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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:I love Pelevin, but Gogol is much funnier. Of the contemporary authors, Sorokin is pretty much hit and miss, but his The Blizzard is a very funny parody of classic Russian lit. That guy really hates Turgenev and it shows in the book. Oh sure, Kharms beats them all, I guess the battle is for the second place then. Dovlatov and Yerofeyev should be in the contest too. Haven't read Sorokin yet for some reason, although he's been on my radar for years.
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Burning Rain posted:is Gogol, Krzhizhanovsky or Pelevin the funniest Russian author? gogol has some extremely good bits but id go krzizhanovsky for lols and also making me think, about the lols
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the actual answer is venedikt erofeev tho
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ulvir posted:thomas bernhard Yes in particular is maybe the funniest joke I've ever heard
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Eugene V. Dubstep posted:No, I wouldn't call Solaris a comic novel. But The Futurological Congress, The Star Diaries, Fables for Robots, The Cyberiad? Sure. Not everything Beckett or Calvino wrote was hilarious, either. Hell, Swift wrote more sermons than anything else. memoirs found in a bathtub is the funniest lem
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My favorite story in The Star Diaries is the one where Tichy goes to a planet where people have modified their bodies so that pleasure and pain have become indistinguishable and people masturbate by entering automated torture chambers
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mdemone posted:I can understand the fear of missing out, though. It can make you feel inadequate (even though there's no reason to worry about being lit-inferior to James Fartin' Joyce). Pretty much exactly this. If I feel like I'm missing something essential, then I don't mind googling some stuff for extra context and making some notes about it. Depending on the book, I'll make a list of characters somewhere, or use one of the blank pages in the front or back of the book to make notes, write important page numbers down, etc. Sometimes a book is just intentionally obtuse for a reason. I was reading Morrison's Beloved, and there was a chapter where the events are rushed and muddled. I kept re-reading it trying to understand what was going on, before I said gently caress it and moved on. Turns out the subsequent chapters then retold the same events from different perspectives, filling in the weird gaps I didn't understand. Hell, even the beginning of that book is intentionally alienating, with a bunch of references to names and places that aren't really explained until you have half a book's worth of context. Pynchon's fun for that reason. You're in over your head just like the characters. Clarity isn't always important to enjoying the story. It helps, I guess. Shibawanko posted:My favorite story in The Star Diaries is the one where Tichy goes to a planet where people have modified their bodies so that pleasure and pain have become indistinguishable and people masturbate by entering automated torture chambers Oh poo poo, Lem wrote about this thread?
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chumskull posted:Yes in particular is maybe the funniest joke I've ever heard old masters has some of the funniest rants(about austrian toilets, art historians) and there's a punchline at the end!
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Revolting that people spent all afternoon posting about funny Russian authors and never once mentioned Ilf and Petrov. The Twelve Chairs needs to be a BOTM.
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A funny Russian book is Vladimir Voinovich's The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin.
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Revolting that people spent all afternoon posting about funny Russian authors and never once mentioned Ilf and Petrov. The Twelve Chairs needs to be a BOTM. One of the russian girls in work was telling me to read that when I mentioned I wanted to read Roadside Picnic
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Franchescanado posted:Oh poo poo, Lem wrote about this thread? Quit Being a loving Child and Become a Cenobite
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WatermelonGun posted:i forgot about the lonely londoners that book is really good, five past (i think that was his name) was a great character. Yeah, the scene at the end when they're partying was the scene I was specifically thinking of as far as funny, and that's five past's best scene
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Shibawanko posted:just read books because you enjoy the words.
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Nice text.
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imagine "enjoying" anything lol
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I think it's funny how Borges ends little character stories with a throwaway line like "by the way, he died three years later from rear end cancer" or something to that effect
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Sham bam bamina! posted:A funny Russian book is Vladimir Voinovich's The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin. It is! I learned a lot from it, like why horses never became humans and how to make manure vodka. And I should reread Twelve Chairs. I think I read it when I was like 12 and don't remember poo poo.
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Shibawanko posted:I think it's funny how Borges ends little character stories with a throwaway line like "by the way, he died three years later from rear end cancer" or something to that effect It's a good way to tie up loose ends
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Krankenstyle posted:It's a good way to tie up loose ends Editor: We have a little problem... Borges: ... Editor: Our mutual friend, he knows too much. Borges: We understand each other. Editor: This can never come back to us. Borges: I'll make it look like lung congestion.
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Nice text. Haha I guess I made someone mad
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It's not even red. Low effort.
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The Idiot was funny in that nothing really changes. Putting your dick in crazy is the same in 1869 as it is in 2019. Is it really worth it? 800 pages of nope. Dostoyevsky must have really been burned at some point in his life.
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Philthy posted:The Idiot was funny in that nothing really changes. Putting your dick in crazy is the same in 1869 as it is in 2019. Is it really worth it? I was gonna say how putting an axe in somebody hasn't changed much, either, but that's the wrong book.
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Philthy posted:The Idiot was funny in that nothing really changes. Putting your dick in crazy is the same in 1869 as it is in 2019. Is it really worth it? source ur quotes, can't tell if this is from reddit or goodreads
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Tree Goat posted:source ur quotes, can't tell if this is from reddit or goodreads SOMETHINGAWFUL.COM
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that being said, i finished flights (bought it at the airport and read it on the plane, even) and i liked it a great deal but it upset me that i had been to like, 2/3rds of the medical museums she was talking about
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Shibawanko posted:I think it's funny how Borges ends little character stories with a throwaway line like "by the way, he died three years later from rear end cancer" or something to that effect I haven’t read Borges in a few years but the way he did that in “Funes, The Memorious” was stunning. You have this incredible universal phenomenon, this boy who gains super-perception, that will never occur again, and he is ended in the most mundane way possible. The contrast between those two things was so haunting to me when I first read it.
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brace yourselves for this one this borges fellow... he’s good
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I want to learn to read Spanish for Bioy Casares' Borges which is a massive tome of diary entries concerning his friendship with Borges. Also, I ordered a Leonardo Sciascia, two Nanni Balestrini and two Malaparte as gifts to myself.
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Boatswain posted:I want to learn to read Spanish for Bioy Casares' Borges which is a massive tome of diary entries concerning his friendship with Borges. This reminds me, I’ve had Balestrini’s The Unseen on my shelf unread for years, I should probably read it. Which titles did you order?
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Have any of you nerds read Remainder by Thomas McCarthy and want to give a take? Basically, guy gets infinite money and tries to bring his memories into reality by hiring actors. This escalates right up to the end. I read it a few years ago and can't stop thinking about it. Prose-wise, it's pretty clinical, but that detached, unfeeling perspective works so well to reveal all the obsession. Edit: Here's the New York Times review ThePopeOfFun fucked around with this message at 20:00 on Dec 11, 2019 |
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is there a 'quit being a loving child and watch some real cinema' thread anywhere in these forums?
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derp posted:is there a 'quit being a loving child and watch some real cinema' thread anywhere in these forums? Yeah, we call it CineD. We have a Criterion thread, which is probably the closest you'll get. CineD has a much higher ratio of good poo poo vs genre poo poo, so a specific thread has never really been necessary, like TBB's need for a lit thread to keep out genre fic/sci-fi/fantasy nerds. You can DM me if you have an idea for a thread, though, or see something missing from CineD. Franchescanado fucked around with this message at 22:35 on Dec 11, 2019 |
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all movies are for babies
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quit being a loving child and play some real video games
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chernobyl kinsman posted:quit being a loving child and play some real video games would be the worst thread of all time
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WatermelonGun posted:would be the worst thread of all time Let me tell you about the sexual symbolism of the Mr. Saturn
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Hey idiots how about an open-world book with loot
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Easy enough to write.
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