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Dude are you still reading the warhammer book? Just stop lol
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Guy A. Person posted:Dude are you still reading the warhammer book? Just stop lol Chernobyl dared me and money is involved. A man doesnt back down.
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Nov 22, 2023 04:50
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Post the best bits
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Nov 22, 2023 05:56
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Gaius Marius posted:I read The Cantos and now I never want to see a piece of poetry again The sketches for the last incomplete Canto are more interesting than anything else in them https://www.adranda.co.uk/single-post/2016/12/12/the-cantos-notes-for-cxvii-et-seq-ezra-pound e: it's hard to find an author repudiating their life's work in as strong of terms as Pound does here. and shows some bitterly earned insight quote:M’amour, m’amour nice obelisk idiot fucked around with this message at 09:13 on Nov 22, 2023 |
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Nov 22, 2023 06:03
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derp posted:Post the best bits Of the book or the people getting mad at me about the book
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Nov 22, 2023 06:04
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both and by best i mean worst
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Nov 22, 2023 06:56
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derp posted:both its hard to describe this book because its not bad on a purely mechanical sense but more, in like, a holistic and aesthetic sense. Everything is just people going to places and having gun fights in the last 100 pages they have gone to five places and had five gunfights. It is the exact narrative pacing of a video game
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Nov 22, 2023 07:02
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nice obelisk idiot posted:"At seventy I realized that instead of being a lunatic, I was a moron." Yeah. Rock Drill was absolutely god awful. Took me months to get through, although I suppose it did get across his point. Getting to the incomplete Cantos was quite a bit nicer. It is unfortunate because I think there is a Wasteland sized amount of good work in there, but Pound didn't have a Pound to edit it well enough to cut all the boring nonsense from the occasional glimpses of brilliance.
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Nov 22, 2023 07:02
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https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3851808 There is a poetry thread, which could use some more activity. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4030264 The Chinese poetry thread in TSBF is also great.
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Nov 22, 2023 09:18
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There's a Warhammer shop in every major city but I've never seen a Gabriel Garcia Marquez one
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Nov 22, 2023 11:54
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Ras Het posted:There's a Warhammer shop in every major city but I've never seen a Gabriel Garcia Marquez one What collectable toys would you sell there that says "Love In The Time of Cholera" anyway?
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Nov 22, 2023 15:27
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Solitude is easy, a shaved ice machine that you can’t refer to by name but can only point to, fish shaped jewelry, the works
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Nov 22, 2023 15:53
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there's also a mcdonalds in every city so where is my 30 book series about the hamburgler
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Nov 22, 2023 17:00
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Still thinking about when the person said "this is stupid they only think ice is amazing because they never saw it before"
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Nov 22, 2023 17:00
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are you sure these people aren't trolling you lol
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Nov 22, 2023 17:03
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derp posted:are you sure these people aren't trolling you lol I wish they were
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Nov 22, 2023 18:57
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the cantos are good, even when they're bad
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Nov 22, 2023 19:04
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its weird because I have hosed off to a community where I try to be more positive and supportive of people but I also constantly have to deal with my desire to make fun of the warhammer person until they jump in front of a train
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Nov 22, 2023 19:09
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Mel Mudkiper posted:I wish they were Turns out all the blackjack and hookers over there had a downside, huh
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Nov 22, 2023 19:15
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Turns out all the blackjack and hookers over there had a downside, huh Hey I did get a part time gig as a comedy writer out of the deal so I cant complain too much
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Nov 22, 2023 19:17
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Mel Mudkiper posted:its weird because I have hosed off to a community where I try to be more positive and supportive of people but I also constantly have to deal with my desire to make fun of the warhammer person until they jump in front of a train 
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Nov 22, 2023 19:24
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Sorry. Anyways I'm taking a shot at Anna Karenina before getting back to the benighted state of 'being gainfully employed'. Just started.
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im reading de (lit. they, or possibly you) by Helle Helle, the prose is purposely flat and matter-of-factly, which I guess is the point since the POV is a teenager, so it kind of lampshades the impending drama of the mother turning more and more ill as the novel goes on
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Nov 22, 2023 22:25
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de's nutz!
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Nov 22, 2023 22:33
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Anal Karelnina.
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Nov 22, 2023 22:37
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nice obelisk idiot posted:Maybe they should issue revised classics in a transitions to lit type series... like Anna Karenina could be a badass elite bodyguard who wields dual chainswords on top of the intense humanistic character studies.
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Nov 22, 2023 23:50
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loving glad that trend seems to have died an ignoble death
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Nov 23, 2023 00:01
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538 pages good lord
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Nov 23, 2023 19:58
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Jeep posted:538 pages good lord
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Nov 23, 2023 20:15
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The same people did 'pride and prejudice and zombies' they are just gag gifts really and I highly doubt anyone has read one all the way through
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Nov 23, 2023 22:08
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derp posted:The same people did 'pride and prejudice and zombies' they are just gag gifts really and I highly doubt anyone has read one all the way through The sort of book I'd never buy, but I'd read it if I got it. Like a Philip Roth novel.
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Nov 23, 2023 22:38
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I have read the Pride and Prejudice one, my hope is that everyone who read it realized, “oh the actual P&P is good, I should just read good books instead”. The zombie parts were such poorly written and sloppily integrated trash.
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Nov 23, 2023 22:52
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To me the funny part was they got movies made
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Nov 23, 2023 23:06
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Anyone ever read any Penelope Fitzgerald? I just finished The Beginning of Spring and it was pretty great. It’s about an Englishman living in Moscow in 1913 who runs a printing press. One day his wife ups and disappears back to England without explanation. The book is about him trying to make sense of it, look after his children and get on with his life. It’s subtle, slyly funny, finely observed and has touches of mystery about it. I liked it a lot!
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Nov 24, 2023 14:53
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Tree Goat posted:https://x.com/prophethusband/status/1728118279745536269?s=46&t=KMMfueYvpy-W7VUWexdGpA i think i met this guy at a party in 2005
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Guy A. Person posted:I have read the Pride and Prejudice one, my hope is that everyone who read it realized, “oh the actual P&P is good, I should just read good books instead”. The zombie parts were such poorly written and sloppily integrated trash. There's a kung fu battle between Elizabeth Bennet and Darcy's aunt inserted into the scene where they meet, which does hang a lantern on how strange it is to have the aunt threaten Elizabeth and then just go away after Elizabeth accurately points out that old maids in the regency era can't do poo poo except wait to die and Darcy as an aristocrat has no checks on his fundamentally unlimited power. I don't think it's on purpose.
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Lobster Henry posted:Anyone ever read any Penelope Fitzgerald? I just finished The Beginning of Spring and it was pretty great. It’s about an Englishman living in Moscow in 1913 who runs a printing press. One day his wife ups and disappears back to England without explanation. The book is about him trying to make sense of it, look after his children and get on with his life. It’s subtle, slyly funny, finely observed and has touches of mystery about it. I liked it a lot!
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Sham bam bamina! posted:I read Offshore and ended up being disappointed by it, but I feel I'd like her last few novels more, including that one. The intro to my copy is like, “I absolutely love Penelope Fitzgerald, she’s the best, an unsung genius. Also I only like her last four books” Lobster Henry fucked around with this message at 16:49 on Nov 28, 2023 |
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Well Stoner was some contrived misery porn, but I enjoyed the more surreal parts of Mason & Dixon before being tethered again by the historical record. Pynchon remains an amazing stylist. One out of two isn't bad, thread.
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