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I've just posted this year's Secret Santa thread. Come over to https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3903265 and sign up!
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is there a historical fiction thread?
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escape artist posted:is there a historical fiction thread? If not, 
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Nov 8, 2019 06:57
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escape artist posted:is there a historical fiction thread? I demand somebody tell me why all the weird sex stuff in Aztec is necessary!
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Nov 8, 2019 10:14
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Someone recommended that I read James Patterson and when I asked for a starting point, they offered up The Black Book though they later stated that this recommendation was only because it was the first book that came to their mind. ...So, what's a good starting point for James Patterson?
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Nov 12, 2019 07:46
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TV Zombie posted:Someone recommended that I read James Patterson and when I asked for a starting point, they offered up The Black Book though they later stated that this recommendation was only because it was the first book that came to their mind. ...So, what's a good starting point for James Patterson? there isn't one. the dude's a world class hack. read anyone else.
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Nov 12, 2019 16:39
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chernobyl kinsman posted:there isn't one. the dude's a world class hack. read anyone else. I agree with CK. Patterson's work tends to be engaging, but horrible. From what I understand they're largely churned out by a sweatshop of co-authors that he slaps his name on. That being said, one of the reading challenges a couple years ago was to read a piece of airport fiction. I'd settled on Patterson's Zoo, before ultimately going with something else (another Patterson book that I can't honestly recall the name of). So maybe that one?
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I saw a good tweet about that the other day. Something along the lines of, "If you dismiss YA lit you'll get people mad that you're dismissing thousands of teen girls. If you say YA is lit for teen girls they'll get even angrier."
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Nov 16, 2019 16:26
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Where can I see their remorse? Does it include the one who compared a college student to that rapist gymnastics doctor?
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Mrenda posted:I saw a good tweet about that the other day. Something along the lines of, "If you dismiss YA lit you'll get people mad that you're dismissing thousands of teen girls. If you say YA is lit for teen girls they'll get even angrier."
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fauna posted:when i was a teen girl people used to tell me i could only write ya because teen girls are incapable of writing a protagonist other than themselves and you can imagine how angry that made me The same is true of white men, though.
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Nov 17, 2019 03:11
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Mrenda posted:I saw a good tweet about that the other day. Something along the lines of, "If you dismiss YA lit you'll get people mad that you're dismissing thousands of teen girls. If you say YA is lit for teen girls they'll get even angrier." Lol
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fauna posted:when i was a teen girl people used to tell me i could only write ya because teen girls are incapable of writing a protagonist other than themselves and you can imagine how angry that made me Antifa Turkeesian posted:The same is true of white men, though. zadie smith had a good article about this last month
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Nov 19, 2019 07:25
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Safety Biscuits posted:I've just posted this year's Secret Santa thread. Come over to https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3903265 and sign up! If you're interested in this, please decide quickly whether or not you want to take part. Signups close in about 24 hours!
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Nov 19, 2019 14:31
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I got called pretentious today, because my desk at work has a few books on it, mostly from Vonnegut (who writes at, what, a 6th grade reading level?) and now I'm gonna just buy Actual Pretentious books to fill out the space because gently caress that guy. What are the most pretentious books?
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Nov 20, 2019 18:30
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Nov 20, 2019 18:32
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Quad posted:I got called pretentious today, because my desk at work has a few books on it, mostly from Vonnegut (who writes at, what, a 6th grade reading level?) and now I'm gonna just buy Actual Pretentious books to fill out the space because gently caress that guy. all six volumes of Knausgaard's My Struggle or get a copy of Cyclonopedia and convince him you're slightly unhinged
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Nov 20, 2019 18:36
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Quad posted:6th grade reading level What the gently caress is this poo poo anyway.
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Nov 20, 2019 18:38
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MockingQuantum posted:all six volumes of Knausgaard's My Struggle From what I've read of Cyclonopedia I'm not actually sure it's a coherent read
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Nov 20, 2019 18:42
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Quad posted:I got called pretentious today, because my desk at work has a few books on it, mostly from Vonnegut (who writes at, what, a 6th grade reading level?) and now I'm gonna just buy Actual Pretentious books to fill out the space because gently caress that guy. Finnegan's Wake. Annotated version.
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Nov 20, 2019 18:46
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regulargonzalez posted:Finnegan's Wake. Annotated version. you are MEAN hahahaahaha
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Quad posted:I got called pretentious today, because my desk at work has a few books on it, mostly from Vonnegut (who writes at, what, a 6th grade reading level?) and now I'm gonna just buy Actual Pretentious books to fill out the space because gently caress that guy. Infinite Jest has to be there.
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Nov 20, 2019 19:02
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gonna pwn a dumbass who totally exist by thinking like a dumbass (ie that literature is pretentious)
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MockingQuantum posted:all six volumes of Knausgaard's My Struggle cyclonopedia is 100% correct and if you cant see that maybe youre unhinged
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Nov 20, 2019 19:21
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StrixNebulosa posted:From what I've read of Cyclonopedia I'm not actually sure it's a coherent read pretty sure this guys an idiot so that should give you an idea of how good cyclonopedia is (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Nov 20, 2019 19:23
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Quad posted:I got called pretentious today, because my desk at work has a few books on it, mostly from Vonnegut (who writes at, what, a 6th grade reading level?) and now I'm gonna just buy Actual Pretentious books to fill out the space because gently caress that guy. Name of the Rose
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Nov 20, 2019 20:47
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Quad posted:I got called pretentious today, because my desk at work has a few books on it, mostly from Vonnegut (who writes at, what, a 6th grade reading level?) and now I'm gonna just buy Actual Pretentious books to fill out the space because gently caress that guy. A complete set of Remembrance of Things Past.
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Selachian posted:A complete set of Remembrance of Things Past. I see you haven't actually read it
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Nov 20, 2019 22:44
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Harry Potter imo
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ulvir posted:gonna pwn a dumbass who totally exist by thinking like a dumbass (ie that literature is pretentious)
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Nov 21, 2019 00:12
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all the books being recommended are just good ones. an actual pretentious book would be like all that pseudo literary american crapola that mel mudkiper reads.
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A human heart posted:all the books being recommended are just good ones. an actual pretentious book would be like all that pseudo literary american crapola that mel mudkiper reads. Yeah stack your desk with Aquarium, Swamplandia, and Snow Child
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It's mostly just that I hate this person and this is a passive-aggressive way of pufferfishing so that he'll leave me alone. It's buying into his idea that any interests other than Disney+ and Coca-Cola make one a 'hipster'. I'm too insecure to tell him to gently caress off. And yeah, we read Vonnegut in like 8th grade. I love his work but calling it 'pretentious' is just insane since it's not difficult at all to read and he draws buttholes in the books. He's using that term as shorthand for "things I don't enjoy" and it's obnoxious. So am I probably though. Off the bat the only books I could really call 'pretentious' would be, I dunno, Battlefield Earth? In that they're obviously written by a hack who DEFINITELY thought they were some of the best things ever written. Quad fucked around with this message at 05:13 on Nov 21, 2019 |
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Nov 21, 2019 05:08
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Does it have to be fiction? Get a copy of Strunk & White. Get a set of encyclopedia volumes and rotate through them like you're reading the whole thing. Get literally anything thick and intimidating in a foreign language.
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Nov 21, 2019 05:14
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Thus Spake Zarathustra certainly belongs there. Also give Babyfucker a try too.
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the only book that belongs in any workplace is the king james bible. i will pray for you
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Seconding babyfucker
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fauna posted:the only book that belongs in any workplace is the king james bible. i will pray for you Actually the applicable work condition agreement has to be present and freely available at every workplace 
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