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  1. Now reading...

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    Paul Auster - Winter Journal

    Nice, Paul Auster is one of those contemporary writers I almost allways enjoy reading!

    I started with Leo Tolstoy - Resurrection yesterday. I'm only a few pages in, but i'm already completely sucked into the story. I always thought of myself to be more in the "Dostoevsky" camp, but the more I read from Tolstoy the more my appreciation for him grows, and the more I realize that it's insane to compare Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. They are both genius in their own right!

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  4. Classic Blue Notes on SHM-CD

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    I never really bought much Blue Note CD's (as I prefer the vinyl format for old jazz albums, especially nice old Libererty or Japanese King pressings ), but this topic has made me curious! So this morning I pulled the trigger and ordered Andrew Hill - Grass Roots. The price is very reasonable, so if these albums can compete with Liberty or Japanese King (vinyl) pressings I think I will going to be order a lot more in the future.

  8. Now reading...

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

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    Just finished reading

    Mikhail Lermontov - Geroj Nasjego Vremeni (A Hero of Our Time), 1840

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    This book is considered to be the first psychological novel in Russian literature, and boy I enjoyed this one (on par with the other great hero's of Russian literature like Dostoevsky, Tolstoj, Gogol, Toergenjev, etc)! Too bad this is the only novel he wrote in his life, because he died at the age of 27 in an old fashioned duel.

  17. Now reading...

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

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    Maybe my favorite writer ever. This should keep my happy for the next coming weeks/months

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    I have this exact edition. Haven't cracked it though. I have kind of a long-term agenda of getting back to the Russian classics, starting with Anna Karenina this spring and then probably Dostoevsky next year. I've read many of his books but not in the Pevear/Volokhonsky translations. Definitely worth a peek in to their translation of Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita.

    Anyway, was 2/3 through Powning's The Sea Captain's Wife, which I was not enjoying that much, seeing it as high-toned chick lit, when she threw in a plot twist that was so incredible/unbelievable that I actually felt insulted. Decided I am not going to read another word.

    On to Malone's Handling Sin, which is a fun romp...

    Ah, that's a coincidence. I must admid I just searched it on google images. I'm reading the book in Dutch (my native language). A few months ago I actually started in Anna Karenina, but I didn't really got into it so I lay it away for the future (have to many books I really want to read).

  19. What music did you buy today?

    in Miscellaneous Music

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    Christ Potter The Sirens

    I know some people think he's heaven sent as a saxophonist but that's going a bit far :unsure:

    unconvincing album for me, sounds better in the passages when the leader's not playing by and large - but I nearly always have a "technique over content" reaction to Potter (exceptions seem to be with Motian)

    I found the album dissapointing also. I never really got into Potter, but since I loved his contribution to the "Lost in a Dream" album and Eric Harland is playing on this one, I had quitte high hopes. For the most time the only thing i was thinking though while listening to this albums was "now shup up Potter, so I can hear the rest of the band! :lol:

    For some reason his tone just doesn't grab me at all, and on this album I found the sound of his sax mixed/mastered? way to loud in comparrison with the rest of the group.

    As for what I bought; two very nice "Blue Note in a box" Liberty vinyl pressings of two of my alltime favorite albums:

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  25. Charles Lloyd Corner

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    I'd like to get this kicking again, as I do like Charles Lloyd quite a lot. I'm much too young to have been into him, or into jazz, in the 1960s, so I'm largely responding to his ECM albums, especially those since about the turn of the century. Parts of Lift Every Voice are spectacular, and I thoroughly enjoy Rabo de Nube--a really fine live album. I did see Lloyd once in concert, and this record seems to reflect this rather well.

    I was somewhat disappointed by Mirror, especially since I found Jason Moran to be such a great fit in Lloyd's group. I understand there is a just-released (or about to be released) duo CD of Lloyd and Moran. I would like to hear that.

    My story is almost the same. First album I got from him was Rabo de Nube, and since then I try to get all his ECM stuff from the early nineties till now. I can understand the disappointment in Mirror, but haven given it a chance it completely grew on me, and now I play it quite a lot.

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