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Jay M

Jay M

Alternative influences, suburban upbringing, intellectual pretensions, bohemian dabblings, bookish demeanor, art professional, sophomoric humor, micro-managed wanderlust, existential jitters

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  • Saint Louis, MO, USA
  • member since March 29 2008

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  • Denis L

    Denis L says

    Hello Jay!

    Dear Jay,
    I would emphatically recommend Mapp and Lucia. If you're not smiling after a few paras, this is not for you, but if you are...be warned, you too, may get hooked! And what fun you'll have! I've been re-reading these timeless treasures for years. With luck you'll find yourself in the same wonderful predicament.

    As they say in riseholme and Tilling...
    Au reservoir

    Best

    Daggers

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Christopher H

    Christopher H says

    I notice you're reading Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop. What a wonderful novel that is! I am a big Cather fan. My oldest daughter goes to Univ. Nebraska-Lincoln, and is getting her Ph.D. in English, and has written numerous articles and spoken on Cather many times. I'd say that Cather and Edith Wharton are my two favorite American authors. Enjoy the book, Jay! Cheers! Chris

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Bhupash

    Bhupash says

    Hi Jay, so you finished Diaz's Wao recently. What did you make of it? Have you read Drown? Would love to know your thoughts.

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Stephen Hines

    Stephen Hines says

    Jay, Transmetropolitan is quite different from Planetary, but I like Trans even more. It's darker and funnier.

    Godland is very good, especially if you love Kirby's art from the old day.

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Christopher H

    Christopher H says

    Jay, thanks for seeking me out here! I am delighted to make your acquaintance and look forward to sharing books and discussions with you. Your library is fabulous; we have lots in common, but also you have some stuff that I want look at more closely. Have a great day, and do stay in touch. Cheers! Chris

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Stephen Hines

    Stephen Hines says

    Thanks for befriending me...and for the compliment on my shelves! Your shelves look as eclectic as mine. That's a compliment, btw. :)

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Omid G

    Omid G says

    And the book about Marx Brothers excited me so much also....I gotta find it...

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Omid G

    Omid G says

    Nice pic Jay!!! It reminds me of Alan Jackson, the great country singer! Good luck pal...

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Lord Manleigh

    Lord Manleigh says

    Oh, dear, and "Amsterdam" had me chuckling, but then I have the gift of being able to laugh at the misfortunes of others, which keeps me young.

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Nathan B

    Nathan B says

    Hi Jay, So what do you think of Thor? I enjoyed it. Well paced and enjoyable. Thank you by the way for the feedback on the "Discovery of France" I am glad that you found it useful.

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Omid G

    Omid G says

    “Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.”

    Krapp's Last Tape, Samuel Beckett

    posted 9 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Omid G

    Omid G says

    My recommendation this week: Italo Svevo!

    posted 10 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Omid G

    Omid G says

    Happy New Year Jay!

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Sagecoveredhills

    Sagecoveredhills says

    I have to admit that I've not read Angle of Repose (but I have it and should since I've done plenty of reading and writing on western history). As a balance to the older western schools of history, I'd recommend Patricia Nelson Limerick's "The LEgacy of Conquest" Another good one on the development of the region is Duane Smith's, Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier

    posted 12 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Sagecoveredhills

    Sagecoveredhills says

    what was your thoughts on Dee Browns "An American West?" The editorial review speaks of three groups in the west: Native Americans, Settlers and Ranchers... It seems that settlers and ranchers are one in the same and it misses the whole urban experience of the west (mining brought more people west than cows did and most of those folks ended up in urban centers). I read and enjoyed "They Buried My Heart at Wounded Knee" and his early memoirs (I think it's titled "When the Century Was Young," but haven't read any other of his work.

    posted 12 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Johnie S

    Johnie S says

    Thanks for the last post, I really enjoy learning as much as I can from variuous spiritual paths as well. There is so much to learn if we only open ourselves to the experience. I tend to love Japanese writers for that very reason :) I am taking a break from Faulkner but moving onto Wolfe for the time being. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving.

    posted 12 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Sagecoveredhills

    Sagecoveredhills says

    Thanks for the friendship request. Which are of history are you interested in? Much of my history collection is tied to the America West and a thesis I wrote years ago. As for the Hudson River School, I'd don't know much about the artsts, but love their paintins and would like to learn more. I see you also have an interest in India (including a book on Indian Cinema). In my blog, I've reveiwed a number of Indian films--especially like Deepa Metha's work. You can check it out at www.sagecoveredhills.blogspot.com (there is an index on the sidebar, go there and look up "book and movie reviews."

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Bhupash

    Bhupash says

    Crikey, yeah, bit dramatic, can't quite believe I wrote that. It was a book that was cancelled from a first-year undergraduate class but I read it anyway and - evidently loved it. I find that late nineteenth-century American fiction intriguing and would definitely look to read more of it in the future including those Wharton novels you mentioned. Having said that I trudged through Henry James' Portrait of a Lady and was traumatised by it.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Omid G

    Omid G says

    Your countrymen desrve to be proud of having such a great bard as Whitman...my Captain

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Johnie S

    Johnie S says

    Thanks Jay for your insight and encouragement regarding Faulkner. I am pushing on and will be all the better reader for it. Looks like you are into spiritual stuff? Very cool, my undergrad degree is in Religious Studies. Ever read Living Buddah/Living Christ?

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )


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