What are you reading?

[Fueco]

I just started this one. Seems good so far. The latte is also good.

 

[imatlas]

I just started this one. Seems good so far. The latte is also good.

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Have you read The River Why by David James Duncan? A wonderful novel that influenced my decision to go to school in the PNW.

 

[smittycl]

 

[Joffrey]

Started this a few nights ago. Very engrossing so far. Plus a lot of reminders of my growing up in a somewhat similar environment in Nigeria during the 90's.

Completed a few weeks ago. Interesting book though some characters could be grating.

I've moved on to this

 

[Clouseau]

I'm not sure that's a great idea, I feel some things live better in the imagination than being presented in visual media (and may be the reason for it not being attempted before - apart from a small 2005 production that did it in the style of a black & white silent movie - which worked well enough, but obviously didn't have large mass market appeal. This link may work for that one).

I tend to agree. Carpenter’s « In the mouth of madness » (1995) wasn’t an official adaptation of a HPL book, but captured the essence of his themes.

 

[Nyarlathotep]

 

[Fueco]

 

[Geoffrey Firmin]

About a hundred pages in. Plenty to laugh at including his Michelin restaurant wine review.

 

[Geoffrey Firmin]

Re Annihilation definitely not what I was expecting.

 

[smittycl]

Re Annihilation definitely not what I was expecting.

Houllebecq is a unique writer.

 

[Geoffrey Firmin]

Houllebecq is a unique writer.

I’ve read all his novels except Serotonin in translation. When Atomised arrived I was working in academic and he was being touted as the new Camus. However this demonstrates an existential callousness and brutality about the human condition that is far removed from previous work.

 

[smittycl]

I’ve read all his novels except Serotonin in translation. When Atomised arrived I was working in academic and he was being touted as the new Camus. However this demonstrates an existential callousness and brutality about the human condition that is far removed from previous work.

Yes, he is vicious. I've only read Platform, The Elementary Particles (that's Atomised, right?) and the futuristic one but the name escapes me.

 

[Geoffrey Firmin]

Yes, he is vicious. I've only read Platform, The Elementary Particles (that's Atomised, right?) and the futuristic one but the name escapes me.

Interesting Atomised was published under that title in the US. He does court controversy for a living I think. Submission about the Islamic takeover of France?

 

[smittycl]

Interesting Atomised was published under that title in the US. He does court controversy for a living I think. Submission about the Islamic takeover of France?

I remember liking his essay on Lovecraft. He was just interviewed in the FT. Gift link:

Michel Houellebecq: ‘People who have humanitarian ideas are a catastrophe’

France’s most famous and controversial writer on Trump, Ukraine and what he believes lies behind the rise of the far right

on.ft.com

 

[Geoffrey Firmin]

I remember liking his essay on Lovecraft. He was just interviewed in the FT. Gift link:

Michel Houellebecq: ‘People who have humanitarian ideas are a catastrophe’

France’s most famous and controversial writer on Trump, Ukraine and what he believes lies behind the rise of the far right

on.ft.com

👍i get the FT Weekend on a regular basis think I was away for that.

There was a letter in last weekend edition which also dealt with the abandonment and alienation of white working class youth which is also a factor and eloquence of Trump is based on speaking to MAGA acolytes in their monosyllabic language. Goebbles would be proud.