[Better_Than_Deux]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

guess what, i found them in the public library, thanks to your post it was in my mind the other day and when i did a search-- surprise! i grew up in spanish so gringospeak is actually still foreign to me (you'll notice at times i'm clumsy with idioms, also my syntax is more convoluted than your average english speaker-- that's my brain in spanish). anyhuevos, i've ordered Llamadas Telefónicas, will follow with Los Detectives Salvajes, etc-- meaning I'm gonna approach him chronologically. there's one called Nazi Literature in the Americas that I haven't found untranslated yet, but i'll keep looking for it.

so, thanks for bringing up this book cuz i've been meaning to read it for the last couple of years. i'd rep you if i could even if rep is meaningless-- so thanks.

"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.

[Rob Instigator]

 

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by Better_Than_Deux

"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.

[batreleaser]

Hemingway-Across the River and into the Trees

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous

!@#$% where you at?

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.

[Toilet & Bowels]

 

[ni'k]

 

[Alex's Trip]

 

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:

 

 

[Rob Instigator]

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.,

[batreleaser]

Originally Posted by Alex's Trip

 

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:

 

 

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

[Alex's Trip]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

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.,

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.

[verme (prevaricator)]

transmetropolitan is nice, yes.

[moppity]

Originally Posted by batreleaser

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

+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.

[krastian]

 

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...

 

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by verme (prevaricator)

transmetropolitan is nice, yes.

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

[pbradley]

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.

[Rob Instigator]

aristotle's followers stagnated thought for millenia

[pbradley]

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.

[Rob Instigator]

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.