What are you reading?

[eaglewood]

2666 - Roberto Bolano. I got the novel in one volume. I have a feeling the the bite size 3 volume set might have been a better choice. It does not matter how much I like a writer a thousand odd pages is a lot for me.

But so far so good. I really liked Savage Detectives.

[thomas.buckler]

Sylvia Plath poems and the computer music tutorial.

[DHC]

Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. Light reading before the semester starts.

I still can't believe you call this light reading. Fun...but light?

Currently: A Wild Sheep Chase
now that's light.

[Faust]

By light I meant "not difficult." Is that what you mean as well?

Wild Sheep Chase is pretty light in a sense that it doesn't have much gravity, although it tries. I still haven't read anything by Murakami that topped Norwegian Wood (granted, I haven't read much).

[DHC]

By light I meant "not difficult." Is that what you mean as well?

Wild Sheep Chase is pretty light in a sense that it doesn't have much gravity, although it tries. I still haven't read anything by Murakami that topped Norwegian Wood (granted, I haven't read much).

That's what I meant. okay, so there is the mix up. I didn't understand how you could say that about Name of the Rose or any of Eco's writing for that matter.

[eaglewood]

By light I meant "not difficult." Is that what you mean as well?

Wild Sheep Chase is pretty light in a sense that it doesn't have much gravity, although it tries. I still haven't read anything by Murakami that topped Norwegian Wood (granted, I haven't read much).

Faust

I thought that Norwegian Wood was too sad.

Have you seen "Nobody Knows" a film by Kore-eda Hirokazu. It is a bit shocking but you might enjoy it if you liked Norwegian Wood.

http://www.lhp.com.sg/nobodyknows/

[maldoror]

a recent obsession with coast-to-coast radio has led to revisiting stephen wright's m31: a family romance, which still possesses the most potently psychotropic prose I know of. equal parts tihkal/pihkal redolence and unhinged schizophrenic terror. this reads precisely like the cognitive hole that bad trips always had me fearing being stuck in.

[Faust]

That's what I meant. okay, so there is the mix up. I didn't understand how you could say that about Name of the Rose or any of Eco's writing for that matter.

Right, I gotcha. No, the subject matter is not light at all. Very interesting actually - who controls access to knowledge, and how much courage it took for scientists to move forward.

[crz]

a bit late.. but just found out about "A Magazine (curated by..)"
is there anywhere to get a copy in australia?? or is online the only place?

[Faust]

a bit late.. but just found out about "A Magazine (curated by..)"
is there anywhere to get a copy in australia?? or is online the only place?

Write to the mag and ask them who stocks them in Aus. IIRC, there was a list on the website of their Dutch distributor, but I can't remember the name for the life of me.

[Huxley]

One Hundred Years of Solitude

[mamaboy]

joseph cornell i adore this man that never had sex

[Servo2000]

I don't check up on this thread too often to perfectly honest but I've been reading Hollow Land for an architecture course I'm just finishing up (Architecture in the Age of Transnational Terrorism) and it's truly fascinating, infuriating and terrifying stuff. Not a dull moment yet.

(alongside a Lovecraft collection my father bought me, of course)

[AKA*NYC]

I don't check up on this thread too often to perfectly honest but I've been reading Hollow Land for an architecture course I'm just finishing up (Architecture in the Age of Transnational Terrorism) and it's truly fascinating, infuriating and terrifying stuff. Not a dull moment yet.

(alongside a Lovecraft collection my father bought me, of course)

the greatest...my favorite stories are the colour out of space and whisperer in darkness...i once poured liquor on his monument in providence

[Fuuma]

Yay for lovecraft

I'm reading The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-39 by Antony James Beevor.