Books - check them out

[The artist formally known]

house of leaves is fantastic. it is an incredible piece of amazing and insanely deep

[snoorkel]

reading more dick books

[ME##]

reading more dick books

i remember going 2 the mall [l o l] w/ my friend and i found some book in a bookstore with nothing but guys with their d*cks in socks smh

[silvertone]

reading more dick books

i read more dick sometime. i need to read galactic pot healer

[snoorkel]

reading more dick books

i remember going 2 the mall [l o l] w/ my friend and i found some book in a bookstore with nothing but guys with their d*cks in socks smh

not THT kind of dick book =0 =0 =0

[spoiler]lol[/spoiler]

reading more dick books

i read more dick sometime. i need to read galactic pot healer

that one is one of the secret best 1's i read so far imo.

[ME##]

reading more dick books

i remember going 2 the mall [l o l] w/ my friend and i found some book in a bookstore with nothing but guys with their d*cks in socks smh

not THT kind of dick book =0 =0 =0

[spoiler]lol[/spoiler]

sry 4 being lewd

[silvertone]

how was other secret book. the maze

[snoorkel]

how was other secret book. the maze

1's i read in septmeber - october:

A Maze of Death - 6.5/7
The Man in the High Castle - 5.5/7
Time Out of Joint - 5/7
Eye in the Sky - 4/7

i enjoyed reading all of them except eye in the sky, which was OK but never 'got good'.

next time

confessions of a crap artist
now wait for last year
o.o

[ME##]

Carl Sagan's Cosmos book

[silvertone]

how was other secret book. the maze

1's i read in septmeber - october:

A Maze of Death - 6.5/7
The Man in the High Castle - 5.5/7
Time Out of Joint - 5/7
Eye in the Sky - 4/7

i enjoyed reading all of them except eye in the sky, which was OK but never 'got good'.

next time

confessions of a crap artist
now wait for last year
o.o

  u didn't like eye in the sky?

that was good at the beginning i wish it stayed in the cool cult world

[snoorkel]

how was other secret book. the maze

1's i read in septmeber - october:

A Maze of Death - 6.5/7
The Man in the High Castle - 5.5/7
Time Out of Joint - 5/7
Eye in the Sky - 4/7

i enjoyed reading all of them except eye in the sky, which was OK but never 'got good'.

next time

confessions of a crap artist
now wait for last year
o.o

 u didn't like eye in the sky?

that was good at the beginning i wish it stayed in the cool cult world

zt
yeah. the Bábist cult world was pretty good. it mostly just got more boring from there
i wanted to read several of them in order of when th3eywere written , though, and i was pleased with it as early dick. (1957)

[silvertone]

confessions?? i want to read that

[silvertone]

almost done with the Dune series...and halfway through its prequel (the bible)

[ME##]

finished [finally] reading first got book, i plan to knock this second one out in the next eleven days rip boyah

[The Hand That Fisted Everyone]

just finished The Stars Who Created Kabuki by some jew professor at PSU.

It was interesting to read about some of the central figures in Kabuki. The book focuses on three major actors and their lives. These three actors are interesting because they were considered the best actors in their fields for most of their lives. Especially interesting in the case of Yoshizawa Ayame, who was an Onnagata actor (specialist in female roles). Ayame was doing these kinds of roles well into his fifties and people were still saying he was the most convincing Onnagata actor. I'd hate be the onnagata actor that is less convincing than a 50 year old man.

There is also Danjuro and Tojuro. Danjuro was famous for playing deities and having a kind of outrageous style of acting, and the very dynamic style of acting Danjuro spearheaded is know as aragoto. Danjuro was so influential in kabuki that there are still Danjuro actors, with Danjuro XII passing away last year (the book is older and I didn't realize this until I read the Wikipedia article.) Danjuro was very devoted to god and kabuki, claiming that it was the gods that were responsible for his success in kabuki. Danjuro was also a kind of sensuous man and would often sleep around with some of his students behind his wife's back. After a year of bullshit happening at the Kabuki (mainly him slipping in popularity) Danjuro climbed to the top of his theatre and shouted at the gods, telling them that he wasn't going to fuck anymore dudes and stick it in his wife from now on. He credited that rooftop shouting session as the reason he could perform well into his old age. Many years passed and Danjuro was teaching some students. One student enjoyed fuckin' dudes alot too and Danjuro said to him "Boy Howdy if you don't stop that dude doin' you'll never be a great kabuki actor." The student really like fuckin' dudes tho, and was so pissed off that Danjuro told him to stop the pure boy love that he stabbed Danjuro.

Tojuro is almost an opposite of Danjuro. Tojuro favored realism and subtlety. Tojuro I guess would be closest to method acting, as he would go to great lengths to prepare for his roles. For one role, Tojuro had to play a prince or something that had to runaway on his wedding day. So he visited a small inn at a nearby town and hit it off with the woman who owned the joint. For a while they were bonding and enjoying each others company until one night when the inn keeper was ready for Tojuro to enter her quarters (aka FUCK HER) Tojuro didn't show up. Tojuro fell in love with a woman and broke her heart just to prepare for a role. Ain't that some shit. Tojuro didn't have the same successful lineage of Danjuro, but Tojuro is still considered one of the most important actors in kabuki simply because of his dedication to recreating the world on stage.

but this is a really niche book and i don't know that I would rec' it.