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Mel Mudkiper posted:Chris Ware is literature, sorry bro Agreed. Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth is soul-crushing.
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Building Stories is pretty much one of the masterpieces of modern lit
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Take it to bss.
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If you hate Magic Mountain, you owe it to yourself to watch "A Cure for Wellness". It might be the best movie based on a book and hatefuck of said material that I've ever seen.
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If you hate Magic Mountain, you owe it to yourself to never post in this thread again.
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Oct 18, 2017 21:30
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lol gore verbinski But anyway I’m reading The Little Friend, which is some Flannery O’Connor poo poo and I love it. The Goldfinch was good if a bit sappy but this is more my bag.
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I'm like halfway through The Count of Monte Cristo and it is so damned good. I can definitely see why it's considered the epitome of both revenge and adventure stories.
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Oct 19, 2017 03:51
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Bandiet posted:If you hate Magic Mountain, you owe it to yourself to never post in this thread again. Magic Mountain has an actively evil worldview. It makes me incredibly angry every time I read it.
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What would you recommend as drug literature to someone who has read all of the standards of it?
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Alvarez IV posted:What would you recommend as drug literature to someone who has read all of the standards of it? les chants de maldoror i'm not kidding
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Alvarez IV posted:What would you recommend as drug literature to someone who has read all of the standards of it? Aquarium by David Vann is pretty "dope".
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Oct 19, 2017 05:04
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protip: if you're high enough, everything becomes drug lit alternative answer: narcopolis by Jeet Thayil
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Oct 19, 2017 07:31
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The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
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Oct 19, 2017 08:50
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Read the Rubaiyat, then The Blind Owl, then the Rubaiyat a few more times, then the Blind Owl again.
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Oct 19, 2017 08:52
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basically, get high and read poetry
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Oct 19, 2017 08:57
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In watermelon sugar by Richard Braughtigan
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Cloks posted:Aquarium by David Vann is pretty "dope". please the new hotness is Blackwater by Michael McDowell
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Oct 19, 2017 15:27
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finished great expectations, he uses way too many words sheesh. "after applying his knuckles to my door and gaining entry to my domicile, he presently presented me with the correspondence he had thus delivered." started love in the time of cholera, its pretty good so far. also started pale fire. pure genius just in the first few pages.
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derp posted:also started pale fire. pure genius just in the first few pages. I read Pale Fire last week and I already love it dearly, for all time Zembla!
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Oct 19, 2017 17:51
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derp posted:finished great expectations, he uses way too many words sheesh. "after applying his knuckles to my door and gaining entry to my domicile, he presently presented me with the correspondence he had thus delivered." Dickens was literally paid by the word
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I just started reading The Metamorphosis by Kafka. I heard that it was a novella about a dude who turns into a bug. I was shocked at how straightforward it was: dude wakes up as a bug. I had no idea that liturature was so ez Edit: Alvarez IV posted:What would you recommend as drug literature to someone who has read all of the standards of it? Philip K Dick is probably within that standard you already read, but it bears repeating. Through a Scanner Darkly is probably the best bet out of his cannon. KirbyKhan fucked around with this message at 19:01 on Oct 19, 2017 |
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Oct 19, 2017 18:58
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Dickens was literally paid by the word thats literally a myth
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Not having read any Saunders, I checked Pastoralia out from the library, and let me tell you, folks, it’s good and funny and emotional. “The cave lady just called you a suckass” is pretty much a perfect line, to me.
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Burning Rain posted:thats literally a myth I will loving fight you
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smug n stuff posted:Not having read any Saunders, I checked Pastoralia out from the library, and let me tell you, folks, it’s good and funny and emotional. Definitely check out Lincoln in the Bardo. It's probably the best (new) book that I've read this year.
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Oct 19, 2017 20:16
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I think Tenth of December is ultimately his best book but short stories are always a harder sell
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Oct 19, 2017 20:23
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smug n stuff posted:Not having read any Saunders, I checked Pastoralia out from the library, and let me tell you, folks, it’s good and funny and emotional. yeah i guess that tracks, for you.
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Mel Mudkiper posted:I think Tenth of December is ultimately his best book but short stories are always a harder sell i havent read that but i have read bardo (which is incredible) and civilwarland in bad decline, which is very good but so meanspirited that it starts to wear on you by the fourth or fifth story
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Oct 20, 2017 00:04
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smug n stuff posted:Not having read any Saunders, I checked Pastoralia out from the library, and let me tell you, folks, it’s good and funny and emotional. That's bad.
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A human heart posted:That's bad. I have no pretensions of having "good taste," don't worry
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A human heart posted:That's bad. speaking of meanspirited
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A human heart posted:That's bad. On the other hand, it's good. Saunders gives a good chuckle-wince with some of his turns of phrase, and he also knows how to turn a knife on the last page of a story. I'm still eyeing Bardo. First few pages made me feel like I should be giving it more concentration, so I shelved it until I've worked through enough backlog that I'm not reading ten books at a time.
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Lincoln in the Bardo is a goddamn masterpiece
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I'm reading the Loser by Bernhard and it's better than whatever stupid poo poo everyone's talking about now
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Oct 20, 2017 10:17
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Im reading Beauty is a Wound and its sorta mehhh. It's fairly loving wooden so maybe it suffers from a poor translation but I was expecting a bit more out of it tbh
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derp posted:also started pale fire. pure genius just in the first few pages. It's a hilarious book, I wonder why it's not more popular. It could totally support low-brow adaptations too
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CestMoi posted:I'm reading the Loser by Bernhard and it's better than whatever stupid poo poo everyone's talking about now Is that the one where a friend of the narrator has committed suicide.
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Everyone's piano virtuosos but they all hate themselves for not being as good as the one piano virtuoso
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Mr. Squishy posted:Is that the one where a friend of the narrator has committed suicide. That's correction, I just got it from the library but I'm gonna wait and finish magic mountain and cosmos first
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