What Are You Reading Now?

viajero wrote:Most of you are probably familiar with Paul Theroux,his books about his travel adventures have provided me with many hours of enjoyable reading.

viajero wrote:Jim, you might like some of Tim O'Brien's books about the Viet Nam war.I highly recommend "The Things They Carried".

seisdedos wrote:Not a fan of Theroux. Found too many inaccuracies in his description of Mexico, and his decriptions were based on his inability to objectively observe.

CHILLIN wrote:Theroux wrote a book on Mexico? I looked on his booklist and didn't see one, other than one non-memorable chapter in Old Patagonian Express.

CHILLIN wrote:Theroux wrote a book on Mexico? I looked on his booklist and didn't see one, other than one non-memorable chapter in Old Patagonian Express. He was one of the first to write about travel as per how something made him feel. He didn't write travel guides for tourists. When I see that movie "The Accidental Tourist" I think of him.

Have you seen any documentaries by his son, Louis Theroux, very funny stuff - should be on youtube.

seisdedos wrote:

CHILLIN wrote:Theroux wrote a book on Mexico? I looked on his booklist and didn't see one, other than one non-memorable chapter in Old Patagonian Express. He was one of the first to write about travel as per how something made him feel. He didn't write travel guides for tourists. When I see that movie "The Accidental Tourist" I think of him.

Have you seen any documentaries by his son, Louis Theroux, very funny stuff - should be on youtube.

That was it and it was the first country he visited on the trip. It was so far from reality that I couldn't accept whatever he wrote on the rest of the trip. I think I put the book down before he reached Panama.

CHILLIN wrote:HAH! Then you missed the part then when he met Victor Borges. I'm sure you know who that is, and can probably read his works in Spanish.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges

seisdedos wrote:A Biography of Power, History of Modern Mexico by Enrique Krause (not sure if it is published in English)

gringal wrote:I doubt that the LCS inventory of books is online. They have an inventory of their books in one of the computers at the library where a visitor can see if a given book is there. (Or hopefully there, and hasn't "gone walkabout".)
Hey Zed ! Do you know?

gringal wrote:Geez, guys.....we wuz having some good clean fun for a change. Could we go back to that? Pleeeze.

cane wrote:

gringal wrote:Geez, guys.....we wuz having some good clean fun for a change. Could we go back to that? Pleeeze.

So the reading matter of murder and killing is "good clean fun" but sex is not. "Pleeeze"

Down Sexico Way
In the sleepy village of Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico the native citizens are probably unaware thatin their midst is a den of smutsters. Kemp has bought a house there, and has turned Ajijic into a sort of South of the Border porn-Yaddo, a dirty-book writer's colony. He commutes between Ajijic and his home in El Cajon outside of San Diego. He's invited only the chosen, those writers with the talent and/or discipline to crank 'em out. Kemp's a fanatic for storytelling ability; if you can write or tell a good one and you're an interesting, fun to be around person, you're in. Gallons of tequila, good Mexican pot, and lines of coke fuel the festivities. Write yourself to exhaustion, then it's party time!

Many of Kemp's writer friends buy homes there; they're earning a comfortable living and stretch it to the max by setting up residence in Ajijic. Jerry Murray ("Ray Masters, "Ray Majors", "Sonny Barker," "Jeff Maxwell," "Maude Jenkins," "Ralph Basura," "Lance Boil," "Joyce Morrissey," the
esteemed sexologists "Drs. Lance and Jill Boyle," "Murray Montague," and - somebody had to - "Sam Diego");James "Jim" Brown ("Jim Dobbs"); Peggy Winter ("Marguerite D'Hiver," "Marta Summer");Les Gladson ("Lee Gardner," "Kyle Roxbury," "Genevieve St.John"); Vivien Kern ("Vivien Blaine"); Christian Davies ("Christian Davidson"); Norma Erickson ("Erika Norman"); John Kimbro ("Kym Allison"); Thom Racina ("Teryl Andrews");
George Davies ("Lance Lester," "Ricardo Armory"); Joe Hansen ("James Colton"); Rosemary Whiteside ("Rose Willing"); Lee Florin ("Lisa Fanchon," "Matt Harding"); Harold Harding ("Gene Evans"); Samuel Dodson ("Marc
us Miller") and others are members of this group.
Twenty-five miles away, Donald H. Gilmore, Ph.D, Douglas H. Gamlin and probably Dale Gord his wife Betty have established their own writer's
colony/porn-mill in Guadalajara.

Gilmore's strictly diploma -mill but he's a serious student and researcher of sex and erotica and his non-fiction work is among the best in the genre during the era. His four-volume Sex In Comics remains the best reference on Tijuana Bibles, with valuable information not found anywhere else, including the story of "the three gals," whose entrepreneurial efforts at creating, printing, and distributing sex comics in the late 1930's are singular for the trade and a major, if well-nigh unknown, feminist declaration of independence. The artistic quality of the their comics becomes a strong influence during their time, and will later be a great influence upon counterculture cartoonist, R. Crumb.

Gilmore and his stable move their work through Greenleaf.

These are halcyon times for all involved.

CHILLIN wrote:According to his website, Earl Kemp is still alive, 80 years old, and he still lives in Ajijic. There is pictures of his house, but I can't place it. I wonder if any of two English language monthlies here have the cajones to interview and publish?