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Mel Mudkiper posted:The corrections remains really good in a way that feels almost like a cosmic joke God drat it Mel, I do not need this right now
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People who are really annoying hacks can still write great books, like Blood Meridian
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cumpantry posted:u liked? yes. the prose was pretty fantastic.
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mdemone posted:I can smell Jonathan Franzen talk, and I just want to say right now that I won't have it. lmao i was gonna say
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Mel Mudkiper posted:The corrections remains really good in a way that feels almost like a cosmic joke its a very frustrating book because everyone is unlikeable in different ways, and the ways theyre unlikeable changes constantly based on viewpoint. so i think franzen did accomplish something awfully compelling there except the lesbian sister who left that lovely family to become a cook and we only kinda hear about her in one chapter iirc. everyone else though, ugh
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thehoodie posted:Just finished journey round my skull by frigyes karinthy. His autobiographical account of discovering he has a brain tumor and the process of its removal. Mostly he is in a state of bewilderment. Very funny his son ferenc wrote a book called epepe that is about a guy getting on the wrong flight and arriving in a country where no one speaks any language he knows and it's all a horrible nightmare, it's very good and also funny
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CestMoi posted:his son ferenc wrote a book called epepe that is about a guy getting on the wrong flight and arriving in a country where no one speaks any language he knows and it's all a horrible nightmare, it's very good and also funny i loved that, it felt very real to me, but at the same time dreamlike and nighmarish as you say. but mostly it felt real one of the best details imo is that hes an interpreter or something like that, so he spends a lot of time trying to make sense of the language, like a normal person would do. but its not a skill issue lol
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It seems this novel was published as Metropole in English. Might pick up a copy
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sigh, another two hungarians on my to read pile. thanks 
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joking aside, korinthy jr. and sr. both sound great
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Bought the last of Fosse's Septology and also a Becky Chambers' first book this week. The clerk at the bookshop didn't say anything about my choices. Just asked if I wanted a bag. If she's not going to comment on, at the least, my wide literary tastes and willingness to engage with all forms of fiction then I shall be reconsidering where I conduct my purchases.
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they're probably already used to people getting really strange combinations of books I am always pleased if the clerk of a Proper Bookstore comments "oh, that's a really good book!" to one of my purchases though
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Carthag Tuek posted:i loved that, it felt very real to me, but at the same time dreamlike and nighmarish as you say. but mostly it felt real it really earns the dissolution of his psyche
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When I bought Orlando the clerk said, “catching up your high school reading?”
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lifg posted:When I bought Orlando the clerk said, “catching up your high school reading?” When I bought a Mary Berry cooking book the clerk said something along the lines of, "It's a good place to start. You'll start to learn with that." Or similar. I said something along the lines of, "It's a present. And some people work serious jobs where they don't have time or energy to engage with making house." But I was more polite.
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Mrenda posted:I said something along the lines of, "It's a present. And some people work serious jobs where they don't have time or energy to engage with making house." But I was more polite. Insanely lame answer
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Ras Het posted:Insanely lame answer It was truth, so therefore beautiful.
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Reading Kathy Acker's Blood and Guts in High School. Featuring her drawings of dicks and vaginas on every 3rd page. Good stuff
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finally started The man without qualities book owns, I also enjoy that it actually has chapters, and that they're short enough for commute reading. chapter 8 has so far my most favourite description of early 1900s city life so far, just stellar
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Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz is my top choice for that Of my last few reads, Isabel Waidner's Sterling Karat Gold is probably my favourite, an angry surrealist lgbt+ trip thru the 21st century London.
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i have him on my radar again since there was recently a new translation of reise in polen. I really want to read that and berlin, alexanderplatz hopefully within this year
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Burning Rain posted:Of my last few reads, Isabel Waidner's Sterling Karat Gold is probably my favourite, an angry surrealist lgbt+ trip thru the 21st century London. Was interested in that but I don't think I could source it without paying silly money for a book and she seemed kinda aggro.
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Mrenda posted:When I bought a Mary Berry cooking book the clerk said something along the lines of, "It's a good place to start. You'll start to learn with that." Or similar. I would've said "NO YOU SHUT THE gently caress UP DAD!"
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Carthag Tuek posted:its a very frustrating book because everyone is unlikeable in different ways, and the ways theyre unlikeable changes constantly based on viewpoint. so i think franzen did accomplish something awfully compelling there I still love how an entire characters arc is trying to make Philadelphia cool, which is like, the most effete New York Liberal perspective possible. Philadelphia is an insane sports town which anarcho-vegans, its already cool
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im somewhat curious of two giant italian tomes. has anyone read The catholic school and M.: son of the century yet?
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Just finished Last Orders by Graham Swift and A Short Stay In Hell by Steven L. Peck and they were both pretty decent. Notably fewer eels than Waterland. I dunno if my view on Last Orders would be different if I had read As I Lay Dying as apparently they are pretty similar. I'm on to Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov now. Anyone else in here read this? I don't know if I've read any Bulgarian authors before so excited to branch out. It seems interesting so far.
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ulvir posted:im somewhat curious of two giant italian tomes. has anyone read The catholic school and M.: son of the century yet? M is good. Scurati uses this unusual technique where he fictionalizes actual historical events and follows that up by verbatim quotes of sources he used such as letters, newspaper articles and similar. I enjoyed it greatly, but my interest in the matter might be deeper than yours, since the historical events in the book directly affected my family history, and I already knew quite a bit about the events and characters featured in the book(s).
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that sounds both very similar to how Trieste was written, and also very much my jam
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Volcano posted:Just finished Last Orders by Graham Swift and A Short Stay In Hell by Steven L. Peck and they were both pretty decent. Notably fewer eels than Waterland. I dunno if my view on Last Orders would be different if I had read As I Lay Dying as apparently they are pretty similar. I keep meaning to read Last Orders. I wasnt the biggest fan of Waterland
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Mel Mudkiper posted:I keep meaning to read Last Orders. I definitely enjoyed Last Orders more than I did Waterland (which I didn't really like that much either) – possibly because a lot of the bereavement and grief stuff hit me hard due to dealing with that myself recently. I have seen a lot of people give it poo poo for Swift's attempts to write in a cor bloimey working-class South London vernacular, and I wouldn't really disagree with those complaints, but it worked alright for me.
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lol, the man without qualities had a chapter that said any lazy reader could skip past it
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Page 67 of Gravity's Rainbow: Pynchon has written a page waxing lyrical about crusty human feces, and it isn't even that scene that people talk about.
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Berg by Ann Quin ... thread would enjoy it. Good prose, cool artefact of 60s
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FPyat posted:Page 67 of Gravity's Rainbow: Pynchon has written a page waxing lyrical about crusty human feces, and it isn't even that scene that people talk about. There aren't even just two
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Mel Mudkiper posted:I still love how an entire characters arc is trying to make Philadelphia cool, which is like, the most effete New York Liberal perspective possible. Philadelphia is an insane sports town which anarcho-vegans, its already cool ive only been in philly once but it seemed about par for an american city to me, ie wouldnt wanna live there. so its very funny to me when people from philadelphia or new york are like "no my city is better", but i dont remember picking up on that when i read it (which tbf was in like 2005)
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lifg posted:When I bought Orlando the clerk said, “catching up your high school reading?” I graduated high school *ahem* years ago and I'm about to start my first reading of Crime and Punishment  (the Coulson translation)
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Carthag Tuek posted:ive only been in philly once but it seemed about par for an american city to me, ie wouldnt wanna live there. so its very funny to me when people from philadelphia or new york are like "no my city is better", but i dont remember picking up on that when i read it (which tbf was in like 2005) its very much a liverpool london comparison you might say
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Ive been to New York, phily, London and Liverpool I think they all suck
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