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09/09/07 // Book:: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Slaughterhouse Five. Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time. What else is there to say? Vonnegut was one of a kind and he’ll be missed.continue reading »
10/15/07 // Book:: Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence On every side the immense dark silence seemed pressing him, so tiny a speck, into extinction, and yet, almost nothing, he could not be extinct. Night, in which everything was lost, went reaching out, beyond stars and sun. "Stars and …continue reading »
10/15/07 // Book:: Petersburg by Andrei Bely The famous political thinker and essayist Isaiah Berlin described Bely as “a man of strange and unheard-of insights - magical and a holy fool in the tradition of Russian Orthodoxy.” One of my favorite books.continue reading »
09/09/07 // Book:: Light Years by James Salter An amazing book of hidden gems once you get past the trite new york setting, thought I’ll admit it did take me a while. If you’re looking for a good Salter book, I’d recommend <cite>A Sport And A Pastime</cite>continue reading »
09/09/07 // Book:: Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami Probably my favorite Murakami book (though I haven’t read them all)continue reading »
10/15/07 // Book:: Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov "Vladimir Nabokov was a literary genius. There is no other word with which to describe a writer who, in mid-life, became a stylistic virtuoso in a language that was not his mother tongue." —The Guardian Unlimited.continue reading »
09/09/07 // Book:: Elective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Though his most famous work is of course Faust, Goethe wrote plenty of other excellent books. Apparently he was obsessed with alchemy and chemistry, hence the title of this delightful novel.continue reading »
09/09/07 // Book:: If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino Amazing book that is somehow highly cerebral and yet still gorgeously written and has more soul than some James Brown records. A book within a book within a book… William Burroughs has a short story where a man starts off …continue reading »
09/09/07 // Book:: South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami Here’s a nice quote from a review: “In the heightened state of perception that exists just before the fall into adolescence, (for Murakami a place of sexual missteps and dark self-knowledge), where the slant of winter sun and every fiber …continue reading »
09/09/07 // Book:: Dance, Dance, Dance by Haruki Murakami I happen to love Murakami and Dance Dance Dance is a nice intro if you haven’t read him before. It’s fairly straightforward (for Murakami anyway), but still has those quintessential Murakami elements — a disaffected middle-aged man with enough quirks …continue reading »
09/09/07 // Book:: Blindness by José Saramago Saramago said, when accepting the Nobel Prize in 1998. “The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels,” and I would basically agree with him. Quite possibly one of the darkest most disturbing books I’ve …continue reading »
09/09/07 // Book:: Campo Santo by W.G. Sebald Sebald at his best: Death, destruction and memory obsessed over and exhumed in the light art, literature and nature, and, among other things, absurdity, paranoia and love.continue reading »
09/09/07 // Book:: As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner “I decline to accept the end of man.” — William Faulker in a speech to accept the Nobel Prize of Literature.continue reading »
09/09/07 // Book:: Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of th… by Haruki Murakami Wonderfully mysterious and at times bizarre, Murakami is a master of peeling back layer after layer to lead you down the meanderings of his wonderfully mysterious and at times bizarre imagination. Nothing is ever what it seems.continue reading »
09/09/07 // Book:: Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald “All forms of colour were dissolved in a pearl-grey haze; there were no contrasts, no shading any more, only flowing transitions with the light throbbing through them, a single blur from which only the most fleeting of visions emerged.” This …continue reading »

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