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  • galia
    Senior Member
    • Jun 2009
    • 1719

    I dunno, to me a cult hit is something like last exit to brooklyn and I was definately not nderwhelmed when I read it. admittedly I was something like 17 at the time

    but I guess you are right, some cult hits maybe also happen to be actual excellent books, but it's not a prerequisite

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    • rottentomatoes.
      Member
      • Mar 2008
      • 39

      Right now I am digging myself into the world of Patti Smith. Been reading Just Kids for a couple of days. It's really personal and marvellous. She is practically living for the sake of art, I find her life so beatiful in the end of the 60's. It seems like such a creative time.

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      • galia
        Senior Member
        • Jun 2009
        • 1719

        After being blown away by the film The Countess, which a strongly recommend again, I'm reading The Bloody Countess: Atrocities of Erzsebet Bathory by Valentine Penrose. It's quite incredible actually, a very evocative book

        Sidenote: I love the name Erzsebet, I think it's extremely pretty, but would it be totally terrible if I named a potential daughter that? would I risk her becoming a psychopath? (factor in the fact that with me as a mom she's not likely to be super stable to begin with)

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        • Mail-Moth
          Senior Member
          • Mar 2009
          • 1448

          Bah, it is so different today. You don't have to refrain from being sadistic anymore. Little Erzsebet would most probably live a very entertaining - and rewarding from every point of view - social life
          I can see a hat, I can see a cat,
          I can see a man with a baseball bat.

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          • galia
            Senior Member
            • Jun 2009
            • 1719

            it's true that since you can buy anti-age cream made of foetuses, the blood of grown virgins seems kind of stale in comparison

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            • Faust
              kitsch killer
              • Sep 2006
              • 37852

              Just bought this. Looking forward to it.

              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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              • jamesd
                Senior Member
                • Sep 2008
                • 232

                Just starting The Flame, Gabriele d'Annunzio (fascinating guy)

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                • Fade to Black
                  Senior Member
                  • Sep 2008
                  • 5340

                  Burroughs - The Wild Boys. What a badass writer.
                  www.matthewhk.net

                  let me show you a few thangs

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                  • Acéphale
                    Senior Member
                    • Apr 2010
                    • 444

                    « At last the weather grew milder and the wind less bitter. The sun, invisible till now, made fitful reappearances in the pitiless sky, touching the earth with furtive rays of light. There was a momentary awakening in the garden where living shrubs emerged from an apparently lifeless soil. The box, with its little yellow spoon-shaped leaves that broke when touched, and the juniper with its bluish needles and berries of black-indigo, pushed through their pall of half-melted snow.

                    The spindle-wood, the variegated laurel, the yew, the rosemary, still green, the holly whose bright red berries now looked tanned, helped to enliven the shrubberies, when all the other bushes showed only dry twigs all shrivelled and burnt by the burning frost of the north wind. Even so, all the plants looked ailing, like convalescents just risen from their bed of snow.

                    The only group which had thriven in the frost was the hellebore. They grew in abundance along the paths; some of them, such as the Christmas roses, were in full bloom, their blossom, of an unwholesome purplish hue, suggesting the colour of a scar, or of a closing wound, fitted well their poisonous nature; and there were other hellebores, black ones, with cut, saw-edged leaves, reeking of poison more venomous still. If you pulled them up, you found that they had slender roots like those at the bottom of a bulb. Old sixteenth-century botanists set store by them, saying that they expelled phlegm and choler, and cured the itch, ringworm, scab, mange, impetigo, and other disorders of the blood; but they had a sinister look, with their funereal leaves and blossoms of the colour of unripe apples; like their sisters, the Christmas roses, they hung their heads and lacked the frank charm of wholesome flora. »


                    ἓν οἶδα ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα

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                    • Matay
                      Junior Member
                      • Jun 2010
                      • 18

                      the monotony of domesticity was not to his liking

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                      • Nemesis_4
                        Senior Member
                        • Nov 2009
                        • 140

                        Faust- have you started reading Crowds and Power yet? I just read a few reviews on it, sounds like a great read, any opinions?

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                        • Johngd
                          Senior Member
                          • Feb 2009
                          • 152

                          Have anyone read in search of lost time by Marcel Proust? its like a project to get through 4000 pages or something. Is it worth it?

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                          • galia
                            Senior Member
                            • Jun 2009
                            • 1719

                            short answer: yes

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                            • Fade to Black
                              Senior Member
                              • Sep 2008
                              • 5340

                              onto The Soft Machine now; this is even better. I like Bill at his most straightforward cutup junk talk its got legs
                              www.matthewhk.net

                              let me show you a few thangs

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                              • Faust
                                kitsch killer
                                • Sep 2006
                                • 37852

                                Originally posted by Johngd View Post
                                Have anyone read in search of lost time by Marcel Proust? its like a project to get through 4000 pages or something. Is it worth it?
                                funniest post ever.
                                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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