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rest his guts posted:It turns out Pentti Linkola is fairly loving chill Well that's one way to look at it. (He was right about the Green League - now usually called just the Greens - though.)
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derp posted:I did find it very frustrating to read because Offred didn't do anything. She didn't even try and fail to do something. That doesn't make for a very good character imo. I don't think you've followed the thread title's advice much.
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surf rock posted:Are people still big on Hemingway? Maybe there's a reason he didn't have it published?
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e: oh nevermind
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He left out the best story, i.e. To Have and Have Not  
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Just don't read them lmao.
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More like Poopee Augh
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Rupi Kaur is the Dan Nainan (millennial comedian) of poetry. e: OK I actually read some of Kaur's poems and their main malfunction seems to be lack of an editor, as some of them are OK poems* but for every one of those there's ten that are piss. *) My standard is "does it make me grimace?" 3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 11:10 on Dec 26, 2019 |
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Seriouspost: Why are we talking about poetry in a thread that should be about REAL literature 
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WatermelonGun posted:you’ve only posted about rupi kaur and hemingway You've posted about gently caress-all because I have you on ignore 
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Quit being a loving child and read some horny literature.
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What's wrong with
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Oh no that must be horrible!
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nut posted:I have tried to read a lot of McSweeney's books in the past and even their monthly releases and there is a good thing here and there but it's so infrequent. Sounds like literally every publisher ever.
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gently caress I was trying to look through my bookcase but nothing noteworthy of history is in English. 
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Sham bam bamina! posted:I don't like it, but I think you would. More like Unfunite Pest. e: I checked if I'd read anything from this year and the newest books I've read are from 2018, and one of them is an A.A. Fair reprint 
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Jun 18, 2020 19:01
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Is there any real (modern) literature with wizards in it?
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Sham bam bamina! posted:The Once and Future King? Thinking about Le Morte d'Arthur was why I put in modern. But you're cheating!
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The North Tower posted:I forgot about chivalric romances for good fantasy. Roland killing 10k moors with a single blow, dynasty warriors-style. Should've concentrated on the Basques though.
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Lead out in cuffs posted:Melquíades in One Hundred Years of Solitude might qualify as a wizard? You know I read that a few years ago and I can't say I remember basically anything about the actual story, other than the fact that 75% of the characters had the same name. Now that you mentioned Melquíades I remember there was a guy but drat if I can remember if he did any magicking. I tend to forget most of the content of books I didn't like. (I liked La mala hora though.) thehoodie posted:Laurus by Eugene Vodolazkin? About a time travelling healer. I'll have to check that one out 
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What I get from this is only Anglophone white men count as white men. Anyway I got nine, five of which I inherited from my great aunt. AMA.
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nut posted:how horrible of a boyfriend was ur great aunt She was great Also a member of the book club.
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Mel Mudkiper posted:That list of books makes no goddamn sense I know; if I were an edgy Anglo writing something like that, I'd include Wodehouse.
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The North Tower posted:This reminds me of the movie Mystic Pizza, where Julia Roberts’ PORTUGUESE heritage is too much for the WASP family of her boyfriend. quote:an advisory committee, which includes a writer, two publishers, a literary agent, a bookseller, a librarian, and a chairperson Somehow I don't think it's at all about literary merit 
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Its really weird that a woman who is an absolute stereotype took the time to write an article about stereotypical white men It's weird that people ITT are talking about her.
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A human heart posted:World literature forum is ok iirc although it's an older crowd so they don't really get how irony and posting works. Does that mean it's not 99,99% people who only read anime and harry potter and complain about people who don't, like, uhh, some other place`?
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Mel Mudkiper posted:if anyone wants to ever to talk books I am on twitter as Mel_Mudkiper now if you excuse me I want to watch everything burn lol Ah yes Twitter, the web site with the OK owner cum operator.
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Mel Mudkiper posted:I make no moral justifications to where it post just people seem to wondering where to discuss books Well fortunately this was never the place anyway 
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Everyone register on BCG-Box.
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TrixRabbi posted:I'm currently in two book clubs; one is reading Infinite Jest, the other is reading Twilight. The dualities of man. What even are book clubs? I have like the faintest notion. (Apart from the kind of book club where they send you a John Grisham novel every month and you - get this - pay them lmao. Do those still exist?)
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I found the copy of Senor el Presidente by Asturias that I'd started and read some last night. Today I was amazed by how far I'd gotten, judging by where the bookmark was. Turns out it's not got a lot of pages, just really thick ones so it looks much longer than it is. I guess it's because of capitalism?
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Sophocles is is good, yeah. Also reminds me of when I spent like ten minutes figuring out whether Nick Smith should go under S or U and figured on the former so Sophocles ended up in good company:
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I never read computer video game novelizations.
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Sci-fi is a sub-genre of fantasy.
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A lot of authors are dead. Most, possibly.
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derp posted:all the ones i read are, anyway I'm slowly getting to where most of the books I read have a long ISBN. But they might still be dead.
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I read all of the book.
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Sham bam bamina! posted:"Lore" is an absolutely infuriating word for trivia. It's useful because then you know it's trivia about the fiction and thus can and should be skipped altogether, as opposed to actually interesting trivia about the book.
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ThePopeOfFun posted:You must always keep an eye out for fart jokes You develop a nose for them.
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I was really enjoying Borges until he switched to second gear and I tried to keep up for a bit, looking things up in other books, but then I just made like Atlas and read through without understanding almost anything. e: And I'm still not sure if he was just making it all up as he went Carthag Tuek posted:One thing I really dislike in genre fiction is when they put dramatis personae and vocabularies and all kinds of extraneous worldbuilding poo poo in the front or back matter. It's for speed-runners.
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