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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:Enkidu was a real G. Enkidu hosed a sex worker and got drunk and that made him a civilized man Edit: Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett is older than your grandpa and whips rear end
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Oct 28, 2021 06:10
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Talkc posted:Gotta go for Jules Verne for my personal fave which is 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. It feels so much like youre being drawn in for this grand journey into the world abroad, like someone telling you about this amazing vacation, where things go a little tilt. a league is around 3.5 miles so 20,000 leagues would be 70,000 miles or 10 times the entire diameter of the earth. Sounds like Mr Jules Verne needs to take a science class
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Oct 28, 2021 06:13
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i likw that one kafka short story where franz or whoever wakes up and he's jeff goldblum but he still has to go to his lovely insurance job or whatever. its total horseshit jeff goldblun was in independence day
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Oct 28, 2021 06:33
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if the scarlett letter stood for "assplay" i doubt that lady would have been exiled
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I've slowly been working my way thru Typee. I found a nice 3-in-1 hardcover at a thrift store that also has Omoo and Mardi. I doubt I'll be reading those other two anytime soon. I'm halfway through Typee and it already feels repetitive. Moby Dick does rule and I look forward to revisiting it sometime in the next few years. Also, this past summer I hiked the Monument Mountain in MA, it was incredibly beautiful. quote:On August 5, 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville enjoyed a well-chronicled picnic hike up Monument Mountain. A thunderstorm forced them to seek refuge in a cave where a lengthy and vigorous discussion ensued, inspiring powerful ideas for Melville’s new book, Moby-Dick, which he dedicated to Hawthorne.
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:a league is around 3.5 miles so 20,000 leagues would be 70,000 miles or 10 times the entire diameter of the earth. It's almost like the title of the book is 20000 leagues, under the sea
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Oct 28, 2021 11:07
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wesleywillis posted:Anyone here read War and Peace? It's so loving good. And it's not a difficult read at all once you get past all the Russian names, people just find it intimidating cause it being super long is basically a meme.
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Oct 28, 2021 11:07
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Revins posted:I have a bunch of Camus but haven't revisited most of it in like 7 years maybe. Wonder how I'd feel about his stuff today. or kafka, for that matter Camus is good and cool, now and always. Unlike that weird crab-seeing motherfucker Sartre Even though his non-fiction is mostly impenetrable to me, I tried and failed several times to read L'Homme Revolté
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ScRoTo TuRbOtUrD posted:i likw that one kafka short story where franz or whoever wakes up and he's jeff goldblum but he still has to go to his lovely insurance job or whatever. its total horseshit jeff goldblun was in independence day Die Verwandlung? It's the only Kafka book I ever read along with the obvious one (The Trial), and actually in German this time, albeit painstakingly. Just like the other one it's depressing as poo poo
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Oct 28, 2021 11:14
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Elman posted:It's so loving good. And it's not a difficult read at all once you get past all the Russian names, people just find it intimidating cause it being super long is basically a meme. Most of the 19th-century classics aren't particularly difficult reads, other than the occasionally convoluted sentence structure and outdated references to specific types of horse coaches. The narrative is usually a lot easier to follow than much of the current fiction that's trying to be extra and post-modern. So don't be scared off by that
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Oct 28, 2021 11:17
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hell astro course posted:funny to think about people waiting for the next part of the story to come out in whatever weird news paper things they were reading the stories in back then Man a fuckin mickey mouse story took weeks. The monarch of medioka, more like medi-skip it. Nailed it.
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Oct 28, 2021 12:04
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wesleywillis posted:Anyone here read War and Peace? it's bad as such, but it is quite overrated
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Oct 28, 2021 13:12
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Just reached Albert and Franz’s Roman vacation. How long is this going to last, because it seems to have no end
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Oct 29, 2021 14:32
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Lord Decimus Barnacle posted:Bartleby the scrivener is a great very short read We were assigned to read that in high school and I was the only one to get through the story. It is a bit of a thick read even for short story and it doesn't have much of a plot other than "Here's this dude who doesn't want to do much. Here's more of the dude who doesn't want to do much. Here's more of the dude who doesn't want to do much. Here's more of the dude who doesn't want to do much. Oh, He died." Makes me wonder what got under Melville's bonnet to make him write such a story.
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Oct 29, 2021 19:56
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Darth Brooks posted:We were assigned to read that in high school and I was the only one to get through the story. It is a bit of a thick read even for short story and it doesn't have much of a plot other than "Here's this dude who doesn't want to do much. Here's more of the dude who doesn't want to do much. Here's more of the dude who doesn't want to do much. Here's more of the dude who doesn't want to do much. Oh, He died." I modeled my life after that great man
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Oct 29, 2021 20:38
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I started reading Moby Dick yesterday and goddamn, Ishmael is kind of funny.
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Oct 30, 2021 10:15
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The Ghost of Tom Joad is a classic song by Rage Against The Machine
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Oct 30, 2021 12:51
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From theit hit album, Grapes of Rage
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Oct 30, 2021 12:55
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np19 posted:Everyone owes it to themselves to read Germinal by Emile Zola. I don’t hear enough people talk about it when the matter of “the classics” comes up. I've just about finished this one. Great book, very moving, even though I had to struggle past some of the very specific French mining terminology at the start.
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Nov 4, 2021 20:05
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I did 1984 a while back and man, is that book overrated. Where it's good, it's loving excellent, but a solid half the book is literally a textbook lecture and a character giving a lecture on 101 level dystopia politics. Was glad he had the balls to give it the proper ending for the world he set up. But I'm also a Connecticut Yankee apologist, so maybe I just have bad taste.
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Nov 5, 2021 17:26
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The first rule or Fight Club still rings as true to day as the day it was written
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Nov 5, 2021 17:29
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Just reread the Iliad for the first time in decades and it still whips rear end. Forgot exactly how awesome my man Diomedes was; Achilles who?
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Nov 5, 2021 17:52
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Everyone should read this weird-rear end short story by Borges: https://sites.evergreen.edu/politicalshakespeares/wp-content/uploads/sites/226/2015/12/Borges-Tl%F6n-Uqbar-Orbius-Tertius.pdf
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Talkc posted:Gotta go for Jules Verne for my personal fave which is 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. It feels so much like youre being drawn in for this grand journey into the world abroad, like someone telling you about this amazing vacation, where things go a little tilt. Its also got a overly loyal man servany ala Sam Gamgee in it. It features the odd mention of savages which isn't great. And everyone has that weird old timey nationalism where people are brought to tears moreso than merely watching someone die but because they were a fellow countryman. And then a lot of the book is also "and we visited this known geographical sea place and then this other geographical sea place you've read in an encyclopedia, and then yet another geographical place." Still good fun though
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