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Irene Iddlesleigh by Amanda McKittrick Ros | 2 | 6.45% | |
Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner | 7 | 22.58% | |
Twenty Days of Turin by Giorgio de Maria | 14 | 45.16% | |
You Can't Win by Jack Black (not that Jack Black) | 8 | 25.81% | |
Total: | 24 votes |
THREE DAYS ONLY These threads function primarily as an interest check. You can vote for more than one, but if you vote, and your choice wins, please participate. 1) Irene Iddlesleigh by Amanda McKittrick Ros quote:Nick Page, author of In Search of the World's Worst Writers, rated Ros the worst of the worst. He says that "For Amanda, eyes are 'piercing orbs', legs are 'bony supports', people do not blush, they are 'touched by the hot hand of bewilderment.'" J 2) Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner quote:Go Down, Moses is a collection of seven related pieces of short fiction by American author William Faulkner, sometimes considered a novel. The most prominent character and unifying voice is that of Isaac McCaslin, "Uncle Ike", who will live to be an old man; "uncle to half a county and father to no one." Though originally published as a short story collection, Faulkner considered the book to be a novel in the same way The Unvanquished is considered a novel. Because of this, most editions no longer print "and other stories" in the title. 3) Twenty Days of Turin by Giorgio de Maria chernobyl kinsman posted:do the twenty days of turin. it's big-dick lit enough to appease most of the child loving thread and it has enough trans-dimensional monsters to satisfy the genre fiction contingent quote:Written during the height of the 1970s Italian domestic terror, a cult novel, with distinct echoes of Lovecraft and Borges, makes its English-language debut. 4) You Can't Win by Jack Black (not that Jack Black) quote:You Can't Win is an autobiography by burglar and hobo Jack Black, written in the early to mid-1920s and first published in 1926. It describes Black's life on the road, in prison and his various criminal capers in the American and Canadian west from the late 1880s to early 20th century. The book was a major influence upon William S. Burroughs and other Beat writers. It was made into a film in 2015.
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# ? Apr 2, 2018 15:20 |
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# ? May 16, 2024 17:39 |
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*hands in a wrinkled napkin that just says "babyfucker" on it*
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# ? Apr 2, 2018 15:34 |
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Mel Mudkiper posted:*hands in a wrinkled napkin that just says "babyfucker" on it*
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# ? Apr 2, 2018 16:53 |
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That Turin book sounds interesting
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# ? Apr 2, 2018 17:44 |
apophenium posted:That Turin book sounds interesting NPR posted:The Library is where The Twenty Days begins, with De Maria's narrator, a self-made investigator into the "collective psychosis" of the citizens of Turin following the appearance of The Library and the strange events surrounding it . There was the smell; the vinegary stink that no one could explain. The insomnia which seemed to grip the entire city. The noises — the far-away screaming and the war-cries — that were equally inexplicable.
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# ? Apr 2, 2018 19:29 |
drat, I should have looked into Twenty Days of Turin more closely, I voted for the Faulkner but now I kinda wish I'd voted for that
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# ? Apr 2, 2018 19:45 |
Given how much people here love making GBS threads on bad writing I was expecting more takers for Irene Iddlesleigh
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# ? Apr 3, 2018 05:34 |
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there’s a difference between loving to poo poo on bad writers and wanting to read terrible books. I absolutely hate the latter.
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# ? Apr 3, 2018 09:03 |
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That McKittrick Ros book only looks 'terrible' in the sense that it's a somewhat outsider writer doing unconventional purple prose. It's much more interesting than whatever genre trash people are making let's read threads about.
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# ? Apr 3, 2018 09:57 |
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You are a coward, Hieronymous Alloy.
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# ? Apr 3, 2018 11:17 |
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CestMoi posted:You are a coward, Hieronymous Alloy. I don't really understand the reasoning for not using Babyfucker when there has been a thread with a joke about child loving in the title on the front page of this forum for about four years
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# ? Apr 4, 2018 00:29 |
turin wins close htread
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# ? Apr 4, 2018 22:53 |
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I want to start doing these, I vote for babyfucker. Second choice Turin.
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# ? Apr 5, 2018 04:58 |
Y'all are why I drink. Twenty Days of Turin it is. I'll get a thread up soonish.
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# ? Apr 6, 2018 03:47 |
can you use the ghosts tag again. i like the ghosts tag
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# ? Apr 6, 2018 05:28 |
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# ? May 16, 2024 17:39 |
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Twenty days of turin sounds awesome, how have I never heard about this
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# ? Apr 6, 2018 21:58 |