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If you're not a communist you're probably a retard.
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pleasecallmechrist posted:They suffer from a naivety that only a coddled life provides. - poster in 'Read Some Real Literature' thread. I'm reading Ballard's Crash right now and I'm disliking it the further I get into the book. I get what it's trying to do but the explicit metaphor between the car crash and sex is so drawn out and rammed into the reader (like a car crashing) ((get it????)) that I'm losing interest in the narrator's constant musings on the stylization of violence and people's bodies.
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Foul Fowl posted:- poster in 'Read Some Real Literature' thread. the movie is better
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Mel Mudkiper posted:the movie is better I didn't get what all the races being different yet the same had to do with car crashes
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Ras Het posted:I didn't get what all the races being different yet the same had to do with car crashes It was really weird when Brendan Fraser had sex with Jada Pinkett Smith in that overturned SUV
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Jun 7, 2017 15:08
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Shibawanko posted:If you're not a communist you're probably a retard. i'm both
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Jun 7, 2017 15:15
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Aesthetics is the only important thing in political ideology so I'm a fascist.
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Jun 7, 2017 15:38
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Are any of the Lem novels other than Solaris good?
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Jun 7, 2017 16:49
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Shibawanko posted:Are any of the Lem novels other than Solaris good? Yes
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Jun 7, 2017 17:37
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Shibawanko posted:Are any of the Lem novels other than Solaris good? yes, you retard. My fave is A Perfect Vacuum, which is really a collection of short stories, but it's so good who cares.
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Jun 7, 2017 18:08
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Memoirs Found in a Bathtub is possibly the most Kafkaesque thing I've ever read that's not actually made by Kafka. It's also hilarious (I mean so is Kafka a lot of the time, but this is more overtly humorous and less nightmarish) EDIT: I've also read Return from the Stars which is good but not as much as Solaris or Memoirs; I need to read more of his stuff
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Jun 7, 2017 18:24
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david crosby posted:yes, you retard. My fave is A Perfect Vacuum, which is really a collection of short stories, but it's so good who cares. I mean, I really want to read them, I just want to know which ones are best. My favorite parts of Solaris are just the descriptions of the planet itself and I get why Lem didn't like the Tarkovsky movie for leaving that out. A big theme is the gelatinous wobbliness of the ocean versus the autistic space station. Shibawanko fucked around with this message at 21:57 on Jun 7, 2017 |
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Jun 7, 2017 21:53
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i dunno about novels but the cyberiad was real good
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His Master's Voice was good, I also enjoyed Eden and Return From the Stars. I don't think anything is close to Solaris though.
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Shibawanko posted:I mean, I really want to read them, I just want to know which ones are best. That's appropriate because the best parts of the movie are the long shots of the solaris ocean just like mixing around. I haven't read Solaris in a while, did the straight English translation ever get released? the version I read was translated from the French translation of the original Polish for some cool reason...
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pleasecallmechrist posted:Pay no attention to these socialists. They suffer from a naivety that only a coddled life provides. Communism is a perverse self-righteous ideology that brings nothing more than oligarchy and poverty. It is not per chance that Marx was a factory owner's son and came up with his something so well intentioned but utterly ignorant. Dude is the OG of white guilt. lol
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Jun 8, 2017 00:45
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CestMoi posted:Aesthetics is the only important thing in political ideology so I'm a fascist. lets blend the best of both worlds and become national bolsheviks
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Jun 8, 2017 00:46
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A human heart posted:lets blend the best of both worlds and become national bolsheviks Has anyone read the main guy's poetry? Old Russian poetry is usually pretty cool but some of the modern stuff I've read kind of sucks.
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Jun 8, 2017 00:58
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Stanislaw Lem is v good, pretty much the only salvageable author from my teenage bookshelf other than Philip K Dick maybe also karl marx rules, capitalism ... sucks
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Jun 8, 2017 01:10
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also thanks for the recs everyone, on this and the islam question from before
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Jun 8, 2017 03:06
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Transit by Rachel Cusk was real good.
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Jun 9, 2017 00:08
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Posadism is the way and the light.
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Jun 9, 2017 10:20
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I'm almost done listening to Lincoln in the Bardo and I really liked it. It's a powerful portrait of grief and refusing to let go of sorrow. The chapters that are woven together out of contemporaneous accounts are fantastically immersive. I haven't read anything else by George Saunders but I picked up Tenth of December over the weekend and put it on my long list.
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Jun 13, 2017 04:32
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i like the bit where the guy repeatedly rolls a pebble down his huge cock
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Jun 13, 2017 04:51
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I reread Solaris while looking for some more Lem books. It really is loving great. I like how it casually summarises all human intellectual achievement and makes it seem foolish in a single chapter. The Tarkovsky movie comes off as a simplification at best. The Soderbergh movie should be burned. I don't remember if I ever put the youtube link to the original Russian movie in this thread, so here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1tnAyARsmA I think I actually like this one. It was made on a tiny budget, i think it was one of those soviet movies that was basically a theatre production with theatre props adapted to film.
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Jun 13, 2017 11:43
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chernobyl kinsman posted:i like the bit where the guy repeatedly rolls a pebble down his huge cock I like when he bounces it on his cock. Also the feces covered mirror and the ghost fuckin'.
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Jun 13, 2017 15:37
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Finished the second part of Goethe's Faust. Any book that ends with angels distracting the devil by seducing him with their sexy man rear end is a good book imo.
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Jun 17, 2017 00:17
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That book got pictures?
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Jun 17, 2017 00:28
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Rolo posted:That book got pictures? http://i.imgur.com/57CSizz.jpg http://i.imgur.com/Qizk6AK.jpg https://youtu.be/UFiiIWRn6qE?t=2m
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Jun 17, 2017 00:39
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quote:Was ich am meisten besorge: Bettina wird immer geschickter, quote:what bothers me is this: -Goethe
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Jun 17, 2017 00:51
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Hi lit thread, do you guys have a preferred translation of Tao Te Ching?
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Jun 17, 2017 02:46
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smug n stuff posted:Hi lit thread, do you guys have a preferred translation of Tao Te Ching? The Gia-fu Feng and Jane English version for the best straightforwardly accurate and clearly written translation, Le Guin for a more poetic, mystical version that takes some liberties but I feel remains faithful to the ideas of the text and is very beautiful. Whatever you decide, I find it benefits greatly from reading multiple versions due to the nature of Classical Chinese.
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Jun 17, 2017 07:12
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Peel posted:what are some good books prominently featuring hypocrites and/or narcissists Benvenuto Cellini's autobiography.
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smug n stuff posted:Hi lit thread, do you guys have a preferred translation of Tao Te Ching? Aleister Crowley 
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The Belgian posted:I think lots of people have made illustrations for it in the last 200 years. i cant jerk off to any of these
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chernobyl kinsman posted:i cant jerk off to any of these bro are you even trying smug n stuff posted:Hi lit thread, do you guys have a preferred translation of Tao Te Ching? Used D.C. Lau's at university, but wasn't blown away with it.
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Jun 18, 2017 05:07
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Headed to the Strand bookstore in NYC today. I was planning on getting 4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster, October by China Mieville and The Vegetarian by Han Kang. Any notable new books I should look for?
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Jun 18, 2017 12:40
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Didn't everyone hate 4321?
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Cloks posted:Headed to the Strand bookstore in NYC today. I was planning on getting 4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster, October by China Mieville and The Vegetarian by Han Kang. Any notable new books I should look for? Autumn by Ali Smith imo (not super new)
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