[quote="h2orowe"]:3 Also, wanted an excuse for Shaquille O'Speare. But, yeah, I'm actually honestly curious, Zenkalia. What do you even read? [/quote]

Porn doesn't count.

[quote="zenkalia"][quote="h2orowe"]How the fuck is Kerouac a hack? What the hell do YOU read, huh? OH DUDE I READ ROMEO AND JULIET IN MY 9TH GRADE ENGLISH CLASS, SHAQUILESPEAR IS COOL. Gtfo my internets.[/quote]

lol

upon further thought, it should read "pretentious depressed teens"[/quote]

You have a Billy Corgan quote in your signature. My head has exploded from ironic overload.

uhm, i stopped reading fiction a while back... now all i read are math textbooks and musicians biographies...

i tried to read kafka on the shore, but couldn't.. . murakami is really just an atrocious writer... it's so stereotypically shallow... the only other books that i couldn't finish have been... a terry goodkind book and grapes of wrath... i think those are the only ones over my entire life... usually i'm stubborn and finish every book i start, you know?

kerouc, i haven't been able to finish enough of a book to say i started one, and the same is true of the harry potter woman... it's just really bad BAD writing.

my brother is a huge kerouac and hemingway fan... not that that makes me an expert, but i have a bit of exposure... i dunno.

You count math textbooks as reading?

Sounds to me like you're the shallow one, not Murakami. Go read a Corgan biography or do some algebra or something instead of trolling this thread.

jomes that's the dryest joke i've ever heard. points for trying.

After careful analysis, I have finally come to the conclusion that the word "shallow" is synonymous with "practical" or "not pretentious." So it's not an insult, really.

[quote="sheerheartattack"]After careful analysis, I have finally come to the conclusion that the word "shallow" is synonymous with "practical" or "not pretentious." So it's not an insult, really.[/quote]

Is vapid still good?

ANYWAY

terra, I finished the Wind-Up Bird Chronicle tonight, and I think I've got a pretty good handle on it now, so we can talk about it sometime if you'd like.

[quote="Jomei"]terra, I finished the Wind-Up Bird Chronicle tonight, and I think I've got a pretty good handle on it now, so we can talk about it sometime if you'd like.[/quote]

Somebody's trying to hit on someone.

Welcome to every day at IM for the past 3-4 years.

Read the last two sections of On The Road this week. Damned good book. Read most of it over Summer within a week, but put it off for a while.

Today, I read No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre. Very good play. Rather short, but very good. I suggest reading it.

I'm debating if I should read some more Sartre (I have three other plays in this book.) or if I should read The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, Faust by Goethe, or finish the short novel, Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky, I started reading.

ayn rand - atlas shrugged

[quote="clouds"]ayn rand - atlas shrugged[/quote]

tl;dr

[quote="h2orowe"]Read the last two sections of On The Road this week. Damned good book. Read most of it over Summer within a week, but put it off for a while.

Today, I read No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre. Very good play. Rather short, but very good. I suggest reading it. [/quote]

Kerouac and Sartre are on my to-read list.

Recently I read Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut and The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima. Both are pretty good books.

I just finished The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle too. weird book. Starting in on Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson