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Mel Mudkiper posted:Watchmen is totally literature, Time Magazine said so! - a cretin Now there's a cretin with good taste in literature.
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Watchmen is not literature because it is a comic book! - a cretin
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# ? Aug 4, 2016 16:54 |
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I am a popular addition to salads such as the Chicken Caesar - a crouton
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# ? Aug 4, 2016 16:57 |
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CestMoi posted:I am a popular addition to salads such as the Chicken Caesar - a crouton Lol But for real while Watchmen is pretty much literature it's pretty loving low brow
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# ? Aug 4, 2016 17:02 |
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watchmen is very literary and deep and profound; for instance it asks the question what if all dongs were blue?
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# ? Aug 4, 2016 17:03 |
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What if, like, every ideology is wrong maaaaan
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# ? Aug 4, 2016 17:13 |
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Watchmen is definitely above your Dan Browns and definitely below your Jameses Joyce, so "middle brow" sounds about right. It's fun to read, but you have to pay a bit of attention.
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# ? Aug 4, 2016 17:44 |
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please stop talking about watchmen
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# ? Aug 4, 2016 17:54 |
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Read Watchmen or watch men read?
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# ? Aug 4, 2016 17:55 |
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BANG! POW! WHAM! Comics Aren't Just For Kids Anymore!
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# ? Aug 4, 2016 18:04 |
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I'm going to the bookstore today. I can afford one book. What should I get?
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# ? Aug 4, 2016 18:10 |
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thehoodie posted:I'm going to the bookstore today. I can afford one book. What should I get? Ulysses
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# ? Aug 4, 2016 18:11 |
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Foul Fowl posted:watchmen is very literary and deep and profound; for instance it asks the question what if all dongs were blue? I would gladly read a short story about blue dicks if it were written by Garcia Marquez, for example
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# ? Aug 4, 2016 18:37 |
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thehoodie posted:I'm going to the bookstore today. I can afford one book. What should I get? Do you have a big brain or a small brain?
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thehoodie posted:I'm going to the bookstore today. I can afford one book. What should I get? Go Set Some Watchmen, I think that's the one
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# ? Aug 4, 2016 18:42 |
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thehoodie posted:I'm going to the bookstore today. I can afford one book. What should I get? Minimalist poetry. $1 per word. Good for your reading stats
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# ? Aug 4, 2016 18:52 |
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thehoodie posted:I'm going to the bookstore today. I can afford one book. What should I get? Borges - Collected Fictions?
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# ? Aug 4, 2016 19:06 |
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Zorodius posted:Watchmen is definitely above your Dan Browns and definitely below your Jameses Joyce, so "middle brow" sounds about right. Dans Brown*
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# ? Aug 4, 2016 19:25 |
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thehoodie posted:I'm going to the bookstore today. I can afford one book. What should I get? J_RBG posted:Ulysses
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# ? Aug 4, 2016 19:28 |
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thehoodie posted:I'm going to the bookstore today. I can afford one book. What should I get? <----------or the longest possible collection of The One Thousand and One Nights you can find
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# ? Aug 4, 2016 19:30 |
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joyce's dubliners is a good collection of short stories to familiarize yourself with his style, because ulysses gets reaaaal weird and demands a lot of effort once you get into stephen's deranged wanderings and bloom's cuckoldry. i'm going to read the portrait of an artist as a young man once i get some time off work.
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# ? Aug 4, 2016 19:48 |
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Might I recommend The Bible
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# ? Aug 4, 2016 19:56 |
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J_RBG posted:Ulysses BravestOfTheLamps posted:Borges - Collected Fictions? Or Musil - The Man Without Qualities part 1
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# ? Aug 4, 2016 20:10 |
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I mean, if you had room in your budget for one book for like a year, then an annotated Ulysses, which covers so much ground in philosophy and the body of Western literature, is a fantastic pick. He wasn't asking for the best introduction to James Joyce or anything.
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# ? Aug 4, 2016 20:27 |
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WAY TO GO WAMPA!! posted:
Oh my God. I'm reading this version of The Thousand and One Nights with commentary by some 1800s British dude, and the comments go about ten pages deep for each page of actual Nights. It's amazing; they're full of these semi-racist rambling anecdotes from an imperial British perspective that are much better than the actual fables themselves: quote:The Arabs in general constantly have recourse both to charms and medicines, not only for the cure, but also for the prevention of diseases. They have, indeed, a strange passion for medicine, which shows that they do not consider fate as altogether unconditional. Nothing can exceed the earnestness with which they often press a European traveller for a dose; and the more violent the remedy, the better are they pleased. The following case will serve as an example:—Three donkey-drivers, conveying the luggage of two British travellers from Booláḳ to Cairo, opened a bottle which they observed in a basket, and finding it to contain, as they had suspected, brandy, emptied it down their throats: but he who had the last, on turning up the bottle, got the tail of a scorpion into his mouth; and, looking through the bottle, to his great horror, saw that it contained a number of these reptiles, with tarantulas, vipers, and beetles. Thinking that they had poisoned themselves, but not liking to rely upon fate, they persuaded a man to come to me for medicine. He introduced the subject by saying, "O Efendee, do an act of kindness: there are three men poisoned; in your mercy give them medicine, and save their lives:" and then he related the whole affair, without concealing the theft.
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# ? Aug 4, 2016 20:32 |
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ulvir posted:I would gladly read a short story about blue dicks if it were written by Garcia Marquez, for example The very blue dick with enormous balls
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# ? Aug 4, 2016 20:39 |
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The Unholy Ghost posted:Watchmen is not literature because it is a comic book! - a cretin Watchmen is not bad because its a comic book Watchmen is bad because its c-rate philosophy mixed with poor female characterization in a plot that endeavors for no greater literary significance than a metacritical rebuttal of its own genre
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# ? Aug 4, 2016 20:41 |
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Zorodius posted:Oh my God. I'm reading this version of The Thousand and One Nights with commentary by some 1800s British dude, and the comments go about ten pages deep for each page of actual Nights. It's amazing; they're full of these semi-racist rambling anecdotes from an imperial British perspective that are much better than the actual fables themselves:
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# ? Aug 4, 2016 20:43 |
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WAY TO GO WAMPA!! posted:Which one is it? Googling came up with Edward William Lane Yeah, that's my boy Dude cannot just let a fable go; he has to drop the entire Dungeon Master's Guide to Djinn in the comments
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# ? Aug 4, 2016 20:44 |
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I was about to ask if you're seriously calling Burton "some 1800s British dude".
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# ? Aug 4, 2016 20:56 |
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thehoodie posted:I'm going to the bookstore today. I can afford one book. What should I get? The Windup Bird Chronicle.
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# ? Aug 4, 2016 21:11 |
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thehoodie posted:I'm going to the bookstore today. I can afford one book. What should I get? Stoner by John Williams
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# ? Aug 4, 2016 21:14 |
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thehoodie posted:I'm going to the bookstore today. I can afford one book. What should I get? What do you or want to explore?
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# ? Aug 4, 2016 21:15 |
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rest his guts fucked around with this message at 16:19 on Jun 24, 2019 |
# ? Aug 4, 2016 23:07 |
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rest his guts posted:Also, Vonnegut is rad and Cat's Cradle is probably the funniest book I've ever read When I was in high school I had my first exposure to Vonnegut with Cat's Cradle and Hocus Pocus. I adored the latter book at the time, but I've never heard anybody else talk about it. Does it hold up?
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thehoodie posted:I'm going to the bookstore today. I can afford one book. What should I get? Moby Dick
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# ? Aug 5, 2016 00:05 |
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Robot Pride posted:Vonnegut is amazingly easy to read and one of the few writers that makes me belly laugh while reading a book. Read everything he has written, IMHO. Full disclosure: I have 2 Vonnegut tattoos. Zorodius posted:Watchmen is definitely above your Dan Browns and definitely below your Jameses Joyce, so "middle brow" sounds about right. rest his guts posted:Anna Karenina is good cuz the bitch got what she deserved.
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# ? Aug 5, 2016 00:07 |
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rest his guts fucked around with this message at 16:34 on Jun 24, 2019 |
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thehoodie posted:I'm going to the bookstore today. I can afford one book. What should I get? The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant.
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# ? Aug 5, 2016 01:53 |
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rest his guts posted:"I'm a retrograde pseudo-intellectual too far up my own rear end to appreciate good writing" you called?
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