September 2009
11 posts
61 Essential Postmodern Reads
From the LA Times.
Kathy Acker’s “In Memorium to Identity” Donald Antrim’s “The Hundred Brothers” Margaret Atwood’s “The Blind Assassin” Paul Auster’s New York Trilogy Nicholson Baker’s “The Mezzanine” J.G. Ballard’s “The Atrocity Exhibition” John Barth’s “Giles Goat-Boy” Donald...
August 2009
14 posts
The BBC believes most people will have read only 6...
basketkace:
joellamarano:
The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100
These are the ones I’ve read.
THESE ARE THE ONES THAT I HAVE READ:
01 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - 02 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - 03 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - 04 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - 05 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - 06 The Bible - 07 Wuthering Heights -...
inf. sum.
colinmeloy:
I love this book. I love this book in a weird sort of unconditional way. I love this book like it was a strange, moody sibling with whom I share occasional flashes of real connection, but spend most of my time observing in a kind of dazed bewilderment. My engagement with the characters is pretty unprecedented for me; in that: I’m engaged with them, I adore some of them, am...
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Cage III - Free Show
The figure of Death (Heath) presides over the front entrance of a carnival sideshow whose spectators watch performers undergo unspeakable degradations so grotesquely compelling that the spectators’ eyes become larger and larger until the spectators themselves are transformed into gigantic eyeballs in chairs, while on the other side of the sideshow tent the figure of Life (Heaven) uses a megaphone...
WatchThe say-“shit”-then-turn method; how many times has that happened to you?
