What are you reading right now?

**Janszoon** · 05-03-2012, 06:12 PM

House of Holes by Nicholson Baker
The most recent novel by one of my favorite authors. I'm only one chapter in but I have high hopes based on this this blurb:

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Shandee finds a friendly arm at a granite quarry. Ned drops down a hole in a golf course. Luna meets a man made of light bulbs at a tanning parlor. So begins Nicholson Baker’s fuse-blowing, sex-positive escapade, House of Holes. Baker, the bestselling author of The Mezzanine, Vox, and The Fermata, who “writes like no one else in America” (Newsweek), returns to erotic territory with a gleefully over-the-top novel set in a pleasure resort, where normal rules don’t apply. Visitors, pulled in via their drinking straws or the dryers in laundromats, can undergo crotchal transfers . . . make love to trees . . . visit the Groanrooms and the twelve-screen Porndecahedron . . . or pussy-surf the White Lake. It’s very expensive, of course, but there are work-study programs. In charge of day-to-day operations is Lila, a former hospital administrator whose breast milk has unusual regenerative properties.

bob. · 05-03-2012, 06:19 PM

hmmm ok Game of Thrones officially put on hold

thanks janszoon!

**Janszoon** · 05-03-2012, 06:26 PM

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Originally Posted by bob.

hmmm ok Game of Thrones officially put on hold

thanks janszoon!

Sweet, it will be like a mini book club!

bob. · 05-03-2012, 06:30 PM

picked up the hardcover for a buck 83! (+shipping : ( )

should be here in a few days

gots ta love thee internet!

**Janszoon** · 05-03-2012, 07:29 PM

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Originally Posted by bob.

picked up the hardcover for a buck 83! (+shipping : ( )

should be here in a few days

gots ta love thee internet!

Nice. I'm excited to have someone to talk about it with!

**Frownland** · 05-03-2012, 10:16 PM

My journalism teacher recommended this to me. Essentially it's a book that explores Christian spirituality as opposed to the Christian religion. It was very well written, the novel had myriad brilliant metaphors intertwined with the central message of the novel. However, there were several ridiculously cheesy "...and god loves me because..." moments and the ending fizzled out and died. For the experience and contemplation on the difference between religion and spirituality, I'd say that this is a 7/10. I'd suggest it to someone who is quick to question their religion but still wants to remain faithful to that religion.

**Yac** · 05-04-2012, 03:00 AM

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Originally Posted by RVCA

^ I'm reading Scanner Darkly as we speak! I particularly liked this bit, as I'm from Anaheim.

Scanner darkly! I read it 7 times so far, I'm sure I'll read it at least 7 times more. If you haven't seen it, check out the movie version - it has great cast, great acting, amazing visuals and apart from just a couple of scenes, follows the book closely.
Yac.

~~Sansa Stark~~ · 05-06-2012, 02:59 PM

Almost done

Paedantic Basterd · 05-06-2012, 10:49 PM

Just started both of these, and just finished:

Which was a little bit of a let down after everything I'd heard about it, to be honest. I was really hoping for something much more disturbing and revealing. Instead of the emotional challenge the quotes on the book promised, I mostly found myself going "I pretty much agree with this, though that might've been a bit harsh for the situation".

Flyingpig437 · 05-07-2012, 06:53 AM

Just finished Our friends from Frolix 8. A good story for the most part although I've started to realise whenever I finsish a PKD novel I'm always left feeling disapointed with the ending then again I'm only reading them as entertaining sci-fi yarns when from what I keep reading they're actually very philiosophical so maybe I just don't see the deeper meaning enough.

a/w next up is Ed:The Millibands and the making of a labour leader. I hate that subtitle. It's so unwieldy isn't it?

05-03-2012, 06:19 PM	#4072 (permalink)
bob. Still sends his reguards. Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Trying to get out of the cat town.... Posts: 5,039	hmmm ok Game of Thrones officially put on hold thanks janszoon! __________________ A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose.

05-03-2012, 06:30 PM	#4074 (permalink)
bob. Still sends his reguards. Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Trying to get out of the cat town.... Posts: 5,039	picked up the hardcover for a buck 83! (+shipping : ( ) should be here in a few days gots ta love thee internet! __________________ A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose.

05-03-2012, 10:16 PM	#4076 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	My journalism teacher recommended this to me. Essentially it's a book that explores Christian spirituality as opposed to the Christian religion. It was very well written, the novel had myriad brilliant metaphors intertwined with the central message of the novel. However, there were several ridiculously cheesy "...and god loves me because..." moments and the ending fizzled out and died. For the experience and contemplation on the difference between religion and spirituality, I'd say that this is a 7/10. I'd suggest it to someone who is quick to question their religion but still wants to remain faithful to that religion. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

05-07-2012, 06:53 AM	#4080 (permalink)
Flyingpig437 Music Addict Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 534	Just finished Our friends from Frolix 8. A good story for the most part although I've started to realise whenever I finsish a PKD novel I'm always left feeling disapointed with the ending then again I'm only reading them as entertaining sci-fi yarns when from what I keep reading they're actually very philiosophical so maybe I just don't see the deeper meaning enough. a/w next up is Ed:The Millibands and the making of a labour leader. I hate that subtitle. It's so unwieldy isn't it? __________________ Proper music for proper people!!!

05-06-2012, 02:59 PM	#4078 (permalink)
~~Sansa Stark~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: The Eyrie, Vale of Arryn, Westeros Posts: 3,234	Almost done

05-06-2012, 10:49 PM	#4079 (permalink)
Paedantic Basterd Music Addict Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 5,184	Just started both of these, and just finished: Which was a little bit of a let down after everything I'd heard about it, to be honest. I was really hoping for something much more disturbing and revealing. Instead of the emotional challenge the quotes on the book promised, I mostly found myself going "I pretty much agree with this, though that might've been a bit harsh for the situation".