First off, plus thirty punk points for the book sale downtown this weekend. I have been buying books like crazy the last week for this summer job I have (camp counselor…aw yeah) - so far my reading list/books bought recently list includes:
On the list: the Bhagavadgita; Thoreau’s Walden; Fouceault’s Discipline & Punish; the Tibetan Book of The Dead; Bill Bradley’s The New American Story; Kerouac’s Big Sur; Camus’ The Stranger; Wendell Berry’s Collected Poems; Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing…; Guy Debord’s Society Of The Spectacle; Allen Ginsberg’s Howl; Burroughs’ Naked Lunch; Shunryu Suzuki’s Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind; Orson Scott Card’s Enchantment; Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises; Joyce’s The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; and Salinger’s Nine Stories.
Recently bought: Hesse - Siddhartha, Salinger - Catcher In The Rye, Suzuki’s Zen Is Right Here, Rilke - Letters To A Young Poet, Lenin - The Tasks Of The Youth Leagues, Twain - Notorious Jumpin Frog of Calaveras County and Other Stories, Updike - Witches Of Eastwick, Pigeon Feathers, and Problems, Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises and A Moveable Feast, Asimov - Second Foundation, Kesey - One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Whitman’s Song Of Myself, Camus - The Stranger, Kerouac - Doctor Sax and Scattered Poems…AND, Thoreau - Walden/Civil Disobedience.
This has been an exercise in egotism, I suppose, but it’s been on my mind a lot, so…screw off, I guess. Anyway, let me know what you’re reading, or if you’ve got suggestions.
listening - Atmosphere / Live on NPR
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1 caravan70 (dpshupe92) // May 5, 2008 at 9:30 am
Nice collection of pickups. The best book about Miles Davis, I think, is his autobiography: it’s more revealing than any other tome could be about his strange combination of ego, pure resentment that’s understandable in the light of racial conditions when he was in his prime, and simple genius. And it’s funny also: he’s full of revealing comments that give us his take on music, life and love. My favorite might be a passage in which he talks of playing the Fillmore West and having to back up the Steve Miller Band and he calls Steve a “no-playing motherf****r” and goes on about the half-assed bands he had to support during that period (though I have to say that I do love the first couple of Steve Miller Band albums).
Looks like you’ve got some heady reading confronting you. Good luck.
2 Colombina Valera (avalera10) // Sep 17, 2008 at 10:16 pm
i read society of the spectacle in highschool and at the time it blew my mind but then again..what did i know. check it out though .alsooooo please do read letters to a young poet and the duino elegies and anything else by rilke!
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