What are you reading?

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[Faust]

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/\ what's this?

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ahh - Der Herbst des Einsamen is amazing.
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http://www.artbook.com/3882439203.html </p>

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really worth a read </p>

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[quote user="Faust"]/\ what's this?
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It's the complete and comprehensive collection of Trakl's works and correspondences
(or letters). Amongst other things, it includes pretty much every amendment and modification
made with each piece of writing, chiefly the poems, (eg, crossing out a word or a line, replacing a word or phrase with another,
marginal notes, highlights, etc. etc..) under the assumption that this inherently captures the writing process itself or the creative genesis of
each work. There are also scans of these works (the poems) handwritten on paper scraps, envelopes, postcards, etc..
(which is where the amendments and modifications were first seen and discerned).

A scholar's wetdream.
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[Faust]

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gotcha. that's pretty cool. speaking of minute things, laika, did you see that there is a book of Walter Benjamin's notebooks out? The actual notebooks, photographed.

[Faust]

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[quote user="Faust"]picked up Huck Finn.
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I wish I hadn't read Huck Finn so I could have that feeling again. This is the one thing I really do hate about getting older. There are inevitably fewer and fewer books left to read that are going to make me feel like my emotional world has been revolutionised.
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I feel like that about Sherlock Holmes</p>

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Just got to the Hamlet soliloquy part - hahaha, I almost fell out of my chair!!! [74]</p>

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20 pages in...

[Hali]

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Knut Hamsun's "Hunger", as I am wont to do every time I run out of money.</p>

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Also this, inspired by a class I'm taking. Extremely good book.</p>

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The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien</p>

Good beach reading (going to Mexico Friday). I started, so far doesn't seem nearly as good as The Lord of the Rings.</p>

[Real Real]

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Reading Great Expectations, which has been on my "It's Embarassing I Haven't Read These Books Yet" list since I was in high school.

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i love it,horrible shiiiiiit</P>

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the poetics of space---bachelard ?</P>


hans-peter feldman "smoke"</P>

[Hali]

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The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien</p>

Good beach reading (going to Mexico Friday). I started, so far doesn't seem nearly as good as The Lord of the Rings.</p>

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The Hobbit is meant for a younger audience. Nothing he wrote besides LOTR really finds the balance and maturity that made those books so wonderful. Things like "The Hobbit" are too simple, and because he adored complexity and depth, it comes out a little silly. Books like "The Silmarillion" allow him to absolutely run amuck as far as density and background go, that book is an absolute slog.</p>

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Erm, I knocked off J.S. Foer's most recent book on the weekend because I'm a total sap. Reading "This Side of Paradise" now because I never got around to it in high school.
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/\ agreed with your assessment. One day I will re-read LOTR, awesome book. Since I killed The Hobbit, I had to buy the only half-decent book at the Cancun airport - Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje. He is such a good writer - a poet even when he writes in prose.