Originally posted by Ya Krunk'd Floo
I really enjoyed Klosterman's Sex, Drugs And Cocoa Puffs; he has a wry eye for the obscurely pertinent.As for Sandman, I admire its vision, but I found it too utterly depressing, so I won't be going back there.
One of you idiots should recommend me a happy, funny book to read with my eyes. Please...
1984
Gulliver's Travels
The Trial
Diary of Anne Frank
Originally posted by Victor Von Doom
I liked Anne Frank but her sense of setting was a bit limited. Few more locations next time.
I hear the sequel is set on the moon. Sounds promising...Like she lives in space, or something.
Originally posted by jaden101
it worked for the lion, the witch and the wardrobe...so what she really missed was lions and witches...evidently
Oh, you card, you!
since this is for really smart people and all, i've been delving through the many corridors of existentialism and it's predecessors. from what i've come across:
the stranger - albert camus
the trial, various short stories - franz kafka
notes from underground - fyodor dostoevsky
and
nausea - jean-paul sartre
are all excellent. less so for nausea and notes from underground, even though those are the most dense of the texts...they're not very fun to read.
The book I'm currently reading at the moment is Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino. It's beautiful and everybody should read this book at least once. That is all.
Except for a quote..or two..
"Trading Cities 4
In Ersilia, to establish the relationships that sustain the city's life, the inhabitants stretch strings from the corners of the houses, white or black or gray or black-and-white according to whether they mark a relationdhip of blood, of trade, authority, agency. When the strings become so numerous that you can no longer pass among them, the inhabitants leave: the houses are dismantled; only the strings and their supports remain.
From a mountainside, camping with their household goods, Ersilia's refugees look at the labyrinth of taut strings and poles that rise in the plain. That is the city of Ersilia still, and they are nothing.
They rebuild Ersilia elsewhere. They weave a similar pattern of strings which they would like to be more complex and at the same time more regular than the other. Then they abandon it and take themselves and their houses still farther away.
Thus, when traveling in the territory of Ersilia, you come upon the ruins of abandoned cities, without the walls which do not last, without the bones of the dead which the wind rolls away: spiderwebs of intricate relationships seeking a form."
Fedora is my favourite city...at some point I might quote that passage. But just read the book...
alls i's knows is that cormac mccarthy is supposedly one of four most important writers in his generation, along with philip roth, thomas pynchon, and some other guy.
jerzy kosinsky. he was one of the first in this whole transgressive movement that jg ballard, chuck palahniuk, and bret easton ellis are carrying along. and his personal life is rife with controversy; it's possible he didn't even write any of his novels.
i found out easton ellis wrote less than zero when he was like nineteen. that makes me feel 🙁
Hey all you German-f*ckers!
I liked reading The Swarm (Der Shwarm - or something stupid) by that German guy, Klaus Beer Shwargenstermen (or something stupid). It was suitably apocalyptic and quite pertinent, wouldn't you say what? What.
Anyway, I also thought The Traveller was pretty good, despite being a little cheesy. Ya, ya, ya...Some books by Christopher Moore are readably funny, too.
PS. All of you suck d*ck professionally for the Kingdom of D*ck Twangalang.
Originally posted by Ya Krunk'd Floo
Anyone read any of these:The Road - Cormac McCarthy
The Book Of Lost Things - John Conolly
The Children's Hospital - Chris Adrian
Theft: A love Story - Peter CareyI don't know which one to get next...
Any other recommendations would be welcome...
I've read the McCarthy and Connolly novels, good reads. Have you read Every Dead Thing by Connolly, or Blood Meridian by McCarthy? They're great.