What are you reading?

[Faust]

I haven't read Eating Animals, but from the reviews and interviews it sounded too sappy-tree-huggy to me. I think that the Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan provide a more balanced, less moralizing view.

[jumpoff]

Incidentally, I picked up Omnivore's Dilemma as well. Was planning on reading it when I'm finished with Eating Animals.

[galia]

Thanks for the recommendation, Galia. I've finished Vies minuscules and although I enjoyed it a lot my enthusiasm lowered a bit during some passages. I planned to read Abbés afterwards, but I'll let it rest a bit first, too much of the same author in a row may be, well, too much. I may go for Sebald after this, do you have any favourite?

no recommendations, you pretty uch can't go wrong with the guy

[Catfood]

Just started:

[Mail-Moth]

Just about to finish Hans Henny Jahnn's Les Cahiers de Carl Gustav Horn (don't know the original german title nor its english translation). Probably one of the most impressive books I ever opened, and I mean it. The book is huge - there's the voice of a man in it, that feels deep and speaks loud. I won't try to give a precise idea of what you can find in it : There's too much. Unconditional love, tenderness for the living flesh and the decaying one, music, beasts, ordinary lifes and darkness - darkness inside and outside the soul.

It is like seeing a dying beast, strong and magnificent, as if painted on a cavern's wall. It struggles against its fate, but its generosity, its strength and love are not enough to keep the world from sinking in obscurity. I'm certainly being a little obscure myself here, but really, I see it so : filled with a primitive and dreadful poetry.

Edit : Ronin , give a try to Michon's Le Roi du Bois. It won't take you much of your time. I loved it.

[genevieveryoko]

I started reading The Omnivore's Dilemma but I didn't get very far...after a certain point I just started to feel like I didn't need to know all that...or maybe just that it was redundant, having studied all that stuff in college. It's all been said. I used to like to read about food but these days I much prefer just eating it. Same with fashion, I used to really enjoy reading about it but now all I want to do is touch things. I'm really realizing, more and more, that the joy of reading lies for me in great literature...time for a new book.

[Faust]

I started reading The Omnivore's Dilemma but I didn't get very far...after a certain point I just started to feel like I didn't need to know all that...or maybe just that it was redundant, having studied all that stuff in college. It's all been said. I used to like to read about food but these days I much prefer just eating it. Same with fashion, I used to really enjoy reading about it but now all I want to do is touch things. I'm really realizing, more and more, that the joy of reading lies for me in great literature...time for a new book.

Whoa, holy epiphany, batman! I never knew people read non-fiction for the joy of reading.

[genevieveryoko]

People in Berkeley do...you gotta keep this in mind Faust.

[Faust]

People in Berkeley do...you gotta keep this in mind Faust.

OMG!!

[Fade to Black]

Finally got around to Bob Dylan Chronicles Vol. 1. I gotta confess, I think I enjoy the rhythm of Dylan's language better in this format than in his songs.

[Faust]

Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster. Even though the underlying premise of the book is pathetic, it's filled with interesting statistics and anecdotes. Makes Bertelli look like a little lamb compared to Arnault.

[Faust]

Mr Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow. My encounter with Bellow was a real eye-opener - better late than never. I hope to be impressed like this again and again.

[laika]

^don't you love it when that happens? I felt the same way when I picked up Robert Walser for the first time last year.

On to this now, made my geeky little day when I saw it in the window of st. marks last week.



such an amazing photo

[Faust]

totally love it! never lose the sense of the marvelous!

[Servo2000]

Ordered some other things along with the Psychick Bible so just finished up LaVey's The Devil's Notebook and Apocalypse Culture with segued pretty well into Index by Peter Sotos. I'd like to find more from him but it seems like his most interesting work is really hard to come by / came out in pretty limited editions.

Oh and most through Atrocity Exhibition. My first Ballard! I always secretly put him off since he seemed like so much my sensibility that I didn't want to spoil it too early. I already bought Crash for when I finish.