Read a f***ing book
Anyone interested in some sort of "book club" sponsored by this here fainting goats? And by sponsored, I mean a loose affiliation, contributing nothing in the way of funds or prizes. I will offer a small amount of moral support in the form of Sam the Skateboarding Snail.
Even if the book club doesn't happen, I still found this awesome posterAs a way of getting the ball rolling, here are a few suggestions for books that we could start with (all in paperback, key). If there is any interest we can work out the particulars of how this would work, perhaps some via some sort of e-mail discussion.
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. A commenter suggested I read McCarthy's "The Road" last week, but this is already sitting on my shelf. Been meaning to read some of his stuff, especially since I saw No Country for Old Men. According to the two reviews I just read online, "Blood Meridian" is regarded as one of the best, if not the best, of McCarthy's works.
No Logo by Naomi Klein. The non-fiction option. It examines how corporate brands have taken over, and the damage super-branding has done to culture, work and everyday life the world over. From what I hear its one of the best left-leaning books written in the past 10 years. It's not a shoe, its a lifestyle!
World War Z by Max Brooks. An oral history of the zombie war. Need I say more? I will anyway. Following up on his 'Zombie Survival Guide' Brooks offers a variety of first-hand accounts describing different aspects of the inevitable zombie-human conflict.
Have suggestions of your own? Perhaps something not so bleak or that you got for free off a shelf at National Public Radio? I'm open to suggestions.
4 comments:
read blood meridian. Seriously. Read it now. I will discuss with you afterwards.
One of the best books I've ever read--in the first chapter, the Judge says, "Congress with a goat!"--and by far one of the craziest.
And by crazy I mean Apaches sodomizing the corpses of Texan army sergeants.
Read it.
TD
I hated Brooks' Zombie Survival Guide, but I've been meaning to give Cormac McCarthy a go. I also have A People's History of the U.S. (Howard Zinn) sitting around waiting to get read.
I wouldnt mind reading Blood Meridian. It's got to be much better than my Federal Personal Income Taxation textbook that I am reading now. I have also been meaning to read A People's History of the US. It sounds like its full of communistic goodness.
i'm down for whatever. what kind of pace does sam snail encourage? i mean, his snailness says slow, but his skateboard says fast, hip and possibly stoned.
Basically, with the amount of class and studying I deal with, I typically take forever to finish books. Maybe this is the motivation I need though.
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