Official Russian Author Book Club Thread

[waldojeffers1]

http://www.rferl.org/content/dostoyevsk ... 77033.html

I wish our gaffes were like this

[okl]

i just finished Death of Ivan Ilych. its real good and quick read

[fox]

yeah it's one of my favorites

[ifear]

it's good, i like it

[ifear]

guys, let's read the duel and discuss it at the end of june

[ifear]

http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=which-silver-age-russian-author-are-you

[Luke]

http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=which-silver-age-russian-author-are-you

Got Mandelstam.

[Sharmoota]

I'm confused.

[Sharmoota]

This was a joke wasn't it.

[waldojeffers1]

I refused to take that test because Sologub wasn't one of the possibilities

guess I chose wisely

[ifear]

now that i've got everyone's attention, let's all read the duel

[waldojeffers1]

I finished limonov's "It's Me, Eddie" over the weekend and found it surprisingly close to more classic Russian literature, despite all the long descriptions of masturbating while wearing his wife's tights covered in other men's semen or getting ass banged by a black man in a public park sandbox in new york. like the overall feel of the book still put it solidly in the tradition of dead souls and notes from underground and moscow to the end of the line, for me.

[Sharmoota]

Let's read that instead!

[waldojeffers1]

I think it's out of print in english but apparently all here

http://www.e-reading.org.ua/bookreader. ... Eddie.html

[wintergreen]

i'm like 100 pages into anna karenina. might be up for something after this.

[ifear]

I think it's out of print in english but apparently all here

http://www.e-reading.org.ua/bookreader. ... Eddie.html

i'm really craving some shchi right now

[waldojeffers1]

yeah I like shschi too but really I'd rather make borscht and just add a bunch of cabbage and a jalapeno

[ifear]

This was a joke wasn't it.

yes. it made me laugh a lot, and you've ruined it for everyone.

[ifear]

i'm really enjoying this at the moment:


pelevin's always good fun, and his fixation on russia in transition is pretty fruitful. anyone familiar with his stuff?

[ComradeWolf]

i'm really enjoying this at the moment:


pelevin's always good fun, and his fixation on russia in transition is pretty fruitful. anyone familiar with his stuff?

yeah he's all the rage or whatever. something like a russian vonnegut i've heard, but i haven't gotten around to checking out any of his books. what's it all about?

[waldojeffers1]

I just read generation P a month or so ago after seeing it referenced here and then downloading the movie

it's really good, just light-hearted and fun but in that russian tradition of tormented intellectuals laughing at this disgusting world

[okl]

I think it's out of print in english but apparently all here

http://www.e-reading.org.ua/bookreader. ... Eddie.html

i'm really craving some shchi right now

gonna read dis

[ifear]

yeah he's all the rage or whatever. something like a russian vonnegut i've heard, but i haven't gotten around to checking out any of his books. what's it all about?

nothing like vonnegut, really.
it's about the post-soviet transition to capitalism and has a lot of mushrooms in it. it's like a trippy mtv-era mad men, except it obviously isn't.

had no idea there was a film, though, waldojeffers1. i will be watching that at some stage.