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amarantinesky posted:
Haha it's not as much that I don't want to read period, I just prefer non-fiction to fiction. Right now between massive reading for school I'm reading the Lawrence Wright book on Scientology, which is really good. But I always accept recommendations -- I haven't written off reading novels forever, I just prefer collections of shorter stories (usually funny ones) due to attention/memory suckiness.
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we can give recommendations! I read some mindless stuff too so I promise it won't just be Shakespeare.
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couwy posted:Read that and Kafka on the Shore and I just...don't feel Murakami. Maybe I feel alienated by the way he writes women. I read One Hundred Years of Solitude in high school, it's a very strange read. it's always linked in my head with Blindness by José Saramago, which is also surreal and pretty interesting
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If somebody had a bucnh of sci-fi but no Iain M Banks I'd probably judge them for that
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Tempus Fugit posted:I liked it too. Murakami is like reading a zen meditation, you just follow the characters and see where it goes and try not to figure out what might happen. Kafka on the Shore is even better, I thought. But 1Q84 is terrible, don't bother. I went through a Murakami phase, it was a feeling of not really understanding what was going on but enjoying reading the strange journey the characters took. By the end they were usually just more relaxed dudes, too.
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I started reading Color of Magic. I also started reading An Ancestor's Tale, but Dawkins kept boring me with his boring tangents. I'll pick it up again someday. I just didn't need several pages explaining to me how a logarithm works. I want to know about early hominids, dammit! I guess it's easier to gloss over those parts if you're listening to the audiobook.
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Tempus Fugit posted:I liked it too. Murakami is like reading a zen meditation, you just follow the characters and see where it goes and try not to figure out what might happen. Kafka on the Shore is even better, I thought. But 1Q84 is terrible, don't bother. drat I was going to read IQ84 too  Murakami female characters are weird but I think all his characters are strange (and love to spend time in wells). That said, I think Norwegian Wood has a really interesting female character who is sexual and very confident about it. This opinion is based on 16 yo me, though.
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pixelbaron posted:i have two huge backless bookcases i bought that separate my dining room from my entry way and i really need to start fillin em up Would you be interested in a semi random assortment of sci fi books? We've got a box of them that we haven't quite gotten around to donating anywhere and I'd be willing to ship them out if it wasn't prohibitively expensive. Most of them are in fairly good condition, but the writing quality will vary wildly.
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Norwegian Wood was my favorite when I went through my high school Murakami phase.
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Mar 14, 2014 05:21
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amarantinesky posted:drat I was going to read IQ84 too The story in 1Q84 is good, the problem is that the book is too long almost by half. It just never ends. I wish he could have edited about 400 pages out, honestly. Have you all read Borges Ficciones? Please say yes.
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Mar 14, 2014 05:23
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Ton Uqbar Orbis Tertius is the best thing ever written by volume
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detectivemonkey posted:Haha it's not as much that I don't want to read period, I just prefer non-fiction to fiction. Right now between massive reading for school I'm reading the Lawrence Wright book on Scientology, which is really good. But I always accept recommendations -- I haven't written off reading novels forever, I just prefer collections of shorter stories (usually funny ones) due to attention/memory suckiness. I understand but think everyone should read some fiction. I also like short stories but umm usually stuff like Kafka, haha. If you haven't read Nickled and Dimed please do, I swear Barbara Ehrenreich is the best ever. Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders is interesting nonfiction about homeless men in SF. Lots of classic memoirs on mental illness are great (An Unquiet Mind for example).
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Mar 14, 2014 05:25
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last non-fic I read was People Who Eat Darkness. I dunno if you can tell from the title but it's a pretty dark book about a chopped up girl
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Mar 14, 2014 05:28
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my book collection is small because i like libraries and pirated ebooks. and now i can even pirate ebooks from my library.
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Tempus Fugit posted:The story in 1Q84 is good, the problem is that the book is too long almost by half. It just never ends. I wish he could have edited about 400 pages out, honestly. Once you're famous you don't have to edit as much, it seems, which is such a freaking shame. I think I've read parts. I definitely want to read more Borges though! We need to keep a genre-organized ladythread book rec list so I can access them all. boom boom boom posted:Norwegian Wood was my favorite when I went through my high school Murakami phase. A good opinion, I thought it was underappreciated. Plus it reintroduced me to the Beatles.
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Mar 14, 2014 05:31
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right now i'm reading philip kerr's bernie gunther series--noir set in and after the third reich. it's good, although in eight books there's times when it seems like he's just phoning it in.
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Captain Backslap posted:Would you be interested in a semi random assortment of sci fi books? We've got a box of them that we haven't quite gotten around to donating anywhere and I'd be willing to ship them out if it wasn't prohibitively expensive. Most of them are in fairly good condition, but the writing quality will vary wildly. thanks anyway but i am not that into sci fi
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hello i just updated a wordpress site for the first time in my life and deleted half the pictures in one of our artists' portfolios luckily i managed to fix this catastrophe live and learn
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Mar 14, 2014 05:33
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Captain Backslap posted:Would you be interested in a semi random assortment of sci fi books? We've got a box of them that we haven't quite gotten around to donating anywhere and I'd be willing to ship them out if it wasn't prohibitively expensive. Most of them are in fairly good condition, but the writing quality will vary wildly. What sort of Sci-fi books?
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Mar 14, 2014 05:34
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i have a literal library room in my house its only two walls worth of books yet i have not read most of them the last one i read i plucked off the shelf at random and it was Hitchcock's "stories not to be read alone" or something it had a short story by Roald Dahl that featured a guy turning into a bee via eating royal jelly, was good
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amarantinesky posted:Once you're famous you don't have to edit as much, it seems, which is such a freaking shame. Beatles? Enfys fucked around with this message at 13:20 on Mar 15, 2014 |
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WEEDLORDBONERHEGEL posted:i cannot read historical fiction, even porn, once i detect an inaccuracy I am still mad about Gaiman's firebird story where a single sentence mentioned the epicurean club eating giant squid. That is not possible. It is too high in ammonia. The researchers who did try to eat it IRL vomited. I like to read fiction that involves animals, but the author needs to know as much about animals as I do. That should be trivial <  >
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WEEDLORDBONERHEGEL posted:right now i'm reading philip kerr's bernie gunther series--noir set in and after the third reich. it's good, although in eight books there's times when it seems like he's just phoning it in. This is more a response to your earlier post, but I have a lot of trouble with historical fiction because of inaccuracies too. Also I have read many old books so when modern authors try to fake the language, it often doesn't work for me. I think if it's well done it can be pretty good though. Enfys posted:Americanah Wait I thought that was supposed to be a good book?
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Portals posted:I read One Hundred Years of Solitude in high school, it's a very strange read. it's always linked in my head with Blindness by José Saramago, which is also surreal and pretty interesting like i read essays about it in my free time, that's how much i love it aureliano segundo is my waifu
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Avshalom posted:i love love love one hundred years of solitude aaaaah That's awesome. Can you write magical realism novels and illustrate them? Please?! Also sorry about your minor work catastrophe but I'm glad it worked out.
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Pick posted:I am still mad about Gaiman's firebird story where a single sentence mentioned the epicurean club eating giant squid. That is not possible. It is too high in ammonia. The researchers who did try to eat it IRL vomited. i'd read a book with mollusc-hunting sea squirrels
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amarantinesky posted:That's awesome. Can you write magical realism novels and illustrate them? Please?! idk what i'd do once i'd finished, have my coochspiders carry it to leonard cohen probably
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Pick posted:I am still mad about Gaiman's firebird story where a single sentence mentioned the epicurean club eating giant squid. That is not possible. It is too high in ammonia. The researchers who did try to eat it IRL vomited. it's less that i'm mad at them (because really, where would you learn the medals thing without knowing where to look in the first place?) and more that it ruins the fun. Like a record scratch for the mind.
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amarantinesky posted:Murakami female characters are weird but I think all his characters are strange (and love to spend time in wells). That said, I think Norwegian Wood has a really interesting female character who is sexual and very confident about it. This opinion is based on 16 yo me, though. My main issue with how Murakami writes ladies in the two books I read is that they seemed to exist only for sexual purposes for the males in the stories. I have to dwell on this a bit more to articulate this better.  However, I really loved the letters of Lieutenant Mamiya in Wind-Up Bird.
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WEEDLORDBONERHEGEL posted:it's less that i'm mad at them (because really, where would you learn the medals thing without knowing where to look in the first place?) and more that it ruins the fun. Like a record scratch for the mind. My immersion! But unironically, there's a reason realism has been dominating for like 300 years.
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boom boom boom posted:What sort of Sci-fi books? The stuff you could find in SciFi/Fantasy aisles in bookstores over the past couple decades.
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Screw ups are fine if they're clearly intentional, but if it's like "I did no research and am dumb" (life of pi) then gently caress u
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So much posting! I am trying to catch upamarantinesky posted:PART TWO A That's odd, I usually disgrace myself by vomiting at goon meets. Talking to myself is 100% accurate though. Although, at the moment, I am just giving myself a headache from imitating F1 cars (I live near the Melbourne F1 track) and loud planes. The formation jets already went for the day and there is going to be an FA18 flyover soon, it sounds like I'm living in downtown Baghdad.
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couwy posted:My main issue with how Murakami writes ladies in the two books I read is that they seemed to exist only for sexual purposes for the males in the stories. I have to dwell on this a bit more to articulate this better. I haven't read one of his books in years now but that's probably a valid point. I think that's something I liked about Norwegian Wood - the female main character is much more independent and honestly is the interesting part of the novel. You also have to understand that like 90% of his narrators are self-inserts so I'm guessing there's an aspect of wish fulfillment there! Avshalom do it. My dream when I was a kid was to write and illustrate my own books.
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Globo-Hitler III posted:the last one i read i plucked off the shelf at random and it was Hitchcock's "stories not to be read alone" or something I think I read that in the late seventies. I liked those Hitchcock anthologies. Generally my taste in books is terrible, and I barely read physical books any more. Probably the only respectable stuff I read was Salinger and Hesse.
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Kat Delacour posted:
Everyone at Awful Yearbook thought I was vomit goon.jpg when I posted my picture. I felt like a hero. Nothing to be ashamed of.
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amarantinesky posted:
It is. I was recommending a good book you should read. I thought you were looking for recs but might have misread.
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Pick posted:Screw ups are fine if they're clearly intentional, but if it's like "I did no research and am dumb" (life of pi) then gently caress u Ugh. Life of Pi was loving awful.
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Tempus Fugit posted:Ugh. Life of Pi was loving awful. indeed
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Enfys posted:It is. I was recommending a good book you should read. I thought you were looking for recs but might have misread. Oh, good! Yeah I've heard it's wonderful but you posted it after tempus fugit commented on books being too long/ not enough editing so I was worried. Again we need a spreadsheet!
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