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[Cuestionador]

View attachment 82953gosh I love me some Bourges

An absolute classic! Borges it's one of my favourite writers my dad used to read me old Borges shorts poems and writings when i was a little kid. He's got the opportunity to met the man in a couple of ocassions of the seventies (due to his labor as an artist in Buenos Aires), but it was a very shy man and never have the guts to approach Borges in person. Here's a collage i did the past year homaging Borges and his work:

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[sun0wl]

An absolute classic! Borges it's one of my favourite writers my dad used to read me old Borges shorts poems and writings when i was a little kid. He's got the opportunity to met the man in a couple of ocassions of the seventies (due to his labor as an artist in Buenos Aires), but it was a very shy man and never have the guts to approach Borges in person. Here's a collage i did the past year homaging Borges and his work:

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Hell yeah and that's really cool, I don't blame your dad haha I would have been shy to approach someone I held in such high regard as well.

Nice art, it actually evokes De Chirico for me as well haha, maybe it's the composition or something.

Spoiler: de chirico & ico

which of course inspired Ico cover art

 

[Cuestionador]

Hell yeah and that's really cool, I don't blame your dad haha I would have been shy to approach someone I held in such high regard as well.

Nice art, it actually evokes De Chirico for me as well haha, maybe it's the composition or something.

Spoiler: de chirico & ico

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which of course inspired Ico cover art
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My dad spending many years of the seventies as a neighbor of Bioy Casares and also, never approach him directly. In any case, i miss my dad (he died many years ago), his lectures and his art, i keep drawing and making collages thanks to him. Giorgio De Chirico and René Magritte are two of my artistic heroes of all time, there's another belgian artist influenced by De Chirico called Paul Delvaux, i love him too.

 

[sun0wl]

My dad spending many years of the seventies as a neighbor of Bioy Casares and also, never approach him directly. In any case, i miss my dad (he died many years ago), his lectures and his art, i keep drawing and making collages thanks to him. Giorgio De Chirico and René Magritte are two of my artistic heroes of all time, there's another belgian artist influenced by De Chirico called Paul Delvaux, i love him too.

Sorry to hear about your dad, he seems like a good man who made a difference with his art. I'm sure you're making him proud. I just checked out Delvaux and I can definitely see his influence in your art as well! Thanks for sharing it.

Also, on the topic, now reading:

Really great first-hand account of the Siege of Warsaw in '39. The most interesting part for me is that the book was written in '41 I believe--when the war was far from over, and Poland would have to wait a very long time for freedom...Very interesting to read accounts of WW2 written during the war itself. A bit eerie and sad knowing what would happen, and reading both fiction and non-fiction from the perspective of authors living through it...

I also just really love reading English from this time. Popular books of the time like The Maltese Falcon by Dashiel Hammett are also really cool for seeing how people spoke, thought, and lived back then.

 

[Duke_11037]

This also looks interesting to me. I'll definitely try to read this soon.

If you find it interesting Fighting Girl and Otaku: Japan's Database Animals are other good academic works on Otaku and anime culture. If you want to be a pretentious anime fan these are your places to start.

 

[diet_orange]

William Gibson's Virtual Light. I was so used to his Sprawl trilogy (Neuromancer, Count Zero, and Mona Lisa Overdrive) being such short reads that I was fairly surprised that Virtual Light and Idoru were total chonkers

 

[Deleted member 746185]

Foundation by Issac Assimov, almost at the end as I am on page 190 out 230

 

[Deleted member 746185]

Started reading Horace Walpole's Castle Of Otranto

 

[Cardboardtubeknight Cardboardtubeknight]

Rereading the incarnations of immortality series by Piers Anthony

 

[DaeZun]

Ningen Shikkaku (Or "no longer human" for the english audience).
There is no worse feeling than identifying with Dazai.
Setting that aside, it's a short and “entertaining” read, in a manner of speaking.

 

[zacharinolongpants]

I've been reading the PKD novels Valis and Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said.

I'm so fascinated by his evolution as an author. Valis has been a truly wild experience.

 

[solnK!]

Last thing I read was a compilation of Sherlock Holmes novels, I really liked it

 

[Deleted member 264618]

my last read was Metamorphosis by Shindo L great manga, i dont want to spoil it but its a great read about a lonely girl making friends, with a happy ending. : )

 

[solnK!]

my last read was Metamorphosis by Shindo L great manga, i dont want to spoil it but its a great read about a lonely girl making friends, with a happy ending. : )

My favourite part is when Josuke Higashikata and Okuyasu Nijimura from JoJo´s Bizarre Adventure Part 4: Diamond is Unbreakable show up and save the day

 

[SunkaFunka]

I'm trying to give Digital Devil Story a read at the moment. I'm someone who isn't an avid reader, so sometimes i feel bored, but the book is interesting

 

[Stingy Perry Stingy Perry]

Just started reading this one a couple days ago and now I just can’t seem to put it down!

 

[chxshire22]

I last read "The Midnight Circus" there's a lot of criticisms for that book and how there's really no plot but i think it's an amazing descriptive book.

The next book i'm planning on reading is "If On A Winter's Night, A Traveller"

 

[Spyrone]

Currently reading Malefactor by Robert Repino. It's is pretty good thus far. I'm enjoying the portrayal of the Mudfoot wolf clan and their allies, as well as the Badger mercs and the Deer warband that formed in response to the wolves continuing to hunt them. I just reached the part where the game/victory celebration Zagga-Za is introduced, which is like a fusion of a betting game, a giant toss the ball session and a barbecue. So, perfect for a game invented by post-apocalyptic doggo insurgents. It's a part of the War With No Name series, which is like a fusion of Animal Farm, Redwall, Mad Max and Them!

 

[KenShjIN]

Asimow Trantor Trilogy and Silmarillion again

 

[NeonKnights]

Reading "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" and "The Middle Ages" by Dorothy Mills.
Last read "A Study in Scarlet" Arthur Conan Doyle.

 

[solnK!]

"A Study in Scarlet" Arthur Conan Doyle.

Read it along all the Sherlock Holmes novels around 1 month ago and I loved them!

 

[Additional Damage]

Currently: The Witcher, original book series.
Last read: Silent Ponyville, fan-fiction crossover My Little Pony × Silent Hill. Why not?

 

[SherionVane]

 

[Segadude113]

 

[_Lorenzo_]

Here are my summer (re)reads: "A Time to Kill" (Tempo di uccidere) by E. Flaiano and "Zeno's Conscience" (La coscienza di Zeno) by I. Svevo. I also bought a cookbook on Apulian cuisine, but I’m not sure that really counts as a 'reading'!