I just read a short story by Stamm, a Swiss writer, in the New Yorker. It was beautiful. I'm always suspicious of male writers who use female main characters, because as often as not it seems they're just being exploitative or trying to make some kind of point they don't think they can make with a m...
http://msarki.tumblr.com/post/57475134979/frost-by-thomas-bernhardThe inn was one of that type where you would spend no more than a single night, and only if you had to...It wasn't any amenity it had, it was the shortcomings of it that delighted him. pg. 25...He was just scraps of words and dislocat...
Reviewing this book is all but an easy task. I devoured these green plums and am still hungry after that although they were far from being tasty and what they left is bellyache, malaise and discomfort. And yet, I think that there is no better antidote than swallowing the unripe venom into these gree...
Hell of a day. Finished A Mercy this morning, started this one this afternoon, read the dreary reports of the debt ceiling debacle and administration’s selling out of the Progressives and working class, watched the anything-but-inspirational Never Let Me Go, then returned to this crisp and fast-pac...
this is a confusing, lyrical, visual, beautiful jumble. it's nonlinear and confusing on purpose, as it's describing life under a dictator's regime, and how so much doesn't make sense in that world. i'm sure that if i didn't know what this book was about before i started, i'd still not know. i lik...
Abandoned half way through. Tedious, gray, half-hearted, no energy. The main character is supremely uninteresting and vaguely irritating. The story is told relentlessy at arms length.
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