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Adam’s 2025 Year in Books
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"A towering achievement.
Let me say first that I have a tendency to be moved by epics. Whether it's Pynchon or Kubrick or Mahler, I like my art big and complex. So this really resonated with me. Part of it may be me admiring the chutzpah it takes to th" Read more of this review » |
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"Not all books survive the test of time.
This second-hand philosophy wrapped in an intricate overly complicated writing was very tedious. Some ideas were interesting but mostly they were lost in between boring uneventful descriptions. The book is plotl" Read more of this review » |
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"From 1976, Doris Piserchia's book was the 3rd novel I took with me on a visit to Wisconsin last week. Piserchia is one of the writers featured in the 2nd volume of THE FUTURE IS FEMALE that I'm almost finished with. Her story in that volume was a dep"
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Funny you ask, as Durrell was just brought up in a recent conversation where I remembered I needed to finish the quartet! Haha. #wintergoals
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“I think we're all bugs and mice, and are only different expressions of an all-inclusive cheese.”
― The Fortean Collection: The Book of The Damned, New Lands, LO!, Wild Talents, The Outcast Manufacturers
― The Fortean Collection: The Book of The Damned, New Lands, LO!, Wild Talents, The Outcast Manufacturers
“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“The infallible teacher is still in the forest primeval, throwing seeds to the white blackbirds”
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“If war is the test of reality, then all poetry is unreal; but in that case unreality is a virtue.”
― The Poetry of W. B. Yeats
― The Poetry of W. B. Yeats
“But my soul,
From sight and sense of the polluting woe
Of tyranny, had long learned to prefer
Hell's freedom to the servitude of heaven.”
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From sight and sense of the polluting woe
Of tyranny, had long learned to prefer
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Adam, I would love to hear any other thoughts you have on Kerouac and his books, even random ones; context be damned. He's one of the few writers whom I think everyone should sample at least a few pages of. He makes you think differently about writing: what it's capable of transmitting. For the general public, I fear he's relegated to a niche time and place, a historical literary curiosity like a statue at Madame Tussaud's. While some of the other famous Beat writers might rest uncomfortably in that space, Jack transcends it. He's so much fun to read, so joyous in his wordplay. Whatever generational flavor he has is just the liquor's bouquet and mouthfeel. The body is the wonder of a mind spreading its wings and trying to find a perch in the boundless sky. And he's fun and illuminating to try and emulate, at least briefly. As with Chandler, how can you resist?