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Ras Het posted:I'm reading Vargas Llosa's war at the end of the world and its sooo much fun im totally addicted, feels good to read a fast-paced soap opera novel every now and then I'm reading the count of monte cristo and it's also a pageturner.
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david crosby posted:Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter is like that too, a real pageturner. They are very different books though
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A human heart posted:I'm reading the count of monte cristo and it's also a pageturner. I love that book so much. It's just a fun dumb revenge adventure really but it gets it so right
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Jul 19, 2016 04:09
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It's batman for lit majors
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Jul 19, 2016 05:06
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I think you mean Batman is the Count of Monte Cristo for children
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idk Monte-Cristo doesn't really get to the punchline fast enough for the wish-fulfillment revenge set, they probably want Prisoner of Zenda or something.
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if you guys want another short book from Asia about a woman turning into a tree to escape, check out Shahrnush Parsipur's Women Without Men. a lot more surreal at times than The Vegetarian, but in a cool way. some characters are drawn very realistically while others are completely symbolical and there are separate stories that join together in the end, if you're into that. the author got thrown in prison for the book, so you can probably check that off a book reading challenge somewhere. reccommended! from goodread reviews: Kavita rated it did not like it Shelves: wtf, around-the-world, author-on-lsd Don't ask me what it all meant. I can only assume the author was on drugs. Can't even understand why this book got banned in the first place. Maybe they don't want women becoming trees or going up in smoke or whatever.
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That sounds like the kind of review that people give The Blind Owl when they don't like it, therefore I am going to read that book.
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sounds pretty interesting. I've also wanted to read more middle-east authors for a while now
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CestMoi posted:That sounds like the kind of review that people give The Blind Owl when they don't like it, therefore I am going to read that book. This one is much more transparent than the blind owl, much clearer, I guess you could say? The surreal bits simply give it more interesting taste instead of getting you pleasantly (?) lost in the opium dream.
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Burning Rain posted:if you guys want another short book from Asia about a woman turning into a tree to escape, check out Shahrnush Parsipur's Women Without Men. a lot more surreal at times than The Vegetarian, but in a cool way. some characters are drawn very realistically while others are completely symbolical and there are separate stories that join together in the end, if you're into that. the author got thrown in prison for the book, so you can probably check that off a book reading challenge somewhere. reccommended! Goddammit, I was going to post specifically about this but forgot. There goes my one decent post ITT for the year (actually I think it was someone in here who recommended the book in the first place, it might have even been you)
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Finished The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea two minutes ago. I think the boys are the vehicle for Mishima's own ideas about death/beauty but they come off as very immature which is interesting. Mishima makes men sound really sexy. It was probably a good show of restraint to end it where he did but I really wanted another sequence as electrifying as the kitten part. The book never topped the sex scene leading into that part imo. Definitely gonna read more Mishima. I finished Zone on my plane ride and I'm glad I read it but gently caress was it exhausting. It was all good but there's no one part of it that really stood out from the rest. Like the details of which atrocity history, literature reference and Serbian war memory get mentioned on a page change, but the mixture of those things is always the same. The exception is the descriptions of Francis' failing relationships with Stephanie and Maria; especially Stephanie and the Zastava. That's where I got most in touch with his character and how damaged he was.  This Boccioni painting should have been the cover and not that boring vector piece of crap. Somehow Ezra Pound's time in Italy and imprisonment never got brought up in my lit classes so that was informative. I got pretty far into my GR reread too and I don't know how I misread Franz's part so badly the first time. Must have read it during finals. Now that I'm not struggling so hard to comprehend the style and the big picture the little details blow my mind. Like Katje's early bit about Jews being another currency in the war economy, or one of the Psi Section people saying in the wake of Hitler great projects take over from great leaders, or how incredible the whole champagne drinking game > phantoms hanging in the otherworld sunset > penis he thought was his own sequence was.
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Jul 19, 2016 21:59
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rest his guts posted:I've been getting into early 20th pre WWI American lit and am wondering if anyone has suggestions? Just finished Jack London's The Iron Heel (1908) is a badass account of a failed socialist revolution written from the perspective of the widow of the main revolutionary.
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Jul 19, 2016 23:29
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DisDisDis posted:I finished Zone on my plane ride and I'm glad I read it but gently caress was it exhausting. It was all good but there's no one part of it that really stood out from the rest. Like the details of which atrocity history, literature reference and Serbian war memory get mentioned on a page change, but the mixture of those things is always the same. The exception is the descriptions of Francis' failing relationships with Stephanie and Maria; especially Stephanie and the Zastava. That's where I got most in touch with his character and how damaged he was.
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Jul 20, 2016 01:33
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A human heart posted:It was really good even though it's not actually one sentence Yeah I liked it a lot. It was like, 22 sentences and 2 period safe spaces. It was impressive how little I noticed it actually.
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Jul 20, 2016 03:48
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Why are there suddenly so many anime avatars in this thread, I can't read your posts because I'm distracted by this
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Jul 20, 2016 17:58
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my favourite anime is bobs burgers
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Jul 20, 2016 18:09
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mallamp posted:Why are there suddenly so many anime avatars in this thread, I can't read your posts because I'm distracted by this why they all that one girl with cat ears
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Jul 20, 2016 18:38
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Computer give me least useful descriptor for an anime character everEnd Of Worlds posted:why they all that one girl with cat ears thank you computer
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Jul 20, 2016 18:49
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End Of Worlds posted:why they all that one girl with cat ears They're horns, she's an alien oni
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Jul 20, 2016 19:28
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Also, it seems none of you are from South America or Italy
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Jul 20, 2016 19:29
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I lived in Italy for two years
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Jul 20, 2016 19:30
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I lived in Italy for two weeks.
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Jul 20, 2016 20:24
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I'm going to Italy in just over two weeks
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Jul 20, 2016 22:10
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Italy is shaped like a boot
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Jul 20, 2016 22:11
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If a random guy in a parking lot or even on the street tells you to pay him to park, pay him. Otherwise your car will get broken in to
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Jul 20, 2016 22:12
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Learn "I don't need help, but thank you" in Italian and say it to anyone who gets near you in a train station when buying a ticket. They try to "help" tourists order a ticket for money, and will gently caress you up if you don't. Ask everyone you meet what their favorite Umberto Eco/Italo Calvino book is so they will look confused and ask you "Who is that?" before they tell you how much they love Dan Brown.
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Jul 20, 2016 22:23
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An even better tip: look poor
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Jul 20, 2016 22:26
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blue squares posted:If a random guy in a parking lot or even on the street tells you to pay him to park, pay him. Otherwise your car will get broken in to I don't have a car mate
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Jul 21, 2016 01:23
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A human heart posted:I don't have a car mate I don't have a car, mate I don't, have a car mate I don't. Have a car? Mate.
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I've watched at least 50 Italian football games, they were more entertaining than Calvino But what is it about Japanese cartoons, why don't you watch Italian cartoons like this masterpiece http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0330994/ mallamp fucked around with this message at 16:27 on Jul 21, 2016 |
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Jul 21, 2016 16:25
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Oh my god I have no attention span and can't finish any loving books. Like My Beautiful Friend. So instead I'm reading Station Eleven which is really good and a twist on what was once my favorite genre
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Jul 21, 2016 17:45
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This is what happens when you stop reading books to binge watch movies, blue squares. Have you tried reading Richard Farina yet?
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i really enjoyed Station Eleven but found it kind of emblematic of the modern MFA novel: hyper-polished, very well-crafted technically, but lacking much real bite and ultimately sort of forgettable. St John Mandel's prose is lovely though.
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Jul 21, 2016 18:02
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blue squares posted:Oh my god I have no attention span and can't finish any loving books. Like My Beautiful Friend. So instead I'm reading Station Eleven which is really good and a twist on what was once my favorite genre Station Eleven is awesome, read it earlier this year. Enjoy!
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Jul 21, 2016 18:03
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Apocalyptic fiction is one of my least favorite genres but at least station eleven tried to go in a sort of optimistic direction instead of the traditional survivalist porn. See: Far North, Dog Stars
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Jul 21, 2016 18:05
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I loved it as a teenager.
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Jul 21, 2016 18:12
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I disagree with the fundamental assumption of most post apocalyptic fiction and find it to be generally ahistorical
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Jul 21, 2016 18:15
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M-O-O-N, that spells I disagree with the fundamental assumptions
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blue squares posted:M-O-O-N, that spells I disagree with the fundamental assumptions lol this character literally just came up 1 minute ago on a podcast I'm listening to. Yeah, Mandel's interview about how she didn't think post-society humanity would be never ending rape gangs was a really solid point. It's one of the reasons I really liked the book.
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