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fridge corn posted:tbh i read it like 10 years ago and i can barely remember what happens in it except for when i got to the end i was like "what that's it? but its just getting started! '" i believe he did originally plan to follow it up with more books about alyosha
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Hello. I would never not finish crime and punishment. how can you ever put it down after porfiry shows up especially
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Orhan Pamuk. Started reading the new one (The Red-Haired Woman) in a book store, seemed good. Anyone read him? Where to start?
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Sir John Feelgood posted:Orhan Pamuk. Started reading the new one (The Red-Haired Woman) in a book store, seemed good. Anyone read him? Where to start? I've only read My Name Is Red and loved it, but most of his books are well-regarded. I'll probably read The Black Book or The Museum of Innocence when I revisit him.
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Aug 22, 2017 19:37
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Sir John Feelgood posted:Orhan Pamuk. Started reading the new one (The Red-Haired Woman) in a book store, seemed good. Anyone read him? Where to start? seconding My Name is Red. really good
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Aug 22, 2017 22:39
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My Name is Red is probably his most popular but I found Snow a much better starting point
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Museum of Innocence is pretty good but Red overshadows it a lot in my memory. Going to check out some of his other stuff soon.
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Sir John Feelgood posted:Orhan Pamuk. Started reading the new one (The Red-Haired Woman) in a book store, seemed good. Anyone read him? Where to start? I've read this new one, and A Strangeness in my Mind was my first of his. I really liked them both. I saw a documentary+ live talk w/Pamuk about Museum of Innocence a while back, and that's probably gonna be the next one of his that I'll read
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my Pamuk list: Black Book > My Name Is Red > The Naive and Sentimental Novelist > Snow none of them were bad tho. i just thought tSnow was a bit too melodramatic and predictable with its metaphors
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derp posted:Hello. I would never not finish crime and punishment. how can you ever put it down after porfiry shows up especially I got back on track with it and am into it again!
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Aug 23, 2017 12:43
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I read a quote from the new Pamuk and now I'm not going to read it or any of his
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Finally loving finished my first reading of Against the Day. It's fantastic in places, especially the ending passage, but I often found myself lost in a sea of historical detail, wondering if I forgot details from earlier in the book that would have made me better understand the chain of events that led to significant moments. I doubt it, though; it seems like a very long, historical version of one of those loosely plotted indy movies where life happens without regard to narrative, if life included stuff like being almost drowned by mayonnaise on a transforming ship or avatars of the Major Arcana. I'll be on the Pynchon wiki, just to make sure.
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Aug 23, 2017 15:52
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It#s the birthday of the greatest author the world has ever seen that's right Jorge Luis Borges. Everyobne read his nonfiction and poetry because they are also good even tho people mostly talk about the short stories which are amazing. Remember to post quotes from him as your twitter and facebook statuses so evertyone knows who he is and that he said things like "Hollywood has just enriched tyhis frivolous museum of taratology: by means of a perverse artifice they call dubbing"
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Rereading Borges is incredibly annoying because literally every original thought I have ever had it turns out I read Borges saying it and forgot about it and thought I'd come up with it myself
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CestMoi posted:Rereading Borges is incredibly annoying because literally every original thought I have ever had it turns out I read Borges saying it and forgot about it and thought I'd come up with it myself Same with me except with Tom Clancy
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In celebration let's talk about our favorite Borges characters. Mine is the intellectual who discovers a mystical object that causes him to question his philosophy of reality
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CestMoi posted:Rereading Borges is incredibly annoying because literally every original thought I have ever had it turns out I read Borges saying it and forgot about it and thought I'd come up with it myself Re-reading Tolkien recently made me realize that for all practical purposes reading too much about Hobbits as a child had made me accidentally become Catholic lesson being, quit being a loving child and read some real literature
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Mel Mudkiper posted:In celebration let's talk about our favorite Borges characters. The one in Tlon or the one in the Aleph
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Mel Mudkiper posted:In celebration let's talk about our favorite Borges characters. meet me in the desolate pampas for a knife fight to the death CestMoi posted:Rereading Borges is incredibly annoying because literally every original thought I have ever had it turns out I read Borges saying it and forgot about it and thought I'd come up with it myself borges' short stories are so good that they discouraged me from writing fiction, so the world owes him a great debt.
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Mel Mudkiper posted:In celebration let's talk about our favorite Borges characters. the dude who is frozen in time before he gets executed by a firing squad
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Guy A. Person posted:the dude who is frozen in time before he gets executed by a firing squad that was a good one i also liked the library one though i cant remember why.
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CestMoi posted:The one in Tlon or the one in the Aleph Ha no it's the one in Book of Sand, nerd
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Aug 24, 2017 20:17
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The paralysed nerd who invents a system of numbers that's just incredibly long incoherent list of random poo poo, and gets super pissed off when people tell him it's not a system and he's an idiot
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Magnus Manfist posted:The paralysed nerd who invents a system of numbers that's just incredibly long incoherent list of random poo poo, and gets super pissed off when people tell him it's not a system and he's an idiot lol what is this, i want to read it
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Tree Goat posted:meet me in the desolate pampas for a knife fight to the death I wrote something based on a thought about Kafka, Virgil, Gogol either telling peopel to burn their work or actively burning it themselves and how the first 2 clealry didn't actually want their stuff burned and I was pretty pleased with the concept + was working on actually writing it good but I flicked thru Borges' nonfiction today and found a preface to a Kafka collection where he talks about exactly that idea which I probably read a few years ago and unconsciously stole so I'm never going to try and write anything again
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CestMoi posted:I wrote something based on a thought about Kafka, Virgil, Gogol either telling peopel to burn their work or actively burning it themselves and how the first 2 clealry didn't actually want their stuff burned and I was pretty pleased with the concept + was working on actually writing it good but I flicked thru Borges' nonfiction today and found a preface to a Kafka collection where he talks about exactly that idea which I probably read a few years ago and unconsciously stole so I'm never going to try and write anything again Write it anyway but adopt Pierre Menard as your not de plume
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CestMoi posted:I wrote something based on a thought about Kafka, Virgil, Gogol either telling peopel to burn their work or actively burning it themselves and how the first 2 clealry didn't actually want their stuff burned and I was pretty pleased with the concept + was working on actually writing it good but I flicked thru Borges' nonfiction today and found a preface to a Kafka collection where he talks about exactly that idea which I probably read a few years ago and unconsciously stole so I'm never going to try and write anything again
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derp posted:lol what is this, i want to read it Funes the Memorious, I think? Pretty sure I remember it right
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Borges took the ramblings of a stoned philosophy freshman and turned them into high art
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I endorse your campaign to claim your bad posting trophy back from derp
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CestMoi posted:I endorse your campaign to claim your bad posting trophy back from derp He was a mere pretender to the throne and you know it
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Borges took the ramblings of a stoned philosophy freshman and turned them into high art where did philosophy hurt you, show me on the model of the pineal gland
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Aug 25, 2017 01:43
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borges good. mel bad.
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Y'all missed the high art part but I guess I cannot be surprised that you guys have poor reading comprehension 
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Borges took the ramblings of a stoned philosophy freshman and turned them into high art *squints suspiciously* I'll allow it. But tread lightly, counsel.
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CestMoi posted:It#s the birthday of the greatest author the world has ever seen that's right Jorge Luis Borges. Everyobne read his nonfiction and poetry because they are also good even tho people mostly talk about the short stories which are amazing. Remember to post quotes from him as your twitter and facebook statuses so evertyone knows who he is and that he said things like "Hollywood has just enriched tyhis frivolous museum of taratology: by means of a perverse artifice they call dubbing" All the books from all the libraries in all the worlds come in and throw a HUGE party!!!
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the best borges protagonist is actually the minotaur
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i read through like half of the arabian nights before i had to give it back to the library, its great, it really runs the gamut of crazy poo poo that can happen to a human without warning. it was like looney tunes. i read the muhsin mahdi translation and there was a nice intro about how it was translated and his growing up with the stories and in looking him up jus t now i find he had been dead ten years so pour one out for him!
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Hushang Golshiri's The Prince is great, liked it better than that other hallucinatory Persian novel. There's more decay and attempted loving in here, and just as much confusion, only instead of drugs it's TB and aristocrats who pawn off their silverware while constantly thinking about their great ancestors killing people by the thousands, with narrative jumping between different POVs and times. bonus goodreads review: quote:This book write by method of Stream of consciousness (narrative mode) . unfortunately this method is not good because i miss clue of story and confused .
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not my goodread account just so you know
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