cwmbrancity Posted September 18, 2016 Share Posted September 18, 2016 (edited) Surrealism & the Occult by Nadia Choucha, a balanced blend of academic rigor & a myriad of threads all succinctly unpicked & inter-woven. Its accompanied a hot summer & nails allusion, networks & interpreting how particular figures evolved their approaches, rather than the typical the long leather coat chaos wrapped in veiled bs line of inquiry. Only quibble is it helps to reference google images to let your eyes breathe & rummage fully @ the intensity of wonder. Tasty brain food & hits this sweet spot/10 edit for possible double post review last page div move Edited September 18, 2016 by cwmbrancity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bechuga Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 Finished In the Approaches by Barker, good stuff. Now onto [TRIGGER WARNING] V. by Pynchon [/TRIGGER WARNING] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doublename Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 V is super duper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KovalainenFanBoy Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 IJ is so fucking long yea I get it Foster alcoholix anonymous is giving up your will too. can we move on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubin Farr Posted September 24, 2016 Share Posted September 24, 2016 Excellent read; maps, charts, illustrations, articles on Vulcan society, characters, history, ships, weapons, religion, mating, etc. All for a made up planet from a 50 year old TV show. Recommended. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dingformung Posted September 24, 2016 Share Posted September 24, 2016 António Lobo Antunes - Knowledge of Hell (1980) "Like his creator, the narrator of this novel is a psychiatrist who loathes psychiatry, a veteran of the despised 1970s colonial war waged by Portugal against Angola, a survivor of a failed marriage, and a man seeking meaning in an uncaring and venal society. The reader joins Antunes on a journey both real and phantasmagorical as he travels by car from a vacation in the Algarve back to his hated work as a psychiatrist at a Lisbon mental institution. In the course of one long day and evening, he carries on an imaginary conversation with his daughter Joanna, observes with surreal vision the bleak countryside of his nation, recalls the horrors of his involuntary role in the suppression of Angolan independence, and curses the charlatanism of contemporary psychiatric "advances" that destroy rather than heal." It's good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doublename Posted September 24, 2016 Share Posted September 24, 2016 Have to give that a look, The Land at the End of the World was brilliant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keanu reeves Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 finished book three of knausgaard's struggle. might stop there. i've got to live my own life. also finished this: stories here get weirder as you move through the collection, which is 600 pages long. goes from literary fiction to metaphysical surrealism. maybe not quite at the level of borges as some people have suggested, but lispector was a major writer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bechuga Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 Have my Jerusalem, which I shall read after Albert & Emily. Here is how small the words are in it: And there's 1200 pages of this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doublename Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 (edited) lel you picked the wrong time to deviate from e-books just added that Lispector jawn to my hold list a the library Edited September 26, 2016 by doublename Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alcofribas Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 (edited) finished book three of knausgaard's struggle. might stop there. i've got to live my own life. also finished this: stories here get weirder as you move through the collection, which is 600 pages long. goes from literary fiction to metaphysical surrealism. maybe not quite at the level of borges as some people have suggested, but lispector was a major writer. lol book 3 was a bit of a slouch in the series but I think it's worth it to keep going. Book 5 is especially good. although you might have just been aiming for a lol there nice to see some lispector love. Edit: if you're not familiar with her novel The Passion According to G.H., I highly recommend it. Edited September 26, 2016 by Alcofribas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QQQ Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 i finished The Naked and the Dead which was brilliant, particularly the final quarter or so. now i'm going to read a few smaller novels; i started reading What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami. i don't have a massive interest in running but it sounded interesting and reading some non-fiction is nice for a change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DyeMyBlueBlack Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 IJ is so fucking long yea I get it Foster alcoholix anonymous is giving up your will too. can we move on pg ~300 atm the story by yrstruly pg 128... amazing writing and later,of poor tony's withdrawals disturbing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bechuga Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 IJ is so fucking long yea I get it Foster alcoholix anonymous is giving up your will too. can we move on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leon Sumbitches Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 Looking for a good history of computing, any watmm-approved suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KovalainenFanBoy Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 IJ is so fucking long yea I get it Foster alcoholix anonymous is giving up your will too. can we move on I finally read the thing (7 months ) and ended up with a thousand questions. Read the first chapter again and ended up with two thousand questions. Guess I'm gonna have to read the whole thing again (or at least the actual-plot relevant parts, which is about 30% of the book) sometime, in about 10 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tec Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 Only a few chapters in and the author has spent a lot of time fawning over Lorna Byrne, who I had always assumed was talking bollocks, but we shall see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doublename Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 (edited) The Vorrh by Brian Caitling. It's a bit like 100 Years of Solitude crossed with The Crystal World by JG Ballard. Right up my alley tbqh. Edited October 3, 2016 by doublename Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bechuga Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 IJ is so fucking long yea I get it Foster alcoholix anonymous is giving up your will too. can we move on I finally read the thing (7 months ) and ended up with a thousand questions. Read the first chapter again and ended up with two thousand questions. Guess I'm gonna have to read the whole thing again (or at least the actual-plot relevant parts, which is about 30% of the book) sometime, in about 10 years. < David Fucking Wallace Also congrats on finishing it! I should reread it eventually, sure there's a few things I missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dingformung Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 Started to read Infinite Jest 1 or 2 years ago but never finished. Should try to read it one more time because it's so unique and weird. Tried in English first but had to use the dictionary 5 times per sentence, so I switched to German - very impressive translation work I think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimpyLoo Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 My g/f's read Infinite Jest like 5-6 times but I couldn't get past page 20 and I've tried multiple times Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doublename Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 Just read White Noise, yo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KovalainenFanBoy Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 Started to read Infinite Jest 1 or 2 years ago but never finished. Should try to read it one more time because it's so unique and weird. Tried in English first but had to use the dictionary 5 times per sentence, so I switched to German - very impressive translation work I think at one point I just started guessing word's meanings when they were non-essential, i.e. describing wallpaper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dingformung Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 Yeah I think the style is very impressionistic: You don't have to get every detail - that would drive you crazy - but let the story create some lose pictures in your head Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caze Posted October 5, 2016 Share Posted October 5, 2016 death is merely an evolutionary adaptation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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