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July 29
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Will
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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair: Dual Language Edition (Paperback)
by Pablo Neruda
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February 07
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Cosmopolis (Paperback)
by Don DeLillo
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Will
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The Heart of a Dog (Paperback)
by Mikhail Bulgakov
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read in February, 2008
Will said:
"'Master and Margarita' is one of my all time favorites, so I had to read 'The Heart of a Dog', right? Yeah. Read it. It's ok. It's short enough. The absurdity is there. It doesn't flow so interestingly as M&M. The allegory of the revolutio...more
'Master and Margarita' is one of my all time favorites, so I had to read 'The Heart of a Dog', right? Yeah. Read it. It's ok. It's short enough. The absurdity is there. It doesn't flow so interestingly as M&M. The allegory of the revolution is there. The premise is much better than the execution....less
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November 16, 2007
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Will
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Laughable Loves (Paperback)
by Milan Kundera
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read in February, 2008
Will said:
"I like it. The stories are good. Go get it. Go read it. What are you waiting for?
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October 17, 2007
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Will
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The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll (New York Review Books Classics)
by Alvaro Mutis
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Will said:
"Hookers and Hoes, Monkies and fools, this here peach colored book, written by a poet that sold out, that worked for MGM, a poet that was more than 70 at the start and who should be dead by now if only because it's too damn torturous to know he's prob...more
Hookers and Hoes, Monkies and fools, this here peach colored book, written by a poet that sold out, that worked for MGM, a poet that was more than 70 at the start and who should be dead by now if only because it's too damn torturous to know he's probably too senile to write and one-- meaning, I might kill him myself-- because there's no waiting for another. Albeit, there are seven novellas, but all totaled they're bigger than some books that are too long already, but to short for a book this good.
I've read this a couple of times. This was, when I read it, the book I hailed as the essential adventure, the cusp of life, the type I'll read about. My god, just read it. Just read the first fucking novella and you'll probably start by saying it's like Heart of Darkness, and end by saying it's like Nabokov found Mellville and chased him through the Amazon Rainforest. It's just a good goddamned book, and read the other reviews about it.
Why did I give it a four when there ain't another book that would rank higher? Because I work on a scale of 1 to 4.
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October 12, 2007
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Will
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Children of the Alley: A Novel (Paperback)
by Naguib Mahfouz
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read in November, 2007
Will said:
"I've been pushed into it. The Egyptians generally read this one. It's big. It's about God and the three profits: Moses, Jesus and Mohammed. I'm glad someone told me before I really got into it. It's allegory. Thanks. The old man is god and ada...more
I've been pushed into it. The Egyptians generally read this one. It's big. It's about God and the three profits: Moses, Jesus and Mohammed. I'm glad someone told me before I really got into it. It's allegory. Thanks. The old man is god and adam gets kicked out of the house and down the alley.
I'll let you all know. ...less
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October 11, 2007
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Will
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Come On In! (Paperback)
by Charles Bukowski
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read in February, 2008
Will said:
"I read Bukowski and Carver all the time. I finish carver and have more bukowski to go. I like him, always. I listen to him and let him read to me. I also read him aloud and get the twists. I like it all. I don't just like early ones and late on...more
I read Bukowski and Carver all the time. I finish carver and have more bukowski to go. I like him, always. I listen to him and let him read to me. I also read him aloud and get the twists. I like it all. I don't just like early ones and late ones... but I don't care too much for his short stories, and especially not his novels. He's a poet to me. Unless someone has a short story to recommend, I've put them down. don't touch them.
I'm reading this one now. Brough it with me all the way to cairo in a suitcase. along with another two. Bukowski ain't over. don't care if you say he is. he ain't for me. good ones aren't. fads are. good ones ain't.
so what? you beg to differ. well who the fuck are you and let's see the size of your nut sack... couldn't kick those, nope....less
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Will
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Angel of Darkness (Hardcover)
by Ernesto Sábato
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Will said:
"Fucking real deal here. Why the 3 stars? Because three stars out of three stars is the best. I'm grading on 3 stars. This guy will not let you finish him, but he will let you love him in the first 100 pages. I love this guy. I read some of the ...more
Fucking real deal here. Why the 3 stars? Because three stars out of three stars is the best. I'm grading on 3 stars. This guy will not let you finish him, but he will let you love him in the first 100 pages. I love this guy. I read some of the Tombs too, and he got me into that. This is the real counter part to Borges, in novel form. He's a king of lit. ...less
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Will
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By Night in Chile (Paperback)
by Roberto Bolaño
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Will said:
"We can't thank Bolano now. Neruda makes a cameo. Who else. I heard a lot of names in this book. Read a lot of names. They were there and I have to say, if I ever had the time, maybe in a century, I'd read a lot of these other writers he mentions...more
We can't thank Bolano now. Neruda makes a cameo. Who else. I heard a lot of names in this book. Read a lot of names. They were there and I have to say, if I ever had the time, maybe in a century, I'd read a lot of these other writers he mentions. But who needs to. He has embedded them into his story. it's a fine read, and a short read, for once, for 4 hours, and I'm not one of those who reads 80 pages an hour either (mother fuckers). I read this one pretty quick though, on a park bench in a dumb ass university setting, just realizing after the first few pages that I might not see a paragraph break through the whole shitty book. Hey. And then there are hawks eating shitting birds and a catholic priest teaching pinoche about communism and santiago critics, gay, and whatnot. go get it.
But there are two others that I liked that this little system didn't give me the choice of selecting. They'll be on the shelves: Last Night on Earth Stories; and The Slky Writer (or something... funny I don't remember the title, I liked this one best... it was fucking aesthetically pleasingyy, and you wouldn't think it by reading the topical sort of shit on the back... you'd think, the wrong side of my taste, but it's right up your alley if you dig the artist for no other reason, the artist for no other god damned reason than creating... it's that story... the artist that will be hunted and killed one day... get it... and the short stories aren't too bad.)))...less
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