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i really like this book. Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe seem to have led very interesting lives and I like the way she writes. I find it very fascinating the way that they just know that they're artist and that it's a calling for them no matter what other people say and how much they have to sacrifice for their art. i am in no way an artist, but i would love to feel that passionately about something.

I'm reading it now too, I've almost finished City of Glass and I really liked it, he's got a very interesting narrative, I found really interesting all the little details, though what I like best about it is all the quoting other texts and adding all that information that made me want to look it up and read more about the whole thing, I like being motivated to investigate about something by a book!

I'm intrigued...

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^ Just finished it actually. Great stuff, but the last chapter really lets it all down.

Up next for me...

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Currently reading Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon.

I'm a little over 100 pages in (just started it today) and I had to take a break because my brain hurts.

Pynchon is one wordy yet interesting fellow. I'm enjoying the book, but it's actually a process to read...and a somewhat arduous one at that.

Pynchon is rough territory. I've picked up Vineland but I've yet to start it. A buddy of mine is way into him and has a Gravitys Rainbow tattoo but even with his shining endorsement, its not enough to shove me into his material yet.

Finished Do androids dream of electric sheep? Didn't really care for it. The weakest thing I've read by Dick so far in fact. Oh and I have no idea how they managed to make Blade runner from this but it has VERY little to do with the book....thankfully. :\

Moving on to:
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So far, great...(:

^Think my dad likes that book a lot. Have you read Freedom?

Nope, it's the first thing I've read by him.

Oh hey, I'm reading that too! I'm so in love with his writing style.