OMFG BEST SENTENCE EVER!!!!!
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linndechir"Et c'est ainsi, le cul encore plein de sperme, que je me résolus à entrer au Sicherheitsdienst."
"And thus, with my arse still full of sperm, I decided to join the Sicherheitsdienst."
- Jonathan Littel, Les Bienveillantes
Okay, I admit it, I only read 100 of the 1300 pages so far, and maybe it's going to suck after 300 pages, because there aren't many authors who can write good books of this length. Far too often it gets boring and repetitive after a few hundred pages. But the beginning is amazing. For those of you who've never heard of it, Les Bienveillantes (English title: The Kindly Ones, which sounds stupid), is the memoirs of a fictitious SS-officier named Maximilien Aue, written by an American author who's writing in French. It's weird to read about Nazis speaking French all the time, honestly. oO Still, Aue is as gay as you can possibly get. 100 pages and already two graphic slash scenes, not to mention this amazing sentence I quoted above (the English translation is by me, I was too lazy to look up how it was really translated). Context? Right after he had some random boy fuck him, his future BFF convinces him to join the SD. Not to mention that his name is Max (like Stierlitz!), he smokes all the fucking time (like Stierlitz, and like Hellstrom!), he's gay and such a sub, and he has a best friend on whom he seems to have a total crush. Well, not crush, but he wants to do him. Not to mention the countless mentions of Heydrich and Schellenberg being suspiciously good friends - this book does not help my recent fascination with historical slash. Bad brain, very very bad! And there I thought it couldn't possibly get worse!
What I really want to say, though, is the following: read this book. I shouldn't, because I really don't have the time, but it's just great so far. At least read the first part, Toccata, which is just great, and only fifty pages long. It's worth the time, even if you don't want to read the entire book. Now let's just hope that I won't be disappointed by the rest.
Other news ... I quit my job, because I'm tired of working on every Saturday, and since I don't desperately need the money, why should I keep doing this? It's a pity, it was a nice job, as far as crappy-jobs-for-students-so-I-can-afford-my-decadent-lifestyle go, with nice colleagues and relatively well paid and not far away from where I live, but still. I want a week-end that consists of two days. Even if it means having a bit less money.
Am also neglecting university stuff. Again. This week is going to be stressful. Which also means that I probably won't post a new fic too soon, but I'll do my best. I'm considering to write some Hellstrom/Wicki, set around 1930, which would be very very angsty and tragic and sweet and beautiful and extremely tragic and sad. With obligatory Landa/Hellstrom-references, mind you. ;)
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Date: 2009-11-23 01:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-23 02:24 pm (UTC)My Nazi harem is growing by the day, it's scary. ;) And with all the tops running around there, little sub!Maximilien (ah, this works better ;)) will definitely enjoy himself. I don't really have the time to read it either, but as usual I'm neglecting my uni stuff. Bad me. It will probably take me ages to finish the book.
Wicki is a minor minor minor character in Inglourious Basterds. The German basterd who translated for Raine? http://www.nolapeles.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/bastardos-sin-gloria-Cpl.Wilhelm-WickiGedeon-Burkhard.jpg Who happens to be played by my favourite actor from when I was, like, eight years old, which is why I absolutely love him? ;)
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Date: 2009-11-23 07:46 pm (UTC)Ah, see, for me that character is just a Basterd, and those can just die wholesale in a fire so I set my Nazi characters on them, thinking to watch some torture porn, only to find that they're so disgusted that they just shoot them outright and go home to play darts or something.
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Date: 2009-11-23 07:59 pm (UTC)Heh, I like Wicki, but, again, that's maybe just because I love his actor to no end. And his background fascinates me. *shrug* (And I won't apologise for finding Wicki/Hellstrom fucking hot. ;)) If it's any comfort, it would be about Wicki ten years before he becomes a basterd. ;)
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Date: 2009-11-26 07:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-26 07:23 pm (UTC)(Also, Stierlitz is hot. *nodnod*)