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Mr. Squishy posted:Columbo is not a book and there has not been a novelisation, as far as I know.l There are a lot of mystery stories that use that model though. First ones were the Doctor Thorndyke mysteries by Austin Freeman, written from around 1907 to the early 40's.. Basically pioneered the whole idea of a CSI-style forensic physician detective, and I believe invented the "see the murder first, then the story is how it gets solved" format.
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paint dry posted:I'm on kind of a Japan kick, and for that reason I started to read Kokoro today. Man this book is depressing The book is really stupid but cool from a intersection of west and east influences point of view
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Apr 22, 2015 01:46
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I'm actually probably just annoyed that my copy was awkwardly big
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Apr 22, 2015 01:48
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The true literary counterpart for Columbo is Crime and Punishment (1866) switching the investigated target from the very poor to the very rich speaks deeply about the divide between the American and Russian national character.
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Apr 22, 2015 01:49
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Mr. Squishy posted:The true literary counterpart for Columbo is Crime and Punishment (1866) switching the investigated target from the very poor to the very rich speaks deeply about the divide between the American and Russian national character. LITTRANS 446: COLUMBO AND DOSTOESVKY - A FANTASIA
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Apr 22, 2015 03:59
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quote:On the surface, I was calm: in secret, without really admitting it, I was waiting for something. Her return? How could I have been waiting for that? We all know that we are material creatures, subject to the laws of physiology and physics, and not even the power of all our feelings combined can defeat those laws. All we can do is detest them. The age-old faith of lovers and poets in the power of love, stronger than death, that finis vitae sed non amoris, is a lie, useless and not even funny. So must one be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates despair and love as soon as its maker sets it going?
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Apr 22, 2015 04:32
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Mr. Squishy posted:Columbo is not a book and there has not been a novelisation, as far as I know.l
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Apr 22, 2015 11:50
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Going by those titles Columbo solves the JFK assassination, the Manson killings, the mafia, and then takes on the FBI. Not a bad day's work.
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Apr 22, 2015 12:31
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Stravinsky posted:The book is really stupid but cool from a intersection of west and east influences point of view I am enjoying it a lot honestly. Depressingly I see a lot of myself in Sensei.
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Apr 22, 2015 13:08
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 How mad does this make you, thread?
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Apr 23, 2015 08:54
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I haven't read it so I don't know it's quality but it does have Morrissey's cum face on the cover so that's cool
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Apr 23, 2015 14:29
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What are you saying, Morrissey has never come. That is is being worshipped by thousands of Smiths fans face.
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Apr 23, 2015 15:02
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IXIX posted:Pevear and Volokhonsky are considered nowadays to be the most accurate. I haven't read their Anna Karenina, but their W&P translation is excellent. It might be worth a bit of research to see if there's anything even better, but if I were buying AK today, their translation is the one I'd get. e:f,b (a page back)
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Apr 23, 2015 15:06
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Mr. Squishy posted:I thought you were talking about Richard Hoftstadter of the Paranoid Style in American Politics and I was surprised. I wonder if they're related. I was thinking that too. Pseudo-Conservatives are RUINING LITERATURE
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Apr 23, 2015 15:24
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Nanomashoes posted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49lPGmnYDw4
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Apr 23, 2015 15:30
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Nanomashoes posted:
doesnt penguin classics publish dracula? cant be worse than that.
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Apr 23, 2015 15:40
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corn in the bible posted:doesnt penguin classics publish dracula? cant be worse than that. Dracula's good shut up
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Apr 23, 2015 15:42
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Smoking Crow posted:Dracula's good shut up dracula is for children and manchildren afraid of sex
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Apr 23, 2015 15:46
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Ive never heard Morrissey and much of my experience with him on the internet tells me that is a good thing
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Apr 23, 2015 16:58
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So I spent the last month or so reading/slogging through Der Grüne Heinrich by Gottfried Keller. It's a massive novel, and one of the last of the initial wave of German-language Bildungsromans about art. My feelings about it are quite ambivalent, because although there were snatches of beauty and brilliance it was mostly concerned with the mundane and quotidian to an almost obsessive degree. It didn't help that there were 30-page tangents that seemed barely related until you got to the end of them. It didn't help, either, that it was crawling along at a snail's pace following a protagonist I couldn't quite get myself to feel entirely sympathetic towards, following his bad decisions (which is par for the course for the genre), which inevitably arise because he forgets the basic lessons they taught him (which isn't). I liked the general discussion of Nature and Art and God, and I also quite liked his hangups about women not living up to this obsessive ideal he has of them because of the Pure and Virginal First Love he had. What I didn't like was the minutiae and the details, especially towards the end where yet again this somehow-charming guy falls totally in love with this girl in a castle, and she loves him back but yet again nothing comes of it because he's a weirdo. Yeah, we get it. But what really redeemed the book for me was the ending when he decides he has been pursuing an entirely selfish road of being an artist, and has forgotten all the sacrifices other people made for him (esp. his mother). So he gives it all up, he packs in the dream and settles for a life in the civil service, which he finds infinitely more satisfying. Even though he's probably still alone and has all these creative impulses. As an ending it's a huge anticlimax but it speaks a lot to me, it felt much more genuine and convincing than how it could have ended. I think it was a really brave way to go about things from Keller's standpoint. So basically I like the general idea of the novel, but not really how it went about things. I like a novel about continually oscillating between your options, lurching from one epiphany to the next without really learning anything, and eventually letting go of your naive youthful idealism as the moment of 'maturity', but I don't particularly like the endless near-identical women Heinrich has unrequited love for, the endless 'oh I thought my painting was good, but then I saw Other Painting which was really good' and 'artists are different to normal people'. So if anybody has some cool German lit recs I'd be p grateful corn in the bible posted:dracula is for children and manchildren afraid of sex nuh uh
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Apr 23, 2015 17:08
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I've just read the bit of Western Canon where Bloom waxes lyrical about how cool Faust is for like 30 pages so read that for me and tell me about it thanks.
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CestMoi posted:I've just read the bit of Western Canon where Bloom waxes lyrical about how cool Faust is for like 30 pages so read that for me and tell me about it thanks. Which one
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Apr 23, 2015 18:57
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Goethe's Faust, Part 2 most especially.
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Apr 23, 2015 19:34
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Part 1 has a little black poodle that walks around Faust a few times but as an emissary of Satan each of its adorable pawprints burns with a black flame.
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Apr 23, 2015 20:02
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I gotta get to reading that soon
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Apr 23, 2015 20:32
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CestMoi posted:Faust Ooh yeah. I have Sorrows of Young Werther on my shelf but considering Goethe is regarded in Germany as some kind of semi-Jesus then maybe he's worth dipping into a bit
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Apr 23, 2015 20:57
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I just learned the first draft of Goethe's Faust is published as Urfaust and thats amazing
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Apr 23, 2015 21:25
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Mel Mudkiper posted:I just learned the first draft of Goethe's Faust is published as Urfaust and thats amazing The Urfaust is great. Regular Faust is great too but Goethe softened things a bit in it.
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Apr 23, 2015 21:58
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The new Harper Lee book should be published as Proto-Mockingbird
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Apr 23, 2015 23:43
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I finished Infinite Jest and it started getting a bit good near the end and then promptly stopped, and continued to be bad until it finished. Now I'm going to read some other things and I'm not sure what yet, but I hope they are better than this bad book.
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Apr 27, 2015 19:23
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Also in a book which features a grammatical prescriptivist and her stupid genius son you would think someone might use the word ambivalent correctly.
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Apr 27, 2015 19:24
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CestMoi posted:Also in a book which features a grammatical prescriptivist and her stupid genius son you would think someone might use the word ambivalent correctly. hai was 100% not kidding about how bad dfw's thoughts on prescriptivism are: http://wilson.med.harvard.edu/nb204/AuthorityAndAmericanUsage.pdf
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Apr 27, 2015 19:34
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It is ironic that a writer famous for being a Post-Modern poster child was a strong adherent of Structuralism.
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Apr 27, 2015 19:49
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gently caress y'all haters
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Apr 27, 2015 20:16
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blue squares posted:gently caress y'all haters I like DFW tho, I just find his positioning in the prescriptivist/descriptivist debate ironic
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Apr 27, 2015 20:28
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I think that words are words
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Apr 27, 2015 20:30
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Smoking Crow posted:I think that words are words Pre-Derridean thinking right here
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Apr 27, 2015 20:34
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Mel Mudkiper posted:It is ironic that a writer famous for being a Post-Modern poster child was a strong adherent of Structuralism. Err actually he's post post modern perhaps even metamodern and he has ushered in a new era of sincerity in modern literature.
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Apr 27, 2015 20:40
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It has done this by never having any character be sincere, apart from the crippled and often portrayed as too stupid to think properly, teenager.
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CestMoi posted:It has done this by never having any character be sincere, apart from the crippled and often portrayed as too stupid to think properly, teenager. Don was pretty sincere though, and I think the strongest character in the novel
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