gender. Questions.
:: STARTED BY Lugue
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 01:59 26.01.09
J.G. Ballard
Condensed novels, computerised sex and charges of outright nihilism.
:: STARTED BY GogMickGog
:: 12 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:50 19.01.09
2008: What are you currently reading?
New thread for a new year. Discuss your current book obsessions.
:: STARTED BY Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
:: 218 REPLIES, LAST AT 04:53 30.12.08
Short Story Request (or what are your favorite short stories?)
Help me put together a reading packet for a class I'm teaching this summer.
:: STARTED BY Alex Thoth
:: 67 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:05 24.12.08
Looking for a short story
In which I describe a short story I read in high school and ask if anyone here knows what it is called or who wrote it.
:: STARTED BY SMS
:: 14 REPLIES, LAST AT 11:42 27.11.08
Tom Robbins....with two moth bobbins
"Our Similarities bring us to a common ground; Our Differences allow us to be fascinated by each other"...the great and glorious world of Tom Robbins
:: STARTED BY moonweaver
:: 9 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:53 13.11.08
Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park novels
Have you read them and what do you think of them?
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 15 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:18 05.11.08
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