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Genuinely laughing at the fact that botl got probed for saying a movie whose ending was nullified three months later was disposable
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don't care about botl and w/e dumb marvel bullshit your talking about
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quit loving a child and watch thor 3
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jagstag posted:don't care about botl and w/e dumb marvel bullshit your talking about
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Philip Roth just died. Portnoy’s Complaint rules and is funny as gently caress and will speak to several posters itt regarding jerking off and being yelled at by your mom. It’s also not c/d so it would maybe fit the thread.
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May 23, 2018 05:27
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WatermelonGun posted:Philip Roth just died. I hate today.
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I am intensely regretting never getting off my rear end to read The Counterlife.
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May 23, 2018 06:16
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Shame it's too late now. All the works are burned with their author, as is custom.
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Philip Wraith.
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Sham bam bamina! posted:This article got me interested in Adam Thorpe's version, although I have yet to read any translation of the book. If you want to compare them yourself, Google has a nice preview of the Davis, and Amazon has a Look Inside option for the Thorpe. Bandiet posted:Read Francis Steegmuller's translation, and then read his book Flaubert And Madame Bovary. I finally had a chance to compare these. I'm going to go ahead and get Thorpe's version; the prose is a little more poetic. If I can find the Steegmuller's version at my local used book store, I'll grab that one too. Thank you for the help.
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May 23, 2018 15:33
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Roth is a horrible moral leper and everything he's written has been sick.
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May 23, 2018 19:42
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pospysyl posted:Roth is a horrible moral leper and everything he's written has been sick. agreed. the literary world has lost an angel.
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pospysyl posted:Roth is a horrible moral leper and everything he's written has been sick. Yeah, works of fiction are obligated to adhere to a moral code dictated by the reader. Also, you're boring.
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May 23, 2018 21:41
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That's a Nixon quotation, you lost the game.
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May 23, 2018 23:19
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Safety Biscuits posted:Philip Wraith.
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pospysyl posted:Roth is a horrible moral leper and everything he's written has been sick. Would you say he was... a Human Stain?
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I thought The Plot Against America was great and that's about all I know.
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I've only read Indignation because it used to be part of Amazon's super inferior "Kindle Lending Library" program which I used a bit before I just started using the actual library. Anyway, all I remember about it is that the title is a reference to the narrator constantly repeating "In-dig-nay-SHUN!" in his head for some reason. That's my Roth story, may he R.I.P.
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May 24, 2018 02:54
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I read 1 philip roth short story once but thought it was unmemorable.
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american pastoral is amazing. rip in peace philip roth you were a very good writer.
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I'm reading the Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra and I highly recommend it. Only one story of nine in but The Man Can Write
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Just finished My Struggle Book 5 and I gotta say, these books are amazing therapy tools if you struggle with shame and embarrassment about your past. Karl Ove is just so much bigger of an Idiot Fucker than I could ever be, even my life looks good compared to this dude!
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Hot Diggity! posted:I'm reading the Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra and I highly recommend it. Only one story of nine in but The Man Can Write I don't think I've ever disliked a book title more than this
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CestMoi posted:I don't think I've ever disliked a book title more than this It sounds like one of those comedy sci fi books by computer scientists that half this forum seems to read
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Surprised that you guys don't seem familiar with that book. I remember it making a decent splash when it came out.
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friendly 2 da void posted:Just finished My Struggle Book 5 and I gotta say, these books are amazing therapy tools if you struggle with shame and embarrassment about your past. Karl Ove is just so much bigger of an Idiot Fucker than I could ever be, even my life looks good compared to this dude! I finished the third one and needed to take a break. I dunno if I’ll ever finish, the second hand embarrassment was too loving brutal.
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friendly 2 da void posted:Just finished My Struggle Book 5 and I gotta say, these books are amazing therapy tools if you struggle with shame and embarrassment about your past. Karl Ove is just so much bigger of an Idiot Fucker than I could ever be, even my life looks good compared to this dude! Idiot fucker as in a guy who fucks idiots or a fucker who's an idiot? Either way, sold.
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What if I'm an idiot, but I don't gently caress?
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WatermelonGun posted:I finished the third one and needed to take a break. I dunno if I’ll ever finish, the second hand embarrassment was too loving brutal. Four and five are maybe even worse, but I'm really enjoying it. I think the books are hilarious comedies so that takes away some of the sting. IMHO it's intentional, there's no way someone as perceptive as Karl Ove doesn't realize how he's coming off...right? Like that moment where he runs for class president and he gets exactly one vote cuz all his middle school classmates hate him? And they're all like "we know you voted for yourself Karl Ove its pretty obvious" and he just denies everything with zero shame while turning increasingly pink. Haha. Or in Book 2 when he's angry drunkenly SCREAMING at his wife about some stupid crap, and she's calmly like "uh dude can you please lay off" and he just immediately bursts into sobbing tears cause he can't handle anything. That's a lol moment. Budgie Jumping posted:Idiot fucker as in a guy who fucks idiots or a fucker who's an idiot? Either way, sold. He didn't masturbate until he was like 19 and his wet dreams were a constant source of torment for him. He couldn't lose his virginity cause he kept cumming in his pants and girls would just immediately leave the room. This information takes up like hundreds and hundreds of pages. They're some good literature 
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Guy A. Person posted:What if I'm an idiot, but I don't gently caress? Then I would kindly direct you to the SF/fantasy thread.
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Shame is a very good drive for an author but I prefer it kept out of the book itself, manifesting only in a seething hostility to everybody else.Sham bam bamina! posted:Surprised that you guys don't seem familiar with that book. I remember it making a decent splash when it came out. I think only like, Mel is actually hooked up to any sort of current book press. The dutch guy who's name I forget takes the LRB I think.
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Surprised that you guys don't seem familiar with that book. I remember it making a decent splash when it came out. If it werent for this thread i would be living in utter bliss, completely unaware of contemporary american fiction
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Reading Mary Robison's Why Did I Ever—which is marvelous, but I'm trying to figure out why David Markson comes up so infrequently in criticism of this book. The influence is so obvious that the cover design is just a bunch of 3 x 5 ruled notecards with the title written on them. (Markson famously wrote Wittgenstein's Mistress by writing individual lines on notecards in order to play with their arrangement/associations.) Why Did I Ever also has the associative, scatterbrained narration; the older, female, possibly insane artist for a narrator; who intersperses hints about some trauma related to her son with disconnected vignettes from long road trips. It's its own work, no doubt, with a unique voice and all sorts of other qualities separating it from WM, but still I'm baffled that the only things I can find explicitly linking the two books are (1) one of these irritating formulaic "instead of X, read Y" blog posts, (2) a couple tweets, and (3) the book Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill.
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I bought a copy of gravitys rainbow. Itll arrive in time so I won't miss pynchon may
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Update: Why Did I Ever owns. Liked just about everything about it, including the portable CD player, because that was a thing in 2001. That poor cat. Those horrible people. A bunch of reviews I'm reading now make the mistake of calling the novel "experimental". The story is pretty dang straightforward, with a traditional main plot and a few lighter subplots, and they're not at all hard to follow. It's just that she skips the fluff of walking in and out of rooms and watching raindrops form patterns on windows that would balloon the novel to 500+ pages. Robison follows the extremely successful and highly developed experiments of David Markson, David Foster Wallace, and Renata Adler: there's got to be a point past which adopting certain surface formal characteristics ceases to constitute an experiment.
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How can a novel be experimental when there's no control group? That word in reviews means "weird" and you know it. Your rejection of that label because the plot's basic is loving mental, like prose style is irrelevant.
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