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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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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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Feb 18, 2024 19:57
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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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Feb 18, 2024 20:36
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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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Feb 20, 2024 12:51
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that sounds both very similar to how Trieste was written, and also very much my jam
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Feb 20, 2024 15:16
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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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Feb 21, 2024 22:11
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mdemone posted:Nabokov Was Wrong About Borges he calls Borges “a man of infinite talent” so I think he was correct, for once
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Feb 27, 2024 13:44
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less than 80 pages to go of the first volume of The man without qualities and the beginning felt a lot stronger than most of the book itself so far. I think I prefer Mann’s The magic mountain over this, a book that feels similar in how it’s also about capital A Art and Literature and ideas of man, etc.
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Feb 27, 2024 13:46
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i’m gonna read part II as well, but after a few other books in between just for a bit of variety’s sake
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Feb 27, 2024 15:56
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seiobo is amazing.
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Feb 28, 2024 19:58
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bought M by Scutari. on the cover of the norwegian translation, Mussolini just stares menacingly towards the camera.
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Feb 29, 2024 15:13
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I think it could be, if I understand your question correctly. as an example, there’s a younger Norwegian author who has developed a kind of narrative voice where she lets the narrator “interrupt”, comment or react on the story and plot, as if by impulse. like suddenly adding “(?????)” after a quote or description of the character, etc. so the narrator is sort of reacting to their own narration as if by looking back at it. it isn’t breaking any new grounds or being purely experimental, but she is sort of breaking some established “rules” or conventions in a way that also feels personal or, idk, real/authentic, but also unique. every other aspect of her novels are pretty conventional and straightforward otherwise.
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Feb 29, 2024 15:55
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started on M. son of the century. it’s pretty good so far.
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Mar 1, 2024 19:18
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Lex Neville posted:yes. good. I see you're about four years ahead of me on that one (it was only translated to norwegian autumn last year)
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Mar 1, 2024 22:39
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if you’re not trying to be a smug prick, then you could try to not smugly dismiss honest attempts at discussion like this
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Mar 3, 2024 09:16
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I have about 250ish pages left of M. son of the century to go. I don't know about you guys, but this Mussolini-fellow seems to me like he was a bit of an rear end in a top hat
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Mar 7, 2024 16:49
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Mel Mudkiper posted:no you see, I am media literate for people who don't have twitter, what's the actual context here. what was this even in response to, what was he supposed to have paid attention to?
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Mar 14, 2024 16:52
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"haha you can read" is an interesting own though, like stepping on your own rake to prove how your opponent is too dumb to find a trap or something
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Mar 14, 2024 16:54
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Mel Mudkiper posted:imagine not reading books because you morally disagree with the author there are even norwegians out there claiming that since Hamsun was a nazi, it's morally wrong to ever make high school students read Hunger
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Mar 14, 2024 17:13
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almost want to read Bram Stoker's book now, I wonder how he described the red respawning skeletons in his adaption
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Mar 18, 2024 17:20
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why do i still remember satan’s peen dangling about during the final boss fight
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Mar 18, 2024 19:26
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Mel Mudkiper posted:not cleopatra squeezing cobras out of her nipples i’m mostly blank on everything else about the game, even though i played through it all
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Mar 18, 2024 20:52
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currently reading the new novel by this danish guy. I also saw him perform at a poetry festival last october-ish, and was p good
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Mar 20, 2024 18:08
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Segue posted:e: to your point about refusing to engage even if their works are not political, to me Mishima's aestheticized violence and longing for masculinity and order are specifically political, as is Céline's misanthropy. If they were purely aesthetic works I would probably like them but to me the works have politics too. but you can acknowledge that the aestheticised violence and masculinity is incredibly dumb at the same time as you acknowledge how wonderfully the temple of the golden pavillion or his other works are written. it's not an impossible feat Segue posted:But I'll stop stirring things up I just thought I'd give my reasoning for engaging less with some of those authors. nah, 
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Mar 20, 2024 19:33
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I personally approach my reading more from the position of Felski and Nussbaum, but I really like the point about the temporal gap that you referred to. it’s a good attempt at describing the why in why we read and become engaged
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Mar 21, 2024 13:16
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Mel Mudkiper posted:no thanks all I need to know literarily about the culture of Ireland I got from reading O Henry look at this dweeb who refuse to read Beckett, Joyce and McBride 
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Mar 21, 2024 14:35
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le fleurs du mal was at several points surprisingly horny
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Mar 27, 2024 09:32
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Cassian of Imola posted:I came across a sarcastic quote about the titles of poetry in The Arcades Project (Benjamin was evidently in the middle of writing about le fleurs du mal): the parts on exhibitions and Baudelaire was great, and this reminds me that I really, really need to read the second volume of the arcades project soon.
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Mar 27, 2024 15:43
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got myself the latest Vila-Matas and Pamuk books today
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Apr 3, 2024 21:45
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read a minor detail today. didn’t see the supposed antisemitism in it. I think germany might be a bit crazy otherwise a middle of the road book.
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Apr 9, 2024 21:57
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that Balle book sounds great which incidentally Montevideo was too. I can’t believe this got out in Norwegian before English my next read is gonna be Plague nights by Pamuk
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Apr 12, 2024 19:41
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apparently I managed to post that I started it in another thread somehow, I'm getting too old it's the latest from enrique vila-matas
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Apr 12, 2024 22:25
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Peggotty posted:German weekly Die Zeit has an article about a retired miner who build up a private library of more than 70.000 books, filling his entire home with it. based
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Apr 22, 2024 16:34
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i’m on Flights by Tokarczuk rn. it’s pretty good. I found Nights of plague by Pamuk to be a bit lacking somehow, idk
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can you smell what the spear-dane is cookin?
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i think i'm going to give the autobiography of alice b toklas a read, and after that Trakl's poetry
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