Barry's Books

[Ally]

This project is fun, but since it actually involves reading, it's a tad unrealistic. :'(

[Ally]

Yeah, totally. I think I'm going to focus on American and French books with the odd German book thrown in there. I need to focus on philosophy books and ones about female directors in silent cinema. It is my current obsession and the topic of my dissertation and I can't really dilly dally and read books by Kenyan authors.

[Genia]

God, I could probably build a lifetime reading curriculum just out of "these books they had me read in class"...

[Louise]

Allison wrote: "CTRL+F works sometimes. :P Brooklyn Follies is right below Music of Chance. I mainly hated the end of B. Follies when [spoilers removed] that reminded me of Woody Allen's Whatever Works when [spoil..."

Oh I loved Man in the Dark,
The Invention of Solitude and Moon Palace. I really didn't like Invisible though :-/

I really like Murakami as well, but I've decided that I cannot read 1Q84 befor I've read [book:The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle|11275] - do you read A.S. Byatt too?

[Louise]

Barry wrote: "yes, Chelsea! will do and likewise, please

Louise, i think ur talkin to Ally (which is sad) but you should read 1Q84 right away, i didnt think much of WindUp but i am looooooving 1Q84 right now"

Sad? Why?? :-)
I think i have 4-5 of his books around I haven't read yet - I got the edition of 1Q84 with book 1 & 2 in one volume.

[Ally]

Louise you like/dislike the opposite Paul Austers I like/dislike, but that's okay. Also, I tried reading A.S. Byatt once. It was great, but too long.

And Barry, well, I just checked out HAMMER!: Making Movies Out of Sex and Life by Barbara Hammer from the library. I was supposed to have read it already. But you can check out which books I'm required to read at the following bookshelf:
egs-syllabus
You can check out which books were recommended during class but not required at the following bookshelf::
egs-recommended
and you can check books that might have been written by the teachers at my school or books ppl reference so I want to read them so I won't feel like a dummy at the following bookshelf:
egs-related

Then I had like 500 or 600 books on EGS and my ex/current boyfriend said he had 1,500 books in his living room, so I added a bunch of books related to philosophy and pretty much added a thousand or so books that looked interesting, so my virtual bookshelf would look bigger.

So there you have it. I haven't cracked open Of Grammatology yet. I'm scared. Help me.

[Ally]

Louise wrote: "Barry wrote: "yes, Chelsea! will do and likewise, please

Louise, i think ur talkin to Ally (which is sad) but you should read 1Q84 right away, i didnt think much of WindUp but i am looooooving 1Q8..."

Barry thinks it's sad you're talking to me, because I am like a crazy person. I'm not. But I don't accept the status quo. So maybe he thinks I'll scare you away from this place. But I haven't scared Barry away yet, so why does he think you'll be scared? I don't really know. I guess you'll have to come to your own conclusions. I'm just trying to be on my best behavior, so I won't get kicked off the site like the one I met Barry at, you know?

[Louise]

I don't scare easily when it comes to crazy people - I'm married to a guy I met at a roleplaying convention, ok?
:-)

[Ally]

Barry wrote: "Allison wrote: "my ex/current boyfriend"

hahahaha, classic ally!"

Yeah, I don't know what he is to me or what he will be. It's kinda of "up in the air" right now, in Jason-Reitman-douchey kind of way.


Louise, awesome. You and I will get along just fine.

[Mikki]

Hi Barry! *waving*

Do you realize what you've started here???

[Ally]

Barry wrote: "i feel like that guy who lit himself on fire and started Arab Spring"

Poor Barry!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It would be alright though if you didn't have crazy ppl like Ally around here, right??? HA!!!

[Mikki]

Barry wrote: "i feel like that guy who lit himself on fire and started Arab Spring"

Oh no! Dontcha go off and do something crazy now!

[Jenny (Reading Envy)]

Hooooooray!

[Anne]

Finally. The day has come!

[Ally]

whoa fun, Barry. Now you know what you've been missing out on for months!

[Louise]

Hope you'll enjoy the next one more Barry ;-)

[Vicky]

Yay! You did it!

[Chel]

That's a good list.

[Jenny (Reading Envy)]

Oh at first I thought those were numbers of pages.....

[Mikki]

Barry wrote: "I'm glad I put all that time into my list which I'm not even going to follow anymore, haha..."

No rules, Barry, no rules...

[Ally]

Barry wrote: "I'm glad I put all that time into my list which I'm not even going to follow anymore, haha

1. Germany: Effi Briest by Theodore Fontaine 1895
2. Phillipines: Ilustrado ..."

What happened to Spinoza? Was he too boring or something?

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It's the journey, not the destination, maaaan.

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I'm pretty bad at geometry.