240824: various other reviews have effusively recounted basically everything I would say. the language, the emotions. the characters, the tension, the240824: various other reviews have effusively recounted basically everything I would say. the language, the emotions. the characters, the tension, the horrific, the plausible. the universality. there is nothing more to say. I must only note that, for me, the more specific the more universal, so my favourite remains Milkman......more
240814: this is deleuze. clear, concise, capacious, complex. this is exactly what I want in continental /postmodern/ deconstructed philosophy. he call240814: this is deleuze. clear, concise, capacious, complex. this is exactly what I want in continental /postmodern/ deconstructed philosophy. he calls it 'superior empiricism'. he incorporates many (western) thinkers, some expectations with whose work the reader is already familiar. series of four essays, first written last, then his particular interceptions of deleuzean themes in Hume and Nietzsche. of the latter, I was very impressed with the bestiary of his thoughts, with his characterisation of Ariadne, Theseus, Zarathustra. pleased to recognise 1) possible meaning to title Mygale 2) remembrance of my own original conception (age 16) of SFF ideas of Gateworld 'Dion' as in Dionysius......more
240721: comfortable book for architects and architecture-interested. coffee table. big. heavy. extensive. many new buildings, many familiar- but then 240721: comfortable book for architects and architecture-interested. coffee table. big. heavy. extensive. many new buildings, many familiar- but then I look at art-architecture books (49). just photos, no plans, little capsule commentary. only in person seen ones in Canada (Vancouver, Montreal) and Hawai'i......more
240701: j'ai plusieurs problèmes de cet roman mais... je l'aimait beaucoup. je lisait en française pour gagne beaucoup le vocabulaire et ca je me surp240701: j'ai plusieurs problèmes de cet roman mais... je l'aimait beaucoup. je lisait en française pour gagne beaucoup le vocabulaire et ca je me surprise: après des années (decades) depuis je pris les classes française je peut continuer lisait! écrivez? non, pas le meilleur, mais je le fait ici et je m'excuse si je ton langue massacre...
je trouvait les phrase je peut traduire française anglaise et le contre, je peut découvre 'hoche la tete'= nods head, 'hausse des épaules'= shrugs shoulders, et trouvait les mots je sais en contexte: tirez, tuer etc. tout le roman c'est en passe compose tres simple, c''est un peut repetitive, c'et simple, c'est romantique image de la guerre.. n'est pas possible d'écrire en anglais parce que nous avant as le petit ironie et souvent la sympathie pour le trahi, mais est-ce-que je lisait si c'était en anglais...?
(I have many problems with this novel but... I like it a lot. I read it in French to gain a lot of vocabulary and this surprises me: after the yers (decades) since I took French classes, I am able to continue to read it! writing? no, not the best but I do so here and apologise if iu massacre your language...
I find phrases I can translate from french english and back, I am able to discover...)...more
240609: c'est tres bon. ce n'est pas comme des autres j'ai lisait par les auteurs: Le loup,La Dernière Reine, Ailefroide : Altitude 3954, mais c'étai240609: c'est tres bon. ce n'est pas comme des autres j'ai lisait par les auteurs: Le loup,La Dernière Reine, Ailefroide : Altitude 3954, mais c'était tres dystopique et plus noir, fantastique, impossible, vers trop vitesse pour le lisait noter les idées pas possible. je n'ai lire cette band-desinee en anglais meme voir le film de bon hoo mais c'est tres cinématique. probablement un bon film n'est ce que pas?
(it is very good, it is not like the others I have read by these authors: Le loup,La Dernière Reine, Ailefroide : Altitude 3954 but it is very dystopian and dark, going too quickly for the reader to see the ideas not possible. i have not read this comic in English or seen the movie by bon hoo but it is very cinematic. probably good movie, no?)...more
240503: do not know about the claims to Jorge Luis Borges, but I can see Zivkovic Zoran etc. literary gameship at its best. ranging from Franz Kafka mitteleuropean to contemporary American post- and postpostmodern and everything in between, these short stories are written out ideas you may have thought of, treated in the best Italo Calvino ways: lightness, clarity etc... reason it is on Henri Bergson shelf: fun story that plays around with/encapsulates/his ideas in 'Henri Bergson thinks of Time'.......more
240430: je l'aime beaucoup. j'aime l'art, l'histoire, les politiques d'environment natur: moi, je ne suis pas francophone mais j'ai lu française, et c240430: je l'aime beaucoup. j'aime l'art, l'histoire, les politiques d'environment natur: moi, je ne suis pas francophone mais j'ai lu française, et ce n'est pas difficile, meme l'essayer a le fin. je m'excuse si mon française n'est pas plus bon, j'ai une professeur a l'université qui me dit si je voudrait ganger plus le française c'est simple: lisait des romans française! j'essayer ca ici...
(I like it a lot, I like the art, the history, the politics of natural environment, I am not francophone but I read in French, it is not difficult, same with the essay at the end. I apologise if my French is not too good, I had a professor at university who tells me if I would like to gain more French it is simple: read French novels! I try to do that here..)
Loading...
