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I’ve had it for a very short time, I still have to listen to it. I’ll do that now… - Reading your thoughts, it seems that Herbert is choosing a "Matmos-like" approach this time. Instead, you have opted for a somewhat "heavy" style (how did you come up with "the inner movements of a fetus in the womb of an alcoholic mother"?), possibly influenced by the coincidence of the pig’s death and your birth… However, I believe you can avoid finding unfortunate connections: "4. novembre" is not a date, it simply means the fourth track is titled "novembre"…

Good. Valid and effective the image of "crossroad." I should listen to the album again (I liked it, didn't love it, had already given it a chance) but the average quality of his works is always high. - p.s. I wouldn't say he's so snubbed by the critics...

Loosened knot. Smile. Even without listening to "Oh! Calcutta!". The little page is enough. Well done.

@CAT: check your pvt messages.

"an anecdote" cannot be seen. I beg your pardon.

P.S. Be careful with Ford: when I say incredibly boring, I'm not joking. The beard you see in my profile picture is probably partly due to reading his books :)) - In fact, I think it will be necessary to accompany the now fateful list with some micro-description... - bye

Well, it seemed like a nice album to me (the page has been stagnant for a while, I don't update it anymore) with a very high average quality of the tracks, as long as you like that kind of music. Anyway, don't take my word for it: the link next to the cover should still be active (I hope).

For goodness' sake, I didn't mean to polemicize, quite the opposite... I meant that, having posted that comment, it was quite natural for you to ask me which names I was referring to, saying that "contemporary literature offers much more." However, I am an omnivorous reader and I'm not very inclined to make "rankings": therefore, taking a cue from this conversation, I like the idea of summarizing a variety of eclectic readings and trying to choose some names, some titles. Of course it will take a bit of patience. - I love the three books centered around the figure of Bascombe by Ford. With "Independence Day," he won a Pulitzer, but strangely, I think "The Sportswriter" is my favorite. However, I want to share a reading still in progress with you: among others, I am reading "Grace Paley: Collected Stories," the complete collection of short stories by Grace Paley, an American writer we cannot consider "contemporary" both due to her passing in 2007 and because her literary career began in the 1950s (the book gathers works from '59 to '85). But she is amazing: I consider her stories (I've read about half of them so far) true timeless gems, even though they are imbued with her time. So, I recommend this to you if you also appreciate the short story format. And in the hypothetical list, you would find more than one short story author, whom I don't consider at all a "minor" form compared to the novel. - Anyway, sooner or later, this blessed list will take shape and I'll post it here. - In the meantime, I've ordered Pelevin - Bye and sorry for the misunderstanding.

I knew it would end this way, but I didn’t prepare the list. I trust in chance, and chance (only in this case) is generally quite benevolent towards me. And in the connections that almost automatically arise between a book, an author, and others. And in a certain instinct that, over the years, has sharpened somewhat. So yes, I promise I’ll make the list, maybe I’ll post it here. But since I would like it to be reliable, it will take me a little attention and a "revisiting" of my readings from the past few years. Ok? (I’ll throw out a name just to not completely exempt myself: just to balance this "sparkling" Pelevin, the boring Richard Ford.) - P.S. "among my circle of acquaintances, there are more who don't know him than the opposite." What kind of people do you hang out with? :))) - Bye

Well, the first part of the text is a bit banal and superficial. If "The Solitude of Prime Numbers" or "The Elegance of the Hedgehog" are the benchmarks you use, then it makes sense to isolate oneself in the classics (it makes me smile a bit that you dispense advice on Dostoevsky's works, as if he were an unknown debut author to most). But fortunately, engaging with "contemporary literature" (which obviously doesn’t exclude a simultaneous interest in the classics) offers much more. And not in such a meager quantity as one might assume from reading you. Of course, it’s not easy to navigate the overcrowded global market, but with a bit of patience and luck, you might even come across something better than this Pelevin, which at this point, I will still try. Thank you.