And who the fook
believes he can read?

Dunno. It's
Greek to me.

dats right, dats right. Ok, so I'm followin' him. But I like to believe the world revolves around me. I keep tryin' to gain enough mass to gather a following.

I also believe I can read. Makes one of me.

Pho is messenger of Metaxa???

No. Pho is alphabet soup.

Just finished Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay.

It inspired the Dexter series on Shotime. I got a crush on Dexter. He's hotter than Ted Bundy.

Reading Huysmans' A Rebours. Wordy, but beautiful. THE decadent novel.

It's the Bible of Decadence. It's supposed to be wordy.

Werd.

WerdS.

I prefer wholesome, uplifting reading material.

Uplifting reading?

Like this or like this? Or some weird combination I don't want to know about?

Just picked up from the library: Impressionist Quartet: The Intimate Genius of Manet & Morisot, Degas & Cassatt

Prolly illustrated as well.

Only a wee handful of B&W images.

I finished reading David Nevin's autobiography (The Moon's a Balloon) and started reading Stephen Hawking's Universe.

Both were inflicted with Lou Gehrig's disease.

What is the probability of picking up two books at random and finding both the people were inflicted with the same obscure disease?

Little, Big -- John Crowley
Parables & Lies -- Jesse Ball

Picked up a copy of Alex Haley's Roots. Damn, this is a thick book! No pictures neither.

Just about to start a biography on Erik Satie.

I've been in a biography mood lately,
just finished Crazy Diamond, about Roger Barrett.

Great book, eh?

Yes, depressing, and a bit short.

Yeppers.

Fountainhead

Great.

Thanks for playing.

Pissing and aiming while standing up straight, simultainiously.

Following the Equator by Mark Twain
Still one of the greatest storytellers.

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Hand written under this picture in the book:
"Be good, and you will be lonely!"

"THE WARREN REPORT" The official Report on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

I finally got a copy.

Reading Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leafs and learning at the same time about ancient Greek mythology
and other historical and scientific facts I've once heard of or never even knew of they existed.

Lucyna Ćwierczakiewiczowa (Polish Duplais so to say) "Jedyne praktyczne przepisy konfitur, różnych marynat, wędlin, wódek, likierów, win owocowych, miodów oraz ciast" Kraków 1885.

Kafka on the Shore

Norman Mailer's letters in the New Yorker. Great stuff!

...

Turn Off Your Mind: The Mystic Sixties and the Dark Side of the Age of Aquarius

Invisible Residents

A Disquisition upon
Certain Matters Maritime,
and the Possibility
of Intelligent Life under
the Waters of This Earth

"Les Grandes Usines" par Turgan, Paris 1881, several distilleries (ya already know of from FV thread), some paint-makers, Egrot and xit like that. It is more than 1500 pgs-helluva lot of readin' and lookin' at "planches"

Bloemen en Cruydeboek, Manuscript Anonymous 1554,

Den Neder-landschen Herbarius ofte Kruid-boek der Voornaamste Kruiden, tot de Medicyne, Spys-bereidingen en Konst-werken diestig.Handelende Van sommige hier to Lande wassende Boomen, Kruiden, Heesters, Mossen, enz. Stephen Blankaart 1698,

Botanisches Bilderbuch für Jung und Alt Erster Teil und Zweiter Teil Franz Bley 1897,

Flora Germanicae sectio II. plantae cryptogamicae s. cellulosae. Tomus III. Mathias Joseph Bluff Carl Anton Fingerhuth 1831

and the likes of. In Latin, German, English, what not.

Just to whet yer appetite: