actually, I'm reading it because I'm fantastically interested in Todd Rundgren.
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It took me about a week. But I've got about 50 more books to read before September, so I can't luxuriate in Proust's marvelous, sensual prose. You might want to skip ahead to "Swann in Love," it's one of the most beautiful, true things I've ever read.idle hands wrote:How long did it take? I've been reading that for months and I'm not past page 100... some other books got in the way, like Jorge Luis Borges complete works Vols I II and III. Books are soo cheap in Buenos Aires.miss buenos aires wrote:I just finally finished "Swann's Way"
taz wrote:Just finishing up "Risk Pool" by Richard Russo...equal parts humor and depressing.
~~I have that exact quote above my bed. It is wonderful to share the joys of Bukowski with another. First time we have ever agreed on anything, lol. I adore you, CPunk!costellopunk wrote:hey istandaccused,
i read that about two years ago. i still re-read it on occasion. hilarious, dirty, adn sometimes a little life affirminmg. thus is bukowski. i've become a bigger and bigger fan of buk over the past year. i even got a tatoo on my arm of a broken glass heart dripping water on fire that says: "burning in water drowning in flame". which is one of his best poetry compliations. i'm also thinking of naming this band i seem to in south of no north in honor of him.
With Hiaasen, you have to suspend disbelief, and in my estimation you will be amply rewarded. In one of his early novels, Double Whammy I think, a mob enforcer type loses his arm below the elbow. The doctor is going to fit him with a prosthesis and asks if he'd prefer a hook. The thug has a brainstorm and has the doctor outfit him with a weed whacker instead. One of his recurring characters is a former Florida governor who lives in the swamps and exists mostly on a diet of roadkill stew; and he's saner than most of the Floridians who populate Hiaasen's books. I grew up down there, so I can say he might not be too far wrong.Boy With A Problem wrote:Picked up Carl Hiaasen's, "Basket Case" for the plane ride home. It's proving to be a quick read, but he loses credibility early on having the fictitous band The Slut Puppies winning a Grammy. C'mon !!