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Tree Goat posted:i haven't read it, op
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I also am proud of having not read a book.
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house of the dad posted:I also am proud of having not read a book. you should be if it's a contemporary american novel
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house of the dad posted:I also am proud of having not read a book. read mein kampf yet? 
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i have not read jonathan franzen or haruki murakami and my life is great
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You should read Underground.
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Nov 17, 2018 02:08
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Der Untergrund by Jonathan Französischen, natürlich
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Mel Mudkiper posted:I mean that's a big plate, what are you looking for? I was just about to bring up Kawabata. I recently read Thousand Cranes, which went completely over my head. It's short enough that I want to give it another try, though.
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Nov 17, 2018 02:47
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Thousand Cranes is, I think, the greatest symbolic novel
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I own thousand cranes but haven’t read it, palm of the hand stories and snow country are incredible though.
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I have a copy of the new edition of Wind/Pinball around here and really need to read it; the main thing stopping me is my suspicion that reading Pinball 1983 as an adult won't possibly be as fresh or interesting as reading it as an undergraduate was. Alternately, I suppose I could swerve to another Murakami and give Coin Locker Babies a shot, just to say I did.
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J_RBG posted:i have not read jonathan franzen or haruki murakami and my life is great That's cool. They've both written pretty good books though. Kafka on the Shore, maybe?
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Sham bam bamina! posted:You should read Underground.
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If I was interested in reading something by Richard Powers (and I’m only partially sure I am) where would I start?
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MystOpportunity posted:If I was interested in reading something by Richard Powers (and I’m only partially sure I am) where would I start? orfeo probably
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Tree Goat posted:orfeo probably i changed my mind, maybe the gold bug variations
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richard powers? sorry, i'm not into superheroes
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Tree Goat posted:i changed my mind, maybe the gold bug variations
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MystOpportunity posted:If I was interested in reading something by Richard Powers (and I’m only partially sure I am) where would I start? something by evan dara
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Nov 17, 2018 07:56
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Actually I just looked at wikipedia to make sure I spelled his name right and I don't want to be associated with him after reading that
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'90s Richard Powers is kinda funny because his style in The Gold Bug Variations is just gorgeous, then he doubles down on the prettiness with Operation Wandering Soul and ends up almost unreadably baroque, so he backs off hard with much more straightforward writing in Galatea 2.2.
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Sham bam bamina! posted:'90s Richard Powers is kinda funny because his style in The Gold Bug Variations is just gorgeous, then he doubles down on the prettiness with Operation Wandering Soul and ends up almost unreadably baroque, so he backs off hard with much more straightforward writing in Galatea 2.2. that sounds cool. what other unreadably baroque writers would you recommend?
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A human heart posted:you should be if it's a contemporary american novel american contemporary literature is pretty good if you ignore almost everything that's written by white people
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People can't write a paragraph about Gaddis without some sideswipe at Franzen for calling Frolic boring. Its like Achebe for conradians, but pettier. Tabbi in particular is very good at them, and he has taken a few shots at dfw too
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Foul Fowl posted:american contemporary literature is pretty good if you ignore almost everything that's written by white people one of my safest qualifiers is that any "american contemporary literature" is probably dogshit
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MystOpportunity posted:If I was interested in reading something by Richard Powers (and I’m only partially sure I am) where would I start? See if either Plowing the Dark or Galatea 2.2 sounds interesting to you. Generosity was pretty good and a quick read. Still haven't read GBV which is probably my fault. Edit: oh yes, I remember really liking The Echo Maker but it's probably not going to click with everyone.
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pleasure by d'annunzio is yet more proof if proof be need be that fascists are the best writers
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Is there even a good communist writer after Gorky?
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The best Richard Powers novel is inarguably The Echo-Maker imho
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:Is there even a good communist writer after Gorky? Uh yeah eg Brecht
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:Is there even a good communist writer after Gorky? idk, check the lf archives
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A human heart posted:that sounds cool. what other unreadably baroque writers would you recommend?
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Antivehicular posted:Alternately, I suppose I could swerve to another Murakami and give Coin Locker Babies a shot, just to say I did. That one's about looking for keys in the Yakuza games, right?
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CestMoi posted:pleasure by d'annunzio is yet more proof if proof be need be that fascists are the best writers have you got to the bit where an englishman shows the protagonist his porn collection yet, that's my favourite part Take the plunge! Okay! posted:Is there even a good communist writer after Gorky?
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CestMoi posted:pleasure by d'annunzio is yet more proof if proof be need be that fascists are the best writers didn't we just establish that contemporary american lit is shite
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Can anyone recommend a translation of War and Peace?
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V. Illych L. posted:contemporary [...] lit is shite
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V. Illych L. posted:didn't we just establish that contemporary american lit is shite
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