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Mr. Squishy posted:What, you mean you don't all read in the Spanish? No I wait until he is translated into French, the true language of the novel
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Mr. Squishy posted:How does someone have "new" stuff when he's been dead fifteen years? his son is publishing his leftover notes with kevin j anderson
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Prairie Bus posted:Speaking of overly long books, I just finished a re-read of 2666. There’s an off-handed moment in the final part, where Archimboldi describes the punishment of Sisyphus as being a distraction from which his ingenuity will allow him to escape. Maybe I’m reading too much into it, but I feel like there’s a lot going on in that moment. You're right, there is. I frequently have the feeling that Bolaño is insisting on agency at the expense of contingency. Maybe I'm wrong.
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derp posted:looks interesting but im not reading any more books over 400 pages long this year. havent posted a dumb opinion in a while so here you go friends: books should just not be that long. its kind of hard not to find it arrogant to write a book that long imo. how many words do you really need to say what you're trying to say, and how much is self indulgence? Complaints about 'self indulgence' are stupid, who else is an author going to indulge?
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Pale Fire by Nabokov is a really good book. It's bonkers that he only switched over to English prose after writing his 9th novel.
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mdemone posted:You're right, there is. I frequently have the feeling that Bolaño is insisting on agency at the expense of contingency. Maybe I'm wrong. I’m not sure I follow, exactly. Do you mean contingency in the sense of future plans?
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A human heart posted:Complaints about 'self indulgence' are stupid, who else is an author going to indulge? The reader, by telling their story in a reasonable amount of time.
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Mar 17, 2018 06:32
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self indulgence is okay if its mindless!!
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Krankenstyle posted:self indulgence is okay if its mindless!! human being (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Mar 17, 2018 07:05
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thank god im your problem now clarissa 
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Mar 17, 2018 07:16
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Please finish your book in 300 pages, your chapters after ten pages, your paragraphs after three lines, your sentences after six words, your words after two syllables. I'm a busy person!
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Mar 17, 2018 09:19
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the only book read where I ever thought “this is way longer than it needs to” is infinite jest. whining about books being long is dumb.
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Apparently it used to be longer; DFW described its structure as published as "a lopsided Sierpinski Gasket."
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lol really, "lopsided sierpinski gasket"? that is complete nonsense
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I believe that was his joke. The whole thing was conceived as a gasket and editing knocked it about a bit. Most noticeable elements of that design are the chapters getting progressively longer and a three-strand narrative with the rich, the poor, and the spies. Possibly more but I've not read anything about it.
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im glad that after 1000 pages the Count of Monte Cristo finally starts to become mildly interesting
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Mar 17, 2018 12:54
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Barley patch by gerald murnane is great
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derp posted:human being wow! great post dude!
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Officer Sandvich posted:Barley patch by gerald murnane is great He's really cool and is probably some kind of genius.
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Mr. Squishy posted:Apparently it used to be longer; DFW described its structure as published as "a lopsided Sierpinski Gasket." lmao get a load of this guy
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derp posted:human being This is seriously not cool
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derp posted:human being this isn’t 4chan. knock that poo poo off
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A human heart posted:wow! great post dude! Mel Mudkiper posted:This is seriously not cool ulvir posted:this isn’t 4chan. knock that poo poo off they were referencing something guys bunch of olds itt chernobyl kinsman fucked around with this message at 16:49 on Mar 17, 2018 |
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Mr. Squishy posted:I believe that was his joke. The whole thing was conceived as a gasket and editing knocked it about a bit. Most noticeable elements of that design are the chapters getting progressively longer and a three-strand narrative with the rich, the poor, and the spies. Possibly more but I've not read anything about it. this is especially apparent if you read it on a kindle that shows the relative distance between all the chapters. the chapter breaks get increasingly far apart then just stop appearing altogether
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chernobyl kinsman posted:they were referencing something guys That can't really matter; it's the same path as allowing "ironic" racism. Don't post race/gender/ etc slurs folks, it's not complicated
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chernobyl kinsman posted:they were referencing something guys I think the people who know msi are the olds at this point
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:That can't really matter; it's the same path as allowing "ironic" racism. This is right though I should have picked a diff song
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Ccs posted:Pale Fire by Nabokov is a really good book. Pale Fire is hilarious
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Nyrb classics is hsving a winter sale with a good bunch of books 50% off: https://www.nyrb.com/collections/winter-sale?sort_by=title-ascending Not sure if they ship outside of us, will try later when im back home. Want to get that Nescio and maybe smth else
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publishko posted:this is especially apparent if you read it on a kindle that shows the relative distance between all the chapters. the chapter breaks get increasingly far apart then just stop appearing altogether it's really interesting if you're interested
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Burning Rain posted:Nyrb classics is hsving a winter sale with a good bunch of books 50% off: https://www.nyrb.com/collections/winter-sale?sort_by=title-ascending $25 for shipping outside US and canada and an additional $8 for each added item 
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Burning Rain posted:Nyrb classics is hsving a winter sale with a good bunch of books 50% off: https://www.nyrb.com/collections/winter-sale?sort_by=title-ascending parse this for me and tell me what's good and what's trash chernobyl kinsman fucked around with this message at 00:27 on Mar 18, 2018 |
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chernobyl kinsman posted:parse this for me and tell me what's good and what's trash Robert Walser's Berlin Stories: good Tove Jansson's True Deceiver: has a dog on the cover, how bad could it be everything else: haven't read
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Can confirm True Deceiver is good. I haven't read anything else there. Will probably randomly buy some based off what sounds interesting
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If you pick up a collection of poetry do you like to read it from cover to cover finishing it before starting something else, read it here and there, or just read the poems in any order without worrying about reading them all? I've been thinking about picking up a collected Wordsworth but its like 1000 pages and I just don't know if I can manage that much early 19th century Romanticism.
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whatevz fucked around with this message at 03:50 on Apr 25, 2022 |
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whatevz fucked around with this message at 03:50 on Apr 25, 2022 |
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Wrageowrapper posted:If you pick up a collection of poetry do you like to read it from cover to cover finishing it before starting something else, read it here and there, or just read the poems in any order without worrying about reading them all? I've been thinking about picking up a collected Wordsworth but its like 1000 pages and I just don't know if I can manage that much early 19th century Romanticism. It's nice to have a big collection of all a poet's works but reading them cover to cover is insanity. That being said Lyrical Ballads is amazing and I read that cover to cover so I could recommend that if you want some excellent Wordsworth and some perfectly fine Coleridge without having to get the entire output of both. The Preface also gives a great explanation of Wordsworth's entire poetic outlook + what his project exactly was. Also there's a poetry thread now so post in that so it doesn't die quite as soon as it inevitably will.
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There's also the problem that a poet's collected works will tend to be organised chronologically which means if you decide to read front to back you're going to wade through a lot of very bad stuff before you get to their good stuff. I tried that with Yeats and read like his first 3 collections and guess what they're not very good.
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whatevz fucked around with this message at 03:50 on Apr 25, 2022 |
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