The DPRK posted:whats the skinny on infinite jest? good book? i get the impressions its difficult and pretentious and overly sentimental, which are all things i enjoy The good bits are really good and there are enough of them to make it worth reading |
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Aug 18, 2020 01:38
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The DPRK posted:whats the skinny on infinite jest? good book? i get the impressions its difficult and pretentious and overly sentimental, which are all things i enjoy what's difficult about it is the length, really. it's definitely kind of pretentious. the sentimentality is very much a rejection of ironic detachment. the text makes you just kind of sit with these bad feelings and acknowledge them. one thing I like about it (although this is a lot of why people think it's pretentious) is that the plot mirrors the structure of the book and the difficulties in reading it. use two bookmarks, one for the main text and one for the endnotes.
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Aug 18, 2020 03:15
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the good thing about reading infinite jest in a pandemic is that you don't have to feel self-conscious reading it in public
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Aug 18, 2020 03:15
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finding an even bigger book to put infinite jest in to read it in public
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Aug 18, 2020 03:17
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i'm going to read infinite jest |
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Aug 18, 2020 12:02
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u ever just stop & think sometimes like drat... hteres so many books
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Aug 18, 2020 23:37
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beer pal posted:u ever just stop & think sometimes like drat... hteres so many books yep I get overwhelmed and it's why I can't read ebooks because I'll have a bajillion started and never finish them |
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Aug 18, 2020 23:42
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beer pal posted:u ever just stop & think sometimes like drat... hteres so many books Whenever I venture into my study 
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Aug 18, 2020 23:50
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beer pal posted:u ever just stop & think sometimes like drat... hteres so many books yes. I would say this is in my tiop 20 thoughts that i have most frequently ---------------- |
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Aug 18, 2020 23:52
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beer pal posted:u ever just stop & think sometimes like drat... hteres so many books and the thought usually ends with something like 'and I must read them all'. |
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Aug 19, 2020 03:47
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I'm reading strange hotel atm and its really good. she has a real phenomenological way of describing her being which is really intriguing, and the story is both unsettling and deeply drawing at the same time |
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Aug 19, 2020 11:02
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blindness was really good. i liked the writing style, sometimes i would go several pages without realizing it was all without a paragraph break. the dialogue all separated only by a capital letter after a comma, the whole book felt very fast paced now im reading don quixote, often called the infinite jest of the early 17th century https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png |
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Aug 19, 2020 17:51
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beer pal posted:often called the infinite jest of the early 17th century Kidding's me? 
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Aug 19, 2020 18:14
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i haven't come closer to ever finishing don quixote but it owns and I dunno anything about Infinite Jest, but I reflexively am offended by the comparison
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Aug 19, 2020 18:18
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its fun to joke around 
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Aug 19, 2020 18:19
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beer pal posted:its fun to joke around Jesting, infinitely. |
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Aug 19, 2020 18:35
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Jesting, infinitely. BYOB: Jesting, infinitely
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Aug 19, 2020 18:57
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beer pal posted:blindness was really good. i liked the writing style, sometimes i would go several pages without realizing it was all without a paragraph break. the dialogue all separated only by a capital letter after a comma, the whole book felt very fast paced saramago is great, you should also read Cain and The year of the death of ricardo reis |
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Aug 19, 2020 18:58
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would love to read more by him, i'll add those to my list. is the blindness sequel any good?
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Aug 19, 2020 19:07
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I really enjoyed History of the Seige of London, if we are talking about Saramago. Blindness is actually my least favorite because it's so freakin dire. The other stuff I've read from him has more levity and I appreciate that. If I want to get depressed by a Portuguese genius, I will just reread The Book of Disquiet.
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Aug 19, 2020 19:21
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the first half was so grim that once they got out of the hospital it seemed downright hopeful by contrast even while there were piles of poo poo & dead bodies all over the place
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Aug 19, 2020 19:32
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cda posted:If I want to get depressed by a Portuguese genius, I will just reread The Book of Disquiet. I relate to that book a little too much. It's probably the best writing on loneliness and being alone I've ever read
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Aug 19, 2020 21:14
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magic cactus posted:I relate to that book a little too much. It's probably the best writing on loneliness and being alone I've ever read Ditto. ---------------- |
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Aug 19, 2020 22:15
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I read it back when I was rather depressed several years ago, and it was strangely comforting in a weird way, maybe because it sort of hit the same notes that sad songs do when you’re a teenager? |
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Aug 19, 2020 22:23
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ulvir posted:I read it back when I was rather depressed several years ago, and it was strangely comforting in a weird way, maybe because it sort of hit the same notes that sad songs do when you’re a teenager? yeah there really is something strangely comforting about that book that i can't quite put into words. the first time i read it i had to pause for a bit because it felt like i was reading my own thoughts down to the random speculating about metaphysics.
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Aug 19, 2020 23:44
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I'm about half-way into a book called El Inocente and if the main character turns out to be innocent I'll be quite mad at the author for spoiling he own book. Also here's a picture of the book because I think the cover is a cool style:
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Aug 21, 2020 08:25
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after I finished true detective season one I got a ligotti collection and I really liked one of three stories I have read so far but I hear his best stuff is grimscribe and that’s the back half of the book
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Aug 21, 2020 12:41
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I'm about half-way into a book called El Inocente and if the main character turns out to be innocent I'll be quite mad at the author for spoiling he own book. Also here's a picture of the book because I think the cover is a cool style: its p rad. i cant remember what i posted here last but im reading last winter we parted by fuminori nakamura cuz i like his books and really like cultx ---------------- |
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Aug 21, 2020 15:02
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Since the spaceship thread is in TGO right now, this book fits: A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold |
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Aug 21, 2020 18:10
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khysanth posted:A Sand County Almanac Isn't that just dune?
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Aug 21, 2020 18:24
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the windmill thing happens very early and only takes like one page. u know seeing as thats the only thing that i know about the plot of don quixote i kind of expected the fight against the windmills to be like the climactic event in the story lol but it took longer for the priest guy to choose which of don quixote's nerdy knight books to burn & which to keep than the whole windmill sequence
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Aug 21, 2020 18:36
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While waiting for half price books to get me annihilation (sorry guy who suggested starting w a different Vandermeer book but it looked cool and I'm a sucker for 'zones') I read the anarchist expropriators which is a cool little book about anarchists doing crime in Argentina. I'm also reading a book full of 19th century essays about the origin of ballooning because I'm going to run an RPG about a balloon expedition. Teatro grotesco was good but that's the only ligotti I read that guy fuckin hates puppets |
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Aug 22, 2020 22:49
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i really like infinite jest, pals |
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Aug 24, 2020 11:04
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I have begun reading Moby Dick, the novel
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Aug 24, 2020 18:18
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nut posted:I have begun reading Moby Dick, the novel hell yeah, it is the best ---------------- |
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Aug 24, 2020 18:29
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cda posted:hell yeah, it is the best it is not only awesome, but infinitely more readable than I was led to believe. I can see how people would find it long and annoying, but if you love people that infinitely ruminating about everything, it is so funny.
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Aug 24, 2020 18:33
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i found it a bit difficult at times in that with the short chapters that sometimes hop around discontinuously so i couldnt build up like a reading momentum if you know what i mean (actually had a bit of that same in early parts of don quixote too, he kind of hops around from one farce to another for a while) but it is very funny & good. a nice thing is that i actually somehow didnt know if he gets the whale in the end or not so there was some real tension for me in the last chapters
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Aug 24, 2020 18:44
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cda is the audio book of jr by william gaddis you liked the one on audible narrated by nick sullivan? (idk if there are multiple out there or not)
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Aug 24, 2020 18:47
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I just started Lake of Urine, and it's completely absurd. In the first 20 pages or so there's already a dog fitted in scuba gear being sunk to the bottom of a lake to measure how deep it is. After the guy already measured the length of winter |
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Aug 25, 2020 15:05
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beer pal posted:cda is the audio book of jr by william gaddis you liked the one on audible narrated by nick sullivan? (idk if there are multiple out there or not) yep that's the one. just as a heads up though, i personally like letting language wash over me and do not find a little disorientation to be unpleasant so i approach audiobooks more like listening to music where youre not sitting there trying to hear every single lyric the first time through, you're just having an experience ---------------- |
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Aug 25, 2020 15:10
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