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I've been meaning to get to that. I like Calvino's work, but it still feels a bit style over substance to me though. Having read all of Invisible Cities and currently plugging away at Cosmiccomics. A little creative writing exercise esque
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Oct 17, 2023 17:29
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Yeah I'm mistaken about what second person means lol
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Gaius Marius posted:I've been meaning to get to that. I like Calvino's work, but it still feels a bit style over substance to me though. Having read all of Invisible Cities and currently plugging away at Cosmiccomics. A little creative writing exercise esque I love Invisible Cities, but If on a winter’s night a traveler is a bit more coherent of an actual narrative, while loving around with the style the entire time
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Oct 17, 2023 17:39
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style over substance any day baby
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Lex Neville posted:style over substance any day baby :100:
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just going to shamelessly bump this so it doesn't get lost on older pages.ulvir posted:anyway, you want to know another book in the second person? the moscoviad
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ulvir posted:just going to shamelessly bump this so it doesn't get lost on older pages. i remember seeing this cover and thinking 'man what a terrible cover, i'd never read this based on the cover' but now that im hearing about it multiple times ive added it to my list
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yeah, that cover design does not do it any justice at all. the norwegian translation has the same image
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Does anybody have a recommendation for a translation of War & Peace? I've noticed that lately there's been a bit of a Pevear and Volhonsky backlash in general, but I'm too much of a meathead to get a good sense of the issues with their translations.
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the Maudes’ translations is stellar, Briggs’ can also work, and I assume the latest, Maude revised by Mandelker should be pretty good as well
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i’ve heard rumours that Bolaño is worth reading
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ulvir posted:i’ve heard rumours that Bolaño is worth reading He's the Elmore Leonard of an age
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V. getting very detailed in recounting the process of nasal plastic surgery is truthfully the most grotesque I've seen a published novel get.
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FPyat posted:V. getting very detailed in recounting the process of nasal plastic surgery is truthfully the most grotesque I've seen a published novel get. American Psycho, but then again we do not in fact have to hand it to Bret Easton Ellis
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ulvir posted:i’ve heard rumours that Bolaño is worth reading i liked The Savage Detectives a lot, it's all over the place but it still manages to stick together.
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Oct 19, 2023 17:27
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Bolano is no Gardner.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Bolano is no Gardner. Well yeah he's a writer
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Gaius Marius posted:Well yeah he's a writer Ooooh 
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ulvir posted:i’ve heard rumours that Bolaño is worth reading I read 2666 over a couple graveyard shifts at a previous job and it absolutely slapped. Definitely peep it.
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bolano is top tier and everything i've read by him is awesome. 2666 and savage dicks definitely stand above but i also absolutely love nazi literature in the americas
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ulvir posted:i’ve heard rumours that Bolaño is worth reading No one ever talks about his book The Third Reich, but it's a very compelling kind of book. Odd duck...but there's something about the prose. Hypnotic.
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thehoodie posted:bolano is top tier and everything i've read by him is awesome. 2666 and savage dicks definitely stand above but i also absolutely love nazi literature in the americas oh yeah i got started reading nazi literature and it was clearly good but i think i wasnt in the mood for it then. i should get back on that
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ty for the confirmation, everyone I think i'll start with savage detectives just because the cover of the norwegian rerelease is baller 
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Crespolini posted:No one ever talks about his book The Third Reich, but it's a very compelling kind of book. Odd duck...but there's something about the prose. Hypnotic. Lol
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I regret to reveal that there is Pynchon filk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKgauv6CH0s
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I’m midway through Butcher’s Crossing. drat, it’s really good!
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Lobster Henry posted:I’m midway through Butcher’s Crossing. drat, it’s really good! drat, strong opinions on an intersection. Let us know when you get across.
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So I recently finished Big Bang by David Bowman and I'd like to know if anyone has recommendations for similarly formally tangential novels (it's hard to get across in synopsis, but I'm reminded of the structure of Breakfast Of Champions) or is familiar with his other work.
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I Before E posted:So I recently finished Big Bang by David Bowman and I'd like to know if anyone has recommendations for similarly formally tangential novels (it's hard to get across in synopsis, but I'm reminded of the structure of Breakfast Of Champions) or is familiar with his other work. Aaaand I've just made a note. Was it good?
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mdemone posted:Aaaand I've just made a note. Was it good? I'd certainly say so
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Gaius Marius posted:drat, strong opinions on an intersection. Let us know when you get across. I’m across, it’s over, Butcher’s Crossing is behind me. drat, it was really good! Someone at work is lending me Stoner and I’ve got my eye on Augustus too. I love a bit of historical fiction when it’s done well.
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im reading this book called bread and wine, its pretty good its about a (possibly former?) socialist who has to go into hiding by pretending to be a priest
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Just want to come in and reiterate that I'm thoroughly enjoying Doctor Faustus. Slow going because I'm trying to find appropriate music to listen to while reading which is difficult as someone whose classical music experience is limited almost entirely to Operas I've seen. The novel feels like The Leopard in the way Mann can quickly sketch a place, a physical location that people inhabit in such detail that the location becomes solidified in the mind. However the trickles of the supernatural hovering just beyond the edge of the frame and threatening to butt on raise the tension of the work in almost imperceptible ways. The occasional flashes into numismatic events, Adrian's captivation by Esmeralda, the destruction of the doctors he goes to cure him, the reoccurrence of his childhood into the modern world in signs and symbols recreating it, the occasional interruption of the creative genius of Leverkuhn with the apocalyptic visions of the end of WWII. It's fascinating and is actively working against many of my attempts to analyze it in a rote fashion. It's operating at a lot of levels, more than most works even great ones. Right after posting this I hit the chapter with Leverkuhn meeting the devil for the first time. It is absolutely melting my brain. Gaius Marius fucked around with this message at 01:25 on Oct 28, 2023 |
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Lobster Henry posted:I’m across, it’s over, Butcher’s Crossing is behind me. drat, it was really good! Butcher's Crossing and Stoner are both great – very different books though so hard to pick a favourite from the two. I still need to get around to Augustus.
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Butcher's Crossing was loving fantastic. I read it last month.
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Volcano posted:Butcher's Crossing and Stoner are both great – very different books though so hard to pick a favourite from the two. I still need to get around to Augustus. I can't recommend Augustus enough. And now I need to get to Stoner and Butcher's Crossing...
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