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Ian Graye said:
"Re-reading now. Review to come...In Pursuit of Exuberance
I first read this in the mid-to-late 70's.
For a long time, I would have rated Bellow as one of my favourite three to five authors and Augie as one of my top three novels.
I haven't re-read it, b...more "
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"Jeremy wrote: "Is it because she's a woman driver..."
Do you think Nick could have been Jordan's caddy or her handbag?" |
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"This is a remarkable undertaking, Hadrian. I frequently dip into this, and will read it when I've done some more Hegel reading.
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This is a deeply contradictory book, which is at times wise, measured, and methodological, and yet at other times deeply flawed and irritating.
This was a book incubated during the Second World War, an epistemological look at the origins of totali... " Read more of this review » |
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Paul's review of In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time, #2):
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I didn't enjoy this volume quite as much as volume one; but nevertheless it was still excellent moving in time from the early to the late teens of the narrator. In many ways the narrative story is superfluous. Proust's genius lies in his descripti...
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"Con McVeety wrote: "this an example of the American novel."
I still have a sneaking suspicion that I'll continue to prefer Augie March." |
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"...There are two graves left.You wouldn't want to buy mine, would you? I'm not going to lie around. I'm having myself cremated. I need action. I'd rather go into the atmosphere. Look for me in the weather reports."
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In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time #2)
"Thanks for highlighting the quote in the last paragraph. I didn't register it, but it's quite important as a reversal or mirror image of the process o...more
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“And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.
So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
“At the end, all that's left of you are your possessions. Perhaps that's why I've never been able to throw anything away. Perhaps that's why I hoarded the world: with the hope that when I died, the sum total of my things would suggest a life larger than the one I lived.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.”
― Hunter S. Thompson
― Hunter S. Thompson
“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano
― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano
“Anyway -- because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next -- and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis -- at any time of night or day.”
― Kurt Vonnegut
― Kurt Vonnegut
Simplexity in Literature (Literature & Fiction)
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updated May 06, 2013 01:26pm
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This material is designed to explore the concept of difficult or hard novels, complexity and readability. It will also argue for a place for simplexity in literature
Marcel Proust: In Search of a Pastime and Place (Literature & Fiction)
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updated May 04, 2013 12:48pm
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Musings on Proust
Apparently, Last Night Part 3 (Romance)
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updated Apr 29, 2013 08:47pm
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Baby baby, where did our love go?
Much of the prose and poetry in this folder is an experiment in a topic about impossible love or alien love or unrequited love.
If they start to work for me, I might try to develop them into a more ambitious idea.
I've tried to dig into 35 years of relationships for what little inspiration I could glean.
I hope nobody takes offence at them.
Love and lust manifest themselves in many ways, some of them impossible, improbable, impractical, inconvenient or just plain unexpected.
A Good Sentence Requires a Prior Conviction (Reference)
3 chapters
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updated Apr 17, 2013 05:16pm
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This is a list of sentences in Good Reads reviews that appealed to me for some or any or no good reason. (In some cases, in Chapter 2, the judicial temperament in me has dismissed the appeal.)
This work (more a labour of love) is inspired by and dedicated to Paul Bryant's review of "How to Write a Sentence" by Stanley Fish:
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/153632634
Apparently, Last Night Part 2 (Romance)
More of Ian’s writing…
28 chapters
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updated Mar 21, 2013 01:04pm
Description:
Baby baby, where did our love go?
Much of the prose and poetry in this folder is an experiment in a topic about impossible love or alien love or unrequited love.
If they start to work for me, I might try to develop them into a more ambitious idea.
I've tried to dig into 35 years of relationships for what little inspiration I could glean.
I hope nobody takes offence at them.
Love and lust manifest themselves in many ways, some of them impossible, improbable, impractical, inconvenient or just plain unexpected.
The Kindred Spirits
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Roberto Bolano's "The Savage Detectives"
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This group is designed to help readers share pleasure, pain, questions, answers, views, reviews and comments about "The Savage Detectives".
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A place to chat about anything that emerges. We're pretty relaxed, and our attitudes mostly are mild. Make friends. Be authentic. Get mad. Laugh. Knoc...more
Haruki Murakami's "1Q84"
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Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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The blurb asks the questions about Humbert Humbert: "Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is h...more
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