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it’s not a tom clancy novel either. if only there was some way to figure out what’s inside a book hmmmm
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ulvir posted:the twist that the muslim brotherhood gains political power in france Houellebecq's exploration of that fantasy isn't unreflexive or unironic but it's either naive or uninformed to see it as an incidental element in a country obsessed with the idea that its significant Muslim population is a devious fifth column plotting to destroy its way of life
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Feb 12, 2020 00:14
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lost in postation posted:Houellebecq's exploration of that fantasy isn't unreflexive or unironic but it's either naive or uninformed to see it as an incidental element in a country obsessed with the idea that its significant Muslim population is a devious fifth column plotting to destroy its way of life This is pretty much what I'm getting at. I'm sure it's a very well written book but no thanks, I get enough exposure to that sort of stuff outside of literature. Houellebecq's attitude towards Muslim isn't even remotely unique here.
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Feb 12, 2020 00:27
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No regrets
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Feb 12, 2020 02:48
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Mel Mudkiper posted:There is a level of decadence to this entire thing that is just insane. Like this quote from a separate article really sums it up Honestly this quote applies to my island of nonces just as much, if not more so
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Feb 12, 2020 23:35
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reading love in the time of cholera and i like it a lot better than 100 years of solitude so far so i apologise for the time i said i was glad gabriel garcia marquez was dead
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Feb 16, 2020 12:35
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I got a copy of the Dictionary of the Khazars at a used book store on Saturday. I only just noticed it is the first Latin script edition, published after six Cyrillic editions. It’s a really nice edition, hardcover and fake leather bound.
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Feb 16, 2020 20:58
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CestMoi posted:reading love in the time of cholera and i like it a lot better than 100 years of solitude so far so i apologise for the time i said i was glad gabriel garcia marquez was dead 
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Feb 16, 2020 21:12
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But Marquez was white and a straight cis male???
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Feb 16, 2020 21:22
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So is that supposed to be the "better" book? What was the assigned book then? This tweet lacks critical information.
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Feb 16, 2020 21:30
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What was the book
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Feb 16, 2020 21:53
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"American Dirt" by Jeanine Cummins
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Feb 16, 2020 22:07
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One Hundred Years of Solitude was the assigned book. The racism is because he apparently reserves this treatment for her, the only non-white member of the department. Seems like a real dipshit. Sham bam bamina! fucked around with this message at 22:18 on Feb 16, 2020 |
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Feb 16, 2020 22:14
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I was totally that dude but my taste was better
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Feb 16, 2020 22:27
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:I got a copy of the Dictionary of the Khazars at a used book store on Saturday. I only just noticed it is the first Latin script edition, published after six Cyrillic editions. It’s a really nice edition, hardcover and fake leather bound. Male or female? Picked up the Maudes’ translation of Anna k today also Dracula a Seamus Heaney and I spent so much I got a free book called tangerine
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Feb 16, 2020 22:54
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i can easily believe you were also insufferable at uni but i doubt your taste was better
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Feb 16, 2020 22:55
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EmmyOk posted:Male or female? Male
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Feb 16, 2020 23:22
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Found a really nice copy of The Foundation Pit at Half Price, will probably buy for a friend.
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Feb 16, 2020 23:30
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EmmyOk posted:Male or female? not the magazine?
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Feb 16, 2020 23:49
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CestMoi posted:i can easily believe you were also insufferable at uni but i doubt your taste was better Fair
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Lex Neville posted:not the magazine? No, I haven’t even looked at it yet so I couldn’t tell you what it’s about. The other options were a Caitlin Jenner biography, that Trump Fire and Fury book, a Sci-Fi book called the boy and the bridge I think, one I can’t recall and Tangerine. Still a free book so can’t complain if it sucks
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finished salman rushdie's Quichotte the other day i thought Two Years... was basically a stuffier take on a fantasy novel and i ran like hell from The Golden House because the summary would have filled every square on an "neoliberal intelligentsia" bingo card, but this one was decent, if bogged down by rushdie's now-familiar writing conceits and privileged status within the society he's trying to interrogate. he's basically trying to create magical-realist pastiches of american culture in the way he previously did for england and india, and maybe it's just that my proximity to the subject material makes it less compelling, but he's still examining subjects like the opioid crisis and social media saturation exclusively from the perspectives of characters who are either in the upper crust of society or could be in the upper crust but are too bashful to admit it, which makes most of his ruminations too shallow to be really impactful. there's a whole commentary on the impending dissolution of polite society that runs throughout the entire novel that was more succinctly and memorably summed up in that one paragraph from The Ground Beneath Her Feet ("We dined at nine! We dined at eight! You were on time! No, you were late!") and for someone who's spent a career preoccupied with the concept of divided national identities, he touches on the subject of american racism so vaguely and fleetingly that it's like he's embarrassed to be associated with it the prose is still snappy, especially the passages written from the perspective of one character who emerged ex nihilo from another character's imagination (like Jodha from The Enchantress of Florence - again, he's repeating old concepts pretty much verbatim) and has to struggle with basic vocabulary as he describes his own existential crisis, but the metafiction here is so heavy-handed that it gets close to parody. the novel is a dual narrative where the characters of one half are literally being written in a novel by a character in the other half, and the former's struggles and conflicts are imperfect mirrors of the latter's, and it all gets about as tedious as you'd expect overall it was a good page-turner but mostly came off as someone trying to recapture past glories. maybe it's just that i'm still teed off that he keeps showing up at Ozyfest Oxxidation fucked around with this message at 02:03 on Feb 17, 2020 |
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CestMoi posted:reading love in the time of cholera and i like it a lot better than 100 years of solitude so far so i apologise for the time i said i was glad gabriel garcia marquez was dead Stupid and incorrect opinion
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Feb 17, 2020 09:57
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hi thread, I read Pete Dexter's The Paperboy today and it is loving good
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Feb 18, 2020 00:57
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Obviously the student is a jerk but how is his reaction sexist or racist? Every English teacher ever faces a similar reaction every god drat day hobbez fucked around with this message at 05:37 on Feb 18, 2020 |
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Feb 18, 2020 05:29
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I often think id enjoy teaching, but then I think 'god, I wouldn't want to teach [insert number] year olds.
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Feb 18, 2020 05:41
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hobbez posted:Obviously the student is a jerk but how is his reaction sexist or racist? The later message explains she’s the only English teacher he’s like this with and the only black female
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Feb 18, 2020 08:56
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She's, uh, Indian.
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Feb 18, 2020 16:36
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the idea that she's the only one he says "i dont like the book" to is a throwaway line in one tweet; the main focus of the thread is that she's upset that he doesn't like the book and if you dont like the books she assigns then you shouldnt be in the class. like she stormed out of class and considered resigning because he called marquez bad
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Feb 18, 2020 16:38
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Is that like the literary version of flipping the table on your Magic: The Gathering game?
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Feb 18, 2020 16:52
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that thread is incredible in a different way than i think she intended. if this is how she reacts to uppity uni students then maybe she should do less teaching for everyone’s sake
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Feb 18, 2020 17:09
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I would be weirded out by a college professor making a twitter thread about me not liking a book on the syllabus. The kid sounds like a jerk, but just fail his lovely papers?
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chernobyl kinsman posted:the idea that she's the only one he says "i dont like the book" to is a throwaway line in one tweet; Well and even then it's not clear whether this student is in those other classes, just that her white male colleagues don't get that level of "performativity" from any of their students She is probably right that this punk probably is comfortable stepping to her because she is a non-white woman and also that it's super dumb to spend your (parents') money on a lit class when you think you already know better lit. But yeah just tell the little turd to gently caress off or grade whatever paper he turns in after not reading the book accordingly, the resignation letter threat is a little excessive
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Feb 18, 2020 17:19
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I'm starting to realize that twitter is full of garbage idiots. i left reddit 7 or 8 years ago. stopped looking at facebook for anything but messenger last year. i only use instagram to e-stalk certain celebrities. where do i go from here? is the answer 'nowhere'? am I finally free?
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Feb 18, 2020 17:28
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derp posted:I often think id enjoy teaching, but then I think 'god, I wouldn't want to teach [insert number] year olds. it loving owns tho I have more issues with other professors recommending bad books than students not liking my books tho
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Feb 18, 2020 17:31
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Facebook and Instagram are actually the best social medias, you just have to dig around to find the people & groups that post nothing but pictures and descriptions of Estonian hornworts
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Feb 18, 2020 17:32
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derp posted:I'm starting to realize that twitter is full of garbage idiots. i left reddit 7 or 8 years ago. stopped looking at facebook for anything but messenger last year. i only use instagram to e-stalk certain celebrities. where do i go from here? is the answer 'nowhere'? am I finally free? Welcome home
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Guy A. Person posted:Well and even then it's not clear whether this student is in those other classes, just that her white male colleagues don't get that level of "performativity" from any of their students yeah i dont doubt that the kid is a prick but storming out of your own class (!) and resigning (!!) because someone said he wasn't "feeling it" is comical
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derp posted:I'm starting to realize that twitter is full of garbage idiots. i left reddit 7 or 8 years ago. stopped looking at facebook for anything but messenger last year. i only use instagram to e-stalk certain celebrities. where do i go from here? is the answer 'nowhere'? am I finally free? don't look at me I quit the forums until chernobyl kept harassing me to come back (that's right I am throwing you under the bus fucker) I've come to learn that all internet communication is useless for discussing anything of value because it is a superficial medium that is overwhelmingly toxic to one's sense of empathy. I made the mistake of trying to be sincere with people and to learn and grow by talking to people online but its a fool errand so now I just dunk on people I disagree with and make bad jokes. No one speaks to you online, they speak to the image of you that they have constructed and its alienating to try to find authenticity in that kind of discourse.
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Mel Mudkiper posted:don't look at me I quit the forums until chernobyl kept harassing me to come back (that's right I am throwing you under the bus fucker) 
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