false 980541 Closely Watched Trains, Sebald's Rings of Saturn or Wilson's Wound and the Bow, though I think (the first half of) Ulysses is the best prose work I've ever read and The Open Society and Its Enemies the most important. The best book I've read of late is Primo Levi's Periodic Table, and my favorite book by a living author is either Aravind Adiga's White Tiger or Eduardo Galeano's Soccer in Sun and Shadow. My least favorite "real" author is either Nabokov, Faulkner, or Pynchon, and my most dreaded real literature the English poetry of the 18th & 19th c's.]]> male The United States 03/2008 12/2009 1084027 Lorri Bauston 7 934 923 true 5790116 read 2 true 2010211 currently-reading 9 true 2010210 to-read 0 false 5029140 great-premise-----oh-well Memories of the Future (Paperback) by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/82057734 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255572780s/5984292.jpg 980541 Matvei http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1238493691p2/980541.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/980541-matvei Sat, 26 Dec 2009 08:36:01 -0800
Review forthcoming. I'm losing sleep over this - and when I do sleep, it's authoring my dreams. Like Kafka set adrift with Winsor McCay in a metropolis of the Italian Futurists': amazing book!]]> The Case of Comrade Tulayev (New York Review Books Classics) by Victor Serge]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/82057725 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170971475s/79787.jpg 980541 Matvei http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1238493691p2/980541.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/980541-matvei Fri, 25 Dec 2009 23:49:17 -0800 Pale Fire (Hardcover) by Vladimir Nabokov]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/82057718 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1218932380s/87243.jpg 980541 Matvei http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1238493691p2/980541.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/980541-matvei Fri, 25 Dec 2009 23:49:06 -0800 墓碑 -- 中國六十年代大饑荒紀實, 上篇 (Tombstone: A Report on the Great Chinese Famine of the 1960s) by Jisheng Yang 楊繼繩]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81630021 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1261380017s/6972288.jpg 980541 Matvei http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1238493691p2/980541.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/980541-matvei Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:22:27 -0800
My updated Christmas list is as follows:

(1) The ability to read Chinese
(1a) In lieu of item (1), a proper translation of this book.
(2) Magic carpet
(3) Enchanted treehouse, preferably in redwood country somewhere

Terms of goodness for...]]> Obras Completas Y Otros Cuentos/complete Works And Other Stories (Paperback) by Augusto Monterroso]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81534788 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51N6fDDLJ3L._SL75_.jpg 980541 Matvei http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1238493691p2/980541.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/980541-matvei Sat, 19 Dec 2009 21:57:26 -0800 Bolano: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations (Paperback) by Roberto Bolaño]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81533965 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51rkAX1GVPL._SL75_.jpg 980541 Matvei http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1238493691p2/980541.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/980541-matvei Sat, 19 Dec 2009 21:42:38 -0800 A Penguin Story (Hardcover) by Antoinette Portis]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81533397 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1233240991s/3906618.jpg 980541 Matvei http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1238493691p2/980541.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/980541-matvei Sat, 19 Dec 2009 21:31:48 -0800 Tales From Outer Suburbia (Hardcover) by Shaun Tan]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81533353 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51WpAF-pqtL._SL75_.jpg 980541 Matvei http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1238493691p2/980541.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/980541-matvei Sat, 19 Dec 2009 21:30:57 -0800 The Arrival (Hardcover) by Shaun Tan]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81533343 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179464443s/920607.jpg 980541 Matvei http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1238493691p2/980541.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/980541-matvei Sat, 19 Dec 2009 21:30:48 -0800 Indexed (Paperback) by Jessica Hagy]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81533326 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Zn-JkmB7L._SL75_.jpg 980541 Matvei http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1238493691p2/980541.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/980541-matvei Sat, 19 Dec 2009 21:30:35 -0800