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[poopalicious]

I pooped four times today.

There's a big giant book on my shelf and it haunts me. John Steinbeck, Writer - a Biography. I can't read it until I've finished a few more Steinbeck novels. I've already read most of them, but you know that shit never gets old. Just finished Cannery Row and The Red Pony, now on East of Eden (which I've never read, but I

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[everetteseven]

East of Eden is one of my favorite books of all time.

your gramma is a hoot.

[poopalicious]

Aside from having a slight/major case of Foot-in-Mouth Disease, she da bomb!

I'm really excited about East of Eden. I'm earmarking like every other page in an attempt to absorb some Steinbeckian wisdom about humanity! eeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Who are you on LibraryThing? Can I browse yer shit or what?

[everetteseven]

http://www.librarything.com/profile/everetteseven

i love library thing. i wish it'd been around all my life.

[poopalicious]

Oh man! I see I have a lot of work to do on my profile. I haven't gotten far - plus my tastes change so much I really can't trust myself anymore at all. :(

http://www.librarything.com/profile/jaihuda

Lolled at yer review: "this blew ass." hahaha! u = a genius

[dabroots]

I read East of Eden while sitting on a rooftop in New Orleans in 1978. Several hot summer days in a row. I sweated all over the damned book.

I'm curious about your grandpa's book distribution company. Was it in New York City? And is it still in business?

[poopalicious]

Gramps's company was called ARA and was based out of San Diego. I don't know if they are still in business. It was mostly just mass markets and pulp westerns by the time I was old enough to read. They also had magazines. Gramps carried all the porns, even Hustler, because he did not believe in censorship. He even personally QA'd Playboy and Hustler every month. LOL, Gramps! pimpin

I like East of Eden. So far I haven't sweated much reading it though. Portland decided to skip summer this year. WHYYYYYYY????

[sedated]

Isn't it funny how you associate some books with where you read them? It's got to be a good connection though. I read Stephen King's Salem's Lot in summer camp in the 6th or 7th grade, and it just stayed with me... cabin in the middle of the woods.

My favorite favorite books though, hardy, fitzgerald, a gem by frank yerby, I just can't remember anything about where I read them any of the times... just thoughts about the book.

I read Vanity Fair when I lived in France because it was the fattest book I found on my trip to London and I just wanted to read a ton of English words ;-)

Oh, and since this is in poopalicious' journal, POOP.

[simianiam]

You'd think four shits in a day would produce at least one finished book...biography or not.

[poopalicious]

Are you trying to win me back by leaving clever and witty remarks in my journal?

It's gonna take more than that, buster!

I did finish one book - actually it was just a zine. The very last issue of Dishwasher. Excellent toilet fare. I'll recommend it over Moby Dick any day.

[simianiam]

Win you back?

Are ya mad?

Maybe a hammock under the fruit trees in my back yard will do? Maybe say...August?

[kingneptune]

I read some steinbeck when I was younger, The Pearl, Of Mice and Men, The Red Pony, Grapes of Wrath, but it's been awhile. Perhaps I should revisit him. I'm looking for some new reading material.

Look at this! It's your favorite.

[poopalicious]

I love how nobody even notices he's there. God, why is Martha Plimpton so hot? Why haven't I watched that dvd? It only gets played when you're here. U should come over so we can watch it.

Did you read Lonesome Dove yet? My latest fave is Drop City by T.C. Boyle. It's about a hippie commune in the seventies in NoCal (just down the road from my mom's place). I don't want to say too much about it, because one of the greatest things about that book is you'll never guess what's gonna happen next (I LOVE that in a story!). You can pick up a copy for pretty cheap - there are tons of remainders every time I go to the bookstore. Boyle is a superb writer and a master storyteller, a sadly rare combination.

Boooooks

[kingneptune]

Nope I haven't read Lonesome Dove yet. I think westerns make me slightly uncomfortable. Also the fact that it was a TV Mini-Series makes me wary. I'll get around to it one of these days.

I am looking for something new to read, though. Just finished a collection of HP Lovecraft short stories, he's the creepiest. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, a very strange little book from the 50's. I found it at a garage sale in Big Bear for 50 cents. And Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne. Now that was a fun book!

Also this year I read The Known World. It's a Slave book set on a plantation in the South during the 1800's. Very well written. It started out a little slow but was very powerful by the end.

[kingneptune]

POO BUTTON

[leptonjoe]

Hey, I might have to jump on the Steinbeck band-wagon, I'm sick of reading Paul Auster, Charles Bukowski, and starting but never finishing Don Delillo's crap. I've read a couple of Steinbeck's books, but that was so long ago I don't really recall them that well.
P.S. do not feel bad bout your profile, I said I'd redo mine months ago and still havn't touched it, I am proud at how little I accomplishing during this period of unemployment and free-time. I actually am trying to slowly remotivate myself, I think I am going to start today by working on some clay sculpture. If it comes out well I'll put up a pic for you, if it comes out like shit I'll take a pic of someone else's sculpture in town and claim it as my own, after all you'll never know the difference.