"gringospeak" haha

Nazi Literature in the Americas...?! And you haven't found it untranslated, yet?
hot damn.

that sounds like a book worth reading.

what appealed you to bolano?? for me it was his poetry; he's a great poet.

ive just heard great reviews from people whose taste i respect and it's made me mad curious. strangely enough in y2K i took a course in chilean literature w/ a chilean prof but she made no mention of him. none whatsoever.

literatura nazi de las americas is i think a series of reviews of non-existent books, like borges. borges is my first literary hero, split my skull open when i was 12 or 13. until that it had been jules verne books and astérix and more traditionalkid narratives (pirates, adventures, & shit). his "anthology of fantastic literature" got me hooked first, and then i got a huge fat book with all his writings-- anyway, bolaño is supposed to be one of his heirs, but with a different political cant (borges turned conservative during the peron government in argentina, and then really made some fucked up statements in his old age, whereas bolaño was a proper commie shit-stirrer and a temporary prisoner of the monster known as pinochet).

anyway, i haven't read a single line by him, but i'm stoked, and i really really hope he doesn't disappoint-- im pretty sure he won't-- though who knows-- i'm very excited.

Hemingway-Across the River and into the Trees

the... interwebs?

ps- im no fan of paz as a thinker. he's anti-historicist, and i believe he uses myth as a cop-out. sort of like a surrender flag.

as a poet, his only really good poem is "piedra del sol", the rest is a bunch of formalistic pap. i know he's made an impression on sharon stone though.

Finally reading this seriously. I needed to read Brief Interviews... first before I found the love of DFW I needed to get into this...

And I've been taking breaks from Infinite Jest to read some graphic novels:

while I enjoyed the League of EG comics, I found a lot of it "off" probably because I am americana nd do not get the references to British colonialism and culture.,

I LOVE "Infinite Jest", one of my 5 favorite novels written in the last 15 years.

Yeah. I am sure a lot of it is lost on me as well, but I enjoy it all just the same. I just love the world he creates with so many great characters.

I bet anyone here would get a real kick out of Transmetropolitan. It is a great "post-cyber-punk" read, and reminds me a lot of the kind of laughs I'd get out of this board.

transmetropolitan is nice, yes.

+1

I read it recently, on my second attempt. Well worth persevering . It left me in an unusual state for a week or two after reading.

Awesome book....def. check it out if you have any interest in what's going on in Afghanistan or just to see what these dudes go through on a daily basis. Junger does a great job of depicting how combat becomes becomes both intoxicating and addictive.....there is no turning back.




I love crap like this.

rereading...

i like it. reads a bit dated today but still cool. spider jerusalem is hilarious.

The complete collection of Michel de Montaigne's Essays.

Free from Project Gutenberg.

Fucking 900 pages. Fuck yeah.

I remember my Aristotle professor slagging off Montraigne and all the modernists he had influenced.

aristotle's followers stagnated thought for millenia

Perhaps in religious philosophy but not across the board. I would say he was very well influential on the Enlightenment, Immanuel Kant, and Martin Heidegger (via destruktion).

I haven't read Alasdair MacIntyre but I know he's advocated an anti-elitist Aristotelian tradition.

I shoudl clarify, aristotle and Plato stagnated scientific endeavour, unknown to them, but becauze people love to assign "correctness" to someone and never ever question it again.

ouch! you misunderstand the true concept of myth as a means of socio-political construction of the underlying supestructures we call society and community. myth is powerful, and truly history is a living myth, but then again I am a disciple of Joseph Campbell

David Foster Wallace is truly a brilliant author. He is perhaps totally uncontended for the title of "best 'contemporary' author" in my book. (enen thought he is dead). i remember discussing his work in an american literature class i took a few years ago in which my teacher tried to argue that he killed himself because he was ultimately aware of himself and the world. mindblowing.

I loves you man but you've got to stop with the "you misunderstand" baloney when somebody disagrees with you.

Yeah, in the time of Galileo.

I don't see how this is relevant to my professor.

I've been seriously close to begging one of my friends to read this book after he watched the Lynch movie and had just an average opinion of it. Unfortunately he's one of those "I don't really like to read" types. This book is incredible, no movie version has come close to it.


This book was probably the most pleasant surprise ever going into it. I was completely blown away. Probably the scariest last 17 or so pages ever.

Been hammering through this:



Fucking hilarious! These guys did so much ridiculous stuff. I had no idea about the scientology school and stuff. And I had no idea they were so into Bowie. Very cool stuff. Will probably be extremely depressing at the end.

Surprisingly good......never boring.




Hilarious, of course.

alan moore is the most over rated comics writer ever.

i got given this for christmas and started it on the way to work this morning

Manson in His Own Words: The Shocking Confessions of 'The Most Dangerous Man Alive".

...

So dangerous buried behind them bars.

words of Manson written in red (jk).

Reading 'On the Road' again.

Deleuze's 'what is philosophy?' Which I should've got around to earlier, because it's a nice companion to 1000 plateaus (more so than Anti-Oedipus, arguably). A recommendation for those who are a bit baffled by a lot of the 'modern' French philosophy.

mindfuck

starting part two "ghosts" soon:

"The second story, Ghosts, is about a private eye called Blue, trained by Brown, who is investigating a man named Black on Orange Street for a client named White. Blue writes written reports to White who in turn pays him for his work. Blue becomes frustrated and loses himself as he becomes immersed in the life of Black."

Hmm, perhap's Moore's 'problem' is that his larger than life persona has come to eclipse his actual comics and pushed him centre stage at the expense of comparable writers like the Hernandez Bros or Frank Miller, but they both cite Moore's achievements with 2000ad and DC as a major influence on their work. Overrated? Maybe, but it's hard to know what the correct level of appreciation someone should receive is when they're responsible for writing the likes of Watchmen, V for Vendetta, Swamp Thing and the D.R. & Quinch and Halo Jones stories. Other writers may have written better comics than each of those individually (although in the case of Halo Jones, i'm struggling to think of anyone) but as a body of work it's pretty impressive if you ask me.

Read the beginning to Saul Bellow's *Dangling Man* but didn't finish before it was due back at the library. Instead of extending the checkout, I just bought *Herzog*.

Should be a nice companion for the 12 hour flight to SoKo.

hentai I got in a newsbooth in Tokyo