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Reading a second book off of Sun Ra's Reading List.
A New Model of the Universe - P.D. Ouspensky

I re-read Edie Girl On Fire and finished up Anti-Social Media recently.


Still very slowly on IT, and it's been probably a month since i touched. ALso have one named "Feed" that I'm working on.

John Murdock's "The Triumphs Of Love":


Another poorly-written play from the late 1700s, this time with 100% more proto-minstrel show caricatures and a scan so bad, certain words are indecipherable. Good thing this is the last of those scripts. They are soul-crushingly awful.

i forgot to report that i finished reading bolaño’s “la literatura nazi en américa” a while ago.

took me long because i read it slowly and at first i looked up some characters to see how realistic they were, their historical context, etc.

it’s such a fucking masterpiece! so beautifully constructed, at once lyrical and satyrical, erudite and complete utter bullshit...

i want to read it and reread it like people used to read the encyclopedia hahahahaaaa

the encyclopedia of tlön...

there are many many many many many many but MANY latin american writers, and writers from other places, who tried to imitate borges, and of course failed.

this guy read borges extremely well, but instead of imitating him, bolaño took the old man’s concepts to another fucking galaxy, and made them absolutely his.

talk about the anxiety of influence. holy fuck!

this was a triumph.

a glorious work of fiction. best thing i’ve read in ages. aaaaaaaaaaages.

i mean, seriously, the power of invention of this guy... something else entirely. and the best thing is: so subtle. almost invisible.

plus many other virtues, like his moral judgment (the perspective from which characters are described), and his use of language... the guy used to be a poet and he hides it very well. by which i mean: the book reads like a novel, but the sentences are the sentences of a poet.

hats off. all the way. such a pity i didn’t meet him sooner. just incredible. eternal.

I thought you did mention it? I agree it is a wonderful book. I've read a lot of his stuff and thought it the best.

i mentioned starting it... it was a very slow trip... because it was so enjoyable, i didn't wanna cram it

im trying to get started with robbe-grillet’s “la jalousie” (jealousy) but it’s like watching flies fuck. boring descriptions of nothing at all. what’s the point of this? “theory”?

does anyone here have anything good to say about this book? have you read it? happily?

OK, I remember trying that years ago, when I wanted to appear far more sophisticated than I'll ever actually be. I reckon I got about a quarter of the way through it before conceding defeat, relegating it to a very visible place on my bookshelf, in the hope that it might impress someone. I imagine it was around the same time I was watching a lot of Theo Angelopoulos films ... or at least pretending to.

a quarter! you must be ironman. i kept getting stuck on page 3.

e.g. (paraphrasing)

“this is the column. the shadow hits the corner of the veranda...”

veranda! who gives a fuck! i wanna stab the bastard who wrote this in the eye.

i have never seen this angelopolous guy. there’s a thai filmmaker now making what im assuming it’s stuff in a similar genre. lemme look up his name...

apitchapong... “tropical malady” was goddamn unwatchable. i did like an hour of it? uffffff i think i attempted “syndromes and a century” first. or was it “uncle boonmee”? it is all a blur now. have never finished one.

eta: now i wanna try angelopoulos just to say i did hahahaha.

Angelopoulos is actually really good tbh, I just wasn't ready for him at the time and was really watching for all the wrong reasons. I watched Eternity and a Day a few months ago and loved it.

Also a general question, while I'm here:

At a loose end for something to read. Want something 'quality' but not so weighty that I'll likely never finish it ... nothing over 300 pages. Ideally post-war 2oth Century, preferably American. (Bellow? Updike? Roth? A.N. Other?)

how post-war are we talking? i mean... 40s/50s? needs to be war related? you want something more or less anthropological or...? also: fiction or non fiction?

Thinking around 50s-80s. Maybe anthropological. Definitely more socially oriented than psychological, but nothing politically crusading. More slice of life.

ok i have to work a bit but lemme throw some names and you sort them

richard wright
carson mccullers
arthur miller
james baldwin
grace paley
flannery o’connor

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eta!
oh more slice of life grace paley

flannery is great though more “metaphysical”

80s tama janowitz slaves of new york i recall was hilarious if you want to have a good time

gtg, back for lunch

Cool thanks!


richard wright - read Native Son
carson mccullers - Southern Gothic
arthur miller - I'd feel like I was back at school
james baldwin - Read Go Tell it to the Mountain.
grace paley - Never heard of her but reading her wiki doesn't seem quite what I'm ofter.
flannery o’connor - Read Wiseblood

OK, my description really wasn't very helpful. Lemme try again. Imagine if say Hannah and Her Sisters was a novel. People talking about stuff in restaurants. Artist types. Writers. Failed marriages. A definite sense of location but if it was NYC it'd be more Upper than Lower East Side, or the suburbs.

I've read Slaves of New York but that pretty much nails it.

Also read Brett Easton Ellis and the Bright Light Big City guy. Also Tom Wolfe.

Maybe give Don Delillo another go.

from the above sounds to me you want maybe a 70s flavor?

if so-- erica jong's "fear of flying" is a riot.

i'd also suggest cynthia ozick but she's more about jewish life than "new york". also, ruth puttermesser is not in anyway "cool" ha ha ha. more of a geek really. i did laugh.

oh! arthur nersesian's "the fuckup" is more of a picaresque and also not upper east side but the east village. i liked it. check it out.

oh! patti smith's book maybe? just kids? i never read it but it's about her times with mapplethorpe.

and grace paley is maybe a different milieu but she was a good writer....

ok! if all else fails, erica jong is fantastic.

i should also check out joan didion. which i haven't yet...

That's it! Perfect! I actually read it about 30 years ago but it's due another go.

Thanks!

^ great! enjoy.

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i officially cancelled the boring french novel and got joan didion’s “slouching towards bethlehem” instead. starts with a *great* preface!

jeezus fucking christ, this woman is a poet! a poet and a journalist. her descriptions are FUCKING SUBLIME.

ok. i go back to it...

Experiment of Nurture: Ablatio Penis at 2 Months, Sex Reassignment at 7 Months, and a Psychosexual Follow-up in Young Adulthood
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Finished P.D. Ouspensky's A New Model for the Universe, my 2nd book offun Ra's Reading List. https://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2020/...-universe.html

currently i'm reading The Faithful River by Stefan Żeromski

here's some more info on that book

Started reading "No Cunning Plan" by Tony Robinson this weekend.

Part way through 'I am Brian Wilson'. Great read so far.

For the Readers out there.

The 'rona 'tine has left me with some free time so I aggregated every link to every book I reviewed over the past 5 years. Most are PDF files, some are to read online. Please share with anyone looking for weird stuff to read. http://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/p/reviewed-books.html

Managing to get some solid reading done since lockdown has started. I can't remember the last time I was able to just sit for a few hours and do nothing but read. It's been nice actually.



First one was about an absolute hero Socrates. There aren't many players (there are certainly more managers) I look up to as a hero but this guy was one. Whilst he may have failed in the long run trying to change how football was run the blame can't be put down to him. Least he tried, right?



Second one I've just finished is this one. It was an absolute beast of a book and as depressing as you can imagine. However, it'd been sat on my to-read shelf for about two years so I finally took the plunge. Once I got into the rhythm of the book I really enjoyed it.

The Relive Box and Other Stories by T.C. Boyle, always enjoy Boy's short stories collections.

I would think with quarantine people would be reading more, perhaps they are and just are forgetting to contribute to this thread. I'm currently reading American Pop by Snowden Wright.

I suspect binge watching tv/movies is higher priority, or podcasts.

Just finished a great book on expository writing. Why Not Say It Clearly by Lester S. King M.D.

I found it in a stack on a "free book" shelf at work. I work at a medical school. http://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2020/0...ly-indeed.html

Just finished the first chapter in 'De Meeste Mensen Deugen', the Dutch version of Rutger Bregman's Humankind: A Hopeful History. Entertainingly written. Looking forward to reading more. I doubt I won't be able to recommend this book.

Media textbooks, in particular about agency and control (effect theories).

I'm still reading Sherlock Holmes and Franquin's comics of Gaston Lagaffe.


But to anyone who wants to read something new, this news is pretty remarkable:
for the first time ever a Dutch writer has won the International Booker Prize! Marieke Lucas Rijneveld for her debut The Discomfort of Evening, in a translation by Michele Hutchison. To emphasize the importance of the translator, they will split the prize money.
The story is about the 10 year old Jas (which directly translates to Coat) and her farmer family who lose a son after an accident. Not really a story that I would choose to read.
In a reaction the writer said she is as proud as a cow with seven udders :D

Finished this the other day. I'd started it donkeys ago and then put it down. I finally got round to going through it again and I'm so glad I did. Honestly one of the best books I've ever read. If you've an interest in film I honestly can't recommend it higher. There's a netflix series too but it wasn't able to give the broad scope it deserves.

There's a section about when the director George Stevens was with the American army liberating the concentration camps, including Dachau, that damn near ruined me. From that moment on he was never the same. How could you be? And with that it affected the films he eventually went on to do when he came back. The same was true of all five directors but Stevens' story definitely hit me the hardest.

Brilliant read.

I adored the documentary! Might just need to buckle down and read this. And the Stevens’ story is definitely the hardest hitting. I also love the thought of John Ford filming during an actual battle.

Thanks for the reminder! Definitely an interesting topic.

I'm reading Antkind by Charlie Kaufman. Laugh out loud funny.

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. 1 - Gibbons.

It seemed fitting at this time in history

i know... we’re fucked!