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I'm about seven days through the decameron and I've got to say boccaccio would most definitely be into cuckold porn. Simply absurd number of cuckold stories. Basically it's good
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Aug 21, 2019 23:28
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J_RBG posted:I'm about seven days through the decameron and I've got to say boccaccio would most definitely be into cuckold porn. Simply absurd number of cuckold stories. Basically it's good what translation? i've heard, and have been eyeing, that book for a while, but i'm not ready to commit to such an undertaking. i'll prob anly do it at sometime tho, so tell me how to read it in english, thanks
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Aug 22, 2019 11:48
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Finicums Wake posted:what translation? G H McWilliam. I don't know of many others, but I'd heard this one was good. It's ok, a bit stilted in my opinion but it does its job
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Aug 22, 2019 11:50
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J_RBG posted:G H McWilliam. I don't know of many others, but I'd heard this one was good. It's ok, a bit stilted in my opinion but it does its job cool, thanks. replying to this so i can at least dig it up later 
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Aug 22, 2019 11:52
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Finicums Wake posted:cool, thanks. replying to this so i can at least dig it up later I mean if you do more digging than I did there will be others, but I just bought this one in a secondhand bookshop and decided to read it anyway.
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Aug 22, 2019 11:56
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J_RBG posted:I'm about seven days through the decameron and I've got to say boccaccio would most definitely be into cuckold porn. Simply absurd number of cuckold stories. Basically it's good this is the truth behind all great works, said me-ti
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Aug 24, 2019 18:51
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Finally got around to buying Austerlitz. I like the pretty pictures.
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Aug 26, 2019 03:38
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should i read on the natural history of destruction
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Aug 26, 2019 03:57
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Asking this thread if you should read a Sebald book is like asking Reddit if you should read Brandon Sanderson.
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Aug 26, 2019 05:26
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which of sebald's works is most like saturn?
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Aug 26, 2019 22:06
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chernobyl kinsman posted:which of sebald's works is most like saturn? Rings of Saturn is more or less unique (and my favorite of his). Even though his style is consistent, he's not writing the same book over and over like Beckett. But I'd say The Emigrants is closest in tone.
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Aug 26, 2019 22:29
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vertigo is more similar in structure (or lack thereof), just him wandering around looking at/thinking about things. Emigrants has several characters, austerlitz almost has a plot.
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Aug 26, 2019 23:27
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Tree Goat posted:should i read on the natural history of destruction also yes, definitely yes.
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Aug 26, 2019 23:29
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derp posted:vertigo is more similar in structure (or lack thereof), just him wandering around looking at/thinking about things. Emigrants has several characters, austerlitz almost has a plot. Yeah, it's Vertigo, nevermind.
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Aug 27, 2019 00:41
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Vertigo has the Kafka twins-subplot, and a Stendhal-interlude. It was my first Sebald 
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Aug 27, 2019 11:20
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I'm going to greece in a week. What are the cool modern Greek authors?
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Sep 8, 2019 21:12
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Going to start The Three Musketeers tonight after finishing up Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee and that new Phillips Pullman book from a few years ago. Though I'm not sure it's real literature so much as rather old.
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Sep 9, 2019 14:48
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its not literature, op
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Sep 11, 2019 07:26
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The Three Musketeers fight a dragon with their muskets
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Sep 11, 2019 07:32
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I just stumbled over Daniel Quinn's "Ishmael", never heard of him/it before, maybe it's an anglo-saxon thing. According to Wikipedia, the novel explores "cultural biases driving modern civilization and (...) themes of ethics, sustainability, and global catastrophe." And is referenced by Pearl Jam and Rage against the Machine. Is this worth a look?
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Sep 11, 2019 09:08
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Shibawanko posted:The Three Musketeers fight a dragon with their muskets Do they win?
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Sep 11, 2019 09:30
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mike12345 posted:I just stumbled over Daniel Quinn's "Ishmael", never heard of him/it before, maybe it's an anglo-saxon thing. According to Wikipedia, the novel explores "cultural biases driving modern civilization and (...) themes of ethics, sustainability, and global catastrophe." And is referenced by Pearl Jam and Rage against the Machine. Is this worth a look? Yeah read the first few chapters and see what you think. It's not for everyone but some people wind up adoring it.
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Sep 11, 2019 10:35
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EmmyOk posted:Do they win? You'll have to wait for book 2 of the 4-book trilogy saga
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Sep 11, 2019 19:00
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mike12345 posted:I just stumbled over Daniel Quinn's "Ishmael", never heard of him/it before, maybe it's an anglo-saxon thing. According to Wikipedia, the novel explores "cultural biases driving modern civilization and (...) themes of ethics, sustainability, and global catastrophe." And is referenced by Pearl Jam and Rage against the Machine. Is this worth a look? from a literary perspective its real bad. preachy and predictable. decent enough as environmentalist propaganda, I recommend it for 13 year old wannabe activists
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Sep 11, 2019 19:30
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And Pearl Jam and Rage Against the Machine like it? 
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Sep 11, 2019 22:29
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Sham bam bamina! posted:And Pearl Jam and Rage Against the Machine like it? yeah basically. . . I was trying to remember the plot of the novel and couldn't recall anything. Then when I looked at the summary on wikipedia I realized I couldn't remember anything because it doesn't have a plot. It's just a guy talking to a gorilla for 300 pages, and all the gorilla wants to talk about is its trite anarcho-primitivist take on world history. The "novel" part of the book is just a thin veneer over a really shallow philosophical text, full of the kind of insight great for blowing minds between bong rips, but nothing that's going to impress anyone used to reading serious philosophy or history. A much better book for people interested in our relationship with nature and the environment is A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold. It's not a novel but at least unlike Ishmael it doesn't try and pretend it is.
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Sep 12, 2019 00:02
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Is Knausgaard worth the investment or just another Mein Kampf to be avoided?
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Sep 12, 2019 00:26
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I've been hard pressed to find some books I wanted to read but, as it turns out, libraries will literally go out of their way to find and get them for you, even if they have to borrow them from other countries, all for no cost or effort on my part. That's good as hell. Can't believe noone told me about libraries before.
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Sep 12, 2019 08:15
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I also cannot believe you didn't know about libraries.
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Sep 12, 2019 08:43
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The Puppy Bowl posted:Is Knausgaard worth the investment or just another Mein Kampf to be avoided? I don't know if they're "worth the investment" but they are good.
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Sep 12, 2019 10:14
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mike12345 posted:I just stumbled over Daniel Quinn's "Ishmael", never heard of him/it before, maybe it's an anglo-saxon thing. According to Wikipedia, the novel explores "cultural biases driving modern civilization and (...) themes of ethics, sustainability, and global catastrophe." And is referenced by Pearl Jam and Rage against the Machine. Is this worth a look? Some mates of mine were really obsessed with this book in high school
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Sep 12, 2019 20:36
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fridge corn posted:Some mates of mine were really obsessed with this book in high school i was one of those kids - it's a cool book but ultimately it's sort of a noble savage/return to tribalism style communities book
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Sep 12, 2019 20:55
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It's a book about a gorilla who goes paleo and gets way too into it.
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Sep 12, 2019 20:59
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it's probably the second worst ape based piece of literature, narrowly ahead of the murders in the rue morgue
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Sep 12, 2019 21:28
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It really is and should have been marketed as a YA novel.
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Sep 12, 2019 21:33
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phi kappa FUCKBALLS posted:I've been hard pressed to find some books I wanted to read but, as it turns out, libraries will literally go out of their way to find and get them for you, even if they have to borrow them from other countries, all for no cost or effort on my part. That's good as hell. Can't believe noone told me about libraries before. Inter Library Loan is great. If you want to use it to maximal efficiency? Allow me to introduce you to WorldCat
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Eugene V. Dubstep posted:Even though his style is consistent, he's not writing the same book over and over like Beckett. behold: a dumb loving take
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Sep 14, 2019 15:48
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CestMoi posted:it's probably the second worst ape based piece of literature, narrowly ahead of the murders in the rue morgue now this has me wondering what is the BEST ape based literature? 
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Squalid posted:now this has me wondering what is the BEST ape based literature? Ack-Ack Macaque
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