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Anyone had a chance to read On the Road: The Original Scroll? The Penguin edition is amazing -- it has four incredibly insightful essays, touching on Kerouac's writing process, its place in modern...

Ride the High Country [***]
The Wild Bunch [***]
Straw Dogs [***]
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid [***]

Wait 'till you get to the part about the crimes, KF. It is honestly one of the most excruciating and gruelling pieces I've ever read.

Astonishing book, all in all, an extraordinary portrait of...

Ah, The World Of Yesterday is brilliant. It's an autobriography of sorts which perfectly reflects the state of Europe before and after WWI. Twenty-four Hours in the Life of a Woman is...

Definitely. I fell in love with his character.

By the way, I would like to pimp three European authors that I'm sure aren't very well-known in the US: George Bernanos, Amélie Nothomb and Stefan Zweig.

In particular the last one -- he was...

I only read for pleasure. I study Law, so all I read regarding my degree is codes and cases.

Very nice!



How did you like it?

I read The Age of Innocence last summer in New York, which I felt was appropriate. It's lush and tragic; for some reason, the ending nearly brought me to tears. I was already a fan of Waugh's work,...

Out of curiosity, how is this one?

Pretty good year for me. Copied and pasted from my Goodreads list:

books read in 2008

1. The World of Yesterday - Zweig, Stefan
2. Vingt-quatre heures de la vie d'une femme - Zweig, Stefan ...

The Club Of Queer Trades!

Finally saw Double Indemnity some days ago. I wish they still made films of that sort nowadays. Pure brilliance.

It's amazing to see how all avid Batman fans are reluctant to accept a single bad review of the film in question. I mean, c'mon guys.

I'm still seeing this opening day.

Wodehouse.

Just signed up. Very cool site, hadn't heard about it.

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My second favourite Ishiguro (after The Remains of the Day and before The Unconsoled). Very moving and humane, although it's been a while since I read it.

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Any Chesterton fans around these parts?

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Oh, and I bougth these books in the past few days:

Le Rivage des Syrtes - Julien Gracq
Austerlitz - W. G. Sebald
First Love - Ivan Turgenev
In Search of Lost Time vol.1: Swann's Way - Marcel...

Lydgate is my favourite character, without a doubt.

Dorothea's somewhat silly and immature, although she has her charms.

I shall be finishing Middlemarch in one or two days...

Since when doesn't Bratz: The Movie deserve a 10?

Tender is the Night is my favourite Fitzgerald. Heartbreaking and beautiful.