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Reading this summer
Jackie Blue:
Dan Brown doesn't even pretend to be literature.
Douglas Coupland does.
Coupland is like what would happen if you took Mark Leyner and made him stop doing drugs, removed his brain and replaced it with a "television tuned to a dead channel".
Let's just stop talking about him and talk about Mark Leyner instead because ET TU BABE IS THE GREATEST PIECE OF MODERN LITERATURE EVER.
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Yeah, I've been meaning to read these for a while, too. I snuck a look at a coworker's copy back when the third came out and even though it wasn't a challenging read, it did suck me in pretty quickly.
So yeah. I haven't done any of my planned summer reading, as I haven't been to a bookstore or library to get any of them, but I have been rereading just about every book I own.
RallyMonkey:
I am right in the middle of reading Coupland's newest book, The Gum Thief. I thought jPod was a pretty great book. Off of that, I read Hey Nostradamus and Microserfs, neither of them were very good. The Gum Thief started out pretty good, I thought, but about halfway through, I'm starting to get very bored.
In other readings, in the passed two weeks or so I have read:
Doubt: A parable - John Patrick Shanley
I Am My Own Wife - Doug Wright
Copenhagen - Michael Frayn
The Laramie Project - Moises Kaufman
The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? - Edward Albee
I guess that I really like plays? Plays are actually really great reads. They are always really smooth reads, and playwrights are able to use great economy in their writing due to the medium, so they're often really well paced.
I'd like to read some more contemporary plays, but I have basically dried the supplies of plays at my library.
Inlander:
Right now I'm reading the Koran. After that I'll be onto the Tanakh. I recently finished reading the Bible, so frankly I'm looking forward to leaving the Old Testament and related texts behind and moving onto some eastern religions.
In case anyone's wondering, a while ago I decided I ought to educate myself a bit about the major religions of the world, seeing as how I was raised in a completely secular household. For down-time I've been giving my brain a break by reading Iain M. Banks's Culture novels.
Also, reading and re-reading and re-re-reading a manuscript I'm working on. But that probably doesn't really count.
Wayfaring Stranger:
I'd love to hear some opinions on how you feel the different scriptures relate to each other and differ from one another. That's an admirable goal you've set.
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