Raconteur, bon-vivant, man-about-town. Book nerd.
Mostly just keeping track of what I've been reading for myself, but always interested in what like-minded souls enjoy when I stumble across their online traces.
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Success! grey not grey has read 12 of 12 books.
This is the story of the seige of Troy from the perspective of Achilles best-friend Patroclus. Although Patroclus is outcast …
Man, could Angela Carter ever write. In this collection of short stories her theme is basically to take known characters from various sources and flesh them out - which she does very, very well.
Two young children engage in an inocent tryst only to later discover a wonderful and terrible secret about themselves.
"The …
M. McConville: Flann O'Brien
Not as compelling as the Third Policeman but a very good read overall. I find it a bit odd that this book appears on so many "top ___ books you must read" list but I guess it's more arty than Third Policeman so it probably appeals to the James Joyce / Thomas Pynchon crowd more.
A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece.
A father and his son …
I've read this book some dozen times through. It's the very first book I have ever read that as soon as I finished reading it the first time, I flipped back to page one.
I know the writing style isn't for everyone, in many ways it's more like long-form free verse than "proper fiction". That said, if it resonates with you, it will really resonate with you because it has been set free from some of the formalist constraints that allow us to imagine we are simply reading a story and not immersed in a vision.
Post-apocalyptic scenarios are very personally meaningful to me for a variety of reasons, including being raised by a hippie survivalist through the 80s dream of nuclear holocaust, and the resulting recurring nightmares throughout my entire life I learned to channel into lucid dreaming. The apocalypse is my personal inner playground. I can't ever change …
I've read this book some dozen times through. It's the very first book I have ever read that as soon as I finished reading it the first time, I flipped back to page one.
I know the writing style isn't for everyone, in many ways it's more like long-form free verse than "proper fiction". That said, if it resonates with you, it will really resonate with you because it has been set free from some of the formalist constraints that allow us to imagine we are simply reading a story and not immersed in a vision.
Post-apocalyptic scenarios are very personally meaningful to me for a variety of reasons, including being raised by a hippie survivalist through the 80s dream of nuclear holocaust, and the resulting recurring nightmares throughout my entire life I learned to channel into lucid dreaming. The apocalypse is my personal inner playground. I can't ever change the setting, though. Something terrible has happened, and nobody really knows what.
All this to say that I get the dark, nasty world, and I delight in it. Your mileage may vary. As far as the writing goes, it's no airport book so if that's what you were hoping for what with the (terrible) movie adaptation and all, you'd better go read something else because this will probably not please you in the least.
"Nineteen years old, free of prospects, and inescapably famous, the twins Nicholas and Nouschka Tremblay are trying to outrun the …
"One of the most intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day America" (The New York Times), Don …
Herman Hesse: Hermann Hesse, Der Steppenwolf (German language, 1996, Mentor)
A story that focuses on the loneliness and suffering of the protagonist, Harry Haller, who feels that he has no …
The entire point of a dual language version is to compare the text. I realize you can't do facing pages on a Kindle but maybe alternating paragraphs would be good. What did this publisher do? The ENTIRE German version of each story, then the ENTIRE English version. The only reason I give it 2 stars is that it's still Kafka. Whoever thought this would be a good adaptation to the Kindle platform should be fired, and I regret spending my money on it. Dover is a really good print version publisher, and I have many of their books including a dual-language edition of some French poems - I expected more and am quite peeved. Save your money and dig up a used copy in the print version.
