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!@#$%! · 07.24.2014, 06:17 PM

mccarthy has sent me to a ditch over & over. i like that he makes me consult the dictionary often but eventually i fall asleep. faulkner, to the ditch again. i read some julian barnes books in the 90s but never quite liked him-- flaubert's parrot, it's his brand of morality that bothers me. for that reason there is a lot of stuff i can't stand these days--

speaking of morality, i do love emerson's old essays, he's one of my favorite moralists, like a happier more optimistic nietzsche (ah, americans!). and susan sontag makes me wish i was older so i could have met and married her (one can dream, ha ha ha)--i could read against interpretation a million times. hitchens was a fun journalist, i used to read him on the nation before his iraq schism, but i have never read a book by him. he had one against religion that maybe was well written but i don't need.

ballard is a good stylist but again hard for me to follow him book-long. i've been pecking at his atrocity exhibition for the past decade. i read a page here, a page there, look at some pictures, put him back on the shelf. a kind of porn album for the mind.

orwell's down and out in paris and london was good fun as were his little didactic novels but i don't think i could read those again. i used to have homage to catalonia which started fun with the comparison between anarchists and communists and his talk of kids falling asleep in the trenches but i lost the book somewhere at some point, damn. maybe i should look for that.

carver or do you mean his editor???? what's the name of that cranky old man? the one who cut the fat.

hemingway is for me the gold standard of english prose. in a way he ruined me for a lot else. i expect everyone to live up to his standards now, ha ha ha. cut all the fat and make every word count.

so-- between my demands for efficient syntax and for a certain morality (the morality of the text not of the writer) i am left with very little.

on that note, i think i like tim o'brian.

07.24.2014, 06:17 PM	#3565
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,683	mccarthy has sent me to a ditch over & over. i like that he makes me consult the dictionary often but eventually i fall asleep. faulkner, to the ditch again. i read some julian barnes books in the 90s but never quite liked him-- flaubert's parrot, it's his brand of morality that bothers me. for that reason there is a lot of stuff i can't stand these days-- speaking of morality, i do love emerson's old essays, he's one of my favorite moralists, like a happier more optimistic nietzsche (ah, americans!). and susan sontag makes me wish i was older so i could have met and married her (one can dream, ha ha ha)--i could read against interpretation a million times. hitchens was a fun journalist, i used to read him on the nation before his iraq schism, but i have never read a book by him. he had one against religion that maybe was well written but i don't need. ballard is a good stylist but again hard for me to follow him book-long. i've been pecking at his atrocity exhibition for the past decade. i read a page here, a page there, look at some pictures, put him back on the shelf. a kind of porn album for the mind. orwell's down and out in paris and london was good fun as were his little didactic novels but i don't think i could read those again. i used to have homage to catalonia which started fun with the comparison between anarchists and communists and his talk of kids falling asleep in the trenches but i lost the book somewhere at some point, damn. maybe i should look for that. carver or do you mean his editor???? what's the name of that cranky old man? the one who cut the fat. hemingway is for me the gold standard of english prose. in a way he ruined me for a lot else. i expect everyone to live up to his standards now, ha ha ha. cut all the fat and make every word count. so-- between my demands for efficient syntax and for a certain morality (the morality of the text not of the writer) i am left with very little. on that note, i think i like tim o'brian.
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