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You seem unaware that people have a thing for that and that specialised websites exist. But hey it's not my place to judge.
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CestMoi posted:Everyone ate poop and died of eating it, but luckily it wasn't bad, because of taste lol
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hog fat posted:i think the comic book movie thread might be more your speed nah there's plenty of no-punctuation one-liner heroes in there making fun of me too 
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It is, in fact, objectively bad for culture and humanity when people read video game novelisations and science fiction all day long
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The contemporary liberal notion of personal taste being subjective and therefore free from any criticism must be destroyed.
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BREAKING: Analysts Have Discovered Why This Book Barn Poster Has Stupid Opinionslearnincurve posted:but then my dad has a doctorate in economics and my mum is an accountant and
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Guy A. Person posted:Oh hey, I did the "only read books by women" thing last year. It was fun, good luck! for real this is dumb. making a conscious effort to read more women is i guess noble enough but exclusively reading women turns it into this weird obstacle that you have to overcome and then congratulate yourself for having done so chernobyl kinsman fucked around with this message at 01:18 on Feb 3, 2017 |
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A human heart posted:It is, in fact, objectively bad for culture and humanity when people read video game novelisations and science fiction all day long
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chernobyl kinsman posted:for real this is dumb. making a conscious effort to read more women is i guess noble enough but exclusively reading women turns it into this weird obstacle that you have to overcome and then congratulate yourself for having done so Man, I don't see how I did any of the poo poo you're talking about. My goal was to read more women, I had a bunch of poo poo in my backlog and got more recommendations from the thread, whenever there was something from a male author I just put it on my shelf for later. It's not like I missed out on any life changing works that came out last year that needed to be read immediately, I just added a handful of books (maybe 6 total?) to my backlog, when I already have dozens of books there to begin with. It's not like I swore off reading books by men forever, it was just a way of challenging myself and being more active in searching out new and more varied stuff.
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Yeah I mean, there are enough books out there that it's not like any of us are going to run out of poo poo to read and it's gonna happen in some level of arbitrary order anyway. I absolutely have more than a year's worth of recommendations, interests, and rereads banked at the moment, there's nothing limiting about prioritizing a subset of those for w/e length of time
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chernobyl kinsman posted:for real this is dumb. making a conscious effort to read more women is i guess noble enough but exclusively reading women turns it into this weird obstacle that you have to overcome and then congratulate yourself for having done so i was worried at first about it turning into some kind of self-congratulatory stunt. but i considered it for a few days and decided that as long as i keep my ego in check i can keep myself grounded. honestly, even mentioning it in that other post was probably a bit unnecessary, and a bit of an ego trip. but i did find out that Guy A. Person did the same thing, and found it rewarding. which i think makes the ego trip worth it. i simply noticed that i have a bad habit of reading predominantly books written by men, and decided that i'd like to correct that about myself. i thought reading a bunch of books in a row written by women would be a good way to establish a new habit of reading books by both men and women. and after all, there have been many times in my life where i've read only books by men for months on end.
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I mean I for sure am going to be a self congratulatory twerp no matter what I read, it's largely what drew me to this thread
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I could probably do with reading more by women, don't see anything wrong with actively limiting your choices like that
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Guy A. Person posted:I mean I for sure am going to be a self congratulatory twerp no matter what I read, it's largely what drew me to this thread it was wrong of me to imply that anything i post here isn't 100% masturbatory
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the best writing available to us (Westerners) is mostly written by dead white men. you can pretend that this is not the case if you want. you can respond with a bunch of truisms, you can quote all your favorite female authors but the point remains. why limit yourself? the good news is that there is no such thing as a man and there is no such thing as a woman. the self is a construct and ego is suffering.
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hog fat posted:the best writing available to us (Westerners) is mostly written by dead white men. you can pretend that this is not the case if you want. you can respond with a bunch of truisms, you can quote all your favorite female authors but the point remains. why limit yourself? Extremely bad post. Anyway I just finished the second Ferrante book and enjoyed it immensely. The third one is checked out at the library so I picked up At the Existentialist Cafe and I have a creeping feeling I'm gonna loving hate it.
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nobody tld me that Elena Ferrante was actually a stealth adaptation of Metal Gear Solid 5 
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What the hell is wrong with your camera.
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Franchescanado posted:What the hell is wrong with your camera.
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I'm reading a dead white man novel called Great Expectations but, get this, it's actually written by Kathy Acker
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Im reading a dead white man novel called don quixote, but get this, it's by pierre menard
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Tim Burns Effect posted:Im reading a dead white man novel called don quixote, but get this, it's by pierre menard I had to look up this reference; drat I need to read more Borges
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there's nothing wrong with exclusively looking for books outside of the dead white dude canon for a while imo, helps expand your Literary Sensibilities and it's usually a lot of fun. i'm not american but ceremony by leslie marmon silko is the best american book i've read and it's by a Woman who is Not White. i mean you can only take so much of the relentless push and pull of aristoteliean sensibilities that all white man writing boils down to
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teh no one said there was. what does all female writing boil down to? hog fat fucked around with this message at 23:00 on Feb 3, 2017 |
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Many of you seem to forget or simply ignore the thread title. The quit being a child part. It's cool, though. I'll allow it.
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this thread is essentially a repository for quotes such as 'it was cool' wherein two people are reading the same book on occasion. if enough people have read the same book they all reach a consensus on how good or bad it was almost forgot, sometimes someone chimes in with some trenchant postmodern sentiment and everyone agrees that truth is subjective
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Guy A. Person posted:I had to look up this reference; drat I need to read more Borges I say the 2nd part to myself every day and I say it out loud to people at work, and all they do is prove that grown adults in the working world can still be immature philistines.
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Foul Fowl posted:there's nothing wrong with exclusively looking for books outside of the dead white dude canon for a while imo, helps expand your Literary Sensibilities and it's usually a lot of fun. i'm not american but ceremony by leslie marmon silko is the best american book i've read and it's by a Woman who is Not White. If you are interested in reading what dead black women were writing at the same time as the dead white dudes then check out Ida B. Wells if you haven't already.
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hog fat posted:
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learnincurve posted:If you are interested in reading what dead black women were writing at the same time as the dead white dudes then check out Ida B. Wells if you haven't already. i'm reading WEB du bois right now and it is fire (v. interesting to contrast it with what coates is writing right now, you can clearly see the influence, the shadow of years reads like a prototype for between the world and me) i'll get on ida b wells once i've wrapped it up
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I finished Maldoror which was mental af but couldn't get into Poems and didn't finish it 😚
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I implore everyone to read Borges.
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A human heart posted:BREAKING: Analysts Have Discovered Why This Book Barn Poster Has Stupid Opinions I wish my parents had money
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They don't have any money because my dad spends it all on second hand books. He just had to give away 5000 of them to oxfam because he ran out of room for more books and my mother refused to let their weird book hoarder library house get any worse.
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Boatswain posted:I'm mostly interested in Deconstruction as a historical movement and right now don't have the time for of grammatology/pharmakon/disseminations usw https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/french-theory
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learnincurve posted:If you are interested in reading what dead black women were writing at the same time as the dead white dudes then check out Ida B. Wells if you haven't already. Leslie Marmon Silko is a) not dead and b) not black. She is a very important figure to American Indian lit though, being among the loose class of authors following N. Scott Momaday that comprise the Native American Renaissance. Ceremony is fantastic, and definitely worth reading even if you're the kind of person who feels the need to take to the internet to deride the idea of seeking out female authors. Don't worry, the main character is a boy so you won't get cooties or have to think about tampons or nothing~ Another good (and very alive) American Indian author is Louise Erdrich--I read The Round House and it was by far the most affecting thing I got through last year. If you liked Beloved even a little bit you'll probably get something from it. HookedOnChthonics fucked around with this message at 17:48 on Feb 6, 2017 |
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What's good on Gutenberg? Trying to find some things to read in downtime at work, so probably nothing needing careful attention. Also guessing most of their translations are going to be pretty low-quality/ dated, but still. e: low-effort post, v open to anything actually good
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HookedOnChthonics posted:Leslie Marmon Silko is a) not dead and b) not black. She is a very important figure to American Indian lit though, being among the loose class of authors following N. Scott Momaday that comprise the Native American Renaissance. This is all quality poo poo. Erdrich rules, and her book from last year, LaRose, was really good and made me Feel Bad, the true sign of quality literature.
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I just finished Aquarium and boy. You guys weren't kidding. Wow. Also this morning I was reading an essay by Anne Carson about sleep and dreams and she talks at some length about the importance of sleep/dream imagery in the Odyssey. So now I want to read the Odyssey. Is there a preferred translation? (sorry I feel like this question has been asked in the thread before)
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