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Mr. Squishy posted:Didn't everyone hate 4321? My mom liked it and told me to read it. Reviews look like they range from tepid to mild enthusiasm but I really like the concept so I'll get it regardless.
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I got: October - China Mieville Angelmaker - Nick Harkaway The Vegetarian - Han Kang How to be Both - Ali Smith The Doorposts of Your House and on Your Gates - Jacob Bacharach Darkmans - Nicola Barker Necessary Errors - Caleb Crain 4321 - Paul Auster A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters - Julian Barnes and a hernia carrying those around.
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Jun 18, 2017 21:56
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you should have gotten bottom's dream to really get a hernia
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Back from the bookshop after buying 20 copies of Joseph McElroy's WOmen and Men, and boy are my arms tired.
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Cloks posted:October - China Mieville
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Gorn Myson posted:Fuckin' owns and I will work tirelessly to make it this years Aquarium. Does it involve a woman emotionally traumatizing her daughter by making her clean up her poo poo while she berates her, or pics of cute fish?
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Mr. Squishy posted:Back from the bookshop after buying 20 copies of Joseph McElroy's WOmen and Men, and boy are my arms tired. I looked for that but they didn't have it, only Lookout Cartridge. They did have a first edition of Gravity's Rainbow but I'm not made of money.
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Gorn Myson posted:Fuckin' owns and I will work tirelessly to make it this years Aquarium. nah
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Cloks posted:How to be Both - Ali Smith yes. If you don't have the British edition you might want to have these pictures that play a huge role (and were not included in the US version & translations for some stupid reason) handy   
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I just finished Libra and I really enjoyed it - do y'all have any suggestions for other postmodern works? I also loved Underworld and White Noise. I'm tempted to go for Mao II, but I'd like to try reading something from other authors.
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curried lamb of God posted:I just finished Libra and I really enjoyed it - do y'all have any suggestions for other postmodern works? I also loved Underworld and White Noise. I'm tempted to go for Mao II, but I'd like to try reading something from other authors. Let me ask... could you like some joviality without an apparent end?
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curried lamb of God posted:I just finished Libra and I really enjoyed it - do y'all have any suggestions for other postmodern works? I also loved Underworld and White Noise. I'm tempted to go for Mao II, but I'd like to try reading something from other authors. gonna need some more specifics here i think. what do you like, what do you not like. are you looking for thematically similar to delilo, or structurally similar to delilo, or... if you haven't tried auster or gaddis or nabokov or pynchon or flann o'brien or what have you then those are easy answers
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Let me ask... could you like some joviality without an apparent end? Is it worth reading on Kindle? I'm stuck in a remote location away from any bookstores, let alone any that sell English-language books. Tree Goat posted:gonna need some more specifics here i think. what do you like, what do you not like. are you looking for thematically similar to delilo, or structurally similar to delilo, or... Thematically similar - criticisms of consumerism/modernity, conspiracy theories, (threats of) violence, etc. From your list, I've only read Nabokov (Lolita, of course)
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curried lamb of God posted:Thematically similar - criticisms of consumerism/modernity, conspiracy theories, (threats of) violence, etc. From your list, I've only read Nabokov (Lolita, of course) jr gravity's rainbow at swim-two-birds the illuminatus trilogy
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Cloks posted:I looked for that but they didn't have it, only Lookout Cartridge. they probably wouldn't because it's famously out of print and very sought after by smart literature ppl
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A human heart posted:they probably wouldn't because it's famously out of print and very sought after by smart literature ppl Yeah, Lookout Cartridge was in the rare books room, which is where I was looking for Women and Men.
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CestMoi posted:Aleister Crowley 
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A human heart posted:they probably wouldn't because it's famously out of print and very sought after by smart literature ppl looks like there's a reprint scheduled for next month, which is nice
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Anyone else read A Horse Walks Into a Bar yet?
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Tree Goat posted:jr J R looks great from the synopsis, I just bought it and Infinite Jest
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booo
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CestMoi posted:booo i mean, i prefer the recognitions, but jr seemed closer to the request
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The quality of Infinite Jest is ultimately irrelevant It is the act of reading it that matters
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I suddenly decided I wanna read Mirabai this morning, what's a good english collection of her poems?
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Mel Mudkiper posted:The quality of Infinite Jest is ultimately irrelevant it is actually the act of claiming to have read it
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Currently enjoying Half of a Yellow Sun, but I was curious if anybody knew of a good book for background on Biafra?
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I can hella recommend Sphinx by Anne Garreta
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reading Nabokov's lecture on Madame Bovary, and it's full of cool quotes. I'll drop just one hereVladik posted:Books are not written for those who are fond of poems that make one weep or those who like noble characters in prose as Leon and Emma think. Only children can be excused for identifying themselves with the characters in a book, or enjoying baddly written adventure stories. also reading Nawal el-Saadawi's The Fall of the Imam, where she's retelling the same few events over and over again with a extra details and different angles each time. it's very angry, maybe a bit too much for me, but well, I'm not a woman living in Egypt, so
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I started reading Ada, or Ardor. Nabokov went absolutely rapid fire with the puns in this one.
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I'm reading The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy and it is extremely good y'all
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Burning Rain posted:reading Nabokov's lecture on Madame Bovary, and it's full of cool quotes. I'll drop just one here Is it available for free legally or do I need to buy the books on his lectures?
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CelestialCookie posted:Is it available for free legally or do I need to buy the books on his lectures? You could also borrow it from a library.
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CelestialCookie posted:Is it available for free legally or do I need to buy the books on his lectures? they were typed up & edited mostly after his death for the book, so you'll have to get the book, i think.
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Been reading Vonnegut and Salinger, and liking some of it, but my break from Dostoevsky is over and I'm going to start The Idiot next. Probably tomorrow.
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I picked up David Copperfield at the library today. I've always really liked what I've read of Dickens so I'm very excited.
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I've been liking a lot of the books I've read so far that have no conventional narrative, that are basically just a collection of scenes. "Inner Tube" was basically this. I just read elizabeth hardwick's "sleepless nights" and it was exactly that, really good too. What are some more books that are similar?
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Burning Rain posted:they were typed up & edited mostly after his death for the book, so you'll have to get the book, i think. ah cool, it seems Amazon still have some in their stock. I assume his commentaries on Don Quixote is going to be an exciting read as well. Also yeah, I'd have borrowed the book from the library if I live in the vicinity of a good library. Unfortunately libraries here sucks (and no, I'm not living in the US).
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Zesty Mordant posted:I've been liking a lot of the books I've read so far that have no conventional narrative, that are basically just a collection of scenes. "Inner Tube" was basically this. I just read elizabeth hardwick's "sleepless nights" and it was exactly that, really good too. What are some more books that are similar? Richard Brautigan's Trout FIshing in America and Renata Adler's Speedboat come to mind.
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which reminds me of a Brautigan poem. I Feel Horrible. She Doesn't I feel horrible. She doesn’t love me and I wander around the house like a sewing machine that’s just finished sewing a turd to a garbage can lid.
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