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  • Faust
    kitsch killer
    • Sep 2006
    • 37852



    In the middle of this. Quite an interesting book by a conservative thinker. "Conservative" in the original sense of the word, not in the auto-pejorative one, as in someone who sees the old social arrangements dismantled by postmodern society without new ones put in place, thus creating a lot of confusion, disarray and alienation in the soul.
    Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

    StyleZeitgeist Magazine

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    • een
      Senior Member
      • Sep 2006
      • 317

      Merely Interesting...
      from:

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      • fncyths
        Senior Member
        • Apr 2010
        • 775

        A dear friend just sent me his first book. I shot the cover! Excited to read it!

        Originally posted by Shucks
        it's like cocaine, only heavier. and legal.
        Originally posted by interest1
        I don't live in the past. But I do have a vacation home there.

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        • winst
          Junior Member
          • Dec 2008
          • 15

          Stanley Elkin - The Magic Kingdom

          Stanley Elkin, The Magic Kingdom

          A magnificent book, found it in a local thrift store. Totally misleading back cover summary. Reviews on amazon are either 1 star or 5, and I think the 1 stars are all tear tear mommies who want to wallow in wet runny words. None here, just glorious hard prose.

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          • galia
            Senior Member
            • Jun 2009
            • 1719



            Currently reading this. I've been aware of this book for about 20 years (I'm not that old, I liked to look at the pictures in my parent's copy when I was a kid), but have never bothered to read it until now, for some reason.

            I quite like Anger's psychedelic prose, and it is quite fun, but I don't think I have enough shadenfreude to really be into it. it's good that it's a very short and efficient read, because the thing is starting to get me down, but I don't want to put it aside because I still enjoy it a lot. weird.

            anyway, recommended

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            • profondo nero
              Senior Member
              • Aug 2012
              • 409

              Originally posted by galia View Post
              anyway, recommended
              Very interesting book, galia.

              After you finish reading it, there's part 2, and here's something for dessert, enjoy.




              Myself, at the moment:



              Last edited by profondo nero; 11-27-2012, 04:50 PM.

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              • galia
                Senior Member
                • Jun 2009
                • 1719

                There is a part 2?? I didn't know that, tell me more

                And I love Jean Clair, I need to pick up his last book about monsters. The one you have is very good obviously

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                • galia
                  Senior Member
                  • Jun 2009
                  • 1719

                  After googling HB2, I'm not that impatient to read it, as I'm less interested in those stars. I confess, by the time it got to the late 30's I was less and less interested. The only story I like after that is the Charles Manson murders, but I've already read Helter Skelter so I think I'm good

                  Still, might pick it up to read on a long train ride or something

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                  • samlasamla
                    Member
                    • Sep 2011
                    • 94

                    These Dreams of You by Steve Erickson.

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                    • byte
                      Junior Member
                      • Nov 2012
                      • 9

                      Waiting for Godot, nearly finished. Tropic of Cancer next.

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                      • Cagean
                        Junior Member
                        • Oct 2012
                        • 3

                        Originally posted by Atom View Post
                        John Fante, especially Ask the Dust was great. And to some extent his son Dan Fante (altough I don't like him too much).
                        Jack Black's You can't win was fantastic.
                        Of course Charles R Jackson's The Lost Weekend, if you're into the drinking side of Bukowski.

                        Wow thanks a lot!

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                        • Cagean
                          Junior Member
                          • Oct 2012
                          • 3

                          Originally posted by Faust View Post
                          George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Peer.
                          Grapes of Wrath, by Steinbeck.
                          Awesome thanks!

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                          • Macro
                            Senior Member
                            • Apr 2008
                            • 351

                            Originally posted by byte View Post
                            Waiting for Godot, nearly finished. Tropic of Cancer next.
                            Tropic of Cancer is a masterpiece that broke serious ground when it was first published (any book that gets banned is worth its weight in gold)

                            Just finished Hunger by Knut Hamson
                            Also The Nova Express by Williams Burroughs

                            Now onto Heidegger's Glasses by Thaisa Frank
                            every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage

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                            • comedyzen
                              Senior Member
                              • May 2009
                              • 279

                              I'm sure this has been mentioned already, but I only perused the last 10 pages. Just found this site and easily downloaded several mostly non-fiction titles for free to my iPad. All written within the past 3 years (most freebie ebook sites only provide the classics, which is cool too). Keep in mind these are free, so you won't see a lot of NYT Bestsellers there.

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                              • Resonkuken
                                Senior Member
                                • Oct 2012
                                • 408

                                For way too long I´ve been stuck with Murakami´s "The winding bird chronicles". I really like it and quite enjoy how the story unfolds and characters come and go, but I just get too distracted by other stuff and I´m only half way through it. Once I finished that I wanna use part of the summer to pick up on my french, so I bought 3 spanish-french books from different french authors. I mainly wanted to read maupassant in french, because I have read him in spanish, but I always like reading whatever I can in its original language. This books have french in one page and spanish on the other, so it´ll be helpful for words I don´t know and will make the transition into "only french" novels I have stored much easier.

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