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Sep 9, 2018 17:56
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i read child of god and it wasn't very good. McCarthy is an uneven manquote:im permajailed redneck corpsefucker58. i first started sexually harassing women when i was about 12. by 14 i got really obsessed with the concept of "necrophilia" and tried to channel it constantly, until my thought process got really bizarre and i would repeat things like "crack open a cold one" and "i love to kill women and wear their underwear" in my head for hours, and i would get really paranoid, start seeing things in the corners of my eyes etc, basically prodromal schizophrenia. im now dying of pneumonia. i always wondered what the kind of "depraved" style of being a cormac mccarthy character was all about; i think it's the unconscious leaking in to the conscious, what jungian theory considered to be the cause of schizophrenic and schizotypal syptoms. i would advise all people who "have sex with" corpses to be careful because that likely means you have a predisposition to a mental illness. peace.
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Sep 9, 2018 19:58
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child of god is a decent page turner and doesn’t aspire to be much else only book of McCarthy’s I couldn’t stomach was Suttree I still finished it but it was just page after page of tedious meandering word games
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Sep 10, 2018 00:28
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A translation of Crime and Punishment by Oliver Ready is on sale for two bucks. Can anyone tell me if it's a good version?
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Sep 10, 2018 00:45
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It's the best version.
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Sep 10, 2018 01:59
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mccarthy really isn’t that great. blood meridian is excellent and far and away his best. border trilogy is a boring slog. the road is terrible, evidenced by the fact that it won the pulitzer.
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Sep 10, 2018 04:58
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Nostos posted:mccarthy really isn’t that great. blood meridian is excellent and far and away his best. border trilogy is a boring slog. the road is terrible, evidenced by the fact that it won the pulitzer. Oh, indeed?
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Sep 10, 2018 11:55
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i liked the road, but tbf i read it before i knew it won a pulitzer
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Sep 10, 2018 13:12
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I remember liking the road but that was back when I also liked vampire novels so who knows
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Sep 10, 2018 14:36
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man, I am getting to the point where the tropes of New York MFA fiction is so obvious that its ruining my ability to even read the novel.
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Sep 10, 2018 16:33
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At least they're all very good at Showing that they inherited their wealth and go to parties with the right people instead of Telling the reader about it
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Sep 10, 2018 17:01
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Like, I am reading a book about people from my generation in my area of the country where I grew up and none of these characters are even slightly recognizable and are all just generic "interesting people" from every other novel of the same type Hillbillies in the Appalachian mountains didn't loving read philosophy between football games and we didn't all become world-weary vagabonds with deep thoughts
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Sep 10, 2018 17:10
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Like, I am reading a book about people from my generation in my area of the country where I grew up and none of these characters are even slightly recognizable and are all just generic "interesting people" from every other novel of the same type Drop that modern trash and join me reading Chesterton waxing lyrical about Dickens It's so full of the most gloriously written unsupported assumptions Dickens on America: " I do fear that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty will be dealt by America, in the failure of its example on this Earth" Chesterton on Dickens: " We are still waiting to see if that prediction has been fulfilled; but nobody can say that it has been falsified"
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Sep 10, 2018 17:27
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Mel Mudkiper posted:man, I am getting to the point where the tropes of New York MFA fiction is so obvious that its ruining my ability to even read the novel. i said this like two years ago and everyone made fun of me. congrats on finally being redpilled
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Sep 10, 2018 23:36
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Mel Mudkiper posted:man, I am getting to the point where the tropes of New York MFA fiction is so obvious that its ruining my ability to even read the novel.
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Sep 10, 2018 23:43
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Like, I am reading a book about people from my generation in my area of the country where I grew up and none of these characters are even slightly recognizable and are all just generic "interesting people" from every other novel of the same type See, I thought you were going to go more in the direction of the times I pick up a Paris Review or whatever to stay on top of what's getting published now, and have to suffer through yet another set of rich New York-region suburbanites doing drugs and whining about their families. I'd kill to read a philosophical hillbilly after that poo poo. Working slowly through last year's "Best American Short Stories" for the same reason, except about 1/3 of those are actually good. EDIT - I also didn't bother going back through your post history to find out what you're reading.
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Sep 11, 2018 00:13
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derp posted:I remember liking the road but that was back when I also liked vampire novels so who knows Oh, last week?
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Sep 11, 2018 01:23
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You guys wouldn't have these problems if you just stopped reading contemporary american books.
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Sep 11, 2018 01:24
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A human heart posted:You guys wouldn't have these problems if you just stopped reading contemporary [...] books.
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Sep 11, 2018 02:12
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After The War posted:See, I thought you were going to go more in the direction of the times I pick up a Paris Review or whatever to stay on top of what's getting published now, and have to suffer through yet another set of rich New York-region suburbanites doing drugs and whining about their families. I'd kill to read a philosophical hillbilly after that poo poo. Yeah I hate those too but by this point you can at least identify them by the synopsis. This was sneakier.
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Sep 11, 2018 03:43
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Space Admiral Comet Blastoff gazed wearily over the combat monitors as he readied the last of his laser barrage. The battle against the Star Kingdom wasn't going according to plan. What's more, he had begun to feel that perhaps he should not have gone to grad school, and that his recent unsatisfying sexual encounters were indicative of the anhedonia that comes from a loss of purpose. In the distance, a dog barked.
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Sep 11, 2018 04:02
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Like, I am reading a book about people from my generation in my area of the country where I grew up and none of these characters are even slightly recognizable and are all just generic "interesting people" from every other novel of the same type Early Work?
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Sep 11, 2018 05:21
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Tree Goat posted:Space Admiral Comet Blastoff gazed wearily over the combat monitors as he readied the last of his laser barrage. The battle against the Star Kingdom wasn't going according to plan. What's more, he had begun to feel that perhaps he should not have gone to grad school, and that his recent unsatisfying sexual encounters were indicative of the anhedonia that comes from a loss of purpose. In the distance, a dog barked. lmao
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Sep 11, 2018 07:23
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Cloks posted:Early Work? Ohio
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Sep 11, 2018 17:22
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Tree Goat posted:Space Admiral Comet Blastoff gazed wearily over the combat monitors as he readied the last of his laser barrage. The battle against the Star Kingdom wasn't going according to plan. What's more, he had begun to feel that perhaps he should not have gone to grad school, and that his recent unsatisfying sexual encounters were indicative of the anhedonia that comes from a loss of purpose. In the distance, a dog barked.
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Sep 11, 2018 17:36
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Ohio Based on my experience in Portsmouth, you're correct.
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Sep 11, 2018 18:46
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Ohio weren't you just trying to get hieronymous to make that the BotM
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Sep 11, 2018 23:11
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Tree Goat posted:Space Admiral Comet Blastoff gazed wearily over the combat monitors as he readied the last of his laser barrage. The battle against the Star Kingdom wasn't going according to plan. What's more, he had begun to feel that perhaps he should not have gone to grad school, and that his recent unsatisfying sexual encounters were indicative of the anhedonia that comes from a loss of purpose. In the distance, a dog barked.
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Sep 12, 2018 03:59
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chernobyl kinsman posted:weren't you just trying to get hieronymous to make that the BotM Because he kept asking for one and it was sitting on my desk
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Sep 12, 2018 04:12
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I think a few months ago everyone was sharing great book covers and I don't think I saw this one, which I saw for the first time today and holy poo poo its perfect and i love it. want to buy this if i ever find it anywhere 
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Sep 13, 2018 23:23
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What the hell is that laudatory quote supposed to mean? That's like calling In Dubious Battle "in the tradition of The Grapes of Wrath".
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Sep 14, 2018 01:17
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Maybe because both characters are unreliable narrators, and also overconfident, incompetent, pretentious amoral twats
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Sep 14, 2018 04:40
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I guess, but to say that Despair is "in the tradition of Lolita" is a ridiculous way to frame that. For one, it was written first, and for another, it's an overt, specific parody of Dostoyevsky more than it is anything resembling Lolita. The quote is just marketing gibberish that somebody put on the cover because Lolita is Nabokov's most well-known book.
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Sep 14, 2018 06:22
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Good points. Maybe I saw the connection because they were my first 3 nabokovs, but I found that Lolita, pale fire and despair all had that in common: the narrator being a complete moron presenting himself as a genius
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Sep 14, 2018 06:52
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That is an extremely dope cover, though.
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derp posted:Good points. Maybe I saw the connection because they were my first 3 nabokovs, but I found that Lolita, pale fire and despair all had that in common: the narrator being a complete moron presenting himself as a genius I also believe Bend Sinister to be about a complete moron who everyone thinks is a genius for some reason
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Sep 15, 2018 11:45
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I have decided to rank the best covers in publishing houses' classics range. 1. NYRB classics -- good shelf presence, tasteful use of colour, always an apposite and tasteful accompanying picture (without straying into cliche), also a good range full stop, I always consider new ones I see in bookshops. Just overall good 2. Old penguin classics -- Gimme that old rear end look 3. Everyman library – Being hardback is sort of cheating, but these are cool 4. Reclam Verlag -- Lots of respect for a solid-block of colour, got to cherish minimal covers esp in this f*cked-up world!! They also feel good in the hand. 5. New penguin classics -- Spine looks bad when cracked but otherwise usually good with the whole painting choice, though the ones done by normal illustrators sometimes look like rear end 6. Oxford World's Classics -- Inferior penguin classics, font choice on newer editions is questionable 7. Wordsworth's Classics – shat out trash. cursed art from hell. no way José. look at this loving poo poo  
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Sep 16, 2018 21:27
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NYRB is my drug of choice
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J_RBG posted:I have decided to rank the best covers in publishing houses' classics range. I like the look of NYRB, new Penguin, Oxford World and Everyman's Library, though I'm mostly judging based on ebook covers.
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