february blood on the forge (william attaway) **** the currents of space (isaac asimov) ** war (stories by roald dahl) ** past and present (thomas carlyle) ** the compass rose (ursula k le guin) *** possibilities (essays by david graeber) **** the man in the high castle (philip k dick) ***** the pov...

three of his first four novels were really good, very dark takes on already dark gothic. never enjoyed anything he wrote after that. (haven't read the last three)

dom casmurro (machado de assis) ****
cannibalism (bill schutt) ***
the city and the stars (arthur c clarke) **
empire of the summer moon (sc gwynne) ***
valis (philip k dick) *
the wind's twelve quarters (ursula k le guin) ****
anarchist prophets (james r martel) ***

mumbo jumbo (ishmael reed) *** macunaíma (mário de andrade) **** uncle tom's children (richard wright) [reread] **** the july revolution (leopoldo bonafulla) **** the snail on the slope (arkady and boris strugataky) **** evil in the night (erico verissimo) ** monstrous regiment (terry pratchett) ***...

just saw nosferatu. same, it's the least of the three, and i don't see much reason to revisit it. based on this, the vvitch, and the lighthouse i have a hard time believing eggars has ever laughed in his life. everything fits into that very dark, joyless area. even if i've never seen herzog laugh on...

hehe, thanks for that post. that movie brings a smile to my face every time i think of it. one of buñuel's best.

hard to be a god (strugatskys) ****
the jewels of aptor (samuel delany) ****
the ballad of beta-2 (samuel delany) **
they fly at çiron (samuel delany) ***
backlands: the canudos campaign (euclides da cunha) *****
fire on the mountain (terry bisson) ***
l'assommoir (émile zola) **

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october: earthman, come home (james blish) *** the triumph of time (james blish) *** trickery [several stories] (roald dahl) *** the cyberiad (stanisław lem) ** the plains (gerald murnane) *** - it felt kind of like reading a terrence malick movie los perros hambrientos (ciro alegría) *** print cult...

nrh wrote: ↑Mon Sep 30, 2024 5:01 pm border district, gerald murnane

have you read the plains? i've been tempted to track down a used copy because it doesn't seem to be in print anymore.

the possessed (witold gombrowicz) ***** i seem to have a thing for books that were written with the intention of being trashy (faulkner's sanctuary, melville's pierre...) a scanner darkly (philip k dick) ** monday starts on saturday (arkady and boris strugatsky) *** not sure what to do with this one...

Martian Time Slip's one of my favorite PKDs. You think you might tackle Dhalgren? I haven't read it since it came out, but I trust it would hold up as a big fat modernist mess. A fabulous big fat modernist mess. And there's Delany's notorious porn novel, which I wasn't able to finish... i have seve...

had a lot of free time, obviously... july the stepford wives (ira levin) **** the penultimate truth (philip k dick) **** getting into sci-fi, mostly thanks to ursula chouette (claire oshetsky) **** adua (igiaba scego) *** what move the dead (t kingfisher) **** nice reworking of the fall of the house...

mexican gothic (silvia moreno-garcía) ** I read one of hers, Silver Nitrate, a couple of months ago; she knew the history of the Mexican movie industry well enough to riff convincingly on it, roman-a-clef characters and making up (I assume) amusing gossip... but it wasn't strongly plotted, and she'...

finally had a good month again, and pretty sure i didn't post may, so... may: mr fox (helen oyeyemi) **** the ballad of peckham rye (muriel spark) *** the singapore grip (jg farrell) ** - worst of the trilogy (best was troubles) mexican gothic (silvia moreno-garcía) ** - first 2/3 was actually prett...

rischka wrote: ↑Wed May 29, 2024 9:32 pm

263. The Lighthouse Keepers (Jean Gremillon, 1929) -- 466 views

one of our forum faves (maybe brian's lighthouse theme?)

does this mean i can take credit for all 466 of those views? cause i think i will...

haha, we're so against the norm that our favorite shimizu is mr. thank you which is a great film, of course, but not what i was expecting to see as his highest ranked film.

Are there any popular British novels from the 19th century that don't throw terrible male characters in the way of the female protagonist? Or a book where someone like Tess or Eustacia (thr female protagonist in RETURN OF THE NATIVE) can simply make their choices and enjoy their lives without being...

i'm reading antonio lobo antunes atm - but i'm thinking i'd like to read homer before i head to the med next year what is the best translation of homer please :) lombardo's translations are very readable. i've heard some classicists complain that they're not as accurate and recommend fagles instead...

i can't find it now, but i think strange maps had an article several years ago about phantom islands that guessed that some were placed as a copyright protection. mapmakers could demonstrate that someone copied their maps (or maybe stole their copperplates) if they put out maps that included islands...

i've been wanting to read the mountain lion for a while, but haven't gotten to it yet. i'm interested to hear what you think. the earthsea books are definitely more young adult than the hainish books, but they read quickly as a result and are definitely enjoyable.

fields, factories, and workshops (peter kropotkin) **** - mostly for the final chapter on intellectual and manual labor
a wizard of earthsea (ursula k le guin) [reread] ****
autonomy, solidarity, possibility (colin ward) ****
the philosophy of poverty (pierre-joseph proudhon) **

for what it's worth, i probably was reacting to seeing an adaptation of the novel, so the movie might actually not be that great.

Our Hospitality (Buster Keaton, John Blystone, 1923) Finis Terrae (Jean Epstein, 1929) M (Fritz Lang, 1931) Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1932) The Masseurs and a Woman (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1938) Subida al cielo (Luis Bunuel, 1952) Ajantrik (Ritwik Ghatak, 1958) Black God, White Devil (Glauber Rocha, 19...

diacritical marks are undesirable, right? so joao cesar monteiro instead of joão césar monteiro?

thanks for the work on this, therouxxx!

the ten best books i read in 2024 (will update as the year goes on): ghost town (robert coover) backlands: the canudos campaign (euclides da cunha) an enquiry concerning political justice (william godwin) the possessed (witold gombrowicz) tales from earthsea (ursula k le guin) fiasco (stanislaw lem)...

haha, if you need a palate cleanser just pick up a lispector or a le guin and you'll be all better.

23,000 (vladimir sorokin) ** - maybe moderately better than ice and slightly worse than bro, done with the trilogy sartor resartus (thomas carlyle) [reread - liked it better the first time] **** lust (collection of stories by roald dahl) * - plenty of misogynistic bullshit and rape apologism the vul...