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I hate seeing Steve Jobs' dumb face with his hand on his chin every time I go to a bookstore.
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Shibawanko posted:I hate seeing Steve Jobs' dumb face with his hand on his chin every time I go to a bookstore. Fortunately two bombed biopics in a row hopefully means we have reached the end of the billionaire hagiography. Now I know what Huxley was making fun of when he made Ford a god.
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From what I've heard, the books make Steve out to be an rear end in a top hat who was willing to crush any opposition including his friends
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Nov 11, 2015 15:18
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suck and stroke my rancid balls
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:suck and stroke my rancid balls Don't be so hard on yourself, I think you have very nice balls
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Smoking Crow posted:From what I've heard, the books make Steve out to be an rear end in a top hat who was willing to crush any opposition including his friends He was a stupid computer nerd.
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Nov 11, 2015 15:47
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Steve, I mean.
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Fortunately two bombed biopics in a row hopefully means we have reached the end of the billionaire hagiography. the movies may have bombed but that Steve Jobs book did very well IIRC Warren Buffet's autiobiography a few years ago also did very well Earwicker fucked around with this message at 16:33 on Nov 11, 2015 |
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Nov 11, 2015 16:29
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Hey can anyone recommend some good poetry books not by white dudes? I just looked at my bookshelf and all my poetry books are by white dudes (plus one Sylvia Plath). Anything is fine, as long as it's good I'll take a look at it.
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the qur'an
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Tree Goat posted:the qur'an The bible
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Smoking Crow posted:The bible 
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thehoodie posted:Hey can anyone recommend some good poetry books not by white dudes? I just looked at my bookshelf and all my poetry books are by white dudes (plus one Sylvia Plath). Anything is fine, as long as it's good I'll take a look at it. Ai Ogawa, Suji Kwock Kim, Octavio Paz.
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Nov 13, 2015 00:01
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yahya hassan better learn danish tho
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Nov 13, 2015 02:55
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Nell Zink's Mislaid was pretty good.
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i liked Gabriela Mistral's poems. Yaha Hassan is pretty interesting, too. It's some real authentic rage against the establishment from a disenfranchised palestinian-born teen
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Nov 13, 2015 10:42
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finished Submission last night, and I gotta say, the reactions in the media (at least here) has blown this book way out of proportion. Some people accused Houellebecq of grounding his book in the same conspiracy theory that gave way for Anders Behring Breiviks actions, but the only similarities is that the setting is basically that, for reasons unknown, the muslims in his universe is somehow homogenous and many enough in numbers that they could rally behind one single political party. Pretty much anything and everything else is all about shameless hedonism, including François' conversion to Islam by the final chapter, and is more about him submitting to a deity rather than, you know, the world falling over its knees under sharia or whatever-the-heck. And I'm not entirely sure why Knausgård spent several paragraphs lauding Houellebecq's unmatched genius the way he did in his review, but to each their own, I guess.
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Just finished Stoner and loved it. Beautifully written, and there was a subtle feeling of dread underneath everything, for me. I couldn't put it down. I think I'm going to start Spring Snow or Kokoro next. Someone push me towards one of those two.
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Nov 15, 2015 00:40
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If you want to read about a student being obsessed with a dejected older man and how he wants to die constantly read kokorro and remember to check the dimensions of the book before you get it.
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Mel Mudkiper posted: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. It's basically someone's criticism of Philip Roth that became a criticism of an entire swath of fiction publishing somehow.
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it's even funnier because far from all of Roth's characters are professors
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Nov 15, 2015 12:37
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Some of his characters don't even like jerking off!
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I like jerking off.
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thehoodie posted:Hey can anyone recommend some good poetry books not by white dudes? I just looked at my bookshelf and all my poetry books are by white dudes (plus one Sylvia Plath). Anything is fine, as long as it's good I'll take a look at it. Elizabeth Bishop.
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CestMoi posted:I like jerking off. Added to my cestmoi.txt file, thanks
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CestMoi posted:I like jerking off. We can see your post history
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Now I know what Huxley was making fun of when he made Ford a god. Holy poo poo, that realization hit me like a truck
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Holy poo poo, Knausgaard's My Struggle is incredible. I read the first part about dead bodies and was like "I am going to love this book," and now I am still loving this book.
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Nanomashoes posted:Holy poo poo, Knausgaard's My Struggle is incredible. I read the first part about dead bodies and was like "I am going to love this book," and now I am still loving this book. I've been reading it for a week or two as well and now into the third one. His rhythm is definitively addictive, i love the way random mini essays pop up while he is doing the most mundane stuff Antwan3K fucked around with this message at 01:08 on Nov 19, 2015 |
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Nov 19, 2015 01:04
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I just picked up Porochista Khakpour's The Last Illusion based on the strength of her awesome preface to The Blind Owl and so far it looks like I made a good decision.
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pleasecallmechrist posted:Do yall have any interest in discussing literary journals? I recently purchased collections from Electric Literature and am pleased to report that while it may be contemporary fiction from emerging or new writers, there are some solid pieces. I've begun using these journals' sites to scour for newer writers and quick reads and it's been rewarding so far. If nothing else to keep you grounded. The Pushcart rankings are pretty good place to start if you want to check out consistently high-quality journals: http://cliffordgarstang.com/2015-pushcart-prize-ranking-of-literary-magazines-fiction/ Their ranking system can be a little odd (iirc, they favor places that have both print and online components, and which publish both fiction and poetry) but you can pretty much guarantee that every name on that list is publishing really good stuff. Electric Literature also has a Recommended Reading blog that posts a short story every week + free access to the archives. The vast majority of stories they pick are by new / up-and-coming authors (and there's always a sidebar by the editor explaining why they picked the story and what the author is up to), and their tastes are pretty varied.
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I think I'm going to read the Good Terrorists now because terrorism is cool and very in right now plus I tripped on it reminding me that I owned it
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Fernando Pessoa pretending to be Englisgh writes better poems than most English people.
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I haven't had a job for 4 days and I have read half of the Sickness Unto Death, 2 Cosmicomics, played 20 hours of Binding of Isaac and watched the entirety of season 3 of House, M.D.
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Stravinsky posted:I think I'm going to read the Good Terrorists now because terrorism is cool and very in right now plus I tripped on it reminding me that I owned it I just read The Secret Agent again.
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CestMoi posted:I haven't had a job for 4 days and I have read half of the Sickness Unto Death, 2 Cosmicomics, played 20 hours of Binding of Isaac and watched the entirety of season 3 of House, M.D. binding of isaac owns i've been reading this year's latvian books for the last month or so and will continue for another month. an assignmnent i don't want to repeat again
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Mr. Squishy posted:I just read The Secret Agent again.
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