Rereading Dan Brown's Inferno.
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Originally posted by Listenup View PostI'm reading 8th book(the one about their children), not 7th. Ofc i've read 7th a long time ago :DFashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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Some recent reads, all highly recommended.
Look Homeward, Angel - Thomas Wolfe
Classic Southern Gothic, similar to Faulkner. Very interesting to read after Kerouac, especially works like Big Sur, as Wolfe's literature influenced him in his "spontaneous" writing style.
A Death in Venice - Thomas Mann
Nice short work, reminded me of Lolita with all the obsession going on. Would definitely recommend reading Magic Mountain if you enjoy this.
Lost Illusions - Honore de Balzac
Just fucking great, all I'm going to say. Reading Eugenie Grandet now.
The Gambler - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Full of feeling (Fyodor was a gambler himself), much like Brothers Karamazov and C/P, but more compact.
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I've been stuck on The Castle for over a year now. Some parts of this book are indeed alluring and somewhat haunting; however, majority of this book just seems to drag on. Maybe it's my attention span but I'm often putting this book down after every 10 pages or so.
Also recently finished The Flowers of Evil. Beautiful work of poetry by Baudelaire, goes great with James Blake's The Colour in Anything playing in the background.
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Originally posted by GucciAmen View PostSome recent reads, all highly recommended.
Look Homeward, Angel - Thomas Wolfe
Classic Southern Gothic, similar to Faulkner. Very interesting to read after Kerouac, especially works like Big Sur, as Wolfe's literature influenced him in his "spontaneous" writing style.
A Death in Venice - Thomas Mann
Nice short work, reminded me of Lolita with all the obsession going on. Would definitely recommend reading Magic Mountain if you enjoy this.
Lost Illusions - Honore de Balzac
Just fucking great, all I'm going to say. Reading Eugenie Grandet now.
The Gambler - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Full of feeling (Fyodor was a gambler himself), much like Brothers Karamazov and C/P, but more compact.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 Sufi View PostI've been stuck on The Castle for over a year now. Some parts of this book are indeed alluring and somewhat haunting; however, majority of this book just seems to drag on. Maybe it's my attention span but I'm often putting this book down after every 10 pages or so.
Also recently finished The Flowers of Evil. Beautiful work of poetry by Baudelaire, goes great with James Blake's The Colour in Anything playing in the background.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 LilL.FASH View PostReading Evelyn Waugh's Decline and Fall, its particularly hilarious.
Faust
I have not! Looks like a great companion to the novel, I'll check it out, thanks.
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Originally posted by Monoral View PostI am currently re-reading Society Of The Spectacle by Guy Debord
Got reminded of it by Childish Gambino music video This is America.
I've been thinking about that video, and how impotent art has become compared to what we simply see on the news. Who needs Childish Gambino to tell us that this is America, when we can turn on the CNN?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 PostFollow up with Simulacra and Simulation and you've got contemporary culture, FASHION INCLUDED, pat down.
I've been thinking about that video, and how impotent art has become compared to what we simply see on the news. Who needs Childish Gambino to tell us that this is America, when we can turn on the CNN?
Thank you for the tip
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+1 to anything by Baudrillard. McLuhan is a more relevant read than Debord, nowadays, though.
Mark Fisher's The Weird and the Eerie - amongst other things, a great response to the characterizations of Lovecraft's work by Houellebecq and others (Also very accessible as a work of literary criticism). Also, Paul Morand's Tendres stocks. I hear Ezra Pound did a translation of it - I wonder how that reads.
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How would you rate Mark Fisher's work?Selling CCP, Harnden, Raf, Rick etc.
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