*What book are you reading? (part 2)
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Dirty Martini
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Finished Christ Stopped at Eboli, just about.
Now Great Jones Street by Don DeLillo, but it's already annoying.
Sciascia, Sciascia, for pity's sake
Now Great Jones Street by Don DeLillo, but it's already annoying.
Nothing else in the flat - among the dozens of books that remain unread - appeals to me right now
Sciascia, Sciascia, for pity's sake
Fictionist
Serving Eargasms....
It's toss. And I think the analysis of the male music fan's psyche is an entirely bogus one.
I'm reading The Final Solution by Michael Chabon - a very short, so far very intriguing book with pictures by the mighty Jay Ryan from Bird Machine
So you agree with me Mr Jefe?
cyberfairy
http://unicycle-emptiness.co.uk/
The Well Of Loneliness By Radcliffe Hall-giving good dreams but not as interesting to read.
Adored The Suspicions Of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale-a true Victorian child murder story
Adored The Suspicions Of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale-a true Victorian child murder story
i remember reading that during a trip to cornwall for the eclipse
made a big impression on me, and reading around it made it even more interesting
all those outdated scientific theories about gayness Sciascia, Sciascia, for pity's sake
He's on my Amazon wishlist, but I'm currently totally fucking broke, which is why I'm upturning piles of old books seeing what i haven't read yet.
cyberfairy
http://unicycle-emptiness.co.uk/
i remember reading that during a trip to cornwall for the eclipse
made a big impression on me, and reading around it made it even more interesting
It's horrific but also interesting-got Radcliffe Hall's autobiography to read next which might shed some light. I still can't have any empathy or sympathy with a lesbian called Stephen
In my head it's all 'touch me Stephen' and that is not lesbian erotica. It's a Stephen.I still can't have any empathy or sympathy with a lesbian called Stephen
why?
cyberfairy
http://unicycle-emptiness.co.uk/
It's just the awful name, the outdated way that every male mannerism is welded onto a female with no grey areas but just what appears to be a bloke in a dress, no sensitivity into the female pysche-tis as black and white viewpoint of the sexes as of most books of the era but with a Frankensteinian change of sexes to be blamed to the parents for wanting a boy. Not quite finished it yet and am enjoying it a lot to be fair-guess it is a product of its time and must be commended. I cried when Rafterie died...I hate the weakness as well of Stephen, the obsessing over crappy Angela
It's just the awful name, the outdated way that every male mannerism is welded onto a female with no grey areas but just what appears to be a bloke in a dress, no sensitivity into the female pysche-tis as black and white viewpoint of the sexes as of most books of the era but with a Frankensteinian change of sexes to be blamed to the parents for wanting a boy. Not quite finished it yet and am enjoying it a lot to be fair-guess it is a product of its time and must be commended. I cried when Rafterie died...I hate the weakness as well of Stephen, the obsessing over crappy Angela
no, absolutely not a bloke in a dress
she was describing what it feels like to be butch (if you're into sport ;D). this is semi-autobiographical. yes, she does use the scientific explanations - but they mostly come from when she's reading her dad's book about her.
definitely a product of its time
cyberfairy
http://unicycle-emptiness.co.uk/
Well, I haven't got to that bit yet but as a girl who had a girlfriend or two (and hates sport!) found it so far an exercise in What Makes A Lesbian And Her Traits. But you are right as to the the era. I blame Sarah Waters-I want authentic lesbianism with dildos but without the the boring censorship of the actual era.
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
Yeah, so a few months ago I said on here I was reading The Selfish Gene. On the tube at brixton that night, I closed my book and then noticed the guy next to me seemed to find me/it very amusing. Blah blah. Wondered if it was someone on here realised that they must be sitting beside me.
Was it someone on here?
otherwise I'm currently reading Allen Carr's Easyway to Stop Smoking.
Was it someone on here?
otherwise I'm currently reading Allen Carr's Easyway to Stop Smoking.
the button
out on the kocker
Jonathan Bate's biography of John Clare. It's everything a good biography should be -- social & political history, family stuff, loads about Clare's poetry. It's taking me ages to read, but it one of those I'll be a bit sorry when I finish it.
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Making Babies, by Anne Enright. It's alright, bit wanky but sporadically interesting.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
China Meiville's UnLunDun
Mixing it with Secret Anexe which is this cool war-diary thing from goebbels to woolf.
Mixing it with Secret Anexe which is this cool war-diary thing from goebbels to woolf.
Dirty Martini
gets what he cant want
Finished Great Jones Street. He's a funny one, DeLillo -- great shining witty surface, brilliant dialogue, never much of a story, and really flimsy sociology. Without doubt he's very entertaining, but I think he wants to be known as a novelist of ideas, and he doesn't have any ideas, just words.
Now it's The Bridge over the Drina by Ivo Andrić.
Now it's The Bridge over the Drina by Ivo Andrić.
Fictionist
Serving Eargasms....
Back to the w.h.i.t.e w.h.a.l.e
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Hard work Fictionist?
I'm LOVING UnLunDun. The ab-city scape is both charming and strange, and the narrative is wickedly inventive
I'm LOVING UnLunDun. The ab-city scape is both charming and strange, and the narrative is wickedly inventive
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
i picked up Peter Hoeg's latest book called the Quiet Girl about some bloke who can hear the harmonic resonance of people. quite intriguing so far and certainly hold out some high hopes cos i loved miss smilla's feeling for snow. also ploughing thru stephen pinker's the stuff of thought which is very very interesting indeed.
got one more chapter of nina to finish, some more of disability right and wrong by tom shakespeare which is extremely thought-provoking and ulysses still stares at me from beside the bed but i can't invest the time........
got one more chapter of nina to finish, some more of disability right and wrong by tom shakespeare which is extremely thought-provoking and ulysses still stares at me from beside the bed but i can't invest the time........
Fictionist
Serving Eargasms....
Hard work Fictionist?
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'Tis undoubtedly the most tedious work that I have ever read - but I WILL finish it.
Spot on. Great words though. Holds a dazzling mirror to contemporary vacuity or something.
Nothing to read here, except The Corrections, which is too long to start without vigour.
Ah, it's a smooth old read, and worth it.
I just finished The Final Solution by Michael Chabon. Lovely little book (novella? - 125 pages..) which I thoroughly enjoyed even though I only worked out a key fact about the main character embarrasingly late in proceedings. Almost want to go back and read it again now...
War and Peace by Tolstoy...up to page 233. Excellent read.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
War and Peace by Tolstoy...up to page 233. Excellent read.
had a crack at that but it was this penguin version with absurdly small text. I was squinting to read the fucker in broad daylight. Balls to that
Fictionist
Serving Eargasms....
That sounds interesting! Is it a modern text or something older?
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