Este diario, donde anoto qué leo y qué pienso de lo que leo (que conste que soy extremadamente exigente), está organizado por etiquetas, el etiquetado está en proceso, excepto para el año 2008 (empece a anotarlo todo en Septiembre de 2007). El significado y uso de las etiquetas lo explico acá. Para ver que tipos de libros me gustan podes usar la etiqueta de "Recomendados" Las [N+nº] en los títulos son calificaciones, 6 de 10 es la nota con la que uno aprueba en Argentina, así que esa es la que uso. Casi nunca uso la [N10], lo que predice lo mucho que me odiarían mis alumnos si se me diera por enseñar profesionalmente..
First read: .10.11.2009
2009, 2009: novel in english, book-2009, -biography, *author: male, @read in english, -gay, -audiobook
Fanfic: "May I?" & "A Confusion of Will and Desire" by Gatewaygirl . [Harry/Draco, others] . [N7]
Harry/Draco, some Harry/Ginny, Harry/OFC, NC-17, novel-length. EWE.
Summary: Sequel to "May I?". When Harry starts to have erotic dreams about his godfather, he questions his sexual preference. The real issue turns out to be even more complicated and disruptive.
First read: 02.11.2009
Comments: 6.000 words + 72.000 words. "May I?" is a pretty disturbing dub-con, although is this novel-length sequel where the consequences really become evident and the fucked-upness of the situation unavoidable. This fic has a really strange Harry, unabashed and honest to the ridiculous. His characterization should be really questionable but somehow I was so caught up in the story that I didn't care. His reconciliation with Draco is more of the same, something that could have happened pre-HBP before things got really ugly between them but that somehow works here. Hermione was at her more annoying, Ron wasn't much better, Harry didn't seem to care that much. It was a really weird experience but I enjoyed it.
2009, 2009: harry potter fic, harry potter fic, fanfic-2009, fanfiction, @read in english, harry potter fic: Harry/draco, harry potter fic: rarepairings, harry potter fic: het, fanfic-novel-2009
First read: 30.10.2009
Comments: Final book in the trilogy. Enjoyable.
2009: 4rd, 2009, 2009: novel in english, book-2009, novel, *author: male, @read in english, -young adult, -fantasy, author: scott westerfeld, trilogy: midnighters
First read: 10.2009
Comments: I read half of this and well, there were enough sex scenes for ten fics of this lenght (73.000 words), it also gets a bit sappy and philosophically pointless sometimes.
2009, fanfic-2009, smallville fic, fanfiction, @read in english, 2009: smallville fic, smallville fic: clark/lex, *fanfic-novel-2009
First read: 20.09.2009
Comments: 94.000 words. Two guys in an alternate Wild West where a meteorite hit the middle of the USA and left lots of monster and a very useful material called "devilstone", Adam is a scientist using it to create everything from lamps to nuclear bombs, he hires Kris as his gunslinger.
*Spoilers*
Julia's reaction to the end of the story doesn't make sense, nor does Valentina's (why doesn't she ask Robert to try and fix the exchange? Why doesn't Elspeth every think about wearing her own daughter's body and leaving that daughter trapped in a flat with the one person she desperately wished to escape? Why is Julia willing to let the ghost (who has no future) go when she refused to let the person who had? Why is it that only when Valentina can't have a life of her own anymore that she decides *she* wants one and starts talking to other people?
Finally, why none of the characters's reactions make any sense?
2009, 2009: novel in english, book-2009, novel, *author: female, @read in english, -twins, -family, -fantasy, -audiobook, 2009: 4rd
Summary: 34.000 words. Clark's Kryptonian heritage, like Lex, is rich and powerful. And, like Lex, not entirely predictable.
First read: 30.09.2009
Quotes:
Lex closed his eyes. He knew it wasn't that simple. There was a reason he dealt in archetypes and oppositions. They were natural, necessary, emergent: protagonist, antagonist; Earth, Krypton; secrets, truth. Still, origin stories were just that—not endings.
However well the years apart had shaped Clark, he tasted the same, fresh as grass and sweeter than victory.
When they kissed, Lex didn't lose himself. There were still things to say. But with Clark so close, he could believe that Clark would hear them, and that he'd listen in turn.
The logical explanation for this irreversible imperative was altered biology, his own human responses twisted out of true like the rest of him. But it would be the same if the meteors had never come—he'd be meat and bone like everyone else, like everyone else driven by chemicals and electrical impulses jumping from nerve to nerve. The only difference—the everything—was that Clark was here.
2009, fanfic-2009, smallville fic, fanfiction, @read in english, 2009: smallville fic, smallville fic: clark/lex, smallville fic: others, [quotes] fanfiction, [quotes] smallville, *fanfic-novella-2009, smallville fic: recs, author: rivkat
Comments:
2009, 2009: essay in english, book-2009, -essay, *author: female, @read in english, fandom essay: queer
Comments: I just re-read my comments on the first book of this trilogy and discovered i had thought it endlessly brilliant, in my head it was just a very exciting adventure without too much character development, I concur with my memory and not the real past-me. Not to say I didn't love it but
2009: 3rd, 2009, 2009: novel in english, book-2009, novel, *author: male, @read in english, -young adult, -fantasy, author: scott westerfeld, novel, trilogy: midnighters
First read: 21.09.2009
Comments: 15w. Ok, I don't know what happened here because I thought this fic was totally insane, it wasn't crack and it's not the concepts, it's the characterization. That's how Shalott usually sells you the clichéd plots, the impossible feats of bravery, all of it. It's like she took the plot and the world so far away from reality but this time she also took the characters there and I can't see anything of me in them. I don't understand their motivations or their feelings, the resolution of the story is sketchy and too fast, the secondary characters feel even less alive than Kris and Adam, Katy in particular makes very little sense to me (spoiler: why doesn't she care at all about Kris? Not even to be relieved he miraculously got out alive?I can understand their marriage being fake but don't they live together and know each other from the organization?) .
First read: 19.09.2009
Comments: I started this a couple years ago, it’s only now, with a paper copy in hand that I have finished it. It was one of those books I was extremely excited about reading but which lost me with lush descriptions. In fact, I got sidetracked with "The Hunger Games" this time too, and I had a fifth of it to finish. It was nice but I wouldn't recommend it, the ending in particular seemed raw and in need of more complexitities, it's way too unsubtle this way and not as strong and moving as it obviously pretends to be.
2009: 3rd, 2009, 2009: novel in english, book-2009, novel, *author: female, @read in english, -fantasy, -urban fantasy
First read: 16.09.2009
Comments: Before I even finished "The Hunger Games" I had already downloaded this, certain I wouldn't be able to let Peeta and Katniss go. The summary is already a spoiler for the first novel so be warned. I didn't feel the book was cut off at the right place, it should have ended with Katniss unconscious or semi-delirious, the explanations she's given when she wakes up were fairly easy to extrapolate for the readers, who were, after all, buying the clues the author threw at them (Plutarc's watch, for one). Feeling like I have just listened to the first few pages of book 3 I'm eagerly awaiting it (and it's almost an year till then v.v)
First read: 14.09.2009
Comments: This is Uglies all over again for me, a powerful government trying to keep the people down, while in Uglies it was doing it by brainwashing them into believing it was doing them a favour in The Hunger Games its approach is more classic, it's doing it by displaying it's power and their helplessness (like in the Greek myth of the Minotaur and the young people it was "fed"). The book is not perfect, often one wishes for less action and more introspection, but the action is so engrossing and fascinating and has so many consequences to the interpersonal relationships of the heroine that it's not something you can honestly complain about, maybe the third book and the resolution will allow for more private moments and resolutions.
2009: 3rd, 2009, 2009: novel in english, book-2009, novel, *author: female, @read in english, -audiobook, -young adult, series: hunger games, -adventures, -apocalyptic, -science fiction, x: recommended
Primera lectura: 08-09-2009
Comments: 15 short stories about the parallel planes. I kind of finished reading the last 4 stories or so because that way I wouldn't have to list the others individually (I think I'm still missing a couple). Let's just say the short-story is NOT Le Guin's genre, ok? Have some quotes and then go and read one of her novels.
★ People are always telling you that "we have always done thus," and then you find that their "always" means a generation or two, or a century or two, at most a millennium or two. Cultural ways and habits are blips, compared to the ways and habits of the body, of the race. There really is very little that human beings on our plane have "always" done, except find food and drink, sleep, sing, talk, procreate, nurture the children, and probably band together to some extent. Indeed it can be seen as our human essence, how few behavioral imperatives we follow. How flexible we are in finding new things to do, new ways to go. How ingeniously, inventively, desperately we seek the right way, the true way, the Way we believe we lost long ago among the thickets of novelty and opportunity and choice…
★ "They said, 'All that will change. You will see. You cannot reason correctly. It is merely an effect of your hormones, your genetic programming, which we will correct. Then you will be free of your irrational and useless behavior patterns.'
"But we answered, 'But will we be free of your irrational and useless behavior patterns?'
- “The Seasons of the Ansarac” by Ursula K. Le Guin.
[quotes], 2009, 2009: novela en castellano, book-2009, cuento/short-story, *author: female, @leído en castellano, 2009: 3rd, author: Ursula K. Le Guin, [quotes] book
Comentarios: Hace mucho que no leía una novela literaria. No estoy segura que como novela literari, y con esto me refiero al tipo de libro que seguís leyendo no por la intriga de qué va a pasar sino porque cada frase y cada detalle es un placer en sí mismo, funcione del todo. Es hermoso y terrible (a ratos y a la vez) pero la intriga es gran parte de lo que lo hace funcionar. Si, en cambio, pienso en "novela literaria" como el tipo de novela en la que se presentan muchas ideas pero no se llega a ninguna conclusión concreta, ni explicita ni implicitamente, entonces Beatriz y los cuerpos celestes es perfecta. Las preguntas son perfectas, las teorias son perfectas, pero los personajes no llegan del todo a enamorarme y me llega más como filosofía que como narrativa (aunque admito haber sufrido horrores con las estúpideces de Beatriz y su profunda incapacidad de ser feliz). *spoilers* Incluso cuando por fin decide dejar el pasado atrás y serlo, parece que no se lo termina de creer y que la felicidad a la que aspira es una especie de premio de consolación (como lo es Cat, porque no pudó conseguir a Mónica). No sé, el descontrol no funciona pero la apatía y conformarse no creo que sean la solución y cuando su busqueda desesparada por algo verdadero, por una conexión profunda con otra persona que la llenará acaba con ella dandose cuenta de que a lo máximo que puede aspirar es al amor a medias que tiene con Cat (a quien trasmite como una persona repetitiva e irritante, si bien comprensiva y dulce, pero, quién quiere comprensión y dulzura de alguien a quién no respeta?)... En resumen, el libro está bueno pero me causa problemas a nivel personal/moral.
Citas (con spoilers, relativamente hablando):
A veces pienso, Mónica, donde quiera que estés, que a mí me ha pasado lo mismo. Que fui enviada al mundo con una misión: comunicarme con otros seres intercambiar datos, transmitir. Y sin embargo me he quedado sola, rodeada de otros seres que navegan desorientados a mi alrededor en esta atmósfera enrarecida por la indiferencia, la insensibilidad o la mera ineptitud donde una nunca espera que la escuchen, y mucho menos que la comprendan." (pp.16)
En la vida de cualquier persona se suceden casi siempre dos tragedias muy serias que ya he vivido: la falta de amor o el exceso de amor. (pp. 27)
Supongo que en el fondo todos sentimos lo mismo, puesto que al fin y al cabo venimos de lo mismo: hidrógeno, helio, oxígeno, metano, neón, argón, carbono, azufre, silicio y hierro, los compuestos básicos del universo, moléculas elementales que existen desde el principio de los tiempos y que, recombinadas entre sí, han dado lugar a otras más complejas. El desarrollo de la vida es un milagro inevitable, una milagrosa combinación de elementos según una trayectoria de mínima resistencia. Dadas las condiciones de la Tierra primitiva, la vida tenía necesariamente que surgir; del mismo modo que el hierro inevitablemente se oxidará en el oxígeno húmedo. Cualquier otro planeta que se pareciese física y químicamente a la Tierra desarrollaría vida. Todos somos inevitables, todos venimos de lo mismo, todos constituimos un milagro en nosotros mismos. Energía y moléculas es vida. Amor y frustración igual a celos. Milagros que provocan en mí reacciones elementales e inevitables. Mujeres que son mundos en sí mismas, mundos habitados por millones de seres vivos ―células y microbios y bacterias y parásitos microscópicos que significan a nuestro cuerpo lo mismo que nuestros cuerpos a la Tierra―, mundos similares aunque distantes. Mundos todas nosotras, planetas que orbitamos en torno a una fuente básica de energía: el afecto, o su carencia. Órbita cementerio. (pp. 223)
Cumplí quince años y dejé de ir a misa. Cumplí dieciocho y besé a Mónica. Luego me largué a Edimburgo. Y allí me rapé el pelo y me compré unas botas de comando. En la calle nadie sabía si yo era chica o chico. Fue la última transgresión. La última transgresión.
Cada delicado detalle de mi cuerpo puede ser interpretado o reinterpretado, según quiera ser mujer o persona. Mi vagina puede ser la puerta del placer o de la vida. Mis pechos, fuente de leche o puntos eróticos. Mi ombligo perforado puede ser un reclamo o la señal de una conexión futura entre mi vida y la de otro que dependerá de mí. Mi cuerpo, con un feto dentro, ¿estará pleno de vida o simplemente invadido, deformado y destruido? (pp. 275)
- Beatriz y los cuerpos celestes - Lucía Etxebarria
@leído en castellano, [quotes], 2009: novela en castellano, -lesbian, book-2009, 2009, 2009: 3rd
First read: 31.08.2009
Comments: Teaching Company Course about Nietzsche, took me a while to listen to it all because Nietzsche wasn't a light thinker and well, once you get one of his ideas (not all of them work) you want to apply it to everything. Really interesting.
Quotes: From Lecture 11: Why must we have truth? From Lectures 24a, 16d, 17e, 20d(min 4), 21d, 22a(min 4)
2009: 3rd, -philosophy, 2009, 2009: non-fiction book in english, book-2009, novel, *author: male, @read in english, -audiobook, [quotes] book, non-fiction
First read: 16.08.2009
Comments: There's some lines I liked but the story wasn't at all what I expected (something like "Hallucinating Foucault" so really, I had insane expectations). It wasn't about reading, it was about collective guilt (because of the Holocaust) and illiteracy.
Quotes:
"More Myself with You" by Jerakeen
Summary: Their friendship is hard to explain. 42,000 words | R | Future Fic.
First read: 14.08.2009
Quotes:
♦ The pen doesn’t refuse to write when he puts it to the dotted line, the sun doesn’t go supernova, the world doesn’t stop turning. He leaves them where they are when he is done and goes to the bedroom to pack his things. He can’t stay in that house anymore. He would leave his own skin if he could. He needs to call someone, tell them where he is going, what he is going to do, but at that point he doesn’t even know himself. He should call Josephine at least. He should tell Adam and Daniel and his parents about the divorce; they shouldn’t find out from the papers. And then he needs to hide and bury his head in the sand, because he can’t handle their disappointment or their pity. He doesn’t want anyone to be understanding or helpful when no one can understand and nothing can help. He needs to be away.
2009: rps fic, rps fic, fanfic-2009, 2009, @read in english, fanfiction, rps fic: adam lambert/kris allen, *fanfic-novella-2009, [quotes] fanfiction, [quotes] rps, rps fic: recs
Comments: 85.000 words. Same old H/D. It's barely been a month or so and I can't remember a single detail.
2009, fanfic-2009, fanfiction, @read in english, 2009: harry potter fic, harry potter fic, harry potter fic: harry/draco, *fanfic-novel-2009
First read: 18.07.2009
Comments: 4000 words.
2009: rps fic, rps fic, fanfic-2009, 2009, @read in english, fanfiction, rps fic: adam lambert/kris allen, *fanfic-oneshot-2009
Fanfic: "but again, maybe" by ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
First read: 18.07.2009
Comments: 1000w. I can't explain how I know these people are in character when they are not characters but here they are, they are great, and intense, human.
♪ </font>“I hate to ask the obvious,” Adam says as he cuts, “but is there some reason you didn’t go to a stylist?”
Kris shrugs. “Didn’t feel like it. They never cut it how I want it and then I have to pay them thirty bucks for screwing it up. I can screw it up myself for free.”
♪ Adam braces his hands on the edge of the counter and waits for his breathing to even out. He stares at the mirror. His reflection stares back. It looks like someone else, someone completely not Adam. Funny how your face stops making sense when you look at it long enough.
honey_wheeler . [Kradam] . [N7]First read: 18.07.2009
Comments: 3000w. Phonesex, but I would not call this a PWP, of maybe it's what every PWP should be, sex that shows who people are and who they are to each other.
2009: rps fic, rps fic, fanfic-2009, 2009, @read in english, fanfiction, rps fic: adam lambert/kris allen, *fanfic-oneshot-2009
"The Silver Ring" by
cormallen . [slash, fairytales] . [N7]First read: 17.07.2009
Comments: Jared makes up stories, he always has, but maybe it's not just a quirk of his and fairy tales are closer than he thinks. Cute and heartwarming.
2009, 2009: short-story in english, book-2009, cuento/short-story, *author: female, @read in english, 2009: 3rd, book-2009, 2009, *fanfic that could be a book, RPS fic: Jared/Jensen AU, -queer literature, -gay
First read: 17.07.2009
Comments: Basically a fragment of "The Powerbook", interesting but vague.
2009, 2009: short-story in english, book-2009, cuento/short-story, *author: female, @read in english, 2009: 3rd, author: jeanette winterson
First read: 16.07.2009
Comments: Fun but not very well structured. Slash.
book-2009, 2009, 2009: short-story in english, @read in english, *fanfic that could be a book, RPS fic: Jared/Jensen AU, -queer literature, *author: female, 2009: 3rd
First read: 14.07.2009
Second read: 05.08.2009
House of the Living (17,099 words)
Adam/Kris, adult, explicit, horror-movie violence and consequences -- caveat lector!
Megan had been calling them zombies from the get-go; after the third one, while Adam was busy puking his guts all over the sidewalk, she went around to all of them and hissed, "Listen, they're zombies, do you get it?"
2009x2, 2009, author: shalott, 2009, fanfic-2009, fanfiction, @read in english, 2009: rps fic, rps fic: adam lambert/kris allen, rps fic, fanfic: read2
First read: 09.07.2009
Second read: 14.11.2009 (the podfic is really especial, very down-to-earth/conversation-like, warm instead of audiobooky, she even sings)
Comments: Kris is a bar manager who has given up on being a professional musician, Adam is a musical actor, Kris is not the one night stand kind, Adam is only the one night stand kind. Kris makes an exception, some luck and family members intervene to make Adam consider making one too.
Second read: 04.07.2009
Summary: Two men. Two Rooms.
Comments: 37.000 words. It’s saying it’s my first Snarry enough? It’s not perfect but it convinced me to give the pairing a try.
Primera lectura: 04.07.2009
Comentario: IDEK! Me lo prestó mi tía Adriana... y no sé, es misoginistico, platónico y muy desagradable, aunque el estilo pseudo antiguo me enganchó un poco. Ni idea, le voy a preguntar cuál era la historia o el mensaje o algo.
2009, 2009: novela en castellano, book-2009, novel, *author: male, @leído en castellano
This is a list of books I have a) gotten bored of b) thrown against walls c) considered burning d) used to level tables. Some of them are just bad writing, some have messages that I find repugnant (from the author, not the characters). Anyway, I almost never finish them.
* I loved the title "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" but I have sad news: the novel sucks. The main character is a fifteen year old boy, but I seriously thought he was twelve before this was mentioned. And after I started listening carefully to see if they mentioned any kind of learning/mental dissability because seriously: that innocence (if you want to call it that) and I mean the kind of innocence of not knowing what masturbation is, kin a fifteen year old boy in modern times in a city? Nop. It reads like something written by a very condescending adult who's hot for a little boy's innocence. [read 3 chapters]
* "La Sombra del Viento" de Sajón: Es tan malo que ni se merece una ficha! En la escala de lanzamiento de libros es lo suficientemente malo como para tirarlo por la ventana. De hecho, creo haberlo tirado contra la pared como a la mitad (y eso porque soy muy optimista y seguía perdonandole una tras otra hasta que...)... [leí la mitad y encima es LARGUÍSIMO]
"Cloud Atlas" by David Mitchell
Read: 25.10.2009
Comments: Neither mainstream literature nor short-stories tend to work for me so I guess it's not surprise this was profoundly boring. I even got the audiobook, I listened to 3 cds (of 18) and gave up, I never came across anything particularly post-apocalyptic, unless you interpret any event that ends a particular culture as an apocalypse, which I don't. Anyway, if it was brilliant writing I think it should be remotely interesting even to me.
Primera lectura: 25.06.2009 (Cerdanyola)
Commentaris: Kundera siempre está hablando de algo más grande, más general, más importante y más infinito de lo que está diciendo, incluso en su ficción no se deja limitar por los límites de la personalidad, usa lo que tiene para implicar y deducir más. Es fascinante y resulta increiblemente fácil de seguir (that's, he would say, how we know he's a novelist and not a philosopher), requiere pausas porque no se puede procesar tanto información a la vez pero leerlo en sí es muy ameno. Tinc un millar de cites per que hi veieu que vull dir, perquè no puc trobar paraules propies per explicar-vos :)
Kitsch = podriem definir-ho millor com "aixó que s'espera que facis" o de el que es diu normalment "sentit comú" i per tant opossat al individu. Els medis de comunicació/mass-media són, per aixó, el más kitsch que hi ha, perquè intenten eliminar la privacitat i amb ella l'individualitat.
Agelasta = persona que no riu, que no té sentit de l'humor.<lj-cut>
♪ Amb fidelitat i constància, la novel.la ha acompanyat l'home des de l'inici dels Temps Moderns. La "passió de coneixer" s'ha apoderat en aquest cas d'ella perquè examini la vida concreta de l'home i la protegeixi contra "l'oblit de l'esser"; perquè mantingui "el món de la vida" sota una llum inextinguible... La novel.la no ha de tenir altra moral que la coneixença.[Pg.18]
♪ L'home ha desitjat des de sempre un món on el bé i el mal fossin netament discernibles, perquè está posseït pel desig, innat i indomable, de jutjar abans de comprendre. Es sobre aquest desig... que está continguda la incapacitat de suportar la relativitat essencial de les coses humanes, la incapacitat d'afrontar l'absència d'un Jutge suprem. Es a causa d'aquesta incapacitat que la saviesa de la novel.la (la saviesa de la incertitud) es fa difícil d'acceptar i de comprendre.[Pg. 20]
♪ Més tard encara, per a Emma Bovary l'horitzó s'encogeix fins a l'extrem d'assemblar-se a una clausura. Les aventures succeeixen a l'altre costat i la nostàlgia esdevé insuportable. En mig del tedi quotidià, somnis i fantasies guarnyen importància. La infinitat de l'anima substitueix la infinitat perdudad del món exterior. Es descloïa així una de les més belles il.lusions europees, la gran il.lusió de la unicitat irreemplacáble del l'individu. [Pg. 21]
♪ Kafka i Hasek ens confronten, doncs, amb aquesta immensa paradoxa: durant l'època dels TEmps moderns, la raó cartesiana va corroir, un darrere l'altre, tots els valors heretats de l'Edat Mitjana. en canvi, just quan la raó triomfa per damunt de tot, és la irracionalitat pura (la força no volent sinó la seva voluntat) que s'apoderà de l'escenari del món perquè cap sistema de valors comunament acceptat no podrà oposar-se-li... La unitat de la humanitat vol dir: ningú no pot, vagi on vagi, evadir-se. [Pg. 24]
♪ La unificació de la història del planeta, aquest somni humanista que, no pas sense malícia, Déu ha permès que s'acomplís, ve acompanyat d'un procés de vertiginosa reducció
♪ ...la vida de l'home es redueix a la seva funció social...
♪ Doncs bé, si la raó de ser de la novel.la és mantenir el "món de la vida" sota una llum inextinguible i protegir-nos contra "l'oblit de l'esser", l'existencia de la novel.la, ¿no és avui més necessària que mai? [Pg. 31-32]
♪ Perquè el futur sempre és més fort que el present. No hi ha dubte que és ell qui ens jutjarè. I, tanmateix, sense cap competència. [Pg. 35]
♪ L'uniforme és allò que no triem, que ens és assignat; la certesa de l'universal enfront de la precarietat de l'individual. [Pg. 71]
♪ Què és una acció? Aquesta és una pregunta que la novel.la es fa eternament, una de les seves preguntes, per dir-ho així, constitutives. Com neix una decisió? ¿Com es transforma en acte i de quina manera els actes s'encadenen per esdevenir una aventura?
Els antics novel.listes intentaven abstreure, de l'estranya i caòtica matèria de la vida, el fil d'una límpida racionalitat; des de la seva óptica, un mòbil comprensible per la raó feia néixer un acte, i aquest en provocara un altre. L'aventura és l'encadenament, lluminosament causal, dels actes. [Pg. 79-80]
♪ (Un criteri de maduresa: la facultat de resistir als símbols. Però la humanitat és cada cop més jove.) [Pg. 85]
♪ ...la novel.la posseeix una extraordinària facultat d'integració: mentre la poesia i la filosofia no estan en condicions d'integrar la novel.la, la novel.la sí és capaç d'integrar la poesia i la filosofia sense perdre per això res d'allò que la identifica i que es caracteritza precisament... [Pg. 86-87]
♣ En efecte, una broma només és divertida per a aquells que es troben davant l'aquari; per contra, el kafkià ens trasllada a l'interior, a les entranyes de la broma, dins l'horror de la comicitat.
[pg. 133]
♣ L'havia obligat a identificar-se amb una acusación absurda, a <buscar la seva falta>, a confesar-se públicament.
♣ No vol ser acceptat per una communitat, sinó per una institució. Per aconseguir-ho ha de pagar-ho car: ha de renunciar a la seva solitud. I aquest serà el seu inferm: no estarà mai sol... Allò qe obsedeix Kafka no és la maledicció de la solitud, sinó la solitud violada!
[pg. 139-140]
♣ Efectivament, si en lloc de buscar <el poema> amaga en <en algún lloc allà darrere>, el poeta <es compromet> a servir una veritat prèviament coneguda (que s'ofereix ella mateixa i que es <allà davant>), renuncia a la missió pròpia de la poesia. I tant se val que la veritat preconcebuda s'anomeni revolució o dissidència... el poeta al servei d'una altra veritat que no sigui una veritat per descobrir (que sigui un enlluernament) és un fals poeta.
[pg. 147]
♪ Broch utilitza de bona gana per dir: en l'època de la divisió excessiva del treball, de l'especialització desenfrenada, la novel.la és un dels últims reductes on l'home pot encara mantenir alguna relació amb la vida presa en conjunt.
♪ Que el premi més important que concedeix Israel sigui destinat a la literatura internacional no és pas, crec jo, fruit de l'atzar, sinó d'una llarga tradició. Efectivament, han estat les grans personalitats jueves les que, allunyades de la seva terra original, i per damunt de les passions nacionalistes, han mostrat sempre una excepcional sensibilitat per una Europa supranacional, Europa concebuda no pas com un territori, sinó com una cultura. Si els jueus, fins i tot després que Europa, estrany cor situat enllà del cos. [Pg. 191]
♪ ...els agelastes estan persuadits que la veritat és calra, que tots els homes han de pensar la mateixa cosa i que ells mateixos són exactament aquells que pensen ser. Però és precisament en perdre la certesa de la veritat i el consentiment unànime dels altres que l'home esdevé individu. La novel.la és el paradís imaginari dels individus. Es el territori on ningú no posseeix la veritat, ni Anna ni Karenin, però on tots nene dret a ser compresos, i Anna i Karenin. [Pg. 194]
♪ Cada novel.la, de bon grat o no, proposa una resposta a la pregunta: què és l'existència humana i on resideix la seva poesia?... La poesia de l'existència, diu la novel.la de Sterne, és en la digressió. És en l'incalculable. és a l'altra banda de la causalitat. Es sine ration, sense raó. [Pg. 196-197]
♪ Els agelastes, la no-opinió sobre les idees rebudes, el kitsch, és l'únic i el mateix enemic tricèfal de l'art nascut en tant que eco de la rialla de Déu, art que ha sabut crear aquest fascinant espai imaginari on ningú no posseeix la veritat i on cadascú té dret a ser comprès. Aquest espai imaginari ha nascut amb l'Europa moderna, es la imatge d'Europa o, si més no, el nostre somni d'Europa, somni tantes vegades traït però tanmateix prou fort per unir-nos a tots en una fraternitat que depassa molt i molt el nostre petit continent. Però nosaltres sabem que el món on l'individu és respectat (el món imaginari de la novel.la, el món real d'Europa) és fràgil i moridor. A l'horitzó es poden veure els exèrcits d'agelastes que ens sotgen. [Pg. 199-200]</lj-cut>
2009, 2009: llibre no ficció en català, book-2009, non-fiction, *author: male, @llegit en català, -entry with quotes, -writing
First read: 29.06.2009
Comments (SPOILERY): SRB asks (one of) the most question of speculative fiction: What does it mean to be human? to be a person? As the first volume of the trilogy it only starts to answer it but it makes a lot of good points along the way: being capable of love doens't make you a good person and being unable to understand it doesn't make you a bad one. Is it your actions that speak for what kind of person you are? Can you be human without feelings? It's our ability to feel and emphatize what qualifies us for humankind?
I found it a bit slow to start with, listening to the audio version, but the last last third of the book really picks up the pace. You know (well, I spoiled myself but I think it was pretty clear anyway) where it's all going but you can't quite believe it's true and you wait, all baited breath and hoping for Nick it isn't true and well, it is. But then the books says: wait, it's true, but is it a bad thing? It's different, for sure, but is it purely bad? That's not the feeling I'm left with but, well, the sequels will say.
Comment by Scoradh, also spoilery, but with quotes.
2009, 2009: novel in english, book-2009, novel, *author: female, @read in english, -audiobook, author: sarah rees brennan, -fantasy, *fandomer-written, -young adult
Read: 21.06.2009.
Comments: This is a series of 36 lectures of about an hour each. I can't say I understand the selection of modern authors very well but it's been interesting. Lecture 24 in particular, about Austen.
2009, 2009: non-fiction in english, book-2009, non-fiction, *author: male, @read in english, -audiobook
First read: 06.2009
Comments: 10w. So... not sure what this is about yet, there's this brilliant scientist and this military pilot (on reflection of Rodney Mckay and John Sheppard in Glitterati's fic "One Life To Ascend To" where this story is an Ancient soap they watch).
2009, 2009: short-story in english, book-2009, novel, *author: female, @read in english, @WIP, author: glitterati
Read: 10.06.2009
Comments: Another unremarcable J2 AU, cliched and not very sense making. 2.21 hours.
author: belyste, 2009, 2009: short-story in english, book-2009, cuento/short-story, *author: female, @read in english, *fanfic that could be a book, RPS fic: Jared/Jensen AU, -queer literature, -audiobook, -podfic
First read: 08.06.2009
Summary: Depression-era drama, remembers the time when California law forbade Japanese immigrants to own their own land. Farmers who had come to the United States in search of a better life were obliged to sign two-year leases on the property they cultivated.
Comments: Open-ended. Not amusing, not very eye-opening, more like a description than a story.
2009, 2009: play in english, book-2009, -immigration, -theater, *author: female, @read in english
First read: 04.06.2009
Comments: 8m. I don't get it. The team gets turned into trees.
-podfic, 2009, 2009: sga fic, sga fic, fanfic-2009, @read in english, fanfiction, sga fic: gen, *fanfic-drabble-2009, author: trinityofone
First read: 04.06.2009
Comments: I decided to read this because I found some Tharkay slash and I needed to know who he was to read it. Shallow of me, I know. I can't imagine I would get through a historical adventure of any kind if I hadn't someone reading it to me and I could just zone out without losing track of the tale (mostly). There are many moments with the characters I enjoy (Iskierka was hilarious). If I hadn't seen the things this writer is capable of I might just dismiss them but I keep hoping to find some of the light and wiseness her fic is full of here. Truth be told, I would settle for some sarcasm and wit instead of all this bravery and British honour, which is all so very restraining. I think I will give it a rest now, although I <i>am</i> a bit tempted to see how the Napoleonic wars end here.
2009, 2009: novel in english, book-2009, novel, *author: female, @read in english, -audiobook, series: temeraire, *fandomer-written, -fantasy, -adventures
First read: 03.06.2009
Comments: 5m. Another post-ep 13 Merlin-thinks-of-the-future fic.
-podfic, 2009, 2009: merlin fic, merlin fic, fanfic-2009, fanfiction, @read in english, merlin fic: Arthur/Merlin, *fanfic-drabble-2009
Fanfic: "Mirror Dance" by
trinityofone First read: 02.06.2009
Comments: 4.34 hours/44.000 words. This is a rewriting of the show with one little change, Becket fucks up the ATA gene teraphy and Rodney, the first to try it, doesn't just grow an ATA gene but acquires the whole DNA of the donor, who is, of course, Atlantis stronger ATA gene: John Sheppard. So... how would the story go with two people who look like Sheppard? And how much of who Rodney is in canon is predetermined by his genes and how much it's him. It follows canon pretty closely but the little changes, the details and the connection sharing a physical embodiment creates between them, it's the change that makes the story. I had to read some parts of this instead of listen because I was too intrigued to wait but the podfic is really good.
-podfic, 2009, 2009: sga fic, sga fic, fanfic-2009, @read in english, fanfiction, sga fic: McKay/Sheppard, sga fic: recs, author: trinityofone, *fanfic-novella-2009, -bodyswap, sga fic: genfic
"Home Again, Home Again" by
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pir8fancier [Part three of "Lettered series"]First read: 31.05.2009
Comments: Summary is a spoiler. 19.000 words.
Harry and Draco have been trying to settle in a bicontinental relationship, both of them traveling back and forth regularly. Too regularly it turns out because it's easy enough to predict their movements and thus, to plan Harry's kidnapping. HAHA starts with Draco writing an absent Harry yet another email and follows him through the process of trying to recover his lover and, in the process, dealing with the rest of his lover's life, ignored till then, mostly in the form of Ron, who's the auror assisting him. And with his own life in the form of Narcissa and her memories of Lucius. This is nice but the ending was a bit rough, kind of unfinished feeling for me. I wanted to see more of Harry's children (the canon ones and the tiny twins Merlin & Morgana), more of Hermione, more of the afterwards. That's what I thought this was going to deal with, you get the love of your life after much hardship, what happens then? There were hints but... well, maybe she will write a fourth part.
2009, 2009: harry potter fic, harry potter fic, fanfic-2009, fanfiction, @read in english, harry potter fic: Harry/draco, *fanfic-novella-2009, harry potter fic: recs
First read: 30.05.2009
Comments: 13m. Really freaky fic where Sam's turned into the master of hell himself and doesn't want to share Dean with anybody, not even anybody's dreams.
-podfic, 2009, 2009: supernatural fic, supernatural fic, fanfic-2009, @read in english, fanfiction, supernatural fic: Sam/Dean, *fanfic-drabble-2009
First read: 29.05.2009
Comments: 1.20h. At first I thought the recording was bad, now I went to the source and nop, it just doesn't make any sense. Must have missed some vital detail or something.
2009, 2009: due south fic, due south fic, fanfic-2009, @read in english, fanfiction, due south fic: Fraser/Kowalski, -podfic, *fanfic-novelette-2009
First read:27.05.2009
Comments: Nice.12m.
-podfic, 2009, 2009: house fic, fanfic-2009, fanfiction, @read in english, house fic, house fic: house/wilson, *fanfic-drabble-2009
First read: 26.05.2009
Comments: 12.000 words. God, I feel dirty. This is everything that gives mpreg a bad name. Femizing male characters (Lex as a woobie? I mean, Honestly!), literal ass-babies! I thought it was a JOKE, man, something that only happened in badfic (as in fic that was MEANT to be bad). It was like a trainwreck, couldn't stop looking even as it got worse and worse... My stomach was churning from how the Kents and Lex have a great time comparing baby products and ass-wiping towels induring DINNER when the scene where Clark and Lex "confess" they have had an accidental ass-baby together and Jonathan freaks out and Lex <i>runs away</i> showed up and I could tear my gaze away. It was such a relief. But I still feel like I should go and wash my hands and eyes. I'm too scared to go re-read "Hexed" to re-established my faith that good mpreg exists. I was hoping SV fandom would be a place where some decent mpreg might show up and I have liked this author's Sam/Dean and... I'm pissed off but you probably don't like mpreg yourself so SV fandom ain't a great lose.
2009, fanfic-2009, smallville fic, fanfiction, @read in english, 2009: smallville fic, smallville fic: clark/lex, *fanfic-novelette-2009, -mpreg
"In Praise of Fanfic" by Cory Doctorow . [non-fiction article]
First read: 2007
Second read: 05.2009
Comments: Interesting even if it says really obvious things to a mainstream audience. I really liked how he got the POINT of all the issue, which is that "That's why writers don't really get excited when they're approached by people with great ideas for novels. We've all got more ideas than we can use — what we lack is the cohesive whole."
read2, 2007, book-2007, 2009, 2009: article in english, book-2009, non-fiction, -writing, -essay, *author: male, @read in english
First read: 22.05.2009
Comments: 90.000 words. This is a reenactment of the English-Spanish war for...something. Truth is, after having to look up four terms in two paragraphs I went to read somewhere else and stopped trying to understand where in the ship they were standing and what had broken in the storm. This story is so well-documented that sometimes it becomes a bit dense. Still, it did hold my attention till the very end. The Sparrington was important but not abundant, the characterization was the weakest thing in the story, too, not bad but not really good either.
2009, fanfic-2009, fanfiction, @read in english, 2009: potc fic, potc fic, potc fic: sparrington, *fanfic-novel-2009
