One Hundred Books
5.31.2005
Thirty-Fourth Book
The Society Of The Spectacle : Guy Debord
Zone : 2002
Borrowed from Daniel Pepice
Started 5.21.05
Finished 5.28.05
The Line: "...as we know, modern society's obsession with saving time, whether by means of faster transport or by means of powdered soup, has the positive result that the average American spends three to six hours daily watching television" (112).
Manifesto of
revolting or revolting
manifesto? Zing!
¶ 12:30 0 comments
The Society Of The Spectacle : Guy Debord
Zone : 2002
Borrowed from Daniel Pepice
Started 5.21.05
Finished 5.28.05
The Line: "...as we know, modern society's obsession with saving time, whether by means of faster transport or by means of powdered soup, has the positive result that the average American spends three to six hours daily watching television" (112).
Manifesto of
revolting or revolting
manifesto? Zing!
¶ 12:30 0 comments
5.24.2005
Thirty-Third Book
Beautiful Blemish : Kevin Sampsell
Word Riot : 2005
Bought at Happy Ending Reading Series for $9.00
Started 5.21.05
Finished 5.21.05
The Line: "She is so skinny. Something about her skinniness made me want to stick her entirely in my mouth, like a shark swallowing a Barbie doll" (33).
It makes me believe
in truth, eager and afraid.
My mannequin smile.
¶ 09:25 0 comments
Beautiful Blemish : Kevin Sampsell
Word Riot : 2005
Bought at Happy Ending Reading Series for $9.00
Started 5.21.05
Finished 5.21.05
The Line: "She is so skinny. Something about her skinniness made me want to stick her entirely in my mouth, like a shark swallowing a Barbie doll" (33).
It makes me believe
in truth, eager and afraid.
My mannequin smile.
¶ 09:25 0 comments
5.20.2005
Thirty-Second Book
Super Flat Times : Matthew Derby
Little, Brown : 2003
Bought at Housing Works Used Book Cafe for $6.00+
Started 5.12.05
Finished 5.20.05
The Line: "I am resting on the gnarled trunk of a felled tree, and it has just occurred to me how comfortable an object it is, how well it accepts my intrusive ass, utterly without condescension, without the attendant grief brought on by contemporary furniture" (29).
Voices flutter by
like butterflies, kites, like -- what's
the word? -- acolytes.
¶ 21:08 0 comments
Super Flat Times : Matthew Derby
Little, Brown : 2003
Bought at Housing Works Used Book Cafe for $6.00+
Started 5.12.05
Finished 5.20.05
The Line: "I am resting on the gnarled trunk of a felled tree, and it has just occurred to me how comfortable an object it is, how well it accepts my intrusive ass, utterly without condescension, without the attendant grief brought on by contemporary furniture" (29).
Voices flutter by
like butterflies, kites, like -- what's
the word? -- acolytes.
¶ 21:08 0 comments
5.11.2005
Thirty-First Book
My Loose Thread : Dennis Cooper
Canongate : 2002
Bought at Housing Works Used Book Cafe for $6.00
Started 5.10.05
Finished 5.11.05
The Line: "If it wasn't for words, I wouldn't know how to put lies between me and everyone else, just by how I use them. I used to talk a lot, but now it's sparse" (10).
You should see my face
reading Cooper. I'd tell you
but I'd be lying.
¶ 23:30 0 comments
My Loose Thread : Dennis Cooper
Canongate : 2002
Bought at Housing Works Used Book Cafe for $6.00
Started 5.10.05
Finished 5.11.05
The Line: "If it wasn't for words, I wouldn't know how to put lies between me and everyone else, just by how I use them. I used to talk a lot, but now it's sparse" (10).
You should see my face
reading Cooper. I'd tell you
but I'd be lying.
¶ 23:30 0 comments
5.09.2005
Thirtieth Book
To Kill A Mockingbird : Harper Lee
Warner : 1982
Bought at Housing Works Used Book Cafe for $2.00+
Started 5.4.05
Finished 5.9.05
The Line: "Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to my one, but he preferred the magic of his own inventions. He could add and subtract faster than lightning, but he preferred his own twilight world, a world where babies slept, waiting to be gathered like morning lilies" (146).
Should I worry that
I most identified with
the morphine addict?
¶ 23:16 0 comments
To Kill A Mockingbird : Harper Lee
Warner : 1982
Bought at Housing Works Used Book Cafe for $2.00+
Started 5.4.05
Finished 5.9.05
The Line: "Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to my one, but he preferred the magic of his own inventions. He could add and subtract faster than lightning, but he preferred his own twilight world, a world where babies slept, waiting to be gathered like morning lilies" (146).
Should I worry that
I most identified with
the morphine addict?
¶ 23:16 0 comments
5.03.2005
Twenty-Ninth Book
Winesburg, Ohio : Sherwood Anderson
Penguin : 1985
Bought at Housing Works Used Book Cafe for $4.00+
Recommended by Crystal Hernandez
Started 4.30.05
Finished 5.3.05
The Line: "It was the indefinable hunger within that made his eyes waver and that kept him always more and more silent before people. He would have given much to achieve peace and in him was a fear that peace was the thing he could not achieve" (68).
Line them up and shoot
them down. Members of the town
shatter like glass clowns.
¶ 14:55 0 comments
Winesburg, Ohio : Sherwood Anderson
Penguin : 1985
Bought at Housing Works Used Book Cafe for $4.00+
Recommended by Crystal Hernandez
Started 4.30.05
Finished 5.3.05
The Line: "It was the indefinable hunger within that made his eyes waver and that kept him always more and more silent before people. He would have given much to achieve peace and in him was a fear that peace was the thing he could not achieve" (68).
Line them up and shoot
them down. Members of the town
shatter like glass clowns.
¶ 14:55 0 comments
