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Squalid posted:now this has me wondering what is the BEST ape based literature? the liquor ape chapter from republic of wine
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Squalid posted:now this has me wondering what is the BEST ape based literature? A Report To An Academy, by Kafka
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Squalid posted:now this has me wondering what is the BEST ape based literature? 
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Agape Agape
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Michael Crichton's classic Congo.
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Bandiet posted:A Report To An Academy, by Kafka its this one
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Heath posted:Agape Agape
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Sep 15, 2019 10:23
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Flink the chimpanzee in P.C. Jersild's En levande själ is cool
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Sep 15, 2019 11:47
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Nobody knows any cool modern greek authors?
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Sep 15, 2019 11:55
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The secret of this thread is that were not very well read.
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Squalid posted:now this has me wondering what is the BEST ape based literature? 
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fridge corn posted:Nobody knows any cool modern greek authors? Havey ou considered Bophades
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Nikos Kazantzakis is the obvious one, but I haven't read him and figured that someone who had should bring him up instead. I also almost bought Panos Karnezis's The Maze a few months ago but didn't.
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Nikos Kazantzakis is the obvious one, but I haven't read him and figured that someone who had should bring him up instead. I also almost bought Panos Karnezis's The Maze a few months ago but didn't. I figured when they said modern they meant earlier than half a century ago.
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Mr. Squishy posted:I figured when they said modern they meant earlier than half a century ago. Imo they meant later
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The Maze is from 2004, so I think I have my bases covered.
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Mr. Squishy posted:I figured when they said modern they meant earlier than half a century ago. By modern I just meant like not classical greek stuff but whatever I started reading the Pamuk I found in a charity shop the other day but thanks for the suggestions 
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it was a noble effort but sadly the greeks havent produced anything of cultural merit since 1453
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chernobyl kinsman posted:it was a noble effort but sadly the greeks havent produced anything of cultural merit since 1453 Big Fat Greek Wedding
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fridge corn posted:By modern I just meant like not classical greek stuff but whatever I started reading the Pamuk I found in a charity shop the other day but thanks for the suggestions All Greeks are Turks anyway
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chernobyl kinsman posted:it was a noble effort but sadly the greeks havent produced anything of cultural merit since 1453 Erotokritos any good?
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Going to read The Iliad finally. My library's translations options are Richard Lattimore, E.V. Rieu and Stephen Mitchell. I've seen people rep Lattimore in the thread, but what about the other two?
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looks like the rieu is prose so AVOID and the mitchell is basically fine? the lattimore is really good, but you get people thinking it's too clearly poetic and grandiose which i think is good but something the mitchell looks like it might avoid from this amazon preview
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I'm going with the Mitchell to start, since I'm finding it easier to follow. I might revisit the Lattimore once I'm more familiar with the narrative and can give his verse more attention.
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Just picked up the latest (and last?) Krasznahorkai book, just out in English: Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming. Only had the energy to read about 20 pages last night but it is drat good. The man himself had this to say about it: Laszlo K posted:I’ve said a thousand times that I always wanted to write just one book. Now, with Baron, I can close this story. With this novel I can prove that I really wrote just one book in my life. This is the book–Satantango, Melancholy, War and War, and Baron. This is my one book.
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one of these days im gonna read something that isn't by nabokov, i can feel it that or i'll just run out i guess
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Sep 27, 2019 18:22
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Fortunately there are plenty of books about Nabokov
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you read his lectures yet? p sure they dont count as books
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Almost done with War and Peace. I should probably follow it up with Stendhal's Charterhouse of Parma for the other side. In French, because Jesus my French has gone to poo poo and having to glance more and more at the footnote translations of the French in War and Peace is just driving that home.Tim Burns Effect posted:one of these days im gonna read something that isn't by nabokov, i can feel it You read Invitation to a Beheading yet?
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if you did, and you liked invitation to a beheading, why not try satantango as a way to wean yourself off nabokov
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war and peace is a real good book. it starts off very slowly, but it just keeps going up i think my favourite bit is when the french occupy moscow and pierre saves some rando french officer and they get drunk and sentimental. it's really really funny
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thehoodie posted:Just picked up the latest (and last?) Krasznahorkai book, just out in English: Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming. Only had the energy to read about 20 pages last night but it is drat good. Ohhhh I didn't know he had a new book coming out, thanks!
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I was prepared to have cultural differences with all the Iliad characters who want to kill people in battle. I was not prepared for the way Agamemnon orders an offensive on Troy. This is the part where Zeus is tricking him into getting owned at Achilles' mom's behest, but the way Agamemnon goes about it is baffling. He only tells a few people his true intentions, and then orders the rest of his commanders to do the opposite of that, confident that enough of them will object so that they'll do what he really wants them to do anyway. This culminates in Odysseus convincing officers stay and fight to run, and soldiers who want to run to stay and fight, and I didn't know if I was supposed to laugh. Am I missing something?
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Just finished Malaparte’s Kaputt, it’s good. Plenty of bizarre moments, my fave probably being when an SS asks Malaparte whether he thinks Russians are homosexual, and he goes something like “IDK you’ll find out when the war ends for sure”. Anyone have access to an Italian copy of the book? I would like to know what word is used in the original that the translator chose to translate into “tommy gun”.
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Karenina posted:
[eric andre voice] im on it right now
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or just read the same Beckett book over and over again, as all Beckett is the same according to my friend of superior intellect, a true juggernaut and recipient of an MFA actually read The Poor Mouth by Flann O’Brien
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i was reading Frost but i stopped halfway thru because the painter is right, all art is garbage useless nonsense for idiots. "I want to say: artists are the sons and daughters of loathsomeness, of paradisiac shamelessness, the original sons and daughters of lewdness; artists, painters, writers, and musicians are the compulsive masturbators on the planet, its disgusting camps, its peripheral puffings and swellings, its pustular secretions... I want to say: artists are the great emetic agents of the time, they were always the great, the very greatest emetics... Artists, are they not a devastating army of absurdity, of scum?"
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