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Alvarez IV posted:On the subject, I'm looking to read as many books as possible in the vein of Lolita, American Psycho, Junkie, The 120 Days of Sodom, et cetera. Stuff about unrepentant transgressors who society allows to practice their poison. Preferably with good language like Nabokov, de Sade, and Burroughs. I'm not that great a fan of the BEE house style. I heard Tampa by Alissa Nutting was supposed to be decent, but I can't confirm. The vice itself doesn't matter so much to me, just that it is severe. Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me by Fariña is exactly what you want, though the main character isn't evil, just an rear end in a top hat.
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Alvarez IV posted:On the subject, I'm looking to read as many books as possible in the vein of Lolita, American Psycho, Junkie, The 120 Days of Sodom, et cetera. Stuff about unrepentant transgressors who society allows to practice their poison. Preferably with good language like Nabokov, de Sade, and Burroughs. I'm not that great a fan of the BEE house style. I heard Tampa by Alissa Nutting was supposed to be decent, but I can't confirm. The vice itself doesn't matter so much to me, just that it is severe. Child of God by McCarthy and Coin Locker Babies by the superior Murakami
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Alvarez IV posted:On the subject, I'm looking to read as many books as possible in the vein of Lolita, American Psycho, Junkie, The 120 Days of Sodom, et cetera. Stuff about unrepentant transgressors who society allows to practice their poison. Preferably with good language like Nabokov, de Sade, and Burroughs. I'm not that great a fan of the BEE house style. I heard Tampa by Alissa Nutting was supposed to be decent, but I can't confirm. The vice itself doesn't matter so much to me, just that it is severe. urs allemann has a novel called Babyfucker. I haven't read it yet, but CestMoi has been recommending it regularly over the years
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whatevz fucked around with this message at 04:03 on Apr 25, 2022 |
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Aug 30, 2017 22:42
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Tree Goat posted:i've never read a single book; i get all of my information about literature from oncle picsou comics There's a great joke in the movie Metropolitan about a character who admits during a conversation about a particular novel that he hasn't actually read it because he doesn't read literature, only literary criticism
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Aug 31, 2017 05:27
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Late to orhan pamuk chat but I read The White Castle which is good and I recommend I also read the Romance of the Rose and it's good because it's about wanting to gently caress plants
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Alvarez IV posted:On the subject, I'm looking to read as many books as possible in the vein of Lolita, American Psycho, Junkie, The 120 Days of Sodom, et cetera. Stuff about unrepentant transgressors who society allows to practice their poison. Preferably with good language like Nabokov, de Sade, and Burroughs. I'm not that great a fan of the BEE house style. I heard Tampa by Alissa Nutting was supposed to be decent, but I can't confirm. The vice itself doesn't matter so much to me, just that it is severe. crash by j.g. ballard starts with a dude crashing a car into a bus while cumming
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Aug 31, 2017 13:11
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Homo Faber by Max Frisch
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Alvarez IV posted:On the subject, I'm looking to read as many books as possible in the vein of Lolita, American Psycho, Junkie, The 120 Days of Sodom, et cetera. Stuff about unrepentant transgressors who society allows to practice their poison. Preferably with good language like Nabokov, de Sade, and Burroughs. I'm not that great a fan of the BEE house style. I heard Tampa by Alissa Nutting was supposed to be decent, but I can't confirm. The vice itself doesn't matter so much to me, just that it is severe. Babyfucker by Urs Allemann
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pleasecallmechrist posted:I haven't read Tampa but I read Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls and that bitch is funny as hell. Wit is off the charts. Kinda writer that she is if she takes Tampa to some dark places then it should be good. Lol @ a variety of facets of this post
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CestMoi posted:Lol @ a variety of facets of this post I'm starting to think that we shouldn't be calling this guy Christ at all!
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Man walks down the street he says why am I soft in middle now why am I soft in the middle Also in regards to the fascist thing, if you remove censorship and any ideas of the 'other', then it seems like a meritocracy that got a bad rap.
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I'm starting to go through a series of book length poems that I've had on my reading list for some time. Ronald Johnson's Ark and Harry Martinson's Aniara are both down, being related as book length poems telling the story of a massive spacefaring world ship, unlikely as it is. From Johnson: earthearthearth earthearthearth earthearthearth earthearthearth earthearthearth earthearthearth Next up are Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red and David Jones' In Parenthesis. T S Eliot, who writes the introduction to Parenthesis says that in a few decades (from the date) we will all be reading it as closely and with as much wonder as Ulysses. He was, of course, wrong.
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Autobiography of Red was basically the first poetry I have read and I've picked up some of Carson's collections but honestly more book length poetry also sounds awesome, wanna check some of those out.
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Guy A. Person posted:Autobiography of Red was basically the first poetry I have read and I've picked up some of Carson's collections but honestly more book length poetry also sounds awesome, wanna check some of those out. It's maybe a bit too short to be a full book length poem, but Robert Penn Warren's Audubon, a vision is my favorite of the ones I have read.
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Alvarez IV posted:On the subject, I'm looking to read as many books as possible in the vein of Lolita, American Psycho, Junkie, The 120 Days of Sodom, et cetera. Stuff about unrepentant transgressors who society allows to practice their poison. Preferably with good language like Nabokov, de Sade, and Burroughs. I'm not that great a fan of the BEE house style. I heard Tampa by Alissa Nutting was supposed to be decent, but I can't confirm. The vice itself doesn't matter so much to me, just that it is severe. read some dennis cooper and ignore all the other responses to your post edit and kathy acker
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I'm doing Orlando now, and its pretty great "For once the disease of reading has laid hold upon the system it weakens it so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the inkpot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing." laughing out loud a lot on this one
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For sale: baby shoes, never worn. Astonishing
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derp posted:I'm doing Orlando now, and its pretty great That's not funny. Just a big, self-congratulatory wink to her lovely literary society and the readers dumb enough to think they're in on it, too All books suck. Burn all your books. Read Montaigne and then burn him, too. Read the Gospel but hold on to it - power courses through the Word. hog fat fucked around with this message at 11:27 on Sep 1, 2017 |
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Montaigne was a top lad, you leave him alone.
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I think it’s time for another round of “Laugh at the barely literate as they try to read like real adults.” So, I’ve been making my way through a few “proper” books and one way or another I’ve found myself starting The Brothers Karamazov. And I’m not liking it to much so far. In fact, I know the exact moment I literally had to put the book down. quote:…the harlots sang songs and played the harp, that is to say, the piano. Just… what the hell? Did I pick up poor translation, or can I expect more of this sort of thing? Hell, maybe this is fine and I'm getting hooked on it for no reason but... why not just say they played the Piano? Or hell, say they played the Harp and leave it like that?
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Angels play the harp. It's a joke.
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derp posted:I'm doing Orlando now, and its pretty great In your case the wretch seems to have taken to reading
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Orlando is goodMover posted:T S Eliot, who writes the introduction to Parenthesis says that in a few decades (from the date) we will all be reading it as closely and with as much wonder as Ulysses. He was, of course, wrong. The Johnson sounds cool and Anne Carson is always good. In Parenthesis is v cool for its modernist medievalism and David Jones seems to be enjoying a bit of a revival atm. Went to Chichester a few years ago and stumbled on an exhibition about this guy I'd never heard of, then all of a sudden people are interested in him.
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https://twitter.com/ntabebe/status/903259894681362433 https://twitter.com/ntabebe/status/903261257653944321 https://twitter.com/ntabebe/status/903263558078750720
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Picked up a book the other day that started with the sentence "The train was running late". What a load of poo poo. Everyone knows that trains don't have legs.
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Well now I know why he goes by TC Boyle
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Why was Anne Rice on Charlie Rose so much in the 90's?
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She was very popular and was willing to do interviews?
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I'm going to read some Donna Tartt solely cause she looks cool as heck in that pic.
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Powaqoatse posted:I'm going to read some Donna Tartt solely cause she looks cool as heck in that pic. She's also a very good writer and basically writes like she looks
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Mel Mudkiper posted:She's also a very good writer and basically writes like she looks
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Sir John Feelgood posted:Interesting. Can you elaborate on this? Insightful and unsentimental
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Sep 1, 2017 18:31
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Hell yeah I'm into both of those attributes. Any specific recommendation?
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I've only read The Goldfinch and I thought it was sentimental as gently caress. Still good tho
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WatermelonGun posted:I've only read The Goldfinch and I thought it was sentimental as gently caress. Still good tho I dunno, I feel like the end philosophy of the protagonist kind of kills off the sentimentality that you would find in a story like that Powaqoatse posted:Hell yeah I'm into both of those attributes. Goldfinch, Secret History
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The Secret History was good as hell too. Little Friend I'm not so hot on, but Secret History is really enjoyable.
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are you a booker judge, Mel?
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Sep 1, 2017 20:47
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The Secret History is one of the most unputdownable books I've ever read
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blue squares posted:unputdownable stop it
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