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Come to this thread for book recommendations of books that have pictures in them
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Absolutely, it's loving useless for anything else. [edit] I did get a few other recommendations too, I'm hoping "All the Birds, Singing", "Man Tiger" and "A Girl is a Half-formed Thing" also have pictures. Dead Goon fucked around with this message at 16:42 on Apr 30, 2016 |
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Apr 30, 2016 16:32
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blue squares posted:Come to this thread for book recommendations of books that have pictures in them I loving love picture books
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Apr 30, 2016 17:58
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blue squares posted:Come to this thread for book recommendations of books that have pictures in them The sigla in Finnegans Wake count don't they
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Apr 30, 2016 18:13
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everyone here should read Tibet: Through the Red Box by Peter Sis
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Apr 30, 2016 18:33
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Smoking Crow posted:everyone here should read Tibet: Through the Red Box by Peter Sis sure I'll get right on that
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Apr 30, 2016 19:28
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If you are reading something with pictures in it that isn't Playboy or WG Sebald book you're wasting your time though
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Apr 30, 2016 20:46
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mallamp posted:If you are reading something with pictures in it that isn't Playboy or WG Sebald book you're wasting your time though Playboy doesn't have nudity or cartoons or party jokes anymore so rip to that.
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Apr 30, 2016 21:47
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The Voynich Manuscript is top tier literature and it's got tons of pics. No, I'm not going to tell you how to decipher it, figuring it out is essential to the art of it.
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Apr 30, 2016 23:51
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my chronological read-through of all of hamsun's novels has shuddered to a halt with growth of the soil the book he wrote after that one is .so.underwhelming.
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May 1, 2016 02:06
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V. Illych L. posted:my chronological read-through of all of hamsun's novels has shuddered to a halt with growth of the soil He's a tough knut to crack
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May 1, 2016 05:12
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Vonnegut still holds up, and his books have plenty of naughty pics real pro tier would be learning german and reading Marianne Fritz's Die Festung: http://www.asymptotejournal.com/special-feature/adrian-west-on-marianne-fritz/ here's a sample page: 
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May 1, 2016 07:22
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I like it when authors add their own hand-drawn scribblings as inclusions in their books
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May 1, 2016 07:31
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Mel Mudkiper posted:He's a tough knut to crack Didn't you already make that joke Is the repetition another joke
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May 1, 2016 09:32
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WatermelonGun posted:Didn't you already make that joke Canknut help myself
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May 1, 2016 14:18
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Knut Hamsun feels like old mens literature, I've never been able to handle it, Hunger was ok I guess
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May 1, 2016 16:40
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Old men are win
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May 1, 2016 20:14
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try some of his earlier stuff, like Pan or Mysteries. a whole 'nother feel to them than Growth of the Soil, for example
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May 2, 2016 08:58
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Haven't posted here in a while but Voices from Chernobyl is amazing.
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May 2, 2016 13:09
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ulvir posted:try some of his earlier stuff, like Pan or Mysteries. a whole 'nother feel to them than Growth of the Soil, for example read everything up to and including growth of the soil women at the waterpost or w/e it's called in english has just stopped me dead though
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May 2, 2016 14:36
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Yall best get on that Mishima train when it rolls up into book club station
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May 2, 2016 14:38
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Finished Aquarium last night and while I enjoyed the pictures of fish, I found the pre-teen lesbians much more satisfying. Seriously, though, really enjoyed the book and it was very well written.
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May 2, 2016 15:08
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Dead Goon posted:Finished Aquarium last night and while I enjoyed the pictures of fish, I found the pre-teen lesbians much more satisfying. The David Vann Coalition grows
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May 2, 2016 15:31
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Smoking Crow posted:everyone here should read Tibet: Through the Red Box by Peter Sis Childhood me can confirm that it's extremely good. Wish I knew where it went but I've been thinking of picking up another copy.
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May 3, 2016 07:44
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started reading voices from chernobyl last night, and so far it seems pretty good. the way it's written makes it so that what you read makes a that much bigger impression on you. kind of like how ta-nehisi coates wrote BTWAM if you see what I'm getting at. she uses the strength of fiction to retell a factual story, which makes you have that much more empathy with the subject "speaking" through the text, than if you just read an objective description about the same events. ulvir fucked around with this message at 11:21 on May 3, 2016 |
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May 3, 2016 11:18
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ulvir posted:started reading voices from chernobyl last night, and so far it seems pretty good. the way it's written makes it so that what you read makes a that much bigger impression on you. kind of like how ta-nehisi coates wrote BTWAM if you see what I'm getting at. she uses the strength of fiction to retell a factual story, which makes you have that much more empathy with the subject "speaking" through the text, than if you just read an objective description about the same events. I ended up much preferring Zinky Boys to be honest. Voices never again seems to reach the same incredible pathos of that first story.
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May 3, 2016 17:47
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I started reading Richard Ford on one of my English professor's recommendation, beginning with one of his collections, Women With Men. The title emphasizes that each of the three stories really are about the women with the men, but everything is filtered through the men's perspective -- and they're each some combination of callow, callous, oblivious and self-absorbed. It's (rightfully) cutting, and the language is sharp and lean. Worth reading. I'm wondering whether I want to keep going. Slow-paced Americana isn't something I find particularly appealing, but if he's anywhere near this consistently incisive in the rest of his books, I definitely will. I'm also wondering to go to next who deals with the subject or subjects similar. I haven't read Men Without Women, mostly out of a vague distaste for The Old Man and the Sea -- should I?
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May 7, 2016 02:07
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just popping in to say that zero k isn't very good.
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May 8, 2016 19:15
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gently caress
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May 8, 2016 20:54
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Needs more K.
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May 8, 2016 21:02
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Mr. Squishy posted:Needs more K. Or zero of every other letter ( as in it shouldn't have been written )
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May 8, 2016 21:05
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WatermelonGun posted:just popping in to say that zero k isn't very good. I went into Chapters to buy The North Water and didn't realize Zero K. was out until I saw it on the shelf. It was 36$ and I feel terrible for anyone who bought it at that price.
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May 9, 2016 01:27
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ppl on goodreads should check out and join mookse & gripes forum: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/186163-the-mookse-and-the-gripes. it used to be one of the better lit forums on the web, but it was hosted on terrible freewebs poo poo or something, so I never joined. it's got a focus on recent translations and international prizes, but the general author chat and book chat sections all the way down to the bottom are cool, and it seems to be much more lively than worldliteratureforum.com
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May 9, 2016 07:10
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Reading Petals of Blood by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. Whoever said Kenyan lit was hype was right on. Just read a scene where African students at Cambridge organized a strike because the headmaster wanted them to bury his dead dog.. So great.
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May 9, 2016 08:12
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Burning Rain posted:ppl on goodreads should check out and join mookse & gripes forum: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/186163-the-mookse-and-the-gripes. it used to be one of the better lit forums on the web, but it was hosted on terrible freewebs poo poo or something, so I never joined. it's got a focus on recent translations and international prizes, but the general author chat and book chat sections all the way down to the bottom are cool, and it seems to be much more lively than worldliteratureforum.com ur period is fuckin up your link
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May 9, 2016 08:19
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^^ cheers m8 ^^thehoodie posted:Reading Petals of Blood by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. Whoever said Kenyan lit was hype was right on. Just read a scene where African students at Cambridge organized a strike because the headmaster wanted them to bury his dead dog.. So great. Yeah, Ngũgĩ is good, all should read A Grain of Wheat, and I should finally get to Weep Not, Child that I have on my shelf.
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May 9, 2016 09:10
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thehoodie posted:Reading Petals of Blood by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. Whoever said Kenyan lit was hype was right on. Just read a scene where African students at Cambridge organized a strike because the headmaster wanted them to bury his dead dog.. So great. There's a good part in that where a guy talks about how capitalism is a horrifying monster and that in former colonies like Kenya white capitalism was simply replaced with black capitalism when they got independence.
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May 9, 2016 10:36
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Burning Rain posted:^^ cheers m8 ^^ Yeah A Grain of Wheat is stellar, I might order another of his books now actually.
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May 10, 2016 00:40
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Man, I came in here to talk about ZERO K and then I realized everybody hates ZERO K. Last really great novel I read was WOLF IN WHITE VAN by John Darnielle, but I'm an obsessive Mountain Goats fan, so I'm kind of predisposed. Hopeful for ZERO K. DeLillo's my dude.
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thomas pynchon posted:Man, I came in here to talk about ZERO K and then I realized everybody hates ZERO K. YOU GET THE HELL OUT AND DONT COME BACK UNTIL YOU SENT A DRAFT TO THE PUBLISHER
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