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Franchescanado posted:I've never read any of the Bronte sisters, or any Jane Austen for that matter. I've read Silas Marner by George Eliot, wasn't a fan. You should also read Middlemarch.
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Franchescanado posted:I've never read any of the Bronte sisters, or any Jane Austen for that matter. I've read Silas Marner by George Eliot, wasn't a fan. You should read Jane Eyre and Emma too. OTOH, the only good bit in Agnes Grey is when one of Agnes' brattish charges is torturing a baby bird so she drops a rock on it to put it out of its misery.
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:I should actually read a Rushdie book. I've only read The Satanic Verses but I was reading it at my museum job and some guy walked up to hand me his ticket and was like "oh what are you reading?" and I said "The Satanic Verses" because I just assumed people had heard of it and he gave me a creeped out look and probably thought I was some weirdo goth devil fetishist. It was a pretty good book though, I want to read Midnight's Children
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Midnight's Children was really good when I read it 10 yrs ago or so, as was Fury, but I was probably even more stupid then, so it might suck, don't hold it against me, please
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Burning Rain posted:Midnight's Children was really good when I read it 10 yrs ago or so, as was Fury, but I was probably even more stupid then, so it might suck, don't hold it against me, please It's good, but not as good as it's reputation would suggest, much like Infinite Jest
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I've read Jane Eyre twice so far in college, once in a general British literature course and another time in an adolescent literature course. I really like how Bronte details what happens if you take away all the things that made women valuable - eligibility as a daughter and money - at the time and basically building Jane up from literally nothing. It's quite progressive for the time, and contrasts starkly with Austen and Pride and Prejudice. It's been a while since I read Wuthering Heights, about time for another read. Can't wait to read the book again because I may write my senior thesis on it 
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Tenant of Wildfell Hall is the most underrated Bronte novel
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:Jane Eyre and North and South are good I agree. I WILL MARRY BERTHA MASON.
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Honestly Bertha was almost certainly a better shag than Jane
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david crosby posted:It's good, but not as good as it's reputation would suggest, much like Infinite Jest Midnight's Children was Rushdie's breakout Big Important Novel and feels like it, it's ambitious and sprawling but has trouble settling on any one topic long enough to do it justice. Stylistically I've always said his best work is either The Satanic Verses or Shalimar the Clown.
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I read like three quarters of the way through Midnight's Children then hit a point where I still thought the writing was really beautiful but I just didn't have any interest in knowing what happened next, and then at some point I put it down and never picked it back up again
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hi everyone my buddy and i just finished (well i finished, hes still going because hes slow) jean genet's our lady of the flowers and we're looking for another book to read. anyone got suggestions? if it helps, my favorite aspects of our lady are the beautiful prose and the smoking hot gay sex
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VostokProgram posted:hi everyone my buddy and i just finished (well i finished, hes still going because hes slow) jean genet's our lady of the flowers and we're looking for another book to read. anyone got suggestions? Miracle of the rose is another very good genet, can't remember what translation i read though. you could try mishima i guess although the gay sex there is more implied most of the time
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VostokProgram posted:hi everyone my buddy and i just finished (well i finished, hes still going because hes slow) jean genet's our lady of the flowers and we're looking for another book to read. anyone got suggestions?
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J_RBG posted:Tenant of Wildfell Hall is the most underrated Bronte novel I liked the bit where they treat the woman like a helicopter parent because she won't let her five year old have any wine
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Mar 3, 2017 15:31
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What's a good book to start on Samuel Beckett?
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Mar 3, 2017 16:40
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The Unnamable.
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ZearothK posted:What's a good book to start on Samuel Beckett?
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My next read will be To The Lighthouse, and it's my first Woolf.
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Mr. Squishy posted:If you must talk about genre fiction please use the every other thread in this forum. All fiction is genre fiction. I've read the most fantastical, unrealistic things in "realist" fiction.
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CountFosco posted:All fiction is genre fiction. I've read the most fantastical, unrealistic things in "realist" fiction. Thanks, Count Fosco
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CountFosco posted:All fiction is genre fiction. I've read the most fantastical, unrealistic things in "realist" fiction.
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Mar 3, 2017 20:38
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The most unrealistic thing to happen in realist fiction is the nerdass main character getting laid
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CountFosco posted:All fiction is genre fiction. I've read the most fantastical, unrealistic things in "realist" fiction. I've gotta give this post a hard FosNo
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Always nice to see the continuing edifying effects of real literature on the discourse of the public square.
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thanks for popping back into the thread fosco, see you again in 6 months
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Shibawanko posted:Read Stanislaw Lem if you must read science fiction. What about Jules Verne? I never read any of his stuff but I thought it was supposed to be "classic." Honestly asking here if his stuff is good aad worth reading. Only classic lit book I really want to read nowadays is Crime and Punishment. I think that's supposed to be a classic anyway. It sounded really good.
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jules verne is 'classic' in the genre of science fiction and in the sense that he was written a long time ago but no one considers his poo poo 'classic' in the sense of 'highbrow' and for the love of god can we stop talking about genre fiction in the only thread in this subforum not dedicated to genre fiction also using the term 'classics' to point to any referent other than greco-roman works of antiquity is indicative of a bad brain
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chernobyl kinsman posted:jules verne is 'classic' in the genre of science fiction and in the sense that he was written a long time ago but no one considers his poo poo 'classic' in the sense of 'highbrow' and for the love of god can we stop talking about genre fiction in the only thread in this subforum not dedicated to genre fiction I just thought it meant an older piece of literature considered to have historical and cultural value. It's not necessarily a judge of quality since there seem to be no end to so-called classics that people vehemently hate.
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They're not exactly high literature, but are positively edifying compared to modern sci-fi.
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chernobyl kinsman posted:jules verne is 'classic' in the genre of science fiction and in the sense that he was written a long time ago but no one considers his poo poo 'classic' in the sense of 'highbrow' and for the love of god can we stop talking about genre fiction in the only thread in this subforum not dedicated to genre fiction What about the mahabharata
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I don't mean to do an own on anyone, but I click this thread every so often and I don't know if it is really representative, but these are the talking points, as I remember them from clicking maybe every 6 months or so and I figured I'd share because it is funny to me; Dune Harry Potter Some kind of Star Wars erotica based discussion with an in-depth look at how the cum from different Star Wars races might be different Dune Someone doing a sick own on the Bible, cleverly suggesting it be placed in the fictional section with children's fairy tales Dune
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Grandmother of Five posted:I don't mean to do an own on anyone, but I click this thread every so often and I don't know if it is really representative, but these are the talking points, as I remember them from clicking maybe every 6 months or so and I figured I'd share because it is funny to me; Breathe 3asy,you did not do an own on anyone
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I hope not, but from my experience you can get called a troll on some of the subforums by saying stuff like "it is sad that people die from drugs" or "please be kind to animals". Anyway, I am going to read a bunch of stuff by Dan Turčll which was recommended to me in the Scandinavian thread. I'm obviously going to read it in Danish, since that is the original language & I speak it, but if anyone is interested in Scandinavian literature in general, it is my experience that translation between English and the Nordic language is often of a high quality, and if you're looking at any particular recommendations on original works or translation, I'm guessing that a bunch of people from the Scandinavian thread would be glad to give recommendations. I don't know if you all use it already, but the various regional threads are a potentially pretty useful resource to be aware of imo when looking into translated works.
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WAY TO GO WAMPA!! posted:The most unrealistic thing to happen in realist fiction is the nerdass main character getting laid Yeah I also thought the new Jonathan Lethem wasn't great
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