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fwiw, from what I've seen, lit thread favourite Cărtărescu has pretty good odds too, better than Krasznahorkai
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A heads up for those who might be interested, there is a readalong thread in the Haunted Clubhouse seasonal sub for Roger Zelazny's A Night in the Lonesome October going one chapter per day, in celebration of the Spooky Month!
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Asterite34 posted:A heads up for those who might be interested, there is a readalong thread in the Haunted Clubhouse seasonal sub for Roger Zelazny's A Night in the Lonesome October going one chapter per day, in celebration of the Spooky Month! Shiiiiit! Another that I think is still on my list but I don't have a copy and am still in clean out mode of what I do have. Edit: gently caress it, just ordered a cheap copy off of ebay that's in a lot with two other old 90s fantasy paperbacks, I'll finally find out what the fuss is. Turbinosamente fucked around with this message at 05:10 on Oct 3, 2023 |
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Oct 3, 2023 04:58
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anilEhilated posted:So who is y'all's tip for this year's Nobel prize? I've seen some betting odds that seemed to claim the surefire bet is Murakami, which is a choice I'm honestly not a fan of. Murakami is going to win because all awards are determined primarily by how much I personally will be upset, and my god would Murakami winning an award for writing piss me off. Might as well give a iPhone voice memo of an angle grinder album of the year.
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Turbinosamente posted:Shiiiiit! Another that I think is still on my list but I don't have a copy and am still in clean out mode of what I do have. Still plenty of time to catch up with the thread when your copy gets delivered, the first half-dozen chapters are a breeze you can chew through in like half an hour tops
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I'm going to Also, I've been reading Auster's Leviathan and so far it's managed to bore the poo poo out of me. It starts out with a bang (heh) but then it's been fifty pages of snoozefest. 3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 07:36 on Oct 3, 2023 |
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Oct 3, 2023 07:33
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I hope someone pranks John Banville again, if only by giving it to Edna O'Brien.
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Oct 3, 2023 07:43
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Give it to Zelensky for "War Speeches" lmao.
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Oct 3, 2023 07:49
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rupi kaur, for the way she gave way for new forms of poetry, breathing fresh air into an old genre
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Oct 3, 2023 08:16
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ulvir posted:rupi kaur
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Oct 3, 2023 08:26
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nice concrete poetry formatting, it looks like one of those very old toilets with the cistern high up
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Oct 3, 2023 10:33
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The smart money is on Homero Aridjis because it’s been too long since we’ve had a Latin American writer, he’s an environmentalist, and has a cool name. Also remember when Elfriede Jelinek got a serial killer released form prison on the strength of his writing and he proceeded to kill another six or so women?
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Oct 3, 2023 11:41
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To be fair she wasn't the only Nobelist involved, if I remember correctly Günter Grass also played a part?
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Asterite34 posted:Still plenty of time to catch up with the thread when your copy gets delivered, the first half-dozen chapters are a breeze you can chew through in like half an hour tops Not worried about catching up, more annoyed that I've added another book to the queue and already have had books leapfrog over other books I'd planned on reading. 
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ulvir posted:nice concrete poetry formatting, it looks like one of those very old toilets with the cistern high up 
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anilEhilated posted:To be fair she wasn't the only Nobelist involved, if I remember correctly Günter Grass also played a part? That is correct. The entire case is 
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:The smart money is on Homero Aridjis because it’s been too long since we’ve had a Latin American writer, he’s an environmentalist, and has a cool name. I Googled the case and drat if that German pervert serial murderer doesn't look exactly like what you'd expect a German pervert serial murderer to look like.
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Oct 3, 2023 15:26
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Next time you do a google search, try turning your monitor on
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Since it's spooky month, I am thinking about delving into some William Hope Hodgson. I've heard that he's got some decent, how do I call it, nautical horror? Goons like books about ships... I have thalassophobia. With all that in mind, what's a good starting point? edit: I teed you up for that one didn't I? vvv  vvv
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Oct 3, 2023 15:32
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escape artist posted:Since it's spooky month, I am thinking about delving into some William Hope Hodgson. I've heard that he's got some decent, how do I call it, nautical horror? Goons like books about ships... I have thalassophobia. The bottom.
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i only read house on the borderland & night land. possibly night land 2? don't remember i think there was a sequel Eh, kinda archaic, probably worth the time to read, kinda interesting mysterious vibe, but not super incredible mind boggling stuff. Idk 6 or maybe 7/10 if you wanna just sorta focus on the feel of situation. Worth it but not worth going completely out of your way to get to it for those ones i guess.
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Oct 3, 2023 15:46
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SniperWoreConverse posted:i only read house on the borderland & night land. possibly night land 2? don't remember i think there was a sequel He's got a ton of stuff on Scribd, and I am on my fourth month of a one month free trial. It's a weird little business model they have. If you read too much, they lock up your TBR selections til the next payment cycle. So I keep trying to cancel and they keep kicking me another 30 days. Our current book of the month, Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle, is on there too. Thanks for the recommendations
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Tree Goat posted:Next time you do a google search, try turning your monitor on this is literally the only time I've actually laughed at that joke, goddamn
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escape artist posted:Since it's spooky month, I am thinking about delving into some William Hope Hodgson. I've heard that he's got some decent, how do I call it, nautical horror? Goons like books about ships... I have thalassophobia. I haven't read it personally but the nautical Hodgson book is The Boats of the "Glen Carrig". House on the Borderland is good too, if mostly just weird and vibe-y. Haven't read Night Land personally, I tried a couple of times but found it really hard to get into (sort of intentionally on Hodgson's part iirc). If you want sort-of-classic nautical "horror", The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is good if you haven't read it. There's also a couple of novellas/novelettes in the collection The Weird that fit the bill but I'll have to pull up the ToC to remind myself what the heck they're called.
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i went and looked him up on wiki to see if i had caught anything else he wrote, and somebody said something like he focused on "the ubiquity of potential terror, of the thinness of the invisible boundary between the world of normality and an underlying, unaccountable reality for which humans are not suited." I mean yeah that's prob right, i wouldn't phrase it that way but it's very much a feeling of something under the surface with those works. Night land is a weird mix and has almost magitech, which is something that is also mentioned. It's a world with super weird stuff, iirc there's an axe that's basically a proto-lightsaber, and some monolithic easter island head kind of monuments that are infused with weird power. IIRC there's literally what you could consider a normal haunted house in the night lands -- there could be some gothic horror book only about that house, and it's just a fragment of setting, a scene, not even a major plot point -- but also weird dinosaurs and stuff. It'd def not scifi and not magic and not horror and not adventure, but a kind of chemical compound synthetic genre? Honestly a lot of it i do forget, and i don't even remember if i read the whole night lands or just the short version (apparently there was not a sequel, he just wrote multiple versions). I would describe everything I've read of his as primarily vibes-based. It's not contradictory with itself or anything that blatantly breaks the story, and the plot is important, but it sorta seemed like the plot was an excuse to present a series of imaginary setpieces. Now that i consider it i've subconsciously injected some of this sorta thing into my dumb rpg games writing.
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anilEhilated posted:To be fair she wasn't the only Nobelist involved, if I remember correctly Günter Grass also played a part? Also happened in America with Jack Henry Abbott, who was also supported by a group of well meaning literary types.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I Googled the case and drat if that German pervert serial murderer doesn't look exactly like what you'd expect a German pervert serial murderer to look like. And drat, the "because he crimed again, the writers think he couldn't have possibly written that good book that got him released" thing is wild. Just accept that killers can be good writers too! You were wrong! It doesn't have to be an elaborate conspiracy
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EricBauman posted:And drat, the "because he crimed again, the writers think he couldn't have possibly written that good book that got him released" thing is wild. It's the old "Hitler was kind to his dog so the holocaust didn't happen" and/or "my brother-in-law is a copper and even though he beats my sister and their kids, I've never actually seen it happen so blue lives matter" chestnut. I.e. Grass and the other writers are/were just really loving stupid.
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norwegian literature good Dag Solstad winning it next year!
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I am having a hard time starting and finishing anything these days, not just books. Gonna try to listen to The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses tonight, as I think it will be far more enjoyable than trying to read Ulysses (again) re: Nobel Prize I only started reading Cormac last year but I have read a lot of his books. What's the best entrypoint for Fosse? I owe the book of the month club 1,000 words on Whitley Strieber's Communion. It's hard to even make it through the introduction.
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escape artist posted:I owe the book of the month club 1,000 words on Whitley Strieber's Communion. It's hard to even make it through the introduction. it does get really wild just jump on in
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escape artist posted:re: Nobel Prize I admittedly don’t have a good overview of what has or hasn’t been translated yet. you should definitely see a play of his if you get the chance, and this article gives a nice rundown of the choices in english. Morning and evening is also a great start.
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anilEhilated posted:So who is y'all's tip for this year's Nobel prize? I've seen some betting odds that seemed to claim the surefire bet is Murakami, which is a choice I'm honestly not a fan of. Sheesh I read Norwegian Wood this year, what a depressing week He’s a good writer for sure, just ahh make sure you’re in a good place, emotionally, when you start that one. Oh I remember it also has an underage girl “seducing” an older person so.. bit of weirdness too, but probably normal for anime fans  Edit: I forgot I came to mention that the Iliad translation by Emily Wilson is out, the audiobook preview sounds really great, reminds me a bit of the narration in Lord of the Rings 
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Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:Sheesh I read Norwegian Wood this year, what a depressing week Yikes. I was waiting for something like that to happen during The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and it didn't. Disappointing, I would expect he would be wiser than to write something like that.
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Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:Sheesh I read Norwegian Wood this year, what a depressing week I'm on Earth in 2023.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Is that the modern translation by Robin Buss? That's the one you want and it matters So I went ahead and bought myself a copy of this translation used and uhhhhh this is more used condition than I was expecting!    
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A beaten to poo poo book is a well loved book
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I'm gonna keep this copy and enjoy it for sure, I'm just annoyed - bought it used on ebay for 10$ and it was listed as "used - good" not "used - bad". Like c'mon. I've sent a message to the seller.Hieronymous Alloy posted:Every prior English translation is heavily bowdlerized. Part of why I wanted this one! Let's see the real book at last
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