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THANK YOU. that helps. good to see no boys were diddled for this one. maybe some day i'll pick up his books again. haven't heard of kate zambrano but are you saying that she ripped of jean rhys? how so? oh, i am curious now. anyway, time for me to deliver on my promise: Quote:
fuckin shit do i have the book for you-- i mean if you haven't yet read it Marguerite Duras -- L'Amant (Eng. tr. = The Lover) |
Story of the Eye - yes, nice sex scenes, the rest of his oeuvre is full of spiraling despair. can't stand his philosophical works though.
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i googled that book just now and saw she was compared to jean rhys. WHAT A SURPRISE |
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dead_battery's link was just a reading response, shame on him! |
i gave u a torrent
i work hard to put pdfs on the table all day. then i make one mistake and u start nagging. make me coffee then maybe i'll let u apologise |
i dunno how to torrent, bitch!
if you put something on the table better make sure i can eat it no butt touching for you tonight! if YOU won't apologize you will sleep on the couch tonight. do you want that? think of your back! you are not the youngest anymore. |
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there's some similarities in their backgrounds in that they were both colonials and poor. but the lover is a masterpiece of sadness. she's fantastic! anyway when you're over your need for girl drama (i imagine you find something cathartic in their predicaments) i can recommend other very different stuff. but read that one. fucking great book. |
which one??
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sorry buds |
does anyone have a pdf of "Damming the Flood: Haiti and the Politics of Containment?" ?
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go here and click download install it, it will ask you to install some other crap during the process but just say no. go to the link i gave you, click the box that says "DOWNLOAD TORRENT" at the top of the page. click whatever comes up and it will download the torrent for you. torrents are really simple. just be careful about what you're downloading, look for comments affirming that its real before you d/l anything. those files i linked to are epub so you'll need something that can use that format. |
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 Sorry yo, Metallica says, "Piracy, it's a crime." |
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 Those are some storm trooper as boots yo! |
 Cool stuff! Love checking shit out of the Library where I work! |
That does look cool.
I miss my comix days. I was all about the RAW and Drawn and Quarterly-type people at one point. |
It is great because it is not a Q & A type of thing. It is just images and then comments and stories from the artists about the image being shown, sometimes their work, sometimes something that influenced them. cool stuff.
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 until now i really like it, some of the characters in the stories seem like they don't really know what they're doing/are confused, which i really like. |
books for free!! (i stole them out of my little brother's old room. they are mine now)
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Reading this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_in_Yellow And no, I haven't seen True Detective. |
what a great loss this guy was. this is fantastic stuff
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Just finished reading this last night.
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oh, it is awesome (i mean true detective, haven't read any of those mentioned in the article) great writing/acting/cinematography, but damn, it gave me nightmares. |
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Apparently there's some connection between the show and that book |
Weaveworld by Clive Barker
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Currently reading a translation of Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two Birds.
I had never heard of him. There was something good written about him on a French readers site (Babelio) about The Third Policeman - which was nowhere to be found in the third library I went to. But they had a lot and I picked that one, and it's kicked off splendidly. 1939... The translation was done in 2002... No wonder I had had no clue (unless he's mentioned in here, among the other 178 pages). |
 I am gonna get all crazy like Alan Moore |
Just finished Zeppelin book (Name was something like When the giants walked on the earth).
Now I`ve got Finish rock artist Kauko Röyhkä´s written Velvet Underground/Lou Reed -book on reading. |
The Don Camillo stories by Giovanni Guareschi, which I haven't read for years, and John Wesley Powell's 'The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons'.
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Wow, hey man!
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Hey Savage. Nice to see you.
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great show |
Wish I could contribute, but sadly I have mostly been reading DAW sci fi trade paperback stuff this season.
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Finishing up No Country For Old Men but I kinda stalled on that. Thing I've been reading most recently is Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis, really fun writer.
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His book from before it, Main Street, is the best book I ever read too so I'm having a good time with that one
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I remember one night I couldn't sleep. Picked up Babbitt. Read the whole thing that night. Just couldn't put it down. I've read four or five others and they were very absorbing as well. He seems pretty underrated nowadays. But just wait. In a little while, we'll have the 100th anniversary of the roaring 20s, and I predict a Lewis resurgence. |
the other day i started reading this translation of kafka stories and it all started well andthen everything fell out of shape and i had this nausea at the incomprehensible paragraphs. not that it was kafka but rather the syntax of the english version, there was a lot of faff, nothing made sense, i was aggravated and put it down in disgust. i regret not reading german and having to put up with this shit. how they can make it so ugly.
who writes good sentences anymore? i can't fucking stand "books." just give me a decent sentence that does not make me vomit. |
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1.) Which translation? 2.) Have you read everything by Nabokov? If not, you're missing out on some glorious sentences. |
ha ha ha! nabokov! i used to have that lo-lee-ta bit all memorized (in a kingdom by the sea) as one of the best prose poems in the english language. yes maybe i'll dig something up from my boxes. thank you for that.
the kakfa in question was "description of a struggle" in a 1983 complete stories volume, for the centennial of his birth, and that particular translation was done by some tania and james stern. ouch. okay i should get to work and look busy for the morning but thanks, really. |
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