hi.
wowee it's really late at night but i was overcome by an urge to do a post about books that i really love. hmm. excellent early-hours-of-the-morning prioritising, jessie.
anyway i'm not going to WRITE anything about these books right now, except that you should read them. particularly perfume. it's amazing in a way that when you enjoy it and find it fascinating its really quite macabre and you feel a bit grimy.
actually that's not fair. they're all amazing books.
oh alright one sentence on each book.
catcher in the rye - j.d. salinger: different that what you expect, study of a sad bastard, equally sad and comical.
master & margarita - mikhail bulgakov: if i say it's underground soviet allegorical fantasy you won't read it. so i'll just say it's a story about satan disguising himself and coming to moscow and creating utter chaos, it's hilarious, it's peculiar, and it was banned by the bolsheviks so it must have had something going for it.
female chauvinist pigs - ariel levy: interesting book about the fact that so many young women these days love to get their, erm, 'assets' out, and consider it to be empowering to behave in ways that tend to objectify them. really good book.
the bell jar - sylvia plath: particularly poignant in light of the author's suicide, which i believe followed very soon after the publication of her only novel. extremely insightful look into a 'normal' girl living with depression and suicidal ideation. hmm.
perfume- patrick suskind: sensual, rotten, putridly evocatic writing about a boy born under a table in a paris fishmarket on a stinking hot day and left to die. he doesn't, but gee does he end up a total whacko. if you want to be morbidly fascinated by a character in literature, this is the book for you. luckily it's been translated from the original german, so that might make things easier, eh?
'nuff said for now.
sleep needed
j x
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