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g i could read without having to invest my heart and soul in too deeply but i also knew i would love it for the art which is its blatant subject i was right the book as a novel is a little disappointing it feels a bit flat although martin s writing is still truly wonderful eloquent and straightforward i love his style but this one doesn t match the cleverness and poignancy that shopgirl achieved the characters in an object of beauty feel in some ways like skeletons there but to frame the real star which is art they are fringes even the story are bits of fringes on the surface the heroine lacey yeager appears to be the object of beauty to the eye of the quite invisible and unnecessary narrator daniel franks and to other men besides but in truth the real objects of beauty here are the pieces of art that collectors and art lovers covet and yearn and ache for the narrator s telling of lacey s life is a disguise for martin to be able to navigate through the contemporary manhattan art scene lacey and daniel aren t convincing they don t feel substantial nor authentic they are tools but what s authentic in this book is the way martin writes so lucidly about art collecting its highs and lows its corporeality and most of all the passion with which people are seduced by art i love this not for the novel but for the art the novel wasn t very bad even delightful at times but i ve mentally dismissed the story and will continue to adore this book as a fantastic piece of narrative on the contemporary art world martin is truly impressive as an inside voice in art collecting and this novel may be a book suited mainly to readers who are invested in a whole lot of art love if you were older and believed in the philosophy of art as rapture and didn t expect the next great development in art to be a retreat from beauty and an exploitation of ordinariness then you couldn t endorse warhol as the next great master but if you were young with essentially no stake in art s past not caring about the difficulty of paint versus the ease of silk screen you saw the images unencumbered as bright and funny but most of all ironic this new art started with the implied tag this is ironic so i m just kidding but shortly the tag changed to this is ironic and i m not kidding 102 103 posted in steve martin netherland posted on february 13 2014 by kissacloud 13 sometimes to walk in shaded parts of manhattan is to be inserted into a magritte the street is night while the sky is day 63 books as portraits of new york city have always drawn me in even before i had ever been to new york reading about it always seemed a curiosity netherland by joseph o neill is one beautiful sketch of the immigrant dreamers of america in the midst of post 9 11 new york both the displaced and dreaming immigrants and the displaced and drifting ones my life had shrunk to very small proportions too small certainly for new york s pickier and more plausible agents of sympathy to put it another way i was to anyone who could be bothered to pay attention noticeably lost 72 perhaps the relevant truth and it s one whose existence was apparent to my wife and i m sure to much of the world long before it became apparent to me is that we all find ourselves in temporal currents and that unless you re paying attention you ll discover often too late that an undertow of weeks or of years has pulled you deep into trouble 64 there is an irony to the friendship that is in the heart of this novel the odd friendship between the drifter and the dreamer as if it were necessary consider the boldness of chuck ramkissoon the dreamer in contrast to the drifting narrator hans van den broek s previous thoughts we re the romantic sex you know he said fighting a burp men we re interested in passion glory women chuck declared with a finger in the air are responsible for the survival of the world men are responsible for its glories 207 they share nothing in common but for cricket it s what brings them together the love of it and the passion for it we sat mostly silently in the van absorbed into the moodiness that afflicts competitors as they contemplate or try to put out of their minds the drama that awaits what we talked about when we did talk was cricket there was nothing else to discuss the rest of our lives jobs children wives worries peeled away leaving only this fateful sporting fruit 48 now cricket as a new york subculture is the medium but it isn t the point so don t be discouraged by comments about this book being boring and pointless because all it talks about is cricket it is much like whaling and moby dick it s more about what the sport represents and what the memory of it elicits than the sport itself cricket moves hans along from his childhood to the present where amidst a crumbling marriage and a city traumatized by tragedy it becomes his only tie to truth and home and self in turn his friendship with chuck saw him through his lost floating years i am too tired to explain that i don t agree to say that however much of a disappointment chuck may have been at the end there were many earlier moments when this was not the case and that i see no good reason why his best self manifestations should not be the basis of one s final judgment we all disappoint eventually 249 one of the other displaced characters in the novel is the chelsea hotel neighbour a man always dressed up as an angel in a wedding dress with tattered white wings attached to it this man is quite the memorable figure he creeps into the story only a couple of times or so but i find his presence striking the sort of in between lost but a little hopeful both a drifter and a sometime dreamer although in fact he is exaggeratedly more lost than hans ever was or will be he is the complete contrast to chuck his short episodes in the story really quite sad but also glimmery once i had overcome the thought that midway through my life the only companionship i could count on was that of a person who as he put it could no longer bear the masculine details of his life i grew to mildly enjoy the angel s unexpectedly serene company he and i and the murmuring widow in the baseball cap sat in a row like three crazy old sisters who have long ago run out of things to say to one another 37 o neill writes so deftly and precisely and so gracefully his voice is distinctly brilliant yet absolutely understated just beautiful i didn t expect to love this book as much as i do the plot is simple but it never misleads you into thinking there s something more where there s none as many other books do a life seemed like an old story 109 i only have to look at new york forests to begin to feel lost in them 59 posted in joseph o neill january posted on february 3 2014 by kissacloud 30 my january was a slow reading month i read very lazily and only got to read one book and that was george r r martin s a game of thrones the first in the series called a song of ice and fire i really enjoyed it though i believe that s mostly due to having already seen the tv series and having loved it this was just the icing on the cake an enhancement to the whole experience you transfix me quite but then i was able to catch up on a lot of bookish movies that i meant to see since forever i was home alone with jane eyre and soul withered mr rochester with coraline and hugo got to watch on the road and the great gatsby as well i was really most impressed with hugo it s been years since i last read the invention of hugo cabret but i still remember it vividly and i thought martin scorsese did a beautiful job with the film he was able to translate and i dare say even transcend the book i m guessing february will mean more bookish films as my husband quite unexpectedly enjoyed watching hugo so much i was able to convince him to watch more movies based on books and i meant in the very near future will you tell me your favourites posted in uncategorized happy new year posted on january 30 2014 by kissacloud 12 i suppose it s a little late for a new year greeting unless you re chinese but i d really like to say happy new year to everyone january is always an exciting month because we all get our reading priorities outlined and we all make new lists try to sort through our tbrs all that my tbr pile is not as daunting as it used to be the past couple of years i ve greatly limited my purchases and now i find myself going over the shelves thinking i have nothing to read but of course there s the savage detectives waiting there s foucalt s pendulum east of eden the grapes of wrath there s fingersmith netherland the tale of genji of human bondage the tenant of wildfell hall a moveable feast and all the names and the amazing adventures of kavalier clay and wolf hall and all the pretty horses two lives and in the skin of the lion i could go on and on there will never be nothing to read thankfully so there is my 2014 reading list well part of it deep down i am jumping with excitement just looking at the titles i really really hope to get to all of them and then afterwards i ll feel better buying more meanwhile i m in fantasy mode enjoying the absurdities of a game of thrones like in life and in chess good men do go down here i have seen the past three seasons of the show but thought a little backstory would be fun books always make things clearer so are you reading mostly from the tbr pile this year or are you giving yourself complete freedom to acquire posted in uncategorized lust caution posted on december 31 2013 by kissacloud 12 i just love how eileen chang writes so elegantly even though each story in this collection was translated from the chinese by different translators the sophistication in her voice was always present all her stories exude a touch of refined drama and mystery lust caution the story that carries the weight of this collection is brilliant a story of sensuality and political intrigue it s crafted so subtly and thrillingly a true piece of literary genius it builds up gently and heightens so that the ending just blows one away much like love in a fallen city this is a pretty solid collection though i do think love in the fallen city is a touch better love her love her love her and life kept going on walking its own way happy new year x posted in eileen chang post navigation older posts reading is like thinking like praying like talking to a friend like expressing your ideas like listening to other people s ideas like listening to music oh yes like looking at the view like taking a walk on the beach roberto bolaño 2666 on the nightstand email kissacloudblog at gmail dot com search search authors authors select category a a milne alan bennett alan paton alberto manguel alice munro allen ginsberg amitav ghosh andrew blackman angela carter angelina jolie anita brookner anne brontë anne carson anne fadiman annie barrows anthony de sa aravind adiga art spiegelman arthur phillips ángel garcía banana yoshimoto barbara kingsolver billie letts branwell brontë 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