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When I'm done with prose Odyssey, should I read His Dark Materials or Harry Potter?
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Oct 29, 2016 05:28
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Nanomashoes posted:Now there was a certain Olynthian, named mycophobia; he was a great lover of boys, and seeing a handsome lad, just in the bloom of youth, and carrying a light shield, about to be slain, he ran up to Xenophon and supplicated him to rescue the fair youth. Xenophon went to Seuthes and begged him not to put the boy to death. He explained to him the disposition of mycophobia; how he had once enrolled a company, the only qualification required being that of personal beauty; and with these handsome young men at his side there were none so brave as he. Seuthes put the question, "Would you like to die on his behalf, mycophobia?" whereat the other stretched out his neck, and said, "Strike, if the boy bids you, and will thank his preserver." Seuthes, turning to the boy, asked, "Shall I smite him instead of you?" The boy shook his head, imploring him to slay neither the one nor the other, whereupon mycophobia caught the lad in his arms, exclaiming, "It is time you did battle with me, Seuthes, for my boy; never will I yield him up," and Seuthes laughed: "what must be must," and so consented. Mel Mudkiper posted:Nah this is a cool thread 
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Oct 29, 2016 06:24
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THE PWNER posted:When I'm done with prose Odyssey, should I read His Dark Materials or Harry Potter? Infinite Jest
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Oct 29, 2016 10:14
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THE PWNER posted:When I'm done with prose Odyssey, should I read His Dark Materials or Harry Potter? Well if you have to read one, His Dark Materials is shorter and better.
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Oct 29, 2016 10:27
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THE PWNER posted:When I'm done with prose Odyssey, should I read His Dark Materials or Harry Potter? It's probably not exactly what you're looking for but I recommend A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin Anyway, in translation chat, just picked up the Grossman translation of Don Quixote since I hear good things about it. Also which translation to go for with Hamsun's Pan? I guess I always assume the latest translation is the definitive one but this wasn't the case with Hunger where Lyngstad was considered definitive.
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Oct 29, 2016 11:30
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Nitevision posted:Infinite Jest Just read this one 5000 times. I've ascended to a deeper plane of existence.
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Oct 29, 2016 13:29
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THE PWNER posted:Just read this one 5000 times. I've ascended to a deeper plane of existence. It made me fall asleep, too.
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Oct 29, 2016 14:07
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aren't you the guy who recommended an edward lee book with a straight face
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Oct 29, 2016 15:23
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chernobyl kinsman posted:aren't you the guy who recommended an edward lee book with a straight face God drat you for making me look that guy up.
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Oct 29, 2016 16:37
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chernobyl kinsman posted:aren't you the guy who recommended an edward lee book with a straight face Probably. I quite like him. My tastes are quite varied. Infinite Jest did bore me to tears, though. Nothing against DFW, but it just didn't grip me in the same way many other books have. E: to add some content, the book just didn't resonate with me the way it did with others, because I don't really think it's fundamentally designed for someone like me. I remember the section on 'exotic new facts' that you learn once you enter a halfway house and thinking 'Here we go, about to have some truth bombs dropped on me from high' (and having been in a similar situation, maybe some familiar scenarios) and being met with such trite observations as 'Black people can be racist' or 'Women swear too'. I think when I got the 'You can live with cockroaches' and 'Casual sex leaves you feeling empty' I started to wonder if maybe I was the target audience here, since I've lived in cockroach infested houses as a consequence of being dirt poor and a lot of the other exotic facts were stuff a lot of people who haven't led an incredibly sheltered life manage to learn about fairly organically. Maybe it was operating at several levels of irony beyond my measure? For a book purportedly about addiction, I also get the impression, especially with his disdain for substitute therapy such as methadone, that quite a lot of his insight on addiction comes from addiction to alcohol (which is fair enough, I was never addicted to alcohol and seeing as how many former alcoholics who have read IJ identify with his insight, I'm willing to concede his expertise) and it is then transposed to other forms without really actually understanding how they actually differ. I mean, even the heroin addicts aren't actually meaningfully explored as heroin addicts and it's only their subsequent decline into alcoholism as a a substitute that actually gets any meaningful 'insight'. It just comes across as a hardcore alcoholic who has smoked some weed and is therefore an expert on opiates etc. Rush Limbo fucked around with this message at 21:33 on Oct 29, 2016 |
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Oct 29, 2016 18:56
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chernobyl kinsman posted:aren't you the guy who recommended an edward lee book with a straight face 
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Oct 29, 2016 21:45
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googling edward lee lead to a chef I clearly googled the wrong edward lee
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Oct 29, 2016 22:53
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Mel Mudkiper posted:googling edward lee lead to a chef He's cooking up grotesque spooky stories.
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Oct 29, 2016 23:12
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It's pretty much intro to lit not to judge a book by its cover.
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Oct 30, 2016 00:24
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Cloks posted:It's pretty much intro to lit not to judge a book by its cover. Thanks but reading a guy whose website has a one word quote by fangoria sounds like work. I'd prefer not to.
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Oct 30, 2016 01:47
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Cloks posted:It's pretty much intro to lit not to judge a book by its cover. Actually, considering the level of time and effort put into designing covers by publishers and the role covers play in advertising the content of the story to potential readers, its very reasonable to judge a book by its cover.
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Oct 30, 2016 02:41
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Very true, covers are extremely important
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Oct 30, 2016 02:44
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Cloks posted:It's pretty much intro to lit not to judge a book by its cover.  e: Edward Lee posted:He contemplated abstrusions, orphic enigmas, and oblique strategies, all while exerting every effort not to look at the dead pregnant woman. chernobyl kinsman fucked around with this message at 03:02 on Oct 30, 2016 |
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Oct 30, 2016 02:55
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Oct 30, 2016 03:00
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Cloks posted:It's pretty much intro to lit not to judge a book by its cover. That's dumb, since it's basic human instinct to "judge a book by its cover". It saves everyone a lot of time. Especially if it's a fat guy eating cheetos in the nude with a decapitated head on a plate on his dick.
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 Don Holliday's The Gay Dogs seems to lack a certain permanence—but who can judge without having read it?
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Franchescanado posted:That's dumb, since it's basic human instinct to "judge a book by its cover". It saves everyone a lot of time. Especially if it's a fat guy eating cheetos in the nude with a decapitated head on a plate on his dick. i actually read more than a few edward lee books when i was 13-14 and they are indeed accurately represented by their covers
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Oct 30, 2016 05:49
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Oct 30, 2016 05:51
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I'm sorry, I forgot to put "this is a joke" after my last post.
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Oct 30, 2016 06:18
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Cloks posted:I'm sorry, I forgot to put "this is a joke" after my last post. Just post like me so everyone will know all your posts are a joke
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Oct 30, 2016 06:19
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Dear publishers: please put ALL books on Kindle. I wanted to read Creation by Gore Vidal, but it's not on Kindle. I wanted to read Trinity by Leon Uris, but it's not on Kindle. I wanted to read The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge, not on Kindle...I need to read on my phone, man...I can't use a physical book in 2016. Put ALL books on Kindle, for the love of God.
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Oct 30, 2016 08:35
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Oct 30, 2016 08:51
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The Dennis System posted:Dear publishers: please put ALL books on Kindle. I still read physical books, but even so I stand behind this
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Oct 30, 2016 09:11
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any reason to post this beauty
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Oct 30, 2016 09:20
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this is the best cover
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Oct 30, 2016 09:23
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Thought I was in the PYF knockoffs thread for a sec.
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Oct 30, 2016 09:24
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It's not Real Literature but the cover I had of Howl's Moving Castle was atrocious, the book itself was actually good. That said I tend to distrust covers where the author's name is really big compared to the title of the book itself
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Oct 30, 2016 12:14
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J_RBG posted:It's not Real Literature but the cover I had of Howl's Moving Castle was atrocious, the book itself was actually good. Also, If the authors name looks shiny or the letters stick out in a neat textured way, then you can be sure that the book is trash.
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Oct 30, 2016 13:54
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Smdh if your covers are not handbound leather.
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Oct 30, 2016 14:04
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can we put together a kickstarter to change mel's avatar
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The Dennis System posted:Dear publishers: please put ALL books on Kindle. I wanted to read Creation by Gore Vidal, but it's not on Kindle. I wanted to read Trinity by Leon Uris, but it's not on Kindle. I wanted to read The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge, not on Kindle...I need to read on my phone, man...I can't use a physical book in 2016. Put ALL books on Kindle, for the love of God. A lot of the books I've read lately just wouldn't work on Kindle, for one reason or another, like extensive annotations (Pale Fire, The Third Policeman), odd formatting (The Tunnel, Mulligan Stew, Ulysses), or diagrams (a whole bunch of 20th century linguists defending their special snowflake multidimensional recursive triadic/quadratic/phlegmatic model of the sign).
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