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The Boys book in Brothers Karamazov is very great
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EmmyOk posted:The Boys book in Brothers Karamazov is very great Read Demons too. Demons is sneaky his second best
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Mar 6, 2020 05:04
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where is the thread for the Traitor Son Cycle or are there not enough people that care about man vs wild
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Mar 11, 2020 19:30
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quit going out in public and read some long-assed books for the next 14 days
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Mar 11, 2020 19:56
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ulvir posted:quit going out in public and read some long-assed books for the next 14 days Regret to inform you that this is now you: https://twitter.com/matthaig1/status/1237784031087022080 https://twitter.com/matthaig1/status/1237783686810140672
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Mar 11, 2020 21:05
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not sure who that guy is but going around buying books right now sounds extremely fail
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Mar 11, 2020 21:09
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Quit Being a loving Disease Vector and Stay Inside Reading Some Real Literature
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Mar 11, 2020 21:09
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New Twilight Zone where you self-quarantine with all your books but you catch it and die anyways.
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Mar 11, 2020 21:24
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Guy A. Person posted:Quit Being a loving Disease Vector and Stay Inside Reading Some Real Literature
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Mar 11, 2020 21:31
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Thinking about doing The Plague by Camus as a fun little seasonal read.
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Mar 11, 2020 21:46
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Carly Gay Dead Son posted:Thinking about doing The Plague by Camus as a fun little seasonal read. I'd be in for that BotM next month @HeironymousAlloy?
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Mar 11, 2020 22:15
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Bilirubin posted:I'd be in for that I'd read along as well.
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Mar 11, 2020 22:20
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It was botm already! https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3808962 it's one of my favorites, though
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Mar 11, 2020 22:29
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CoolHandMat posted:where is the thread for the Traitor Son Cycle there are already plenty of threads in this forum for bad fantasy novels
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Mar 11, 2020 23:16
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Bilirubin posted:I'd be in for that We did The Plague n 2017 so my current plan is the Decameron.
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Mar 12, 2020 00:52
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:We did The Plague n 2017 so my current plan is the Decameron. its too long and doesnt have good worldbuilding, goons wont read it
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Mar 12, 2020 02:17
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chernobyl kinsman posted:its too long and doesnt have good worldbuilding, goons wont read it Oh, everyone likes putting the devil in hell
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Mar 12, 2020 02:22
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there's also the lesser-known and more aggressively communist plague book i burn paris by bruno jasienski that's a good read
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Mar 12, 2020 02:39
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journal of the plague year is short and public domain and i read it for work somewhat recently so that's an option to
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Mar 12, 2020 02:47
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I started The Plague a few days ago. My first Camus and I'm liking it. Once I'm finished with that, I'll be reading Cancer Ward to add to the illness-as-metaphor pile.
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Mar 12, 2020 03:59
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chernobyl kinsman posted:its too long and doesnt have good worldbuilding, goons wont read it
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Mar 12, 2020 04:28
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gimme that dodecameron
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Mar 12, 2020 04:35
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:We did The Plague n 2017 so my current plan is the Decameron. lol ok what the hell, should probably finish it sometime why not now add to the poll the Hot Zone too I guess
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Mar 12, 2020 05:04
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:We did The Plague n 2017 so my current plan is the Decameron. If you wanna do French plague novels again some time, Giono's The Horseman on the Roof is very good and probably the second best romance featuring cholera in modern literature
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Mar 12, 2020 12:00
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Any recommendations for books with extremely short stories/chapters like exercises In Style or Invisible Cities? I enjoyed being able to read those during brief breaks at work.
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Mar 12, 2020 18:25
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animaldog posted:Any recommendations for books with extremely short stories/chapters like exercises In Style or Invisible Cities? I enjoyed being able to read those during brief breaks at work.
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Mar 12, 2020 18:27
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Karenina posted:there's also the lesser-known and more aggressively communist plague book i burn paris by bruno jasienski Y'all are selling this hard but I kinda want to watch The Little Hours again I guess if I'm still alive in a few weeks I'll put up a poll
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Mar 12, 2020 19:14
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I’ve just realised I’ve read no African novels aside from Chinua Achebe. Would love some suggestions of where to start.
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Mar 12, 2020 21:13
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Idaholy Roller posted:I’ve just realised I’ve read no African novels aside from Chinua Achebe. Would love some suggestions of where to start. Amos Tutuola gets rec'd a fair bit. Palm Wine Drinkard is a good read there. To add, I enjoyed Silence of the Spirits by Wilfried N'Sonde. If you want African born colonizers, you've got JM Coetzee, Mia Couto (Confessions of the Lioness), and Jose Eduardo Agualusas (General Theory of Oblivion is aces). Ben Nevis fucked around with this message at 21:30 on Mar 12, 2020 |
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Mar 12, 2020 21:21
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Idaholy Roller posted:I’ve just realised I’ve read no African novels aside from Chinua Achebe. Would love some suggestions of where to start. petals of blood is my poo poo
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Mar 12, 2020 22:07
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Idaholy Roller posted:I’ve just realised I’ve read no African novels aside from Chinua Achebe. Would love some suggestions of where to start. harvest of thorns by shimmer chinodya a grain of wheat by ngugi wa thiong'o both of these are pretty great refutations of a lot of achebe's ideas in for eg things fall apart
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Mar 12, 2020 22:48
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animaldog posted:Any recommendations for books with extremely short stories/chapters like exercises In Style or Invisible Cities? I enjoyed being able to read those during brief breaks at work. Einsteins Dreams
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Mar 13, 2020 02:24
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animaldog posted:Any recommendations for books with extremely short stories/chapters like exercises In Style or Invisible Cities? I enjoyed being able to read those during brief breaks at work. the book of disquiet
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Mar 13, 2020 05:32
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Tree Goat posted:the book of disquiet this, it's so good, and you can pick it up and put it down whenever
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Mar 13, 2020 05:40
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Ben Nevis posted:Amos Tutuola gets rec'd a fair bit. Palm Wine Drinkard is a good read there. Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton. Technically a colonizer, but his anti-apartheid struggle cred was impeccable. Country of my Skull is also good semi-fiction. It's pretty heavy though.
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Mar 13, 2020 06:08
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animaldog posted:Any recommendations for books with extremely short stories/chapters like exercises In Style or Invisible Cities? I enjoyed being able to read those during brief breaks at work. I'm reading an NYRB classics book called Novels in Three Lines, which is newspaper headlines from France in 1906.
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Mar 13, 2020 06:11
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Some good French-speaking African authors are Ahmadou Kourouma (Allah Is Not Obliged), Fiston Mwanza Mujila (Tram 83), Alain Mabanckou (African Psycho). There's a lot of great North African authors too, like Naguib Mahfouz, Tahar ben Jelloun and Assia Djebar. They're all very different, so it really depends what exactly are you looking for. As for flash fiction, I've enjoyed both Lydia Davies' and Richard Brautigan's stuff.
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Mar 13, 2020 09:39
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Idaholy Roller posted:I’ve just realised I’ve read no African novels aside from Chinua Achebe. Would love some suggestions of where to start. Kojo Laing, Amos Tutuola, Ayi Kwei Armah, Wole Soyinka, Dambudzo Marechera, Yambo Ouologuem, Kofi Awoonor and Bessie Head have all written good novels and most of them are distinctive and unusual stylists as well. I can elaborate on any of these if they sound interesting. animaldog posted:Any recommendations for books with extremely short stories/chapters like exercises In Style or Invisible Cities? I enjoyed being able to read those during brief breaks at work. Juan Goytisolo's Landscapes After the Battle is all short chapters like this and it's excellent.
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Mar 13, 2020 10:01
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I’ve finally taken up Elaine Pagel’s Gnostic Gospels. Liking it so far. After I’ve finished it, what books will benefit from my newfound knowledge of the demiurge and his pals (or whatever the hell gnosticism is about)? Blood Meridian is already lined up.
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Carly Gay Dead Son posted:I’ve finally taken up Elaine Pagel’s Gnostic Gospels. Liking it so far. After I’ve finished it, what books will benefit from my newfound knowledge of the demiurge and his pals (or whatever the hell gnosticism is about)? Blood Meridian is already lined up. Blood Meridian is about Gnosticism? I want to know more.
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