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July 07
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Rupert
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Black Spring (Paperback)
by Henry Miller
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A Moveable Feast
by Hemingway, Ernest
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read in July, 2008
Rupert said:
"Written with great brevity, Hemingway sets out not to describe but to simply write true accounts of his time spent writing in Paris, an interesting series of reflections from his time with Gertrude Stein to that with Fitzgerald. There was something r...more
Written with great brevity, Hemingway sets out not to describe but to simply write true accounts of his time spent writing in Paris, an interesting series of reflections from his time with Gertrude Stein to that with Fitzgerald. There was something refreshing about the way Hemingway penned this account, it felt like a series of short letters to the reader, nothing to throttle the senses, just tastes of another world, another life lived, and perhaps giving us scope to a wider picture of humanity, the artist, the movement of the world.
The Hemingway I have read, and because I have never been too sure about reading any Hemingway, I found this worked for me on its own level....less
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July 01
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The Uncollected Dorothy Parker (Paperback)
by Stuart Y. Silverstein
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Rupert said:
"That it 'aint easy being witty, poor Dottie tossed about in her salad days which produced a tart old age, these poems, especially the "Hate Hymns" are great reads if in your mind you want someone who'll just use the right words to lash out ...more
That it 'aint easy being witty, poor Dottie tossed about in her salad days which produced a tart old age, these poems, especially the "Hate Hymns" are great reads if in your mind you want someone who'll just use the right words to lash out at society....less
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May 12
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The Black Book (Paperback)
by Lawrence Durrell
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recommended for: Anyone
Rupert said:
"I found Lawrence's prose to be utterly immersing, initially I only got so far into it and then had to start again as so dense is the painted word used by Lawrence that I found myself losing track, or smudged in. However the second attempt from scratc...more
I found Lawrence's prose to be utterly immersing, initially I only got so far into it and then had to start again as so dense is the painted word used by Lawrence that I found myself losing track, or smudged in. However the second attempt from scratch was continuous and I gave up noting words down to look up in the dictionary as Lawrence tends to fill entire sentences with wonderful words for the job that although not knowing half the meanings, I got the picture.
The story is wonderfully crass, filled with anti-erotica, kind of like if Tom Sharpe was to have written À rebours. The characters, especially Tarquin are sublime, although Gregory Death came and went losing me a bit, I never quite knew where Gregory Death stood in relation to Lawrence Lucifer - the rest were fine such as Lobo, Gracie, Clare, and Perez, but because Gregory and Lawrence were the only characters to speak in the first person I stumbled along their relationship to each other.
It is said that Lawrence felt this book to be the first time he "found his voice" and at 24 you can only imagine what that must have felt like, but Lawrence himself felt the book to be somewhat "green", I can understand that, some of the symbolic metaphors and references to obvious external influences in literature and culture were clearly the same as any artist has when cutting his teeth in the world of expression and self.
All in all, I will read this book again, no doubts about it. I have Lawrence's novel "Bitter Lemons" to look forward to but I don't think I'll read "The Alexandria Quartet", I certainly have an interest in reading Lawrence's brother's book "My family and other animals" which is the same account of one of Lawrence's novels, I forget the name of right now.
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March 22
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Marquis De Sade: His Life And Works (Paperback)
by Iwan Bloch
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Rupert
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The Vigil of Brunhild: A Narrative Poem (Hardcover)
by Frederic Manning
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Rupert
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Benny Hill: Merry Master of Mirth (Paperback)
by Robert Ross
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Rupert
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Leaves of Grass (Hardcover)
by Walt Whitman
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recommended for: Anyone
Rupert said:
"Rambling Charter towards inner freedoms and a diary of sorts in prose. There is much that Whitman explores about sexuality and as a radical, his enduring take on the world, as much an outsider as an insider, it was a shame it took so long for his wor...more
Rambling Charter towards inner freedoms and a diary of sorts in prose. There is much that Whitman explores about sexuality and as a radical, his enduring take on the world, as much an outsider as an insider, it was a shame it took so long for his work to be recognised. "Song of the Open Road", a particular favourite section, and "By the Roadside", some incredibly rich sexually explicit desires thrust forward as I imagine Walt like D.H.Lawrence exuding all that natural naked strength in spirit and in mind....less
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February 28
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Rupert
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Slapstick!: The Illustrated Story Of Knockabout Comedy (Paperback)
by Tony Staveacre
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February 25
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The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell
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