false 38 922 556 true 5637583 read 2 true 2253824 currently-reading 364 true 2253823 to-read 580 false 4446618 owned 305 false 4446619 unread 240 false 4111854 2009 155 false 2254174 2008 117 false 3248280 2006-or-before 64 false 2254171 2007 59 false 4446630 started--haven-t-finished-yet 26 false 2254175 second-reading http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78469862 Love & Rockets, Titan Vol 1: Maggie the Mechanic (Paperback) by Jaime Hernandez
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78469580 Species of Spaces and Other Pieces (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Georges Perec
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78468716 The Bun Field (Paperback) by Amanda Vahamaki
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78468516 Mouroir (Paperback) by Breyten Breytenbach
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78241968 Death of Satan (Paperback) by Antonin Artaud
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48749195 to: Guilty (Paperback) by Georges Bataille
bookshelves: 2009, owned
I am going to go ahead and give this five stars, despite the fact that I found it sort of meandering and boring in parts. The reason for this is that, I think, Bataille does here what he tries to do in Inner Experience, but he gets past the rambling elliptical nature of his thoughts in Inner Experience & moves on towards larger ideas that his obsessions curtail with. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57993448 to: A Season in Hell (Classic, 60s) by Arthur Rimbaud
bookshelves: 2009, owned
I read this in several sittings, and I don't think I ever "let myself go" into it until near the end. Rimbaud slays but something tells me this isn't the best translation. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77351671 to: Beate Gutschow: LS/S (Hardcover) by Natasha Egan
bookshelves: 2009
I hate it when I write a long review for a book and then for some reason Goodreads fails to save it. I guess I'll try again...

The images in this book feel remarkably uncanny and epic in their grandeur-- both the LS and the S series. LS feels more becoming-naturing, while S feels appropriately apocalyptic, but in all honesty it's the architectural structures of the S series that draw my attention. It's like an idealized version of the post-apocalypse, where half of Ballard's stories are taking place.

I also had no idea that the images were constructed, built, out of a ton of separate elements. The fact that the lighting is so well controlled is really a testament to Gutschow's brilliance. Also, the layout of the essay/discussion/interview in the center of the book is absolutely beautiful. ]]>