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  • Faust
    kitsch killer
    • Sep 2006
    • 37852

    Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart.
    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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    • Fade to Black
      Senior Member
      • Sep 2008
      • 5340

      seems like a lot of people have read that book lately, how is it?
      www.matthewhk.net

      let me show you a few thangs

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      • Faust
        kitsch killer
        • Sep 2006
        • 37852

        So far, so good. Funny and sad. The description of the decadence of the American culture is hilarious. All the girl teens shop at JuicyPussy and AssLuxury, and talk like Jogu if he was a porn addict.
        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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        • syed
          Senior Member
          • Sep 2010
          • 564

          Unashamedly reading a children's book given that it is Christmas time - Garth Nix's Sabriel
          "Lots of people who think they are into fashion are actually just into shopping"

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          • 525252
            Senior Member
            • Dec 2010
            • 246

            Originally posted by Fade to Black View Post
            gave up on Lolita after 60 or so pages. I liked Pale Fire, but feel I can only stomach one of Nabokov's, and that's it for me.
            I've been reading Pale Fire on and off over the past 2 months (still haven't read it all) just because in the literal sense I finished reading "Pale Fire" and now I'm just doing the annotations haha.
            I have a bad habit of beginning new books before I finish others but I managed to finish Lolita off in one go

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            • Mariaoff
              Junior Member
              • Dec 2010
              • 4

              I am reading heat transfer....a heart break + teeth break subject...
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              • Ochre
                Senior Member
                • Sep 2009
                • 363

                For an independent study I'm taking next semester:

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                • MJRH
                  Senior Member
                  • Nov 2006
                  • 418

                  All About H. Hatter, by G.V. Desani.

                  This is the Twentieth Century! This is the Medical Man's Century. No sentiment, no dog-cat or Romeo-Juliet imaginative stuff, but realistic brutal true-to-life pictures! What dam' use is there in reading what the Stratford-on-Avon feller wrote so long ago, and is himself dead and gone? Besides, hell, they say Bacon did it! I tell you, the Bacon-Shakespeare pictures won't tally with Life today! I know Life. I have experience...
                  I seldom heed whatever's on a book's back, but this was too sweet to neglect:

                  In all my experience, I have not met with anything quite like it. — T. S. Eliot

                  I didn’t read many books while writing Augie. One I did read and love was All About H. Hatterr….So, what about All About? I hate to be siding with T.S. Eliot…but what can you do? — Saul Bellow, The New York Times
                  ain't no beauty queens in this locality

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                  • rottentomatoes.
                    Member
                    • Mar 2008
                    • 39

                    ive heard much about 2666 by roberto bolaño. i would like to read something contemporary and fearless. is it worth a glance?

                    oh and by the way read patti smiths Auguries of Innocence. she's pure gold and i love the way she creates magic in every way.

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                    • Faust
                      kitsch killer
                      • Sep 2006
                      • 37852

                      Originally posted by Faust View Post
                      So far, so good. Funny and sad. The description of the decadence of the American culture is hilarious. All the girl teens shop at JuicyPussy and AssLuxury, and talk like Jogu if he was a porn addict.
                      Finished it and having the same lukewarm reaction as to the Russian Debutante Handbook. It's not bad and not great, neither here nor there.
                      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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                      • mrbeuys
                        Senior Member
                        • May 2008
                        • 2313

                        About to finish J.G. Ballard's High Rise.
                        He really knows how to create his own surreal realities which so utterly consume your mind it's hard to switch back to your own life.
                        Great read. Unless maybe if you live in a high rise. On the lower floors.
                        Hi. I like your necklace. - It's actually a rape whistle, but the whistle part fell off.

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                        • triumphoftiredeyes
                          Member
                          • Feb 2009
                          • 50

                          Just wondering if anybody happened to read "Matthew Barney & Joseph Beuys: All in the Present Must Be Transformed". I'm debating on picking it up from amazon. Good, bad, interesting, indifferent?

                          http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/089...=ATVPDKIKX0DER

                          I just started reading "The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art"
                          "Men are the dreams of shadows." - Pindar

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                          • MJRH
                            Senior Member
                            • Nov 2006
                            • 418

                            Songlines by Bruce Chatwin

                            Most tribes, Arkady went on, spoke the language of their immediate neighbour, so the difficulties of communication across a frontier did not exist. The mystery was how a man of Tribe A, living up one end of a Songline, could hear a few bars sung by Tribe Q and, without knowing a word of Q's language, would know exactly what land was being sung.

                            'Christ' I said. 'Are you telling me that Old Alan here would know the songs for a country a thousand miles away?'

                            'Most likely.'

                            'Without ever having been there?'

                            'Supposing we found, somewhere near Port Augusta, a songman who knew the Lizard song? Suppose we got him to sing his verses into a tape-recorder and then played the tape to Alan in Kaititj country? The chances were he'd recognize the melody at once--just as we would the 'Moonlight' Sonata--but the meaning of the worlds would escape him. All the same, he'd listen very attentively to the melodic structure. He'd perhaps even ask us to replay a few bars. Then, suddenly, he'd find himself in sync and be able to sing his own worlds over the nonsense.'

                            Regardless of the words, it seems the melodic contour of the song describes the nature of the land over which the song passes. So, if the Lizard Man were dragging his heels across the saltpans of Lake Eyre, you could expect a succession of long flats, like Chopin's 'Funeral March'. If he were skipping up and down the MacDonnell escarpments, you'd have a series of arpeggios and glissandos, like Liszt's 'Hungarian Rhapsodies'.

                            Certain phrases, certain combinations of musical notes, are thought to describe the action of the Ancestor's feet. Once phrase would say, 'Salt-pan'; another 'Creek-bed', 'Spinifex', 'Sandhill', 'Mulga-scrub', 'Rock-face' and so forth. An expert songman, by listening to their order of succession, would count how many times his hero crossed a river, or scaled a ridge--and be able to calculate where, and how far along a songline he was.

                            'He'd be able,' said Arkady, 'to hear a few bars and say, 'This is Middle Bore' or 'That is Oodnaddat'--where the Ancestor did X or Y or Z.'

                            'So a musical phrase,' I said, 'is a map reference?'

                            'Music,' said Arkady, 'is a memory bank for finding ones' way about the world.'
                            ain't no beauty queens in this locality

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                            • AKA*NYC
                              Senior Member
                              • Nov 2007
                              • 3007

                              Originally posted by mrbeuys View Post
                              About to finish J.G. Ballard's High Rise.
                              He really knows how to create his own surreal realities which so utterly consume your mind it's hard to switch back to your own life.
                              Great read. Unless maybe if you live in a high rise. On the lower floors.
                              one of my favorite ballard novels

                              i love the end where they jam the elevators and start raiding each others floors

                              i also recommend the other books in this series crash and concrete island as well as the unlimited dream company which may be his most eloquent work
                              LOVE THE SHIRST... HOW much?

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                              • Skye X
                                Senior Member
                                • Oct 2010
                                • 180

                                I just finished re-reading Pattern Recognition. Zero History came out last month, and after finishing it I decided to re-read the whole trilogy from beginning to end. Gibson crafts his worlds with so much detail that it's easy to find even more substance in something you've already read.
                                Last edited by Skye X; 01-15-2011, 05:52 AM. Reason: typo

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