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by futurist » Mon Jul 24, 2017 7:39 pm
finally got my hands on Blood and Guts in High School. kathy acker is a goddess.
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by madness and chaos » Mon Jul 24, 2017 8:15 pm
futurist wrote:finally got my hands on Blood and Guts in High School. kathy acker is a goddess.
need to do this same thing. read a lot of female authors in the same vein lately.
eileen myles, cookie mueller, michelle tea, lidia yuknavitch, the last patti smith prose, chris kraus, all unintentional
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by abs » Mon Jul 24, 2017 8:44 pm
Eyes Wide Shut was apparently inspired by this ...
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by warmhouse » Mon Jul 24, 2017 9:07 pm
Bloody incredible. almost po-mo... just aimless and full of tangents. written like it hasn't been edited at all, which is harder than it seems.
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by sadville » Mon Jul 24, 2017 10:28 pm
warmhouse wrote:Bloody incredible. almost po-mo... just aimless and full of tangents. written like it hasn't been edited at all, which is harder than it seems.
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by sadville » Mon Jul 24, 2017 10:29 pm
i'm finishing up speedboat and have been working through that dubus collection on the previous page
next up is alfau's chromos
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by sadville » Mon Jul 24, 2017 10:33 pm
oh lol also i've been reading this thread from the beginning (currently around page 500) and picking up madd reccs for a book club 4 bros i'm doing with some brauxs
it is kind of neat watching the players change over the months and years. some bigtimers are gone. millionbear, toofer, mandingo, slothropian, among others, and does elephant pop in here anymore?
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by abs » Mon Jul 24, 2017 10:34 pm
Mondays -- picked up that Mishima (sailor) today. Might be my next read. How'd you like it?
atomicbombshell wrote:Eyes Wide Shut was apparently inspired by this ...
Also I just read this in one sitting. Turned on the Eyes Wide Shut song at the ball scene and really got into it. The movie was nearly verbatim to the book, was pretty interesting. Definitely recommend.
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by abs » Mon Jul 24, 2017 10:37 pm
sadville wrote:oh lol also i've been reading this thread from the beginning (currently around page 500) and picking up madd reccs for a book club 4 bros i'm doing with some brauxs
it is kind of neat watching the players change over the months and years. some bigtimers are gone. millionbear, toofer, mandingo, slothropian, among others, and does elephant pop in here anymore?
any lady brauxs joining in? I'm the lone female in a noir book club and I'm always amused by how "masculine" things get.
also are you a member of the Hip Onion Goodreads group? we used to post stuff in there sometimes.
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by Viola Swamp » Tue Jul 25, 2017 12:08 am
really like traumnovelle
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by glaucon » Tue Jul 25, 2017 12:09 am
hey y'all,
what's a good Mishima to start with? I'm visiting Japan in a few months!
recently read:
The Discoverers (Boorstin)
Whores for Gloria (Vollmann)
The Comedians (Greene)
The Stars at Noon (Johnson)
Norwegian Wood (Murakami)
The Comedians is the best book of this lot by far, a terrific thriller. The Stars at Noon is Johnson trying to channel Greene and coming up short.
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i'm smart and i give a shit and these people are all just killing time until they can start shitty jobs and have shitty families and never really understand beauty and risk and the real potential of the human heart and mind
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by abs » Tue Jul 25, 2017 12:10 am
ya same
great read
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by glaucon » Tue Jul 25, 2017 12:13 am
i look forward to checking out the Dubus on the board's recommendation. Thank you.
Now im reading Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. I love this Berendt guy. And his slim volume on Venice is even more artful.
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by abs » Tue Jul 25, 2017 12:15 am
Dubus will change your life.
Glaucon, I have only read 'Temple of the Golden Pavilion,' but loved it and felt like it was a great primer.
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by winj » Tue Jul 25, 2017 1:13 am
yeah i loved that Schnitzler way back & will have to re-read it now that i've watched & loved EWS a bunch more times. the brevity of it speaks a lot to Kubrick's genius.
i've been breaking into Lispector's Complete Stories.
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by forest design » Tue Jul 25, 2017 3:56 am
Robo-Chachi wrote:
Dubus was sorta ruined for me after reading in this how much of a shitty father and husband he was:
I hate letting biography ruin an artist's work, but when I tried reading his stuff after reading that book it just felt really on the nose and artificially poignant. Almost like he hid from his failures in his prose and rationalized through it. I don't know, probably that's way off and I haven't read enough of his stuff to really be able to claim that. Anyone else familiar with his story (and his son's account) care to comment?
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by Splash Montgomery » Tue Jul 25, 2017 7:26 am
atomicbombshell wrote:Mondays -- picked up that Mishima (sailor) today. Might be my next read. How'd you like it?
Loved it, it's brilliant.
glaucon wrote:hey y'all,
what's a good Mishima to start with? I'm visiting Japan in a few months!
Will you be going to Kyoto? Read the Temple of the Golden Pavillion and visit the Kinkakuji, or do that in the opposite order.
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by abs » Tue Jul 25, 2017 9:04 am
forest design wrote:Robo-Chachi wrote:
Dubus was sorta ruined for me after reading in this how much of a shitty father and husband he was:
I hate letting biography ruin an artist's work, but when I tried reading his stuff after reading that book it just felt really on the nose and artificially poignant. Almost like he hid from his failures in his prose and rationalized through it. I don't know, probably that's way off and I haven't read enough of his stuff to really be able to claim that. Anyone else familiar with his story (and his son's account) care to comment?
From what I've read, his family (and father) encouraged him to write the book and he himself has forgiven is father. He's stated a few times that he's perplexed as to why people have turned so much anger on his father when he feels like - well, he's dead, we're all human, it doesn't excuse it, but why dwell?
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by Eyeball Kid » Tue Jul 25, 2017 9:20 am
H.P. Lovecraft -
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird StoriesI'm liking this fine, though it's a shame about all the racism.
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by gold and glass » Tue Jul 25, 2017 2:19 pm
mondays wrote:within the past three months
two of my favorites ever
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by internetfriend » Tue Jul 25, 2017 2:21 pm
that leve book (along with autoportrait) has really stuck with me through a lot of taste changes
i should read the mishima it's been on my list forever
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by bongo » Tue Jul 25, 2017 2:24 pm
that, golden pavilion, and runaway horses are my fav mishimas
yeaaaaaaaaaaaa american nostalgia love it suburban living civilized families this could be my life
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by Splash Montgomery » Tue Jul 25, 2017 5:58 pm
got really into mishima after going to the kinkakuji and learning that golden pavillion is about the arson. leve and bolano are palette cleansers for me before i attempt the sea of fertility books
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by abs » Tue Jul 25, 2017 9:54 pm
my light-hearted summer non-fiction reading, which is unfortunately not very good. anecdotally interesting but the author is a little stymied in his own experiences and trying to make too many jokes. honestly the best part has been noting longer-form articles and studies that he's referencing for future reading.
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by tawny frogmouth » Wed Jul 26, 2017 10:56 am
i started a book club a few months ago at work. the first few books were pretty anodyne, so i sort of unilaterally chose this one for the next meeting because i read that it was weird
love it so far, it's exactly what i needed. funniest book i've read in a while on a prose level, the setup is appropriately strange, and it has some good insights on love and relationships
not sure how the plotlines involving real dolls and interspecies human/dolphin sex are going to go over with my coworkers, but i kind of don't care about this job anymore anyway
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by madness and chaos » Wed Jul 26, 2017 4:58 pm
^^^ interesting.
besides that, now that I can ask...
i like good fiction that entices. my favs are in the vein of a secret history, a little life, etc
and just lately i want some mind-blowing fiction
anyone?
edit: OR some gorgeous prose about sex and drugs in the vein of myles - chelsea girls
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by boxofficepoison » Wed Jul 26, 2017 5:38 pm
finally getting around to this bad larry, it's good but possibly too "zany" for its own good now that the plot's starting to pick up. wish it would return to the more restrained tone of the first few chapters
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by woozy ducks » Thu Jul 27, 2017 9:14 pm
tonybricker wrote:dvr wrote:Just finished:
One of my favorite history books I've read. Tried following it up with "We wish to inform you.." but can't hold up. I have Move Your Shadow on the way.
Until then, reading:
The Revelation Space series is some of my favorite science fiction, hope you like it
About halfway through the first book. Really enjoying it. Fun noticing/comparing how Vernor Vinge's academc math background influenced his books and Reynolds' astrogy background on this
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