en-US Wed, 04 Dec 2024 05:53:14 -0800 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg ReadStatus8704164590 Wed, 04 Dec 2024 05:53:14 -0800 /review/show/7056276348 Hugo B. Hugo is currently reading Gigonomics: A Field Guide for Freelancers in the Gig Economy by Julian Haber
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]]> Review6681670912 Thu, 18 Jul 2024 16:05:22 -0700 /review/show/6681670912 Hugo B. Hugo gave 4 stars to Lucky Boy (Paperback) by Walter Mosley
Un gamin noir, orphelin, introspectif, qui grandit dans les rues de Los Angeles? Ça me parle. C’est clairement le type de personnage auquel je m’attache facilement. Il me ressemble un peu je crois. Vous connaissez St-Michel, le quartier de Montréal? Bah, c’est de là que je viens. La violence et la pauvreté et les communautés immigrantes, je connais. C’était pas les États Unis mais proche.

Ce perso est contrasté par un autre gamin, blanc, de Beverly Hills. En y réfléchissant bien, c’est un peu trop conceptuel genre série HBO, mais le gamin noir est touchant. La tension factice devient apparente vers la fin du récit lorsque l’action devient trop précipitée, préssée de conclure. J’aurais préféré que ça reste plus lyrique, plus littéraire, que narratif.

Mais je boude pas mon plaisir. Une grande épopée à Los Angeles et une mini-épopée à New York. Me voilà dans mon élément. ]]> ReadStatus8001302854 Mon, 03 Jun 2024 16:24:11 -0700 /review/show/6558026182 Hugo B. Hugo marked as future-shelf L'impossible neutralité - Autobiographie d'un historien et militant by Howard Zinn
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]]> Review5767529702 Tue, 12 Sep 2023 16:18:05 -0700 /review/show/5767529702 Hugo B. Hugo gave 4 stars to Just Kids (Hardcover) by Patti Smith
Of course I loved this story: much capable suburban kids romanticizing art move to the Big City to try to make it. Specially during some of the most tumultuous political times of the post-war era when the hippie revolution almost collapsed pro-war state power.

Yes, Patti writes without sentimentality and with reservation. And she writes about one of the most noble pursuits, art, in the shadows of the much famed Warhol's Factory, at the intersection of fame and authenticity.

But now I'm interested in what's been left out: why work for corporations? Sure we can romanticize French poets, but shouldn't we question pop stardom, disguised as rock n' roll authenticity? Patti Smith clearly keeps that to herself, further encrypting the secret ambitions of those who made it, and desecrating the aspirations of the unknown, left-out, underground artists (aka the unprivileged).

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