I would make a real thread

[benjamin619]

but the only people online right now who I like are Trots, D., Corganist, ChrisChriassonnsdsasdoonswhatev and kind of Eulogy. Pakula is good for a laugh, but I'm just not liking the audience tonight.

[drmoon]

sup guy

[benjamin619]

Ever isn't bad either.

[benjamin619]

Originally Posted by drmoon

sup guy

you i dont know. please dont be offended by that.

[Kanan Road]

You could just spam the board, that seems like the happening thing to do.

[drmoon]

not at all, guy

[benjamin619]

i could do that but its a real situation, which means i shouldnt have internet advice but sometimes you want the opinion of people you dont know right? hey duovamp your cool sometimes. i like your name.

[Trotskilicious]

It's ok. Nobody likes me on this board anymore. I don't blame them.

[benjamin619]

I see Grumble hides his online status. As do I.

[benjamin619]

it's a problem about a girl.

what are your 3 favorite books and what do you think of hesse?

[benjamin619]

oh man



Paul Bowles 'the Sheltering Sky'
William Gaddis 'the Recognitions;
J.D. Salinger 'Franny and Zooey'

I like Hesse. I admire 'Damien' a lot. I don't think he pulls punches in his writing; I think he knows how absurd some of his work sounds, and how outlandish and occult it is, but he did it anyway. To me, it's almost as if Kafka had meant to be read, he might have come up with something like Hesse did. At the same time, I know Hesse was always one of those rebellious-youth authors, it's pretty clear. Like Celine, and Rimbaud, and Salinger and Miller, his writing seems like it was really fueled. It's alive. There is an edge that guys like Gaddis and Saul Bellow just never could quite have - and I'm not always sure it's a good thing, but it's a trait. And it's visible.

[duovamp]

[benjamin619]

i listed you! it's a few posts in!

[Ever]

On the topic of books I recently read The Gambler by Dostoyevsky. I am now a fan. Anyone have any thoughts on him?

[benjamin619]

have read the Gambler. you might try Notes From Underground. Another good piece, and also short. i loved the Idiot because I fell for Nastasya Fillipovna just like Rogozhin (spelling), and I liked Myshkin so much. Haven't read Karamazov yet. I'm saving it.

karamazov is weaker than cp and i

[barden]

blah.

[benjamin619]

Originally Posted by Andrew Pakula

karamazov is weaker than cp and i

you never responded to my 3 books and comments on hesse

[Ever]

Originally Posted by Benjamin619

have read the Gambler. you might try Notes From Underground. Another good piece, and also short. i loved the Idiot because I fell for Nastasya Fillipovna just like Rogozhin (spelling), and I liked Myshkin so much. Haven't read Karamazov yet. I'm saving it.

I'm sure I'll read all of those.

The Gambler is special to me cause I felt I was able to relate to all his protagonistic characters, especially Alexis, Grandmama and Polina. I ended up falling in love with Polina I guess in a similar fashion to how you did with Natasya in that "The Idiot" book. Ergh It feels so silly.

[benjamin619]

le sigh

Originally Posted by benjamin619

you never responded to my 3 books and comments on hesse

im not really well read

[benjamin619]

psh. neither am i.



you at least know hesse.

[Ever]

Hey is he that guy who did the Siddartha book? about that buddhist guy. Cause if so I read that when I was 13.

[benjamin619]

sure is! won a nobel too.

[Ever]

Farout, I loved that book. It's times like this I wish I didn't waste so much of my time on the internet or video games and just motherfucking read instead.

no, i just checked out a book by him because he's famous and i hadnt read anything by him. it was alright. he's back in a long queue i guess though what i read didnt realyl strike me

[benjamin619]

i think i'd spend at lot less time on the computer if all my music wasnt on it.

the book was klingsors last summer and parts of it reminded me of a politics-lite dharma bums, which i hated

[Trotskilicious]

Originally Posted by Andrew Pakula

karamazov is weaker than cp and i

An internationally reknown classic with more layers than a prize winning onion is weak. I mean really, where do you come up with this stuff? You can not like it but to call it weak is pretty silly.