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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Thank y'all for getting your Mishima on this month in the BOTM Hey I'm still doing an all female author 2016 let me know when BOTM stops being such a sausage fest smh
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Guy A. Person posted:Hey I'm still doing an all female author 2016 let me know when BOTM stops being such a sausage fest smh That's up to the voters
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May 14, 2016 19:30
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Nanomashoes posted:You're at the Eastern Europe and Central Asia parts, right? I can't imagine getting bored there, those are fantastic. It's not boredom as much as fatigue.
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May 14, 2016 20:28
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man i cannot imagine doing a themed read for an entire year. reading more women is great, do that, but I'd go nuts if i were that restricted in my reading selection for that long
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May 14, 2016 21:27
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yeah there's not really a lot of variety in women's writing
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May 14, 2016 22:14
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I already know two women, I don't need to read books by them
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May 14, 2016 22:15
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Officer Sandvich posted:yeah there's not really a lot of variety in women's writing um
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May 14, 2016 22:42
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Officer Sandvich posted:yeah there's not really a lot of variety in women's writing what women have you read?
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May 15, 2016 00:14
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It was a joke
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May 15, 2016 00:18
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It's like this: reading is for women, writing is for men.
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May 15, 2016 00:58
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If you claim to be a man and have ever read a single written word, you are a phony.
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May 15, 2016 00:59
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Nice alt Mallamp.
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May 15, 2016 02:23
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Actually I'm preencleeve grothesmore's alt, I read Das Kapital 12 times but the kids at middle school still make fun of me.
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Nanomashoes posted:Actually I'm preencleeve grothesmore's alt, I read Das Kapital 12 times but the kids at middle school still make fun of me. Lmao I forgot about this guy
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May 15, 2016 07:31
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A human heart posted:what women have you read? Marguerite Henry, Jk rowling
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May 15, 2016 09:35
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Officer Sandvich posted:Marguerite Henry, Jk rowling Also Stephanie meyer
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May 15, 2016 18:24
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A human heart posted:what women have you read? I read a woman last night who had "KISS ME I'M IRISH" tattooed across her chest.
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May 15, 2016 18:40
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I picked up an old paperback copy of Borges' Ficciones. I have never read Borges, but I just opened at random to The Circular Ruins and enjoyed it a lot. Is the rest of his work mostly surrealist like this?
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May 15, 2016 23:27
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Nanomashoes posted:Actually I'm preencleeve grothesmore's alt, I read Das Kapital 12 times but the kids at middle school still make fun of me. that guy ruled so much
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May 15, 2016 23:51
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Heath posted:I picked up an old paperback copy of Borges' Ficciones. I have never read Borges, but I just opened at random to The Circular Ruins and enjoyed it a lot. Is the rest of his work mostly surrealist like this? yes and it's all great, don't listen to mel. read the library of babel next
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May 16, 2016 01:57
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End Of Worlds posted:yes and it's all great, don't listen to mel. read the library of babel next I didnt even say anything!!
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May 16, 2016 04:18
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next time we could do svetlana alekseievitch, perhaps, because as i have recently discovered she really owns
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May 16, 2016 04:29
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she was the botm right after she won the nobel prize
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May 16, 2016 09:03
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has houellebecq been in botm? that could be popular and lead to some good discussion. shoutout to david crosby for suggesting i start with map & territory. i'll put on If I could only remember my name as a thanks.
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May 16, 2016 10:04
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Anyone having read a story by Borges and wondering "is the rest of this guy's stuff pretty much the same?" is in for a real treat.
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May 16, 2016 11:09
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Burning Rain posted:has houellebecq been in botm? that could be popular and lead to some good discussion. shoutout to david crosby for suggesting i start with map & territory. i'll put on If I could only remember my name as a thanks. Glad yo;u liked it. Can anyone recommended some kool short story authors? I want to read lots of the big time short story writers over the next few years. recently I've read Borges (again) Chekhov, Nabokov, Flannery O'Connor & O Henry. Short stories are good because you can read them quick and keep your PPD count high.
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May 16, 2016 15:43
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Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson
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May 16, 2016 15:49
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david crosby posted:Glad yo;u liked it. Tenth of December is one of the best short story collections ever. Read it. WAY TO GO WAMPA!! posted:Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson this too
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May 16, 2016 15:53
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I wish I could get into short stories, but I hardly ever enjoy reading them compared to novels. Same with writing.
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May 16, 2016 16:01
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david crosby posted:Glad yo;u liked it. Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata. Does Winesburg, Ohio count? Read Winesburg, Ohio
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May 16, 2016 16:01
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david crosby posted:Glad yo;u liked it. Daniil Kharms
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May 16, 2016 16:05
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if you want to read short stories where the english are not permanently harmed, there's wodehouse. if you want to read ones where they are permanently harmed, there's saki. i believe that covers all possible scenarios.
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May 16, 2016 16:12
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david crosby posted:Glad yo;u liked it. Yoko OGawa in Revenge has cool and creepy stories, Hassan Blasim's stuff gets crazy in a good way, Bruno Schulz is sublime, Alice munro's stories in The Love of a Good Woman are like great mini-novels. that's the best I've got of the ones i read in the last few year.s
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May 16, 2016 17:01
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also, WAY TO GO WAMPA!! posted:Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson
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Mel Mudkiper posted:I didnt even say anything!! im being proactive
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May 16, 2016 18:27
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I've been reading This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz and it's pretty good.
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May 16, 2016 18:33
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david crosby posted:Glad yo;u liked it. Lots of good suggestions already, but I'm gonna throw my hat in for pretty much anything by Donald Barthelme or George Saunders. Amy Hempel and Joy Williams are pretty great too, and I just started Rajesh Parameswaran's I Am an Executioner, so I can't say for sure yet, but it seems promising so far.
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david crosby posted:Glad yo;u liked it. Raymond Carver. The guy was a master of the form, and I've got Birdman to thank for introducing me to him. “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” is my favorite collection of his. Strongly seconding Barthelme, too; his prose is almost dreamlike. HighwireAct fucked around with this message at 20:08 on May 16, 2016 |
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May 16, 2016 20:06
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david crosby posted:Glad yo;u liked it. Read Alvaro Enrigue's Hypothermia. Weird depraved Mexican author. Book features orgies, infidelity, being struck by lightning, and reality TV cooking show embarrassment. It's super cool.
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I enjoyed Brief Encounters with Che Guevara, a set of 8 revolution adjacent short stories by Ben Fountain.
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