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serious question why is nabokov not everyone's favourite author.
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derp posted:serious question why is nabokov not everyone's favourite author. lepidopterophobia.
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You guys seem to be really sophisticated ladies and gentlemen who are passionate about literary fiction in this thread, the thread that was getting one post per day until I mentioned video games and it got 30 in one day
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Jan 17, 2018 22:48
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look out folks we’ve a puppet master over here
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Not what I'm saying at all but OK
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Jan 17, 2018 23:18
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Books are old and we've talked about them all. Video games are the future. I bet the first novels got more debate going than the latest cave painting critical analysis or whatever the gently caress those old morons where on aboutt
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There does not exist on this website a thread that videogames cannot bring to heel.
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derp posted:serious question why is nabokov not everyone's favourite author. i think he is unbelievably good. definitely among the writers who are distinguished from one another by personal preference rather than quality. the Good poo poo authors. transparent things is so freaking good.
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feelix posted:You guys seem to be really sophisticated ladies and gentlemen who are passionate about literary fiction in this thread, the thread that was getting one post per day until I mentioned video games and it got 30 in one day what are your best books
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feelix posted:You guys seem to be really sophisticated ladies and gentlemen who are passionate about literary fiction in this thread, the thread that was getting one post per day until I mentioned video games and it got 30 in one day yeah well to steal someones analogy from earlier, if i went into a thread about fine cuisine and started talking about how lays potato chips are gourmet food, i'd probably get a lot of replies too
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I got all you smarties talking about how much of a loving dipshit I am, now I am the smart one  derp posted:serious question why is nabokov not everyone's favourite author. He's one of my favorites, but I'm slow to read his books so I have something new to look forward to from him. I plan to read through his complete short stories and another novel or two this year, probably Pnin and Ada, or Ardor, but Speak Memory has been on my shelf for a minute. He's well liked, no one really discusses him until someone's reading him and talking about it. The Pale Fire thread last year was pretty cool.
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The last two pages of this thread are so good that I've contracted full blown AIDS from them
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A human heart posted:The last two pages of this thread are so good that I've contracted full blown AIDS from them Huh, I guess my wish did come true.
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Franchescanado posted:I got all you smarties talking about how much of a loving dipshit I am, now I am the smart one
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feelix posted:Maybe it's just funny that everyone likes talking about video games? Not everything has to be interpreted in terms of some kind of Internet own, my friend. I don't know I'm glossing over the stuff about you and reading people talk about Nabokov which is the usual content of the thread It's a slow moving thread in general but it does tend to get bursts of activity, even outside of rubes wandering in. Usually it's just whenever someone finishes a book and says some stuff about it and others respond. Books take a long time to read man.
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Since Russian lit seems to be on the mind, which translation of Eugene Onegin should I read? I know of the Nabokov one but my library has more recent ones too
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im reading king, queen, knave right now and it's just so loving good. the little character quirks and details are so great, and paint such a vivid picture of these people. also are all his books steeped in schadenfreude? lolita was, pale fire DEFINITELY was, despair was, and this one seems like its shaping up to go that direction, too. i loving love it.
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I simply haven't read Nabokov because he's more popular in the US than in Europe I think, but I'll get to him eventually.
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Sleng Teng posted:Since Russian lit seems to be on the mind, which translation of Eugene Onegin should I read? I know of the Nabokov one but my library has more recent ones too you should read the hofstadter one and tell me what you think about it
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Sleng Teng posted:Since Russian lit seems to be on the mind, which translation of Eugene Onegin should I read? I know of the Nabokov one but my library has more recent ones too Fagles and I swear it's not because of his funny name
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Wait gently caress I mean Falen that's not nearly as funny
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Jan 18, 2018 00:51
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All video games are art and Nabokov is just ok
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Tree Goat posted:you should read the hofstadter one and tell me what you think about it There's no way this could possibly be good
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Bowser is Mario's impotence.
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CestMoi posted:There's no way this could possibly be good Im reading bits of it and it's really gross
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CestMoi posted:Im reading bits of it and it's really gross it’s a unique literary project that springs forth from the tree of “hating nabokov”
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CestMoi posted:Fagles and I swear it's not because of his funny name CestMoi posted:Wait gently caress I mean Falen that's not nearly as funny lol this blog from 2009 and the fact I can only get the Hofstadter on ILL makes me think I'll start with Falen first. Thanks to the both of you
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The great lost works of Literature: the second book of the Poetics, the full text of Kubla Khan, Nabokovs aneursym on reading Hofstadter's Onegin,
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pale fire is one of those books that I wish I could read for the first time again, perhaps by using targeted electroshocks to destroy select neurons
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the only time i read a thing by hofstadter it had an essay attached where he boasted about improving a text by completely misunderstand pretty much every part. the thing that stuck with me was him talking about how he divided the second half, titled 'summer' into a few more chapters, because it covered more than one season - this coming a few pages after a chat about time boundaries being broken down within the moment. great stuff
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Yeah, I read that too, it was an introduction to a novel by Francoise Sagan, I think. It was great, persuaded me not to buy the book
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Wait no way did the guy who wrote Gödel Escher Bach, the book that came recommended to me by the guy who was really into Inception, translate Eugene Onegin How have I just learnt this
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Does the Dante Inferno video game have a scene where a group of gay guys are forced to walk in circles until they stop being gay?
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Wrageowrapper posted:Does the Dante Inferno video game have a scene where a group of gay guys are forced to walk in circles until they stop being gay? What do you think the game's about dude
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at a sharehouse I was living at there was a copy of hofstadters I am a strange loop on the bookshelf and after living there for three years and no one else still being there when I had moved in I claimed it when I left but I still haven't read it That's my hofstadter story
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I tried reading Hofstadter's Le Ton beau de Marot because scrutinising a hundred different translations of a dumb poem made according to ridiculous self-imposed rules is extremely my thing, but it read like it was written by
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:The Collected Novels of Jorge Luis Borges This is from a couple pages back but I just wanted to let BOTL know that I thought it was amazing.
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It's not mine, but the site where that was posted is defunct, so you can thank me for preserving it on this dead forum.
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