What are you reading?

[laika]

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It was published in 1988, I'm not sure it was translated in english. Basically part of his african myth studies. I wanted to get Non-spaces (thanks for the recommendation) but for some reason its still on order at my library.</p>

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Looks like it was never translated...perhaps I will try and get through the original.</p>

Reading Marcel Mauss, The Gift.
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[klangspiel]

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A Voice From Elsewhere</p>

by the dude in my avatar
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[Faust]

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Orhan Pamuk - Snow

[Fuuma]

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[quote user="Faust"]Orhan Pamuk - Snow
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How's the english translation? I'm asking because a good friend of mine who'se literary taste I hold in high esteem tried to get through "My name is red" and couldn't finish it because the translation used a lot of very french expressions that looked quite peculiar in a turkish period novel.</P>

[Faust]

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[quote user="Faust"]Orhan Pamuk - Snow
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How's the english translation? I'm asking because a good friend of mine who'se literary taste I hold in high esteem tried to get through "My name is red" and couldn't finish it because the translation used a lot of very french expressions that looked quite peculiar in a turkish period novel.</p>

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Huh! Funny you should mention that - the first thing I thought is that the translation sucks. It must be infinitely better in Turkish.</p>

Reading Notes on Camp by Susan Sontag in tandem. Time for a new blog entry...</p>

[justine]

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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Verdana"><span style="font: 12.0px Arial">I finished "</span>Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster" by Dana Thomas. It was interesting overall, it reads like a quick history of the various popular brand "de luxe" (Vuitton, Gucci,...); and their evolution from small quality shop to a 'Brand'. It is not a sociological/philosophical text on what is Luxury.</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Verdana">I was close to immune to big brands before the book, I'm pretty much really immune now :) </p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Verdana; min-height: 15.0px">
</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Verdana">The last chapter asks the question "if the luxury brand are not the real luxury anymore, what is?" ; she mentions couple of brand like Hermes, a high-society mall (Daslu), and the new Tom Ford brand. I had thoughts of CPP when thinking about what's luxury today. </p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Verdana"> </p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Verdana">Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Deluxe-How-Luxury-Lost-Luster/dp/1594201293/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-5306348-4779829?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1194232520&amp ;sr=1-1</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Verdana"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 17px; "> </span></span></p>

[sea of stitches]

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gilles lipovetsky the empire of fashion

[seb]

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just finished e.t.a. hoffmann - der sandmann (the sandman) a really great book!</P>


now i`m going to read eduard von keyserling - wellen (waves)</P>
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[Faust]

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[quote user="sea of stitches"]gilles lipovetsky the empire of fashion
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How are you liking it? It's on my shelf, but I haven't gotten to it yet.</p>

[loveless]

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Just finished choke by chuck palanuik (sp?) love love loved it....hillarious sedistic and well written, next is blindness

[DHC]

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Aldous Huxley: <u>Point Counter Point</u> yet again.

[laika]

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[quote user="loveless"]Just finished choke by chuck palanuik (sp?) love love loved it....hillarious sedistic and well written, next is blindness
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I cried so much reading Blindness, that my boyfriend nearly took it away. [:$]</p>

I'll be very curious to hear what you think of it...I thought it was amazing.
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[Faust]

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[quote user="loveless"]Just finished choke by chuck palanuik (sp?) love love loved it....hillarious sedistic and well written, next is blindness
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I think it's his best book after Fight Club. The rest of his writing is marginal. Saramago is gut-wrenching, no wonder Laika cried.</p>

American Pastoral - Philip Roth</p>

The Culture of Complaint - Robert Hughes</p>

Dictator's Dictation - Robert Boyers</p>

All at the same time...

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[loveless]

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blindness is getting better, at first i was kind of annoyd by his run on sentences but the story line is so good its been keeping me going.

[Faust]

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[quote user="loveless"]blindness is getting better, at first i was kind of annoyd by his run on sentences but the story line is so good its been keeping me going.
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the writer's or the translator's? [66]</p>