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Aaron is on page 42 of 968 of The Recognitions
Here we go again
Jul 08, 2023 07:58PM Add a comment
The Recognitions

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Aaron is on page 850 of 1160 of My Struggle (My Struggle #6)
310 pages to finish before I fly back to the States this Thursday. Done with the Hitler essay. Please let the final leg of this marathon be an entertaining one.
Jul 03, 2023 08:25PM Add a comment
My Struggle (My Struggle #6)

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Aaron is on page 700 of 1160 of My Struggle (My Struggle #6)
ヽ(  ̄д ̄)ノ I beg you, Karl Ove… please shut up… please get to the point…
Jul 01, 2023 02:18AM Add a comment
My Struggle (My Struggle #6)

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Aaron is on page 478 of 1160 of My Struggle (My Struggle #6)
Grinding, grinding along. This book was rushed and unedited. Knausgård is not spellbinding nor interesting in his literary analysis. I can see now why he never understood poetry. He can’t let it be. He is beating this Celan poem to a pulp and any salient points are lost in a wad of questions and definitions. This is truly painful reading.
Jun 23, 2023 02:39PM Add a comment
My Struggle (My Struggle #6)

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Aaron is on page 360 of 1160 of My Struggle (My Struggle #6)
I gotta say, I need less of Karl Ove and Gier musing and joking with one another. I'm with Linda; their friendship is a bit much.
Jun 09, 2023 12:04AM Add a comment
My Struggle (My Struggle #6)

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Aaron is on page 337 of 1160 of My Struggle (My Struggle #6)
"Now everyone thinks art is to do with reason and criticism, that it’s all about ideas, and the art schools teach theory. Which is decay, not progress."
Jun 08, 2023 01:19AM Add a comment
My Struggle (My Struggle #6)

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Aaron is on page 235 of 1160 of My Struggle (My Struggle #6)
I am enjoying this so much. It’s just about all I can think about at the moment. Unfortunately, this last one seems that the translation and typesetting was rushed to meet a deadline. There have been around ten typos thus far including an accidental line break, missing quotations, and incorrect words. It’s really disappointing given how impressive the Archipelago editions have been.
Jun 04, 2023 03:42PM Add a comment
My Struggle (My Struggle #6)

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Aaron is on page 78 of 215 of Slaughterhouse-Five
"If everybody would leave him alone for just a little while, he thought, he
wouldn't cause anybody any more trouble. He would turn to steam and float up among the treetops."
May 07, 2023 03:11PM Add a comment
Slaughterhouse-Five

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Aaron is on page 170 of 898 of 2666
Part one down. I reread it once I got to the end to ensure I was really getting what was going on. This book has a lot of energy and momentum and I have no clue where all it will go. Excited to learn more about the academic, Amalfitano.
Apr 12, 2023 02:34AM Add a comment
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Aaron is on page 103 of 898 of 2666
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Aaron is on page 10 of 898 of 2666
After returning to Knausgård, I return to Bolaño. I feel that I’m finishing up the literary journeys I began in my 20s when I started college now that I am one year away from 30. The Savage Detectives blew my mind when I was 20 and I hope the experience with this is comparable.
Mar 10, 2023 05:50PM Add a comment
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Aaron is on page 304 of 485 of My Struggle: Book Four
Coming back to the turmoil of his father’s alcoholism. This feels like a sequel to the first book.
Mar 04, 2023 08:23PM Add a comment
My Struggle: Book Four

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Aaron is on page 204 of 485 of My Struggle: Book Four
His stuff on being young is the best. I’m basically hypnotized, mentally living his life and simultaneously drawing up memories of my own adolescence that parallel whatever he describes.
Mar 02, 2023 03:41PM Add a comment
My Struggle: Book Four

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Aaron is on page 122 of 348 of Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
“The existence of intersex people is pointed out only to obfuscate the facts that an overwhelming proportion of Homo sapiens are either male-or female-sexed and that gender expression in humans is overwhelmingly bimodal in nature and strongly correlated with sex. These undeniable facts are summarily problematized as supporting normativity and are therefore suppressed by queer Theory.“
Feb 20, 2023 02:01PM 1 comment
Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody

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Aaron is on page 138 of 335 of A Movie Making Nerd
About halfway through this and I feel compelled to come out and say I’m absolutely loving it. I saw a bunch of hate from the shitheads at r/thecinemassacretruth about it and I am now convinced they have nothing but a superficial relationship with James’s creative output. Regardless of whether or not you find him cringe, he is a veritable underground filmmaking legend and a legitimate outsider artist.
Feb 20, 2023 02:45AM Add a comment
A Movie Making Nerd

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Aaron is on page 730 of 1020 of Ducks, Newburyport
The unique sadness you feel as a small child is so intense and horrible, especially when it results in ruminating over a misunderstanding. Ellmann recreates this masterfully here with her ebb and flow that construct a life so mysteriously that we only see pieces moving by. Pieces passing us by; however, when we glance back we see something fully constructed.
Feb 09, 2023 07:51AM Add a comment
Ducks, Newburyport

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Aaron is on page 203 of 383 of Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
It’s crazy to have group up in the thick of the media blitz around Afghanistan and Iraq. I am constantly surprised when reading about it to see that not only was it a complete clusterfuck the whole way, but plenty of people understood it to be the entire time.

I recommend the podcast Blowback to the uninitiated. This book is excellent so far too. The bio of Tillman adds a personal touch to the war story.
Feb 08, 2023 01:43PM Add a comment
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman

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