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Apr 18, 2016 19:28
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Pulitzer in an hour You've talked about Vann before. My school library has Aquarium and Legend of a Suicide. Which should I read? Or both.
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Apr 18, 2016 19:37
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blue squares posted:You've talked about Vann before. My school library has Aquarium and Legend of a Suicide. Which should I read? Or both. both imho
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Apr 18, 2016 19:40
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I'll start Aquarium if it wins otherwise I'll go chronologically I don't know why I got Anthem. I like sci fi but usually just when it's short and fast paced blue squares fucked around with this message at 19:56 on Apr 18, 2016 |
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Apr 18, 2016 19:41
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Oh dip Been awhile since we got something totally out of left field like this
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Apr 18, 2016 20:13
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Eh, on second thought, I don't think Vann is for me. At least not right now.
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blue squares posted:I'll start Aquarium if it wins otherwise I'll go chronologically Anathem is by far the least annoying of Stephenson's books for what it's worth
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Apr 18, 2016 22:05
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I've been only reading non-fiction for the last month because every attempt to begin a fiction book has petered out. But I began Annie Proulx's The Shipping News and it grabbed me immediately. The main character is likeable and interesting and the prose style is great
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Apr 19, 2016 00:39
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Oh dip who
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Apr 19, 2016 00:52
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The book was on my radar but it just didn't strike my interest.
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Apr 19, 2016 01:32
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People gotta stop trashing Stephenson because I loving loved Cryptonomicon. I might even type some mean words if you guys keep it up Anyway I just picked up Galopagos by Vonnegut on a real good sale. What are some opinions on it? I'm a fan having read Slaughterhouse Five, Sirens of Titan, Mother Night and Cat's Cradle but this one seems a bit more polarizing from what I've seen
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Apr 19, 2016 02:53
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blue squares posted:I've been only reading non-fiction for the last month because every attempt to begin a fiction book has petered out. But I began Annie Proulx's The Shipping News and it grabbed me immediately. The main character is likeable and interesting and the prose style is great I loved that book!
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Apr 19, 2016 03:22
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What are the best best of the year lists for fiction? What about prizes? I want to read more contemporary fiction but there's so loving much of it and 80% of it seems like women's coming-of-age stuff.
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Apr 19, 2016 04:24
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DoctorG0nzo posted:People gotta stop trashing Stephenson because I loving loved Cryptonomicon. I might even type some mean words if you guys keep it up Randy’s toe knuckles pop audibly. He lifts himself and Amy into the air, experiences some kind of synaesthetic hallucination very much like the famous “jump into hyperspace” scene from Star Wars. Or perhaps the air bag has accidentally detonated? Then he pumps something like an Imperial pint of semen – it’s a seemingly open ended stream of ejaculations, each coupled to the next by nothing more than a leap of faith that another one is coming – and in the end, like all schemes built on faith and hope, it lapses, and then Randy sits utterly still until his body realises it has not drawn breath in quite a while.
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Apr 19, 2016 04:30
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beergod posted:What are the best best of the year lists for fiction? What about prizes? I want to read more contemporary fiction but there's so loving much of it and 80% of it seems like women's coming-of-age stuff. Forums use beergod, please tell me more about the horrors of women writers
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Apr 19, 2016 04:39
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beergod posted:What are the best best of the year lists for fiction? What about prizes? I want to read more contemporary fiction but there's so loving much of it and 80% of it seems like women's coming-of-age stuff. Actually though, New York Times best 10 books of the year is always good. The national book awards never miss either.
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Thanks. For the record, I did women's coming-of-age writing, but I like other stuff, too. Anyone else?
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Apr 19, 2016 05:31
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blue squares posted:
"Tick tock tick tock tick tick." DoctorG0nzo posted:People gotta stop trashing Stephenson because I loving loved Cryptonomicon. I might even type some mean words if you guys keep it up I actually like his books a lot but they still aren't good mallamp fucked around with this message at 11:35 on Apr 19, 2016 |
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Apr 19, 2016 11:32
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Real surprise would've been ifLittle Life HAD won. It felt a lot like edgy YA novel with rape and suffering dials turned to the max. to make it adult. Song of Ice and Fire isn't exactly Pulitzer contender either
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Apr 19, 2016 11:49
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That's ridiculous. Any of the four main characters from A Little Life had more depth than the entirety of the average YA novel
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Apr 19, 2016 11:53
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mallamp posted:Real surprise would've been ifLittle Life HAD won. It felt a lot like edgy YA novel with rape and suffering dials turned to the max. to make it adult. Song of Ice and Fire isn't exactly Pulitzer contender either do you have any opinions which aren't terrible
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Apr 19, 2016 12:12
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Apr 19, 2016 12:42
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all of my book opinions are good and correct. you should be more like me
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Apr 19, 2016 12:46
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mallamp posted:Sometimes I see the light but then next day I wake up as rear end in a top hat again there are a few good euphemistic jokes in this post
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Apr 19, 2016 12:50
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beergod posted:What are the best best of the year lists for fiction? What about prizes? I want to read more contemporary fiction but there's so loving much of it and 80% of it seems like women's coming-of-age stuff. I personally think the best yearly award is the National Book Award followed by the Pulitzer. The NBA seems to hit "it" a lot more than the Pulitzter. As for year end lists, I like the New York Times Notable 100 and Publishers Weekly Best of. NPR's Reading Concierge is nice too, if not a little aimless. Or you could just make me, Mel is your mother loving hook up.
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Apr 19, 2016 13:30
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Tree Goat posted:Randy’s toe knuckles pop audibly. He lifts himself and Amy into the air, experiences some kind of synaesthetic hallucination very much like the famous “jump into hyperspace” scene from Star Wars. Or perhaps the air bag has accidentally detonated? Then he pumps something like an Imperial pint of semen – it’s a seemingly open ended stream of ejaculations, each coupled to the next by nothing more than a leap of faith that another one is coming – and in the end, like all schemes built on faith and hope, it lapses, and then Randy sits utterly still until his body realises it has not drawn breath in quite a while. OMG this is from an actual book.
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Apr 19, 2016 13:43
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It's cool that the intellectually lazy stance of just assuming everything that could possibly be called sci fi is bad is actually 100% correct.
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CestMoi posted:OMG this is from an actual book. Oh man, a pop culture reference and sex? In a book? The horror! *tuts, turns to shelf of Victorian novels* (I actually like Victorian novels a lot though)
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CestMoi posted:It's cool that the intellectually lazy stance of just assuming everything that could possibly be called sci fi is bad is actually 100% correct. Its not that lazy when you remember sci-fi is a marketing concept and not a real genre. Sci-Fi as a label basically means trough feed for the pigs DoctorG0nzo posted:Oh man, a pop culture reference and sex? In a book? The horror! *tuts, turns to shelf of Victorian novels* How could you possibly at any level think that was good
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Apr 19, 2016 15:55
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When I read a good book, it's like: beam me up, Scotty. I'm in another universe, that of the famous Star Trek television and film series
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Apr 19, 2016 15:56
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Mel Mudkiper posted:
Certainly not good but not offensively bad either. People are reacting like it's at the level of some poo poo from like, Ready Player One or something. I'd say it (the passage, and the book as a whole) actually had similar weaknesses to that but was executed at least competently instead of being a dribbling mess
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Apr 19, 2016 15:58
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DoctorG0nzo posted:Certainly not good but not offensively bad either. "Its like that famous scene in Star Wars" - not offensively bad writing
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Apr 19, 2016 15:59
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corn in the fridge posted:what are real genres Tragedy, Comedy, History
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Apr 19, 2016 16:00
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The idea that more cum = better than, more passionate than is funny
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Ras Het posted:The idea that more cum = better than, more passionate than Peter North is the most passionate man on earth
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Apr 19, 2016 16:03
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Mel Mudkiper posted:"Its like that famous scene in Star Wars" - not offensively bad writing I don't think pop culture references are automatically terrible. Was it a bit clunky? Yeah. But, whatever. Is that the only part of the passage you had issue with? I think that's the only part that's really toeing the line of "bad", I'd call the rest mediocre and relatively entertaining. Please don't tell me your other reason is "eww, it's about sex!" Also I didn't really think it was "more cum = more passion" I took it as "this weird nerd hasn't gotten laid in a while so he's cummin' buckets"
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im reading Andrzej Stasiuk's travel book of all the greatest shitholes of Southeastern Europe
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