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« Reply #275 on: December 30, 2011, 12:20:55 PM »

Haven't read more than a couple of pages yet, but I got Carlo Feltrinelli's biography of his father for christmas.
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« Reply #276 on: December 30, 2011, 12:28:55 PM »

Just started Nixonland, which I got for Christmas, last night.
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« Reply #277 on: December 30, 2011, 02:22:24 PM »

I'm reading John Lewis Gaddis' new biography of George F. Kennan.
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« Reply #278 on: January 18, 2012, 05:04:54 PM »

'A Brief History of Neoliberalism' by David Harvey and 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole
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« Reply #279 on: January 18, 2012, 05:12:31 PM »

'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole

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« Reply #280 on: January 18, 2012, 06:56:35 PM »


Greatly Approve. Obvious influence on Opebo there.
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« Reply #281 on: January 18, 2012, 08:54:07 PM »

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« Reply #282 on: January 19, 2012, 10:59:09 AM »


was recommended to me by my half-brother, who named his dog Ignatius in honor.
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« Reply #283 on: January 19, 2012, 06:54:35 PM »


was recommended to me by my half-brother, who named his dog Ignatius in honor.

Fantastic novel, I loved it.
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« Reply #284 on: January 19, 2012, 07:31:41 PM »

I recently finished The Grand Design by Hawking and a fiction book called "Dragon Champion" that was pretty decent that I will likely read the rest of the series for.
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« Reply #285 on: January 21, 2012, 12:08:04 PM »

Who of us hasn't been influenced by it?
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« Reply #286 on: January 21, 2012, 01:36:58 PM »

Border Country
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« Reply #287 on: January 21, 2012, 02:14:41 PM »

Robert's Rules or Order Newly Revised, 10th and 11the editions.  (I've been writing papers.)
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« Reply #288 on: January 21, 2012, 05:29:09 PM »
« Edited: January 21, 2012, 05:35:08 PM by Mist »


None of us of course. Just felt like giving the obvious shout out. Actually I was a bit surprised that Tweed hadn't already read it.
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« Reply #289 on: January 22, 2012, 06:00:40 AM »

Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett
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« Reply #290 on: January 30, 2012, 01:19:28 PM »

The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, and frankly, I'm excited. There are some poems that don't work for me at all, but others are pretty close to poetic perfection as far as I'm concerned.
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« Reply #291 on: January 31, 2012, 06:41:33 PM »

The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, and frankly, I'm excited. There are some poems that don't work for me at all, but others are pretty close to poetic perfection as far as I'm concerned.

Elaborate, do! I have strong and occasionally somewhat conflicting opinions on Stevens.
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« Reply #292 on: January 31, 2012, 06:43:21 PM »

Finnegan's Wake.

Yeah.
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« Reply #293 on: January 31, 2012, 08:34:51 PM »

I met the author when he came to LSU last month.

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« Reply #294 on: February 01, 2012, 05:50:21 AM »
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'The Breathing Method', a novella by Stephen King.  I took a hint from the 1996 The Get Up Kids song, one of my favorites.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS3Xc4FN9fw
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« Reply #295 on: February 01, 2012, 05:54:05 AM »

The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen. Great book, although I prefer Freedom so far. Interesting development of his style when you compare them.
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« Reply #296 on: February 01, 2012, 07:03:55 AM »

The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, and frankly, I'm excited. There are some poems that don't work for me at all, but others are pretty close to poetic perfection as far as I'm concerned.

Elaborate, do! I have strong and occasionally somewhat conflicting opinions on Stevens.

Well, in general whenever Stevens goes for the can with French and German words (which generally happens in the more lighthearted of his poems) the poem in casu almost certainly will fall short as far as I'm concerned. But when Stevens goes for the more heavyhanded (well, not that heavyhanded) angle, he sometimes can really hit a homerun.

My favourite poems mostly are, I notice now, from his first volume, Harmonium, with such little jewels as Tea at the palaz of Hoon (the last stanza of which just begs to be quoted in a mediocre paper on idealism), the quite well-known The Emperor of Ice-Cream, Cortège for Rosenbloom which is an awful lot of fun,....

In the latter half of the volume Stevens strikes me as even more in control, but for some reason less interesting to me. The amount of metapoetical reflection is probably a contributor to that, as well as (very prosaically, I know) the growing length of the poems. I can get a bit worn out when I'm reading longer shreds of lyrical poetry. Though perhaps my favourite Stevens poem of all must be The search for Sound free from Motion, which combines the virtues of total poetic control with the absolute sheer beauty of the lines that read 'All afternoon the grammaphone / parl-parled the West-Indian weather'. I'm really sort of in love with that poem.

Of the longer ones The Owl in the Sarcophagus stands out as being the most emotionally pure of his poems. I also like the mobilisation of ancient imagery (which is mostly just implied) to talk about the 'mythology of modern death'.

I hope you forgive me the general rambling tone of this post, but you asked yourself for an elaboration Wink And feel free to share any of your thoughts!
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« Reply #297 on: February 01, 2012, 03:52:15 PM »

Do you have any thoughts on The Auroras of Autumn or Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour?

My favorite early/short Stevens poems are Earthly Anecdote, Indian River, and Depression before Spring. I never really liked The Emperor of Ice-Cream all that much for some reason I can't really pin down.
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« Reply #298 on: February 01, 2012, 07:11:58 PM »

Cannon's Rules of Order
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« Reply #299 on: February 01, 2012, 07:13:52 PM »

I just started Mike Doughty's (of Soul Coughing fame) memoir, The Book Of Drugs. I'm really enjoying it so far. It manages to be harrowing and kind of funny at the same time.
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