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I've red one of A.L. Kennedy's books - The Blue Book - and was kind of underwhelmed. Maybe I will check out this new book and see if her style grows on me.
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Ras Het posted:I've never read any of those but Szalay is gonna win why?
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This Eileen book actually looks pretty rad, I might read that. It has 1 hold on 5 copies for my library's ebook, I wanted to do an all non-fiction month in August because it's been a little time since I have read some, but I am afraid this announcement will make it more popular. Maybe it won't until/if it hits the shortlist. EDIT: Actually it is apparently available at my library I think I am going to check it out and read it over the weekend Guy A. Person fucked around with this message at 20:47 on Jul 28, 2016 |
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Had a bunch of them on my tbr Hystopia looks good.
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Smoking Crow posted:how is it pronounced Goethe.
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Smoking Crow posted:how is it pronounced like fugazi
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There's no English analogue for the correct pronunciation of "Goethe." It's definitely not "gurta," though. There's an R-ish sound in there, but this is much closer.
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Jul 29, 2016 07:11
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Just write it in ipa then
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This Neil gaiman book is not very good
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Go-eef.
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There is no kind of r-sound in Goethe, it's just what happens when Americans try to emulate the German ö/oe, because the closest thing in the English language is the vowel in words like herd or curd and that only appears before r. Not in German though. It's [ɡøtə].
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbYBlzOHxiE
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Mr. Squishy posted:Go-eef. I remember I had a teacher laugh at me because I once said Foe-caalt
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Faw-callt's Pen-dee-Loom
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Foucault's gently caress Cult
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i like goethe's aesthetic criticism, while i don't like faust, because it's garbage.
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by garbage i mean it was probably pretty good but i was in a bad moon when i read it
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Are you often in a bad moon? 🌚
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that was a typo but a very appropriate one because goethe was super into the aesthetics of the cosmos
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Foul Fowl posted:i like goethe's aesthetic criticism, while i don't like faust, because it's garbage. You're garbage!!
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Station Eleven is really starting to get to me, in a good way. I read a passage that made me tear up, and I have had a hard time getting a lot of emotion out of my reading lately. The author has such good prose, and often the most powerful passages are those that are unadorned with any imagery or unusual words, but simply describe an emotional scene in such a succinct and direct way that the intensity of the moment is made more impactful than it would be if the words called more attention to themselves. And then in other times she does drift into the poetic, and I like those moments a lot, too.
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at the date posted:There's no English analogue for the correct pronunciation of "Goethe." It's definitely not "gurta," though. There's an R-ish sound in there, but this is much closer. It's like Ø in Danish. I suspect it's a problem for Americans because most languages in the world use short vowel sounds and American English decided to diphthongise everything.
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the paperback release of City on Fire just came out, so if you've been waiting to give it a shot, now's your chance
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I recommend getting the paperback version of City on Fire over the hardback version because you will have wasted less money
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Um excuse me but it's FEWER money
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blue squares posted:the paperback release of City on Fire just came out, so if you've been waiting to give it a shot, now's your chance I'm not going to read an American named "Garth"
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blue squares posted:the paperback release of City on Fire just came out, so if you've been waiting to give it a shot, now's your chance Or, you know, local library. Cue everyone saying they live in the middle of nowhere and their library has three Danielle Steel novels and a phonebook.
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Cloks posted:Or, you know, local library. i live in the middle of nowhere, my library is an unfathomable number of hexagonal rooms each containing shelves each containing books each containing quasi-random combinations of characters.
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Tree Goat posted:i live in the middle of nowhere, my library is an unfathomable number of hexagonal rooms each containing shelves each containing books each containing quasi-random combinations of characters. Sounds labyrinthian.
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blue squares posted:Um excuse me but it's FEWER money "Money" isn't a unit of measuring currency like dollars, so he was right the first time. 
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I really hope you are joking.
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I was
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Tree Goat posted:i live in the middle of nowhere, my library is an unfathomable number of hexagonal rooms each containing shelves each containing books each containing quasi-random combinations of characters. nhanha
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A human heart posted:I'm not going to read an American named "Garth" you truly are a paragon of taste, anime avatar poster
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Bet you don't appreciate Simon and Garthfunkle either lmao.
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For a Few Dollars Greater
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blue squares posted:you truly are a paragon of taste, anime avatar poster I am.
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finished American Gods and thank god, I'll not be reading any more of gaiman
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Jimmithy posted:finished American Gods and thank god, I'll not be reading any more of gaiman A man who got famous for writing comic books
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