Member: bardsfingertips

Oh good! I've (don't tell anyone) actually yet to read The Broom! You know, I think I'm more an Infinite Jest fan that DFW fan per se, though his really really classic essays - Consider the Lobster, Supposedly Fun Thing...(about the cruise liner - hee-sterical!, and there's one he wrote about an annual Porn Awards Banquet he attended that are all fantastic. I do hope to read all his stuff someday. Let me know if you review it and I'll be sure to pimp it in the salon (or pimp yourself there, Macumbeira pimps his reviews there all the time).

posted by EnriqueFreeque at 12:10 pm (EST) on Nov 7, 2009

No more hiding behind weird pictures or waves!

;-)

posted by EnriqueFreeque at 6:14 pm (EST) on Oct 8, 2009

Wow! Another gorgeous photo on the SD Bibliophiles page. You really are so talented!

posted by pinklady60 at 8:01 pm (EST) on Aug 21, 2009

Hi,
I see that you have a couple of books tagged homor. I suspect that it's a typo for humor. Is it, or is there some subtlety I'm missing?

posted by jimroberts at 2:16 pm (EST) on Jul 28, 2009

Hi - Thanks for adding me to your "interesting libraries" list. I've added you to mine as well, based simply on the fact that you, too, are trying to make it through "Gravity's Rainbow" with the guidebook. Way to go. I'm still slogging through it slowly, too. Be well and thanks again!

posted by irsslex at 9:33 pm (EST) on Jul 10, 2009

Aw, now I know what grok means. Thank you. How iconic is Heinlein to have come up with a fictional word that gets its own Wiki page! I've had the extended version of Stranger for like forever. Have I bothered getting around to it? No ;(

I'm 200 pages into the Murakami and its truly fabulous. I've taken a quick detour to read a slim Erickson book, but the Wind Up Bird Chronicle goes all over the place what I've read. Very surreal, strange, subconscious, science-fictiony at times too. Weird. But good, definitely. Medellia has informed me that the last 100 pages are a mind blower.

Oh, btw, last time I checked, your Heinlein review was Hot! Congrats.

posted by EnriqueFreeque at 10:14 pm (EST) on Jul 7, 2009

'tis Vimsig here - making an incursion into unknown territory

:O)

posted by beansprout at 2:29 pm (EST) on Jun 23, 2009

I just saw your HP review. #2 is the weakest IMO, but if you stick with the series, you'll find it gets better and more thoughtful. :)

posted by chanale at 8:02 pm (EST) on Jun 18, 2009

Bard, that was hysterical! I'm posting it in the salon and giving you credit for sending it to me. Oh, let us pray that it ruffles a feather or two!

Thanks mucho mucho,
Fuh-reeque

posted by EnriqueFreeque at 9:49 pm (EST) on Jun 10, 2009

Hey you're quite welcome, Bard, and I love hearing the feedback - thank you!

Some translations have that 2 Tim ref. as something like, "I permit no woman to be over a man..." Oh the fun of innuendo I could've had with that line had I reviewed that particular translation!

Have a great weekend! And thanks again,
Brent

posted by EnriqueFreeque at 12:14 pm (EST) on Jun 5, 2009

Your photo -- are you about to through a book you don't like to Heckamondite?

A belated thanks for buying A Woman Without a Hole! I hope you found it fulfilling.

I just visited LT for the first time this year as i was busy writing another book the proof of which arrived from my printer Lightning Source today.

MAD IN TRANSLATION – a thousand years of kyôka, comic japanese poetry in the classic waka mode.

Hopefully, it will be on sale by 6-21.

keigu

posted by keigu at 11:04 pm (EST) on Jun 4, 2009

Cool to hear! I'm greatly looking forward to it, especially after Ulysses!

posted by EnriqueFreeque at 2:53 pm (EST) on May 9, 2009

It's right here in LT: http://www.librarything.com/groups/thequ... and it's a ways off (#3 read, after The Master and the Margarita) Never too early to plan ahead, eh? ;-)

posted by EnriqueFreeque at 2:19 pm (EST) on May 9, 2009

Ola Bard!

Very provocative take on A Tale of Two Cities. I'm sure it's blasphemy for me to agree with you, but you're probably right about would it have been published today. I forget the link, but someone sent one of Jane Austen's novels (as if it were their first novel) to a variety of publishers, and something like the first 20 rejected it, and then finally one publisher recognized it as Austen and wrote back to this individual, 'hey, cut it out with the plagiarizing.'

I like the connection you make between Neuromancer & The Matrix - easily in my top ten all time flicks - too.

Hey, it's ways off, but I hope you'll be joining us for the Infinite Jest group read. I'm jonesing for it something fierce already.

Enjoy your weekend,
Brent

posted by EnriqueFreeque at 1:35 pm (EST) on May 9, 2009

Hey, thanks! I love getting feedback on my reviews.

BTW, I also love to unwind in a used (or new!) bookstorie. Problem is I rarely leave without at least one book.

posted by jseger9000 at 5:30 pm (EST) on Apr 24, 2009

oh and I meant to mention your picture makes so much more sense to me now that I'm halfway through U! My sentiments, expressed beautifully in your pic, are quite similar.

posted by EnriqueFreeque at 10:02 pm (EST) on Apr 17, 2009

Slow reader myself, presently slogging through the labyrinth of Ulysses (and a few other books since reading U. only might drive me mad). GR needs a slow read anyway. Take yer time.

Have a great weekend,
Brent

posted by EnriqueFreeque at 10:00 pm (EST) on Apr 17, 2009

Dumb question, but exactly how many movies did you have to watch in that six months?

posted by victoriatsantos at 12:06 am (EST) on Apr 16, 2009

Thanks for stopping by bard, and your kind words. How's the Gravity's Rainbow read a going? Read that last summer. Loved it. Are you an Infinite Jest fanatic too? There's talk among some of the Ulysses group of doing an IJ group read early next year. Consider this an invite (to a group that doesn't exist yet).

All the best,
Brent

posted by EnriqueFreeque at 10:05 pm (EST) on Apr 15, 2009

Hi,

Saw you liked Trainspotting, and I was wondering if you'd be interested in reading my new novel and posting your comments here (as well as on a few other book-related sites). Thought you might like my novel since it's also about a group of disturbed kids and a bit dark. I could e-mail you the novel in an e-book format if you'd like. Let me know if you're interested. Here's a link to a summary in case you're interested:

http://christophertusa.com/

Thanks,

Chris

posted by cmtusa at 6:42 pm (EST) on Apr 6, 2009

Thanks. :) I hope one day Miss_Eliza appreciates the work I've put into maintaining her account. I just got tired of my LT recommendations being cluttered with picture books.

~ chanale

posted by Miss_Eliza at 3:06 pm (EST) on Mar 25, 2009

Thanks for the welcome... what an awesome library you have!
Jazz for Dummies looks like a good one! :D
Cheers from North County,
~ LadyD

posted by LadyD_Books at 9:06 am (EST) on Mar 19, 2009

Thanks! It surprised me how well the novel was executed - I was expecting something a lot more half-hearted.

posted by shimgray at 9:46 am (EST) on Mar 12, 2009

Aw shucks, that's too nice. I hardly said anything about the book itself and the jokes are the kind you have to read the book to get. So most might consider it extremely poor and unhelpful. But thank you, one person. Judging by the stuff you seen to like I'm surprised you haven't read it yet. Get to it, chop chop!

posted by snykanen at 12:57 pm (EST) on Mar 11, 2009

I used to go to Hillcrest Cinemas a couple times a week for critics' screenings. Now I have to be patient and wait for DVD releases most of the time. Twilight comes out a week after Let the Right One In, but I've not heard good things about the former.

posted by chanale at 1:52 pm (EST) on Feb 25, 2009

I read far too many vampire books for my own good. I haven't seen Let the Right One In, but it has been in my Netflix queue (its release date is 3/10) since I saw positive reviews when it came out. You know, I can't recall ever loving a vampire movie (TV and books, yes), but I'm looking forward to this.

posted by chanale at 1:41 pm (EST) on Feb 25, 2009

That's funny. I wouldn't have thought theology would be tagged postmodernism. :)

My tag watches are Victorian, Edwardian, vegan, linguistics, books about books, and Jane Austen.

What have you enjoyed in steampunk? I know next to nothing about it, but I've been considering reading The Somnambulist since it popped up in my LT recommendations.

100 Years is worth getting back to at some point! My soured-by-ugly-breakup authors are Rimbaud, Goethe, and Rilke (in fact, pretty much anything German). I can avoid the Germans, but Rimbaud I had to read for French Literature classes.

posted by chanale at 11:38 pm (EST) on Feb 24, 2009

I read it with friends five or six years ago now (going back and forth between the English translation and Spanish). Daughter and Sepia were good, but they didn't blow me away.

Are you on a magical realism kick?

posted by chanale at 10:02 pm (EST) on Feb 24, 2009

Thank you :) I'm loving it so far!

posted by tamarajp at 2:29 am (EST) on Feb 12, 2009

Ok. lol. Thx

posted by Ruby.was.not.here at 6:57 pm (EST) on Feb 6, 2009

i like bananas so do monkeys im going to marry a monkey

posted by bobbjack123 at 1:56 pm (EST) on Feb 5, 2009

Oh, dear me, yes. I do love a good piece of alternative history pornography. Especially with covers that leave very little to the imagination. Thanks for the comment! :)

posted by ChicGeekGirl21 at 12:54 pm (EST) on Jan 23, 2009

Saw you added me. We certainly seem to have a few books in common. Happy reading :)

posted by skinglist at 8:30 pm (EST) on Jan 12, 2009

I certainly will enjoy my time there; or rather, my computer will enjoy its time there. I'm forever manacled to this world of corporeal being. And I love that you're pioneering the art of monograph self-defense.

posted by cheesusofnazareth at 8:11 pm (EST) on Jan 6, 2009

I just read your LOTR review and the ending made me laugh. I also 100% agree with your review of Wizard and Glass! I'm not quite finished with it, but you're right, it's barely starting to move towards the end. I really don't feel like I've gotten any more out of the story then what I learned in the past three books. Knowing he had a lost love that effected him greatly was enough, the back story just seemed like a let down (and a boring one at that).

posted by ahgonzales at 4:21 pm (EST) on Dec 23, 2008

Oh! Thank you, man, that's really nice to hear. Your library looks amazing. Did you finish your Gravity's Rainbow project? I just finished V. and I think that's about all I can handle for a long time, so much respect.

Incidentally, since you like dense and obtuse but rewarding novels, sci fi, and Alan Moore, have you ever checked out Samuel R. Delaney?

posted by benmathews1 at 10:57 pm (EST) on Dec 5, 2008

Hello!

I'm glad to see someone else with Wyrd Wravings. It was a fun anthology, and I'm glad to have a piece in it! There are some great stories in it!

posted by zette at 9:01 pm (EST) on Nov 5, 2008

Sorry, more than a little behind on comments -- don't remember to check the social network aspect of LT that often.

What do you think about the announcement about Eoin Colfer writing a new "Hitchhiker's" novel?

posted by mgbooks at 3:17 pm (EST) on Oct 24, 2008

I caught your myspace photography, beautiful work (coming from an art major)!!

And I'm flattered you think our Library is interesting!

posted by RemyStevieChris at 6:36 am (EST) on Sep 12, 2008

I forgot I replied.

I actually just came here to leave the exact same comment. Weird.

posted by RSHabroptilus at 3:25 am (EST) on Jul 12, 2008

This looks like a great group! Thanks for the invite.

posted by kaitlynmeans at 4:29 pm (EST) on Jul 11, 2008

ty my gud sir.

How are you? how is your life? read any interesting books lately? (recommendations?) eat any good meals? Gravity's Rainbow treating you with respect, and/or vicie versie? the companion really helping? (I wonder how much I missed...unlike what's to be mentioned in paragraph #2 [or 3 if you count the 'thank you'], I felt on track throughout the entire experience, hardly ever zoning out or feeling lost in the words like I did for Pynchon's other novels read a year or more before. Again, hmm.) By far, that was the funnest I ever had with a book, even counting those fun break books I take between meals like GR. Got to write a paper on Byron the Bulb freshman year in relation to myths like Leda and Zeus-swan and that was like, crazy fun to study. I get all geeky when GR comes up.

I read Ulysses at 16 or 17 trying hard to impress fellow high school students as well as teachers and hardly understood a word until I looked it all up later. I still don't really understand it, but respect it like a mother, and know when I re-read it years in the future, if I actually do, as I plan, and hope, and cetera, blah blah, I'll love it. Like seriously love it, not pretend to in order to flaunt about it to people who have no idea what I'm talking about. I mention all this because of your photo.

Boy, what a fun chat! Peace be with you, brooooooooo!

posted by RSHabroptilus at 3:57 am (EST) on Jun 25, 2008

Thank you for the welcome!

posted by astutz at 5:08 pm (EST) on Jun 24, 2008

Thanks for inviting me to join, though my reading is mostly restricted to textile arts and some classic mystery stories. I love living in San Diego County and I love the Carlsbad Library, where I get most of my current reading matter.
Good luck with the group,
quiltartist.

posted by quiltartist at 7:57 pm (EST) on Jun 15, 2008

I think we'll hit 50 by July! I search for "San Diego" a few times a week to check for new locals.

posted by chanale at 8:00 pm (EST) on Jun 13, 2008

I just returned from out of town and noticed that you had added me as one of your interesting libraries. I'm honored, and curious as to what it is makes my library interesting to you.

posted by pinklady60 at 1:49 pm (EST) on Jun 13, 2008

I haven't read any of his work, but I feel like the genre has that problem in general. Do you have any recommendations of his work I should read? Sometimes it gets to me and sometimes it doesn't depending on how blatant it is. I mean, Hemingway is terribly misogynistic and he's one of my favorite writers.

posted by ahgonzales at 2:35 pm (EST) on Jun 4, 2008

Yep, that's my cat Mel, she tries to either head-butt the book out of my hand or cover it up by sitting on it, lol! Thanks for the welcome! : )

posted by windwhisp at 2:00 pm (EST) on May 30, 2008

Thanks for starting the SD Bibliophiles and inviting me to join! Great way to see new libraries.

posted by ahgonzales at 11:56 am (EST) on May 23, 2008

Thanks for the invitation to join San Diego Bibliophiles, but I just moved out of the area.

posted by lkmiller at 10:03 pm (EST) on May 17, 2008

Thanks for inviting me.

posted by normanbr at 8:26 pm (EST) on May 16, 2008

Cool! I've only been to Bay Books once (being deathly afraid of that bridge). My LibraryThing evangelizing has come to nothing, I'm afraid - even with bookstore and library employees. I'm tempted to print out LT bookmarks to stick them in new books.

posted by chanale at 5:11 pm (EST) on May 14, 2008

I thought about forming a local group a year ago but decided there weren't enough people then to keep it afloat. I hope you get a good turn-out!

posted by chanale at 7:54 pm (EST) on Apr 18, 2008

Thanks for recommending Nina's Books to me. I managed to stop by there today since I was in the area anyway (and couldn't leave without a few books, of course).

posted by chanale at 6:44 pm (EST) on Mar 27, 2008

Likewise! I see you enjoy the local indie bookstores. It has been years since I've been able to browse bookstore shelves (a consequence of having a small child in tow). At least with the library, I can reserve any book online and have it waiting for me up front. :)

posted by chanale at 6:19 pm (EST) on Mar 7, 2008

I hope you like it!

posted by matociquala at 9:17 pm (EST) on Oct 11, 2007

Hi. You have an impressive library. We share 40 titles. I have to ask which novel you found more difficult: Gravity's Rainbow or Ulysses? I have read only the former and would like to have some idea as to the challenge presented by Ulysses (effort/reading time). Cheers.

posted by appeartodisappear at 12:19 pm (EST) on Jul 17, 2007

Excuse my hebetude in realizing we are the only 2 to share this book. I'm sorry if this made my reply costive (1st meaning not the 2nd!) Thanks for giving me a chance to take out the book and use it! Kathy

posted by katbook at 11:44 pm (EST) on Mar 26, 2007

Hello! The names in your author cloud suggest to me that you might be interested in the Book, Game & Media Swap coming up on March 6, put on by the San Diego Sci-Fi/Fantasy Meetup.

posted by caprine at 6:16 pm (EST) on Feb 9, 2007