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Smoking Crow: Feb 14, 2012; *laughs at u*

thehomemaster posted:

What's wrong with this?

you're not supposed to like humbert

# ? Jun 30, 2015 04:33

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# ? May 18, 2024 00:00

Stravinsky: May 31, 2011

I fell asleep in the park while reading farewell to matyora but instead of waking up covered in ants like what happened with assisted living they were all over the book. I guess they enjoy village prose also.

# ? Jun 30, 2015 17:28

Earwicker: Jan 6, 2003

End Of Worlds posted:

Oates also seems outright unbalanced and once tweeted that the people deriding Roman Polanski for being a child rapist were hypocrites because they probably enjoyed Nabokov's Lolita, so I dunno if that particular hill is one I want to die on

actually that was also a pretty obvious joke and I am pretty sure that Joyce Carol Oates is well aware that Lolita is a work of fiction

Earwicker fucked around with this message at 18:00 on Jun 30, 2015

# ? Jun 30, 2015 17:56

Mel Mudkiper: Jan 19, 2012; At this point, Mudman abruptly ends the conversation. He usually insists on the last word.

You would think a professional writer would be better at conveying her jokes

# ? Jun 30, 2015 18:16

Guy A. Person: May 23, 2003

Grizzled Patriarch posted:

Oates retweets goofy poo poo like that all the time, and even seems to keep reasonably up-to-date with pop culture. I think it is fair to give her the benefit of the doubt and assume she probably knows what Jurassic Park and / or a dinosaur are.

It's almost literally the exact same joke as the person she retweeted. To understand that one is a joke and not the other is bizarre. Like it might not be the funniest joke in the world but if you think she's serious, just goddamn.

# ? Jun 30, 2015 20:49

Earwicker: Jan 6, 2003

yeah I dont think she's a very good or funny twitter persona really but she is still obviously joking and if those same tweets were coming from some random nerd on twitter they would probably be read as such by everyone without one word being changed

# ? Jun 30, 2015 21:40

Grizzled Patriarch: Mar 27, 2014; These dentures won't stop me from tearing out jugulars in Thunderdome.

Ok I'm glad other people think it was a joke, I was starting to think my sense of humor was completely broken. I mean I agree that it's not an amazing joke or anything, but still.

# ? Jun 30, 2015 23:29

Mr. Squishy: Mar 22, 2010; A country where you can always get richer.

I still think she was serious.

# ? Jun 30, 2015 23:36

Mel Mudkiper: Jan 19, 2012; At this point, Mudman abruptly ends the conversation. He usually insists on the last word.

Mr. Squishy posted:

I still think she was serious.

Given the choices between two realities I choose the one where the pulitzer prize nominated writer thinks that its a real dino

# ? Jul 1, 2015 01:22

CestMoi: Sep 16, 2011

I'm reading At Swim-Two-Birds and I want to live in 1930s Dublin even though today Dublin is a bit poo poo.

# ? Jul 5, 2015 17:45

CestMoi: Sep 16, 2011

I also want a weird uncle, and to never get out of bed.

# ? Jul 5, 2015 17:46

Mr. Squishy: Mar 22, 2010; A country where you can always get richer.

Just buy stout in bottles and replicate the experience.

# ? Jul 5, 2015 17:47

CestMoi: Sep 16, 2011

I drink the Guinness Original that comes in bottles while I read Irish modernist novels even though it tastes really bad.

# ? Jul 5, 2015 17:52

Earwicker: Jan 6, 2003

guiness is disgusting just drink whiskey if you want to drink something irish

# ? Jul 5, 2015 18:45

CestMoi: Sep 16, 2011

Guinness is really really good, but Guinness Original is bad, even though it comes in bottles.

# ? Jul 5, 2015 18:52

Earwicker: Jan 6, 2003

I don't really get the appeal personally, every kind of Guiness I've had tastes like weak burned coffee

# ? Jul 5, 2015 18:54

Ras Het: May 23, 2007; when I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child - but now I am a man.

thats literally stupid

# ? Jul 5, 2015 18:57

CestMoi: Sep 16, 2011

I don't know if it's just a weird placebo thing but I've found the thing everyone says about it tasting better the closer to Dublin you are to be totally true.

# ? Jul 5, 2015 18:58

Earwicker: Jan 6, 2003

maybe we just cant get the Real Stuff in the states? I have never been to Ireland before

I am going to be in Dublin this fall so I will give it another try there

# ? Jul 5, 2015 18:59

Ras Het: May 23, 2007; when I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child - but now I am a man.

the nicest Guinness is the ~8%abv one in those small bottles thats from Nigeria or something and I realise this is a very Me post but to make it more Me i dont even drink guinness anymore cos its not vegan

# ? Jul 5, 2015 19:03

CestMoi: Sep 16, 2011

Ras Het posted:

the nicest Guinness is the ~8%abv one in those small bottles thats from Nigeria or something and I realise this is a very Me post but to make it more Me i dont even drink guinness anymore cos its not vegan

Ahhh poo poo is it one of the ones they strain thru fish?

# ? Jul 5, 2015 19:05

Ras Het: May 23, 2007; when I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child - but now I am a man.

yes

# ? Jul 5, 2015 19:10

Mr. Squishy: Mar 22, 2010; A country where you can always get richer.

You gotta strain it through fish.

# ? Jul 5, 2015 19:26

Jrbg: May 20, 2014

This is the literature thread

Surely literary types shouldn't spend their time pretending to be choosy about alcohol

# ? Jul 5, 2015 19:33

Smoking Crow: Feb 14, 2012; *laughs at u*

J_RBG posted:

This is the literature thread

Surely literary types shouldn't spend their time pretending to be choosy about alcohol

You don't know anything about literature.

# ? Jul 5, 2015 19:34

CestMoi: Sep 16, 2011

This thread is all about growing up.

# ? Jul 5, 2015 19:40

Jrbg: May 20, 2014

Smoking Crow posted:

You don't know anything about literature.

Srsly tho, who does drunk reading? I do. I get very wild with annotations. It's the mark of a fun human being.

# ? Jul 5, 2015 21:17

Burning Rain: Jul 17, 2006; What's happening?!?!

reading while high is good, esp. poetry, drunk reading is pointless

# ? Jul 5, 2015 21:52

Smoking Crow: Feb 14, 2012; *laughs at u*

Burning Rain posted:

reading while high is good, esp. poetry, drunk reading is pointless

Drunk reading is the proper way to read Hemingway and Poe.

# ? Jul 5, 2015 22:23

Carly Gay Dead Son: Aug 27, 2007; Bonus.

I recommend reading The Dictionary of the Khazars high and/or drunk, in whatever order or combination you prefer.

# ? Jul 6, 2015 00:26

Smoking Crow: Feb 14, 2012; *laughs at u*

My recommendation: read a book in the same state as the person who wrote it.

# ? Jul 6, 2015 00:27

blue squares: Sep 28, 2007

Stop posting dumb poo poo

I am currently reading:

The Names by Don DeLillo: this book is boring as gently caress. Often the writing is great but nothing happens at all. Only makes sense half the time. If it wasn't so short I would stop reading. My first DeLillo was White Noise which I loved a lot, but everything of his I have read since then needs more plot.

V. by Thomas Pynchon: I'm only a couple chapters in and it's hilarious. I love the way Pynchon describes things.

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr: Wow. Incredible prose, and the first 50 pages made me almost cry about three times. On page 150 now, great so far.

The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell: Only a few pages in after impulse buying this as Half-Price. Good voice. I look forward to delving into this one once I've knocked Names and Light out.

# ? Jul 6, 2015 00:34

Nanomashoes: Aug 18, 2012

blue squares posted:

V. by Thomas Pynchon: I'm only a couple chapters in and it's hilarious. I love the way Pynchon describes things.

Mondaugen's story is probably the best single thing Pynchon has written and it will suck the hilarity out of you.

# ? Jul 6, 2015 01:29

Mel Mudkiper: Jan 19, 2012; At this point, Mudman abruptly ends the conversation. He usually insists on the last word.

blue squares posted:

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr: Wow. Incredible prose, and the first 50 pages made me almost cry about three times. On page 150 now, great so far.

Its good but I could never shake the feeling the whole story ended up being too narratively safe

EDIT: Also Guinness in Dublin is better because it doesn't have preservatives added to it, and it will always taste awful from a bottle or can because its flavors are unlocked through drafting and even the nitrous thingy doesn't help hth beer noobs

Mel Mudkiper fucked around with this message at 02:10 on Jul 6, 2015

# ? Jul 6, 2015 02:07

Besson: Apr 20, 2006; To the sun's savage brightness he exposed the dark and secret surface of his retinas, so that by burning the memory of vengeance might be preserved, and never perish.

Delillo is bad. His observations are trite, his points overwrought and every character speaks like the narrator.

I liked the description of the mass wedding in Mao II but that's about it.

# ? Jul 6, 2015 03:56

Grimson: Dec 16, 2004

Besson posted:

Delillo is bad. His observations are trite, his points overwrought and every character speaks like the narrator.

I liked the description of the mass wedding in Mao II but that's about it.

I've only read Underworld and it didn't make me wanna read anything more of his - Underworld's 'more than the sum of its parts' in that the sheer scope of the narrative is impressive, but when I try to recall specifics about it, mostly what I come up with (aside from the prologue, which was cool) is the recollection of a lot of terse repetitive dialogue that functions to illustrate Middle Class Ennui(tm), all like--

"Did you sort the recycling?"
"The recycling?"
"The recycling."
"Did I sort it?"
"Sort it."
"No."
"You didn't sort the recycling?"
"The recycling isn't sorted."

Eventually I did sort the recycling. We sort our recycling. Cardboard separated from plastics. Every night. I assure you my dick still works. I like the Rolling Stones.

--which is boring, imo. This is likely an unfair assessment of what's going on in the 827 pages of Underworld but it is what I primarily remember about those 827 pages.

# ? Jul 6, 2015 07:59

Mr. Squishy: Mar 22, 2010; A country where you can always get richer.

Grimson posted:

"Did you sort the recycling?"
"The recycling?"
"The recycling."
"Did I sort it?"
"Sort it."
"No."
"You didn't sort the recycling?"
"The recycling isn't sorted."

Eventually I did sort the recycling. We sort our recycling. Cardboard separated from plastics. Every night. I assure you my dick still works. I like the Rolling Stones.

Haha.

# ? Jul 6, 2015 08:47