What are you reading?

[Faust]

genet felt too gay for me.....but i never made an effort......but he liked bukowski.....russians do not get bukowski......they do not go behind drink and shit.....its hard to see "that little flame".....

Absolutely not true. I've known plenty of Russians who get Bukowski. But let's face it, he is a minor writer.

[Alesha]

Yana Rudkovskaya "Confessions of Kept Mistress"

Quite naturally I am only reading the back cover, and its only book within reach in my office. Mostly becouse I got it with invitation to the books presention.

I must admit that the back of the book contains all the best moments, including crouching barefeet Yana's photo, who looks a little too bad for her age and some kind of bla bla about difficult road to sucess.

Do not read.

[Faust]

Russian culture today is merely bad simulacra of the worst part of American culture.

[Alesha]

I had the pleasure of discussing that with Matthew Brannon at the opening of his exhibition yesterday. Being a simulacrum it is very much self sufficient and sucks due to roots in Sovok, rather than being a reflection of worst part of american culture.

However Mass Culture in Russia is indeed a brainwash fluke of worst kind. Sickeningly so.

[survivrons]

the time machine, in the classics app on my friends iphone.

[Diego]

Monstrocity by Jeffrey Thomas.

[Aleks]

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

[mamaboy]

..as witkin says:" i ll die printing"..... i say i ,with gods help of course , will die reading proust...or watching grey gardens ?.....or if my current passions will die before me ?.....i ll die surrounded by clothes and shoes bought under sz peer pressure..." ibo veschi perezhivaut nas "

[Classique]

"What Matters" by various photojournalists.

These photographers astound, me; Via, their concern for human welfare. Uncontrived, from newspaper editors and broadcast news media.

[laika]

Haven't looked through this thread in quite a while. Did you enjoy No one belongs here more than you, Laika? I read it rather quickly a couple years ago and remember really liking it.

sorry for the late reply, Mona. I really loved it. She has an amazing rhythm to her writing that keeps bringing me back, even more so than the narratives. Like listening to music--i kept wanting to hum along or read it out loud.

[Vanna]

About 60 pages into The Sound and the Fury and about 360 pages into The Brothers Karamazov.

[Faust]

/\ 1-2 combo kill, how will you survive?

[Vanna]

^hahaha

Painting inbetween usually settles me down. Or is it the sniffing of the paints that does it?

[qnc.hst]

Just finished "You Can't Win" by Jack Black (not that one)... really great depiction of a life spent as a hobo/thief/prisoner/fugitive around the turn of the 19th century. Made me feel like slumming it... then didn't.

Also finished some Gogol short stories, all of which were great but man did I dig Taras Bulba.

Just started on some Voltaire writings, beginning with Zadig...

And still making my way through The Road to Reality VERRRRY slowly...

Man I am never gonna get to the bottom of any damn thing, am I?

[galia]

I just finished "Life Short, Rytkönen Long" by Arto Paasilina, and am about to start reading "Les Chants de Maldoror"

can't believe I didn't read this as a teenager, it would have made so much sense at the time. Has anyone read it ?