keep meaning to get that
greil marcus wrote a book on the doors? o dear
― thomp, Sunday, 25 March 2012 01:22 (twelve years ago) link
Intrigued by the bitsd I've seen online of Demolishing Nisard by Eric Chevillard, a seemingly pointless attack on a stody 19th Centiru French lit critic
He is the slime at the bottom of every fountain. Irretrievably, there has been Nisard. How can we love benches, knowing that Nisard often pressed them into service? Gently stroking a cat’s silken fur, my hand inevitably reproduces a gesture once made by Nisard . . . Did Nisard ever make one move that we might want to follow or imitate? Did he ever incarnate anything other than the tedium of being Désiré Nisard, definitively, forever and ever?
― Not only dermatologists hate her (James Morrison), Sunday, 25 March 2012 23:30 (twelve years ago) link
bits! stodgy! can't type!
finished updike's "rabbit run". its the second time ive read it. the last time was '98. would still stan for it but theres problems. his attitude towards women is a bit dodgy and the sex-as-religion stuff can be a bit laughable. ive just started toni morrison's 'song of solomon' now.
― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Sunday, 25 March 2012 23:38 (twelve years ago) link
Song of Solomon is incredible.
― dies irate (loves laboured breathing), Monday, 26 March 2012 00:18 (twelve years ago) link
the perfect antidote to Morrison imo
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 26 March 2012 00:20 (twelve years ago) link
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― dies irate (loves laboured breathing), Monday, 26 March 2012 00:45 (twelve years ago) link
i think he meant its a good book as oppose to her other works.
i don't agree - it is a great work, might be even her best, but she had several other good novels as well.
― nostormo, Monday, 26 March 2012 01:18 (twelve years ago) link
I've only read that and Sula and thought both of those were v v goo, though Solomon was much more satisfying
― dies irate (loves laboured breathing), Monday, 26 March 2012 01:23 (twelve years ago) link
v v good
Holy shit! Just came here to post that I'm finishing up Sula, getting ready to (re-)start Song Of Solomon. If I knew you you were readin', I'd a' started a book club.
― One of my faverit moive ever!!!! XD (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 26 March 2012 01:40 (twelve years ago) link
Philip K. Dick - We can Remember it for you Wholesale (short story collection)
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 26 March 2012 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
Ben Marcus- The Flame Alphabet
Loved this book so much.
Wonderful, bleak and absurd.
― dsb, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 03:39 (twelve years ago) link
We're far enough past the equinox, I suppose it is time for another thread. I mean, ile or ilm can have their 5000 post threads if they like, but they're just unwieldy imo. So, here goes nothin'...
2012: The northern days advance, the southern recede: What are you reading?
― Aimless, Friday, 6 April 2012 03:34 (twelve years ago) link