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Mel Mudkiper posted:these have never been right in the whole of history or even very close Empty quoting
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Oct 5, 2017 12:45
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Wheat Loaf posted:I hope that whoever wins reacts the way Doris Lessing did when she learned she'd won 10 years ago. Old people can get away with anything.
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Oct 5, 2017 16:44
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here's a weird thingquote:The second edition of the Oxford English Dictionary included citations from a book called Meanderings of Memory for senses of 51 entries (full list on the wikipedia page).
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Oct 5, 2017 17:29
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One of my favorite lit-lols is to go around the Internet and read all of the "I thought Murakami had it for sure!" posts after the Nobel, and this year does not disappoint. I like him too but I'm not sure where the incessant Nobel buzz is coming from.
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Oct 5, 2017 22:08
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He's the only non-English language author people have heard of.
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Oct 6, 2017 18:32
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[quote="“Burning Rain”" post="“477119223”"] He’s the only non-English language author people have heard of. [/quote] *norwegian
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Oct 6, 2017 21:36
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Oct 6, 2017 21:44
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This is really cool. Also sounds like some kind of weird real life Pale Fire thing.
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Oct 6, 2017 22:13
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I'm rooting for Meanderings of Memory being a construct of Edward Peacock. Quotations of a nonexistant work in the Oxford, that'd be something alright.
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Oct 6, 2017 23:46
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I got a cool book that I'm excited about and want to share with you guys:   I've read the poo poo out of my paperbacks for both books dating back to when I was like 9 and they're both in well-loved condition, getting a cool hardcover collection of both books makes me feel like a kid again.
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Oct 21, 2017 23:56
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isnt that the barnes and noble "classics" thing?
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Oct 22, 2017 16:15
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Mel Mudkiper posted:isnt that the barnes and noble "classics" thing? I believe so.
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Oct 22, 2017 17:17
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I did what you asked Hieronymous, I posted in TBB but it devolved into politics 
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Oct 23, 2017 00:26
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Mel Mudkiper posted:isnt that the barnes and noble "classics" thing? As far as I can tell, yeah.
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Oct 23, 2017 06:01
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Xenomrph posted:As far as I can tell, yeah. Also whats up, I still remember your super good Lps back in the day. How much did Alien: Covenant force you to burn the canon?
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Oct 23, 2017 15:43
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Is there a lazier book genre/classification than "New Weird"?
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Oct 23, 2017 16:24
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The subgenre classification feels pretty artificial but there's good stuff in there.
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Oct 23, 2017 16:31
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Franchescanado posted:Is there a lazier book genre/classification than "New Weird"? new sincerity
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Oct 23, 2017 16:45
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Mel Mudkiper posted:new sincerity What qualifies under that?
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Oct 23, 2017 17:03
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Franchescanado posted:What qualifies under that? DFW and other sad sensitive man novels
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Oct 23, 2017 17:07
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Mel Mudkiper posted:DFW and other sad sensitive man novels It's a lame qualifier, but it kind of makes sense as a step away from overly-ironic writing. It still barely means anything. "New Weird" still takes the cake, since it can be any genre, as long as anything remotely surreal might happen. So anything from The Shining to Gravity's Rainbow to My Name Is Red to Foucault's Pendulum to a Joe R. Lansdale story qualify. But if almost everything qualifies, what's the loving point other than to literally say "something weird will happen in this book".
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Oct 23, 2017 17:38
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I don't really know who the ironic writers new sincerity was supposed to be reacting against are.
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Oct 24, 2017 00:06
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Also whats up, I still remember your super good Lps back in the day. How much did Alien: Covenant force you to burn the canon? Very little to be honest, haha. I wish I'd backed up the raw video files from my LPs, they got lost in a hard drive crash.
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Oct 24, 2017 01:40
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A human heart posted:I don't really know who the ironic writers new sincerity was supposed to be reacting against are. Post-modernists like Pynchon, DeLillo, Roth, Hesse, some of the Beats, etc.
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Oct 24, 2017 01:50
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I don't think Pynchon or Hesse are very ironic at all
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Oct 24, 2017 08:29
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A human heart posted:I don't really know who the ironic writers new sincerity was supposed to be reacting against are. Alanis Morissette.
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Oct 24, 2017 09:01
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A human heart posted:I don't really know who the ironic writers new sincerity was supposed to be reacting against are. CestMoi posted:Alanis Morissette. People who make this joke (but also are famous authors).
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Oct 24, 2017 09:07
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Why do I get the feeling that I'm not supposed to like new sincerity and any work that can be identified as it should be destroyed and its creator executed?
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Oct 25, 2017 09:38
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Too late.
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Oct 25, 2017 14:02
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A human heart posted:I don't think Pynchon or Hesse are very ironic at all Pynchon is incredibly ironic, but I agree Hesse isn't. I've only read Demian, and it's pretty much an internalized monologue of a guy learning how to meditate and trying to gently caress his friend's mom. While it's not ironic, it's certainly more interested in philosophical ideas than emotional explorations of the characters like New Sincerity. If anything, Demian is about a person trying to eliminate emotions from his life so he can function only on logic.
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Oct 25, 2017 14:09
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Pynchon is about being a sincere wacky man who writes sez instead of says
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Oct 25, 2017 23:40
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And weed, and the library.
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Oct 26, 2017 13:35
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A human heart posted:Pynchon is about being a sincere wacky man who writes sez instead of says Mmmmnot really, no. Most of his "sincere wacky man" characters face existential oblivion, defeat, sadness, or destruction. Very rarely do they have a "happy" ending. He also has more female protagonists than male. He does use "sez" a lot, but that's maybe in half of his novels with more contemporary settings. Mr. Squishy posted:And weed, and the library. This is more true. But also the fallacy of understanding, over saturation of knowledge, the validity and illusions of pop culture, the idiocy in trying to find greater meaning in existence, man-kind's need to breed destruction on one another, loving, music, and trying to live life despite all the bullshit. And pigs. Dude loves pigs.
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Oct 26, 2017 14:31
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Pigs are pretty amazing though.
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Oct 26, 2017 16:13
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Enfys posted:Pigs are pretty amazing though. Ok charlotte
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Oct 26, 2017 16:14
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Anyone want books for Christmas? You're in the Book Barn, so you probably do! Why not join our 2017 Secret Santa? Last year was a big success, so this year should be too. If you're interested, the thread is here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3838647
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Oct 27, 2017 07:14
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Hahahahahah when did the Black Library thread get a name change to stop people assuming a book forum has a place to talk about works by non white authors
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Oct 31, 2017 15:17
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CestMoi posted:Hahahahahah when did the Black Library thread get a name change to stop people assuming a book forum has a place to talk about works by non white authors hahaah , that wasn't the intent but that's hilarious I added that a week or so ago because the new Total War: Warhammer video game came out and I realized there might be people here actually, god forbid, wanting to read a Warhammer novel, and that title was really ambiguous unless you already knew "black library" meant "warhammer"
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Oct 31, 2017 15:28
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people reading warhammer at least makes some sense to me. there's a whole game connected to it which you presumably play with other human beings, and i can see where that would be fun. people reading malazan disturbs me hugely
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