what are you reading right now?

by **alaska** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 7:55 pm

i just started candide today having never really read it before. it makes me want to weep

by **chowder julius** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 7:57 pm

really looking forward to putting march to bed and getting into some horny books for spring. i have some unread nin and a cute copy of de sade's Justine :twisted:

by **virile** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 7:58 pm

cj why can't you get horny in march

by **chowder julius** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 8:01 pm

me reading erotica in the park until i'm sunburned

by **chowder julius** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 8:02 pm

virile wrote:cj why can't you get horny in march

i got tricked into reading nobel winners this month which is like the most ANTI horny thing possible

by **alaska** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 8:07 pm

oh shit i gotta read de sade lollll

by **chowder julius** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 8:09 pm

alaska wrote:oh shit i gotta read de sade lollll

i have actually never read anything by him. i do highly recommend venus in furs by sacher-masoch tho for something brisk and short and literary but also horny af. one of my favorite reads from last year

by **virile** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 8:11 pm

chowder julius wrote:
virile wrote:cj why can't you get horny in march

i got tricked into reading nobel winners this month which is like the most ANTI horny thing possible

oh man sorry to hear it can you do that thing where you slide a dirty book inside your other book and no one is the wiser

by **chowder julius** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 8:12 pm

i prefer to let my freak flag fly tyvm

by **chowder julius** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 8:12 pm

by **virile** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 8:13 pm

so basically then there are just no nobel books about doin it

by **Eyeball Kid** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 8:14 pm

I read The 120 Days of Sodom late last year and because it had this cover (NSFW: bare butt photo)

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I had to keep the cover from being visible when I took it out in public.

by **chowder julius** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 8:15 pm

i read kathy acker's blood and guts in high school while having my hair colored and there are lots of drawings of genitals in that and I am positive my stylist saw them

by **alaska** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 8:23 pm

blood and guts in high school is fucking wild lol

the drawing where she has her hands cupped around a dick randomly pops into my head sometimes

by **alaska** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 8:24 pm

chowder julius wrote:
alaska wrote:oh shit i gotta read de sade lollll

i have actually never read anything by him. i do highly recommend venus in furs by sacher-masoch tho for something brisk and short and literary but also horny af. one of my favorite reads from last year

nice ok will do :twisted:

by **crash.landing** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 9:04 pm

For those just getting into de Sade, I highly recommend reading the essay "Sade" by Maurice Blanchot. He gives a very concise philosophical context and analysis of Sade's main (philosophical) concepts. That is, if you're into theory/philosophy as well as the literary porn.

by **incoherent grunting** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 10:49 pm

incoherent grunting wrote:Up next!:

Very mediocre!

I'm going to re-read Bolano's Last Evenings on Earth before diving back in and finishing Dune.

The Spanish version of Last Evenings on Earth is called Llamadas Telefónicas which means Telephone Calls and has a cool original cover - all the Anagrama versions have very cool covers - except for 2666 which the Gustave Moreau painting can't be beat

by **the upland trout** » Thu Mar 14, 2019 11:43 am

deep blue meanies wrote:
the upland trout wrote:
Up next:

My girlfriend got this for me and we will be reading it together, though she will be reading it in Turkish.

how is this? looks up my alley.

It's pretty good? I've still not made up my mind and my pleasure-reading time has dwindled recently, so I'm making slow progress.

The writing is not super interesting, though it's not bad either. However I am enjoying reading it and I don't know too much about Turkish history and culture, so reading this book has been very interesting. Half of the time I spend with it is spent googling various references and historical events.

by **the upland trout** » Thu Mar 14, 2019 11:44 am

by **i_am_agriculture** » Thu Mar 14, 2019 4:50 pm

mercenaries of slime wrote:can xue is great

I'm gonna check her stuff out, thanks!

by **incoherent grunting** » Thu Mar 14, 2019 11:14 pm

can anyone recommend sort-of-psychedelic vibe novels like Crying of Lot 49, PKD, etc.. not about drugs, but kind disorienting and weird (for lack of better term)?

by **the upland trout** » Thu Mar 14, 2019 11:39 pm

incoherent grunting wrote:can anyone recommend sort-of-psychedelic vibe novels like Crying of Lot 49, PKD, etc.. not about drugs, but kind disorienting and weird (for lack of better term)?

Motorman by David Ohle
The Beak Doctor by Eric Basso
The Great Lover by Michael Cisco
Minor Angels by Antoine Volodine
Maldoror by Lautreamont
Ice by Anna Kavan
Life in the Folds by Henri Michaux
The Beetle Leg by John Hawkes
The Other Side by Alfred Kubin
Sisyphean by Dempow Torishima
Lanark by Alasdair Gray

Clarice Lispector... Wilson Harris?

Lots of good stuff here: https://www.wakefieldpress.com/index.html

by **crash.landing** » Thu Mar 14, 2019 11:51 pm

incoherent grunting wrote:can anyone recommend sort-of-psychedelic vibe novels like Crying of Lot 49, PKD, etc.. not about drugs, but kind disorienting and weird (for lack of better term)?

Anything by Richard Brautigan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Brautigan

by **incoherent grunting** » Fri Mar 15, 2019 7:21 am

Thanks y'all

by **shizaam** » Fri Mar 15, 2019 12:43 pm

just started

by **dvr** » Fri Mar 15, 2019 5:33 pm

shizaam wrote:just started

Oh interesting. Children of Time wasn't my favorite but it wasn't terrible either. I'm curious how this pans out. The author's biology background is a huge draw for me.

Edit: I guess Zoology background technically

Edit2: how'd you get a copy of this?

by **chowder julius** » Fri Mar 15, 2019 8:25 pm

im still slowly reading the magic mountain, about 25% complete, and i love the barely perceptible yet growing sense of dread and discomfort underlying the whole thing. really unique and special quality. i have no idea where this is going but i'm v intrigued...

by **iwillneverpost** » Fri Mar 15, 2019 8:46 pm

incoherent grunting wrote:can anyone recommend sort-of-psychedelic vibe novels like Crying of Lot 49, PKD, etc.. not about drugs, but kind disorienting and weird (for lack of better term)?

Dhalgren if you haven't already.

by **Chyet** » Fri Mar 15, 2019 8:59 pm

de sade is just armpit fetishes

by **chowder julius** » Fri Mar 15, 2019 9:09 pm

mfw reading de sade

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