what are you reading?

[wba2]

Thanks! Will probably pick it up sometime in the future.

Just finished a Machida and a Dazai. The Machida was great. The Dazai not so.
Next in line: Snow Country by Kawabata.

[Joks Trois]

[patrick]

Any good? Been wanting to read this since Eli mentioned it a while back

[kanafani]

I loved it. The three Williams novels I’ve read are all wonderful.

[patrick]

Need to get on that asap!

[Joks Trois]

I've only read Stoner. Loved it. While reading it I actually thought of Ford's The Long Gray Line.

Ford would have made a great adaptation of it.

Patrick: Yes it's very good. The closest comparison I can think of is McCarthy's border trilogy, especially The Crossing, but the prose is much 'cleaner', so to speak.

[patrick]

Hmmm, interesting ! I'm a bit apprehensive approaching McCarthy, I must say

[nrh]

Hmmm, interesting ! I'm a bit apprehensive approaching McCarthy, I must say

if there's any comparison it's in setting only...love williams and this book in particular, don't like much mccarthy if any

[patrick]

I need a summer read, I think I may pick this up when I get my reading goggles back on

[kanafani]

[wba2]

THE EASY MAN (1968) by Catherine Breillat.

So far, one hell of a difficult read. I'm 40 pages in, and this is way more challenging than reading Blanchot... I think I'll start once more, and re-read everything. If it wasn't Breillat, I would have probably givn up and put it down already.

[kanafani]

[Joks Trois]

Augustus (Williams). Did not expect it to be this engaging. His prose scans seamlessly, and I like how the narrative is constructed from letters and journal entries and moves around in time without ever being confusing.

This book deserves more attention.

[thoxans]

automate the boring stuff with python (al sweigart) thank god i finally watched monty python and the holy grail, or this would be going right over my head

[kanafani]

The Drowned and the Saved (Primo Levi) - A disappointment. Can't hold a candle to his older memoirs in my opinion. He's at his strongest when he's focused on narrating the events of his surreal, astonishing personal journey, not so much when he's in synthesis/philosophizing mode. There's not enough of the former here, and too much of the latter. It feels kind of redundant and a little banal and at its worst.

[kanafani]

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I'm reading the third Tom Ripley novel because The American Friend is playing in theatres soon in Vancouver, and also because after working ten hours I don't have the mental capacity to read Dostoevsky's Demons on the way home (which is what I had been working on before)

[karl]

[rischka]

i wish my spanish was good enough to read this in the original: i imagine it's even more achingly beautiful

[nrh]

master of ballantrae by robert louis stevenson - wish i had read this as a kid. there is something very uncanny that runs through it all...

[kanafani]

[Roscoe]

FALSTAFF by Robert Nye -- great randy fun, as Shakespeare's character sets the record, well, not exactly straight, but wildly engagingly crooked. Not for the easily triggered, though...

[wba]

Pretty great so far.

[Joks Trois]

Hemingway - To Have and Have Not

[Joks Trois]

Faulkner - Absalom, Absalom!

[kanafani]

[fabricix]

Music For Chameleons - Truman Capote,

[kanafani]

[pabs]

Jewish family life, its quirky beliefs, fatalistic humour, and Jewish culture in general, fascinate me. Jewish people have an amazing coping mechanism, a result of the hostility they've suffered over many centuries in every country they settled in. It shows in the way they do things, in their acceptance of things as fated. Aciman's account of his extended family's time in Egypt is as tragic as it is fun.

[karl]