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Mira posted:Nadine Gordimer is incredible. It's a shame people tend to overlook her as a prose stylist because of her activism. I didn;t think it was possible to overlook the writing of a Nobel Laureate
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Naw, I just meant that I feel as if more people don't appreciate her for her language.
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I got ya. I picked up Burger's daughter last year along with a Thiong'o novel but haven't had the time to fit either in.
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"The God of Small Things" was excellent, I read that a few months ago and flat out loved it. And yeah, I've been holding off on that Ferrante because 1) the covers and 2) when I looked up news stories about her, all I saw was stories about the release of the latest book and how bookstores were planning wine parties for women who said "THE CHARACTERS ARE JUST LIKE ME AND MY FRIENDS"
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news coverage locally is the main reason I have never read a single novel by Knausgård it seems he's getting a lot of attention from literary circles internationally though, so I should probably get to it eventually. his latest work sounds interesting e: thanks for the new tips on the previous page too. I'll scribble'em down in my list
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Chamberk posted:And yeah, I've been holding off on that Ferrante because 1) the covers and 2) when I looked up news stories about her, all I saw was stories about the release of the latest book and how bookstores were planning wine parties for women who said "THE CHARACTERS ARE JUST LIKE ME AND MY FRIENDS" It's superficial as hell but this is why I have been dragging my feet on reading Austen. Jane Austen has become this weird literal industry recently and it's hard for me to separate the text from the obnoxious culture it has spawned.
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ulvir posted:not that much left of 2015 now, and I'm noticing that my reading list is hella male-centric to boot. Apart from Sylvia Plath, any other female authors I should bump up in my reading queue? Anaïs Nin Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Mel Mudkiper posted:It's superficial as hell but this is why I have been dragging my feet on reading Austen. Jane Austen has become this weird literal industry recently and it's hard for me to separate the text from the obnoxious culture it has spawned. she's fun, read Emma until the last 20 pages or so and imagine your own ending instead of the author's
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There's a Borges story called The Library of Babel where a guy explains the Library which is a series of interlocking hexagons which you can move through and every hexagon has 4 walls with bookshelves on and each bookshelf has 5 shelves and each shelf has 32 books on and each book has 410 pages and each page has 40 lines and each line is a random combination of about 80 letters and people move through the Library trying to find actual coherent books that say things and the story is really great. Anyway, someone made it https://libraryofbabel.info/browse.cgi
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ulvir posted:thanks, I'll check'em out. The Female Man is really good.
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Do you read poetry, or is that only for the poetry megathread? Because poetry is literature.Its also super existing, thus real. But i don't see any of that here, just narrative reading people. Not even theatre. If we're allowed to, i want to say the book hara kiri (Bertoni) is good.
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unao posted:Do you read poetry, or is that only for the poetry megathread? *gestures out the window* as you can see, friend, the state of the subforum is such that there's simply too many people talking about poetry and theater for us to combine the threads
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ulvir posted:not that much left of 2015 now, and I'm noticing that my reading list is hella male-centric to boot. Apart from Sylvia Plath, any other female authors I should bump up in my reading queue? lydia davis, lorrie moore, cynthia ozick, joan didion
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Mira posted:Naw, I just meant that I feel as if more people don't appreciate her for her language. I didn't know much about her until I started The Pickup and it was the language that drew me in, just an excellent start to a novel and couldn't put it down. (also it's a short read) unao posted:Do you read poetry, or is that only for the poetry megathread? I'm pretty sure we have discussed some poetry, and we have definitely discussed theatre in here . In any case yes I enjoy poetry and I'm sure several others here do as well. If you want to discuss poetry in this thread, go right ahead, no one is stopping you from doing so and that would probably be more interesting than whining about it not being discussed. Chamberk posted:"The God of Small Things" was excellent, I read that a few months ago and flat out loved it. If you are into non-fiction, she also has a very good book called Walking With the Comrades in which Roy has embedded herself into a group of Maoist guerrillas fighting against mining companies (and their government collaborators) in Orissa. Depressing but also inspiring, very recommend. Earwicker fucked around with this message at 10:10 on Sep 27, 2015 |
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There was a poetry thread but I think it died a death because I said I liked Wordsworth.
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With that in mind: I went to the woods the other day and listened to birds in trees and read The Brothers by Wordsworth and it was great.
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Mr. Squishy posted:How were the tree-birds?
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Mr. Squishy posted:How were the tree-birds? More like POO-tee-weet
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Mr. Squishy posted:How were the tree-birds? They were very pleasant and nice to listen to as I contemplated how the first part of the poem was basically calling me out for exactly what I was doing at the time (sitting in a nature place and hoping for inspiration). I also saw a lot of pheasants but they weren't in trees, they were on teh floor.
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CestMoi posted:There was a poetry thread but I think it died a death because I said I liked Wordsworth.
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Incident by Countee Cullen is the best poem and Cuadrados y Angulos by Alfonsina Storni the second best
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Incident by Countee Cullen is the best poem and Cuadrados y Angulos by Alfonsina Storni the second best Your trolling of this thread is getting out of hand.
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CestMoi posted:Your trolling of this thread is getting out of hand. Sorry you can't handle elite-tier art
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Grimson posted:"Old Man Travelling; Animal Tranquillity and Decay, a Sketch" is cool and is one of my favorite poims probably (the 1798 version of it) It is good, but there are much better poems, both in Lyrical Ballads, and in the oeuvres of all the poets.
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Sorry you can't handle elite-tier art  and every single one of your posts is a calculated troll of those of use who just wish to post about good books.
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CestMoi posted:There was a poetry thread but I think it died a death because I said I liked Wordsworth. If someone doesn't like 'A slumber did my spirit seal' then gently caress em, tbh
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Sep 28, 2015 22:50
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CestMoi posted:
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Smoking Crow posted:why did you click on my profile and post history I was convinced you'd written a long post about surrealist writers and I went looking through your posts to try and find it but it turned out to be a completely different person
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Still not sure how liking Countee Cullen and Alfonsina Storni is trolling tbh
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CestMoi posted:I was convinced you'd written a long post about surrealist writers and I went looking through your posts to try and find it but it turned out to be a completely different person Not a fan of surrealism, personally
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I just bought the complete stories of Kafka. I'm ready for a German satirical adventure!
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What should I read after If on a winter's night a traveler?
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Music Theory posted:What should I read after If on a winter's night a traveler? As in more Calvino or something similar?
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Mel Mudkiper posted:As in more Calvino or something similar? Either would be cool.
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Music Theory posted:Either would be cool. Invisible Cities is the other best Calvino. Cloud Atlas has a similar gimmick. Ummm, I don't know who has a similar style.
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Mel makes some pretty good recommendations but his frank nature is easy to take as trolling. I've been reading through the books everybody recommend - The Gone Away World was pretty good and I got my brother a copy of it for his birthday, The Secret History was incredible and I'm now going to read all of Donna Tartt's novels and Carry the One was a great read, it really reminded me of Franzen. I'm currently reading I Am Radar and it reminds me a lot of Chabon's style.
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Guy A. Person posted:Invisible Cities is the other best Calvino. These look good; thanks. (Although I still want to hear Mel's recommendations)
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