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i'm reading agape agape. Good book.
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anything good on the kindle 10th anneversary sale? I already got all the octavia butler ones
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Oct 24, 2017 00:52
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all the bernhard bros here should def read agape agape if you have not already
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Oct 24, 2017 01:47
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Nostos posted:all the bernhard bros here should def read agape agape if you have not already i read carpenters gothic and it made me commit targeted harassment campaigns against women
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Oct 24, 2017 05:52
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I just started Faust part two after having completed the first. I've got to say I was real intimidated by starting to read a novel that took an entire lifetime to compose. But reading David Luke's translation I flew through the first part, in all honesty I found myself reading quicker than my brain was interpreting the words and had to keep going back and rereading sections. The first part was great and one of the few books that I can say I actually felt better about myself after reading. Some of the realizations that Faust has seems more relevant in the modern times of social isolation then they even might of in Goethe's day. And it certainly inspired me to try and live a little more and enjoy the life I have instead of wasting it. The introduction to Part II was not appreciated though it was nearly as long as the first part and while it would be interesting info for a reread or an amateur scholar researching Goethe. Him going through and trying to puzzle out exactly when each of the sections was created would've felt better as a separate section at the end when I had more context. As an aside there's a website called Librivox that does free Audiobook versions of out of copyright novels and it's version of Faust it hilarious. Gretchen is a little flat but fine. Mephistopheles is weird but okay. Faust Is good, but nearly every side character is awful. I ended up laughing to myself, alone, at 3 in the morning at the end of the first act just from the final lines being delivered so poorly. Imagine a chorus of Angels announcing someones soul is saved with all the Gravitas of a bunch of Kindergartners putting on their first play.
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Oct 24, 2017 08:38
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Agapé Agape is actually a censored work because his editors took advantage of his death to take out some disobliging remarks about the guy who edited Confederacy of Dunces.
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Oct 24, 2017 12:08
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So I've never gotten round to reading Borges, I don't know why. I've had a copy of his short stories for nearly a year now but there always seemed to be something else that I wanted to read before it. I think I was a little intimidated by his good reputation, like I was scared of it or something. I dunno, I was stupid. But since I had a trip to the dole office I figured I might as well have something to do there and brought it along. I read Tlon, The Approach to Al-Mutasim, Pierre Menard and the Circular Ruins while I was waiting in the dole office and I barely loving heard my name being called out. I'm a loving retard for having owned this book for so long without actually reading it, it's good as hell. I can't believe I nearly let it slip me by.
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Oct 24, 2017 12:14
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Haha I have a massive Borges short stories book on my shelf that I keep passing up for some reason too.
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Oct 24, 2017 12:53
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I've got a borges collection on the top of a pile of books on my bedside table though tbf i bought it only a month ago
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Oct 24, 2017 13:00
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my borges collections are in my bedroom borges shrine, as is recommended.
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Oct 24, 2017 15:46
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more like boringes
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Oct 24, 2017 15:47
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Mel Mudkiper posted:more like boringes boreges, surely. my top of my bedside book stack is currently the pale king, so i've been periodically reading a few pages of that, thinking that it's bad, and then taking a break to read comic books instead.
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Oct 24, 2017 15:52
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you should read Blackwater bro Its the Aquarium for a fresh new generation
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Oct 24, 2017 15:56
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ordered magic mountain off of a local bookstore yesterday, while Im waiting I need to figure out what I wanna read in the mean time. should I go with the follow-up from Wayfarers by Hamsun, hermann ungar, Bernhard or maybe see if Red Sorghum is any good?
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Oct 24, 2017 16:04
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you should read Blackwater bro Its the Aquarium for a fresh new generation
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Oct 24, 2017 16:23
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who wrote it
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Oct 24, 2017 16:44
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look up
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Oct 24, 2017 16:55
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ulvir posted:who wrote it stephen king
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Oct 24, 2017 17:29
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I'm reading A Girl in Exile by Ismail Kadare and it is really good. Never read anything by him before but I've had Broken April out of the library for like 5 months without touching it. I still probably won't, because up next is The Seventh Function of Language by Laurent Binet, which is about when Roland Barthes was hit and killed by a laundry van after having lunch with a French presidential candidate (true story). I absolutely loved HHhH, so really looking forward to this one.
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Oct 24, 2017 17:49
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Nanomashoes posted:i read carpenters gothic and it made me commit targeted harassment campaigns against women i borrowed that book too, it's next on my reading list.
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Oct 24, 2017 20:36
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Shibawanko posted:Haha I have a massive Borges short stories book on my shelf that I keep passing up for some reason too. If you like Lem then you will love Borges, my friend.
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Oct 24, 2017 22:34
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I just read The Man with Compound Eyes by Wu Ming-yi and it's really good, you guys should read it too. It's mostly about a Polynesian boy who's exiled from his island and washed up on an island of trash, and a suicidal professor. Then the trash island washes up on Taiwan and lots of characters get the spotlight, including a couple of Aboriginals, a hunter and a bar owner who used to work in a rub and tug, and some foreigners digging a tunnel. There's lots of nature writing and stuff about trash and pollution and the grimy side of Taiwanese life and politics. It's bleak, but not despairing. The relationships are touching. It's political and relevant, but not in a stupid way. The whole thing is a bit like Murakami only good and Taiwanese.
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Oct 25, 2017 11:35
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Blackwater was written by the guy who wrote Beetlejuice? I'm down.
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Oct 25, 2017 14:44
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I may have an opportunity to get pics of the book made of flesh next weekend. No guarantees, but I was invited to come visit.
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Oct 25, 2017 14:49
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Make sure to tell people where you're going, and arrange to meet them soon after as the first few hours can be vital.
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Oct 25, 2017 15:31
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Franchescanado posted:I may have an opportunity to get pics of the book made of flesh next weekend. No guarantees, but I was invited to come visit. If you do, that might be a good subject to break off I to it's own thread Also use a curse shield
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Oct 25, 2017 17:19
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pale fire is so loving good. i think about it randomly throughout the day and just burst out laughing
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Oct 25, 2017 17:28
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:If you do, that might be a good subject to break off I to it's own thread Sounds good, I will (if it happens)
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Oct 25, 2017 17:35
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I've really been digging postcolonial authors lately. Any gems that don't get enough love? I've mostly been reading Chinua Achebe and Pamuk and for non-lit Orientalism & (my personal favorite) Black Marxism. I'm specifically interested in the concept of creolization, since it's an area I know less about than I should.
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Oct 25, 2017 18:01
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Shbobdb posted:I've really been digging postcolonial authors lately. Any gems that don't get enough love? I've mostly been reading Chinua Achebe and Pamuk and for non-lit Orientalism & (my personal favorite) Black Marxism. I'm specifically interested in the concept of creolization, since it's an area I know less about than I should. Read CLR James, The Black Jacobins if you read nothing else. It's not specifically lit but it's so so incredibly good I'm going to take creole to mean anything about being between two parent cultures and tell you to read Nella Larsen's 'Passing' as well, which is only short If you like Achebe read Ngugi wa Thiong'o or Dambudzo Marechera
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Oct 25, 2017 19:05
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Shbobdb posted:I've really been digging postcolonial authors lately. Any gems that don't get enough love? I've mostly been reading Chinua Achebe and Pamuk and for non-lit Orientalism & (my personal favorite) Black Marxism. I'm specifically interested in the concept of creolization, since it's an area I know less about than I should. Idk much about creolization specifically. Nigerian lit I'd recommend: Amos Tutuola, Palm Wine Drinkard, My life in the bush of ghosts; Ben Okri, The famished road; Soyinka, The interpreters, Death and the king's horsemen, Kongi's harvest; Elechi Amadi, The concubine; Ken Saro-Wiwa, Sozaboy. Kenyan lit: Anything by Thiong'o, but don't start w/ Wizard of the crow, Wahome wa Ngugi, Black star nairobi; Wahome Mutahi, Whispers; Elspeth Huxley, Red strangers; Margaret Ogola, The river and the source you should read Fanon if you haven't already.
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Oct 25, 2017 22:03
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Shbobdb posted:I've really been digging postcolonial authors lately. Any gems that don't get enough love? I've mostly been reading Chinua Achebe and Pamuk and for non-lit Orientalism & (my personal favorite) Black Marxism. I'm specifically interested in the concept of creolization, since it's an area I know less about than I should. Not really sure if Pamuk is post colonial given that Turkey was never colonised. Ai Kwei Armah and Kofi Awoonoor are both good and write about post colonial Ghana, and then Armah's more recent work has more of a focus on Afrocentrist ideas rather than being about the 'post-colonial experience' or whatever. e: not post colonial at all, but there's an African American writer called Leon Forrest who, in addition to being very good and largely unknown generally, has a lot of stuff in his books that's probably relevant to creolisation.
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A human heart posted:Not really sure if Pamuk is post colonial given that Turkey was never colonised. Ai Kwei Armah and Kofi Awoonoor are both good and write about post colonial Ghana, and then Armah's more recent work has more of a focus on Afrocentrist ideas rather than being about the 'post-colonial experience' or whatever. Pamuk isn't in a strictly postcolonial situation himself, but he makes literature that conspicuously engages with postcolonialist thought starting with Said. Very few Western critics would be able to write at any length about Pamuk's work without referencing Orientalism (at least implicitly).
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at the date posted:Pamuk isn't in a strictly postcolonial situation himself, but he makes literature that conspicuously engages with postcolonialist thought starting with Said. Very few Western critics would be able to write at any length about Pamuk's work without referencing Orientalism (at least implicitly). tbf Western critics somehow can't write the word postcolonial without mentioning Said
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Oct 26, 2017 02:05
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Mel Mudkiper posted:you should read Blackwater bro so does that mean it is also bad
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Oct 26, 2017 02:18
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A human heart posted:Not really sure if Pamuk is post colonial given that Turkey was never colonised. Ai Kwei Armah and Kofi Awoonoor are both good and write about post colonial Ghana, and then Armah's more recent work has more of a focus on Afrocentrist ideas rather than being about the 'post-colonial experience' or whatever. He's not technically but he touches on those themes. The Turkish identity very much suffers from "fake designer bag" syndrome which Pamuk talks about at length. He's not strictly post-Colonial but he kicked off my post-colonial kick so I'm gonna run with it.
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Oct 26, 2017 04:56
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thehoodie posted:I still probably won't, because up next is The Seventh Function of Language by Laurent Binet, which is about when Roland Barthes was hit and killed by a laundry van after having lunch with a French presidential candidate (true story). I absolutely loved HHhH, so really looking forward to this one. Read about 80 pages of this today and I already am in love with this book. It's like if Pynchon was hanging out in the 70s with French post-structuralists. It's also hilarious. Just had a scene with Foucault in a gay sauna where some guy runs around and touches everyone's dicks.
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Oct 26, 2017 06:18
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I just finished Suttree by Cormac McCarthy and I don't really know where to go from there. I've read Blood Meridian a couple times and McCarthy has become one of my favorite writers. Any recommendations? I don't necessarily need to read another McCarthy novel just yet.
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Oct 27, 2017 14:20
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finally found a translation of Voyage au bout de la nuit in my native tongue today
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me your dad posted:I just finished Suttree by Cormac McCarthy and I don't really know where to go from there. I've read Blood Meridian a couple times and McCarthy has become one of my favorite writers. william faulkner. you'll immediately see the huge influence he's had on mccarthy. he's also unbelievably difficult to read in some of his books, so i would recommend you start with Light in August or As I Lay Dying, they're relatively accessible.
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