also classy move giving desert places the recognition

i should try to read instead of watch tv this week while pretending to work

interesting...i see rafa himself also rated it 5 stars

great book

jk

Just finished this...



And am just starting this. Considering the subject matter, this may prove to be a dreadful mistake.

Coming February 16 my friends



One more journey to the literary universe of Roberto Bolaño, an essential voice of contemporary Latin American literature

Roberto Bolaño’s boundless imagination and seemingly inexhaustible gift for shaping the chaos of his reality into enduring fiction is unmistakable in these three exhilarating novellas. In “Cowboy Graves,” Arturo Belano–Bolaño’s alter ego–returns to Chile after the coup to fight with his comrades for socialism. “French Comedy of Horrors,” takes the reader to French Guiana on the night after an eclipse where a seventeen year old answers a pay phone and finds himself recruited into the Clandestine Surrealist Group, a secret society of artists based in the sewers of Paris. And in “Fatherland,” a young poet reckons with the fascist overthrow of his country, as the woman he is obsessed with disappears in the ensuing violence and a Third Reich fighter plane mysteriously writes her poetry in the sky overhead.

Cowboy Graves is an unexpected treasure from the vault of a master of contemporary fiction. These three fiercely original tales bear the signatures of Bolaño’s extraordinary body of work, echoing the strange characters and uncanny scenes of his great triumphs, while deepening our understanding of his profound gifts.

Currently reading La Masacre de Kruger, from Luciano Lamberti. Pretty cool.

Not as cluttered as the movie which I appreciated. But I felt the ending of the movie was sadder and more impactful, where this felt like a ghost story or something.

oh i loved that book. Super intense at times and frighening. I thought the ending was so fucking sad.

About a 3rd of the way through. This is really funny and very Kaufman. The lead character (woke art critic) is so loathsome.

Finally reading Dune. I'm just over half way through.

Yeah, it's really good. I think the intense focus on politics might be my favorite part--I was expecting it all to be giant sandworms, but my favorite scene might have been that dinner party where Jessica was trying to weed out the spies.

Same. I find myself really pulled in with the politics and world-building stuff -- when it reminds me most of Song of Ice and Fire. The actions scenes are good but that politics is where it's really at for me too.

I saw somewhere that Denis Villeneuve said one of the adjustments he made to his movie was to give Jessica more. He thought she was a bit static and underused in the book and so far I don't see that. She's been a fascinating character so far. Full of agency and dynamic. Be interesting to see how the character translates in the new adaptation.

empire falls

last 30 or so chapters of this was a real slog, btw.