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Burning Rain posted:this story about an aging lit professor coming to terms with his mortality? Name a book where that happens In other news, Sunday Book Review decided to ask Knausgaard to review Houellebecq and the results are hilarious Mel Mudkiper fucked around with this message at 14:50 on Nov 2, 2015 |
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of the ones i've read recently: wonder boys, i guess. ot is this a trick question, because you can't ever come to terms with your mortality?
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Nov 2, 2015 16:02
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a country dinosaur's notebook
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Nov 2, 2015 16:09
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Name a book where that happens it reads like he's basically one of the guys houellebecq is satirising
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Nov 2, 2015 16:14
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you might say he ain't no Houllebecq girl 
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Nov 2, 2015 16:25
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:you might say he ain't no Houllebecq girl booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Burning Rain posted:of the ones i've read recently: wonder boys, i guess. ot is this a trick question, because you can't ever come to terms with your mortality? Its just kind of obnoxious because everytime someone criticizes literary fiction its always "college professor is depressed and sleeps with his student blah blah" and these books are a super rarity. Literary fiction is diverse and exciting and its tedious to hear people dismiss because they have this weird "ew english majors" loathing of it. Mel Mudkiper fucked around with this message at 17:02 on Nov 2, 2015 |
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Nov 2, 2015 16:34
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how many of you are doing nanorimo
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Nov 2, 2015 17:18
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Smoking Crow posted:how many of you are doing nanorimo nah no nanorimo
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Nov 2, 2015 17:21
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Mel Mudkiper posted:nah no nanorimo be the change you want in the literary world
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Nov 2, 2015 17:22
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Smoking Crow posted:be the change you want in the literary world I am already planning to bomb a scifi convention what more do you want from me
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Nov 2, 2015 17:23
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Smoking Crow posted:how many of you are doing nanorimo Writing is for fail idiots
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Nov 2, 2015 17:41
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I'm doing nanoremo.
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Nov 2, 2015 18:21
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High Warlord Zog posted:The Bone Clocks has an aging lit professor coming to terms with his mortality and body hopping wizards who shoot physic lasers out of their chakra eyes and a The Bone Clocks is the book that made me realize I don't really like David Mitchell much anymore. Then Slade House sealed the deal.
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Nov 2, 2015 18:25
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magic mumbogooblyjumbogook blowout climax.
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Name a book where that happens Stoner, by John Williams. Super depressing. Read it.
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Moacher posted:The Bone Clocks is the book that made me realize I don't really like David Mitchell much anymore. Then Slade House sealed the deal. I read Cloud Atlas earlier this year and was kind of like "is this it?"
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Nov 2, 2015 18:35
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David Mitchell seems like a really great technical writer but Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks were way too sterile for me.
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Nov 2, 2015 18:46
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Black Swan Green is my favorite David Mitchell, it's about a young British kid aging and coming to terms with puberty. No supernatural silliness, just a good book. Dresden Files is fun and sometimes you want to watch Jurassic Park instead of The Seventh Seal and That's Alright. Stoner and Wonder Boys are really good aging lit professor books but Humboldt's Gift was a really bad one (although it's a poet and instead of sleeping with a student he has an Exotic Woman From Another Country Who Uses His Foot To Get Herself Off and Also She's a Gold-Digging Vixen Who Doesn't Appreciate His Genius)
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Chamberk posted:Humboldt's Gift was a really bad one (although it's a poet and instead of sleeping with a student he has an Exotic Woman From Another Country Who Uses His Foot To Get Herself Off and Also She's a Gold-Digging Vixen Who Doesn't Appreciate His Genius) To be fair Saul Bellow is a fraud EDIT: Seriously gently caress Humboldt's Gift Mel Mudkiper fucked around with this message at 20:01 on Nov 2, 2015 |
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Nov 2, 2015 19:58
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thanks for the rec, i should read it soon
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Nov 2, 2015 20:16
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Exit Ghost is 100% aging literary figure coming to terms with own mortality. It owns.
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Nov 2, 2015 20:27
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Thoughts on Umberto Eco? About 2/3 of the way through the Name of the Rose so far and finding the story pretty gripping even though all the Latin and purple prose thrown in is mildly irritating. I do love, love historical fiction though and so might tackle some of his other novels after this.
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Mel Mudkiper posted:To be fair Saul Bellow is a fraud I think some of the writing is super great and some of the issues he tries to tackle are interesting but yeah his view of women was super lovely.
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Chamberk posted:Stoner and Wonder Boys are really good aging lit professor books but Humboldt's Gift was a really bad one (although it's a poet and instead of sleeping with a student he has an Exotic Woman From Another Country Who Uses His Foot To Get Herself Off and Also She's a Gold-Digging Vixen Who Doesn't Appreciate His Genius) Disgrace is really good lit professor lit and Coetzee is a really good author and Waiting for the Barbarians is a really good fantasy-ish book and should be required reading for everyone who thinks real literature is Hard To Read.
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High Warlord Zog posted:Disgrace is really good lit professor lit and Coetzee is a really good author and Waiting for the Barbarians is a really good fantasy-ish book and should be required reading for everyone who thinks real literature is Hard To Read. Technically, he was a Communications Skills professor.
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Nov 3, 2015 00:26
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Name a book where that happens White Noise is close but he is a professor in Hitler studies and not lit.
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I'd say gently caress Bellow but before I read Humboldt, I read Augie March, which was actually really really good.
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Guy A. Person posted:White Noise is close but he is a professor in Hitler studies and not lit. there's no difference. (the toxic cloud is modernity)
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Nov 3, 2015 01:56
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John Banville writes a lot about people coming to terms with mortality but I still like him
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Guy A. Person posted:White Noise is close but he is a professor in Hitler studies and not lit. The Tunnel is also about a Hitler studies guy, but it's not about aging but coming to terms with how much he hates his wife. Mr. Squishy fucked around with this message at 10:53 on Nov 3, 2015 |
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Just finished The Name of the Rose because of this thread and now I'm starting Focault's Pendulum, is there anything I should know before diving in? Also does anyone know where I can find all the chapter headers translated or should I just learn the 10 or so languages that Eco pulls quotes from?
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TheManFromFOXHOUND posted:Just finished The Name of the Rose because of this thread and now I'm starting Focault's Pendulum, is there anything I should know before diving in? Also does anyone know where I can find all the chapter headers translated or should I just learn the 10 or so languages that Eco pulls quotes from?
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Nov 3, 2015 19:11
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I should probably read The Name of the Rose. Someone seems to bring that book up on every page. Its like there is an Eco in here.
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Nov 3, 2015 19:20
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boo, gently caress your puns
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Name a book where that happens It's obviously Stoner dude.
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Nov 3, 2015 20:26
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I consider myself pretty eco-friendly, but I still haven't read any of his books
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ulvir posted:I consider myself pretty eco-friendly, but I still haven't read any of his books Yeah he has a very special way of combining cultural and literary ideas into new interpretations. It's very unique to him. You could almost call it Eco-logical
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Nov 3, 2015 20:41
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Does his writing have any instructional qualities? I'd read it for good Eco-gnomic sense.
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Nov 3, 2015 20:45
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I was just reading about this University in Italy that is already consolidating his notes and drafts for posterity. After he dies they want it to be the premiere Eco location.
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If you guys were pros you'd use umberto in a pun
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