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Laurie Anderson: Bright Red
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Laurie Anderson: Bright Red
17 sep 17
The album consists of two sections of seven tracks.

"Bright Red":
Speechless – 5:20 (Anderson)
Bright Red – 3:12 (Anderson)
The Puppet Motel – 3:09 (Anderson, Brian Eno)
Speak My Language – 3:38 (Anderson)
World Without End – 2:47 (Anderson)
Freefall – 4:32 (Anderson)
Muddy River – 3:02 (Anderson, Brian Eno)

and the remaining seven

"Tightrope":
Beautiful Pea Green Boat – 4:20 (Anderson)
Love Among the Sailors – 2:49 (Anderson)
Poison – 3:47 (Anderson, Brian Eno)
In Our Sleep – 2:31 (Anderson, Lou Reed)
Night in Baghdad – 3:23 (Anderson)
Tightrope – 5:58 (Anderson, Brian Eno)
Same Time Tomorrow – 3:51 (Anderson)
Laurie Anderson: O Superman (for Massenet)
Nastro Audio I have it ★★★★★
Laurie Anderson: O Superman (for Massenet)
17 sep 17
O Superman (for Massenet) is characterized by the repetition, for all eight minutes, of the syllable "Ah" in a robotic vocal tone; it is the debut single of electronic music by Laurie Anderson, released in October 1981.
Lenny Kravitz: Lenny
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Lenny Kravitz: Lenny
9 sep 17
In this album, the multi-instrumentalist Leonard Albert "Lenny" Kravitz also plays a, um, S t i l o f o n o . . .
Lenny Kravitz: Mama Said
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Lenny Kravitz: Mama Said
9 sep 17
Among the musicians on this album, there was also Sean Lennon on piano.
Lenny Kravitz: Are You Gonna Go My Way
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Lenny Kravitz: Are You Gonna Go My Way
9 sep 17
Among the other instruments in this album, there are also:
1 flugelhorn
2 violas
3 violins
2 cellos
1 French horn
Lenny Kravitz: 5
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Lenny Kravitz: 5
9 sep 17
In this album, Craig Ross also plays a, um, B o t t i g l i a
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while Terry Manning plays a, um, P i a n o f o r t e G i o c a t t o l o.
Leonardo Sciascia: La strega e il capitano
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Leonardo Sciascia: La strega e il capitano
22 sep 17
Once again, what troubles Sciascia is stripping away the countless masks of power from History, until revealing its repugnant and primal face.
(cit. Adelphi)
Leonardo Sciascia: La scomparsa di Majorana
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Leonardo Sciascia: La scomparsa di Majorana
22 sep 17
"Subject: Disappearance (with intent to commit suicide) of Professor Ettore Majorana." A police document to initiate investigations on one of those cases, favored by Sciascia, where the unsolved enigma, with its hidden truth, compels one to go beyond the news, into the soul of a man. (quote, Adelphi)
Leonardo Sciascia: Il mare colore del vino
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Leonardo Sciascia: Il mare colore del vino
22 sep 17
... between the first and the last of these tales, a circularity is established: a circularity that is not that of the dog biting its own tail...
(L. Sciascia)
Leonardo Sciascia: Todo modo
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Leonardo Sciascia: Todo modo
22 sep 17
If we had to indicate a fictional form capable of revealing how that viscous mixture of power, which Italian politics had the unfortunate privilege of producing for many years, is composed and manifests itself, it would be sufficient to refer to the concise pages of Todo modo...
Leonardo Sciascia: Il contesto
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Leonardo Sciascia: Il contesto
22 sep 17
... he started writing this novel as a "diversion" – and soon it transformed into something terribly serious in his hands. In a nameless yet familiar country to us all, a series of murders and official funerals marks public life. With absolute clarity, but against a dark backdrop, the face of an anonymous protagonist is sketched in this story, that power which – in the words of Sciascia – "gradually degrades into the impenetrable form of a chain that we can roughly call mafioso" (from Adelphi).
Leonardo Sciascia: Il giorno della civetta
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Leonardo Sciascia: Il giorno della civetta
22 sep 17
Sciascia subjected the text to a delicate process of refinement, distilling it to its essential traits with the art of "cavare": and, seen years later, this work reveals itself more than ever as a cunning of art. (from Adelphi)
Leonardo Sciascia: Morte dell’inquisitore
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Leonardo Sciascia: Morte dell’inquisitore
22 sep 17
"It is an unfinished book, one that I will never complete, which I am always tempted to rewrite and that I do not rewrite, waiting to discover something more."
(L. Sciascia)
Leonardo Sciascia: Gli zii di Sicilia
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Leonardo Sciascia: Gli zii di Sicilia
22 sep 17
"And I felt like an acrobat balancing on a wire, looking at the world in a joy of flight and then flipping it over, flipping myself over, and seeing death beneath me, a wire suspending me over a vortex of human heads and lights, the drum rolling death. In short, I was seized by the fury to see everything from the inside, as if every person, every thing, every event were like a book that one opens and reads: even the book is a thing, you can place it on a table and just look at it, perhaps using it to prop up a wobbly table or to smack someone on the head: but if you open it and read it, it becomes a world; and why shouldn't everything be opened and read and become a world?" (from Gli zii di Sicilia)
Leonardo Sciascia: Occhio di capra
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Leonardo Sciascia: Occhio di capra
22 sep 17
... it is perhaps the most agile and sharp introduction to Sicilian civilization that we can read. The foundation is the richest and most mysterious: language. And Sciascia lovingly investigates it, recognizing in the most bizarre sayings the concretion of entire stories, obscure metaphysical intuitions, and fairy-tale themes... (quoted from Adelphi)
Leonardo Sciascia: Una storia semplice
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Leonardo Sciascia: Una Storia Semplice
22 sep 17
A simple story is a very complicated story, a Sicilian thriller, set against a backdrop of mafia and drugs. Yet never – and it is a real tour de force – does the author find himself compelled to mention either word.
(quote Adelphi)
Leonardo Sciascia: Il Consiglio d’Egitto
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Leonardo Sciascia: Il Consiglio d’Egitto
22 sep 17
Abdallah Mohamed ben Olman, the ambassador of Morocco, finds himself in Palermo in December 1782 due to a storm that has shipwrecked his vessel on the Sicilian shores. It is this circumstance that ignites in the mind of Abate Vella, a Maltese tasked with showing the ambassador the beauties of Palermo, an audacious plan: to transform the Arabic manuscript of any account of the prophet's life, preserved on the island, into a shocking political text, Il Consiglio d’Egitto, which would allow for the abolition of all feudal privileges and could therefore serve as a spark for a revolutionary plot. (from Adelphi)
Leonardo Sciascia: A ciascuno il suo
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Leonardo Sciascia: A ciascuno il suo
22 sep 17
Sober, bitter, subtly sarcastic, and at the same time clear and precise in its outlines, it tells the story of a pharmacist who "lived quietly, had never had any issues, didn't engage in politics," and one day receives an anonymous letter threatening him with death. (from Adelphi)
Leonardo Sciascia: Il cavaliere e la morte
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Leonardo Sciascia: Il cavaliere e la morte
22 sep 17
The protagonist of this novel is a police commissioner, whose only name here is Vice: a substitute, perhaps for something that is utterly absent, a stand-in for a reality that has already vanished, or stretched to the point of becoming unreal, like currency in times of inflation. (from Adelphi)
Leonardo Sciascia: Porte aperte
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Leonardo Sciascia: Porte aperte
22 sep 17
The judicial machinery is in motion – and from the very beginning, the shadow of the death penalty looms over the trial. In Italy, "si dorme con le porte aperte": this was one of the most sinister maxims of the regime, which was keen to emphasize, in the absence of freedom, its cult of order. (cited from Adelphi)
Leonardo Sciascia: 1912 + 1
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Leonardo Sciascia: 1912 + 1
22 sep 17
Pursuing two seemingly irreconcilable poetics, that of digression and that of conciseness, he manages to shed the greatest light on a subject precisely when he seems to be speaking of something else: he evokes a historical atmosphere by delving into the details of the process...
(from Adelphi)
Lev Tolstoj: La morte di Ivan Il’ic - Tre morti e altri racconti
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Lev Tolstoj: La morte di Ivan Il’ic - Tre morti e altri racconti
25 sep 17
If you want to have the immediate, undeniable sense of Tolstoy's greatness in just a few pages, you only need to open this book. A story seemingly among the most ordinary – a mediocre, indistinct character discovers, after a trivial domestic accident, that he is afflicted with a terminal illness – the tale of Ivan Il’ic is perhaps the work where, more than ever, death becomes presence, interlocutor, even the evocative power of a new reality. (quote from Adelphi)
Lewis Carroll: Le avventure di Alice nel paese delle meraviglie e Al di là dello Specchio
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Lewis Carroll: Le avventure di Alice nel paese delle meraviglie e Al di là dello Specchio
2 oct 17
"Age doesn't matter, whether you are important or insignificant: everyone returns to being a child."
Virginia Woolf

- On one hand, this can be read as a parable revealing the absurdities and inconsistencies of adult life; on the other hand, one immediately perceives a sophisticated linguistic skill, where the taste for paradox and pun, nonsense and parody, is expressed with unparalleled inventiveness.
- A classic, therefore, that has inspired many protagonists of twentieth-century literature from Queneau to Nabokov. (cit. Einaudi)
  • Almotasim
    4 oct 17
    Great book! Immediately brings to mind subjects like Mathematics, Scoria,...
Lo squalo: Peter Benchley
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Lo squalo: Peter Benchley
24 oct 17
This beautiful novel was adapted into the eponymous film, directed by Steven Spielberg in 1975 and featuring Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, etc... It was the film that marked the success of the director, who had mostly directed high-quality television films like Duel and some episodes of "Columbo." The film differs in that it lacks the romantic subplot with the biologist Hooper, as well as the fact that Hooper survives, along with the police officer, the hunting mission. Three sequels have been made from "Jaws," and nothing... oh no, I can't say whether I liked the book or the film more.
Mario Tessuto: Lisa dagli occhi blu
Vinile I have it ★★★★★
Mario Tessuto: Lisa dagli occhi blu
8 sep 17
It was a real craze of those years...
Martin Amis: L'informazione
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Martin Amis: L'informazione
26 sep 17
Richard Tull and Gwyn Barry are friends. They are forty years old, were classmates at Oxford, and both became writers.
But Gwyn is a successful writer, while Richard is a failure.
Yet he had started off better than his friend; he had published a book that was well received by critics and was considered a promise.
Now he survives on reviews and is forced to endure increasingly monumental biographies of lesser poets.
Richard also feeds on hatred: he hates his friend, living in envy of his success.
He seeks not just revenge but wants to elevate revenge to a form of art, humiliating Gwyn on the same ground where he himself was humiliated. (cit. Einaudi)
Martin Amis: Il treno della notte
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Martin Amis: Il treno della notte
26 sep 17
Jennifer was beautiful, intelligent, and lucky.
And she killed herself.
Why?
The most difficult case for detective Mike Hoolihan.
Detective Mike Hoolihan has a trucker’s bulky physique, bleached blonde hair, and a hoarse voice from too much smoking.
Detective Mike is a woman.
A fat, ugly woman, a former alcoholic.
A childhood friend, Jennifer, shot herself three times with a .22 caliber in the mouth.
Jennifer was stunning, intelligent, professionally accomplished, and romantically happy.
Her father, a big shot in the police, doesn’t believe in suicide and gives Mike a free hand. (cit. Einaudi)
Martin Amis: Altra gente
Cartaceo I have it ★★★★★
Martin Amis: Altra gente
26 sep 17
Mary remembers nothing anymore.
She doesn’t even remember her own name, which almost certainly isn’t Mary.
But she doesn’t recall more trivial things, things like clouds, and she thinks they are fat creatures with a dreamy air, in perpetual adoration of the sun.
"When you forget the past, the present becomes unforgettable," and indeed for Mary everything is an enigma and a discovery.
Beyond objects and people, she must relearn emotions and feelings from scratch, especially those that others have towards her for reasons that elude her.
And she discovers that she can hurt people, and attract wickedness, as if in a past life she herself had been perverse and evil. (quoted from Einaudi)
Martin Amis: Cattive acque
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Martin Amis: Cattive acque
26 sep 17
All nine stories narrate of inverted or science-fictional worlds. It’s the case of the first one, where fabulously wealthy poets fly business class from Europe to Los Angeles, land of powerful poetic majors that shower them with money and put at their service legions of collaborators. Meanwhile, the screenwriters, tipsy and unrecognized, find themselves at night in the city’s underbelly to hold clandestine readings of their works. In a not-so-distant future – hypothesizes another story – the world could be predominantly populated by homosexuals, while heterosexuals, prideful to the point of arrogance, would increasingly choose to come out. In short, turned upside down worlds... (cit. Einaudi)
Martin Amis: Esperienza
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Martin Amis: Esperienza
26 sep 17
Like a tightrope walker facing the greatest challenge, Martin Amis stretches the rope between experience and memory and begins his walk into the void. His movements narrate the story of a life. "Why should I tell the story of my life? I know what it takes to make a good tale, and life is almost entirely lacking: structure and balance, form, completeness, measure." Yet, between 1994 and 1995, something happened; "big events" transformed the novelist and short story writer into the author of an original, eccentric autobiography. (quoted from Einaudi)
Mauro Covacich: A perdifiato
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Mauro Covacich: A perdifiato
10 oct 17
Dario Rensich finished sixth in the New York marathon.
A flattering result, just enough to become a respected coach for the Federation, which sends him to Hungary with the task of preparing a group of young middle-distance runners for the marathon, determined to seize the opportunity to stand out. A torturous process for the adoption of Fiona, the little girl that he and his wife Maura are "waiting for," seems to have reached its final stages just as Dario departs for Szeged, the town on the banks of the Danube.
The dying river, polluted by cyanide, accompanies the training of the seven ambitious eighteen-year-olds... (cit. einaudi.it)

"A perdifiato delivers, with a syncopated and courageous prose,
in constant need of oxygen,
the mad sprint of man towards disaster."

(from la Repubblica)
Mauro Covacich: Fiona
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Mauro Covacich: Fiona
10 oct 17
- ... the mind of a young father who dreams of love and death with the feverish rhythm of a countdown.

- The entire novel seems to be marked by the ticking of a final conflagration, the muted beat of an epilogue not easily defused.
However, from the very first pages, a woman with red hair appears.
No one knows who she is, no one knows what she wants.
Perhaps managing to get close to her means managing to save oneself. (cit. einaudi.it)
Max Gazzè: La favola di Adamo ed Eva
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Max Gazzé: La favola di Adamo ed Eva
9 sep 17
The lyrics are written by Max together with his brother Francesco Gazzè, poet and lyricist.
Max Gazzè: Ognuno Fa Quello Che Gli Pare?
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Max Gazzé: Ognuno fa quello che gli pare?
9 sep 17
Inevitably, this fourth chapter also confirms the good things that have been said previously about its original ability to synthesize a pop language that draws (unconsciously?) from Battiato and the typical ferment of the Roman singer-songwriter scene, which is now more nuanced than ever.

And “Ognuno fa quello che gli pare?” seems to have been conceived by seeking nuances rather than a conceptual line that perhaps characterized, more or less, the previous albums.
(cit. rockit.it)
Michael Crichton: Il terminale uomo
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Michael Crichton: Il terminale uomo
11 oct 17
Harry Benson is a man who suffers from psychomotor epilepsy, which often makes him violent towards others. After committing acts of violence due to his fits of rage, he experiences total amnesia that erases all memories of his actions. For this reason, he will become the first candidate for an experimental surgical procedure that involves the insertion of a minicomputer into the brain...

The film of the same name, directed by Mike Hodges and starring George Segal, was adapted from the book published in '72 and released in '74.
Michael Crichton: Mangiatori di morte
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Michael Crichton: Mangiatori di morte
11 oct 17
- Original title "Death Eaters: the manuscript of Ahmad ibn Fadlan on his experiences with the Vikings in 922"
- The novel, narrated in the first person, is set in the 10th century: the Caliph of Baghdad sends, as punishment to rid himself of him, the dignitary Ahmad ibn Fadlan to the distant King of the Bulgars in order to instruct him on the Islamic religion.
Ibn Fadlan begins the journey with a party consisting of an unspecified number of men.
Along the way, they come into contact with some Turkish tribes known as Oghuz, whose customs and traditions are described in great detail by the narrator, with the funeral rites explained in detail...
- The book was adapted into the 1999 film The 13th Warrior directed by John McTiernan, starring Antonio Banderas and Omar Sharif. (wikipedia)
Michael Crichton: Congo
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Michael Crichton: Congo
11 oct 17
June 1979, in the rainforests of the northeastern region of the Congo Basin, where the forest meets the Virunga volcanoes at the edge of the Great Rift Valley, a secret U.S. geological expedition explores rivers and streams in search of alluvial diamond deposits, particularly a type of diamond that, due to its impurities, was colored blue and was used for its optical properties in a laser pointer. (wikipedia)

In 1995, this led to the film "Congo," directed by Frank Wilson Marshall.
Michael Crichton: Sfera
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Michael Crichton: Sfera
11 oct 17
It starts like a science fiction story but quickly transforms into a psychological thriller that delves into the subconscious.

From the novel, the 1998 film of the same name was made, directed by Barry Levinson and featuring Dustin Hoffman, Samuel L. Jackson, and Sharon Stone.
Michael Crichton: Jurassic Park
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Michael Crichton: Jurassic Park
11 oct 17
Following the success of the novel, in 1993 the blockbuster film of the same name was released (but why do I even need to mention that...), directed by Steven Spielberg and featuring Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, and Samuel L. Jackson.

Dinosaurs that appear in the story:

Apatosaurus (in some versions Camarasaurus)
Cearadactylus
Dilophosaurus
Euoplocephalus
Hadrosaurus
Hypsilophodon
Maiasaura
Meganeura
Microceratops (in some versions Callovosaurus)
Othnielia
Procompsognathus
Styracosaurus
Stegosaurus
Triceratops
Tyrannosaurus
Velociraptor
Michael Crichton: Sol levante
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Michael Crichton: Sol levante
11 oct 17
The Japanese multinational "Nakamoto" is organizing a party to inaugurate its new skyscraper in Los Angeles, where personalities from the worlds of politics and finance are invited, but the celebration is disrupted by the discovery of a woman's corpse lying on the boardroom table of the company.

The book was adapted into a film of the same name, directed by Philip Kaufman in '93, starring Sean Connery, Wesley Snipes, Harvey Keitel, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, and Tia Carrere.
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