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please ban me from this internet forum because people on it think Cormac McCarthy is good
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Like I even sympathize with the dude a little because cities on the plain was loving trash but you can't call out his whole catalog and not get burned.
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Nov 7, 2015 23:18
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Mel Mudkiper posted:And on this, our hundredth page, we claim our first victim rip I bought a copy of White Teeth and NW from the library bookstore today, which should I read first?
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Nov 8, 2015 00:02
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This was the straw that broke the burro's back. I've seen the meanness of Goons till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away. Lowtax may wear a star but whose law does he uphold?
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Nov 8, 2015 00:20
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I mean, all of you poo poo on me for disliking Italo Calvino but I didn't leave the forum mostly because I was right and also smarter than all of you
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Nov 8, 2015 00:24
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Cercadelmar posted:rip White Teeth, imo. Mel Mudkiper posted:I mean, all of you poo poo on me for disliking Italo Calvino but I didn't leave the forum mostly because I was right and also smarter than all of you  Calvino rules.
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Nov 8, 2015 00:24
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Grizzled Patriarch posted:
He rules the suck kingdom on his suck throne because he sucks  *shots fired*
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Nov 8, 2015 00:31
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next you're gonna tell me that the book of disquiet is trash
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ulvir posted:next you're gonna tell me that the book of disquiet is trash Fernando Pessoa was a wannabe Ricardo Reis
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Mel Mudkiper posted:He rules the suck kingdom on his suck throne because he sucks Out of curiosity, what about Borges? I don't think I've ever met anyone who didn't feel pretty much the same way about both of them, which probably just indicates that there is some fundamental aspect of how they approach storytelling that either clicks or doesn't.
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Grizzled Patriarch posted:Out of curiosity, what about Borges? I don't think I've ever met anyone who didn't feel pretty much the same way about both of them, which probably just indicates that there is some fundamental aspect of how they approach storytelling that either clicks or doesn't. Honestly Borges and Calvino are fine. You pretty much hit the nail on the head that their style just doesn't mesh with me. I can absolutely appreciate them as geniuses on an objective level I just am not particularly fond of the nature of their fiction.
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Nov 8, 2015 00:58
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Grizzled Patriarch posted:Out of curiosity, what about Borges? I don't think I've ever met anyone who didn't feel pretty much the same way about both of them, which probably just indicates that there is some fundamental aspect of how they approach storytelling that either clicks or doesn't.
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Nov 8, 2015 01:34
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Cercadelmar posted:rip White Teeth. I'm reading that right now and it's really good - Zadie Smith manages to write a lot of people with different backgrounds and not make it seem horribly cliched or too supportive of any one particular belief.
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Nov 8, 2015 01:39
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I just finished White Teeth but I didn't get the whole "the ending sucks" angle that Earwicker was talking about earlier. There is a little bit of out-of-the-blue stuff right at the end Archie didn't kill the doctor guy back in WWII but I kind of expected that, at least where it first mentions this incident, and wasn't really aghast that it showed up at the end. Then again my reads are pretty surface level the first time around and I basically came away with the fact that the book is funny and clever, though I guess the ending is really neither of those things and I'm not sure how it adds to the rest of the book's themes. If I thought about it for maybe one second I might figure it out, but I'm going to put that off for now.
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Update: back on maldoror after zoroastrian hymns, still bored. Sensless violence and hate does very little for me.
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I adore Borges but I could take or leave Calvino, what does that say about me
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you mother fuckers need to get in on this book club thing or they arent gonna let us do good books anymore
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Nov 9, 2015 19:58
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my library has a gigantic waiting list for that book
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Nov 9, 2015 22:59
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I really want to read Voices but I'm a dead broke grad student and I've got about 600 pages of middle english alliterative verse I need to get through first and also I spent all of my disposable income for the month on booze
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Nov 10, 2015 00:21
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End Of Worlds posted:and also I spent all of my disposable income for the month on booze Too bad there aren't public or university owned buildings where you can borrow books for free.
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Cloks posted:Too bad there aren't public or university owned buildings where you can borrow books for free. *steps into friendly local public library and squeals with delite at the well-stocked YA and wizardbook selections*
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Effectronica posted:*steps into friendly local public library and squeals with delite at the well-stocked YA and wizardbook selections* Touche. I'm spoiled because I live in Ohio and we have some of the best library systems in the country.
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Nov 10, 2015 02:32
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Also like ulvir pointed out, a fresh Nobel prize winner is going to check out quick. Chicago has 50 holds on 18 copies and doesn't have the kindle edition up yet.
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Nov 10, 2015 02:59
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Just finished Chronicle of a Death Foretold. Ending pages were super loving sad, holy poo poo.
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Nov 10, 2015 03:52
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just buy the book its like ten books on Amazon you jerks
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Nov 10, 2015 03:59
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Mel Mudkiper posted:just buy the book its like ten books on Amazon you jerks buy it for me edit: please chernobyl kinsman fucked around with this message at 05:01 on Nov 10, 2015 |
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Nov 10, 2015 04:40
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Cloks posted:Touche. I'm spoiled because I live in Ohio and we have some of the best library systems in the country. Lot of the libraries around here don't even have interlibrary loans, because it costs money to do the statewide system and they are paid for by decaying rust belt suburbs.
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Nov 10, 2015 05:32
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A lot university libraries have public membership options if they are publicly funded 
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Nov 10, 2015 05:35
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The lovely small town library near me has children's books, elementary-school quality reference books, and large print romances/airport novels.
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Nov 10, 2015 05:42
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my local library is literally a trailer with 2 computers and magazines but that doesn't mean you can ILL that poo poo buying books is hell of bougie
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Nov 10, 2015 05:58
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I mostly buy books from second hand bookstores in Tokyo, but it's depressing to see what kind of English language books are there most of the time. A while ago one of the Book Offs (the one in Akihabara) was selling off all of their English language literature for less than 100 yen because apparently nobody was buying them. I got Chronicle of a Death Foretold out of it, but I haven't read it yet. Libraries here are good though.
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Shibawanko posted:I got Chronicle of a Death Foretold out of it, but I haven't read it yet. You need to get on that. It's quite good.
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:my girlfriend loves Calvino and couldn't get into Borges and he enrages + confuses her. I don't understand why either. She has an account and lurks this thread, like a weirdo, so I'm posting this in the hope that she explains herself out of shame. Women do not have the mentality required to understand the art of Jorge Luis Borges.
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CestMoi posted:Women do not have the mentality required to understand the art of Jorge Luis Borges. if liking Borges requires intellect why are you a fan? *mega scorched earth burn*
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It's almost like this thread is a good library in the middle of another, larger library system full of wizard stories that is reflective of the reading tastes of the general population.
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Invicta{HOG}, M.D. posted:It's almost like this thread is a good library in the middle of another, larger library system full of wizard stories that is reflective of the reading tastes of the general population. Not enough romances and mysteries to be the tastes of the general population
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Smoking Crow posted:Not enough romances and mysteries to be the tastes of the general population That's because this forum has about as many women as a ship in Nelson's navy I can lead gigolos to culture but I can't make them think
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Smoking Crow posted:Not enough romances and mysteries to be the tastes of the general population Hieronymous Alloy posted:That's because this forum has about as many women as a ship in Nelson's navy you are both kind of off the mark here and it's not just a gender thing, the general male population reads mostly thrillers, political books, pop science/pop philisophy(or whatever you want to call malcom gladwell type stuff), and certain types of bios/autobios (e.g American Sniper or Steve Jobs). only the occasional very popular scifi/fantasy thing gets that far Earwicker fucked around with this message at 21:08 on Nov 10, 2015 |
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