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the_homemaster posted:Leet gamer culture. Makes me want to not read any Pynchon. Please vacate the thread and, indeed, the planet Earth at your earliest convenience. Namaste
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HighwireAct posted:Anyone here read/see any of Brecht's plays? I just picked up The Caucasian Chalk Circle since I've heard so much about his work in my theatre classes, but I haven't started reading it yet. Life of Galileo was great, the only biographical play I've read that has really stuck in my mind. Haven't read Chalk Circle, but it's one of his best known works so you should have some good times ahead!
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Heath posted:Please vacate the thread and, indeed, the planet Earth at your earliest convenience. Namaste That did seem really bad though.
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Mr. Squishy posted:That did seem really bad though. It's funny
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gaming and anime has no place in proper literature I prefer serious topics like pooping, public masturbation, and so on,
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blue squares posted:To me, narrative stakes come from being invested in a character's fate and hoping for a certain outcome. Essentially, forgetting that you're reading fiction. When it doesn't matter whether the character succeeds, lives/dies, etc., there's nothing to draw the reader in to that place where fiction stops being fiction. So I think it can be easy to put down his books and not come back for a while/at all because they only please the intellectual side of the reader, not the emotional (except on some occasions). The intellectual and the emotional are in fact the same thing.
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The embarrassing shut in hacker says embarrassing shut in things. And Hideo Kojima is really good esp. his work in Metal Gear Solid 2 which is the only video game plot that approaches Real Literature.
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Nanomashoes posted:The embarrassing shut in hacker says embarrassing shut in things. But after MGSV I'd be looking askance at anyone who called him a god.
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The book came out before MGS5 and was set in 2001 so it doesn't matter.
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Nanomashoes posted:The book came out before MGS5 and was set in 2001 so it doesn't matter. Interesting. Is that the time when MGS2 first came out and everyone was riding high on it, or when people started to say it was pretentious garbage (and wrongly so)?
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mgs2 was cool cuz you were a jpop idol doing flips and kicking people in the face what that has to do with literature idk
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If nothing else it takes a whole lot of moxie to be a 74ish year old man willing not only to research what a young computer geek from 2001 would be into but to capture the character's attitude perfectly in one line of dialog
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Solitair posted:Interesting. Is that the time when MGS2 first came out and everyone was riding high on it, or when people started to say it was pretentious garbage (and wrongly so)? MGS2 came out a month or two after the book was set, but MGS1 get discussed in it. Fun fact: MGS2 originally had a cinematic where Arsenal Gear crashes into NYC, which is why the game ends on top of federal hall, but it was hastily removed because 9/11 happened two months before launch.
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Please stop talking about video games.
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Mr. Squishy posted:Please stop talking about video games. But you see, Pynchon got Final Fantasy X's US release date wrong in Bleeding Edge, and that leads to a page long derail on the infamous laughter scene
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Mr. Squishy posted:Please stop talking about video games. He also mentions Prince Vegeta by name and title in the book if you would rather discuss anime
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The only art left in our decadent and superficial society is Dark Souks
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Galeano is so good it makes me feel guilty. Thanks for the rec ras het
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Guy A. Person posted:I just finished Snow Child it was good. I cried at the part when Faina said she hoped she could be the mother Mabel was to her although I usually don't get emotional at books probably the last time was when I almost threw up during Gravity's Rainbow (my GR homies know the section). The castration bit didn't really bother me but I almost didn't get through the rocket scientist talking about meeting with his daughter. What he did made me sick and then the idea that some faceless administrator decided that's what he was into and set it up scared the poo poo out of me.
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DisDisDis posted:The castration bit didn't really bother me but I almost didn't get through the rocket scientist talking about meeting with his daughter. What he did made me sick and then the idea that some faceless administrator decided that's what he was into and set it up scared the poo poo out of me. i was gonna guess the poo poo eating section
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This thread got me back into reading. In fact i'd say it got me into reading! So far I have managed to read a few pieces of literature. Count of Monte Cristo The Odyssey Old Man and the Sea Breakfast of Champions Slaughterhouse-Five Of Mice and Men Crime and Punishment Thanks for getting me into a fun hobby dudes.
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Tree Goat posted:i was gonna guess the poo poo eating section Yeah this is the one. The stuff that DisDisDis mentioned was also powerful but I usually dissociate myself from horrible poo poo like that or view it from an academic and not a visceral level. The poo poo eating tho triggered my gag reflex. It makes the shock stuff that Palahniuk throws in his books look laughable.
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DisDisDis posted:The castration bit didn't really bother me but I almost didn't get through the rocket scientist talking about meeting with his daughter. What he did made me sick and then the idea that some faceless administrator decided that's what he was into and set it up scared the poo poo out of me. Also I'm not sure if I'm misreading your post but I don't remember Pokler doing anything particularly vile. He didn't actually sleep with his Ilse if that's what you're referring to.
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Tree Goat posted:i was gonna guess the poo poo eating section I don't remember it, time for a reread. Jeep posted:Also I'm not sure if I'm misreading your post but I don't remember Pokler doing anything particularly vile. He didn't actually sleep with his Ilse if that's what you're referring to. I thought he did but it's been a while since I've read it. e: wait yeah I remember it, that part was really something. DisDisDis fucked around with this message at 08:27 on Jun 14, 2016 |
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there is a very bad man w/ very bad opinions in the book club if you want to point at laugh fyi and no its not me
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CestMoi posted:Read lots of poems by Sappho and also The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pisan. I don't know if the second ones good but I'v heard it is and it's very very old and by a lady Reading de Pisan now and if you still haven't read it it is extremely good. Much better than I expected. It starts with the author saying "welp I was reading some book that said all women were evil and wanton so I guess I better pray to God to see how I can atone for my lovely womanly existence" (<- this is the exact tone it is hilariously sarcastic). So then 3 ladies appear to her: Reason, Rectitude and Justice and start telling her stories about famous and awesome women in history (although I think most if not all are pulled from mythology?). So far my favorite was a story about some Italian prince who was retreating from a battle so his mother tried to cut him off and implore him to go back and be honorable and fight. At first he ignores her so she lifts up her dress and is basically like "ok well the only place for you to go is back into my womb if you won't be a man!" and this shames him so much that he goes back and wins the battle and kills the enemy king and preserves the existence of Italy. I just finished part 1 which is Reason telling her all these stories about women who did things as good or better than men, part 2 is I think about the strengths of women in particular and examples of that.
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My system of never actually reading a book but telling others to is finally paying dividends
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That sounds sick as hell and I will read it when I am done very slowly reading SHakespeare plays and various things Ezra Pound wrote.
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I just finished We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a book I wasn't expecting a lot out of but ended up really enjoying. The book captures the feeling of intense anxiety so well that it feels more like a glimpse into the mind of the author (rightfully so, given what I found out about Shirley Jackson's final years)
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I'm reading a book called Sudden Death by Alvaro Enrique. It's about a tennis match between the painter Caravaggio and the poet Quevedo to settle a duel over a drunken argument neither of them remember, played with a tennis ball made out of the hair of Anne Boleyn. It's pretty cool.
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thehoodie posted:I'm reading a book called Sudden Death by Alvaro Enrique. It's about a tennis match between the painter Caravaggio and the poet Quevedo to settle a duel over a drunken argument neither of them remember, played with a tennis ball made out of the hair of Anne Boleyn. It's pretty cool. that looks good, i put it on my list becuz it was translated by the woman who did some Roberto Bolano novels, so she must know what's up.
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Sitting down w some real literature tonite. what about you guys?
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:Sitting down w some real literature tonite. what about you guys? tHOSE LOOK COOL but please clean your workstation.
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So I'm reading Heart of Darkness. I'm a little surprised at how difficult it is to actually read in some ways. Like Conrad doesn't use particularly difficult words, but man some of these 2-2.5 page long paragraphs in my Norton edition are brutal. And yet it's all fascinating. Also thank you to whoever in this thread recommended The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor to me a little over a year ago. I finally got around to reading that and enjoyed it quite a bit.
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