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Bastard out of Carolina AND james Baldwin Another Country acquired at the goodwill yesterday for a grand total of 6$
#I’m crazed about the dorothy allison I didn’t think that was something one could find at goodwill#You can’t even get her on interlibrary loan#My lucky stars 🤤
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‘Now that sex is becoming more and more a conceptual act, an intellectualisation divorced from affect and physiology alike, one has to bear in mind the positive merits of the sexual perversions.’ —j.g. ballard, the atrocity exhibition
#He really saw the future#As in the only sex that’s not roleplay is inherently perverse; and all square straight sex is by default roleplay now#jg ballard#currently reading#the atrocity exhibition
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He’s just saying the same shit all time but I love him
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Oh Huge surprise. Brian is reading jg Ballard. Stop the Presses Seriously .Shocker
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from Hari Kunzru’s introduction to the Atrocity Exhibition
#a kind of psychological crash test dummy with a detached professional interest in the brick wall that’s about to make contact with his skull#WOW!#currently reading#jg ballard
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just finished I Wished I really can’t put in words what this man’s writing does to me
#Doesnt every manic schizo spend half their life dreaming of a surrogate dennis cooper who would really love you forever no matter what anyth#ing in your head makes you think or do or be or ruin for him or take from him or whatever#Without knowing it’s a surrogate dennis cooper if you’re in the stage of your life before you’ve read dennis cooper ; and after too sometime#s#because it’s so unformed.#dennis cooper#i wished#read
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2025 reads
as always, I hope to read 40 books this year. that’s half up to me and half up to my circumstance but I can hope and try. this is a running list of everything I’ve read so far and links to my thoughts on them. venture beyond my guardian car crash fetishists if you dare
death in a prairie house william r. drennan
society of the spectacle guy debord
exile and the kingdom albert camus
i wished dennis cooper
#2025 reads#booklr#litblr#book reviews#goodreads#bookblr#william r. drennan#guy debord#albert camus#dennis cooper
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Bits of ‘the Crater’ from I Wished by dennis cooper
#Does anhone else feel psychotic right now. Does anyone else feel psychotic right now#the world is so inexplicable like why does he deserve to write this. he doesn’t he just is the only person who can and cares enough to want#to#And so he made it so it kills you everytime you read it
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from 'the Crater' out of I Wished by dennis cooper
#Why isn’t there an emoji with the tortured eyes of agony in its head#the first crater chapter gutted me like a fish#currently reading#dennis cooper#i wished
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reading cooper again -_-
#His books are so fast because you can’t stop reading them & this is the most gentle (so then brutal) one ive yet read I just feel ill#It made tears come to my eyes twice and I’m not yet halfway in#currently reading#i wished#dennis copper
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Actually fucking disgusting the way he thinks about himself nibbling chocolate. Pervert
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Exile and the Kingdom as we speak.. I have two stories left in this; I like reading the short fiction of novelists it seems like a crash course in their themes and is perfect to know before reading the novels .My dearest has loved Camus forever and he tells me to read them all, and I have to follow his recommended order but I am starting with this because It is a fast way to meet Camus, a brief introduction in the bar before we fuck in the hotel so to speak
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photo page from society of the spectacle by guy debord
#read#society of the spectacle#guy debord#Finished her yesterday and already wishing she were 3x as long#KEEP RIFFING DEBORD I KNOW YOU HAVE IT IN YOU
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. I try to read 40 books every year and Ive read 44 so yippee. Within that I wanted to read five poetry collections, five short story collections, five scripts, and five nonfiction books and this is where that ambition ended up:
poetry
the waste land, prufrock and other poems by t.s. eliot
howl and other poems by allen ginsberg
the dream police by dennis cooper
short story
deserter by junji ito
the putrescent vein by dorian bridges
extremities by kathe koja
the liminal zone by junji ito
delta of venus by anais nin
script
jubilee: six film scripts by derek jarman
equus by peter shaffer
glengarry glen ross by david mamet
the room by harold pinter
the birthday party by harold pinter
nonfiction
lou reed: the last interview
spaceflight: a concise history by michael j. neufeld
xtc: song stories by neville farmer
a thousand mile walk to the gulf by john muir
made it half way. over half way if you don't count it in an all or nothing fashion. poetry is hard for me to get into even if it's quick to read I guess; it's hard to find one you can convince yourself you want to read, even though everything I read, I enjoy
#2024 reads#I’m trying for this same thing five of each of these four categories for this year and again we’ll see how it goes
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Well that was a year. Wanted to read 40 books as always, read 44. We grow stronger we grow stronger. I found Im getting better at honing what I want to find in literature (and picking books) to the point where I love or at least get a lot in terms of thought from almost everything I read; I got more intentional with my reading and with the building of my foundational theory and philosophy that I apply to what I read. I’m thinking about what I read in a different more connected way than before. Cannot wait to continue building and expanding my base of theory and take more steps down the path of my personal philosophy.
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𖦹 december reads 𖦹
finishing off the year with two Pinters and a doctor who book that was really important to me throughout a really strange time in my life. From these two plays at least Pinter’s themes are so cohesive and strong and disorienting. I do want to read more of his plays pretty bad. Unspoken and inscrutable alienation and discomfort perpetuated by the domestic which is also the pretense of a shield from it. The doctor who book is forever meaningful probably only to me and in a way that wouldn’t translate to anybody else.
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