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Kindle App for PC isnt the same as reading a dead-tree book but this is really really good. I am totally fangirling this one. Need to read more by Karen Lillis.

I am seriously in love http://www.spuytenduyvil.net/fiction....
they have some truly beautiful covers and if the fiction they have published is as good as it sounds my bank account will love me madly. I have a sudden urge to order and read all their books now.

Locos (Alfau) will arrive tomorrow. Happy. Amazon send me five emails with five different delivery dates. The next-to-last announced it for Christmas. ^^

...and let us ask ourselves why we have accepted as truth only one series of events when we know that those events were not unique, but common: that they are ordinary, multiplicable into infinity in a series of plots that repeat into exhaustion... Sucker! *said in admiration*

So Fuentes fooled me all those pages and everything I thought I know so far about the main characters was basically wrong. He is teasing me a great deal.

Everybody is doomed to remember not only his past but also his future. Somebody´s dream is another man´s reality is somebody´s else dream is... while reality is a reflection in a mirror which can only be seen as a reflection in another mirror. Characters appear in different forms and shapes in different places in different times as themselves while being not-themselves. I feel paranoid-schizophrenic.

It slowly starts to make sense. Fuentes was really a master and the last 30 odd pages were fascinating in a way that makes me shiver. An old world of the Inquistion, of Utopia, of Heresy, of Religion created in a new light and dawn. Beautifully written it is.

Ever thought about a book: This guy could write it - I can read it?

Writers No One Reads:

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Highlighting forgotten, neglected, abandoned, forsaken, unrecognized, unacknowledged, overshadowed, out-of-fashion, under-translated writers.

Quote Stephen M: "Everyone, make sure to thank Nathan for being instrumental in this group and bringing this text (Women and Men) some goodreads recognition." Thank you Nathan :)

I shall not use dirty words in my reviews. I shall not use dirty words in my reviews. I shall not use dirty words in my reviews. I shall not ... oh screw it.

I wonder if my review of The Tunnel was hidden, or if I am mistaken now? Coz its certainly not there anymore. The w-word in capital letters might have done the trick.

I have no idea what I am reading.

MVL is still put-on-hold. Do I want to do something funny now, like jumping out of the window, or reading Terra Nostra after finishing The Tunnel (not the Gass one)? Why are the books I read all so freakin´ depressing and why the hell do I take them so personally? *sighs*

A seriously unhinged painter falls in a destructive love with a woman who is as sick as he is, even on a slightly different condition. No surprises that he confesses on the very first page already to have killed the only person who has ever understood him. I am torn between confliction emotions, while the painter is the one with a peace of mind. But the voice of Sabato, the voice!

Picked it up again but 400 more pages to read? I am not in the mood :( Either I have been off already for too long or dunno what. Fuck it, I love it, what to do? Reminds me I need to listen to Arab Strap again.

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prize... Bio-bibliography of Mo Yan. Nice to see how much has already been translated. "Mo Yan has created a world reminiscent in its complexity of those in the writings of William Faulkner and Gabriel García Márquez, at the same time finding a departure point in old Chinese literature and in oral tradition" I like that.

Those who have read "Nazi Literature In The Americas": Am I the only one who is convinced that the narrator is Arturo Belano (again)? B/c noone seems to mentions this in the reviews?! *confused*

It was a Messerschmidt, Bolano, I swear to God, Norberto said to me as we went in. Sure, I said. And it wrote in Latin, Norberto said. Yes, I said, but I didnt understand anything. I did, said Norberto, it was about Adam and Eve, and the Holy Virago, and the Garden of our heads, and he wished us all good luck. A poet, I said. Polite, anyway, said Norberto.

Anyone any plans to read Terra Nostra in the near future? After finishing the Bolano and the MVL I wanna divebomb into the Fuentes. A monster of a book. I am delighted.

Possible delivery date for Locos and Europe Central: Oct.25th - Nov.6th. Thank you Amazon, I really like you too.

Caitlyn Reads 2666 first takes place in the library. Later, it moves on into a castle where there is a secret passageway. It’s an erotic adventure inspired by the book 2666 by Roberto Bolano. With a wide range of characters, all engaging in sexual acts (even Caitlyn in the library), this story will tap into your sexual fantasies and put you in a world where sex and curiosity know no limits. A must-read, no?

The reader who won´t read my novel if he can´t know all of it first is my kind of reader, he´s an artist, because he who reads only seeking the final resolution is seeking what art should not provide, his interest is in the merely vital, not in a state of consciousness: the only artistic reader is the one who does not seek resolution. (Macedonio Fernandez)

Gone a little bonkers last night and bought Terra Nostra (Fuentes), Nazi Literature In The Americas (Bolano), Suicide (Leve), Barley Patch (Murnane) and Europe Central (Vollmann).

Venture Inside of Quebec´s Garden Of Decaying Books

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I have read by now 30 times about the shortsighted journalist from the Jornal de Noticias and how he is running around with an inkpot on his sleeve. The next time I will black out this passage with a pen.

Maybe I should read something else in-between, it start to drag a bit. Still an amazing read.

I have just downloaded Women and Men and have it on my computer. Now I better buy an ereader lol. THX B0nnie.

WOW, I am even more than ever convinced that his award of the Nobel Prize is totally justified. What a pleasure to read.