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For a diary, I just can't get a handle on what Warhol really thinks about most of these famous people. It's an odd reading experience.

JURY NULLIFICATION? I've served on two juries, and I am sure no one, no lawyer or judge, informed me (can't speak for everyone) that I had the right to return a verdict of "not guilty" even when the defendant is clearly guilty.

I think it's awesome how this was turned in to such a great movie. And so I did some research: Graham Moore won an Oscar for "Best Adapted Screenplay" and this $14 million independent film went on to make almost $300 million at the box office! The author of the bio, Andrew Hodges, argued that Moore took great liberties with the book. That's absolutely true. But what a book, and what a film! Congrats to Moore!

I'm stunned. I just finished a short story entitled "A Girl Like Phyl" and it just comes "thundering toward" (the author's words)the reader in a blaze of revelation. And that photo of Highsmith on the cover? It's the perfect photo to match the contents of these wickedly brilliant stories.

On page 336, Finnegan writes he was "now busy trying to kick-start" an adult life. We all grow, but during the next 15 pages we get more surfing in his new home place, San Francisco. The travel enchantment of this book is waning: I don't know why this man who has lived his life on his own terms wants to be "an adult." It seems to me he would rebel, to his last breath, adulthood. I'm disappointed in our hero.

Andy rents out his house in the Hamptons to Mick and Bianca Jagger! He goes to the Players Club and finds "Peggy Cass and Dena Kaye who came instead of her husband Danny, who had Concorde-lag. He spends $4 on a cab to Union Square. He buys toys for Jodie Foster. This book is among the oddities of literature.

Which artist will I most admire by the end of this book? The interiors of Hoogstraten and Vemeer are in deed beautiful. Rembrandt's "Woman Bathing in a Stream" is extraordinarily erotic.

"So This is Dyoublong? Hush! Caution! Echoland!" Beautiful and precise: the philosophy is clear. Some authors might base a chapter, an entire book, on this theme, Joyce stupendously uses just a few words. The world is 'Echoland' and when we finally find our true home, our place in the world, a firm hold on our identity, we must enjoy and live quietly. Those people who are unhappy will drag us down their own hell.

Unbelievably beautiful. I've slowed down to just a dozen or so pages a day. This is way too good to breeze through.

I should STOP RIGHT NOW. But I won't.

I'm off to see the Wizard (of the English language) and after "Ulysses", I have off-the-chart expectations of a rock-n-roll ride like no other.

I'm a few pages into Part Two. And even if the second half doesn't measure up to the first half, this is still a great debut.

So far, a beautiful meditation on all things that go into living one's life on one's own terms.

This is my first Dostoyevsky. There is a very fine line between this book and sheer drawing-room melodrama/farce. But maybe it is just that: a farce.

What's with all the tiny fig leaves? If Titian had painted me, he'd have needed some bigger greenery.

I don't understand how Whitman got away with the up-front sexuality of this book. It is easily as "pornographic" as Joyce's "Ulysess" published in the next century. I'm not so sure contemporary readers understood this one.

I'm over half way through and I'm not leaving the house this weekend. No way no how. It's Friday, 8:12pm and to avoid sadness Sunday night when I finish this epic masterpiece, I went out and bought Rushdie's "Haroun and the Sea of Stories". I must know if this author is a one-hit wonder.

Brilliant. Stupendous. Hilarious. It makes me sad I have wasted hours of my life reading total s*** like "Go Set A Watchman" and most recently the horrendously awful "The Girls.:

If I ever write a book, it will be titled "What I Never Knew About Warhol."

Oddly, there is only one rating (five stars) and no reviews of this book here on goodreads. I've read one of Bishop's collections, and although I don't read a lot of poetry, I've recently much enjoyed Ginsberg and Merrill.

Almost too good to read, cause it's great but so short this experience will all too soon be over.

I recently read Wayne Koestenbaum's "Andy Warhol" and Koestenbaum recommends Bourdon's work. I'm enjoying this very much. Rather, I'm savoring the details and the amazing reproductions of Warhol's works, most of which I've never seen. Especially illuminating are the early self-portraits. I know I'll spend the summer of '16 studying this book. Last summer I spent months with "Pink Triangle", Capote appears in both.

Murakami has an uncanny ability to create moody works that are almost impossible to describe. There is something weird going on here, haunting. I think.

This might be a good book if I were reading it in a dentist chair, during a root canal, with the nitrous oxide on 11.

I didn't realize this is a sort of "prequel" to "Women in Love," which I enjoyed. Do we get to read Tilly's side of the story? I hope so!

This combines two of my favorite genres: books about books and a treasure hunt. Plus sex! With decryptions! And more sex!

I just finished Well's "The Time Machine," which I liked. But I'm truly surprised with "Island," as it is much better written. Wells' leap from pedestrian writing to this level is astonishing. When our narrator, early on, is faced with death or cannibalism, he survives, only to see his own monstrous human self in an equally monstrous... thing. And that's just 12 pages.

I just finished Neal Stephenson's "Cryptonomicon" (a smart man with a smart story) so I chose this book as "fluff" reading. I'm trying so hard not to compare Setterfield to Stephenson, that's just not fair to anyone. And I do like to read a bit of everything, including a gothic every now and then. But...this is tough-going. It's like reading "Love Story" after "Ulysses."

Slowly practicing advice given during my second reading. Really good stuff.

I've read this all the way through and have now started it again to focus/practice specific programs. It's the best book of it's type I've read.