What are you reading?

[Faust]

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[quote user="Avantster"]Just finished reading The Beautiful Fall by Alicia Drake. Interesting perspectives on Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Paris in the 1970s.
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If you want an interesting perspective on Lagerfeld, read a chapter on Chanel in a book called Fashion Zeitgeist. He got completely annihilated - needless to say I love it. Actually I should go blurb it on my blog.</p>

[Faust]

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I'm about to start One Dimensional Man by Herbert Marcuse. Has anyone read it?

[Avantster]

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[quote user="Faust"]If you want an interesting perspective on Lagerfeld, read a chapter on Chanel in a book called Fashion Zeitgeist. He got completely annihilated - needless to say I love it. Actually I should go blurb it on my blog.[/quote]</p>

Thanks, Faust. Is this the one you're talking about?</p>

The book I read painted Lagerfeld much like a shrewd business machine - sharp, intelligent, and a huge propensity to consume, process and output/discard, whether it be ideas, fashion, or even people. I'd love to read more about others views on him but I suspect this isn't the right thread!
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[Faust]

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[quote user="Faust"]If you want an interesting perspective on Lagerfeld, read a chapter on Chanel in a book called Fashion Zeitgeist. He got completely annihilated - needless to say I love it. Actually I should go blurb it on my blog.[/quote]</p>

Thanks, Faust. Is this the one you're talking about?</p>

The book I read painted Lagerfeld much like a shrewd business machine - sharp, intelligent, and a huge propensity to consume, process and output/discard, whether it be ideas, fashion, or even people. I'd love to read more about others views on him but I suspect this isn't the right thread!
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Yep, that's the one. I don't recommend buying it - the language is painfully academic, but she really let loose in the Chanel by Lagerfeld chapter. See if you can get it at a library.
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I don't have much to say about Lagerfeld - he is in the same league as Prada, Marc Jacobs and Tom Ford for me, all show and no go.</p>

[laika]

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Good stuff, guys. </p>

I am reading the Lydia Davis translation of Swann's Way for the second time.
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[Faust]

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Good stuff, guys. </p>

I am reading the Lydia Davis translation of Swann's Way for the second time.
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It's good anti-ADD practice, trying to hold those one page sentences down. I remember one of my professors saying something about Rememberance of Things Past, "blah, blah, Swann's Way, which is the only one that anyone reads anyway." I laughed because it's the only one I've read. One day, when I have a year off, I will read the whole thing! Proust is an incredible writer, him and Parisian women are the two reasons that make me wish I knew French. [:P]
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[laika]

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So true. That's the problem--you can spend forever on one page or sentence, getting totally lost in the language. I actually took a Proust class a few years ago and got to read the whole thing in one semester. [:S] Hence I am reading it again. But the metaphors that found their way into my writing during that time period were simply astounding, lol.
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[nairb49]

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"clinical ethics" in prep for med interviews this weekend and next.

[mutterlein]

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I recently finished Ozama Tezuka's Ode To Kirohito and one of the volumes of his Phoenix Saga, "Nostalgia" was the title. <div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>I'm about to get swamped in readings for school. I'm taking a history of textiles course that I'm sure will lead to some interesting literature to digest. </div>

[mutterlein]

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[quote user="Faust"]If you want an interesting perspective on Lagerfeld, read a chapter on Chanel in a book called Fashion Zeitgeist. He got completely annihilated - needless to say I love it. Actually I should go blurb it on my blog. [/quote]</p>

Thanks, Faust. Is this the one you're talking about?</p>

The book I read painted Lagerfeld much like a shrewd business machine - sharp, intelligent, and a huge propensity to consume, process and output/discard, whether it be ideas, fashion, or even people. I'd love to read more about others views on him but I suspect this isn't the right thread!
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Yep, that's the one. I don't recommend buying it - the language is painfully academic, but she really let loose in the Chanel by Lagerfeld chapter. See if you can get it at a library.
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I don't have much to say about Lagerfeld - he is in the same league as Prada, Marc Jacobs and Tom Ford for me, all show and no go. </p>[/quote]
<div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>Ah hah! The costume collection I work at has this book but i've never bothered to thumb through. I'll definitely be reading it now. </div>

[Faust]

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/\ Yea, check it out. I think much of it is contrived in the worst academic fashion, but there are some interesting points nonetheless. She's definitely an erudite. I found the chapter on Margiela fascinating, and the chapter on Helmut Lang complete bullshit.

[pbt]

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To Say the Least. Anthology of short Canadian poems edited by P.K. Page.<DIV>About half way through it. Funniest line so far comes from Malcolm Lowry (who's not all that Canadian), first lines of Trinity:</DIV><DIV>Imprisoned in a Liverpool of self</DIV><DIV>I haunt the gutted arcades of the past.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>

[hanajibu]

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The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky, the Pevear/Volokhonsky translation -- the definitive one, in my opinion.

[kamsky]

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[quote user="hanajibu"]The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky, the Pevear/Volokhonsky translation -- the definitive one, in my opinion.[/quote]</P>


so presumably you've read it more than once? it's on my to-read list, but i doubt i will get around to it this year.</P>


i can't think of the name of the translator (translators?) but i recently got the penguin classics edition of 'crime &amp; punishment' and will probably be reading it two or three months from now. i've only read 'notes from underground' and 'the double', so this seems like a good novel to continue reading dostoyevsky. are you familiar with any translations, and if so, do you have any preference?</P>

[dontbecruel]

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[quote user="hanajibu"]The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky, the Pevear/Volokhonsky translation -- the definitive one, in my opinion.[/quote]</p>

I am a pretty tough audience for novels in translation but I absolutely love their work. They did a beautiful new version of Anna Karenina for Penguin a few years ago and I also highly recommend a Chekhov collection they translated for Everyman called The Complete Short Novels (it's basically five of his longer stories).
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