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Heh, my to-read list is really sprawling out thanks to you guys and gals
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this thread will do that to you
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Jul 2, 2018 11:58
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I started reading Half of a Yellow Sun and im enjoying it so far
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Jul 2, 2018 11:59
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fridge corn posted:I started reading Half of a Yellow Sun and im enjoying it so far Where'd the other half go?
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A human heart posted:Where'd the other half go? Idk i haven't gotten to that part yet
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FreudianSlippers posted:Is it me or is almost all the "serious literary fiction" of the last few decades just boring middle aged dudes writing about being horny and boring? it's pretty easy to ignore books written by american white men djude
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Burning Rain posted:Have you heard the good news about Naguib Mahou and his Cairo trilogy, my friend? Read this, it's so sick.
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Radio Spiricom posted:it's pretty easy to ignore books written by american white men djude counterpoint: I've been re-reading Wieland and it's still creepy as hell, especially nowadays
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Jul 2, 2018 16:29
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What land?
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Jul 2, 2018 16:45
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Wieland by Charles Brockden Brown. Late eighteenth-century American metaphysical horror novel. It's an original of the style that Mason & Dixon pastiches. Still genuinely scary and a Good Read, imo. middlebrow represent
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Jul 2, 2018 17:11
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Very nearly bought that one and didn't; feeling shame and regret.Mr. Squishy posted:What land? 
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i have put wieland and a glastonbury romance on my extremely to read list has anyone read any Richard Marsh?
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Sot-Weed Factor owns owns owns can’t reccomend it enough. Started Giles Goat-Boy last week and it’s fun but I’m annoyed at how college focused it is.
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Jul 2, 2018 20:37
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I'm most of the way through Return from the Stars, it's a little weird, doesn't feel like other Lems and it has women in it for a change and Lem is not very good at writing women. The people from the future society have more in common with me than the protagonist does though so at least he got that right. It's too long winded for its own good and as far as I know Lem himself didn't really like it
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Jul 2, 2018 22:29
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i just finished Platform by Houellebecq. i liked it but In the Miso Soup is still my favorite sex tourist book.
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Jul 3, 2018 17:17
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:Just finished Confessions of a Mask and enjoyed it. Looking for recommendations for further reading. I would like something with a big cast of characters - I liked The War at the End of the World a lot, and Midnight’s Children was also enjoyable. Please be kind and recommend me something sprawling I read Arundhati Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness this year and loved it--I think it might meet that criteria. Maybe!
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Jul 4, 2018 16:21
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I bought Tailspin by Steven Neill today   
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Jul 5, 2018 02:56
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVWKP9QPRjU
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thehoodie posted:I second this. Sometimes I think M&D is better than GR. From a character perspective it certainly is. Would you recommend Sot Weed for someone who really enjoyed JR? (For reasons besides length)
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MystOpportunity posted:Would you recommend Sot Weed for someone who really enjoyed JR? (For reasons besides length) yes
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bef posted:I bought Tailspin by Steven Neill today Failspin.
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I do not see any connection between JR and Sott Weed. I guess I don't notice any meaning in the works of John Barth besides him turning academic cartwheels to impress someone or entertain himself, not sure. Giles Goat Boy for eg struck me as a competently written Jasper Fford book.
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Jul 5, 2018 09:51
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Mr. Squishy posted:for eg Nice
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Jul 5, 2018 10:21
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You see, eg is short for eggsample
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Jul 5, 2018 10:44
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the fore egg is just the shell
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there's a guy at work who uses ie and eg interchangeably and it drives me kind of nuts 
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Jikes posted:there's a guy at work who uses ie and eg interchangeably and it drives me kind of nuts
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Jul 6, 2018 00:47
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i'm so mad!!!!! ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!
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Jul 6, 2018 00:53
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just learn latin you savages
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Jul 6, 2018 03:37
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Oliver Twist ............. it's mediocre
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Wow that IS a twist
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Jul 6, 2018 23:59
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who can forget charles dickens classic line "thank you sir may i have another"
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you don’t eat yer meat, you can’t have any pudding! - charles dickens
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I never liked Dickens and don't understand what people see in that poo poo. The best Dickens is that one Beavis & Butthead parody episode
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Jul 7, 2018 09:20
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Reading Danube by Claudio Magris. Guy travelling down the Danube writing interchangeably about history, philosophy, personal musings. Very good, and hits a niche that I didn't know I had. If anyone has anything else like this to recommend, I would appreciate it!
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Check out Predrag Matvejevic and his Mediterranean: A Cultural Landscape, here’s a review that sums it up nicely https://articles.latimes.com/1999/sep/02/news/cl-5839 Matvejevic and Magris belong to the same cultural circle and were buddies in real life, as far as I know.
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Shibawanko posted:I never liked Dickens and don't understand what people see in that poo poo. Dickens is like Chaplin, imo, how much you like his work depends a lot on your tolerance for sentimentality.
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Jul 7, 2018 22:00
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Bleak House rules idiots
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Jul 7, 2018 22:56
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More like Martin CHUCKLEFUCKwit
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Radio Spiricom posted:Bleak House rules idiots Barnaby Rudge is my favorite of his. It's a little darker and more direct than most of his novels (it's set during the anti-Catholic Gordon riots) and Barnaby and Grip are less sugar-coated than most Dickens leads.
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