Yue ([info]sleazoid) wrote,
@ 2008-06-04 07:16:00
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Hiya

A quick morning update to ask for some recommendations. I've read one book after another but now I'm running kinda dry. And the books I ordered take like ages to get here *annoyed*
Anyway, can anyone recommend some novels? List your favourite novels or something. Thanks ;3

See ya
*waves*
Yue


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[info]ryoujyoku
2008-06-04 05:24 am UTC (link)
Henry Miller - 'Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronim Bosch' :33

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[info]sleazoid
2008-06-05 01:01 pm UTC (link)
what's it about and what made it so good? :3

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[info]urya
2008-06-04 07:09 am UTC (link)
'Een Schitteren Gebrek', by Arthur Japin. It made me realize not all Dutch literature is crap.

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[info]sleazoid
2008-06-06 07:16 am UTC (link)
oh, sounds interesting :3 I have a strong urge to read a good dutch book again. Ik zal waarschijnlijk straks even in de bib kijken of ze het hebben. Het thema kan ik wel bij aansluiten denk ik. Maar wie nu niet? :P what made it so good?

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[info]urya
2008-06-06 12:59 pm UTC (link)
It's pretty much a lovestory, but nothing like all the crap that exists on the market. The dialogues have a certain mystique to them without it seeming as if the writer went "HAH, I LOOK SMART WRITING THIS!".

That, and it's written around the the of the enlightenment. There's a ton of philosophy in it regarding that.

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[info]derv_riot_star
2008-06-04 07:16 am UTC (link)
Un Lun Dun - China Mieville
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
A Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin
..everything by Scott Lynch <3 I guess I should stop now ^^

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[info]sleazoid
2008-06-05 01:01 pm UTC (link)
wow. lots of stuff. I dunno what to pick.

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[info]mushroomofdoom
2008-06-04 07:53 am UTC (link)
Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyle.

Ik zal hem u wel lenen alsk je morgen zie =]

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[info]violet_banana
2008-06-04 09:59 am UTC (link)
serhij żadan 'himn demokratocznoji mołodi'
nenad velickovic 'sahib'
both are incredible, amazing style and especially that 2nd is funny as hell:P but theyre more political and maybe theyre easier to understand and funnier for postcommunistic countries, but maybe you like them:)

viktor pielevin 'empire V' vampires in russia :p
eduardo mendoza 'the adventure of the powder room'

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[info]sleazoid
2008-06-05 01:07 pm UTC (link)
ah yeah, you spoke of empire v before :3 maybe I'll pick that one.
a book with as background postcommunistic sounds interesting. thanks for writing some info, it's hard to pick something out of a list just with the name alone.

and is that an icon of Cillian Murphy? 'coz that guy is so fucking cooool :3

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[info]violet_banana
2008-06-05 01:29 pm UTC (link)
i especially recommend żadan's book, its a compilation of short stories which have connections with each other. they all are like...imagine you're sitting in dark pub with weird old guy smells of vodka and piotr I cigarettes telling you incredible stories about what conference about ecumenism have in common with 40
carriages with drugs from uzbekistan


yea, thats him :) i loved him in breakfast on pluto

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[info]sleazoid
2008-06-06 07:20 am UTC (link)
okay, zadan it is :3 I would like to know what it has in common with 40 carriages of drugs XD but I think it's pretty hard to find here in my city library :( I'll have to go to Antwerp and hope they have it there.

ahh, haven't seen it yet. I'm downloading the movie right now :3 it's gonna take a while though x__x

haha, your icon by the way XD

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[info]violet_banana
2008-06-06 05:48 pm UTC (link)
i hope himn demokratocznoji mołodi was released in other countries than poland and ukraineXD but he's pretty popular i think...

hope you'll like it:)

haha i know its love;D but some people think that im communist cause of my innocent interests in history

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[info]sleazoid
2008-06-08 10:53 am UTC (link)
hehe. I get stuff like that too. I keep wondering "what if" though. What if communism could succeed in its ideal. It would be a pretty great system then. but the problem is that human beings don't ever wanna feel "equal"

the downloading is going poorly :(

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[info]violet_banana
2008-06-08 01:53 pm UTC (link)
it could work on smaller areas...but maybe communism is really like fascism...only more fascinating

oh...:( i watched in on tv here

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[info]kissed_pick
2008-06-04 10:31 am UTC (link)
(As always) Emily Brontё "Wuthering Heights".
You know how much I love this. :P Brilliantly written with lots of subtile humour, very dark and desperate and romantic. ♥

Otherwise, no idea. XD

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[info]sleazoid
2008-06-05 01:02 pm UTC (link)
sounds very good (at least you're promoting your book, so it sounds the most tempting to read :p)
so Kate Bush based her song on that book?

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[info]kissed_pick
2008-06-05 01:04 pm UTC (link)
XDD Well, I'm obsessed with it, idk why. And yeah... well, she wrote it after watching the 1978 BBC movie of the book, but as far as I know that version was very faithful to the book, so it's basically the same.

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[info]grey_coin
2008-06-04 01:02 pm UTC (link)
Haruki Murakami - The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
Ryu Murakami - In The Miso Soup
Adeline Yen Mah - Falling Leaves

:3

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[info]sleazoid
2008-06-05 01:05 pm UTC (link)
The Wind-Up Bird and In the Misou Soup are probably my all time favourites :D haha, nice taste.
I haven't heard of Adeline Yen Mah though. Can you compare his writing style with Ryu and Haruki?

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[info]grey_coin
2008-06-07 08:27 pm UTC (link)
Ah no, Adeline is a female. Falling Leaves is her autobiography. One of the best autobiographies I've read, though I haven't got much to compare to as my collection isn't that big (yet). Those are the only books I have of those 3 authors. Damn, I really need to collect more novels over Summer! Also there is Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima, which I'm currently reading.

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[info]sleazoid
2008-06-08 10:56 am UTC (link)
okay :3 hope I'll find it somewhere. Is it good? "Confessions of a Mask" is a really cool title. I just got my order in the bookstore. It's Almost Transparent Blue by Ryu Murakami :3 I wanted to order Piercing but it was out of print :( Ever saw the movie Audition?

( haha, No Face is awesome :D )

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[info]kuronori
2008-06-07 08:35 pm UTC (link)
wilkie collins - the woman in white (I loved every chapter of it.... gothic novel)
paul auster - moon palace (can tend to be a bit static...)
oscar wilde - the picture of dorian gray (because we all know that this book is good...)
jane austen - pride & prejudice (maybe more a girl-book?)
salman rushdie - haroun and the sea of stories (must! it's just brilliant~)

... and if you like repetitive and boring stories with horribly long sentences and impossible "sentence structure": gaius iulius caesar - bellum gallicum
XD (and ... catull is fun)

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[info]sleazoid
2008-06-08 11:01 am UTC (link)
yeah, pride & prejudice wouldn't be something for me, I think. But who knows.
and how can someone not like the picture of dorian gray :P (although imagining him as the actor that played dorian gray/lestat might have helped :p)

oh yeah, I always wanted to read something about Salman Rushdie.

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[info]kuronori
2008-06-10 02:57 pm UTC (link)
XD
Yes, Stuart Townsend(?) was a perfect dorian/lestat.
But I think it's fine as long as you don't have that picture of Dorian in mind which is printed on the front of my copy.... *shudders*

My sister also read the Satanic Verses and loved them...

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