Finally picked up Grapes of Wrath, and damn is it good. Steinbeck has such beautiful prose when he's not writing southern dialect.
What other classics are still compelling today? If it's any help, I don't really dig Vonnegut, Asimov, and Huxley.
Finally picked up Grapes of Wrath, and damn is it good. Steinbeck has such beautiful prose when he's not writing southern dialect.
What other classics are still compelling today? If it's any help, I don't really dig Vonnegut, Asimov, and Huxley.
If you want to go old-school, The Decameron has so many great archetypal stories of all sorts.
The film version by Passolini is also great. Passolini was a communist so you can detect it in most of his work, most obviously in Salo
Salo really bait and switched me. fuck that movie everyone hypes it up with flowery shit about transgressiveness, antifascist themes etc
:dead-dove-3: wait that was just 2 hours of softcore fetish porn :dead-dove-3:
It's certainly not for everyone, but Passolini was a genius. He also wrote amazing poetry, novels, theory, etc.
Did you ever see 'The Little Hours'? Really fun witchy sapphic stitchup of a few of the stories from the decameron. Fair warning it has a franco in it...
I remember when it came out but I didn't know it was a Decameron adaptation until a few months ago. Been meaning to watch it.
Didja watch it yet? :p
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