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Hieronymous Alloy posted:This dinner with his professor friend is giving me social anxiety by proxy Look dude. Goethe was actually different than you think, you loving IDIOT.
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This book is really a warning about going goblin mode but also I'm not that smart so maybe I'm not getting it.
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Mar 23, 2023 17:49
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This book was written like a hundred years ago and then as now one of life's greatest annoyances is being locked in a social situation with a former friend who's turned into a goddam nazi
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Mar 23, 2023 17:55
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Lawman 0 posted:This book is really a warning about going goblin mode but also I'm not that smart so maybe I'm not getting it. I legitimately believe it’s a book about how locking yourself away from the world will only breed contempt and misery while, idk, actually living can be a lot more rewarding. Though I can confused by what exactly Hermine represents in contrast. The need for balance?
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Mar 23, 2023 18:54
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"Hey, man, so you're thinking about suicide? I want you to listen to me seriously: have you considered prostitutes, jazz, and cocaine?" I do really like how relentlessly positive he is about everything. Bourgeois stability? Great if that's your thing! Cocaine fueled orgies? Hey man that can be cool too!
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Mar 24, 2023 21:35
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next month suggestions?
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:next month suggestions? my copy of the pillow book just came in, did we do that yet
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:next month suggestions? Have we done Locus Solus by Raymond Roussel? Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 09:50 on Mar 25, 2023 |
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Tree Goat posted:my copy of the pillow book just came in, did we do that yet This could be fun.
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Mar 25, 2023 17:05
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There are a few books with that title, you mean the old one?
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Mar 25, 2023 17:13
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I do, yes.
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Meanwhile, everyone come listen to Pablo with me! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgWNU_wiSKw quote:In 1926, Hesse also became acquainted with jazz music, attending Swiss performances of the Revue Nègre featuring Josephine Baker and Sidney Bechet; Steven C. Tracy, professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, writes, "the character of Pablo... was inspired by Bechet's playing"[2]
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Discendo Vox posted:Have we done Locus Solus by Raymond Roussel? Have we done Don Quixote yet?
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:"Hey, man, so you're thinking about suicide? I want you to listen to me seriously: have you considered prostitutes, jazz, and cocaine?" Comedy option: after the relentlessly optimistic ending of Steppenwolf, how about following it up with The Conspiracy Against The Human Race?
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Bilirubin posted:Have we done Don Quixote yet? I don't believe so, no.
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Hi thread. Up until the middle of Steppenwolf I wasn't really sure I could finish it. I found some of Harry's introspections really tedious before then. Also I was and am uncomfortable with how much I relate to Harry. As I read on though I realise I need to see whether things get better for Harry, especially now that Harry has met Hermine and now Maria  . Whether those are good or bad developments I don't know yet, but I'm so hoping they're good that the pages are turning faster and faster. I am pleasantly surprised by this book so far. I think I'd recommend it.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:This book was written like a hundred years ago and then as now one of life's greatest annoyances is being locked in a social situation with a former friend who's turned into a goddam nazi 
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Bilirubin posted:Have we done Don Quixote yet? Checking archives, yes, but in 2011.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Checking archives, yes, but in 2011. If we're able to re-do old books from the BotM, then what about John Ringo's Ghost, Richard A. Knaak Diablo #1: Legacy of Blood, or Marian Engel's Bear  But for real, if we can plumb the archives from books that were done more than seven years ago? Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, White Noise, The Atrocity Exhibition, The Blind Owl?
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poisonpill posted:If we're able to re-do old books from the BotM, then what about John Ringo's Ghost, Richard A. Knaak Diablo #1: Legacy of Blood, or Marian Engel's Bear I'd generally prefer to do things we haven't already done because part of the goal is "hey, have y'all heard of this?" and then dropping some cool new poo poo on the table. I'll try to get a poll up tonight though. Sometimes it's worthwhile to hit the classics. Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 18:16 on Mar 28, 2023 |
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“As I threw off my wet coat I came upon the little book, and took it out. It was one of those little books wretchedly printed on wretched paper that are sold at fairs, "Were you born in January?" or "How to be twenty years younger in a week."” Just starting Steppenwolf, and I’m struck by how much these sound like clickbait. Plus ça change…
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If we're just throwing ideas at the wall, I propose Philip Wylie's 1930 novel Gladiator, the partial inspiration for Superman and also basically lovely Reverse Forrest Gump, being the story of a superhuman freak who desperately wants to leave their mark on history but keeps loving it up and ends up an irrelevant footnote
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Ok, I'm almost done with it, but I feel like I need to read it again?
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Ok, I finished it. I liked it, but I don't think I'm smart enough to fully grasp all the symbolism going on. 🫠
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Lawman 0 posted:Ok, I finished it. I liked it, but I don't think I'm smart enough to fully grasp all the symbolism going on. 🫠 I think some of the symbolism is deliberately vague and inconclusive, especially at the very end. My read is that he hasn't learned and solved every problem he has, he's just wiser than he was at the beginning.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I think some of the symbolism is deliberately vague and inconclusive, especially at the very end. My read is that he hasn't learned and solved every problem he has, he's just wiser than he was at the beginning. The war against the machines/bourgeois hits hard now.
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I think I'm going to have to tap out on Steppenwolf. I am having so much trouble getting through it, I'm about half way through and every page seems like it's the same thing over and over.
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McSpankWich posted:I think I'm going to have to tap out on Steppenwolf. I am having so much trouble getting through it, I'm about half way through and every page seems like it's the same thing over and over. That's a fair reaction I think, nobody has to read anything. There is a substantive "turn" in the narrative but you may have already hit it -- he's at rock bottom after the botched dinner with his ex friend and he goes to a bar and meets a hot domme babe who tells him to shape up and get into dancing and women and jazz music
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Yeah Captain Splashback had said that it gets better at the end, so I kept going to eventually find that turn. I'll give it a bit more and see if it picks up.
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McSpankWich posted:Yeah Captain Splashback had said that it gets better at the end, so I kept going to eventually find that turn. I'll give it a bit more and see if it picks up. If he's talking to a woman you've hit the turn Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 19:38 on Apr 4, 2023 |
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BOTM for April will be The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde! https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/oscar-wilde/the-importance-of-being-earnest Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 17:02 on Apr 5, 2023 |
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Kindle version is currently 39 cents https://www.amazon.com/Importance-Being-Earnest-Oscar-Wilde-ebook/dp/B07VGGCXS8/
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Oh I just finished this. It didn't realize it would only take me like 2 hours to read. It was a fun jaunt. Stupid final line but whatever.
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Act 1 done. A scene setting act, with all hell to break loose next act. Extremely witty dialogue, and snobby class based social commentary. Was Wilde sending folks up or is this just the society in which he traveled? I can never really tell
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dammit never say the name of the movie in the movie! Anyway, how delightfully droll!
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Honestly excited for this as I haven't revisited Wilde since K-12. I remember reading this play and not really getting it in high school, or at least not having the patience for it. Good pick for me, at least.
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This was a lighthearted little read and the first of Wilde's stuff that I've read.
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