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Excuse me, I am just wondering if anyone knows the name or where I can get a Story by Anton Chekhov about a Dog in a town that has just lost it's mast while wander about said town at night and becoming distracted by a band and the smells of the town/city. I read it in class and I desperately want to finish it. Thank you lot very much.
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That'd be Kashtanka, his attempt at a children's story. A free translation is available here, but it's worth tracking down the edition illustrated by Gennady Spirin. Might have to resort to abebooks for it, though.
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Sep 15, 2011 09:48
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Jesus Christ thank you Inktvis, I can't believe you understood my very tired inquiry. I can't believe there is a free version and I cannot believe that a story that captured my heart in a college Humanities class is actually meant for children. I want a physical version of this so I can curl up by the fire and read it so if you know a collection that has it I would be very appreciative.
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Sep 15, 2011 10:04
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Edit: belongs in recommendation thread, sorry.
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Sep 17, 2011 03:27
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People should look here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3437491
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Sep 17, 2011 20:53
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I've been reading Lolita off and on for the last 2 months and I am finding it very hard to get through. I'm about a quarter of the way through part 2 and I just get bored. Does this book get a lot better? Or should I just expect this for the rest of the book?
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Sep 20, 2011 08:17
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GZA Genius posted:I've been reading Lolita off and on for the last 2 months and I am finding it very hard to get through. I'm about a quarter of the way through part 2 and I just get bored. Does this book get a lot better? Or should I just expect this for the rest of the book? I don't remember how the divisions go, i.e. how far into it you are, but from my point of view the end is the weakest part of the book (partially because I spoil myself of the plots of books beforehand, so there was no suspense) - the story does get pretty exciting in the last pages though, and the culmination of the plot is very amusing. Still, if you haven't enjoyed the start of the book, you're not gonna love the rest of it either. Also, you have bad taste, Lolita is one of the most engaging and funniest works of art created.
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Sep 20, 2011 15:49
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Ras Het posted:I don't remember how the divisions go, i.e. how far into it you are, but from my point of view the end is the weakest part of the book (partially because I spoil myself of the plots of books beforehand, so there was no suspense) - the story does get pretty exciting in the last pages though, and the culmination of the plot is very amusing. Still, if you haven't enjoyed the start of the book, you're not gonna love the rest of it either. If by bad taste you mean 300+ pages of how a guy wants to fondle a 12 year old every chance he can get, than yes I guess my taste is bad.
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Sep 21, 2011 02:40
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GZA Genius posted:If by bad taste you mean 300+ pages of how a guy wants to fondle a 12 year old every chance he can get, than yes I guess my taste is bad. I.. wait, what? Are you just learning English? are you severely autistic? I'm not sure how someone could misunderstand this book so much.
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Sep 21, 2011 03:42
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GZA Genius posted:If by bad taste you mean 300+ pages of how a guy wants to fondle a 12 year old every chance he can get, than yes I guess my taste is bad. If you want to actually read the book, get the annotated edition of Lolita by Appel and follow along with the annotations. GZA Genius posted:I just dont see how its a literary classic. It just seems like smut material for goons to sperg on. bearic fucked around with this message at 04:47 on Sep 21, 2011 |
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Sep 21, 2011 03:57
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I just dont see how its a literary classic. It just seems like smut material for goons to sperg on.
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Sep 21, 2011 04:41
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I don't mean to get off the topic, but I have a question. I love to read but I stink at reading. I can't read very quickly or for long periods of time. It's been a problem for me since I started reading twenty odd years back. My best friend can read about 300 pages in an hour or two but I can only read like 25. I also get distracted by the outside world almost every other page. I used to think it was because the book was boring but I've been into some really awesome books lately and I just can't concentrate on what I'm reading for very long. I'm not stupid and I don't think I have A.D.D. but the more I try to read, the more I am starting to question my intelligence. I've always wanted to really be 100% in a book. Anybody have any tips on how to maintain focus and get lost in a book ? Thanks in advance.
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Sep 21, 2011 06:28
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I'm fairly similar, and I would say in most cases it isn't reflective of your attention span or intelligence. I need to be in a fairly non-distracting environment in order to read, whereas I know a lot of people can read while a TV is on. Try reading somewhere quiet, where there won't be a bunch of audible disturbance to drag your attention away. You may also want to try some white noise, as that'll pretty much let you completely ignore any sounds (I occasionally listen to weather tracks while I read). This may be best achieved by reading in bed at night. As far as reading speed goes, it's allegedly something that can be practised and improved, but whenever I try anything beyond sub-vocalisation, I feel like I miss a lot of the character of the writing, because I'm not 'hearing' it any more.
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Sep 21, 2011 06:36
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I usually try to read before I go to sleep. I fall asleep a few pages in. Whenever I try to read during the day, when I feel I would have enough time to really get a lot of reading done, I suddenly realize there's a bunch of stuff to do that isn't reading.
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Sep 21, 2011 07:00
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Reading 300 pages in an hour versus 25 an hour doesn't matter at all if you aren't retaining or really comprehending it though.
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Sep 21, 2011 07:02
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I know that comprehension is more important than speed but I think I can read faster and still comprehend just as well. Is there a way to practice reading faster?
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Sep 21, 2011 07:10
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GZA Genius posted:I just dont see how its a literary classic. It just seems like smut material for goons to sperg on. It's cool when somebody who doesn't know how to read teaches for a living.
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Sep 21, 2011 17:18
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nevermind. Forgot to check this specific forum's rules. My bad
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Sep 22, 2011 19:40
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GZA Genius posted:I just dont see how its a literary classic. It just seems like smut material for goons to sperg on. I was going to say something smug about you probably being a lovely teacher but I'll effortpost and suggest you check other works by Nabokov if you don't like Lolita. Maybe The Gift?
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Sep 22, 2011 19:51
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Admiral Ballsack posted:You may want to reconsider this request.
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Sep 22, 2011 19:52
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Prof_Beatnuts posted:I usually try to read before I go to sleep. I fall asleep a few pages in. Whenever I try to read during the day, when I feel I would have enough time to really get a lot of reading done, I suddenly realize there's a bunch of stuff to do that isn't reading. Is the other stuff recreation or work? And I second the recommendation for either somewhere quiet, or something very non-intrusive on headphones -- I tended to listen to a lot of ambient when I had to read somewhere noisy.
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Sep 23, 2011 22:58
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Idonie posted:Is the other stuff recreation or work? Anything, work, class, games, tv, porn. Any recomendations on what ambient music to listen to?
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Sep 24, 2011 01:04
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Prof_Beatnuts posted:Anything, work, class, games, tv, porn. Personally, I go for a variety of low-key instrumental music. I find if I'm listening to popular music, I start to actually listen to it more than focusing on my reading. I have a few movie soundtrack albums specifically for drowning out distractions so I can read on the bus or wherever. You can also get albums of just ocean waves or white noise.
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Sep 25, 2011 07:21
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The ocean waves sound good, I'll try that.
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Sep 25, 2011 22:54
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Prof_Beatnuts posted:Anything, work, class, games, tv, porn. I'm a big fan of Brian Eno's Music for Airports which is four long, calm, very repetitive tracks. They vary just enough to engage the part of my brain that listens/gets distracted, but not enough to engage the verbal/reading areas. I'd also suggest you might try a reading routine; same chair, same beverage, same music, and just see how long you can get yourself to concentrate. Concentration is at least partially a learned skill, and it can be practised like anything else. I'd also recommend you start with something relatively straightforward for the reading material, instead of diving into really dense non-fiction or anything like that. Once you spend a couple of weeks getting a routine down (something like: at 8pm every night or once a week or whatever I sit in my chair, put up my feet, drink my brandy, and read something for 30 minutes), then you can start increasing the amount of focus the material needs. I'm actually going to give this a try myself, 'cause now that I have a kid I spend way too much of my free time on the computer & not enough reading my embarassingly large stack of library books.
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Sep 25, 2011 23:06
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Prof_Beatnuts posted:Any recomendations on what ambient music to listen to? I'm no expert on ambient nor a channer, but you could try out /mu/'s essential ambient. Of course, you could always ask in No Music Discussion, or stream some sort of ambient/New Age/instrumental online radio.
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Doom Goon posted:I'm no expert on ambient nor a channer, but you could try out /mu/'s essential ambient. Of course, you could always ask in No Music Discussion, or stream some sort of ambient/New Age/instrumental online radio. I don't know why I didn't mention this before (big ambient fan myself), but SomaFM has a ton of great streaming radio channels including a great ambient channel called Drone Zone (I discovered one of my current favorite artists on there, as a matter of fact).
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Sep 27, 2011 13:54
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Is anyone familiar with the various translations of Honore de Balzac's work? There's several translators among the different books of his Human Comedy, but I can't find any sites or reviews that distinguish them. I'm looking to read the public domain translations, but if these are "bad" or inaccurate, I would consider buying a more modern translation instead.
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Sep 27, 2011 18:43
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Does anyone know if something's happened recently that's raised interest in Sartre's works? Until last month the sole copy the library has of The Nausea has been sat unborrowed in the archive store for absolutely ages, now it's on loan and there's suddenly several reservstions on the book.
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Sep 27, 2011 20:06
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cloudchamber posted:Does anyone know if something's happened recently that's raised interest in Sartre's works? Until last month the sole copy the library has of The Nausea has been sat unborrowed in the archive store for absolutely ages, now it's on loan and there's suddenly several reservstions on the book. It has probably been assigned as reading in some college class near you.
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Sep 28, 2011 03:17
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So with the latest addition to the Kindle lineup, I actually think it pushed me over the edge to buy one. I've been waffling a long time on actually getting one, but I'm stilling to pay $109 for the no ads, basic version.
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Sep 29, 2011 17:48
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I have a quick question about finding a story I read. A while back in some other subforum's thread, someone linked a sci-fi short story about an alien invasion. The narrative switched between the alien perspective and the human perspective. The twist of it all was that the aliens were incredibly low-tech by human standards. Their craft were similar to old sailing ships, and they were armed with sabers and single shot pistols and muskets (maybe rifles?). The technology to travel great distances in tiny amounts of time was incredibly simple, but by some freak twist humanity completely missed the secret and continued to develop in a different direction. Anywho, I was wondering if anyone new the name of the story or the author, or if they have a link to where it's hosted online. I'd love to read it again, but I don't have any info to search with. Thanks.
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Tuxedo Ted posted:I have a quick question about finding a story I read. A while back in some other subforum's thread, someone linked a sci-fi short story about an alien invasion. The narrative switched between the alien perspective and the human perspective. The twist of it all was that the aliens were incredibly low-tech by human standards. Their craft were similar to old sailing ships, and they were armed with sabers and single shot pistols and muskets (maybe rifles?). The technology to travel great distances in tiny amounts of time was incredibly simple, but by some freak twist humanity completely missed the secret and continued to develop in a different direction. I do not have the answers you seek, but I am confident that clicking here will lead you towards the path of enlightenment.
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In one of RA Wilson's books, a character talks about altering his consciousness to experience being other people. He specifically mentions reading Reader's Digest and shifting his thought processes so he became a person who cares about the things you'd find in the Digest. Was this Simon Moon or another guy? Would anyone please provide the excerpt for me? Edit: I had no idea you could do this. Maytag fucked around with this message at 02:16 on Oct 7, 2011 |
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Oct 6, 2011 14:17
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Prof_Beatnuts posted:Any recomendations on what ambient music to listen to? Some drone/ambient I like to listen to while reading: Tim Hecker, Stars of the Lid, Belong, Gas, William Basinski, Fennesz, Aidan Baker, Eluvium. I also listen to a lot of other electronic music that's less ambient but still pretty unobtrusive, like Four Tet, Pantha du Prince, The Field, Boards of Canada, etc.
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Conduit for Sale! posted:Some drone/ambient I like to listen to while reading: Tim Hecker, Stars of the Lid, Belong, Gas, William Basinski, Fennesz, Aidan Baker, Eluvium. Get some Harold Budd, Delerium, Dead Can Dance, Future Sound of London, and Enigma up in there too.
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Oct 9, 2011 15:11
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I've gotten all my recent books by raiding Salvational Army bookstores except Reamde. So I imagine all my books were the belongings of dead men, dead women, abused women downsizing their belonging for the long planned fleeing and other colourful things I think about with my hand resting on my stacks as I go to sleep. Anyway, I just got this line-up ready to go. I think I'll save them for when I go travelling next year, bar whatever's the heaviest. Probably Stevenson. I got ridiculously lucky with House of Leaves. Like a closing down new bookstore donated all it's books to charity or something. I think that's how I got all my Christopher Priest, too. 
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Oct 10, 2011 06:29
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Is that a mass market paperback of Infinite Jest? Dear god.
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Conduit for Sale! posted:Is that a mass market paperback of Infinite Jest? Dear god. I don't know if that's bad, if so the connotation has passed me by like the period of time I probably could have caught my tinea with simple pharmaceutical creams instead of how I'm now working up the nerve to apply this tincture I've concocted from formulin and dettol, of which yes, I just happened to have. I was surprised too. But the book has a foreword by David Eggers and I really don't like David Eggers, so I can be upset about that, and you can be upset about a book being made into a small, sexy paperback that can be carried around and read by the intellectual on the go. Because it sounds like you are, upset that is, and that's kinda why I wrote the whole first paragraph. Because that's just as silly. Do you have a good reason? Hell, I got to use tincture. What do you get out of being ridiculous?
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Sir, where can I read more of your writing? Besides Post History I mean.
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