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i've seen 20, but i'm definitely not a big fan, and really hate a lot of the movies he's been in. so yeah, this isn't easy...

deer hunter
godfather part ii
frankenstein
wag the dog
raging bull

two stories [the wondrous new year's eve company; the night-thoughts of obstetrician walther vierneissel on his lost fetus-ideal] (jean paul) ***
anarchism and education (juith suisa) ***
mutual aid (peter kropotkin) *****
caleb williams (william godwin) ****
the modern school (francisco ferrer) ****

i'm not a free speech absolutist, so i personally have absolutely no problem with this idea in the abstract but no clue how to manage it in real terms. as a fellow anarchist (with rischka, hi rischka) it seems like this should be decided collaboratively and on a case by case basis. the rest of the c...

seen 13, though i don't remember most of them

the scarlet empress
morocco
dishonored
shanghai express
rancho notorious

only seen 10

the african queen
treasure of the sierra madre
casablanca
in a lonely place
to have and have not

tehanu (ursula k le guin) **** deception (roald dahl) [around 10 stories] **** biographical recreations from the cranium of a giantess (jean paul) **** las catilinarias (juan montalvo) ***** three essays (peter kropotkin) ***** the method of freedom (errico malatesta) **** parable of the sower (octa...

yep, when you make mistakes that's what happens but really, no two stick chairs should be identical, so it's just carrying on the tradition.

thanks, i'm having fun making them

https://i.ibb.co/Y8vV6Pw/IMG-4906.jpg two more stick chairs. the one on the right is for my daughter, thus the pink :lol: it was supposed to be a low back chair, but i had all kinds of problems with the arm bow so she gets a regular armchair instead. she doesn't seem to mind. and you can't see it f...

the ten best books i read in 2023: the conference of the birds (attar of nishapur) caleb williams (william godwin) mutual aid (peter kropotkin) the dispossessed (ursula k le guin) his master's voice (stanisław lem) las catilinarias (juan montalvo) lapvona (otessa moshfegh) the color line (igiaba sce...

seen 26, really should rewatch the two demy films

belle de jour
les créatures
repulsion
don't touch the white woman!
8 women
tristana
umbrellas of cherbourg
young girls of rochefort

seen 20, but don't remember him at all in quite a few of them

the man who lies
trans-europ-express
violent summer
successive slidings of pleasure
my night at maud's
three colors: red

lolly willowes! how is the printing quality on the subliminal books? it's good. seems like they shifted a bit from when they started. the early ones (like maria wutz) have the quirky contra mundum vibe, so they used small roman numerals for page numbers, that kind of thing. the later books are more...

haha lolly willowes is fantastic! cruelty (roald dahl) [8 stories, ranging from meh to very good] *** the conference of the birds (attar of nishapur) ***** the letters of abélard and héloïse ** the farthest shore (ursula k le guin) *** gates of freedom and other essays (voltairine de cleyre) **** hi...

i'd never heard of that publisher, but that's outstanding. just ordered three of them

not surprised you didn't like effi briest as a 12 year old read that and it was fine, but definitely not a favorite. it's been recommended to me to read der grüne heinrich before, maybe that should go on the to-read list.

luckily with kleist it's pretty easy. i think he wrote eight plays and around eight novellas/stories, and then just some shorter essays. never read anything bad by him, and would like to reread some of it soon. also want to read some jean paul at some point, since he's in the rabelaisian tradition f...

it's german poetic realism. i did an independent study under a guy in grad school on it, and we read storm as well as some others (fontane, raabe, some others whose names i've forgotten; edit: we also read keller, and he was probably the most interesting of the bunch). the framing aspect was a big d...

that's a spectacular film, directed by a rivette collaborator with his main star at the time (bulle ogier). definitely a favorite of mine. too bad the rest of de gregorio's films aren't quite as good.

december a wizard of earthsea (ursula k le guin) **** el juguete rabioso (roberto arlt) *** the tombs of atuan (ursula k le guin) **** troubles (jg farrell) ***** light reading month in probably the lightest reading year in quite a few. no worries, though, found plenty of good books and had other th...

so i've finished tristram shandy - as much as one can say it's ever finished. seems like he could have gone on and on. what an amazing book This was probably the book I've come closest to not finishing. I found it charming, and genuinely funny at parts, but also completely tedious to a degree I'd n...

i'll also contribute for the year renewal

rischka wrote: ↑Thu Dec 01, 2022 11:55 am also i've started reading the narrative of arthur gordon pym of nantucket thx for having me!

as a lover of well-written, terribly plotted fiction, i hope for lots of updates on that masterpiece of wtf novels.

Schamlos. Das große Buch vom Kleinen Arschloch 😂 for me: living (henry green) [reread] **** day of the oprichnik (vladimir sorokin) *** on monsters and marvels (ambroise paré) **** the comic romance (paul scarron) **** the legs of izolda morgan (bruno jasieński) [reread] **** scarron is very good i...

i've got two more in progress, should finish them up in january. these are more for lounging, but i do want to make some to replace the other chairs in the house. getting close to the point that all of my furniture is handmade.

curved back stick chair

emily brontë's wuthering heights might be the best brontë for you to read. there's barely any moralizing, or even morality, to be found, and it seems to fit the types of works you enjoy a lot more. from what i recall, tenant of wildfell hall was written in part as a response to their brother's alcoh...

about to start the comic romance, by paul scarron, who is incidentally one of the three writers (along with rabelais and cervantes) that sterne mentions worth reading in tristram shandy. never noticed him being mentioned the first time i read tristram shandy, but he caught my eye this last time, so ...

the welsh stick chair: a visual record (tim bowen) ***** the charterhouse of parma (stendhal) [reread] *** clouds/wasps/peace (aristophanes) [reread] *** wuthering heights (emily brontë [reread] *** several stories of edgar allan poe ** a gun for sale (graham greene) **** charterhouse of parma wasn'...