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rec me books bitch

another installment of last ten books i read to give you an indication of how much of a suburbanite milquetoast i am with ten albums i've been digging hard list is digs lend me money
1Yo La Tengo
Painful

Chronic City - Jonathan Lethem. Re-read #3245666. Goddamn it I love this book. While most pomo authors attach a tiresome gravity to their observations about hyperreality and the simulcrum in which we live, Lethem takes it for granted and let's his (ingeniously wrought) characters do their thing. The result is funny, touching, chloral. Maybe the best book of the century so far? 5/5
2 Yasuaki Shimizu
Music for Commercials

Suttree - Cormac McCarthy. Re-read. His funniest, most tender, and also his best. Shades of Cannery Row, with the central character overwhelmed by a supporting cadre of scamp, lunatics and down-and-outs, also features some of the most gorgeous, lyrical (and unlyrical) prose in American literature. The "I repent" scene never fails to draw tears.
3Seaside Lovers
Seaside Lovers - Memories in Beach House

Child of God - Cormac McCarthy. Dude bangs his drum a bit here, but I like that he doesn't stress the alienation or grueling poverty that creates an anti-person. Kind of unbelievable and overwrought, and the sparse, "a child could write this -- wait this is brilliant" prose effect has been so often emulated it lessens the enjoyment, but still pretty, pretty good.
4Hellogoodbye
Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs!

The Emigrants - Sebald. Re-read. I've said this before but Sebald is the maestro of displacement, conjuring the feeling of severe homesickness without possessing a home, territorial or otherwise, to be sick for, and this is a great introduction into his depiction of the malady. Academic, dryly funny prose, an almost posthumous detachment, as if written from far away, despite the immediacy of the work, a wonderful book for exiles and those who feel out of place. And the pictures! Prettyyyyy / Hauntingggg.
5Takacs Quartet
Franck / Debussy: Piano Quintet; String Quartet

The Third Policeman - Flann O'Brian. HILARIOUS. Weird (even by O'Brian's standards), kafkaesque if Kafka was Irish, a must-read if you like LOST, mysteries, humour, puzzles and the fine Irish people. Kinda like Beckett then... i smell a thesis in the works.
6Huerco S
For Those of You Who Have Never...

Cancer Ward - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. A Russian novel, set in a cancer ward in post-ww2 U.S.S.R, which should make it the most depressing and harrowing book ever by default, but there's no getting around how humane and compassionate the writer is, even to the most loathesome of characters. Shades of Magic Mountain? That said, I increasingly think that Russian lit just isn't for me: i don't really do plot, or sub-plot, or patronyms. A fine novel that you'll probably enjoy; i did well enough, but i know i'm not really the intended audience.
7Otis Redding
The Dock of the Bay

The House of Names - Colm Toiben. Dumb, frequently boring, greek tragedy reduced to dull cliches and endlessly tedious passages. Even Toiben's prose -- and he's one of the best in the business folks -- fails to compel or move. ...the album here is good tho.
8Lana Del Rey
Lust For Life

Asphodel - Hilda Dolittle. Re-read. GOD. I love love love this book. A modernist confessional where one of the central conceits is: 'i don't feel how i'm supposed to feel, and vice-versa' writ in beautifully ambiguous prose. A wonderfully feminine book too, dealing with subjugation and expectations with a light, deft hand modern carnations should take note of. Brilliant.
9 Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band
James Monroe H.S. Presents Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band Goes to Washington

Rupi Kapur - Milk and Honey. Really made me think (about killing myself at the state of modern poetry). I hate this book so forcefully. Fun to put linkin park and smashmouth lyrics in the place of the trite homilies disgusted as poems and see that they have a nearly identical effect and cadence. fml.
10Mark Templeton
Scotch Heart

Black Swan Green - David Mitchell. Fine, but the whole coming-of-age schtic doesn't suit his prose style at all, and this is proof that Mitchell (who incidentally i adore) uses interchanging characters and voices because he struggles to have one maintain enough puff to the finish line. Not that that's a bad thing -- i shitsure couldn't write his kaleidoscopic, inter-linked texts if you gave me a fortune and infinite typewriters -- but this is a misfire for me. cheers.
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