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Dec 25, 2017 08:01
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merry christmas. i’m spending the spare time reading paradise lost and it owns somewhat
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Dec 25, 2017 12:29
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Paradise Lost is insanely good but Samuel Johnson was right in saying no one ever wished it longer than it is
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Dec 25, 2017 14:22
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Mere Christmas folksCestMoi posted:Paradise Lost is insanely good but Samuel Johnson was right in saying no one ever wished it longer than it is
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Dec 25, 2017 16:00
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Got the 150th Anniversary hardcover of Annotated Alice for Christmas! 
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Dec 25, 2017 17:02
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After The War posted:Got the 150th Anniversary hardcover of Annotated Alice for Christmas! Noice! That's one of my favorites. I gave the wife this, lol, the mod of this forum reads comic books: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books-the-life-and-opinions-of-tristram-shandy-1361311.html
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Dec 26, 2017 07:00
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Noice! That's one of my favorites. As someone who knows nothing about English literature, this article might as well be postmodern fiction itself. I wouldn't be surprised at all if the comic book adaptation of Tristram Shandy he describes, and Tristram Shandy itself, were entirely fictional and made up by the author
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Dec 26, 2017 11:48
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I was thinking of maybe getting lincoln in the bardo at some point next year, but then I got it as a gift for christmas
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Dec 26, 2017 14:10
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Much as i love Rowson, i shall reserve my opinion on him for BSS as is right.
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Dec 26, 2017 14:17
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Noice! That's one of my favorites. loving amazing. I really ought to read Tristram Shandy in 2018.
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Dec 26, 2017 14:32
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you cant really pull a "surprise I read comics" when you are a walking Hellboy reference
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Dec 26, 2017 19:47
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Mel Mudkiper posted:you cant really pull a "surprise I read comics" when you are a walking Hellboy reference Hieronymous Alloy is a character from The Goon.
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Dec 26, 2017 19:58
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Mel Mudkiper posted:you cant really pull a "surprise I read comics" when you are a walking Hellboy reference It's the name of a villain in "The Goon" by Eric Powell (get it?)
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Dec 26, 2017 19:58
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Mr. Squishy posted:Much as i love Rowson, i shall reserve my opinion on him for BSS as is right. Technically speaking comic books are books so it's ok
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Dec 26, 2017 20:01
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To be fair, if I actually knew the comic it would have been a pretty hard self own
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Dec 26, 2017 21:28
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:the mod of this forum reads comic books: resign
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Dec 26, 2017 22:31
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Approached by a young relative I’m asked what my favourite comic book is. I reply of course ‘Tristram Shandy’. He is bemused at my answer and naturally I spit on the seven year old child, merry Christmas
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Dec 27, 2017 00:41
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Finished Melancholy of Resistance recently. I thought it was very good until I read the last three pages and then I thought it was loving amazing. Like, that last bit was incredible. Just started reading Blake Butler's There Is no Year and I can't tell if I like it. But there are some really good "chapters"
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Dec 27, 2017 00:50
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I'm going to embark on reading In Search of Lost Time in 2018. I wonder how long it'll take me to read it
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Dec 27, 2017 04:12
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thehoodie posted:Finished Melancholy of Resistance recently. I thought it was very good until I read the last three pages and then I thought it was loving amazing. Like, that last bit was incredible. I thought you were mixing up the titles of Anatomy of Melancholy and Anatomy of Resistance, both of which have been on my mind lately, but no, there really is a book called Melancholy of Resistance.
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Dec 27, 2017 04:32
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Carlosologist posted:I'm going to embark on reading In Search of Lost Time in 2018. I wonder how long it'll take me to read it Nabokov estimates that you can finish the entire oeuvre in a month.
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Dec 27, 2017 05:00
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Heath posted:Nabokov estimates that you can finish the entire oeuvre in a month. Methamphetamine wasn't a controlled substance until 1965.
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Dec 27, 2017 07:07
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J_RBG posted:Approached by a young relative I’m asked what my favourite comic book is. I reply of course ‘Tristram Shandy’. He is bemused at my answer and naturally I spit on the seven year old child, merry Christmas I always say Wilhelm Busch whenever a child asks me what my favorite comic is.
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Dec 27, 2017 07:31
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Heath posted:Nabokov estimates that you can finish the entire oeuvre in a month. I wish I had the free time and reading speed to do this I picked up Rules of Civility by Amor Towles when I was shopping today, I had never heard of it or the author until I saw it in the book store so it should be fun to read!
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Dec 27, 2017 10:03
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Heath posted:Nabokov estimates that you can finish the entire oeuvre in a month. It took me about a year, but I also read other books & played video games, so ymmv.
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Dec 27, 2017 19:46
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Carlosologist posted:I picked up Rules of Civility by Amor Towles when I was shopping today, I had never heard of it or the author until I saw it in the book store so it should be fun to read! Haven't read that but I'm reading A Gentleman in Moscow right now. About halfway through and it's really good, should be done by tomorrow. Also just read all >1100 pages of 1Q84 and was hugely disappointed by the direction it took after the first volume. Overall a gross, unstylish, and more or less pointless read. (I am prepared to rant about it in more detail if anyone's curious.) e: I know other people in this thread say not to start Murakami with 1Q84. The choice was made for me, unfortunately. It was a Christmas gift. Eugene V. Dubstep fucked around with this message at 21:14 on Dec 27, 2017 |
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Dec 27, 2017 21:09
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at the date posted:(I am prepared to rant about it in more detail if anyone's curious.) Please do, the only Murakamis I've read are South of the Border, West of the Sun and Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage and they were okay, but also pretty much identical.
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Dec 27, 2017 23:44
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Yeah do, I've only read the norwegian wood, and it was laughably terrible
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Dec 28, 2017 00:07
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1Q84's the only Murakami of any value. All his books are the same mess, but 1Q84 is the only one that's gigantic, so there's an amount of fun to be had in tackling it.
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Dec 28, 2017 00:37
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I read Kafka by the Shore and finished convinced that I'd never read another Murakami
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Dec 28, 2017 01:14
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As someone who has never read a Murakami book but gets them recommended constantly: what’s bad about them? Why are they so popular as middle-tier literature?
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Dec 28, 2017 01:37
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Heath posted:As someone who has never read a Murakami book but gets them recommended constantly: what’s bad about them? Why are they so popular as middle-tier literature? they've got elements of magical realism, are written by a foreigner, make frequent allusions to classical/jazz/pop music, and have plots that are straightforward to follow but do not wrap up neatly, aka book club catnip.
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Dec 28, 2017 01:48
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I got a load of Paul muldoon poems for Christmas, some of my Irish friends roll their eyes at him and Derek Mahon and Seamus Heaney though. Perhaps too old-hat, male and self-serious? I dunno, is there something I should watch out for
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Dec 28, 2017 01:51
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blue squares posted:I read Kafka by the Shore and finished convinced that I'd never read another Murakami thats the one with the autistic man who psychically bonds with cats or something, yeah? J_RBG posted:I dunno, is there something I should watch out for the Irish
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Dec 28, 2017 01:57
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chernobyl kinsman posted:thats the one with the autistic man who psychically bonds with cats or something, yeah? yes, but also turn your monitor on
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Dec 28, 2017 02:21
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She thought of Ayumi Nakano, the lonely policewoman who, one August night, wound up in a hotel room in Shibuya, handcuffed, strangled with a bathrobe belt. A troubled young woman walking toward the abyss of destruction. She had had beautiful breasts as well. Aomame mourned the deaths of these two friends deeply. It saddened her to think that these women were forever gone from the world. And she mourned their lovely breasts—breasts that had vanished without a trace. Murakami is garbage
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Dec 28, 2017 03:10
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Murakamis Underground is very good.
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Dec 28, 2017 09:08
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Murakami's okay but the people who love him are usually the ones who would never read a more interesting Japanese author, like Akutagawa. Kafka on the Shore reads like Pynchon juvenalia. It's not a good book but there are some funny bits.
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Dec 28, 2017 09:39
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isn’t 1Q84 the one where the solution to some problem is to have psychic sex with a 14 year old if so, well thread title on fleek
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Dec 28, 2017 09:45
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Akutagawa owns and is better than either Soseki or Mishima imo.
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Dec 28, 2017 09:53
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