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That title is too close to The Corrections, you're trying to trick me into reading Franzen.
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Nanomashoes posted:That title is too close to The Corrections, you're trying to trick me into reading Franzen. agreed altho Corrections plural is alright when you realize everyone is a piece of poo poo except Franzen's self-insert Chip's sister Denise, the faultless lesbian cook who's part of the show for less than 100 pages. I know some might say it's feels cheap to agree with the author but there you have it. Jonathan Franzen dreamed up a sister he wanted to gently caress and he's been chasing the dragon ever since.
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i know we all like to have our fun in this, the tbb lit thread, i cannot emphasize enough what a mistake it is to choose not to read thomas bernhard's correction (de., Korrektur) for any reason, no matter how trivial
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Tree Goat posted:i know we all like to have our fun in this, the tbb lit thread, i cannot emphasize enough what a mistake it is to choose not to read thomas bernhard's correction (de., Korrektur) for any reason, no matter how trivial Thank you.
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Dec 8, 2018 04:30
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its frankly insulting that a masterpiece of germanic and indeed world literature is being compared to that turd franzen just because he gave his book a similar title like 30 years later
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Dec 8, 2018 04:31
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Aber Bernhard musst doch eine anderes titel erwählt sin schulten, nicht wahr?
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Dec 8, 2018 04:53
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the last samurai is indeed unbelievably good. i haven't been this trapped in a book in a long time
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Dec 9, 2018 20:10
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What's some good and heavy post-apocalyptic fiction? I've heard Roadside Picnic is decent, as apparently are the Metro 2033 books? Are there anything similar?
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Dec 9, 2018 21:27
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all contemporary fiction is set during the apocalypse
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Dec 9, 2018 21:28
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virinvictus posted:What's some good and heavy post-apocalyptic fiction? why would you ask for genre fiction recs in this, this the only thread on this subforum not dedicated to genre fiction e: cormac mccarthy's the road
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Metro 2033 is bad, actually. If you want something "heavy", I'm not sure why you're asking about a book instead of just listening to Megadeth's masterwork Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? Sham bam bamina! fucked around with this message at 23:02 on Dec 9, 2018 |
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Dec 9, 2018 23:00
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https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/agra/Worlds-heaviest-book-unveiled-in-Agra/articleshow/46613674.cms
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chernobyl kinsman posted:why would you ask for genre fiction recs in this, this the only thread on this subforum not dedicated to genre fiction
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virinvictus posted:What's some good and heavy post-apocalyptic fiction? Wittgenstein's Mistress
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chernobyl kinsman posted:why would you ask for genre fiction recs in this, this the only thread on this subforum not dedicated to genre fiction Ive spoken with several people (all science people) who were adamant that at the end of The Road the family that adopts the Boy is assuredly a family of cannibals, and that the ending is just irredeemable bleakness. But really, despite it being about the end of the world as we know it, I thought it was Cormac McCarthys most hopeful book (which isnt saying much, granted). Which makes sense, since the book is really about the authors son. B. Birdsworth fucked around with this message at 08:23 on Dec 10, 2018 |
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Dec 10, 2018 08:21
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virinvictus posted:What's some good and heavy post-apocalyptic fiction? The Dog Stars Far North On Such a Full Sea Station Eleven
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A Canticle for Leibowitz more science-fictiony than some of the other recs, but a classic of the genre Love in the Ruins, a bit of a comic take on a not-quite-apocalyptic post-America I read Roadside Picnic and thought it was just okay and that I must be missing something
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Dec 10, 2018 16:08
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Margaret Atwood's Maddaddam trilogy should surely get a mention Leibowitz was pretty good
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Dec 10, 2018 16:20
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I just finished A Farewell to Arms and it was insanely good. One thing though, the nature of the dialogue between the narrator and Catherine was so...I don't know, staccatic? especially early on, which made it hard to see that there was a real connection between them. Perhaps I got used to Hemingway's style of dialogue, or started appreciating those "cute" mannerisms between couples later, and by the end there was real, believable, passion, but early it was very hard to see. Is this just a limitation of this style of writing, or is this a reflection of the emotional wall of a man the narrator was do you think? The war scenes are some of the best battle writing I've ever come across, it was so confused, disjointed, and fearful, making it really too uncomfortably close to an experience of what war is really like for some I imagine.
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Mel Mudkiper posted:The Dog Stars Seconding On Such a Full Sea Station Eleven was alright, albeit a bit comic-booky (heh)
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Dec 10, 2018 17:59
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"The Overstory" is in some sense post apocalyptic and heavy. But more so in that it argues that the world we live in today is already post apocalypse.
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Dec 11, 2018 01:32
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virinvictus posted:What's some good and heavy post-apocalyptic fiction? The Earth Abides. It's about how the Main characters wants to rebuild civilization bit everyone is to apathic to bother.
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Dec 11, 2018 08:43
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Fools that you are, you do not see that you're so-called 'reading', has been surpassed by a mere cartoon https://twitter.com/NoChorus/status/1071151779671408642
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Dec 12, 2018 21:33
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That guy is right though e: about that one thing, not the other stupid things he says in the Twitter thread
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Dec 12, 2018 22:48
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simpsons at its best was a marvellous postmodern pastiche
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Dec 13, 2018 10:46
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most of what that guy says just sounds like it came from this forum
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derp posted:the last samurai is indeed unbelievably good. i haven't been this trapped in a book in a long time I stated reading it thanks to this thread and it's gotten hooked into my brain super good. can't believe i made it all the way to the end of an english degree and didn't hear about this book once (or perhaps i did and assumed it was the Tom Cruise movie)
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Dec 13, 2018 17:06
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Anyone read Milkman by Anna Burns? Is it worth checking it out? The Booker prize is more reliable than most other literary awards.
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J_RBG posted:Fools that you are, you do not see that you're so-called 'reading', has been surpassed by a mere cartoon https://twitter.com/NoChorus/status/1070991570390917122
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He's right
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Yeah, I got so much to do in this hellworld, I won't have time for reading till I'm dead.
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you could have read a few pages of a book instead of posting on this forum. you just don't want to.
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you could have watched 2 minutes of
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derp posted:you could have read a few pages of a book instead of posting on this forum. you just don't want to. dont take my bad joke seriously, please read between the line
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I'm actually reading Mel's rec The Dog Stars right now and it's pretty good so far! Very McCarthyesque in its style and setting, but it's well written and it feels like it's going places
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Krankenstyle posted:Yeah, I got so much to do in this hellworld, I won't have time for reading till I'm dead. Time enough at last
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vyelkin posted:Time enough at last Future archaeologists open a coffin: It's a skeleton next to temps perdu and a pristine bookmark
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Do people who like Japanese literature recommend Saikaku's Life of an Amorous Man if I haven't read the Tale of Genji? I really like picaresque stuff so it appeals but apparently it's dense with these allusions to a book I haven't read.
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You should read the tale of genji just because it's good, even though it is also itself dense with allusions.
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Like I would read a book because it's "good". 
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