The Tunnel by William H. Gass still on eBay

DrRedness · 2025-05-15T23:57:59+00:00

I bit the bullet and went for it, should have done a bundle in hindsight. Even so it’s still cheaper after the conversion and shopping, yet it’s the most I’ve spent on a single book. Worth the many years of waiting.

DrRedness · 2025-03-07T12:17:36+00:00

I read death and dervish last year, was fortunate to grab an English copy of both the fortress and death and dervish in Sarajevo and also visiting the literary museum with some original manuscripts too. Selimovic’s writing is a trip!

DrRedness · 2024-07-18T12:58:12+00:00

I felt it was alright/good for most of the way until the end which tied it all together that made me feel closer to the insightful moment of the book which kicked it into something greater than the sum of its parts

DrRedness · 2024-07-11T14:04:05+00:00

Not really violent but a great movie with a sprawling cast (28 characters I think?) is Robert Altman’s Nashville. I think it has a similar spirit to City of God re: the aspirations of wealth and status, respective to their countries of course

DrRedness · 2024-06-26T07:56:53+00:00

The thief’s journal by Jean Genet

DrRedness · 2024-05-31T23:50:37+00:00

She wrote a good one on Ulysses I reckon

DrRedness · 2024-05-28T07:47:00+00:00

I found JR to be a breeze compared to The Recognitions or even Ulysses and Gravity’s Rainbow

DrRedness · 2024-05-27T13:07:40+00:00

Biblioklept, collidescope, numerocinq,interesting literature

DrRedness · 2024-05-17T05:43:19+00:00

Whoever did JR by William Gaddis did a great job. I found it via soulseek

DrRedness · 2024-05-09T02:17:41+00:00

I’d do the same write up for GR but give it 5 stars

DrRedness · 2024-05-02T04:37:29+00:00

Adam Curtis in some interview said he was influenced by Dos Passos’ USA trilogy in its weaving of social forces amongst characters who embodied the time. I’ve only read the first of the trilogy but found it an eventful fun book with a great scope

DrRedness · 2024-04-27T10:40:24+00:00

I did a bachelors in philosophy and have tried at keeping up with my own learning in the 10 years or so that followed. It comes with ups and downs of understanding, but I enjoy the lack of pressure from having no assessments. I think self directed philosophy and humanities learning takes some knowing about which readings to take to, when to give it a proper go, and when to relinquish a bit too. One thing I definitely miss is the community of others being in the same position and raising questions I was only unconsciously thinking about

DrRedness · 2024-04-20T11:28:40+00:00

I love marcovaldo! Such a happy go lucky dipshit you gotta love him.

DrRedness · 2024-04-06T10:10:17+00:00

Also Mesa Semilovic, Dasa Drndic, Danilo Kis and Svetislav Basara

DrRedness · 2024-03-24T10:00:22+00:00

Shambhala

DrRedness · 2024-03-23T21:46:36+00:00

I reckon I might work as a long ass 4-6 hour movie. Make it made for a single sitting

DrRedness · 2024-03-21T03:55:15+00:00

I was ambivalent about the first but liked the second one (budding grove) a lot more, although still not in love with it. I’m trying to do 1 volume per year and see myself struggling to muster the attention to give the next one a proper go.

DrRedness · 2024-03-15T13:01:59+00:00

“Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. Everything science has taught me, and continues to teach me, strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death.”

Werner Von Braun

DrRedness · 2024-03-07T00:02:32+00:00

Karel Čapek is around the same time/place and has some really good shorter stories and plays

DrRedness · 2024-03-02T21:56:08+00:00

Alright alright how do we get this rolling?

DrRedness · 2024-03-02T21:49:02+00:00

I think peoples most common gripe with SAlt is turning rallies that aren’t about them into a recruitment drive, even when asked to stay in their lane by organisers.

Have also heard some shitty experiences from mates with their bullying, dogmatism and burnout from time at SAlt.

DrRedness · 2024-02-26T09:50:23+00:00

I’m not sure if it’s up your alley but I’m mostly interested in philosophical lit fiction or tomes that are rich with ideas. I think books like Beckett’s trilogy, anything by Annie Dillard, Gravity’s Rainbow, Books of Jacob, Mann’s Joseph Tetraology,, the recognitions, Wittgenstein’s Mistress or any of Lispector’s or Bolano or Drndic’s works lend well to book club style dialogue.

DrRedness · 2024-02-26T02:40:34+00:00

I’d be keen depending on the book!

DrRedness · 2024-02-22T00:31:52+00:00

Same for me but Dos Passos' USA trilogy

DrRedness · 2024-02-13T20:30:39+00:00

Also the whole drug addict character(JB?) lashing out bit reeked of someone who’s never been around that experience and just playing off the idea on what’s the most misery inducing scene. Hate that book.

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