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  • Johngd
    Senior Member
    • Feb 2009
    • 152

    . The project begins next week. haha

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    • Fade to Black
      Senior Member
      • Sep 2008
      • 5340

      Originally posted by corsair sanglot
      Now tired men throw back the shutters of their balconies and step blinking into the pale hot light - etiolated flowers of afternoons spent in anguish, tossing upon ugly beds, bandaged by dreams.
      Man...that's what I call writing
      www.matthewhk.net

      let me show you a few thangs

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      • Fade to Black
        Senior Member
        • Sep 2008
        • 5340

        After seeing cs' post above I went to the library and came across a 4-in-1 volume of Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, just started reading. Very curious indeed that this book should have found its way into my life at this point in time...

        "If she ever knew me at all she must later have discovered that for those of us who feel deeply and who are at all conscious of the inextricable tangle of human thought there is only one response to be made - ironic tenderness and silence."
        www.matthewhk.net

        let me show you a few thangs

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        • Johngd
          Senior Member
          • Feb 2009
          • 152

          Todays buy

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          • Faust
            kitsch killer
            • Sep 2006
            • 37852

            /\ good luck. i found it rather flat.
            Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

            StyleZeitgeist Magazine

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            • Untitled
              Junior Member
              • Nov 2009
              • 14

              I see some one recently purchased the wind up bird chronicles, I have also just started reading after finishing Norwegian wood which I found to be one of the best books that I have read, maybe because it just fits where I am in life so well. The first Murakami book that I read was the elephant vanishes and I’ve been hooked ever since.

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              • Atom
                Senior Member
                • Sep 2009
                • 310

                I just finished reading Andre Breton's L'amour fou, Mad Love. It definately had some interesting points and beautiful language and mood in it, but in the end it left me to be a kind of outsider to his world. I must say that I enjoyed Nadja more. But I loved Man Ray's photos, they suit Breton's writing very well giving all new meanings to his words.

                Before that I read Yukio Mishima's The sailor who fell from grace with the sea. It had this character who was part of a teenage gang, and together they felt something like a superhumans without emotions and such. They had studied their Nietzsche in a teenage way I suppose, just like the school killers in the 00's. A strange and partly revolting, but still an interesting read. Much like the author's life.

                About Murakami, I must confess that I'm a fan. I can understand why folks here don't appreciate him too much, and I can see why he's seen as an easy read, without too much depth. Kind of a writer for young adults without real life experience. Or something. But there is something in his writing I can relate very much. For example in Kafka on a shore there was this one single page about missing and sorrow that had the most beautiful lines I read the whole year. And I do love his sense of humour. He may not be the best writer in the world (...is there one? :)), but there are aspects in Murakami I appreciate very much.

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                • Acid, Bitter and Sad
                  Senior Member
                  • Mar 2007
                  • 1063

                  Confession

                  Am a big fan of H. Murakami. Gone through almost all his works (those in english)
                  Eagerly awaiting the English translation/edition of IQ84

                  Paul Auster too...

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                  • Atom
                    Senior Member
                    • Sep 2009
                    • 310

                    Originally posted by Acid, Bitter and Sad View Post
                    Confession


                    Paul Auster I like too, although not to the same extent as Murakami.

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                    • Fade to Black
                      Senior Member
                      • Sep 2008
                      • 5340

                      am currently reading an English translated version of Catherine Millet's Jealousy.
                      www.matthewhk.net

                      let me show you a few thangs

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                      • laika
                        moderator
                        • Sep 2006
                        • 3787

                        ^how did you enjoy the Durrell, ftb?

                        Can any of our resident philosophy/aesthetics peeps offer some insight into this text? I'm not reading it yet, but came across an intriguing reference...

                        Benedetto Croce, Breviary of Aesthetics
                        ...I mean the ephemeral, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art whose other half is the eternal and the immutable.

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                        • Fade to Black
                          Senior Member
                          • Sep 2008
                          • 5340

                          i only finished Justine, laika, since I had to return the book to the library due to leaving town. The writing style was great, right up my alley in its abstract-articulate style of describing people and things, but for the same reason came to become quite tedious after 200 pages as Durrell really gets carried away with his own technical virtuosity. I wonder how the other 3 books pan out; I'd run out of steam fast if it read the same way in tone, although I admire the consistency...
                          www.matthewhk.net

                          let me show you a few thangs

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                          • Faust
                            kitsch killer
                            • Sep 2006
                            • 37852

                            Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
                            Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

                            StyleZeitgeist Magazine

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                            • Johngd
                              Senior Member
                              • Feb 2009
                              • 152

                              Charles Bukowski

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                              • thehouseofdis
                                Senior Member
                                • Jan 2010
                                • 696

                                Finally getting around to Hesse's The Glass Bead Game

                                Next in line:

                                Susan Sontag's Under the Sign of Saturn
                                THE HOUSE OF DIS
                                embrace the twenty first movement

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