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Post by margaras on May 13, 2008 20:42:08 GMT
if there was a "waitress" suppliment with this one, i would go for it no bother. as it stands, i'm going to wait until its released and some feedback comes online regarding it. it could well be as good as "comfort and critique" or it could be as poor as "predicate".
i'm really not that keen on limited editions, i would much rather a paperback. but i'm guessing sotos doesn't sell all that much, realistically.
my membership is still pending for the sotosmoderated yahoo group. its getting to be a pain as i cant post on there yet.
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Post by drillbitch on May 13, 2008 20:42:26 GMT
Not sure how many others here would be interested in it but I'm just reading God's Lonely Men by Pete "Esso" Haynes who used to drum with The Lurkers. They were always one of my favourite punk bands back when I was a spiky young whippersnapper (I used to fondly imagine their song 'Just Thirteen' had been written just for me). It saddens me a little to see one founding member still trundling around the punk fest circuit with a cartooinish parody of the band related in name alone to the originals. Sometimes it's better to just let bands rest in peace rather than flog a dead horse.
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Post by motownoni on May 15, 2008 19:13:43 GMT
currently reading: the transformation of war by martin van creveld and pamberi nechi shona- textbook also awaiting: Chris Cocks-Out of Action
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Post by Joe Chip on May 16, 2008 6:02:08 GMT
I can recommend her unfinished autobiography 'Smile Please' unreservedly. Also the Didion novel from sypha's list. I was suitably blind drunk while discussing Malcolm Lowry's 'Under The Volcano' with someone the other day. What a fantastic book.
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Post by dat500 on May 20, 2008 23:28:42 GMT
hmm, in two minds as to buy this or not. i thought "predicate" and "show adult" were really weak, and mainly boring. i do think "comfort and critique" was a masterpiece, though "selfish little" and "tick" come very close also. the photography and film script aspects sound promising, as those concerns made for some of his strongest moments in previous works, but the "revisiting previous writings" and "glory hole culture" remarks in that blurb make me hesitate. maybe it's just me, but i find the glory hole / booth stuff in his books since "lazy" to be totally uninteresting. "predicate" definately suffered as a work by over-mining this terrain. and why did they use such a shitty (pun unintended) image on that page? it may seem like a small thing, but given the hefty price tags and insuffient binding in "show adult" and all the typos in "proxy" it is relevant to some extent. The first Sotos book I read was the Total Abuse compilation, which I still have a soft spot for. Some of the work in there is incredible and I probably return to it more than any of his other books. Out of the three original Creation Books, I'd have to go with Index, there are two moments in that book that sum up everything great about Sotos and I found Lazy and Tick nowhere near as strong. I'm with you on Comfort and Critique, which is the best of the recent three, although I do rate Show Adult. I'm also a big fan of Selfish, Little.
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Post by unmanateeandalu on May 23, 2008 8:55:15 GMT
I'll have to check that out; apart from Ada or Ardor the only other Nabokov I've read is Lolita. Having finished Ada I highly recommend it. It's a German collection called Frühling in Fialta, and since there's an English book by Nabokov called Spring in Fialta I suppose they might be identical in content. It's a rewarding read, not least because you get to know quite a bit about the man himself, especially about his feelings towards being a person living in exile. His sense of tragic is overwhelmingly evident in most of the stories, as is of course his unique sense of humour. Be sure to check out a story of his called Fairy Tale. Another favourite of mine, while not included in said collection, is Wingstroke, which you can quite easily find at Google. ;D Wingstroke is amazing, who knew that a short story that starts out about skiing could end so luminously?! Nabokovs short stories are astonishing. I've got the Penguin collection which seems to be fairly comprehensive, and includes Wingstroke.Looking at amazon,looks like the current available edition has a different cover, so I'm not certain the contents the same. There has been some debate recently about Nabokovs last, unfinished novel, which he made his son promise to burn just before he died. After years of dithering the son has decided to publish...
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Post by unmanateeandalu on May 23, 2008 9:14:56 GMT
Yes I suspected as much...I'm suprised no-one has mentioned The Eyes by Jesus Ignacio Aldapuerta here, a collection of genuinely nasty short stories. I would also recommend The Consumer by Michael Gira but I imagine most people here are already familiar with it. I'm pretty sure that an old AK Press catalogue states that The Eyes is a fake by Jeremy Reed. Can't find it at the moment though, and no sign of this info online that I can see.
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Post by drillbitch on May 23, 2008 14:26:01 GMT
Yes I suspected as much...I'm suprised no-one has mentioned The Eyes by Jesus Ignacio Aldapuerta here, a collection of genuinely nasty short stories. I would also recommend The Consumer by Michael Gira but I imagine most people here are already familiar with it. I'm pretty sure that an old AK Press catalogue states that The Eyes is a fake by Jeremy Reed. Can't find it at the moment though, and no sign of this info online that I can see. Interesting. It wouldn't surprise me if it was someone writing under a pseudonym, either but it has got a couple of exceptionally nasty pieces in it...the kind of imagery you probably wouldn't want to credit with your own name.
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Post by luke on Oct 27, 2008 9:30:58 GMT
'So You Think You're Human?' by Felipe Fernández-Armesto is a very readable examination of how the idea of 'humankind' has changed over history, and may be of interest to anyone who enjoyed John Gray's 'Straw Dogs'
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Post by unmanateeandalu on Dec 21, 2008 15:31:09 GMT
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Post by Imaginary Forces on Sept 13, 2009 13:49:51 GMT
Some of my favourite books...
A thiefs journal, Jean Genet. My idea of fun, Will Self. Cock and Bull, Will Self. Naked Lunch, WIlliam S Burroughs. Cobble Stone Gardens, William S Burroughs. Atrocity Exhibition, J G Ballard. Crash, J G Ballard. Queer, William S Burroughs. Whitechapel, Scarlet Tracings, Ian Sinclair. The Trial, Franz Kafka. Aniara, Harry Martinson. Ulysses, James Joyce. The Book Of The Law, Liber Al. We, Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin. etc...
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Post by borderland on Feb 9, 2010 16:03:22 GMT
don't know if this has cropped up before:
The Diary of Geza Csath
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Post by Imaginary Forces on Feb 19, 2010 4:40:58 GMT
I am just about to start reading a collection of Paul Bowles short stories that I was given recently. I am quite lookig forward to it.
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