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Burning Rain: Jul 17, 2006; What's happening?!?!

Mel Mudkiper posted:

and so they wait in terror for Mel to weigh in, for whatever side he takes proves the opponent right

Woodenlung posted:

# ? Dec 17, 2018 18:03

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# ? Jun 13, 2024 01:18

derp: Jan 21, 2010; when i get up all i want to do is go to bed again; Lipstick Apathy

Burning Rain posted:

sorry offtopic but what is the story behind that gif i cant stop watching it

# ? Dec 17, 2018 18:08

Gorn Myson: Aug 8, 2007

derp posted:

sorry offtopic but what is the story behind that gif i cant stop watching it

Its Marouane Fellaini during the Man Utd/Liverpool game last night massively miscalculating a shot on goal. The ball then flies off into the distance and accidentally knocks a steward off their chair.

# ? Dec 17, 2018 18:13

ulvir: Jan 2, 2005

lmao

# ? Dec 17, 2018 18:25

CestMoi: Sep 16, 2011

Ras Het posted:

Pamuk is good. Tf is your deal. Did you read one of the extremely clunky translations by the Turkish guy

o i actually did it was just the version i found in a bin. i will give him a second chance cos i liked some of the ideas i was just constantly bored

# ? Dec 18, 2018 11:01

Oliver Reed: Mar 18, 2014

potentially posted before or already familiar to you, here are nabokov's thoughts on various authors

quick & amusing read

# ? Dec 20, 2018 20:08

ulvir: Jan 2, 2005

he has some extremely wrong opinions on certain authors, like faulkner, mann, eliot and dostoyevsky. but his roasts of camus, sartre, freud and hemingway is pretty fun and good

# ? Dec 20, 2018 20:25

Take the plunge! Okay!: Feb 24, 2007

Oliver Reed posted:

potentially posted before or already familiar to you, here are nabokov's thoughts on various authors

quick & amusing read

This list is so infuriating, Nabokov would be at home in this thread. Also, formidable mediocrity is a splendid insult

# ? Dec 20, 2018 21:06

Sham bam bamina!: Nov 6, 2012; ƨtupid cat

Extremely correct Tolstoy opinions.

# ? Dec 20, 2018 21:07

Franchescanado: Feb 23, 2013; If it wasn't for disappointment
I wouldn't have any appointment; Grimey Drawer

I just love how he says "One of the greatest writers, one of my absolute favorites" only to follow that up with "all of their books, except one or two, suck ".

# ? Dec 20, 2018 21:10

Sham bam bamina!: Nov 6, 2012; ƨtupid cat

Franchescanado posted:

I just love how he says "One of the greatest writers, one of my absolute favorites" only to follow that up with "all of their books, except one or two, suck ".

I really like the H. G. Wells entry.

# ? Dec 20, 2018 21:12

Antivehicular: Dec 30, 2011; I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

"[R]hythmic urination is superb." -- Nabokov

# ? Dec 20, 2018 21:18

pospysyl: Nov 10, 2012

With him on Conrad, that's for sure.

# ? Dec 20, 2018 21:44

Burning Rain: Jul 17, 2006; What's happening?!?!

I'd also like to see Melville feeding a sardine to his cat

# ? Dec 20, 2018 21:52

Cloks: Feb 1, 2013; by Azathoth

Franchescanado posted:

I just love how he says "One of the greatest writers, one of my absolute favorites" only to follow that up with "all of their books, except one or two, suck ".

Ulysses was that good tho

# ? Dec 20, 2018 22:09

Jrbg: May 20, 2014

Why is he so overly vituperative about poor Faulkner

# ? Dec 20, 2018 22:35

Gorn Myson: Aug 8, 2007

Take the plunge! Okay! posted:

Nabokov would be at home in this thread.

quote:

Marx, Karl. Loathe him.

Nuh uh

# ? Dec 21, 2018 02:29

Tomoe Goonzen: Nov 12, 2016; "Too paranoid for you?"
"Not me, paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen, right, you can never have too much."

Gorn Myson posted:

Nuh uh

james mason gave nabokov a tie which said 'gently caress communism' on it

# ? Dec 21, 2018 05:43

Tree Goat: May 24, 2009; argania spinosa

this holiday season, why not relax with a nice mug of hot cocoa and a big father brown collection?

# ? Dec 21, 2018 07:54

Bilirubin: Feb 16, 2014; The sanctioned action is to CHUG

Oliver Reed posted:

potentially posted before or already familiar to you, here are nabokov's thoughts on various authors

quick & amusing read

It's him. He's afraid of Virginia Woolf

# ? Dec 21, 2018 08:23

Shibawanko: Feb 13, 2013

Nabokov was a good writer but should have been destroyed for his opposition to The Immortal Science of Marxism-Leninism

# ? Dec 21, 2018 08:51

porfiria: Dec 10, 2008; by Modern Video Games

I mean his family had to run away from the Bolsheviks of course he hates Marx, lol.

# ? Dec 21, 2018 10:11

ulvir: Jan 2, 2005

Tree Goat posted:

this holiday season, why not relax with a nice mug of hot cocoa and a big father brown collection?

nah my dude, im going to relax with some Baudelaire and maybe Flaubert b/c I need to stop putting off mme. bovary

# ? Dec 21, 2018 11:37

Ras Het: May 23, 2007; when I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child - but now I am a man.

I'm going to finally reread Nana over christmas, this time in a complete modern translation that doesn't try to remove all sex from it

# ? Dec 21, 2018 12:12

Gorn Myson: Aug 8, 2007

Tree Goat posted:

this holiday season, why not relax with a nice mug of hot cocoa and a big father brown collection?

Just don't watch the TV adaptation, its proper poo poo.

# ? Dec 21, 2018 12:34

Foul Fowl: Sep 12, 2008; Uuuuh! Seek ye me?

J_RBG posted:

Why is he so overly vituperative about poor Faulkner

i prefer faulkner by a mile but you can see how his localized, sclerotic time, place, prose, etc. etc. are in pretty stark contrast with nabukov's playful, floaty, kinda disgraced foreign aristocrat equivalents. and even though i think they aim for similar effects, faulkner's methods are so radically different and grimy and serious (even in their comedy) that of course nabukov is gonna hate it.

# ? Dec 21, 2018 12:43

Foul Fowl: Sep 12, 2008; Uuuuh! Seek ye me?

i.e. i think he thinks faulkner wasn't clever enough to write something like ulysses, rather than that maybe the sound and the fury or whatever was bit too clever (and literal) for nabukov.

# ? Dec 21, 2018 12:48

Hieronymous Alloy: Jan 30, 2009; Why! Why!! Why must you refuse to accept that Dr. Hieronymous Alloy's Genetically Enhanced Cream Corn Is Superior to the Leading Brand on the Market!?!; Morbid Hound

Oliver Reed posted:

potentially posted before or already familiar to you, here are nabokov's thoughts on various authors

quick & amusing read

quote:

Carroll, Lewis. Have always been fond of him. One would like to have filmed his picnics.

Poe, Edgar Allan. A favorite between the ages of 10 and 15, but no longer. One would like to have filmed his wedding.

# ? Dec 21, 2018 12:51

Jrbg: May 20, 2014

Foul Fowl posted:

i.e. i think he thinks faulkner wasn't clever enough to write something like ulysses, rather than that maybe the sound and the fury or whatever was bit too clever (and literal) for nabukov.

Nabokov seems incapable of merely disliking a book, though, there's something a bit dick-wavey about the whole 'this guy loving sucks poo poo and rear end, I loathe him with my entire being, he is a total dunce, this ape has ruined my life because of his prose'.

# ? Dec 21, 2018 13:09