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Soho in the 50s, Daniel Farson Although mainly a photobook, the text gives a great account of the whole Francis Bacon/Colony Room set. After reading this, anyone who thinks the Factory in the 60s was a trial by fire should've tried to hold their own with this lot. Even if you don't buy into Bacon's gutter-glamour thing, still some brilliant photographs to look at |
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My third attempt. I'm about 120 pages deep. I actually get the mistaken identity/mistaken clothing thing this time. It's all about how the people are the same and meaningless...or something.
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I tried to read Vachss but couldn't deal with his ultra-self-righteousness. He's like a Noir-Henry Rollins. |
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For what is really an autobiographical fantasy based on the author's previous decades' experience with Hollywood really doesn't seem like a great premise for a 691 page novel and yet, reading it again a few years later it is still better than I remembered. Obviously it was good if I managed to finish it the first time around
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before i forget: i read this one while i was in the states
was entertaining and a very easy read |
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Meh.. more like some kind of Echo Park pissing contest. I know I'm like 20 years too late but I never got around to reading this until I found it on the $0.50 book rack at the library across the street from work (I think I've bought like 50 books from them now, and spent what must be a grand total of $20, I have literally nowhere to put them, I got unread books stacked in about every corner of my room, closet, drawers, and nook and cranny of my MacArthur Park district overcrowded book shelf)... This novel is epic. Its like a shoe-gaze Gabriel Garcia-Marquez.. more emotive, with more droning teeth saturated through its cutting, poetic insights. You can literally feel this text bleeding through the almost arbitrariness of the words..
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Ben Marcus - Leaving the Sea
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