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Reading is a such a bourgeois activity. You so-called "leftists" should be ashamed. Your bookshelves are nothing but monuments to idle leisure.
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Xaris posted:u can now close the book and burn it for warmth hell yeah i remember that part so it must be in the first 300 pages i also remember and still sometimes get disturbed when i think about when they gagged the guy and tied him to the chair but he had some chronic nasal allergies and couldnt breathe properly through his nose and died like that and sometimes when my allergies really get serious i imagine what it would be like if i couldnt breathe through my mouth and how loving terrible it would be to die like that
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Iron Crowned posted:pet that cat! U have no idea how many pets she and her brother get omg
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mormonpartyboat posted:the weird disconnected misery and anxiety of the front half is a kind of tension that's released during the final stretches where you drown in whitespace yea the story part was pretty good but the literal noise was completely off-putting like "oh now it's time for me to scan pages full of garbage in search of where more narrative can be found", like, no thanks
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Nov 14, 2019 20:58
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my high school had a copy of gravity's rainbow in the library and I was the only person to ever check it out it was cool because once my lit teacher saw me bring it in I never had to do any of the actual coursework again
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emfive posted:yea the story part was pretty good but the literal noise was completely off-putting and yet u read this thread
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Nov 14, 2019 20:59
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baw posted:hell yeah i remember that part so it must be in the first 300 pages I made it maybe 3/4 into IJ, and this also is the only part of reading it I remember in the slightest.
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Nov 14, 2019 21:00
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baw posted:how do i know where the good parts are Skip everything w/hal and you'll be fine probably
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Nov 14, 2019 21:00
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Just heard a loud bang outside and now the power is out. Wtf.
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sadly no one from the past could predict how much nothing would matter
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Nov 14, 2019 21:00
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My wife read Anna Karenina a year or two ago, it took her a while and her take-away was that it's about crazy rich idiots
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Nov 14, 2019 21:00
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emfive posted:yea the story part was pretty good but the literal noise was completely off-putting i dug it for that exact reason, like it was anxiety pushed on the reader through loving with the haptics of the medium rather than through ~tense writing~ i always took away from it a kind of distaste for academic analysis - you drown in citations and references only if you choose to let yourself worry about the details and chasing them down, and find relief only by saying none of that poo poo matters and just squeezing through the tiny square of narrative
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Nov 14, 2019 21:01
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baw posted:i dont wanna brag but 
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euphronius posted:and yet u read this thread touche
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emfive posted:wow the soundtrack on that loving rules yea it was fuckin me up that the video wasnt in slomo
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Nov 14, 2019 21:01
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emfive posted:Crying of Lot 49 is weird and funny The ending though. Something about the dog thinking that he's still in America kind of haunts me these days
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Nov 14, 2019 21:01
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I liked V by pynchon. It's a weird fever dream. I maintain that broom of thr system by wallace is a good book because it ends with a guy eating the universr iirc
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Nov 14, 2019 21:02
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mormonpartyboat posted:i dug it for that exact reason, like it was anxiety pushed on the reader through loving with the haptics of the medium rather than through ~tense writing~ Oh I'm sure it's fine, I just didn't get into it
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Nov 14, 2019 21:02
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BAE OF PIGS posted:Just heard a loud bang outside and now the power is out. Wtf. grats on your transformer dying
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Nov 14, 2019 21:02
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its about respect okay *gestures italianishly and gives 1 star rating*
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Nov 14, 2019 21:02
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I just finished re-reading all 8 of the Expanse books in anticipation of the series finale in the spring. I like them a lot, though it's definitely about time to wrap it up.
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Nov 14, 2019 21:02
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Nov 14, 2019 21:02
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baw posted:he's dead and gay, basically the perfect american its a little irrational considering his whole body of work but I always think about that essay he wrote where he tries to knock down the extreme masculine image of theodore roosevelt by 1) calling him a “sissy” because he was sickly as a child and 2) relating a story in which tr was rude to one of vidal’s horrible old money ancestors. also that time he called roman polanksis accuser a whore. real classy guy.
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Nov 14, 2019 21:03
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Good soup! posted:U have no idea how many pets she and her brother get omg not enough the answer is always not enough
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I love studying literary utopias because they are incredible windows into social criticism from eras long gone
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Hatebag posted:I liked V by pynchon. It's a weird fever dream. I maintain that broom of thr system by wallace is a good book because it ends with a guy eating the universr iirc Yea V is OK, though I've read it more-or-less twice and I'm still not sure I get what the point is. It's fun to read though.
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emfive posted:Oh I'm sure it's fine, I just didn't get into it oh i get that im just talking about it because i thought thats what people do about things
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Nov 14, 2019 21:03
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Good soup! posted:U have no idea how many pets she and her brother get omg They need more!
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Lastgirl posted:its about respect okay *gestures italianishly and gives 1 star rating* eyy let's get-a da cumshitta in here to poop-a da spermaceti
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Nov 14, 2019 21:04
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For instance technological utopias of the late 1800s like Bellamy's Looking Backward or the dystopian short story "The Machine Stops" by A.M. Forester are pretty cool
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Nov 14, 2019 21:04
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farting on every pillow in a trump hotel to give the guests pinkeye
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A really good big old book that nobody (well, non-lit majors at least) reads nowadays is Middlemarch. It's one of those huge daunting books that you steel yourself to start, and then about 10 pages in you're feeling pangs of regret that it will at some point come to an end.
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Also, I chose this as my AIM handle after reading Brave New World in middle school, and it took me another 10 years to realize "unlimited, consequence-free sex and drugs" was supposed to be a bad thing in the book.
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Nov 14, 2019 21:05
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Huh I guess I was right, it IS hard to shoot yourself in the head with an ar-15 https://twitter.com/TomNamako/status/1195065497072615435?s=19
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Nov 14, 2019 21:06
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if book writers are so smart how come they didnt make tv shows?
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Kilmers Elbow posted:imagine a library - in the palm of your hand the books would be really tiny?
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https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1195069967022071812?s=19 loving Steyer buying a spot while Castro gets forced out goddammit
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