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Reading this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_in_Yellow And no, I haven't seen True Detective. |
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what a great loss this guy was. this is fantastic stuff
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#3543 |
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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 |
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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). |
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![]() I am gonna get all crazy like Alan Moore
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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. |
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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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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. |
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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. |
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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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