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Zorodius: Feb 11, 2007; EA GAMES' MASTERPIECE 'MADDEN 2018 G.O.A.T. EDITION' IS A GLORIOUS TRIUMPH OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY. IT BRINGS GAMEDAY RIGHT TO THE PLAYER AND WHOEVER SAYS OTHERWISE CAN, YOU GUESSED IT...
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BUY IT.

Mel Mudkiper posted:

Watchmen is totally literature, Time Magazine said so! - a cretin

Now there's a cretin with good taste in literature.

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The Unholy Ghost: Feb 19, 2011

Watchmen is not literature because it is a comic book! - a cretin

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CestMoi: Sep 16, 2011

I am a popular addition to salads such as the Chicken Caesar - a crouton

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Twerkteam Pizza: Sep 26, 2015; Grimey Drawer

CestMoi posted:

I am a popular addition to salads such as the Chicken Caesar - a crouton

Lol

But for real while Watchmen is pretty much literature it's pretty loving low brow

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Foul Fowl: Sep 12, 2008; Uuuuh! Seek ye me?

watchmen is very literary and deep and profound; for instance it asks the question what if all dongs were blue?

# ? Aug 4, 2016 17:03

Twerkteam Pizza: Sep 26, 2015; Grimey Drawer

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Zorodius: Feb 11, 2007; EA GAMES' MASTERPIECE 'MADDEN 2018 G.O.A.T. EDITION' IS A GLORIOUS TRIUMPH OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY. IT BRINGS GAMEDAY RIGHT TO THE PLAYER AND WHOEVER SAYS OTHERWISE CAN, YOU GUESSED IT...
SUCK THE SHIT STRAIGHT OUT OF MY OWN ASSHOLE.

BUY IT.

Watchmen is definitely above your Dan Browns and definitely below your Jameses Joyce, so "middle brow" sounds about right.

It's fun to read, but you have to pay a bit of attention.

# ? Aug 4, 2016 17:44

Lunchmeat Larry: Nov 3, 2012

please stop talking about watchmen

# ? Aug 4, 2016 17:54

Franchescanado: Feb 23, 2013; If it wasn't for disappointment
I wouldn't have any appointment; Grimey Drawer

Read Watchmen or watch men read?

# ? Aug 4, 2016 17:55

Guy A. Person: May 23, 2003

BANG! POW! WHAM! Comics Aren't Just For Kids Anymore!

# ? Aug 4, 2016 18:04

thehoodie: Feb 8, 2011; "Eat something made with love and joy - and be forgiven"

I'm going to the bookstore today. I can afford one book. What should I get?

# ? Aug 4, 2016 18:10

Jrbg: May 20, 2014

thehoodie posted:

I'm going to the bookstore today. I can afford one book. What should I get?

Ulysses

# ? Aug 4, 2016 18:11

ulvir: Jan 2, 2005

Foul Fowl posted:

watchmen is very literary and deep and profound; for instance it asks the question what if all dongs were blue?

I would gladly read a short story about blue dicks if it were written by Garcia Marquez, for example

# ? Aug 4, 2016 18:37

The Unholy Ghost: Feb 19, 2011

thehoodie posted:

I'm going to the bookstore today. I can afford one book. What should I get?

Do you have a big brain or a small brain?

# ? Aug 4, 2016 18:39

Zorodius: Feb 11, 2007; EA GAMES' MASTERPIECE 'MADDEN 2018 G.O.A.T. EDITION' IS A GLORIOUS TRIUMPH OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY. IT BRINGS GAMEDAY RIGHT TO THE PLAYER AND WHOEVER SAYS OTHERWISE CAN, YOU GUESSED IT...
SUCK THE SHIT STRAIGHT OUT OF MY OWN ASSHOLE.

BUY IT.

thehoodie posted:

I'm going to the bookstore today. I can afford one book. What should I get?

Go Set Some Watchmen, I think that's the one

# ? Aug 4, 2016 18:42

Antwan3K: Mar 8, 2013

thehoodie posted:

I'm going to the bookstore today. I can afford one book. What should I get?

Minimalist poetry. $1 per word. Good for your reading stats

# ? Aug 4, 2016 18:52

BravestOfTheLamps: Oct 12, 2012; by FactsAreUseless; Lipstick Apathy

thehoodie posted:

I'm going to the bookstore today. I can afford one book. What should I get?

Borges - Collected Fictions?

# ? Aug 4, 2016 19:06

Heath: Apr 30, 2008; 🍂🎃🏞️💦

Zorodius posted:

Watchmen is definitely above your Dan Browns and definitely below your Jameses Joyce, so "middle brow" sounds about right.

It's fun to read, but you have to pay a bit of attention.

Dans Brown*

# ? Aug 4, 2016 19:25

Eugene V. Dubstep: Oct 4, 2013; Can't post for 8 years!

thehoodie posted:

I'm going to the bookstore today. I can afford one book. What should I get?

J_RBG posted:

Ulysses

# ? Aug 4, 2016 19:28

WAY TO GO WAMPA!!: Oct 27, 2007

thehoodie posted:

I'm going to the bookstore today. I can afford one book. What should I get?

book 1 of My Struggle

<----------or the longest possible collection of The One Thousand and One Nights you can find

# ? Aug 4, 2016 19:30

Foul Fowl: Sep 12, 2008; Uuuuh! Seek ye me?

joyce's dubliners is a good collection of short stories to familiarize yourself with his style, because ulysses gets reaaaal weird and demands a lot of effort once you get into stephen's deranged wanderings and bloom's cuckoldry.

i'm going to read the portrait of an artist as a young man once i get some time off work.

# ? Aug 4, 2016 19:48

Mover: Jun 30, 2008

Might I recommend The Bible

# ? Aug 4, 2016 19:56

david crosby: Mar 2, 2007

J_RBG posted:

Ulysses

BravestOfTheLamps posted:

Borges - Collected Fictions?

Or Musil - The Man Without Qualities part 1

# ? Aug 4, 2016 20:10

Eugene V. Dubstep: Oct 4, 2013; Can't post for 8 years!

I mean, if you had room in your budget for one book for like a year, then an annotated Ulysses, which covers so much ground in philosophy and the body of Western literature, is a fantastic pick. He wasn't asking for the best introduction to James Joyce or anything.

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Zorodius: Feb 11, 2007; EA GAMES' MASTERPIECE 'MADDEN 2018 G.O.A.T. EDITION' IS A GLORIOUS TRIUMPH OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY. IT BRINGS GAMEDAY RIGHT TO THE PLAYER AND WHOEVER SAYS OTHERWISE CAN, YOU GUESSED IT...
SUCK THE SHIT STRAIGHT OUT OF MY OWN ASSHOLE.

BUY IT.

WAY TO GO WAMPA!! posted:

<----------or the longest possible collection of The One Thousand and One Nights you can find

Oh my God. I'm reading this version of The Thousand and One Nights with commentary by some 1800s British dude, and the comments go about ten pages deep for each page of actual Nights. It's amazing; they're full of these semi-racist rambling anecdotes from an imperial British perspective that are much better than the actual fables themselves:

quote:

The Arabs in general constantly have recourse both to charms and medicines, not only for the cure, but also for the prevention of diseases. They have, indeed, a strange passion for medicine, which shows that they do not consider fate as altogether unconditional. Nothing can exceed the earnestness with which they often press a European traveller for a dose; and the more violent the remedy, the better are they pleased. The following case will serve as an example:�Three donkey-drivers, conveying the luggage of two British travellers from Bool�ḳ to Cairo, opened a bottle which they observed in a basket, and finding it to contain, as they had suspected, brandy, emptied it down their throats: but he who had the last, on turning up the bottle, got the tail of a scorpion into his mouth; and, looking through the bottle, to his great horror, saw that it contained a number of these reptiles, with tarantulas, vipers, and beetles. Thinking that they had poisoned themselves, but not liking to rely upon fate, they persuaded a man to come to me for medicine. He introduced the subject by saying, "O Efendee, do an act of kindness: there are three men poisoned; in your mercy give them medicine, and save their lives:" and then he related the whole affair, without concealing the theft.

I replied, that they did not deserve medicine; but he urged that, by giving it, I should obtain an immense reward. "Yes," said I; "'he who saveth a soul alive shall be as if he had saved the lives of all mankind.'" I said this to try the feeling of the applicant, who, expressing admiration of my knowledge, urged me to be quick, lest the men should die; thus showing himself to be no unconditional fatalist. I gave him three strong doses of tartar emetic; and he soon came back to thank me, saying that the medicine was most admirable, for the men had hardly swallowed it, when they almost vomited their hearts and livers, and everything else in their bodies.

# ? Aug 4, 2016 20:32

Mel Mudkiper: Jan 19, 2012; At this point, Mudman abruptly ends the conversation. He usually insists on the last word.

ulvir posted:

I would gladly read a short story about blue dicks if it were written by Garcia Marquez, for example

The very blue dick with enormous balls

# ? Aug 4, 2016 20:39

Mel Mudkiper: Jan 19, 2012; At this point, Mudman abruptly ends the conversation. He usually insists on the last word.

The Unholy Ghost posted:

Watchmen is not literature because it is a comic book! - a cretin

Watchmen is not bad because its a comic book

Watchmen is bad because its c-rate philosophy mixed with poor female characterization in a plot that endeavors for no greater literary significance than a metacritical rebuttal of its own genre

# ? Aug 4, 2016 20:41

WAY TO GO WAMPA!!: Oct 27, 2007

Zorodius posted:

Oh my God. I'm reading this version of The Thousand and One Nights with commentary by some 1800s British dude, and the comments go about ten pages deep for each page of actual Nights. It's amazing; they're full of these semi-racist rambling anecdotes from an imperial British perspective that are much better than the actual fables themselves:

Which one is it? Googling came up with Edward William Lane

# ? Aug 4, 2016 20:43

Zorodius: Feb 11, 2007; EA GAMES' MASTERPIECE 'MADDEN 2018 G.O.A.T. EDITION' IS A GLORIOUS TRIUMPH OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY. IT BRINGS GAMEDAY RIGHT TO THE PLAYER AND WHOEVER SAYS OTHERWISE CAN, YOU GUESSED IT...
SUCK THE SHIT STRAIGHT OUT OF MY OWN ASSHOLE.

BUY IT.

WAY TO GO WAMPA!! posted:

Which one is it? Googling came up with Edward William Lane

Yeah, that's my boy

Dude cannot just let a fable go; he has to drop the entire Dungeon Master's Guide to Djinn in the comments

# ? Aug 4, 2016 20:44

Ras Het: May 23, 2007; when I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child - but now I am a man.

I was about to ask if you're seriously calling Burton "some 1800s British dude".

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The Dennis System: Aug 4, 2014; Nothing in Jurassic World is natural, we have always filled gaps in the genome with the DNA of other animals. And if the genetic code was pure, many of them would look quite different. But you didn't ask for reality, you asked for more teeth.

thehoodie posted:

I'm going to the bookstore today. I can afford one book. What should I get?

The Windup Bird Chronicle.

# ? Aug 4, 2016 21:11

rufius: Feb 27, 2011; Clear alcohols are for rich women on diets.

thehoodie posted:

I'm going to the bookstore today. I can afford one book. What should I get?

Stoner by John Williams

# ? Aug 4, 2016 21:14

Twerkteam Pizza: Sep 26, 2015; Grimey Drawer

thehoodie posted:

I'm going to the bookstore today. I can afford one book. What should I get?

What do you or want to explore?

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rest his guts: Mar 3, 2013; ...pls father forgive me
for my terrible post history...

Gay

rest his guts fucked around with this message at 16:19 on Jun 24, 2019

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Solitair: Feb 18, 2014; TODAY'S GONNA BE A GOOD MOTHERFUCKIN' DAY!!!

rest his guts posted:

Also, Vonnegut is rad and Cat's Cradle is probably the funniest book I've ever read

When I was in high school I had my first exposure to Vonnegut with Cat's Cradle and Hocus Pocus. I adored the latter book at the time, but I've never heard anybody else talk about it. Does it hold up?

# ? Aug 4, 2016 23:09

NienNunb: Feb 15, 2012

thehoodie posted:

I'm going to the bookstore today. I can afford one book. What should I get?

Moby Dick

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A human heart: Oct 10, 2012

Robot Pride posted:

Vonnegut is amazingly easy to read and one of the few writers that makes me belly laugh while reading a book. Read everything he has written, IMHO. Full disclosure: I have 2 Vonnegut tattoos.

Zorodius posted:

Watchmen is definitely above your Dan Browns and definitely below your Jameses Joyce, so "middle brow" sounds about right.

It's fun to read, but you have to pay a bit of attention.

rest his guts posted:

Anna Karenina is good cuz the bitch got what she deserved.

It's a pretty good critique of bureaucracy and hollow intellectualism, though. Levin is basically just the synthesis of Pierre and Andrei from the earlier W&P, but I really liked him as a character so I think people don't have a lot of patience for the whole 'get to God' thing anymore but Tolstoy was probably a monopolar depressive living in an age of budding psychology so it's understandable

Also, Vonnegut is rad and Cat's Cradle is probably the funniest book I've ever read

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoBm29LVQBg

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rest his guts: Mar 3, 2013; ...pls father forgive me
for my terrible post history...

Bbbbsdddd

rest his guts fucked around with this message at 16:34 on Jun 24, 2019

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treasureplane: Jul 12, 2008; throwing darts in lovers' eyes, &c.

thehoodie posted:

I'm going to the bookstore today. I can afford one book. What should I get?

The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant.

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Mel Mudkiper: Jan 19, 2012; At this point, Mudman abruptly ends the conversation. He usually insists on the last word.

rest his guts posted:

"I'm a retrograde pseudo-intellectual too far up my own rear end to appreciate good writing"

you called?

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