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OscarDiggs posted:I guess no one has read it then. Love in the Time of Cholera
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:Virgil's Eclogues Mel Mudkiper posted:Love in the Time of Cholera I don't think I'm good enough to understand a poet like Virgil yet but Love in the Time of Cholera looks perfect. Thanks a lot both of you.
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Feb 27, 2019 22:42
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OscarDiggs posted:I don't think I'm good enough to understand a poet like Virgil yet but Love in the Time of Cholera looks perfect. Thanks a lot both of you. If you want a third rec, John Irving books are pretty uplifting by the end. A Prayer For Owen Meany is my go-to rec for him.
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Feb 27, 2019 22:45
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Don Quixote.
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OscarDiggs posted:I don't think I'm good enough to understand a poet like Virgil yet its just a bunch of shepherds flirting with each other, except for eclogue 4, in which virgil predicts the birth of Christ
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Feb 27, 2019 23:10
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I'll add them onto the list then. And I have been meaning to go back to Don Quixote... Thanks all.
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Feb 28, 2019 00:14
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Franchescanado posted:If you want a third rec, John Irving books are pretty uplifting by the end. A Prayer For Owen Meany is my go-to rec for him. So very much this
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Feb 28, 2019 00:59
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Don Quixote is a downer imoMrenda posted: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. Aside from all the Shakespearean ways of speaking the library bit is difficult because it's essentially an interrupted essay itself written in Stephen Dedalus's pompous and referential style. I like it though, it's a weird and fun bit of literary play. I could lay out the argument more if you want because it links thematically to what's going on in the rest of the book although it doesn't have any direct bearing on it all and glossing over bits of Ulysses you don't enjoy is kind of part of it I think.
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So, I just got around to reading Hemmingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, and it really struck a chord me. Probably because I read it at *just* the right time in my life (late 30’s, starting to get hit in the gut by the concept of aging and the consequence of choices made in my earlier life, and all of that poo poo). I also just loved how it’s a blow-by-blow story of a working class guy who’s ended up in a really bad place, who’s trying, desperately, to get out of the hole and get a big score. Dude’s gone eighty-four days without catching a fish, so he’s trying to catch a really big fish and even it out and get by and get some yellow rice for dinner. You can see how it will blow up in his face. You see how much he’s hosed, but you also know exactly why he’s doing what he’s doing. Poor Santiago. Like the Kid character, I really just wanted to help that old man from the very beginning of the story. Buy him some supper and some bait. Was a little sad when I talked to my dad about the book. He’s kind of a super-utilitarian, introspective, working class sort of guy, and he said that he read in in high school but was bugged by all the symbolism and didn’t really like it. I bet if he read it again, being an old guy who’s gone man-against-nature a couple of times, he might have a different perspective on the book. I understand there’s a lot of biblical symbolism going on in the book too, but I must admit that since I was raised pretty secular most of that went over my head. All that really struck me was that Santiago’s views are informed a bit by Catholicism, and that he has a great appreciation and awe of the natural world (and that the book imparts that on you, too. That fish was noble. Possibly the hero of the story). Though I was left wondering who, if anyone, was supposed to be Jesus in the allegory? The fish? Santiago? The kid?
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Mar 3, 2019 06:44
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Eugene V. Dubstep posted:Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead imo Have you read Flights? I read it recently and I was really underwhelmed. Is Drive your plow... one narrative? I liked some of the longer stories in Flights so maybe I’d like this one better
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holy poo poo The Blind Owl is loving awesome. it gives you one of those great feelings as a reader a third of the way in that you're reading something really special.
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Lil Mama Im Sorry posted:holy poo poo The Blind Owl is loving awesome. it gives you one of those great feelings as a reader a third of the way in that you're reading something really special. I've got this on my list thanks to Mathias Enard, glad it is good 
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blind owl is good. I’m still grateful for how Stravinsky spread it around on here before they stopped posting
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Mar 6, 2019 07:47
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I'm reading The Novel of Ferrara about some people who lived in a town during the 20th century
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Mar 6, 2019 07:59
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They’re awarding two Nobels for literature in October LMAO
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Mar 6, 2019 08:46
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one for murakami and one for kanye
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Mar 6, 2019 08:48
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Wonder what Murakami is going to do with all that money. ed: aw dammit
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Mar 6, 2019 08:51
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:They’re awarding two Nobels for literature in October LMAO congrats to Murakami, both Haruki and Ryu
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Mar 6, 2019 09:06
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Excited to receive the first nobel for posts this autumn
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Mar 6, 2019 09:17
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in light of the other responses I would like to change my joke to 'they're going to give out more and more nobels every time until murakami dies still not having received one'
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Mar 6, 2019 09:53
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I would like my good friend Gerald Murnane to win the nobel prize. Thank you.
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Mar 6, 2019 09:58
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:They’re awarding two Nobels for literature in October LMAO lol
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Mar 6, 2019 10:20
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Congrats to Pynchon for winning not one, but two Nobels. Wow!
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A human heart posted:I would like my good friend Gerald Murnane to win the nobel prize. Thank you. Murnane and Krasznahorkai.
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Mar 6, 2019 15:20
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Some Norwegian REALLY wants to meet Dylan
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Mar 6, 2019 15:47
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https://uproxx.com/tv/one-hundred-years-of-solitude-netflix/ man this is probably gonna suck
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Mar 6, 2019 16:15
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Mel Mudkiper posted:https://uproxx.com/tv/one-hundred-years-of-solitude-netflix/ I really want to see that John Turturro Name of the Rose miniseries that just got released in Italy but I'm not sure how to find it on American television. https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/john-turturro-the-name-of-the-rose-series-umberto-eco-rai-sundance-1203028351/
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Boatswain posted:Murnane and Krasznahorkai. It feels like the Krasz is still too young to get it, but thinking about it hes 65..
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Mar 6, 2019 19:38
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A human heart posted:I would like my good friend Gerald Murnane to win the nobel prize. Thank you. Thank you
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Mar 6, 2019 19:41
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Mel Mudkiper posted:https://uproxx.com/tv/one-hundred-years-of-solitude-netflix/
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Mar 6, 2019 19:47
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Can't wait for YouTube to be filled with video essays about the latest GMCU developments.
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Mar 6, 2019 19:57
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Is Malquiades really dead? 10 hints from the newest ep.
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Mar 6, 2019 20:04
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Is Macondo actually set in the post-apocalyptic far-future? A deep lore dive. [5 hours]
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Mar 6, 2019 20:48
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I’m reading Beowulf for the first time since I never had to read it in high school and somehow managed to get through a bachelor’s and master’s in English without having to read it in college either and honestly I’m kinda pissed it’s taken me this long. This story is metal as gently caress.
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Doctor Faustine posted:I’m reading Beowulf for the first time since I never had to read it in high school and somehow managed to get through a bachelor’s and master’s in English without having to read it in college either and honestly I’m kinda pissed it’s taken me this long. Which translation are you reading? I've been meaning to read it for ages myself and I want a good one. Paging chernobyl kinsman too. (bonus points if it still starts with "Hwæt!")
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Mar 6, 2019 21:17
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I read heaney's which was good but I forget the first word.
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Mar 6, 2019 21:22
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I’m reading the Seamus Heaney translation. I’ll be honest I have no idea what’s actually considered the best translation, but I’ve enjoyed a lot of Heaney’s poetry so I figured it would be a safe bet for me.
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Boatswain posted:I read heaney's which was good but I forget the first word. It's "So." iirc. Anyway, Heaney's is good, an academic staple
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a lot of academics have strong opinions about heaney's translation. it's a lovely poem, but it isn't especially close to the text. he takes a fair degree of liberty. if you're just reading it for pleasure, though, then it's very good
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I just saw my copy in the bookshelf the other day so I was able to find it quickly, the first word is indeed "So."
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