Wednesday, September 24, 2008
So. I just read The Book from the Sky by Robert Kelly.
The copy of the book I have is an uncorrected galley proof, which poses an interesting problem in my experience of the book, because the book is considered experimental fiction. I found myself wondering as I was reading it, “just how experimental [...]
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Thursday, September 11, 2008
I’ve got some thoughts on a book I finally finished reading recently, The Sexual Life of Catherine M., by Catherine Millet. I originally picked it up because it promised to be super trashy and shocking (plus it was translated from the French and that makes it cool, right?) but I just ended up being [...]
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A few days ago I finished reading Whitley Strieber’s latest book, “2012: The War for Souls“, which I picked up in the drug store because it just came out in trade paperback. Strieber’s the guy that wrote “Communion” back in the late 80s, the cover of which gave me alien nightmares for years. [...]
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Last night I finished reading “I Am the Messenger” by Markus Zusak. I can’t remember who turned me on to it, but I’m so glad I read it.
It’s an intense book, and different, with a surprise ending. I was able to empathize deeply with the main character, and I cried in parts. [...]
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Here be a funny excerpt from a book I finished reading a couple weeks ago, The Book of Dahlia, by Elisa Albert, in which the narrator contemplates her career:
Fine. So what sort of occupation wouldn’t make her want to fucking kill herself every single godforsaken day? Law school sounded like a freaking curse; [...]
Thursday, September 20, 2007
I recently borrowed a book, “Structure of the Visual Book”, by Keith Smith. In the introduction, in a section titled, “Erroneous Residual Concepts”, he says the following:
If still photography students take a course in cinema, some of the results of those films will be more related to still imagery than to motion pictures. [...]