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Randy’s 2024 Year in Books
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"I think I haven’t clashed so violently with goodreaders’ opinion since reading Pessoa’s Book of Disquiet, but I can’t trick myself into liking this book when I didn’t care for it at all. It is beautiful, poetic, dreamlike, subtle, clever; yes. I can "
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"I read the edition translated into Scots by Wullie Weaver. Here are a few excerpts:
Repulsive Cities ∙ 2 The red brick edifices tower over the populace, signifers of a forgotten dream, of a thought abandoned in the ailing conscious of intrepid colonial" Read more of this review » |
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 Italian author extraordinaire - Italo Calvino, 1923-1985 Invisible Cities - a Calvino novel to luxuriate in, to frolic in, to set your imagination on fire. So many fine reviews of this classic have appeared over the years by writers such as Joseph McE" Read more of this review » |
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| This book is certainly literary, authored by an articulate writer and/or translator. I personally just find these artful constructions a little too cute, and by "these" I mean this and the only other Calvino book I have read, "If on a Winter’s Night ...more | |
"jason, an old high school buddy, knew i was in manhattan for a few nights and asked to meet up for dinner. fuck it, i'm a sentimental guy, and it's nice to catch up -- even with a wall street douchebag. jason told me that lisa, another old friend, wo"
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A couple difficulties: It is difficult to visualize the terrain without a map of some sort included - the hills, the three rises and hollows, the Elephant, the Shrimp Tail, etc. Difficult also to recall who's who among the large cast of characters. Nea ...more |
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A couple difficulties: It is difficult to visualize the terrain without a map of some sort included - the hills, the three rises and hollows, the Elephant, the Shrimp Tail, etc. Difficult also to recall who's who among the large cast of characters. Nea ...more |
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The men are named Willard, Duffy, Tump, and Joe Lon. The women are called Beeder, Berenice, Hard Candy, and Lottie Mae. Their world is trailer living, rattlesnake roundups, dogfights, and more whiskey intake than any mere mortal can handle. This is a ...more |
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Lost me a few times, but no matter. Graham Greene is always enjoyable.
Starts off rocky and unclear what is going on, dropping you mise-en-scène on Pag ...more " |
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“I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.”
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“Our reading was subversive, and we knew it...
I was now believing books more than I believed what I saw and heard...
What I sought in books was imagination. It was depth, depth of thought and feeling...
What I sought in books was a world (that)... actually matched the exaltation of the interior life.”
― An American Childhood
I was now believing books more than I believed what I saw and heard...
What I sought in books was imagination. It was depth, depth of thought and feeling...
What I sought in books was a world (that)... actually matched the exaltation of the interior life.”
― An American Childhood
“The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but to those who can see it coming and jump aside.”
― The Rum Diary
― The Rum Diary
“Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.”
― Fight Club
― Fight Club
“It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”
― Cannery Row
― Cannery Row
