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Sounds like a guy who's somebody else round everyone else, watching his back cuz he can't relax, trying to be cool, but looks like a fool. Truly, a version of the character for our modern times.
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thehoodie posted:So there is a new translation of the Odyssey, which is the first ever translated by a woman, Emily Wilson. this is bad david ferry has just put out a new translation of the aeneid, however, which is good: quote:I sing of arms and the man whom fate had sent
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I'm reading One Hundred Days of Solitude and it's pretty dense in what's happening, so far. There's child rape, marrying young kids. There's a lot of longing for loves lost. There's making mechanical wheels whirr. There's non-sexual longing for gypsies. There's a lot happening but I would really only care if I had a few months of lifetime. living with the subjects lifetime (or near enough,) to live these lives. Is that the point? Complexity, and life goes on? There's machinations between all these Marcus Aaurelino's. Tell me something. And holy poo poo is there a lot of telling me what's going on. Build something up. Let me feel a sensation instead of burying me in another two page paragraph where I dig some meaning out of every soap opera (soap operas are good) back and forth. I don't want to live every minute of every year of every lifetime. It's good, yes, that you can do this. I want a point to it. I don't want to reminisce. I'm still young. Let me live my life, and someday I'll reflect on all that's passed me by. Maybe even someday I'll sit in a position where I can say all this went before me. For now I don't care. Create something! You've created a world but I'm not going to pick through it looking for fantasy. Dream about loving young girls, you total weirdo.
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chernobyl kinsman posted:this is bad This seems unnecessary.
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Bandiet posted:This seems unnecessary. posting a new translation of a classic in response to a post about a different new translation of a classic?
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Mrenda posted:I'm reading One Hundred Days of Solitude and it's pretty dense in what's happening, so far. There's child rape, marrying young kids. There's a lot of longing for loves lost. There's making mechanical wheels whirr. There's non-sexual longing for gypsies. There's a lot happening but I would really only care if I had a few months of lifetime. living with the subjects lifetime (or near enough,) to live these lives. source your quotes
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chernobyl kinsman posted:posting a new translation of a classic in response to a post about a different new translation of a classic? No, I mean the David Ferry translation seems unnecessary. Actually I still really enjoy Dryden's Aeneid.
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Bandiet posted:No, I mean the David Ferry translation seems unnecessary. Actually I still really enjoy Dryden's Aeneid. oh i just default assume every post in this thread is a personal attack at another poster
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Nov 9, 2017 03:57
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chernobyl kinsman posted:oh i just default assume every post in this thread is a personal attack at another poster Everyone's nice to you, though
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its because of my warm and likable personality e: and my correct opinions chernobyl kinsman fucked around with this message at 17:14 on Nov 9, 2017 |
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Nov 9, 2017 04:35
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the Hobie Doyle translation of the Odyssey
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talking of translations, anyone know if the robert macdonald version of goethe's faust is any good?
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Nov 9, 2017 17:12
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The Sot-Weed Factor is the best book I've read in like 2-3 years.
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I want to say I read a banging translation of the Aeneid a decade-or-so ago that was translated by a woman. It was good. Like Virgil, she struggled with a meter not meant for her language. That made it fun.
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Nanomashoes posted:The Sot-Weed Factor is the best book I've read in like 2-3 years. it's good, and if it wasn't a doorstopper i would suggest it for BotM and force the rest of this forum to read it
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Tree Goat posted:it's good, and if it wasn't a doorstopper i would suggest it for BotM and force the rest of this forum to read it You should do that anyway so that these rubes are stuck reading a really long book for weeks on end.
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I have never felt forced to read the BotM
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at the date posted:"Tell me about a complicated man" is a simplistic (and unpoetic) translation, especially in light of its predecessors 'Tell me about a complicated man' is alright imho, it knows what it's doing But yeah the translations that talk about twists and turns are the best
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A human heart posted:You should do that anyway so that these rubes are stuck reading a really long book for weeks on end. We read a longer book last month
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imo books should not be long. if you can't say what you're saying in a reasonable amount of words then maybe you suck
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if i did a danish translation of the odysee, odyseus would be called a knudemand (knot-man = complicated man, but really its a dude whos all neurotic lol) get it
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derp posted:imo books should not be long. if you can't say what you're saying in a reasonable amount of words then maybe you suck  im always super pleased when i get a new book & it turns out to be less than 300 pages.
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Nov 10, 2017 17:25
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I think a book should be as long as it needs to be imo
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Nov 10, 2017 17:30
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just like my dick
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I think books should have words and only occassionally pictures
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Nov 10, 2017 17:31
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if it needs to be really long then maybe it should be two books. otherwise how will i ever get my goodreads count up
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Powaqoatse posted:if i did a danish translation of the odysee, odyseus would be called a knudemand (knot-man = complicated man, but really its a dude whos all neurotic lol) tell me about a nude man
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Nov 10, 2017 17:39
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derp posted:if it needs to be really long then maybe it should be two books. otherwise how will i ever get my goodreads count up shamelessly add all the lovely star wars novels you read as a kid like your good pal fridge corn
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Nov 10, 2017 17:58
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GOODREEDS, where I find, my good reads
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Nov 10, 2017 18:15
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I wrote a snippy review about a bad lit book on a whim and its apparently the most popular review of the book now and every few days I get an email saying someone liked it I feel bad because I didn't even care that much and now the dude probably sees my name all the time talking poo poo about him
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Mel Mudkiper posted:I wrote a snippy review about a bad lit book on a whim and its apparently the most popular review of the book now and every few days I get an email saying someone liked it Where did you write the review? Amazon? Are you on Goodreads?
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yeah on goodreads
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Tim Burns Effect posted:tell me about a nude man tell me about dis fuckin guy eyyy o maddon'
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Nov 10, 2017 19:31
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Mel Mudkiper posted:yeah on goodreads Mel Mudkiper ⭐️ 23/6/2015: Overly pretentious prose; comma-per-sentence count is over 4 or 5 on average; I needed a thesaurus; I didn't like it.
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derp posted:imo books should not be long. if you can't say what you're saying in a reasonable amount of words then maybe you suck disgusting wretch
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Mel Mudkiper posted:I wrote a snippy review about a bad lit book on a whim and its apparently the most popular review of the book now and every few days I get an email saying someone liked it hahah. what book?
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Mel Mudkiper posted:I wrote a snippy review about a bad lit book on a whim and its apparently the most popular review of the book now and every few days I get an email saying someone liked it Once when I was drunk I annotated a Joanna Newsom song on genius.com, and every now and then i get an email from it informing me someone is earnestly marking my idiocy as 'missing something'
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I don't know if it counts as real literature, but I recently started rereading It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis and being chilled all over again by how unexpectedly timely it feels for having been written in 1935.
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thehoodie posted:How is it compared to autumn? I liked that book quite a bit. I'm still only halfway through but it seems similar in style and in the way it touches different eras of modern British socio-poltical and art history through its characters' lives. There's some people who think it's a bit overdone I imagine, but to me she's one of the greatest contemporary crafters of sentences I've read. Broadly Autumn was about Brexit, and this is about the political climate of the Trump era I guess, but that doesn't really capture the breadth of it. I liked what I read somewhere, that she trying to build a mythology to talk about modern British society
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Astrofig posted:I don't know if it counts as real literature, but I recently started rereading It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis and being chilled all over again by how unexpectedly timely it feels for having been written in 1935. I'm reading Molloy and let me tell you: that Beckett wrote this without knowledge of the Trump presidency is mindblowing to me.
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