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[Patrick Stickles]

im reading on the road and it became clear to me at some point that jack kerouac is not so much a good writer as he is a good storyteller. it's a lot like one of my friends is just like telling me about this really awesome experience he had, but it's super long. but i like that a lot.

[burzumfan420]

on the road is literally the best book of all time. (

[Patrick Stickles]

i mean it's really good but i don't know if i agree with you there at all

it has sections where it's like, wow dude, you're really fucked up and so are your friends

[LCK]

I just finished Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood

i liked it so much i just bought oryx and crake and am eagerly awaiting the Maddaddam novel to be finished

[burzumfan420]

i mean it's really good but i don't know if i agree with you there at all

it has sections where it's like, wow dude, you're really fucked up and so are your friends

Old Bull Lee wsa my fave char minus neal cassidy

[Classic]

Reading Wicked. It's heartbreaking. :'(

[Patrick Stickles]

Old Bull Lee wsa my fave char minus neal cassidy

neal cassidy was a love and hate for me. sometimes he got way too out of hand, and i couldn't stand to read another word he said. but then he would come to appreciate certain things other people wouldn't that i do, and it was kind of relateable. so i dunno.

i don't think i liked characters as much as i liked the relationships characters had with each other. allen ginsberg and neal cassidy sitting on a bed cross legged talking to each other high on something or another was my favorite part in the whole book though.

[Samus Aran]

jack kerouac is not so much a good writer as he is a good storyteller

yes

yes

that is such a good way of putting it. though make no mistake, he is a good writer, just maybe not quite all he's cracked up to be, but goddamn does he tell a good story and that in itself is arguably more important in his case

[Samus Aran]

So I've decided to really catch up on reading this summer. I can't even remember the last time I sat down to actually read something that wasn't assigned to me in school. and I have so many of these literary "classics" sitting around that I never finished and some that I never even started.

On the summer reading list at the moment (and by list I mean literally just a stack of books on the floor) is...

Cat's Cradle (reading this now)
Sophie's Choice
Under the Volcano
Tom Sawyer (I read Huck Finn ages ago and it's wonderful, but never Sawyer)
Catch-22

That's just for now, though. In addition, a play: "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead." Also, a short story collection of J.D. Salinger's entitled "Nine Stories."

[piano moths]

blahblahblah

Cat's Cradle (reading this now)

blahblahblah Also, a short story collection of J.D. Salinger's entitled "Nine Stories."

what do you think of Cat's Cradle? Also... "Nine Stories" is incredible. "Teddy"... I'm sure you will love.

[Samus Aran]

what do you think of Cat's Cradle? Also... "Nine Stories" is incredible. "Teddy"... I'm sure you will love.

Well, I'm only about sixty pages into it so far, but I like it quite a bit thus far. If nothing else, simply for Vonnegut's way of writing. He's like a more refined Palahniuk or something. A certain mastery of the emphasized sentence fragment and the single-line paragraph, and a very flowing, very contemporary rhythm.

[piano moths]

Well, I'm only about sixty pages into it so far, but I like it quite a bit thus far. If nothing else, simply for Vonnegut's way of writing. He's like a more refined Palahniuk or something. A certain mastery of the emphasized sentence fragment and the single-line paragraph, and a very flowing, very contemporary rhythm.

Vonnegut is definitely talented. I really dig the story of Cat's Cradle. Vonnegut's life lessons.

[burzumfan420]

i finished Island by Aldous Huxley last night

[CruelPleasure]

http://dreaminglife.org/part-1-a-psychonauts-guide-to-the-invisible-landscape/
Psychonaut’s Guide to the Invisible Landscape: The Topography of the Psychedelic Experience,
Amazing book so far, just about half way done.

[Kefker]

Reading Fahrenheit 451. probably my favorite book of all time