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Smoking Crow posted:Here are some Russian Futurist poets to soothe your pain The great Russian Troika, galloping forward and crushing the bodies of Russians under its wheels.
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Stravinsky posted:Do you have any recs on some modern Russian poets (who have translations in English because I can't read Russian :languagefail:) vladimir sorokin is the best i know that's been translated (though if he's been translated to english i don't know). i think pelevin has also written some poetry.
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Thank you guys for the ruskies. Melmudkipper have you read Obscene bird of the Night or Terra Nostra yet?
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Stravinsky posted:Thank you guys for the ruskies. Terra Nostra has my favorite opening line in all of fiction.
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Terra Nostra has my favorite opening line in all of fiction. cmon man don't make everyone google it quote:Incredible the first animal that dreamed of another animal. Monstrous the first vertebrae that succeeded in standing on two feet and thus spread terror among the beasts still normally and happily crawling close to the ground through the slime of creation. Astounding the first telephone call, the first boiling water, the first song, the first loincloth.
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End Of Worlds posted:cmon man don't make everyone google it Who says google? Trying to make you bitches buy and read the mother fucker
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End Of Worlds posted:cmon man don't make everyone google it 
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End Of Worlds posted:cmon man don't make everyone google it If I read that junk randomly in a book store I'd put the book back on the shelf and shake my head Mel Mudkiper posted:Terra Nostra has my favorite opening line in all of fiction. You and I have completely different tastes in literature. Not surprised that you're a Steelers fan. You are the worst.
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Mar 20, 2015 16:47
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That guy annoys me for some reason (I think it's the avatar) but he has much better taste in books than you do.
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Mar 20, 2015 16:53
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blue squares posted:You and I have completely different tastes in literature. Not surprised that you're a Steelers fan. You are the worst. Maybe you should just stay outta Latin American fiction if you cannot handle Fuentes and Bolano
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Mar 20, 2015 16:55
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CestMoi posted:That guy annoys me for some reason (I think it's the avatar) On TFF everyone gets that it is a football joke but every other subforum thinks it is a Pokémon joke. So I get why it's annoying haha
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Maybe you should just stay outta Latin American fiction if you cannot handle Fuentes and Bolano I'd never heard of Fuentes, and I'd still like to read Savage Detectives to see if I'd like THAT Bolaño, and guess what I'll read it in THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGE, PUTO
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CestMoi posted:That guy annoys me for some reason (I think it's the avatar) but he has much better taste in books than you do. Also you are my least favorite TBB poster
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Mar 20, 2015 16:58
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Mel Mudkiper posted:On TFF everyone gets that it is a football joke but every other subforum thinks it is a Pokémon joke. So I get why it's annoying haha I just remembered you like Infinite Jest so I'm sorry but you're both dreadful.
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blue squares posted:Also you are my least favorite TBB poster I don't mind you, but I feel like you don't truly embrace the liking good books way of life.
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Mar 20, 2015 17:02
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CestMoi posted:I just remembered you like Infinite Jest so I'm sorry but you're both dreadful. good point
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Mar 20, 2015 17:08
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man i cant wait until someone posts their tier list of tbb posters 
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Mar 20, 2015 17:18
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blue squares posted:I'd never heard of Fuentes I always thought that Fuentes was one of the most well known latin american writers
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Mar 20, 2015 17:20
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I just remembered that its because he is a latin american writer people probably don't know who he is.
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Mar 20, 2015 17:23
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Stravinsky posted:I always thought that Fuentes was one of the most well known latin american writers Absolutely the most famous one to have never won the Nobel prize at least. I feel like he is better well known than, say, Cortazar. For me I feel like Fuentes, Garcia Marquez, and Vargas Llosa are kind of the big three names for fiction from the boom.
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Stravinsky posted:I just remembered that its because he is a latin american writer people probably don't know who he is. You would think they would at least have heard about el gringo viejo.
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Mar 20, 2015 17:27
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Stravinsky posted:man i cant wait until someone posts their tier list of tbb posters I'm working on one but get this: you're not in it  
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Mar 20, 2015 17:36
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Fuentesss Good conscience is good pro read dunno about thr others but Cortazar is def better known
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Niether of those is as angry as I was hoping.
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I like all tbb posters even the ones with poo poo tastes
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I tried to read that Fuentes book that was like... The Eagle of Something. Something about eagles. Anyway the first 30 pages was entirely dreadful and uninteresting and I passed on it. Is it representative of anything?
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CestMoi posted:I'm working on one but get this: you're not in it *dons flame suit* Smoking Crow posted:Nobody's translating modern russian poetry nowadays. Most of the stuff from the soviet period isn't translated yet either. The number 1 new sincere poet is Dmitry Vodennikov but nobody's translating him I found this and I am going to read all these poems when I get a break: http://bigbridge.org/BB17/poetry/twentyfirstcenturyrussianpoetry/twenty-first-century-russian-poetry-contents.html Ras Het posted:I tried to read that Fuentes book that was like... The Eagle of Something. Something about eagles. Anyway the first 30 pages was entirely dreadful and uninteresting and I passed on it. Is it representative of anything? I have not read that one but I don't think you can get 30 pages into terra nostra and be like wow this is boring and dreadful I wish this was chekhov (this is not a chekhov diss) Stravinsky fucked around with this message at 17:48 on Mar 20, 2015 |
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Ras Het posted:I tried to read that Fuentes book that was like... The Eagle of Something. Something about eagles. Anyway the first 30 pages was entirely dreadful and uninteresting and I passed on it. Is it representative of anything? I honestly had to look it up to know what you were talking about. Never read it, but the fact it's so obscure probably means something. Death of Artemio Cruz is probably the best book to test if Fuentes is within your tastes.
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Stravinsky posted:I have not read that one but I don't think you can get 30 pages into terra nostra and be like wow this is boring and dreadful I wish this was chekov Yeah Terra Nostra starts pretty strong. It gets slow after the first section when they do the medieval Spain part but once you get "the point" of what he is doing you get really drawn in.
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blue squares posted:You and I have completely different tastes in literature. Not surprised that you're a Steelers fan. You are the worst.
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Gorn Myson posted:At least he didn't do what the majority of people on this forum do, and claim that the single greatest opening line in the history of the written word is the beginning of "The Gunslinger" by Stephen King. What?
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Antwan3K posted:What? Don't worry I googled it for you, it's real good: Multiple 'Best Opening Lines in Literature' blog posts posted:“The man in Black fled across the Desert, and the Gunslinger followed.”
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The man in black fled across the desert and seven poo poo novels followed
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Mar 20, 2015 18:40
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Neuromancer also has an awful opening line too many nerds celebrate.
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Guns linger.
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Neuromancer also has an awful opening line too many nerds celebrate. "The sky is the color of a uhhh... tv. a dead tv. the future is hosed up."
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Maybe you should just stay outta Latin American fiction if you cannot handle Fuentes and Bolano  Anyway I think we can all agree on what the best opening line is. quote:Hwæt!
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e: son of a bitch
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Mel Mudkiper posted:I honestly had to look it up to know what you were talking about. Never read it, but the fact it's so obscure probably means something. Death of Artemio Cruz is probably the best book to test if Fuentes is within your tastes. Yeah there's very little Latin American anything that isn't to my tastes so I was surprised. I'll look into that at some point.
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I think that the Book of John has a good opening line
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