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  1. 1985viv

    Bret Easton Ellis: Imperial Bedrooms

    Germaine Greer once commented about Bret Easton Ellis and said 'boredom is not a literary device'. A certain level of disinterested detachment is what Ellis is all about ( for me any way ). For example the long rambling parts in American Psycho about Bateman's favourite bands are not to be...
  2. 1985viv

    Bret Easton Ellis: Imperial Bedrooms

    I hope more people read this book and post comments, im really left bewildered after finishing - thought I knew Ellis, unsure now....
  3. 1985viv

    Bret Easton Ellis: American Psycho

    Beer good, well late on this one, have to excuse me, I forgot this thread was around still! In reference to my earlier post about reading through a paragraph of Ellis with a sense of indifference I read somewhere that the feminist/writer ( and general uber-critical person around town )...
  4. 1985viv

    Bret Easton Ellis: Imperial Bedrooms

    Impressions so far...mmmm. There is a distinct shift at the end, perhaps ellis' most subtle mechanism yet for changing realities ( if you know of the narrative shift in American Psycho and and paradigm rupture in Glamorama you'll know what I mean ). There are also a few key phrases, that...
  5. 1985viv

    Summer 2010: Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov

    Id like to join in on the september BOTM. I cant really say anything about Brothers Karamazov in general terms, its just too big to know where to start, but once people start discussing specific characters and there traits and contextual philosophical/theological positions thats when I think...
  6. 1985viv

    Bret Easton Ellis: Imperial Bedrooms

    Hi, i'm currently reading Ellis' latest novel: Imperial Bedrooms, essentially a sequel to his first novel Less Than Zero. I couldn't find a thread around here so thought i'd start one, seem to be a few Bret Easton Ellis fans around so i'm sure a few people are either looking forward to reading...
  7. 1985viv

    Hubert Selby Jr

    I have read Last Exit to Brooklyn, The Demon and The Room ( and a few others I cant quite remember ). The Room is the most wrenchingly intense novel I've ever read. Really finished it thinking i'm not sure if it did me good or not. Selby was essentially a very very negative person with a lot of...
  8. 1985viv

    Summer 2010: Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov

    you probably don't want to hear this but after I put the book down there were a few weeks where I couldn't say anything but wow. Then the gravity of ideas I was slowly digesting seeped into my consciousness/comprehension....
  9. 1985viv

    Summer 2010: Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov

    I've read Brothers Karamzov along with a few of his other books, ill try and read up on it and make a few points. Its a mammoth book in theme and text... I posted a comment about Dostoevsky on my blog a while back, I don't have enough comments to link but the page is my homepage Notes from the...
  10. 1985viv

    Cormac McCarthy: The Road

    Yeah I remember that sentence, it did get me reaching for the dictionary, but I found most of his prose to be very effective and concise. mcilroga - loads of writers dont use grammar correctly in order to create a certain effect or affect the reader in different ways, Hubert Selby Jr is a...
  11. 1985viv

    Cormac McCarthy: The Road

    Very readable book, A bit to simple and too open for metaphorical interpretations, I enjoyed his writing style, I was hoping for an ending more inline with the terrible themes Not negative or nihilistic enough for me, I thought the ending was optimistic and almost shmaltzy really, nah...
  12. 1985viv

    Bret Easton Ellis: American Psycho

    beer good - Ive watched the film many times, its a good film but really is a seperate piece from the book. Maybe i didnt express myself quite clearly, what I mean about the "nihilism through abundance and excess" is that this notion is in the story and in the book ( the reader holds ) a...
  13. 1985viv

    Bret Easton Ellis: American Psycho

    Beer good - yeah, totally, however another aspect I like about AmPsy is how performative the book is of the conditions faced by the character, by the end of the book, you can read through a music essay with the same half interested detachment as when you read through a gory murder scene, the...
  14. 1985viv

    Cormac McCarthy

    I read the road a couple of weeks ago, its ok, didnt really blow me away after I put it down but its a very gipping book, and after getting used to the prose, which didnt take long, I found it very effective. Spoiler - also I found it to be pretty damn optimistic, I thought it was going to be...
  15. 1985viv

    Fyodor Dostoevsky

    Lofty So im relatively new to Dostoevsky, ive read "Notes.." and now im on "the double" both P&V translations from everymans classics. Ive noticed he tends to use the term"lofty" quite alot, I know when I was reading "Notes from the underground" the term "high and lofty" was a reference to...
  16. 1985viv

    Preparing for War and Peace

    Ive read it, its amazing, its just mind blowing, the 2 epilogues at the end really crystallise the philosophical points regarding, powers, wars, historical perspectives etc etc and the countless subjective and quasi objective views within and throughout all this. I may have read the P&V...
  17. 1985viv

    Charles Bukowski

    This latest bukowski has really shown me a different side to him. "the most beautiful woman in town" has really left a very different taste in my mouth than the other 2 i mentioned previously. Very macabre, and metaphorical. A scene in one short contains two workers putting men through a...
  18. 1985viv

    Charles Bukowski

    Modest Mouse put me onto chinaski Yeah, ive read "post office" and "women" but kinda felt it was a guilty pleasure, unlike reading others ( camus, tolstoy, dostoevsky ) bukowski gives me the impression he has nothing to do or say and so writes about it...... and its entertaining cause he has a...
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