Red Mosquito

Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung -Lester Bangs

Bob Loblaw wrote:Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung -Lester Bangs

lol wut

The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

There's just been too much floating around on TV, on the radio, online...today I started Libra.

Simple Torture wrote:

Bob Loblaw wrote:Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung -Lester Bangs

lol wut

It's groovy.

I wasn't that into Aira when I read Ghosts but I just finished this one and loved it so much that I ordered another two (How I Became a Nun and Varamo):



And also this for a paper:

The back of the Pacific Rim blu-Ray.

durdencommatyler wrote:


The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

i quit this book.

"Ghosts" was actually where I started to "get" Aira...had started with "Landscape Painter" and wasn't wowed except for a few passages, but I thought "Ghosts" was excellent throughout. "Nun" is probably my next favorite (haven't read "Varamo" or the newer ones).

Simple Torture wrote:"Ghosts" was actually where I started to "get" Aira...had started with "Landscape Painter" and wasn't wowed except for a few passages, but I thought "Ghosts" was excellent throughout. "Nun" is probably my next favorite (haven't read "Varamo" or the newer ones).

I mean, I liked Ghosts a lot, actually, it just didn't stick with me or really push me to read more. At the time, I was also heavily into Bolaño and Castellanos Moya (I still am, but that was all I was reading) so I think the more comic elements of Aira threw me off. Maybe I'm more ready for that now/less self-serious. This is also the first book of fiction I've read in maybe a year? I did pick up some weird echoes of Deleuze in there, but that's probably just my own mental overlap.

Speaking of which, I've barely read fiction since 2011 and almost completely lost touch with world fiction in that time. What's been going on?

David Foster Wallace is still dead.

Whatever, all white people write the same to me.

I'm not saying you're wrong.

dkfan9 wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:


The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

i quit this book.

Why?

durdencommatyler wrote:

dkfan9 wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:


The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

i quit this book.

Why?

the girl characters weren't sexy enough

malice wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

dkfan9 wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:


The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

i quit this book.

Why?

the girl characters weren't sexy enough

durdencommatyler wrote:

malice wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

dkfan9 wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:


The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

i quit this book.

Why?

the girl characters weren't sexy enough

i think it was really about the guy, in this case.

He's a little wordy, but Thomas Wolfe is another guy who just gets it.

This morning I was awaken with a call from a number from the Asheville, North Carolina district, home of Thomas Wolfe himself. No message was left. But hours earlier, I quoted Mr. Wolfe in a text message to my brother.

You quote Thomas Wolfe and he will call.