What are you reading?

[laika]

The argument isn't developed or significantly present, just gives something to say in the cover intro.

I have no idea if the book has any ethnological merit (that's what it is, contemp. ethnology) as we don't get a glimpse in her process and there is almost no analysis aside from on the cusp ones. This would make sense if it was rigorous observation that is merely a source for future books but not for a self-contained, directed at a large public one. In fact I'd say it's more like 7 long articles on the theme of the contemporary art world, it has this "in the moment", subjective quality which makes it quite entertaining but no dice academically.

One of the problems I have with the book is that it seems to be directed at people who know nothing of the topic, the author feels she need to define naive art and when the chapter on Murakami starts you get to learn what superflat is .

belated thanks for the review--it's what i suspected, but i might spend a little time with it at the bookstore.

Currently reading Houellebecq's The Possibility of an Island and really liking it.

[Fuuma]

belated thanks for the review--it's what i suspected, but i might spend a little time with it at the bookstore.

Currently reading Houellebecq's The Possibility of an Island and really liking it.

Read the 12 million $ shark. It's written by an economist and holds no pretension aside from explaining art prices and why they're that way. It's sorta like freakonomics if it was good.

[Pinoy]

currently reading:

• The Billionaire Who Wasn't

• Water for Elephants

just finished reading some trashy James Patterson novel on the plane (my goodness there was so much overt branding it made my eyes hurt)

and currently have $12M dollar shark on order per Fuuma's recommendation :)

[rorschach]

- 'dead souls' aka Мёртвые души by Nikolai Gogol : highly entertaining, i am sad i'm nearing the end of this great book. sz would approave of the wonderful, descriptions of the noble (and peasant) dress circa 19th century russia.

- misc periodicals : lapham's quarterly "crimes and punishments", wooooo magazine #6

[Magician]

I'm reading Alan Moore's Saga of the Swamp Thing.

lurv this. may be favorite Moore.

[Real Real]

"Grief Lessons", Euripides plays translated by Anne Carson...I think this is the first time in a long while that I bought a book because of an ad, not a review.

[mamaboy]

benjamin on baudelair

[mamaboy]

"proust in love" ...how my favorite "le petit rat" was arrested in gay whorehouse...uuuu

[note]

Wow, Swamp Thing. Forgot about that character. How's the graphic novel so far?

And what's your avatar from Beau?

[BECOMING-INTENSE]

"proust in love" ...how my favorite "le petit rat" was arrested in gay whorehouse...uuuu

Marcel, Marcel!

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us, and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.

[Magician]

Anyone got any recommendations for my recent spree of contemporary Jewish authors?

I've already read a decent amount of Roth, and just read a bunch of Micheal Chabon and Shalom Auslander (his memoir and the short story collection).

Also, Faust: How was meeting him?

[Faust]

/\ Had to reschedule to next Tuesday, but I'll let you know.

[jamesd]

The Fifth Queen by Ford Madox Ford. Pretty good, though maybe not too historically accurate, more like historical fiction. I think his The Good Soldier and Parade's End are great.

[kofi3159]

Reading FAUST in Danish..

[Magician]

I'm going back to the English Romantics. It's funny how much I get out of it now compared to when I had to read it in high school - I may have to start revisiting other stuff

Starting with Keats.