Confirmed. My wife and her family are from the former Soviet republics and ALL of their friends and relatives are religious and extremely superstitious. No matter if they come from Kazakhstan, Russia or Armenia. As if somebody punched a hole into their brains. And there's nothing you can do about it. It's a kind of lifetime infection, I guess.The Russians I've known - which is not a statistical sample, I understand - have all been religious, and maybe not coincidentally, extremely superstitious and prone to believe in the supernatural (ghosts, psychics and everything paranormal).
Years ago I read Tender is the Night, Gatsby, This Side of Paradise, and The Beautiful and Damned. Your assessment isn't inaccurate. The book I enjoyed the most was Six Tales of the Jazz Age and Other Stories. You might give the short stories a shot. The good news is, if you're still bored, you''ll be bored for a shorter period of time than with the novels. :DAny F. Scott Fitzgerald fans around here? Recommendations?
Any F. Scott Fitzgerald fans around here? Recommendations?
Heavy bullshit is what it is. I'm pretty sure Ben Pleasants was a Nazi, so he just wanted to paint someone else that way. You know, so he wouldn't feel so alone.This was heavy shit..
It is not at all amazing that he was into all things German.The amazing realization about this book is that Buk was actually into all things German. He didn't have a passing "just kidding" interest in the Nazi's.
Pleasants claims that our beloved Buk was actually kind of on the run from the FBI after the FBI busted and shut down the German-American Bund. Buk used to go there all the time. This was heavy shit for me to process.
Well the thing is is that the rich guys are the ones who own everything, so airing their dirty laundry can be a compromising task to say the least. I like him more than most folks nowadays, its safe to say. Certainly more than Hemingway or Celine for example.It's a bit difficult to be sympathetic to problems akin to the Bentley not starting ...
[...] I recently revisited George Orwell's 1984 (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1949; Commemorative 1984 Edition with a Preface by Walter Cronkite). Followed it up with a first-time viewing of the movie, 1984 (1984).
the story is a bit boring and slow
near the end now
hoping the effort pays off
kind of like a boring fuck
just hoping the orgasm will be good
regardless...very well written
Unless you had to survive that cesspool.You can't go wrong with anything NYC in the 1970s.