false 3 51 28 true 5631820 read 2 true 3434358 currently-reading 21 true 3434357 to-read <![CDATA[New GiveawayRequest update]]> <![CDATA[Armando added 'My Fault']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62240916 to: My Fault (Paperback) by Billy Childish
The author, Childish is first and foremost most well known as a musician of "garage rock" years (1980's,1990's-now) before it was homogenized and corporatized by the likes such as the horrible, antithetical of rock and roll White Stripes. He paints, he writes, B. Childish avoids fame and pretense, whatever he continues to create remains to be punk rock, a living body of art not "art". ]]> <![CDATA[Armando added 'The Skating Rink']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70801141 The Skating Rink (Hardcover) by Roberto Bolaño
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]]> <![CDATA[Armando added 'Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35738186 Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard (Hardcover) by Richard Brody
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]]> <![CDATA[Armando added 'The Romantic Dogs']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62239483 to: The Romantic Dogs (New Directions Paperbook) by Roberto Bolaño
]]> <![CDATA[Armando added 'The Mirror in the Well']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52515248 to: The Mirror in the Well (Paperback) by Micheline Aharonian Marcom
The novella The Mirror in the Well by Mcheline Aharonian Marcom is a pared down construct entact with exquisite prose that manages to get it's reader excited about the discovery of a great new writer. This novella also seems to me to be a modern nod back to classical pagan eros. Apart from the nameless man and nameless woman character, the third character is the only one who gets specification, completing a veritable erotic triangle, undeniably is the woman's sex, or as Marcom heavily refers to with the power use of the word cunt. In a matter of fact, despite the female character's existentialist psychological construct, the woman's sex or cunt receives the most in descriptives. Marcom, by heavily employing the "c-word", makes it her own and apart of the vocabulary of modern feminine eros. The repeated use of the word cunt (while reading, one can't but help wonder what the use count really is) seems to me to be a signifier for the nameless woman and for all nameless women's displaced raison d' etre. ]]> <![CDATA[Armando is on page 400 of The Romantic Dogs ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62239483 Armando is finished with The Romantic Dogs ]]> <![CDATA[Armando added 'A Fan's Notes']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62238840 to: A Fan's Notes (Paperback) by Frederick Exley
]]> <![CDATA[Armando added 'Letters to a Young Contrarian']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64438566 to: Letters to a Young Contrarian (Art of Mentoring) by Christopher Hitchens
]]> <![CDATA[Armando added 'God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64437663 to: God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (Hardcover) by Christopher Hitchens
The book's subtitle says it all. Unfortunately the people that will most likely read this book are not those that really should read it. ]]>