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End Of Worlds posted:what could possibly have drawn dare's eye towards tbb ran out of other threads probably
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End Of Worlds posted:what could possibly have drawn dare's eye towards tbb Maybe Dare's a big fan of LP Boon?
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Sep 25, 2016 21:19
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As a diabetic Everytime I try to overcome my addiction I usually pee a lot, puke, and end up falling asleep. Must not be heroic enough
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Sep 26, 2016 12:52
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Twerkteam Pizza posted:As a diabetic Everytime I try to overcome my addiction I usually pee a lot, puke, and end up falling asleep.
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Sep 26, 2016 13:00
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Twerkteam Pizza posted:As a diabetic Everytime I try to overcome my addiction I usually pee a lot, puke, and end up falling asleep. Thanks for getting the thread back on course.
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Sep 26, 2016 16:18
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Is anything by Anthony Burgess worth reading? I've already read A Clockwork Orange and don't feel like revisiting it, though it's fine. Edit: The New York Times By the Book interview with Alan Moore finds the author obsessed with David Foster Wallace (Last great book he read? Infinite Jest), using "humblebrag" unironically in reference to his book collection, reading books on internet culture, and name-dropping a few books that inspired Jerusalem, for anyone interested. Franchescanado fucked around with this message at 18:51 on Sep 26, 2016 |
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Sep 26, 2016 18:34
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Franchescanado posted:Is anything by Anthony Burgess worth reading? I've already read A Clockwork Orange and don't feel like revisiting it, though it's fine. Weirdly I picked up Any Old Iron recently which is a reimagining of the Excalibur myth set in the 20th century, it's meant to be good (despite the premise, depending on your taste for medievalism) but I haven't read it.
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Sep 27, 2016 00:08
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I really enjoyed my last month of probation watching cretins totally write off Ian McEwan's Atonement, Ian McEwan in general, and David Foster Wallace with like one sentence apiece. Great thread keep it up
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Sep 27, 2016 01:52
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at the date posted:I really enjoyed my last month of probation watching cretins totally write off Ian McEwan's Atonement, Ian McEwan in general, and David Foster Wallace with like one sentence apiece. Great thread keep it up I heard he's a plagiarist.
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Sep 27, 2016 02:42
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at the date posted:I really enjoyed my last month of probation watching cretins totally write off Ian McEwan's Atonement, Ian McEwan in general, and David Foster Wallace with like one sentence apiece. Great thread keep it up https://twitter.com/DawnHFoster/status/775054055047659521
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Sep 27, 2016 03:11
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Thank you for illustrating my point so eloquently.
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Sep 27, 2016 04:02
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Franchescanado posted:Is anything by Anthony Burgess worth reading? I've already read A Clockwork Orange and don't feel like revisiting it, though it's fine. At least he knows how great Gormenghast is. Hopefully he managed to enjoy Titus Alone more than I did.
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Sep 27, 2016 06:01
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at the date posted:Ian McEwan in general I for one would prefer to dodge the teeming cream of his banality
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Sep 27, 2016 08:52
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I would really recommend the Anthony Burgess biography by Rodger Lewis which was written entirely out of spite for Burgess because he wrote a letter saying "yeah sure, happy to help w/ a biography" and then cancelled.
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Sep 27, 2016 09:10
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Solitair posted:At least he knows how great Gormenghast is. Hopefully he managed to enjoy Titus Alone more than I did.
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Sep 27, 2016 11:35
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Franchescanado posted:Is anything by Anthony Burgess worth reading? I've already read A Clockwork Orange and don't feel like revisiting it, though it's fine. I've heard some good things about Burgess's less known stuff, Earthly Powers is supposed to be his big masterpiece. He also wrote a lot of criticism of Joyce and other people if you're into that.
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Sep 27, 2016 12:48
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The Belgian posted:Chapel road is still very good. If you're gonna read one book in Flemish lit it should be this IMO. im gonna read it too op. last time i tried to read an LP Bean book it was some pedo erotica written in extremely beautiful prose, midderzomernachtdroom or something it was called
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Sep 27, 2016 13:02
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:Titus Alone is an extremely, uh, interesting read. It's not a good book but it's 100% worth reading if you're interested in seeing an incredibly gifted mind deteriorate into madness before your eyes, e.g. people who read my posts It strikes me as someone who started out wanting to branch out and try something different and ended up rushing it to completion as fast as possible before his brain kept him from writing anymore. Aside from his trademark prose, he took out almost everything I loved about the first two books and replaced it with almost nothing.
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Sep 27, 2016 20:09
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didn't burgess also do a 1984 knock off or did i dream that
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Sep 27, 2016 20:49
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it's called 1985 lmao
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Sep 27, 2016 20:51
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fantasy zone posted:it's called 1985 lmao hell, I prefer it
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Sep 28, 2016 00:10
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A human heart posted:I've heard some good things about Burgess's less known stuff, Earthly Powers is supposed to be his big masterpiece. He also wrote a lot of criticism of Joyce and other people if you're into that. Earthly Powers is pretty good though it's a massive tome. Sarcastic gay writer (think Somerset Maugham) is asked to write a biography of his brother-in-law (who becomes pope) by the church so they can canonize him. I really liked it, but it took forever to get through.
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Sep 28, 2016 04:39
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Tuiri posted:I can say that I personally would be interested in it. I think I'll put one together this weekend. it'll probably sink and die but the shakespeare thread is still hanging in there, so, hey e: loving hell i posted in the 'post here and i'll change your name' thread in GBS and just saw that this is what i got chernobyl kinsman fucked around with this message at 01:33 on Sep 29, 2016 |
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Sep 28, 2016 21:09
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cocks out for lockout posted:e: loving hell i posted in the 'post here and i'll change your name' thread in GBS and just saw that this is what i got What did you think was going to happen?
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Sep 29, 2016 04:35
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Is anyone else reading the Man Booker shortlist? I read The Sellout and it's genuinely funny and thought provoking. I don't think I would've picked it up otherwise but I recommend it to anyone who enjoys Pynchon, Catch 22 or Ta Nehisi Coates.
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Sep 29, 2016 04:38
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Cloks posted:Is anyone else reading the Man Booker shortlist? I read The Sellout and it's genuinely funny and thought provoking. I don't think I would've picked it up otherwise but I recommend it to anyone who enjoys Pynchon, Catch 22 or Ta Nehisi Coates. Sounds good to me. I'll check it out.
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Sep 29, 2016 05:29
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Cloks posted:Is anyone else reading the Man Booker shortlist? I read The Sellout and it's genuinely funny and thought provoking. I don't think I would've picked it up otherwise but I recommend it to anyone who enjoys Pynchon, Catch 22 or Ta Nehisi Coates. I read Eileen when it was first long listed and it was pretty solid. I'm struggling for touchstones to compare it to since I know I've read similar stuff before, but broadly it is a dark story with a self-loathing narrator in a small town who works as a prison guard. The vast majority of it is a character study of the central character, the actual plot is fairly light. Not sure how I felt about the writing as it was obviously meant to be kind of uncomfortable which it succeeded at. I thought I read something in here about Hot Milk, but not sure, I might check that out soonish.
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Sep 29, 2016 05:48
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mother likes her milk hot. mother likes hot milk. milk... hot milk... mother must have it
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Sep 29, 2016 14:50
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Guy A. Person posted:I read Eileen when it was first long listed and it was pretty solid. I'm struggling for touchstones to compare it to since I know I've read similar stuff before, but broadly it is a dark story with a self-loathing narrator in a small town who works as a prison guard. The vast majority of it is a character study of the central character, the actual plot is fairly light. Not sure how I felt about the writing as it was obviously meant to be kind of uncomfortable which it succeeded at. I posted about Hot Milk. Starting Eileen tonight.
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I finished David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature and my god it was a slog at some points. I'm pretty terrified to start Kant's Critique of Pure Reason because if Hume is easy to read in comparison, what the gently caress man. But I need the rebuttal! On second thought, I may just re-read Kierkeegaard because the prose is actually beautiful compared to Hume. Phew.
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Sep 30, 2016 01:06
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dk2m posted:I finished David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature and my god it was a slog at some points. I'm pretty terrified to start Kant's Critique of Pure Reason because if Hume is easy to read in comparison, what the gently caress man. But I need the rebuttal! Why did you read the treatise instead of the enquiry? Nobody liked the treatise so Hume rewrote the main themes in a more coolerer way and published that as the enquiry. That's what everyone paid attention to. Kant didn't read the treatise, he's responding to the enquiry.
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Sep 30, 2016 01:52
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The Belgian posted:Why did you read the treatise instead of the enquiry? Nobody liked the treatise so Hume rewrote the main themes in a more coolerer way and published that as the enquiry. That's what everyone paid attention to. Probably should have read the Enquiry in hindsight, but I got this as a gift so gently caress it. I don't know how much more different the Enquiry is, but I found the rambling and dense style of the Treatise interesting in and of itself. It was like I was watching a genius think in real time. Perhaps one day I'll go back and read the Enquiry, but for now I'm done with Hume.
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I wanted to read something Very Different from what I normally Read so I tried some Classic Science Fiction and The Night Land is okay, has cool imagery and its neat to think it was written a Hundred Years ago but the style is kind of Aggravating you know? I was going to read a voyage to arcturus but the cover looked nutty and when I peeked at a few pages it seemed like it was full of Klaxxors of Va'Narra and Glorbulons or whatever goofy poo poo.
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Sep 30, 2016 02:46
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Zesty Mordant posted:I wanted to read something Very Different from what I normally Read so I tried some Classic Science Fiction and The Night Land is okay, has cool imagery and its neat to think it was written a Hundred Years ago but the style is kind of Aggravating you know? As far as hundred year old science fiction stuff goes Olaf Stapledon's Star Maker is quite interesting and Borges loved it. Katherine Burdekin's Proud Man is cool too, though maybe not as good, but it's remarkable that it even exists. Sort of, proto feminist utopian fiction about a hermaphroditic, vegetarian time traveler who comes back to the 30s and rips in to people for believing in gender and having wars and stuff.
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Sep 30, 2016 03:05
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Zesty Mordant posted:I wanted to read something Very Different from what I normally Read so I tried some Classic Science Fiction and The Night Land is okay, has cool imagery and its neat to think it was written a Hundred Years ago but the style is kind of Aggravating you know? I tapped the gently caress out of the original version of The Night Land at fifty percent, when the narrator slaps the woman he rescued to calm her down. I was barely hanging on at that point because of the writing style, and that was the last straw. It is a shame because the premise is so solid; maybe The House on the Borderlands will be better.
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I realize I've probably done a terrible thing by even mentioning any of this and I'd like to apologize in advance. I'm still reading Madame Bovary and chuckling at Charles.
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Sep 30, 2016 04:11
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Solaris by Lem is full of humanity and is just really really good.
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Sep 30, 2016 17:03
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Ugh I just started reading Aquarium and I got to the part where the police confront the old man in the aquarium and it turns out to be Caitlin's grandfather and I am broken. This book is breaking me and I'm not even halfway through. But I can't stop reading!
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Sep 30, 2016 18:37
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thehoodie posted:Ugh I just started reading Aquarium and I got to the part where the police confront the old man in the aquarium and it turns out to be Caitlin's grandfather and I am broken. This book is breaking me and I'm not even halfway through. But I can't stop reading! Oh buddy you are at like 10%
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Cloks posted:Is anyone else reading the Man Booker shortlist? I read The Sellout and it's genuinely funny and thought provoking. I don't think I would've picked it up otherwise but I recommend it to anyone who enjoys Pynchon, Catch 22 or Ta Nehisi Coates. I've read His Bloody Project, which is a very well written 19th crime novel. It's told through medical records, memoir and court recordings. A great study in truth, justice, Natural Law and manhood. So far my pick to win. Eileen was hard at first since not a lot happens, but the slow realisation that this woman is messed up is very well handled. The writing is fantastic, and the 'twist' at 85% of the way through actually made me drop my jaw. Just fyi she isn't a security guard, and it's juvie. A strong meditation on feminity, though mostly from opposition and relation to men. The Sellout is probably the weakest read so far. The plot is terrible and there is no real hook, but slowly you come to see the characters perspective as to his position on slavery. It IS funny and there are some brilliant lines, but it can feel a bit heavy handed. A good satire of some of the ridiculous parts of the current hoo-ha and preciousness over black lives in America. Have just started All That Man Is, essentially a collection of stories about men. More traditional writing than the others (they are all first person retellings, this is third) but the structure should prove interesting.
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