36 Comments

1. February 26th, 2013 / 8:10 pm Grant Maierhofer—

   Celine’s had me in a bit of a panic for awhile I guess–especially in public. Exley made me hate shit less; Sade basically undid all that. Feel like I’m twitchy now cos of all these jerks…

2. February 26th, 2013 / 8:21 pm Jimmy Chen—

   the omnivore’s dilemma made me want to eat out michael pollan’s daughter

3. February 26th, 2013 / 9:51 pm Ken Baumann—

   Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Food Rules by Michael Pollan.

4. February 26th, 2013 / 11:48 pm bartleby_taco—

   pretty sure reading ‘being and time’ & derrida/post-structuralists made all of my college papers unreadable for a period of 6 – 8 months but thats because im a bozo. think i was generally forgiven by professors because of my boyish good looks.

5. February 26th, 2013 / 11:49 pm bartleby_taco—

   jk i think it was pity

6. February 27th, 2013 / 12:04 am reynard—

   i grew testicles after reading the doubleday children’s encyclopedia, i gave fewer shits after wittgenstein’s blue book, i looked at people in a new way, perhaps with my eyes more open, after walser’s microscripts, & i talked less shit about texas after barthelme’s amateurs

7. February 27th, 2013 / 12:20 am lorian long—

   i read 2666 and got a tattoo. i read infinite jest and got a tattoo.

8. February 27th, 2013 / 4:14 am lorian long—

   LIKE A FAG

9. February 27th, 2013 / 4:20 am deadgod—

   If you read a book about the odds in Texas hold-’em and similar poker games, you’ll probably find yourself folding more hands than you had before you read it.

10. February 27th, 2013 / 8:10 am Bradley Sands—

    The Illuminatus! Trilogy

11. February 27th, 2013 / 9:54 am Bobby Dixon—

    same. Ditto re behold a pale horse

12. February 27th, 2013 / 11:21 am garret travis—

    infinite jest made me feel less guilty about inspecting kleenex after blowing my nose

13. February 27th, 2013 / 11:46 am William VanDenBerg—

    What’s your 2666 tattoo Lorian?

14. February 27th, 2013 / 12:00 pm Adam Robinson—

    Tropic of Cancer, I guess, most of all. Probably shouldn’t have read that book.

15. February 27th, 2013 / 12:16 pm mimi—

    my friend’s mom’s paperback copy of The Hite Report when i was like twelve

16. February 27th, 2013 / 12:46 pm Mark Cugini—

    This explains a lot.

17. February 27th, 2013 / 1:29 pm Marc van der Holst—

    The Mezzanine taught me to stand still and enjoy escalator rides. Life hasn’t been the same. Currently I am trying to drink every drink or mix in Barthelme’s books. Life probably won’t be the same when I’m finished.

18. February 27th, 2013 / 1:36 pm Marc van der Holst—

    Oh, and that Murakami sheep book gave me really weird dreams. And, as another afterthought, Infinite Jest helped me through a pretty severe depression. Aaand A Naked Singularity did something similar for me recently, though that one wasn’t so bad. The depression, I mean. The book’s really good.

19. February 27th, 2013 / 4:11 pm Jeremy Hopkins—

    Reading the first little bit of ‘Abel Sanchez’ caused me not to read the rest of it.

20. February 27th, 2013 / 8:26 pm Ken Baumann—

    right on; i read tractatus logico-philosophicus and got a tattoo; i read the passion according to g.h. and got a tattoo. booo us, yes?

21. February 27th, 2013 / 8:45 pm lorian long—

    sweet on the lispector–what is it? haha yeah, we boobs.

22. February 27th, 2013 / 8:46 pm lorian long—

    rlly obvious, rlly embarrassing

23. February 28th, 2013 / 1:15 am William VanDenBerg—

    Could be worse!

24. February 28th, 2013 / 2:55 am mimi—

    yes, but might it not be just as important to consider whether or not your poker opponents have read the same books??

25. February 28th, 2013 / 12:01 pm herocious—

    bernhard made me structure my life in blocks

26. February 28th, 2013 / 2:45 pm deadgod—

    Apt consideration of your opponents’ behavior is vital to consistently gambling effectively at poker, but I’m talking about minimizing the effect of magical thinking on your calculation of your own hands’ strength.

    (–so not “but”, but “and”.)

27. February 28th, 2013 / 8:29 pm mimi—

    so, if your opponents have read the books, and they don’t fold their hands, chances are you’re better off folding sooner rather than later

    but if your opponents haven’t read the books, are you still better off folding sooner rather than later?

28. February 28th, 2013 / 9:56 pm Bobby Dixon—

    i have a harry potter tattoo

29. March 1st, 2013 / 12:03 am deadgod—

    Generally, yes. The point is that you’ll likely fold sooner if you don’t convince yourself that your hands are stronger than they statistically are, whether your opponents are ignorant or reckless or bluffing. Walking into an uninformed propellor is as dicey as walking into a knowledgeable one.

30. March 1st, 2013 / 10:51 am Don—

    That’s fucking awesome.

31. March 1st, 2013 / 10:56 am Don—

    Infinite Jest made me notice drug addicts in public more often. 2666 made me buy a bunch of copies and given them to people.

32. March 1st, 2013 / 6:13 pm Jubal_the_rattie—

    Trainspotting. couldn’t stop thinking in slang.

33. March 1st, 2013 / 11:35 pm Jake Yoder—

    the passion according to gh is probably the only book that deserves a tattoo upon completeion — wat is it, a roach getting smushed?

34. March 20th, 2013 / 11:39 pm Aviva Leah—

    I’m reading this at the moment.

35. March 20th, 2013 / 11:40 pm Aviva Leah—

    a prayer for owen meany made me write a book. or maybe that was just all of john irving’s books

36. March 21st, 2013 / 12:32 am Adam Robinson—

    do you like it