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It is a long shot but I thought I'd try one more time.Wiggles Von Huggins posted:Has anyone read a great nonfiction account of MK Ultra? I want it to be fun in the same vein as Command and Control was about the history of nuclear weapons/power.
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ArmadilloConspiracy posted:I am looking for books that are: Woman of the Aeroplanes, by Kojo Laing Christopher Unborn, by Carlos Fuentes Kaddish for an Unborn Child, by Imre Kertész
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ArmadilloConspiracy posted:I am looking for books that are: the Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abe
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ArmadilloConspiracy posted:I am looking for books that are: The Melancholy of Resistance by Laszlo Krasznahorkai. The Lime Works by Thomas Bernhard (it's 47 years old, though).
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ArmadilloConspiracy posted:I am looking for books that are: Valeria Luiselli's The Story of My Teeth is good and on the weird end of things, thought I won't call it unsettling.
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ArmadilloConspiracy posted:I am looking for books that are: Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavic. (Written in the last 33 years, close enough right?)
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ArmadilloConspiracy posted:I am looking for books that are: Yoko Ogawa's Revenge and Can Xue's The Last Lover are both weird and unsettling, and good. Ditto, Hassan Blassim's The Iraqi Christ. Mayra Montero's Dancing to "Almendra" gets freaky and brutal, Álvaro Mutis's Maqroll novellas are great, but more dreamlike than unsettling. Also, seconding Han Kang's The Vegetarian.
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ArmadilloConspiracy posted:I am looking for books that are: Jose Saramago. Blindness is great, The Double and All The Names are really good too.
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regulargonzalez posted:Jose Saramago. Blindness is great, The Double and All The Names are really good too. I read and liked Blindness, but my biggest complaint was Saramago's baffling portrayal of women as a weird race of saintly sex dispensers. I recognize that everyone was portrayed in a pretty stylized fashion, but I was left wondering if he had ever met a woman, or if he'd just researched the noble creatures. Is his other stuff any better, in that respect?
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ArmadilloConspiracy posted:saintly sex dispenser mods please change my name
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ArmadilloConspiracy posted:I read and liked Blindness, but my biggest complaint was Saramago's baffling portrayal of women as a weird race of saintly sex dispensers. I recognize that everyone was portrayed in a pretty stylized fashion, but I was left wondering if he had ever met a woman, or if he'd just researched the noble creatures. All of his women are saints but some are also horny
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ArmadilloConspiracy posted:I am looking for books that are: Battle Royale? Your post made me realize how few books I've read that meet these conditions and I'm stoked to check out some of the other recs
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Lawen posted:Battle Royale? huh. I didn't know Battle Royale was adapted from a novel, I thought the manga was the original. How closely does the movie follow the novel?
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I haven't read it for years but from what I remember it fleshes out a few peoples back stories but is otherwise pretty identical to the movie.
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ArmadilloConspiracy posted:I am looking for books that are: anything by Haruki Murakami.
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TommyGun85 posted:anything by Haruki Murakami. Which of his works are closer to Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World than The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle?
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ArmadilloConspiracy posted:Which of his works are closer to Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World than The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle? 1Q84
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TommyGun85 posted:anything by Haruki Murakami. murakami is an honorary anglo american, and hence doesn't meet the conditions
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Koburn posted:huh. I didn't know Battle Royale was adapted from a novel, I thought the manga was the original. How closely does the movie follow the novel? I haven't read the manga so Sakurazuka's answer is probably the right one but I watched the movie then read the novel and, while I liked them both, I liked the novel a lot more because the characters were much more fleshed out and I was much more invested in them (before their inevitable demise). Then I rewatched the movie and liked it even more.
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A human heart posted:murakami is an honorary anglo american, and hence doesn't meet the conditions What?
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It means he doesn't like him.
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Does anyone have any recommendations - fiction or nonfiction - for novels on the rise of the right wing in Japan, post World War 2?
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"Pre-modern" (1700s?) Vietnam or Cambodia or Malaysia? Preferably approachable non-fiction, but I'd take a sufficiently historically detailed piece of fiction.
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Any suggestions for Gothic fiction along the lines of The Monk by Matthew Lewis?
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Oliver Reed posted:Any suggestions for Gothic fiction along the lines of The Monk by Matthew Lewis? Vathek, Beckford The Castle of Otranto, Walpole The Mysteries of Udolpho, Radcliffe Carmilla, le Fanu Melmoth the Wanderer, Maturin Wuthering Heights, Bronte (legit read WH if you haven't already) Manuscript Found in Sargossa, Potocki Les Chants de Maldoror, Lautréamont. this owns incredibly hard and i highly suggest checking it out, if only for its opening line: quote:May it please heaven that the reader, emboldened and having for the time being become as fierce as what he is reading, should, without being led astray, find his rugged and treacherous way across the desolate swamps of these sombre and poison-filled pages; for, unless he brings to his reading a rigorous logic and a tautness of mind equal at least to his wariness, the deadly emanations of this book will dissolve his soul as water does sugar. chernobyl kinsman fucked around with this message at 21:25 on Apr 23, 2017 |
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chernobyl kinsman posted:Vathek, Beckford Wonderful; thanks a lot!
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I am looking for books about subcultures and like, decay/problems in Japan. People falling through the cracks of the system, stuff not working, social ills. Some books of the sort I'm thinking of I've read recently are Speed Tribes, Japanization, and Dogs and Demons. The Spike Japan blog is also the same category I have in mind.
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what are some of y'all's favourite essayists
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Not sure how else to describe it -- can anyone recommend something along the lines of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations or the Tao Te Ching, but for a young teen/low literacy reader?
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chernobyl kinsman posted:what are some of y'all's favourite essayists SJ Perlman, HL Mencken, Mark Twain
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chernobyl kinsman posted:what are some of y'all's favourite essayists Chuck Klosterman. the trump tutelage posted:Not sure how else to describe it -- can anyone recommend something along the lines of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations or the Tao Te Ching, but for a young teen/low literacy reader? The Tao of Pooh / Te of Piglet, maybe?
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chernobyl kinsman posted:what are some of y'all's favourite essayists Diane Ackerman.
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These are suprisingly good given the title and concept
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I'm looking for a book on cultural appropriation. I am not American so it'd be great if the book wasn't ONLY about cultural appropriation in the US but I'll take anything. I feel like I don't know enough about the topic and I'd like to read a more academic take on the topic.
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Lawen posted:The Tao of Pooh / Te of Piglet, maybe?  Hoping for something more like a collection of aphorisms and/or short paragraph-length observations.
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the trump tutelage posted:Not sure how else to describe it -- can anyone recommend something along the lines of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations or the Tao Te Ching, but for a young teen/low literacy reader? Maybe try Plato and A Platypus Walk Into A Bar by Daniel B Klein?
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the trump tutelage posted:Too advanced
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Canticle for Leibowitz but it ain't exactly "fun" I'm not the guy who requested it, but I picked it up because it sounded great and it is. Thanks!
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Anyone have a recommendation for a fictional story about an astronaut, or astronaut training, or both? I've read the martian and seven eves.
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