What’s it like to be right and still be wrong. About the artist whose job it is to paint people out of history, the one who turns his brother into the government. I guess you’ve got to read the book to get that one. “It takes nothing less than the whole might of the state to erase a person, but only the error of one individual – if that is what memory is now called – to preserve her.” Because so many people have a heart of gold if you’d just start mining for it. And you don’t have to be that good, you just have to stop judging and stop worrying about what other people think. Kinda like the people I know who never married, no one was ever good enough. If you’re not willing to roll with the changes, you’re not going to get anywhere. Life is about compromise, about seeing the good, which ultimately transcends the mediocre, the less than you hoped for. We’ve all ended up with men we’d pity others for marrying.”Įverybody is not a winner, everybody can’t be married to a movie star. “…but the obvious is only obvious when it happens to someone else. I thought she was the only one, but now I’ve read this book. If it’s more than sentence, she tells you to stop. Especially the loss, the one who got away, the time you got fired…I want to experience your humanity. Where you came from, how you got here, where you want to go, how you feel about it all. “Wealth announces itself with what’s easy to break and impossible to clean.”Įver see a white rug in a poor person’s house? Where you find plastic plates and linoleum flooring? But dilettantes, those who need us to admire them, they keep telling us how hard their lives are…as they go nowhere. People who are truly working hard don’t complain, they believe the results of their efforts are sufficient. “People who have it easy are always telling you how hard it is.” That’s why I read novels, for the wisdom. But the characters reappear and when they do it’s like finding out the clue to a crossword you didn’t know you were doing, the satisfaction is palpable. No, wait a minute, hold on, they’re linked! But I advise you to run roughshod and go for the plot, and then you’ll get into the rhythm of this book. I’m the kind of reader who has to get everything, who can’t skim, who wants to be able to picture it in my mind. Whereas the first criterion of a book is readability.Īnd I’d be lying if I told you “The Tsar of Love and Techno” cuts like butter. It’s like they pack their tomes with words you have to look up to make them feel better about themselves. And so many are written by graduates of writing workshops where the standard is unreadability. Come on, have you seen Donald Trump’s act?īooks are so passe it’s laughable. And I’m not going to laud the uneducated, but the publishing world is everything I hate about New York, where your pedigree rules and it’s all about keeping everybody else down. You think record execs are bad, publishers are much worse, kinda like movie executives on steroids, people who believe they’re better than us. Because it’s a club and you’re not a member, they don’t want you. I was intrigued by not only the new technology, but the low price of books, I felt I was on the leading edge of a revolution, which I was until the publishing industry and its compliant authors took back the power from the Seattle giant and killed the business. Felice bought me one for my birthday back in 2009 and I’ve been on a reading tear ever since. But Daniel learned from the masters decades back, before life got coarse, and he’s passionate about music, but nearly equally as passionate about books.ĭidn’t used to be. Kinda strange in today’s dog eat dog world where everybody’s out for themselves. Who sends items on a regular basis, because he cares. Not that I would have bought “A Constellation of Vital Phenomena,” it was a gift from Daniel Glass. If the Yankees spend a fortune they should be World Champions, right? But no, little KC and St. That’s a myth we believe in in order to make order in this world. Kinda the way Apple’s getting its ass kicked in streaming music. Maybe you read Marra’s previous book, “ A Constellation of Vital Phenomena.” Probably not, because it’s about war in Chechnya, which most Americans can’t pick out on a map, certainly not me, all I know is the Russians got their ass kicked there. But it’s word of mouth that rules this world.Īnd I’m telling you to read Anthony Marra’s new book, “The Tsar of Love and Techno.” Not because it has music in the title, but because it will make you forget about your little life and its everyday troubles and will take you away to a world so horrible you’ll be thankful you live on the underside of this great nation of ours.
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