i need some lit advice

[knip]

i have 6 weeks off

i have to start reading some fiction..i want to read contemporary authors...looking for recommendations

i prefer stories that explore relationships between people, or good old-fashioned romps

thanks in advance

[judih]

"Tuesdays with Morrie" Mitch Albom, will start you off in that deceptively simple mode. Easy to read, filled with high content in that male to male zen way. i've just been given Five People You Meet in Heaven, by him as well. (titles are approximate)

Levi's been talking about Richard Hell's books. See what you can find.

If you like Grateful Dead (non-fiction in the best fiction way) Searching for the Sound, Philip Lesh

These are the books that grab me at the moment. i'm gonna check out Hell when i hit North America in August.

[knip]

outstanding...thanks judih
is that richard hell from the NYC voidoids band of the late 70s?

[judih]

yeah, same guy!

[knip]

phil's book sounds great...i was dissapointed by scully's book...way too much focus on drugs

[iblieve]

http://www.buybooksontheweb.com/descrip ... 414-1117-2

This is a link to my favorite novel, lol, but I can say that I wrote it, edited it, proofed it even set the format, lol. Then I published it myself. It is fiction but loosely based on the last 18 months of my drug dealing daze.
iblieve

[stilltrucking]

beati quorum tecta sunt peccata

The Holy Sinner, Thomas Mann
One of those books I ran into when I was desperate for something good to read. I just sat there and read it, night and day with naps and pick it up again. Worried about something that there was nothing to do about but pray. The peace of mind that a great reading experience brings. Dagnabbit! Sinner is another book that has gone missing. I started surfing around looking for info on it. Found a lot of religious stuff, and then the link to dante. I still don't have a grip on Latin. Babelfish dont do Latin. But this book is worth reading
this is some stuff from dante I found

Purgatorio: Canto XXIX


Singing like unto an enamoured lady
She, with the ending of her words, continued:
"Beati quorum tecta sunt peccata."
And even as Nymphs, that wandered all alone
Among the sylvan shadows, sedulous
One to avoid and one to see the sun,

Nor even thus our way continued far
Before the lady wholly turned herself
Unto me, saying, "Brother, look and listen!"
They all of them were singing: "Blessed thou
Among the daughters of Adam art, and blessed
For evermore shall be thy loveliness."
http://www.everypoet.com/archive/poetry ... e_p_29.htm


In te domine speravi

Latin and Greek phrases

Definition of: in te, Domine, speravi (Psalm xxxi, Vulgate)
in te, Domine, speravi (Psalm xxxi, Vulgate): In thee, O Lord, have I put my trust

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ramble about brothers and sisters start here. Nothing to do with Mann's book I just like to ramble

No idea why I thought about The Holy Sinner after all these years.
Incest and Taboo

I bet those R Crumb comic books are worth gadzillions, I used to read my sisters, god those were bad years for her, me the thirty year old college boy comes home to roost, she needs her mother, rose defers to me the son, she had such guilt feelings about me back then,because my little sister hated me. We used to get along great until I went off to college and broke my heart. I hope she is over the guilt, but sometimes if I say I will come over and she thinks I am taking too long to get there, she sends the bear out looking for me, which seems pretty neurotic. Before she was married we could talk about anything, now we don't get very clinical, we hardly ever discuss feminism either, mostly we just try to make each other laugh.