AWKWARD ZOMBIE

It's a title left over from the old US government.

So a state in need od an uprising

BOOKS.

I have been trying to get more into russian literature after I read roadside picnic which blew my cock off, I mean like, really blew it off, we're talking in terms of dick blast radius here. That last line with the wish granter came out of nowhere and changed red's character completely but I am not talking about roadside picnic because honestly I am still trying to organise my thoughts on it.

No no, I got an email from the folio society - who do amazing work by the way, they print gorgeous, amazingly bound books, I can proudly say I have several - about one of their collections of Gogol's short stories. Some Russian dude, wrote shit, the guy who came before Dostoevsky and Turgenev if that means anything to you.

POINT BEING I read The Overcoat today and it is brilliant. A short story about a lowly clerk who wants to buy a dapper new coat to fit in better. He impresses all his douche coworkers with it and then gets mugged. The loss of his amazing coat is too much to bear and he gets sick and dies, then some shit with ghosts the end.

THIS SHIT IS GREAT. In a piece that's incredibly short yet it characterises perfectly, flows along with grace and quiet dignity and has a surprising amount of depth in terms of themes; working class striving to climb the social ladder, peer acceptance, obsession with material goods, lack of identity in a modern working world, the harsh, stark loneliness that comes from focusing too much on you work, I COULD GO ON YOU DICKS. This is a short story that you can find FOR FREE on a dozen websites and will take you less than twenty minutes to read. These words are POIGNANT and IMPORTANT FOR MANY REASONS. You will be DOING YOURSELF A DISSERVICE by not looking it up right now.

One Life in the Day of Ivan Denisovich is a tough read, but I feel better about myself for reading it.

Also the red badge of corageii is terrible.

I've been wanting to pick up 'Sometimes Gladness' a collection of poetry by Bruce Dawe. Read it back in high school and some of it's stuck with me ever since.

To be honest, I don't usually have the patience to read a proper novel so I find it hard to talk about books I like. There are so few.

I picked up "Warrior of Rome" before I went to Thailand last year, which was just as well considering the only thing to do was go scuba diving and wait in my shitty shoebox hotel room that was meant to link with other island activities.
The first book in the series is pretty entertaining, particularly because it very much involves siege warfare and the tensions presented to a city that is on its death bed.
I haven't got around to reading the second book, though. It's just such a pain in the booty to read now that I have more entertaining things to do.

So I started reading Game of Thrones not expecting much.

I thought I could fight the fandom

it just sucked me in

I cant look away

For what must be at least the eighth time I'm going through The Princess Bride and I couldn't speak more highly of it.

You've probably seen the film before, but the book is significantly different. It has a whole story within a story thing going on, with the fantasy tale of princess buttercup and westley wrapped inside another plot about the author, and his life as it surrounds and unfolds in relation to the book. Everything about the author's life is completely fictional, but as a literary device it accomplishes so much, and I actually enjoyed those sections possibly more than the fantasy itself.

Really, it has universal appeal. It's razor sharp satire, it has touching moments of friendship, it's about growing up, being a father, being creative, caring about something, and more than anything else it's a very humbling book. It's incredibly simple and at the same time so very, very intelligent. It's absolutely and in every sense of the word a classic and books like this are precisely why books are important, why they matter, why you need to track down a copy right now. This is why we're alive. Books like this.

Jules Verne's "A Journey to the Center of the Earth"
Wow this book is tough to start, but impossible to put down.

What a deep writer Jules is.

Starting to realize how much I empathize with the Lost Generation, and it's a little scary. I feel like reading some more Hemingway or Fitzgerald.

I haven't read much of Verne, but 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is one of my all time favorite books. For some reason it just creates this somber mood and I hate to put it down.

Added the sixth and seventh Skulduggery Pleasant book to my collection. I haven't read the other books for quite some time, so I've decided to read the entire series in chronological order.

Finished Rift and...AW FUCK THERE"S A SEQUEL TO THE PREQUEL BEING WORKED ON! That'll be another 18 bucks for Mrs. Cremer when it comes out.

On to Hunger Games tomorrow. Whoosh

i am seconding the fuck out of this post

spoony said it perfectly and i couldnt agree more

Went to a library sale as it was Buck a Bag and brought home some new stuff I'd either never heard of or had been meaning to try for a while. The latter most notably being copies of The Light Fantastic and Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett.