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Jan 23, 2006 19:07:07 GMT -5
Post by dr. strangelove on Jan 23, 2006 19:07:07 GMT -5
i read perhaps a little too much, but i am guilty of sticking with a lot of "hipster classics," as todd put it... off the top of my head, in 2005 i:
reread all of salinger's stories, as i am liable to do during the summer
the new bret easton ellis (and reread informers & american psycho before that)
the new joan didion (which broke my heart and is one of the greatest books written in the last decade, even though everyone is saying that)
the new jt leroy (and a reread of sarah for the hell of it, since i love that book so much)
a bunch of pinter (i finished my theatre thesis on him, finally, but i still enjoy his work immensely)
the new harry potter
i began proust (well, i read about half of the first volume, but i realized i needed to stop and start over when i can dedicate my life to the damn thing)
a couple books that were "required reading" for my queer theory class, but we never got around to reading (american studies, faggots, and john and dave )
this year, i haven't read much yet, but i just picked up brokeback mountain (to see if proulx deserves the hype) and the neutral milk hotel 33 1/3 book (damn you amazon! hurry!)
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Jan 23, 2006 21:28:30 GMT -5
Post by kevin on Jan 23, 2006 21:28:30 GMT -5
oh yeah, i read a gay book that i forgot about. dancer from the dance. horribly depressing, but real.
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poe poe
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Jan 23, 2006 22:01:59 GMT -5
Post by poe poe on Jan 23, 2006 22:01:59 GMT -5
re: vonnegut - breakfast of champions is great, as are many of his...
just got through "the lover" by marguerite duras for a class i'm taking, quick read and really quite pretty
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Jan 24, 2006 10:44:35 GMT -5
Post by byronhulcher on Jan 24, 2006 10:44:35 GMT -5
re: vonnegut - breakfast of champions is great, as are many of his... Vonnegut is my personal god |
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Jan 25, 2006 17:02:21 GMT -5
Post by eyeless on Jan 25, 2006 17:02:21 GMT -5
a bunch of pinter (i finished my theatre thesis on him, finally, but i still enjoy his work immensely) my partner is devouring pinter at the moment, so the appartment is filled with books of his or analysis upon him in addition to the general clutter of her readings... [mostly modern theatre, women studies and queer theory] and this is her year off... i'm rather certain that she will likely end up being a university prof when she finishes her degrees. |
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Jan 26, 2006 1:38:33 GMT -5
Post by dr. strangelove on Jan 26, 2006 1:38:33 GMT -5
i thought i'd be a university prof eventually, but i'm currently teaching ESL... go figure
as for analysis, if she doesn't already have it, i HIGHLY suggest the pinter problem by quigley... his analysis of "landscape" is incredible, and his linguistic analysis of the caretaker brings up some intriguing stuff...
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Jan 26, 2006 2:52:05 GMT -5
Post by eyeless on Jan 26, 2006 2:52:05 GMT -5
heh yes, the pinter problem is in a pile right under the desk. she's reading pinter. a study of his plays by martin esslin in addition to his works through the 70s at the moment. however i will forward the high recomendation.
almost everyone we know teaches esl. a bunch over in asia and a bunch in toronto... it has been a rather interesting phenomenon to watch.
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Jan 26, 2006 10:28:03 GMT -5
Post by dr. strangelove on Jan 26, 2006 10:28:03 GMT -5
the esslin book is ok... it was basically an apology for lumping pinter into the "prosletytes and parallels" chapter in theatre d'absurd, but he never seems to get anywhere in it... most of my thesis was about refuting esslin and showing how pinter had more in common with the british "angry young men" than the french absurdists
i'm not even teaching ESL overseas, where at least i would be getting paid rather handsomely for it... i need to get into a graduate program
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Jan 27, 2006 4:38:37 GMT -5
Post by eyeless on Jan 27, 2006 4:38:37 GMT -5
heh... she was rather embarased at the revealing of the esslin. aaah well. a reading guide to prevent her from straying entirely into overinterpretation...
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Jan 28, 2006 15:49:29 GMT -5
Post by dr. strangelove on Jan 28, 2006 15:49:29 GMT -5
she shouldn't be embarrassed... if you're going to study pinter, knowing esslin's analysis is really important, as it controlled the direction of pinter analysis for many years... but there's def better material out there now
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Jan 28, 2006 16:19:54 GMT -5
Post by ihaveaflamegun on Jan 28, 2006 16:19:54 GMT -5
im reading Harold's End (JT Leroy) and am about to start The Piano Teacher (Elfriede Jelinek). just picked up Here Be Monsters by Alan Snow also and can't wait to get to it
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Jan 29, 2006 13:44:18 GMT -5
Post by dr. strangelove on Jan 29, 2006 13:44:18 GMT -5
im reading Harold's End (JT Leroy) that is such a good piece... it's short, but i ended up reading it like 3 times in a row when i picked it up... enjoy |
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Feb 8, 2006 18:12:39 GMT -5
Post by ihaveaflamegun on Feb 8, 2006 18:12:39 GMT -5
im reading Harold's End (JT Leroy) that is such a good piece... it's short, but i ended up reading it like 3 times in a row when i picked it up... enjoy finally picked it up and read it in the bathtub. just finished. really great. i will defiantly read it again. it was like salinger eating richard bach while reading teen-beat thinking about drugs. again, awesome stuff |
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Feb 8, 2006 19:15:59 GMT -5
Post by dr. strangelove on Feb 8, 2006 19:15:59 GMT -5
that is such a good piece... it's short, but i ended up reading it like 3 times in a row when i picked it up... enjoy finally picked it up and read it in the bathtub. just finished. really great. i will defiantly read it again. it was like salinger eating richard bach while reading teen-beat thinking about drugs. again, awesome stuff and to think it was all written by a heterosexual woman pretending to be a quasi-transgendered/ former adolescent male prostitute... |
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Feb 9, 2006 11:22:34 GMT -5
Post by urgeintheicebox on Feb 9, 2006 11:22:34 GMT -5
i re-read 'franny and zooey' (obviously), tried a crack at 'the wanting seed' (never finished it, but go somewhat through it on a par of sorts), for some reason read 'the lion ...' while listening to 'a promise', i suppose i was trying to combust the world or some such nonsense, and then there was my birthday present of 'the amazing colossal guide to mst3k' (seasons 1-6) and 'mixtape: the art of the cassette', which is edited by thurston moore, with *shock* refrencing towards his marriage with kim gordon, i was scandalized.
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