Slog - Comments on Reading Tonight http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_tonight_74 Readings abound tonight, from the south to the north of Seattle. Things that I'm not going to discuss at length include a Nextbook-sponsored collection of stories about Jewish mothers; the paperback release of a supernatural thriller at the Seattle Public Library; Such a Pretty Fat,a new memoir "from the author of Bright Lights, Big Ass and Bitter is the New Black;" and Merle's Door, which is another motherfucking book about a 'freethinking' dog. At Third Place Books Ravenna, which is a really nice space that I don't think I've written about before, Cory Doctorow is reading from his book... Copyright 2008 Tue, 20 May 2008 10:21:32 -0800 Tue, 20 May 2008 13:10:42 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by NapoleonXIV another motherfucking book about a ‘freethinking’ dog.

What other ones have there been?

Aside from Jonathan Livingston Pitbull, of course....

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_tonight_74#c1028207 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_tonight_74#c1028207 Books Tue, 20 May 2008 10:25:27 -0800 Comment by Paul Constant Well, there's Marley and Me, and the sequel to Marley and Me, and Good Dog. Stay. and the Bedlam Farm books, and a buttload of other dog books that have come out in the last two years. They're all like Tuesdays With Morrie starring rude dogs, and people buy them as though the pages were made of candy powdered with delicious heroin.

]]> Paul Constant http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_tonight_74#c1028230 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_tonight_74#c1028230 Books Tue, 20 May 2008 10:51:59 -0800 Comment by elenchos I downloaded Little Brother but gave up after a few chapters. Seems like The Golden Compass is much more readable. Are they aimed at the same age level?

Mostly I was annoyed at how his elaborate programming and scripting hacks always worked perfectly the first try. I thought he was supposed to know something about how technology works but he makes it seem to think it all happens like magic.

]]> elenchos http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_tonight_74#c1028240 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_tonight_74#c1028240 Books Tue, 20 May 2008 10:58:28 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV You need to stop reading those kinds of books.

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_tonight_74#c1028251 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_tonight_74#c1028251 Books Tue, 20 May 2008 11:01:48 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Hemingway was a great writer when he started, but his philosophy and mythologizing are garbage. Books aren't "true"; if anything they are spectacularly false. That statement would read more truthfully if it said "so false they changed you". Truth is a stupid goal. And Dostoevsky, in as much as you're reading him when you're reading his translations (which isn't much), is a stupid novelist.

A much more interesting criterion for a novel is "a breathtaking lie".

And people who read books about wise dogs should be electrocuted.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_tonight_74#c1028279 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_tonight_74#c1028279 Books Tue, 20 May 2008 11:18:43 -0800 Comment by Hartiepie Mothers are being fucked in this book?

What?

]]> Hartiepie http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_tonight_74#c1028281 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_tonight_74#c1028281 Books Tue, 20 May 2008 11:20:58 -0800 Comment by isabelita It's all fiction.

]]> isabelita http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_tonight_74#c1028307 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_tonight_74#c1028307 Books Tue, 20 May 2008 11:41:21 -0800 Comment by Jessica I'll be attending one of the glossed-over readings, and I'll be pre-funking in the car.

]]> Jessica http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_tonight_74#c1028320 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_tonight_74#c1028320 Books Tue, 20 May 2008 11:46:53 -0800 Comment by Jeff Stevens Paul @2,

You forgot about last year's urban-legendary dogliophile best-seller, Achieve Financial Independence By Cultivating Your Third Eye--And Your Dog's Third Eye, by Cesar Millan with Deepak Chopra. All twenty in attendance at the reading at Borders downtown brought their pit bulls and their hologram crystals. Man, what a crazy scene that was. How could you forget?

]]> Jeff Stevens http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_tonight_74#c1028421 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/reading_tonight_74#c1028421 Books Tue, 20 May 2008 13:10:42 -0800