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Bonfire of the Vanities
I refused to see the movie, if you read the book, you knew immediately after they picked the cast, it was going to be a flop.
This would be a GREAT movie if they picked the right cast.
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Journey to the End of the Night (Voyage au bout de la nuit) - L.F. Céline
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Journey to the End of the Night (Voyage au bout de la nuit) - L.F. Céline
hey I was about to mention this one!
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Journey to the End of the Night (Voyage au bout de la nuit) - L.F. Céline
hey I was about to mention this one!
I'm sorry. Céline is about as rock&roll as one can write, I suppose. He should have had the Nobel prize for literature in a real world.
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Journey to the End of the Night (Voyage au bout de la nuit) - L.F. Céline
hey I was about to mention this one!
I'm sorry. Céline is about as rock&roll as one can write, I suppose. He should have had the Nobel prize for literature in a real world.
During the development of Nazi Germany, he wrote three cynical and viciously antisemitic books: Bagatelles pour un massacre (Trifles for a Massacre) (1937), L'École des cadavres (The School of Corpses) (1938) and Les Beaux draps (The Fine Mess) (1941), the last one published during the occupation of France. Céline fled France during liberation, and joined the last remnants of the Vichy government in Sigmaringen.
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Maybe in your world anti- Semitism and collaborationism is pardonable weakness, and for it it's necessary to award a Nobel Prize (for the Peace, I guess?). Being Jewish I can't agree with you.
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As for rock&roll - nobody is as far from it as Celine
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"He should have had the Nobel prize for literature in a real world"
Alas Céline turned into sth ugly after a brief period of greatness. I refer to the 3 awfully racist "books" he wrote between 37 and 41. He narrowly escaped death penaly after WWII so the Nobel was simply unimaginable...
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His work is about real life and male/female relationships in plain language. I think he's a very romantic writer. Good rock&roll is about that too.
I don't agreee with you about Celine, but Bukowski is ideally suited under your definition
Women by Charles Bukowski is rock&roll for real