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Namewise I might have some recollection issues accuracy-wise.
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Mr. Squishy posted:Namewise I might have some recollection issues accuracy-wise. Just don't call him Edwerd Gast
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Jul 6, 2015 15:47
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Its good but I could never shake the feeling the whole story ended up being too narratively safe I've had Guinness from a can in Dublin + other parts of Ireland and it tasted great soooooooooooo
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Jul 6, 2015 18:02
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Smoking Crow posted:Drunk reading is the proper way to read Hemingway and Poe. The proper way to read Poe is to not read Poe IMO
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Jul 6, 2015 18:04
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CestMoi posted:The proper way to read Poe is to not read Poe IMO He is a good writer and I enjoy his writing
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Jul 6, 2015 18:06
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Poe is a better icon than writer EDIT: Which is not as insulting as it probably sounds. Poe the writer has become POE in big capital letters and its hard for his writing to match that reputation. The only writers to stay consistent with their iconic reputation are probably Hemingway and Shakespeare. Mel Mudkiper fucked around with this message at 18:11 on Jul 6, 2015 |
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Jul 6, 2015 18:08
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people remember that in one an orangutans was the murderer, but in many other poe stories non-orangutans did the crime. for instance in one the narrator did the murder.
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Jul 6, 2015 18:13
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Tree Goat posted:people remember that in one an orangutans was the murderer, but in many other poe stories non-orangutans did the crime. for instance in one the narrator did the murder. Things that killed people in Poe Cat Orangutan Personification of disease Montresor
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Jul 6, 2015 18:15
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I bet the Poe Orangutan story isn't as good as the Kafka one.
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Jul 6, 2015 18:19
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montresor is covered by a narrator-murderer. plus there is no textual evidence that he is not a cat or ape. in marie rogêt the murderer is poe, murdering my precious time on this earth because they don't even catch the dang murderer in the story!!!
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Jul 6, 2015 18:20
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CestMoi posted:I bet the Poe Orangutan story isn't as good as the Kafka one. The Poe one is funny because its remembered as the literal birth of detective fiction despite having the single most absurd resolution in the history of the genre.
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Jul 6, 2015 18:21
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To be fair its mostly the title Murders in the Rue Morgue is a much more interesting title than "It was a loving monkey"
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Jul 6, 2015 18:22
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fantômas:raffles:holmes::id:ego:superego
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Jul 6, 2015 18:31
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i like that story where the narrator tricks a dude into getting buried alive because he thinks there's some really good wine in the catacombs.
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Jul 6, 2015 18:32
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Mel Mudkiper posted:The Poe one is funny because its remembered as the literal birth of detective fiction despite having the single most absurd resolution in the history of the genre. You must hate Edogawa Ranpo
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Jul 6, 2015 18:33
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I haven't actually read very much Poe because the things I read were bad but I might read his detective stuff. How does it compare to master of the genre and achiever of the sublime, G. K. Chesterton?
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Jul 6, 2015 18:33
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I'm having a sudden realisation that all the stories I thought I had read by Poe are actually Lovecraft stories lol
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Jul 6, 2015 18:34
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Earwicker posted:i like that story where the narrator tricks a dude into getting buried alive because he thinks there's some really good wine in the catacombs. He also did that prequel to Saw
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Jul 6, 2015 18:34
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CestMoi posted:I'm having a sudden realisation that all the stories I thought I had read by Poe are actually Lovecraft stories lol there are no words
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Jul 6, 2015 18:36
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yes what a blunder. one terrible american horror writer who gets a pass for being "formative" was from the mid 19th century, one was from the early 20th.CestMoi posted:I haven't actually read very much Poe because the things I read were bad but I might read his detective stuff. How does it compare to master of the genre and achiever of the sublime, G. K. Chesterton? the dupin short stories are all really short and there's only three of them Tree Goat fucked around with this message at 18:41 on Jul 6, 2015 |
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Jul 6, 2015 18:39
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Can we all agree academically that the Raven blows VV holds up imho VV Mel Mudkiper fucked around with this message at 18:46 on Jul 6, 2015 |
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Jul 6, 2015 18:42
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Okay I've had a think and my only exposure to Poe is watching that Simpson's Treehouse of Horror with The Raven in and that sucked so I am justified in my belief that Poe is bad.
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Jul 6, 2015 18:45
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I'm probably the only person aside from Jules Venre who enjoys The Narrative Of Arthur Gordon Pym Of Nantucket on its own merit. Greetings.
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Jul 6, 2015 19:45
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Effectronica posted:I'm probably the only person aside from Jules Venre who enjoys The Narrative Of Arthur Gordon Pym Of Nantucket on its own merit. Greetings. I think its cool and poe is also cool for having owned people with sicck hoaxes
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Jul 6, 2015 20:25
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Gordon Pym must be the product of a monthlong laudanum binge and if you read it stoned out of your mind during your sophomore year of college it is a transformative experience
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Jul 7, 2015 01:02
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Tree Goat posted:yes what a blunder. one terrible american horror writer who gets a pass for being "formative" was from the mid 19th century, one was from the early 20th. Developing new forms is a more important contribution to literature than technical proficiency or stylistic finesse Owen Wister > Cormac McCarthy
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Jul 7, 2015 05:19
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One last literature related rereg name: Jack Gibbis.
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Jul 7, 2015 08:19
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Effectronica posted:I'm probably the only person aside from Jules Venre who enjoys The Narrative Of Arthur Gordon Pym Of Nantucket on its own merit. Greetings.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Owen Wister > Cormac McCarthy I'll find you in an outhouse
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Jul 7, 2015 12:25
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Mel Mudkiper posted:I'll find you in the jakes
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Developing new forms is a more important contribution to literature than technical proficiency or stylistic finesse The worst opinion. edit: V- That one is okay, though. Grizzled Patriarch fucked around with this message at 20:33 on Jul 8, 2015 |
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Jul 8, 2015 04:37
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Also Blade Runner is Harrison Ford's best movie
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Jul 8, 2015 05:06
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whats the best version of reynard available?
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Jul 9, 2015 16:29
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blue squares posted:The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell: Only a few pages in after impulse buying this as Half-Price. Good voice. I look forward to delving into this one once I've knocked Names and Light out. I like David Mitchell but this is his worst novel, imo. In fact, it even kind of retroactively worsened some of his earlier books for me. So if you've never read anything else by him and don't like this one, don't let it color your opinion too much. Read Black Swan Green instead. Edit: VVVVV I used to cite Cloud Atlas as my favorite novel ever, but that was several years ago when I read it and it was kind of the "coolest"/most inventive thing I had ever read up to that point. Not sure I'd like it so much anymore now that I've branched out a little bit. I think I've started to mentally file Mitchell in the same place as Neil Gaiman as authors I used to love but now feel that I've "outgrown" once I've figured out their schtick. Ocean At The End Of The Lane, for example, was not a terrible read or anything, but it was so paint-by-numbers Gaiman that I couldn't really enjoy it. Moacher fucked around with this message at 18:46 on Jul 9, 2015 |
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Jul 9, 2015 18:32
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I really was indifferent to Cloud Atlas Once you figured out what it was doing it didn't really have anything to say
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Jul 9, 2015 18:38
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Mel Mudkiper posted:I really was indifferent to Cloud Atlas Unrelated, but I feel the same about Murakami.
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Nanomashoes posted:Unrelated, but I feel the same about Murakami. I'm reading Kafka On The Shore by Murakami right now, just partway through. It's my first novel of his. It definitely feels a lot like elements from David Mitchell's Ghostwritten & number9dream combined, which is a comparison I've heard before from other readers (though moreso just about their work in general). There seems to be a lot of needlessly explicit sexual stuff thrown in that I'm not really sure I see the point of, but I'm less than a quarter through it so I guess I'll see where it goes.
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Jul 9, 2015 19:52
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At Swim-Two-Birds ends really well.
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Jul 9, 2015 19:57
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Well known, alas, is the case of the poor German who was very fond of three and who made each aspect of his life a thing of triads. He went home one evening and drank three cups of tea with three lumps of sugar in each, cut his jugular with a razor three times and scrawled with a dying hand on a picture of his wife good-bye, goodbye, goodbye.
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I couldn't finish Kafka on the Shore. It was boring and bland. I really wanted to like Murakami, too.
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