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What Are You Reading? Part Deux. (pg. 6)
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| Intuition |
Finishing this:
Starting this:
All to appease the longings of my inner-hippie. |
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| meltzz |
| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
I finished Joris-Karl Huysmans' À rebours today and the best comparison I can make with it is with Ellis' American Psycho, written a century later. It's a practically plotless and only has one character - a seemingly eccentric and near-solipsistic sensophile bent on living out the rest of his life detached from society and the world. He lives only to surround himself with things which please his senses - not people, but objects. It's an odd little indictment of society as a whole, but more specifically, society at the time it was written: the novel was basically a non-novel in that it followed none of the conventions, a sort of liberating Gautieresque work that never ceases in its obscurity and relentless synaesthetic descriptions in some sensory-political fashion. |
I know, it felt like it took a year for it to end. |
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| ManiX |
My dad gave it to me...and said that it's time for me to learn some stuff earlier rather than later...a great confidence booster but also very confusing at moments, can shake some people's beliefs and confidence... |
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| Lebezniatnikov |
I've been going through Pulitzer Prize winning books lately (Known World, City of God, etc.), and this is now on tap:
Same author as No Country For Old Men, etc., but my first taste of him. Unique so far. |
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| Lebezniatnikov |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov
I've been going through Pulitzer Prize winning books lately (Known World, City of God, etc.), and this is now on tap:
Same author as No Country For Old Men, etc., but my first taste of him. Unique so far. |
I started this on the metro this morning, and when I got home I had to keep reading - burned through nearly 250 pages today. Will finish tomorrow.
This book is completely messed-up, but it's riveting. |
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| Sand Leaper |
Read this on my flight back to Norway from NYC:
Quite entertaining and informative, though I don't know how much it will stand out in the crowd should MMA and UFC achieve mainstream acceptance at some point. |
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| nefardec |
Science and Spirituality, A Quantum Integration, by Amit Goswami
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| basd |
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| Meat187 |
Has someone read D. M. Thomas - The White Hotel?
I finished it recently and it's... well interesting. |
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| astroboy |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
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What did you think of it? I haven't read it, but every time Hitchens opens his mouth he comes across as an arrogant twat - which is even more annoying when I agree with what he's saying. |
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