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Reading Bolano's The Third Reich. It's about a guy who spends his summer vacation in Spain playing war games in his hotel room against a guy who is horribly mutilated by burns and lives under a stack of pedal boats on the beach. Took a bit to get good but now its real good
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Feb 22, 2019 18:05
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I'd read an entire novel only about Bloch. and the protag's horny uncle for that matter I love Swann's Way
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Feb 22, 2019 22:22
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can i request a novel about hemingways horny uncle cause i wanna do that
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Feb 22, 2019 23:54
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Just read Death in Venice and uhh... 
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Feb 23, 2019 13:29
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Did you notice how I forget which greek god is personally wreaking vengence on the protagonist?
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Feb 23, 2019 13:38
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Dionysus? But I was too busy thinking about how he wanted to gently caress a 14 year old
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Feb 23, 2019 13:44
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Fun fact: the boy was based on a real person Mann saw in Venice, though he didn't stalk him. He found out about it later, but he was a very cultured man and took it in a stride. quote:I am that boy! Yes, even then in Venice I was called Adzio or sometimes Władzio… But in the story I am named Tadzio… this is how the Master understood it… In the story I found everything described exactly, even my clothes, my behavior – good or bad – and the rough jokes I played on the sands with my friend.
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Feb 23, 2019 14:00
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I reread Suskind's Parfum. It's a real cool book, I think think it's also made me more attentive to smell in daily life. Neat. The protagonist is a weird pervert loser like all good German books which is excellente.
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Feb 23, 2019 21:20
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Perfume is the only book I could think of where smell plays a central role in describing the environment. Even the most brilliant writing rarely paints a picture of scent, at least of what I've read
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Feb 23, 2019 23:07
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:Fun fact: the boy was based on a real person Mann saw in Venice, though he didn't stalk him. He found out about it later, but he was a very cultured man and took it in a stride. That is not fun fact
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Feb 23, 2019 23:13
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started The Aspern Papers and the narrator has immediately revealed himself as a weirdo obsessed with some dead poet. excellent.
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Feb 24, 2019 00:03
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Golden Gate Bride posted:That is not fun fact man if you're bothered that a guy wrote a book about being infatuated with a 14 year old boy maybe European literature isn't for you
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Feb 24, 2019 01:34
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I think you're supposed to be bothered by it?? What a weird thing to say
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Feb 24, 2019 01:43
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Golden Gate Bride posted:What a weird thing to say welcome
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Feb 24, 2019 02:58
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The Belgian posted:The protagonist is a weird pervert loser like all good [...] books which is excellente.
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Feb 24, 2019 05:32
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Last call for March BotM suggestions!
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Feb 25, 2019 02:14
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I think I already suggested it in another thread, but The Autumn of the Patriarch.
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Feb 25, 2019 03:50
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead imo
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Feb 25, 2019 11:48
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The Violent Bear It Away
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Feb 25, 2019 11:59
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I'm coming around more to, to put it in a wholly generalised and inaccurate way, the idea of literature as a rorshach test. Reading through books, sometimes books considered challenging, not looking to get precise meaning from every sentence. Allowing my mind to take ideas from what's written, even if they're nowhere near what would be an accepted meaning, and running with their effect. I think it's how I read as a child, and how I learned. I'd read books and come across ideas I didn't know about, or even just words I didn't understand and fill it all in in my own way. After seeing people talk about author's writing with complaints like, "This is unclear," and "I'm not sure I know what you were going for here," I'm accepting, and trying to put into terms, how really loving annoying that is. In a way it ties into the ever-present death of the author, but really it's more about readers who want everything made explicit and how that's shaping literature. Sure, there's a demand for the author's intent to be wholly carried through, but it's a failing on the reader's part to demand that their reading of the work is one that immediately and fully grasps it.
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Feb 26, 2019 01:49
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Mrenda posted:I'm coming around more to, to put it in a wholly generalised and inaccurate way, the idea of literature as a rorshach test. Reading through books, sometimes books considered challenging, not looking to get precise meaning from every sentence. Allowing my mind to take ideas from what's written, even if they're nowhere near what would be an accepted meaning, and running with their effect. I think it's how I read as a child, and how I learned. I'd read books and come across ideas I didn't know about, or even just words I didn't understand and fill it all in in my own way. Read The Recognitions
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Feb 26, 2019 02:26
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Heath posted:Read The Recognitions Always great advice.
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Feb 26, 2019 04:33
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Book of the month should be Blow Job by Stewart Home
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Feb 26, 2019 06:31
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Anyone read 'The Great Passage' by Shion Miura and translated by Juliet Carpenter? Just wanted to know if A. It was any good and B. If it counted as Literature.
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Feb 26, 2019 19:25
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apropos of nothing: the rings of saturn absolutely, as the kids say, slaps
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Feb 26, 2019 23:45
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chernobyl kinsman posted:apropos of nothing: the rings of saturn absolutely, as the kids say, slaps yep Eugene V. Dubstep posted:My preferred Sebalds, in order: Eugene V. Dubstep posted:Finished Rings of Saturn and holy hell was it bleak.
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Feb 26, 2019 23:48
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Just finished White is for Witching and while it certainly is not a bad book, there are some aspects that made it less enjoyable for me. It starts off extremely quirky in a way that reminded me of The God of Small Things, which annoyed me there as well. Since the latter is well regarded around here that is probably more on me but this always feels a bit like an exercise in creative writing, where your "quirk up" your story to me. Because the quirkiness peters out after a while (interestingly before the second part, where the change in tone would have made sense narratively) I feel at least a bit vindicated in thinking this. Also, the decision to give the racist haunted house an active part is questionable. A bit of subtlety would have gone a long way. Not to speak of the reason why the racist haunted house is so racist, which I had to ignore to not ruin the book for me. true.spoon fucked around with this message at 17:26 on Feb 27, 2019 |
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Feb 27, 2019 17:21
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have never heard of this novel before but am extremely intrigued by the concept of a racist haunted house
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Feb 27, 2019 17:34
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Immersing myself in the warm piss of Pantagruel
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Feb 27, 2019 17:36
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:Immersing myself in the warm piss of Pantagruel ganbatte
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Feb 27, 2019 17:40
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I never post in general but just chiming in to say that Sebald is very good.
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Feb 27, 2019 19:44
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yeah once i finish rings i think i'm gonna pick up the emigrants unless we end up doing V for BotM in which case i'll do that next
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Feb 27, 2019 20:03
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:Immersing myself in the warm piss of Pantagruel Rabelais owns, as does my penguin classics MA Screech translation that has massive text, like it's for children
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Feb 27, 2019 20:16
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Today I read the National Library/Hamlet Shakespeare theory bit of Ulysses. And by read I mean the words were perceived and acknowledged by a certain part of my brain. I think the movement of the characters was apparent, one level of understanding who these people were and what they stood for, yet the detail of what they were saying flew right over my head. Strangely, it actually reminds me of seeing a Shakespeare play without ever reading the text. The movement on stage, the occasional line will all add up to let you know the play, but if you're trying to follow and make sense of every sentence you'll (or at least I will) be lost and passed by very quickly.
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Feb 27, 2019 20:24
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The Stendhal part of Vertigo owns, and the Venetian sojourn is nice, and the ending is very moving. Read it!
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Feb 27, 2019 20:25
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J_RBG posted:Rabelais owns, as does my penguin classics MA Screech translation that has massive text, like it's for children Illustrated Rabelais, for kids!
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Feb 27, 2019 21:23
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I guess no one has read it then. Can I ask then, can anyone recommend any uplifting literature? After "Something Happened" I don't have it in me to go back to bleak Russian stuff just yet.
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Feb 27, 2019 22:18
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Bilirubin posted:Illustrated Rabelais, for kids! I have an edition of Decamerone illustrated by an artist who did children's comics. The result looks like if some Golden Age Disney animator was really into Modernist art and decided that he should illustrate a hundred stories with titties.
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Feb 27, 2019 22:28
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OscarDiggs posted:Can I ask then, can anyone recommend any uplifting literature? After "Something Happened" I don't have it in me to go back to bleak Russian stuff just yet. Virgil's Eclogues
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Feb 27, 2019 22:29
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