Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
any good? i've read a few of his and they're were quite disturbing.
he's still alive and writing!
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any good? i've read a few of his and they're were quite disturbing.
he's still alive and writing!
totally disturbing, but great.
i have been trying to remember, for years, the name of a book of short stories he published (which i must have read in like 1989 or something) and it was brilliant - amazing. one story was about a couple completely in love.... and, um... um, the girl plays a really scary joke on the guy... it's really creepy but i can't remember the name of the book. or the story. and that is all i remember about the story. very annoying.
i have been trying to remember, for years, the name of a book of short stories he published (which i must have read in like 1989 or something) and it was brilliant - amazing. one story was about a couple completely in love.... and, um... um, the girl plays a really scary joke on the guy... it's really creepy but i can't remember the name of the book. or the story. and that is all i remember about the story. very annoying.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
the one that creeped me out was about how a crowd always gathers at accidents and other tragic events, yet it's always the same crowd, the same people. a very simple premise, but the idea is creepy as hell.
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
Still reading it. It is in need of some serious editing!!
I thought that as I was reading it. But looking back on it, I don't think it does.
For example, the first chapter (or book), The Part about the Critics, is very dry and repetitive, consisting of the critics attending conferences and talking on the telephone and falling in love and so on, all in a very banal way, with a strange outburst of violence.
I think this is done on purpose, and it kind of sets up the rest of the book. The epigraph is, after all, "An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom" from Fleurs du Mal by Baudilaire.
It is a true epic. As one review said:
Lo Siento.
Second As Farce
just finished "Missing" about the disappearance off an American journalist in the 1973 coup d'etat in Chile. I now have a choice of 4 books to start 1) Stieg Larrson's Millennium Trilogy 2) Slavoj Zizek's First as Tragedy Second as Farce 3) Marquez - Crónica de una muerte anunciada 4) Cortázar - Cronopias y famas. Think Zizek is my main temptation, as both the Spanish books look hard, and the Larrson one is an unappetising commitment to read three huge books.
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
I read that Zizek one a while ago, its worth a read.
Lo Siento.
Second As Farce
I read that Zizek one a while ago, its worth a read.
am also 50 or so pages in already, so continuing reading that is the logical move. Good so far. He rambles a bit sometimes though (people who think they're very profound often do...)
Cronopios y famas is unusual, but not hard, unless you want to treat it as a great monolith of profundity, and he'd probably snigger at you if you did. It's easier to dip in to, and very funny in places
Fictionist
Serving Eargasms....
I'm not sure that I agree. There is a moment within the text when a comparison and invitation is made to consider the lack of ambition found in modern fiction, with particular reference to size. 2066 is large and Bolano might have had epic books in mind whilst writing, but size is not enough to sustain interest. Is ambition enough? Do we respect and recognise the effort whilst ignoring the end result? I keep having to ask 'Would this work if the books had been published in separate parts?', and thus far I don't think it would. I'll wait until I finish until reaching a final judgement.
I much prefer the shorter stories that I have read.
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
Let me know what you think when you finish it.
I have just started to re-read it myself, having read all of his shorter stories (2666 was the first book by Bolano that I had read!)
Lo Siento.
Second As Farce
Cronopios y famas is unusual, but not hard, unless you want to treat it as a great monolith of profundity, and he'd probably snigger at you if you did. It's easier to dip in to, and very funny in places
the girlfriend lent it to me, it's one of her favourite books. Presumably she will have guaged if my language skills were up to it...
Fictionist
Serving Eargasms....
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
well?
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Battlestar Galacatica & Philosophy.
Some cracking stuff (and a few essays where they've clearly just rammed some BSG references into their standard first year lectures). I am now completely convinced the scriptwriters had a very good understanding of Nietzsche.
Some cracking stuff (and a few essays where they've clearly just rammed some BSG references into their standard first year lectures). I am now completely convinced the scriptwriters had a very good understanding of Nietzsche.
Lo Siento.
Second As Farce
Spelling skills too.
I spent ages thinking about it as well
I think my spelling has deteriorated badly over the last couple of years. I can spell it in spanish though 
The Bible. No shit.
A mate bought me it cos I've never done more than dip into various editions. It's the Today NIV by Hodder and Stoughton, with a frankly groovy cover.
I spent yesterday oohing and ahhing and picking out a shit ton of musical and literary references in Genesis. Fucking ace!
Being a big fan of Doris Lessing's Shikasta has also lent a huge interest to it, as she drew heavily on it.
A mate bought me it cos I've never done more than dip into various editions. It's the Today NIV by Hodder and Stoughton, with a frankly groovy cover.
I spent yesterday oohing and ahhing and picking out a shit ton of musical and literary references in Genesis. Fucking ace!
Being a big fan of Doris Lessing's Shikasta has also lent a huge interest to it, as she drew heavily on it.
A Little History Of The World - E H Gombrich
(http://www.amazon.co.uk/Little-Hist...ef=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1262260255&sr=1-2-spell)
It is so thoughtfully laid out that I wish it had been set as GCSE History Coursework.
Well worth chucking a Xmas Voucher at...
HNY
(http://www.amazon.co.uk/Little-Hist...ef=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1262260255&sr=1-2-spell)
It is so thoughtfully laid out that I wish it had been set as GCSE History Coursework.
Well worth chucking a Xmas Voucher at...
HNY
dynamicbaddog
run for your life
Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler.
Lo Siento.
Second As Farce
The Bible. No shit.
A mate bought me it cos I've never done more than dip into various editions. It's the Today NIV by Hodder and Stoughton, with a frankly groovy cover.
I spent yesterday oohing and ahhing and picking out a shit ton of musical and literary references in Genesis. Fucking ace!
Being a big fan of Doris Lessing's Shikasta has also lent a huge interest to it, as she drew heavily on it.
somebody bought you it? surely you can get bibles free?
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
I find stealing them from hotel rooms works pretty well.
Ooh, I like the sound of that. I got it for Christmas, but haven't started it yet. I'll start it as soon as I finish The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte. (This is a reread; it's a favorite of mine, and Roman Polanski should have some time added to his prison sentence for what he did to it in the film version.)
Well you probably can, in churches n that, but I never go to church
Anyhoo - am now also reading another book bought for me (by the lovely Annierak, for my birthday) Lowside of the Road, a life of Tom Waits, by Barney Hoskyns. Which is actually very readable, given it's a biog
ericjarvis
give a feck for the feckless
The Book Thief by Markus Zuzak. An excellent book to start the year with.
Next up will be Be Cool by Elmore Leonard.
Next up will be Be Cool by Elmore Leonard.
isvicthere?
a.k.a. floppybollocks
"A history of Scotland" by Neil Oliver
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