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Tree Goat posted:otoh it would be either The Beatles or some jazz record, but otherwise 100% true
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Tree Goat posted:otoh lol goddamn
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Man, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is so funny and so sharp. A little prose writing masterclass.
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reading The Stranger and it's very enjoyable, i wish i could read more protagonists written like this. such a dumb frank rear end in a top hat, funny guy
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cumpantry posted:reading The Stranger and it's very enjoyable, i wish i could read more protagonists written like this. such a dumb frank rear end in a top hat, funny guy I just finished The Stranger and I thought it was a total waste of time. I read it in college and hated it, then decided to give the audiobook another shot a month or so ago and it was totally meh. I mean yeah he's an apathetic rear end in a top hat with severe detachment, etc.... I just guess I wish there was some kind of character arc. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Dec 19, 2023 18:09
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c'mon man
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i still think about the stranger all the time, one of my favs.
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McSpankWich posted:I just finished The Stranger and I thought it was a total waste of time. I read it in college and hated it, then decided to give the audiobook another shot a month or so ago and it was totally meh. I mean yeah he's an apathetic rear end in a top hat with severe detachment, etc.... I just guess I wish there was some kind of character arc. You should try playing the VN version instead. It adds a ton of stuff
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McSpankWich posted:I just finished The Stranger and I thought it was a total waste of time. I read it in college and hated it, then decided to give the audiobook another shot a month or so ago and it was totally meh. I mean yeah he's an apathetic rear end in a top hat with severe detachment, etc.... I just guess I wish there was some kind of character arc. Razzing u rn.
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I just finished Trilogy by Jon Fosse and I can't believe this was published with so many typos there are periods missing all over the place and words not capitalized that should be and also there was NO character arc
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finished L'entranger, i wish it went on for 1000 pages because i really did adore the narration. gonna check out some more of this "Camus" guy, top shelf stuff. also trying japanese lit again with Kokoro by Natsume Soseki, i'm interested so far
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McSpankWich posted:I just finished The Stranger and I thought it was a total waste of time. I read it in college and hated it, then decided to give the audiobook another shot a month or so ago and it was totally meh. I mean yeah he's an apathetic rear end in a top hat with severe detachment, etc.... I just guess I wish there was some kind of character arc. i didn't want to respond until i finished reading to better understand you, but it seems in the end i'm only more confused 
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Took me a second to get into it but Augustus by John Williams has managed to get it's hooks into me. It's one thing to read about the wild poo poo that went down after Caesar's death, it's another to read what it was like ground floor for the participants stuck in a nearly unwinnable situation with very, very limited information. You'd call winning in a fiction novel under the circumstances an rear end pull but it loving happened. In Terra Nostra, the sections with El Senor remind me much more of The Leopard than I would've thought I'd get when I read the first section. cumpantry posted:Kokoro by Natsume Soseki, i'm interested so far
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derp posted:I just finished Trilogy by Jon Fosse and I can't believe this was published with so many typos there are periods missing all over the place and words not capitalized that should be and also there was NO character arc lol
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It’s funny, you could accurately describe Stoner as an able-bodied white American man, a son of the soil, lifts himself by his bootstraps to become a college lecturer, though hampered by his horrible frigid wife, who only has sex with him in order to get pregnant, and uses the child to manipulate him. His career suffers a setback because of a conspiracy by two people with physical disabilities. However, he later rediscovers his zest for life when he has an affair with a much younger woman who is also his student. … which doesn’t sound very promising, put like that! But it’s skilfully and poignantly written, and there’s something a little mysterious about every part of the book, which can’t be reduced to the way I’ve phrased it, so it all becomes human, and interesting, and real. A good book.
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Read and deeply enjoyed When We Cease to Understand the World, so much so that I have already also checked out Labatut's 2023 release from the library. Contemplative and dreamlike all at once. Really great stuff.
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Here to recommend Vachel Lindsay's A Handy Guide for Beggars, which I completely stumbled upon in Project Gutenberg. It's creative nonfiction about the author wandering parts of 1910s America on foot in a self-imposed Franciscan quest to live without money, instead trading lectures on or recitations of poetry for food and board. He's a genuine unpretentious talent in prose and it makes me sad I'd never heard of him before. And it's fascinating to see, from a primary source, how people of different stripes react to Lindsay trying to embody a practice of literature.
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It appears that Coatzee’s new novella The Pole is about a man from Eastern Europe, not an upright cylinder.
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FPyat posted:It appears that Coatzee’s new novella The Pole is about a man from Eastern Europe, not an upright cylinder. Disappointing
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FPyat posted:It appears that Coatzee’s new novella The Pole is about a man from Eastern Europe, not an upright cylinder. This is Festivus erasure
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McSpankWich posted:I just finished The Stranger and I thought it was a total waste of time. I read it in college and hated it, then decided to give the audiobook another shot a month or so ago and it was totally meh. I mean yeah he's an apathetic rear end in a top hat with severe detachment, etc.... I just guess I wish there was some kind of character arc. it read like some fedora wearing whiny goons overly long livejournal post if the book had been set in the 90s mersault would have been a vampire larper with a tribal tattoo
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m’aman *tips*
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mdemone posted:Terra Nostra by Carlos Fuentes Oh poo poo someone else has read it
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I went to the book shop to look for a copy of Terra Nostra but they didn't have it. Did walk out with a copy of Seiobo There Below tho
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It was in the sci-fi/fantasy section ehehe
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You're probably going to have to order Terra Nostra. I don't think I've ever seen it in a brick and mortar shop.
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enjoy Seiobo, that book owns
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I bought a used terra nostra online, and the copy that I got was autographed. I googled and it looks like his reals signature too
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derp posted:I bought a used terra nostra online, and the copy that I got was autographed. I googled and it looks like his reals signature too How much do you want for it
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Got anything cool to trade? 😎
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mdemone posted:You're probably going to have to order Terra Nostra. I don't think I've ever seen it in a brick and mortar shop. I have to get a mate a gift and so I will see if its on shelf. If so I guess I'll have to buy it
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I've started reading Moby Dick and it's all this thread's fault
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Volcano posted:I've started reading Moby Dick and it's all this thread's fault To read a mighty book you must take recommendations from a mighty thread
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Volcano posted:I've started reading Moby Dick and it's all this thread's fault up from the spray of thy forum posting, straight up, leaps thy apotheosis
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Volcano posted:I've started reading Moby Dick and it's all this thread's fault gay (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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ThePopeOfFun posted:up from the spray of thy forum posting, straight up, leaps thy apotheosis Post! Post! Post! all the morning long; I posted in that thread till I myself almost melted into it; I posted in that thread till a strange sort of insanity came over me, and I found myself unwittingly emptyquoting my co-posters’ posts in it, mistaking their posts for the gentle globules. Such an abounding, affectionate, friendly, loving feeling did this avocation beget; that at last I was continually emptyquoting their posts, and looking up into their eyes sentimentally, as much as to say,—Oh! my dear fellow beings, why should we longer cherish any social acerbities, or know the slightest ill humour or envy! Come; let us make posts all round; nay, let us all post ourselves into each other; let us post ourselves universally into the very milk and sperm of kindness.
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Gaius Marius posted:Hope he gets that whale this time for sure
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ahh Moby Dick, the first Kaijudrrockso20 posted:It's funny when you think about it that Moby Dick(which The Whale God is sort of an adaptation of) is one of the prototypes for the Kaiju genre and that doesn't really get talked about as often as you'd think(compared to say how Frankenstein gets brought up all the time as the first piece of science fiction)
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