In the middle of this. Quite an interesting book by a conservative thinker. "Conservative" in the original sense of the word, not in the auto-pejorative one, as in someone who sees the old social arrangements dismantled by postmodern society without new ones put in place, thus creating a lot of confusion, disarray and alienation in the soul.
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In the middle of this. Quite an interesting book by a conservative thinker. "Conservative" in the original sense of the word, not in the auto-pejorative one, as in someone who sees the old social arrangements dismantled by postmodern society without new ones put in place, thus creating a lot of confusion, disarray and alienation in the soul.Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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A dear friend just sent me his first book. I shot the cover! Excited to read it!
Originally posted by Shucksit's like cocaine, only heavier. and legal.Originally posted by interest1I don't live in the past. But I do have a vacation home there.
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Stanley Elkin - The Magic Kingdom
Stanley Elkin, The Magic Kingdom
A magnificent book, found it in a local thrift store. Totally misleading back cover summary. Reviews on amazon are either 1 star or 5, and I think the 1 stars are all tear tear mommies who want to wallow in wet runny words. None here, just glorious hard prose.
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Currently reading this. I've been aware of this book for about 20 years (I'm not that old, I liked to look at the pictures in my parent's copy when I was a kid), but have never bothered to read it until now, for some reason.
I quite like Anger's psychedelic prose, and it is quite fun, but I don't think I have enough shadenfreude to really be into it. it's good that it's a very short and efficient read, because the thing is starting to get me down, but I don't want to put it aside because I still enjoy it a lot. weird.
anyway, recommended
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Originally posted by galia View Postanyway, recommended
After you finish reading it, there's part 2, and here's something for dessert, enjoy.
Myself, at the moment:
Last edited by profondo nero; 11-27-2012, 04:50 PM.
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After googling HB2, I'm not that impatient to read it, as I'm less interested in those stars. I confess, by the time it got to the late 30's I was less and less interested. The only story I like after that is the Charles Manson murders, but I've already read Helter Skelter so I think I'm good
Still, might pick it up to read on a long train ride or something
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Originally posted by Atom View PostJohn Fante, especially Ask the Dust was great. And to some extent his son Dan Fante (altough I don't like him too much).
Jack Black's You can't win was fantastic.
Of course Charles R Jackson's The Lost Weekend, if you're into the drinking side of Bukowski.
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Originally posted by byte View PostWaiting for Godot, nearly finished. Tropic of Cancer next.
Just finished Hunger by Knut Hamson
Also The Nova Express by Williams Burroughs
Now onto Heidegger's Glasses by Thaisa Frankevery man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage
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I'm sure this has been mentioned already, but I only perused the last 10 pages. Just found this site and easily downloaded several mostly non-fiction titles for free to my iPad. All written within the past 3 years (most freebie ebook sites only provide the classics, which is cool too). Keep in mind these are free, so you won't see a lot of NYT Bestsellers there.
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For way too long I´ve been stuck with Murakami´s "The winding bird chronicles". I really like it and quite enjoy how the story unfolds and characters come and go, but I just get too distracted by other stuff and I´m only half way through it. Once I finished that I wanna use part of the summer to pick up on my french, so I bought 3 spanish-french books from different french authors. I mainly wanted to read maupassant in french, because I have read him in spanish, but I always like reading whatever I can in its original language. This books have french in one page and spanish on the other, so it´ll be helpful for words I don´t know and will make the transition into "only french" novels I have stored much easier.
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