What are you reading?

[mamaboy]

i adore korines fanzinez.....rodriguez who does it with korine prints these fanzines at kinkos on astor place...i saw him once pickin them up and felt like im wittnessing some important whatever blah blah blah...

[excoriated]

Currently I read Michel Tournier - Le bonheur en Allemagne.
a french man - got through both world wars, studied germanism in germany right after 1950 - and his view to Germany.

[Faust]

The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow

[mamaboy]

i could not find trash humpers playing do u happen to know where its playing ?

[Magician]

The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow

I plan to do Bellow next in my American Contemporary phase. What work would you recommend to start with?

I just finished Roth's Zuckerman cycle and it was incredible, a deeply physical experience. The prose is very direct and clear so the emotional impact really sneaks up on you.

[cryhavoc]

Feel myself coming into another Russian phase... Just starting on Notes from the Underground.

I really need to start learning Russian properly, I've got the Nicholas J Brown russian course book, but haven't knuckled down. Someone start what language are you learning today???

[galia]

I've been in a russian phase for years

I'm currently reading a collection of Mandelstam's poems (from Tristia onwards) as well as The Red Cavalry by Isaac Babel

Both are stunning reads

[Faust]

Babel is so awesome. So Jewish. Odessa mama.

[jamesd]

Feel myself coming into another Russian phase... Just starting on Notes from the Underground.

I really need to start learning Russian properly, I've got the Nicholas J Brown russian course book, but haven't knuckled down. Someone start what language are you learning today???

That's a really good beginner Russian book -- been trying to find equivalents for other languages.

[Ivans On High]

Speaking of russian phases, has anyone read 'Man is Wolf to Man?'

[mamaboy]

i like babel...if somebody know where to get first edition of "konarmia" i ll pay good money...."..na tribunu vishel trotzkii i skazal golosom ne ostavliauschim nikakoi nadezhdi: "tovarischi i bratia.."

[AKA*NYC]

Speaking of russian phases, has anyone read 'Man is Wolf to Man?'

no but i've always loved that title; also the author is polish.

[cryhavoc]

That's a really good beginner Russian book -- been trying to find equivalents for other languages.

So I've heard. I'm going to pick up a few notebooks today and start having a proper crack. Maybe then I'll understand half the off-tangent discussions here ahahah

[Vanna]

I finished Cormac McCarthy's The Road earlier this week, and I admittedly liked it much better than Blood Meridian. Still had those overwrought McCarthyisms that grate on heavily on my soul, but it was still an engaging read. Sometimes, he's as subtle as the craters on the moon.

[Faust]

I finished Cormac McCarthy's The Road earlier this week, and I admittedly liked it much better than Blood Meridian. Still had those overwrought McCarthyisms that grate on heavily on my soul, but it was still an engaging read. Sometimes, he's as subtle as the craters on the moon.

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