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I'm about to start Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham. We'll see.

Heard it's a goodie! Let us know what you think.

Heh. Got about two pages into it and realized I'm not in the right mindspace for it right now. I need something light and fluffy. I'll give it another shot another time.

i think i bought that.
not entirely sure.
which is embarrasing.
i know it was cheap
and i picked it up,
and thought about it.
hmm. i wonder...

I just got it from the library. So I don't feel bad about not finishing it.

I started Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (on loan from my sister,) but also just picked up The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon from the library. I may put Tom Robbins on hold for a bit.

I found Jasper Fforde at the library and Peter S Beagle's new(ish) short stories, that book with the sequel story to The Last Unicorn. It was just right there on the display stand and it screamed at me. So I have 3 books to entertain me on my flights, hopefully at least one of the entertains me.

I'm sure Fforde will, Maeve. I should look for that Beagle book.

i've got two of chabon's books sitting unread. i got "the final solution" in hard back for a pound. got "adventures of cavalier and klay" (?) for christmas. read the recent escapist comic series, which comes from cavalier&klay. need to read those soon.

though i keep buying more. just bought warren ellis's "crooked little vein", its a tiny pocket book, i'd heard people complain about how short it is, but didn't really appreciate just how dinky the bastard really is. anyway, its my new lunch time reading. assuming there isn't too much of that rat pissing on food, that might be a bit off putting while eating.

I finished Through the Looking Glass, which was hilarious but because of that a bit embarrassing as I read it on the train & burst out laughing all the time, which earned me quite a few funny looks.

I've now got started on Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos, & it's better than expected. I thought it would be so wrapped up in society that I'd stop caring, but it still picks up a few characters & follows them through their lives, & that makes it quite interesting.

I'm reading The God Delusion. Not saying anything more before I've finished it.

i'm (finally) reading my lovely summer reading oh joy. on writing by stephen king (i'm not a fan of his, and i've been counting things i agree with in the book, so far i'm up to two). manhunt: the twelve-day chase for lincoln's killer (that one's actually really interesting. it's well-written too). and arc of justice which i haven't technically as such started yet, but will do soon lest i fail AP gov. i'm also re-reading good omens by terry pratchett and our beloved neil gaiman, and the hunchback of notre dame by victor hugo.

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read the recent escapist comic series, which comes from cavalier&klay. need to read those soon.

You do!

I'm reading The Accidental by Ali Smith

i need to do it so much that you posted three times? gosh!

um. i have the accidental as well, not read it either...

Argh, sorry. The internets acting up.

no worries. figured it was something like that.

I just finished Kim Harrison's "For a Few Demons More".

Unless you're really really into chick lit, don't try it.
This is ostensibly about a kick-ass witch who deals with elves, vampires, werewolves and demons.

Yet in this book you find four scenes in which painting your toenails is an issue, one wedding with all the trappings repeatedly discussed, four sexy outfits mentioned in great detail, 200 scenes of the heroine being bitchy and petulant for no better reason than that she feels like it and is a woman (so you're supposed to think it's cute) and about 450 scenes in which the heroine lusts after males and females of every species.

This, I assume, is what Kim Harrison means with a "lust for life".

Luckily for Rachel, the heroine, her objects of lust can't help but return her feelings and thus we are treated to multiple in depth explorations of hot vampire sex both male and female, orgasm inducing demons, incredibly charming elves and an eight inch pixie. Don't ask about the pixie.

It's not so much the boring gratuitous renditions of other people's perfect sex lives that bother me, though they do bog down the story considerably. It's the storytelling smugness and perfection of it all that gets me. Everyone is incredibly attractive and sexy and they're all horny for her and impressed by her...spunk. Or something.

There is something very wrong with a book in which the author interrupts a tense scene with two rivalling werewolf packs on either side of the door for three pages of the heroine necking with her boyfriend. Rachel understandably *forgets* about the werewolves in the next room, you see, because her vampire boyfriend is so incredibly hot. Yes. She does wonder briefly if wanting to tear off his drawers while awaiting Werewolf War III is completely normal. Yes, Rachel. Sure, it's normal.

In real life you wouldn't be able to cross a street without being hit by a bicycle, you idiot. Girl power hurrah.

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yeah. but i've read worse.

Like what?
And what for???

Oh Babs, that sounds horrid. Chick lit indeed.

I've just started Blaze by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman. It's ... a Bachman book. Not bad. Not great. Granted, I'm only about three chapters in.

Basho, followed by e.e. cummings. Hard to think of a more vertiginous combination.

Basho would be a great name for a frog familiar.

Who's Basho? I think he sounds bigger than a frog. More like...a camel! A water camel.

Gina, it IS very odd.

I've never read the Bachmann books.

They're not too bad, Babs, as long as you're not looking for something life altering. I think the best is Thinner, but that's more King writing as King (which he admits himself in the author's preface to Blaze.) They're a little more gritty.

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I'm attempting The Harlequin by Laurell K. Hamilton. I hear it's not as orgy-tastic as the last few have been. I still think she puts way too much information in her dedications. From the dedications alone have I been able to follow the drama going on in her life. *shakes head*

Yep, still trying to drag my way through this. I give it two more chapters before I throw it in the fire pile.