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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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Originally posted by Faust View PostI wonder how Pelevin holds up in translation, as I was just recommending him to AKA*NYC
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Another possible level of complexity - Generation P, as is most other Pelevin's work is very much period literature. Not sure if any of it will stand the test of time.Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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Finished Generation Kill - a fantastic non-fiction book about what went on on the ground during the Iraq war. Highly recommended.
Picked up It All Adds Up, a book of Saul Bellow's essays. I am surprising myself with this nonfiction kick.Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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Originally posted by Faust View PostIt's solid, like most of Sontag's writing. She was no genius, but an acute observer and she had the ability to put things in order. I admit that I put it down half way and am now totally engrossed in Generation Kill. Will pick Sontag back up once I'm done with that.
I also began rereading Camera Lucida by Barthes, but for some reason it's just fucking annoying. Intellectual masturbation.
If you liked Sontag, check out Hannah Arendt's "On Violence" if you haven't already
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It's so hyped that I don't want to go near it. Which is, of course, not to say that it's not good - I have no idea if it's good or bad, but the hype is nauseating. Besides, who wants to go through 4 books of autobiographical masturbation? If I'm going to read 4 (well, 7) books of anything, it will be Proust.Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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Originally posted by Faust View Postwho wants to go through 4 books of autobiographical masturbation?
I dunno. I've read two pages of this and that was quite enough. I've read two chapters of Proust and that decided me I'll one day read it all. Maybe this one's just poorly translated, who knows.ain't no beauty queens in this locality
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