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chernobyl kinsman posted:v. significant change in his spelling of 'shenanigans' between the first and second editions of that post I think that post was translated from the original proto-Smug so we shouldn't read it
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On the Ferrante thing, there has also been a little group of people loudly insisting that the books had to have been written by a man, and even after her identity was leaked (assuming it's true, I'm not going to bother to read the article) they just switched over to saying her husband wrote them and it's just an extra layer of duplicity. So yeah, just pretty lovely all around, and I really hope Ferrante doesn't stop writing because of it.
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I read Aquarium in one sitting, over the course of about three hours, and things are Different now
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chernobyl kinsman posted:I read Aquarium in one sitting, over the course of about three hours, and things are Different now The legion grows
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I too have just read Aquarium in a single day, thanks to this thread. It's a good book.
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I did it over two days. it became almost emotionally exhausting by the midpoint
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ulvir posted:I did it over two days. it became almost emotionally exhausting by the midpoint The "what it was like" scene Goddamn
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are the rest of his books as brutal as Aquarium?
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I don't understand how people read books in a day. don't you worry you'll miss something?
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ulvir posted:are the rest of his books as brutal as Aquarium? Yes hog fat posted:I don't understand how people read books in a day. don't you worry you'll miss something? I got tested a few years ago and have a relaxed reading speed of ~600wpm/900wpm when focused. Its basically just the ability to read fast.
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They should've done further tests to explain your reading taste
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Ras Het posted:They should've done further tests to explain your reading taste Come on Ras read aquarium join us
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lol if u dont have an infinite reading speed. words just get beamed into my brain and opinions slide out the arse.
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Mel Mudkiper posted:The "what it was like" scene i had to stop for a while and go make some tea at that e: i also had to stop for a bit after the line about Grandpa driving home in his ruined Mercedes wearing a sport coat in winter, 'an old mechanic trying to look like a gentleman. Crushingly sad. chernobyl kinsman fucked around with this message at 20:21 on Oct 6, 2016 |
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so which one of you wrote this piece about Nobel: https://newrepublic.com/article/137496/will-win-2016-nobel-prize-literature ?quote:the last three Nobel Prizes have gone to a Canadian international bestselling author who writes in the coveted “people looking at lakes” category (Alice Munro), a French guy who writes about remembering stuff that he thought he forgot but actually didn’t (Patrick Modiano), and a Belarusian woman who sort of makes stuff up and calls it oral history (Svetlana Alexievich). Burning Rain fucked around with this message at 14:55 on Oct 7, 2016 |
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The Nobel needs to loving set a date already this is my favorite day of the year and they are blue balling me Also lol at that dude being pissy at three really loving good authors. If you are going to call out underwhelming winners go after Le Clezio or something
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they're just waiting for Ngugi to die, so that they could give the award to somebody else.
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He wasn't taking the piss out of those three in the article, but underlining the unpredictability of the award.
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Ras Het posted:He wasn't taking the piss out of those three in the article, but underlining the unpredictability of the award. Read aquarium already
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I'm not gonna read some Alaskan misery porn novel
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Burning Rain posted:so which one of you wrote this piece about Nobel: https://newrepublic.com/article/137496/will-win-2016-nobel-prize-literature ? he's right that charles portis should win
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Aquarium was a great book and an unflinching examination of the cycle of emotional abuse and domestic troubles but it also made me realize that I am officially tired of lesbians.
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Ras Het posted:Alaskan misery porn mods please change my name
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Oxxidation posted:officially tired of lesbians. chernobyl kinsman posted:mods please change my name
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I should get back to Alice Munro, all her stories I've read manage to make the tragically boring world of rural/small town Canada fascinating. Oxxidation posted:I am officially tired of lesbians. This isn't a webcomic thread.
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Mel Mudkiper posted:The Nobel needs to loving set a date already this is my favorite day of the year and they are blue balling me Le Clezio is real cool actually
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A human heart posted:Le Clezio is real cool actually He falls too much into white exoticism of Africa and Latin America for my tastes
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Mel Mudkiper posted:He falls too much into white exoticism of Africa and Latin America for my tastes But there is nothing more entertaining...
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Mel Mudkiper posted:He falls too much into white exoticism of Africa and Latin America for my tastes I've only read The Giants which is an fairly early work but it doesn't have anything like that at all.
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i read The Round and Other Cold Hard Facts, and i don't think it even mentions anything outside of france. still a cool collection of stories. not top tier, but v. good still
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The Giants is a 'novel' that sometimes reads like an insane manifesto where he says that electricity's true desire is to emerge from wires and murder people, and other similarly cool things, it looks like this:quote:I wanted to tell you this, too: consciousness is a bad thing. Consciousness is a dead thing. Free yourselves from consciousness! It is high time. All that is needed is to strip off this garment: nothing very difficult about that. Tear the skin from your body, for it is not a true skin, it is a cellophane tissue that blocks the pores, that asphyxiates. Peel the tissue off, peel it off.
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Mel Mudkiper posted:He falls too much into white exoticism of Africa and Latin America for my tastes 
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A human heart posted:I've only read The Giants which is an fairly early work but it doesn't have anything like that at all. The two I read by him were Onitsha and Desert
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The other media related forums need a thread like this actually, like Quit Being a loving Child and Get Emotionally Invested in Some Real Webcomics or Quit Being a loving Child and Read Nobuyuki Fujimoto
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"Some Real Webcomics." Good one.
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Jerkcity is a real webcomic
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:Jerkcity is a real webcomic Munching and slurping
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A human heart posted:The Giants is a 'novel' that sometimes reads like an insane manifesto where he says that electricity's true desire is to emerge from wires and murder people, and other similarly cool things, it looks like this: Seems good.
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