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I read Dune a couple of years ago and it was fine. Better than most sci fi but nothing amazing
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Feb 21, 2017 11:11
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Shibawanko posted:Read Stanislaw Lem if you must read science fiction. Pynchon
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Feb 21, 2017 16:04
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Shibawanko posted:Read Stanislaw Lem if you must read science fiction.
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Feb 21, 2017 16:39
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If you must talk about genre fiction please use the every other thread in this forum.
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Feb 21, 2017 16:44
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https://twitter.com/bencjenkins/status/834266916466237440
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Feb 22, 2017 11:59
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I should actually read a Rushdie book.
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Feb 22, 2017 13:03
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Comforted that now I, the incel Mario-playing shut-in, can be an internationally renowned author too
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Feb 22, 2017 14:25
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The sagas are the most sophisticated works of pre-modern literature:Grettir's Saga posted:As they were speaking Thorbjorn struck a violent blow on the door. Atli said: BravestOfTheLamps fucked around with this message at 18:14 on Feb 22, 2017 |
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Feb 22, 2017 18:04
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i posted this before but just remembered it again but i once met toa lin at a party and he hit on all of the underage girls and asked me several times if i had xanax
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Feb 23, 2017 23:15
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he is probably the most famous person i have met lmao
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Feb 23, 2017 23:15
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Leave me alone, mom!
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Feb 24, 2017 00:18
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fantasy zone posted:i posted this before but just remembered it again but i once met toa lin at a party and he hit on all of the underage girls and asked me several times if i had xanax This and the fact he posted on this forum pretending not to be himself talking about how good Tao Lin is are the only things I know about Tao Lin and I'm incredibly happy to keep it thay way
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Feb 24, 2017 04:33
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Everybody writes their own amazon reviews but only true self-publicists make their own TBB posts.
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Feb 24, 2017 11:16
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text posted:you're dumb Rude. Burning Rain posted:try Steinbeck - he's straightforward, but good and not boring. also, there's some simple symbolism if you want to go looking for something to cut your teeth on, but it's not really necessary to enjoy the books. I read Steinbeck in high school and liked him, but I think he's too moralistic and didactic for my taste at this point. Cloks posted:Please source your quotes. That was all me. Heath posted:This is like that pony-in-the-holocaust picture, but for books Rude. VileLL posted:i'd recommend not reading ever again, op Rude. Good Dumplings posted:That book's super boring, read Dune. Dune's good. I'm not big into science fiction, although I did like the Culture series. Shibawanko posted:Read Stanislaw Lem if you must read science fiction. Solaris is baller.
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Feb 24, 2017 11:39
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who is tao lin. I cba to google
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Feb 24, 2017 12:40
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apparently all you need to know has already been posted in this thread
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Feb 24, 2017 13:30
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Read this.
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Feb 24, 2017 13:35
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The url is HOW READ BOOK which would be a much more hilarious title
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Feb 24, 2017 13:59
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Welcome back, we thought you were dead.
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Feb 24, 2017 14:01
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Is Nell Zink any good y/n
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Feb 24, 2017 14:52
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Franchescanado posted:Welcome back, we thought you were dead. I was dead to the world of literature, been reading nonfiction and political stuff while being much more busy irl. now I'm back on the Knausgaard train, book 3.
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Feb 24, 2017 17:08
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So is Lincoln in the Bardo truly the book that will save us all from annihilation? Cuz I really didn't like Tenth of December.
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Feb 24, 2017 18:05
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Speaking of Lincoln in the Bardo, it's not even a novel. I thought about buying it because Saunders is doing a signing at my bookstore, but I looked through it and there are pages and pages of dialogue written out in the style of a script. Tons and tons of white space. There is no way it is anything more than a novella if you're going by word count. $28 is too much for such a short work.
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Feb 24, 2017 19:39
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blue squares posted:Speaking of Lincoln in the Bardo, it's not even a novel. I thought about buying it because Saunders is doing a signing at my bookstore, but I looked through it and there are pages and pages of dialogue written out in the style of a script. Tons and tons of white space. There is no way it is anything more than a novella if you're going by word count. $28 is too much for such a short work. This is why I only buy dictionaries with that really thin bible paper and tiny font. E:, But also was not impressed by 10th of Dec but Lincoln sounds tempting, on paper. Jerome Agricola fucked around with this message at 20:00 on Feb 24, 2017 |
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Feb 24, 2017 19:58
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blue squares posted:Speaking of Lincoln in the Bardo, it's not even a novel. I thought about buying it because Saunders is doing a signing at my bookstore, but I looked through it and there are pages and pages of dialogue written out in the style of a script. Tons and tons of white space. There is no way it is anything more than a novella if you're going by word count. $28 is too much for such a short work. It sounds like you're just mad that he's pushing the boundaries of the novel
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Feb 24, 2017 23:39
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blue squares posted:Speaking of Lincoln in the Bardo, it's not even a novel. I thought about buying it because Saunders is doing a signing at my bookstore, but I looked through it and there are pages and pages of dialogue written out in the style of a script. Tons and tons of white space. There is no way it is anything more than a novella if you're going by word count. $28 is too much for such a short work. Look at Joyce padding out Ulysses with that Nighttown crap 
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Feb 25, 2017 03:45
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WatermelonGun posted:So is Lincoln in the Bardo truly the book that will save us all from annihilation? Cuz I really didn't like Tenth of December. I'm about half-way through it, and I think it's easily his best since CivilWarLand. It's the combination of funny and sad and technical mumbo-jumbo that made Saunders great to begin with. My one complaint is that it's based (somewhat loosely) around Lincoln and the death of his son Willie, and I think that wringing pathos from Lincoln and also the death of a child is probably one of the more hackneyed tasks in literature. But if you take the leap past that, buckle up.
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Feb 27, 2017 03:15
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I'm reading The Mighty and their Fall Ivy Compton-Burnett. It's the kind of discovery you can only make while absent-mindedly browsing through a library shelf.
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Feb 27, 2017 10:33
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J_RBG posted:Is Nell Zink any good y/n i think the wallcrawler is p much exactly what middlebrow people would consider intellectual literature it's not bad
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VileLL posted:i think the wallcrawler is p much exactly what middlebrow people would consider intellectual literature That is pretty much anything recommended by jonathan franzen though, but i did like the sound of private novelist, so i bought it impulsively. reading it after seamus heaney, who is Very Good
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Mar 1, 2017 01:15
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:I should actually read a Rushdie book. Midnight's Children is very good
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Mar 1, 2017 05:05
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Is this the thread where I can talk about my love for the Bronte sisters
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Mar 2, 2017 08:29
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Only as part of some kind of twisted, erotic fan fiction.
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Mar 2, 2017 08:31
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Carlosologist posted:Is this the thread where I can talk about my love for the Bronte sisters I've never read any of the Bronte sisters, or any Jane Austen for that matter. I've read Silas Marner by George Eliot, wasn't a fan. I plan to at least read Pride and Prejudice and Wuthering Heights in the near future.
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I've only read Villette, but liked it even though I'm not a huge fan of Victorian stuff.
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We read "Wuthering Heights" as part of my GCE A Level course way back in 1996-1998 and I kinda liked it. Several years after leaving college I remembered liking it and picked up another copy of it and still liked it. That is my story of quite liking "Wuthering Heights". My story of reading "A Streetcar Named Desire" is even better - I was always picked to read Mitch.
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I read pride and prejudice a few months back. It was okay
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wait, I also remember really enjoying The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. Ive got this cool copy of it with cloth boards: 
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