What are we reading?

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A Matter Of Chance

#975
November 06, 2006, 07:47:09 PM
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The Perineum Falcon

#976
November 06, 2006, 08:29:02 PM
I've been meaning to read some Faulkner, but I keep getting sidetracked/forgetting.
We often went to the cinema, the screen would light up and we would tremble, but also, increasingly often, Madeleine and I were disappointed. The images had dated, they jittered, and Marilyn Monroe had gotten terribly old. We were sad, this wasn't the film we had dreamed of, this wasn't the total film that we all carried around inside us, this film that we would have wanted to make, or, more secretly, no doubt, that we would have wanted to live.

Raikus

#977
November 07, 2006, 01:24:05 PM
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands, with all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves, let me forget about today until tomorrow.

MacGuffin

#978
November 16, 2006, 12:01:46 PM
"Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art." - Andy Warhol


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polkablues

#979
November 16, 2006, 05:41:51 PM
Quote from: Lucid on November 09, 2006, 10:34:54 PM


Oh, hell yeah.

Tim O'Brien is my favorite author by far.  If you haven't read In the Lake of the Woods and The Things They Carried yet, do that next.
My house, my rules, my coffee

hedwig

#980
November 16, 2006, 08:59:58 PM

The Perineum Falcon

#981
November 16, 2006, 09:35:35 PM
nice cover.

I'm re-reading Tarkovsky's Sculpting In Time.
We often went to the cinema, the screen would light up and we would tremble, but also, increasingly often, Madeleine and I were disappointed. The images had dated, they jittered, and Marilyn Monroe had gotten terribly old. We were sad, this wasn't the film we had dreamed of, this wasn't the total film that we all carried around inside us, this film that we would have wanted to make, or, more secretly, no doubt, that we would have wanted to live.

Fjodor

#983
November 21, 2006, 05:04:29 PM


Strange, and difficult book (for a non-english reader). At the one side, I appreciate the creative sort of humor is attains, but at the other side, the style of writing really puts me off at certain points. Too much anarchy for a easy read, I guess.

A Matter Of Chance

#984
November 21, 2006, 06:02:07 PM


It's like Lawrence of Arabia or Reds, but with philosophers.

polkablues

#985
November 21, 2006, 06:54:24 PM
Quote from: Fjodor on November 21, 2006, 05:04:29 PM
(Catch-22)

Strange, and difficult book (for a non-english reader). At the one side, I appreciate the creative sort of humor is attains, but at the other side, the style of writing really puts me off at certain points. Too much anarchy for a esay read, I guess.

I read a review once that describes the book as "not having been written so much as shouted onto the page."  The reviewer meant it disparagingly, but if I were Joseph Heller, I would take it as a compliment.
My house, my rules, my coffee

gob

#986
November 24, 2006, 03:06:35 AM


I'm becoming an accumulative Ian McEwan fan. I really liked "Saturday" and "Enduring Love" (the film adaptation of which I think is very underrated). As far as "The Cement Garden" goes, so far so good...

The Perineum Falcon

#987
November 27, 2006, 11:47:57 AM


The thickness of the book looks like an exaggeration. Like those tomes you see in movies that weigh 20lbs.
It's daunting at first, just considering how long it may take me, but I'm looking forward to it.
More than any book I've read in the past few months.
We often went to the cinema, the screen would light up and we would tremble, but also, increasingly often, Madeleine and I were disappointed. The images had dated, they jittered, and Marilyn Monroe had gotten terribly old. We were sad, this wasn't the film we had dreamed of, this wasn't the total film that we all carried around inside us, this film that we would have wanted to make, or, more secretly, no doubt, that we would have wanted to live.

Ghostboy

#988
November 27, 2006, 12:05:42 PM
It's not hard. By the time I was fifteen I'd read it three times (I was a big fan of the musical in my youth).

I'm currently finishing up a re-read of Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man and am next weighing my options: Anna Karenina or Gravity's Rainbow? Hmmmm.

matt35mm

#989
November 27, 2006, 12:32:06 PM
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