May 2012
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stefanomattia replied to your post: Haruki...
Bingo. TWUBC will always be his magnum opus. I never finished reading 1Q84. Maybe next time.
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Haruki Murakami's 1Q84 Vintage box set
When I saw this on the shelf, 2 things appeared on my mind:
1. I have an unread Knopf copy of 1Q84 at home
2. Good design sells
I must say, really good design is happening here.
Straight to the Murakami row and will be forever a virgin.
April 2012
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Anonymous asked: Hmm, I actually can't remember if i've replied you or not. Hahah, damn. Do tell me when you have the time ok? Thank you & hope you're having a good day mate :)
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Thought boxes
I’m cleaning up my room. My stupid old air conditioner has been leaking for sometimes now (without me realising it), damaging my notebooks, books, and magazines. Luckily most of them survived, worst case happened to some of my B&W magazines (f**k#^*@#l)—I think I have to let them go.
I packed all my notebooks into shoeboxes like this:
And so far there are 5 boxes:
And I’m...
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Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality by Sigmund Freud My rating: 4 of 5 stars I showed an excerpt of Freud’s writing to my friend over lunch earlier this afternoon. The excerpt read like this: Contact between the child and its carer is, for the child, an endlessly flowing source of sexual stimulation and satisfaction of erogenous zones, particularly since the carer—more generally the...
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss My rating: 4 of 5 stars Lynne Truss is going all-out with her righteous sword to defend the English realm. I’m going to keep my review short here, in case I misplaced a comma or botch a semicolon. In short, the book is fantastic as I never knew that learning the truth about punctuation can be so funny and...
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Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut My rating: 5 of 5 stars The mark of a great book is how effortless it is. Now this book is super effortless. It’s enjoyable, it’s great, sketchy, and cartoonish. I’d say that the strange thing about this book is that it is arranged by scenes, not chapters, and they can go over a hundred, it’s the inverse of most novels, and makes the story...
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The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi My rating: 5 of 5 stars It’s no use hiding my interest towards Indian culture. A psychic once told me that in my previous life I was a crusader who ventures to the middle east in the Holy War and survived and lived in India for the rest of my life. I don’t think this is the kind of book that would go crazy popular and become everyone’s...
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Best Author-on-Author Insults in History
Virginia Woolf on James Joyce: [Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.
Harold Bloom on J.K. Rowling: How to read ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’? Why, very quickly, to begin with, and perhaps also to make an end. Why read it? Presumably, if you cannot be persuaded to read anything better, Rowling will have to do.
H. G. Wells on George Bernard Shaw: An idiot child screaming in a hospital.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Jane Austen: Miss Austen’s novels . . . seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world.
William Faulkner on Ernest Hemingway: He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
Ernest Hemingway on William Faulkner: Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?
W. H. Auden on Robert Browning: I don’t think Robert Browning was very good in bed. His wife probably didn’t care for him very much. He snored and had fantasies about twelve-year-old girls.
Mark Twain on Jane Austen: Every time I read ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ I want to dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shin-bone.
Truman Capote on Jack Kerouac: That's not writing, it's typing.
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“Every dream is a desire represented as fulfilled, and the representation is a...”
– Sigmund Freud, Fragment of an Analysis of Hysteria (Dora)
March 2012
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February 2012
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I have been told that the dying words of one...
That’s the funniest sentence I’ve read this morning.
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My tribute to Anthony Shadid: his Pulitzer-winning... →
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“Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end,
And our God will take...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
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