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Stephquiem:
Just bought Delirium by Lauren Oliver. Only on chapter 3, so I have no idea if it's any good yet. But it's a dystopian novel, and those usually hold my attention pretty well.
Hopefully I won't lose this book I like I did the last one the author wrote.
scarred:
Normally waiting 550 pages for the action to get started is unacceptable, but the buildup and character development in A Game of Thrones is so well-structured and engaging that it's impossible not to get completely sucked in. Of course, with 200 pages to go everything could still get terrible, but at this point I'd consider myself invested in the series.
amok:
Don't get too invested, at the rate he's 'writing' the 'new book' you'll never find out what happens.
What's already written is superb though.
Joseph:
Virgina Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, which is typically excellent, and somehow a book I've skipped until now. I adore Woolf's prose and technique, and her interest in relating experimental writing directly to feminism. Barely into this book, but already enjoying it quite a bit. Probably will read The Waves soon after.
Gail Scott takes Woolf's ideas on the intersection of feminism and writing, and builds on them with attention to more contemporary theories of gender. She is also one of the few authors working in English who is in direct contact with current experimental Quebecois writers like Nicole Brossard. I'm reading her book of essays, Spaces Like Stairs right now, and it's really incredible. Already wanting to revisit her early stories which I read a few month ago, looking at them again through the ideas presented here, but as I lent that book to my girlfriend, I'll probably read one of her novels in the near future.
Edward Dorn's Gunslinger is a long modernist poem set in the mythical American West, with a mysterious gunpacking cowboy, his pot smoking talking horse, long asides about philosophy, many puns, and a great sense of music and mirth. Only done the first book so far, but it is absolutely excellent.
Samuel R. Delany's Jewel Hinged Jaw & Empire Star, which are both making me really hungry to read more sci-fi. Going to try and track down a few Theodore Sturgeon, Joanna Russ, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Alfred Bester books soon, and read up.
Slavoj Zizek's The Sublime Object of Ideology, which is a pretty great and entertaining book of critical theory. It's his first book written in Englihs, and I'm enjoying it a lot more than the more recent books of his which I've read. I've been reading it pretty slowly until recently, and now that I'm going through it, from the beginning again, at a decent pace, I'm getting a lot more out of it. Good introduction to Lacan, at the very least, and great stuff on ideology and Hegel as well. Not much to say beyond that until I get more into it though.
And then mostly just various collections of contemporary poetry.
Johnny C:
--- Quote from: Inlander on 01 Feb 2011, 06:12 ---Part of me really wants to continue this whole literature/non literature debate because it's endlessly fascinating but a greater part of me realises that it's got less and less to do with the thread at hand and it really only involves myself and Khar, and neither of us are going to change the other's mind.
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actually i hadnt read this but it owns that khar is a strict barthesian re: authorial theory it's too bad he's already been ethered like fifty years previous by sartre who posited that texts are ultimately a negotiation between writer and reader not reader and text and that the work of the two interested human parties in tandem is ultimately what generates the meeting so in fact Writers Do Matter i'm sorry to weigh in on this really glibly i should go home
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