Brad Posted March 25, 2017 Report Posted March 25, 2017 About to start Iza's Ballad by Magda Szabo. Quote
ejp626 Posted March 25, 2017 Report Posted March 25, 2017 I've just finished Queneau's Zazie in the Metro. What a wild book. Still sort of fascinating that they even attempted to translate into English. I'm aware of the film version, but haven't decided if I will get around to watching it or not. Still reading quite a few short story collections with a few more on the way. Juan Rulfo's The Plain in Flames was good but I got a little tired of all the machismo of men killing other men, generally over no reason at all. It's the sort of book that if written by anybody else would cause tut-tuttings of how can you write about Mexicans in such a stereotypical manner... David Bezgozmis's Natasha and Other Stories. Worth a look. I thought the title story was excellent. I'm about to start Guy Vanderhaege's Daddy Lenin and Greg Hollingshead's The Roaring Girl. Quote
BillF Posted March 25, 2017 Report Posted March 25, 2017 4 hours ago, ejp626 said: I've just finished Queneau's Zazie in the Metro. What a wild book. Still sort of fascinating that they even attempted to translate into English. I'm aware of the film version, but haven't decided if I will get around to watching it or not. Had mixed fortunes with the movie. Loved it when I saw it on release c.1960 - thought it hip and amusing, but found it tedious when I had a second look at it a few years ago. Perhaps I'm old and jaded, or perhaps it just belonged to its time and place. Quote
medjuck Posted March 25, 2017 Report Posted March 25, 2017 2 hours ago, BillF said: Had mixed fortunes with the movie. Loved it when I saw it on release c.1960 - thought it hip and amusing, but found it tedious when I had a second look at it a few years ago. Perhaps I'm old and jaded, or perhaps it just belonged to its time and place. It's got a great poster. Quote
BillF Posted March 25, 2017 Report Posted March 25, 2017 1 hour ago, medjuck said: It's got a great poster. I see what you mean. Quote
BillF Posted March 29, 2017 Report Posted March 29, 2017 1 hour ago, paul secor said: Arnold Wesker: The Journalists That's a Wesker play I don't know. The Wesker Trilogy was very influential in my youth. Recalling its idealism is particularly ironic today as English xenophia triumphs :-( Quote
paul secor Posted March 29, 2017 Report Posted March 29, 2017 1 hour ago, BillF said: That's a Wesker play I don't know. The Wesker Trilogy was very influential in my youth. Recalling its idealism is particularly ironic today as English xenophia triumphs :-( I don't want to get into politics on these forums, but youthful idealism is something that shouldn't be forgotten - especially these days. Quote
BillF Posted March 31, 2017 Report Posted March 31, 2017 On 2/25/2017 at 6:37 PM, BillF said: I always find DeLillo since White Noise readable, though the best IMO remain the ones on my bookshelf: White Noise, Libra, Mao II and above all Underworld. Quote
ejp626 Posted April 9, 2017 Report Posted April 9, 2017 Reading two books that are loosely linked through the hotel/motel theme: the epic I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita and Rick Moody's Hotels of North America. The latter is much shorter and is quite interesting in how the book is built up of reviews of hotels (or motels) where the reviewer stayed. The reviewer is an over-sharer, which is putting it mildly. Quote
ghost of miles Posted April 12, 2017 Author Report Posted April 12, 2017 Re-reading Carson McCullers' The Member Of The Wedding, as well as the third volume of Simon Callow's Orson Welles biography. Quote
danasgoodstuff Posted April 12, 2017 Report Posted April 12, 2017 5 hours ago, paul secor said: Rafi Zabor: The Bear Comes Home Interested in your reaction. I loved it when I read it (when it was new) but even then I didn't think it was as good as the excerpts in Musician some years earlier had promised. Quote
paul secor Posted April 12, 2017 Report Posted April 12, 2017 1 hour ago, danasgoodstuff said: Interested in your reaction. I loved it when I read it (when it was new) but even then I didn't think it was as good as the excerpts in Musician some years earlier had promised. It sat on my shelf for years, unread. No good reason why. I found it ok, but in need of a lot of editing. Way overwritten - at least for my tastes. Quote
BillF Posted April 13, 2017 Report Posted April 13, 2017 (edited) On 3/23/2017 at 8:11 AM, BillF said: A lesser Le Carré, but he's always worth reading IMHO. Another of the same ilk. Edited April 13, 2017 by BillF Quote
johnblitweiler Posted April 14, 2017 Report Posted April 14, 2017 On 3/25/2017 at 11:14 AM, BillF said: Had mixed fortunes with the movie. Loved it when I saw it on release c.1960 - thought it hip and amusing, but found it tedious when I had a second look at it a few years ago. Perhaps I'm old and jaded, or perhaps it just belonged to its time and place. I too saw the movie a second time and didn't even smile at all. But I loved Queneau's novel Zazie. Quote
alankin Posted April 16, 2017 Report Posted April 16, 2017 Julian Barnes – Keeping An Eye Open: Essays on Art (Alfred A. Knopf) Interesting essays on Gericault, Delacroix, Courbet, Manet, Fantin-Latour, Cezanne, Degas, Redon, Bonnard, Vuillard, Vallotton, Braque, Magritte, Oldenberg, L. Freud, and Hodgkin; many of them previously published in the magazine Modern Painters] and elsewhere. Quote
ejp626 Posted April 23, 2017 Report Posted April 23, 2017 Apuleius's The Golden Ass After that, Murakami's 1Q84 Quote
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