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i wonder what portion of people finish a james joyce novel and then what portion of those people have to pretend they loved it based on the time they invested
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Jun 3, 2017 07:00
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extra stout posted:i wonder what portion of people finish a james joyce novel and then what portion of those people have to pretend they loved it based on the time they invested
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Jun 3, 2017 07:02
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Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun. Finally getting around to it.
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Jun 3, 2017 07:04
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Space Taxi posted:Hairy vaginas are not ok. A nice trimmed bush is my kink, but whats not okay is the way 80's Hustler always shot women stretching their pussy lips open into a cavernous gap that looked like the Sarlacc Pit with inflamed tonsils. I am reading Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. It reminds me of earlier Clive Barker but steampunky.
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Jun 3, 2017 07:09
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Jim Barris posted:I think it depends on whether their first crack at a Joyce novel was Ulysses or not. more like finegans asleep
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Jun 3, 2017 07:14
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Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer
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Jun 3, 2017 07:23
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Orkin Mang posted:more like finegans asleep lol, right? Dubliners is good, though.
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Jun 3, 2017 07:25
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My fathers suicide note
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Jun 3, 2017 07:31
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re-reading Dune by Frank Herbet again. so loving good.
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Jun 3, 2017 07:34
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Tace Vim posted:re-reading Dune by Frank Herbet again. so loving good. It turns out fear isn't the mindkiller. Its a 9mm bullet. Or alzheimer's
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Jun 3, 2017 07:38
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Jim Barris posted:lol, right? Dubliners is good, though. yeah, short stories. the dead is good. i will never read ulysses again though, and i will never start finnegans wake. if im going to spend time deciphering code, id rather it be the bible, where real events are at stake. not waste it on a book by a guy obsessed with farts
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Jun 3, 2017 07:40
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Orkin Mang posted:yeah, short stories. the dead is good. i will never read ulysses again though, and i will never start finnegans wake. if im going to spend time deciphering code, id rather it be the bible, where real events are at stake. not waste it on a book by a guy obsessed with farts
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Jun 3, 2017 07:43
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phallocentriloquist posted:Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer ah man idk bout this one
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Jun 3, 2017 07:47
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I am reading 
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Jun 3, 2017 08:01
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phallocentriloquist posted:Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer More like lazy fiction.
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Jun 3, 2017 08:02
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Nic Cage dick cage posted:I am reading
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Jun 3, 2017 08:04
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Jim Barris posted:I forget the title of the story but I like the one where the old man talks to kid joyce for a bit then excuses himself to go jerk off. I'm pretty sure Ulysses is just a mean prank they play on lit post-grads and not an actual novel. Someone told me it was banned for pornographic content so of course I read the whole thing when I was 12 hoping to get some quality descriptions of touching titties. Very disappointing experience all around. dude just made up words and used them without any explanation of their meaning. i'm still a little bitter about wasting time on ulysses 20 years later.
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Jun 3, 2017 08:08
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I'm on the home stretch of People's History of the United States
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Jun 3, 2017 08:09
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but yeah, i'm just reading a dumb fantasy book.
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Jun 3, 2017 08:10
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a bone to pick posted:ah man idk bout this one What do you mean? Like, literary-value isn't there or you just don't enjoy flash fiction? I've been interested in it for the past few weeks and some of them are very good, I'd say 30% of the stories are decent.
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Jun 3, 2017 08:32
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Space Taxi posted:More like lazy fiction. Length of story is not correlative to effort or quality: https://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/HarpersMagazine-1989-09-0059029.pdf
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Jun 3, 2017 08:36
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Reading the culture series which I like a lot and I even liked player of games despite the really funny post satirizing it.
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Jun 3, 2017 08:38
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phallocentriloquist posted:I'd say 30% of the stories are decent. that's not a good sign to me, but everyone enjoys their own thing. I've read Spider-Man novels in the past so whatever
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Jun 3, 2017 08:38
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Smythe posted:Reading the culture series which I like a lot and I even liked player of games despite the really funny post satirizing it. what funny post? i read that book last month.
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Jun 3, 2017 08:40
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Smythe posted:Reading the culture series which I like a lot and I even liked player of games despite the really funny post satirizing it. the cadence of this post is atrocious. theres no rhythm at all. im reading atlas shrugged at the moment. i dont agree with the message, but its like ulysses, where the prose is exquisite but the story is only of secondary interest.
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Jun 3, 2017 08:41
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Smythe posted:Reading the culture series which I like a lot and I even liked player of games despite the really funny post satirizing it. Player of Games is pretty decent, especially towards the second half.
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Jun 3, 2017 08:44
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Im illiterate
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Jun 3, 2017 08:45
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:what funny post? i read that book last month. quote:Gurgeh stared at the space chess. He considered moving the space king over to the space rook, but then he didn't. Instead, he moved it to the right. He nodded. The robot flew over, and said something bitchy. Gurgeh chuckled, then sighed. "Robot," he said, "please fly away." The robot made a light from his head and then he flew away.
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Jun 3, 2017 08:46
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i decided to reread Stephen King's It for nostalgia reasons and im really uncomfortable with the constant sexualizing of this 11 year old girl also she gets gangbanged by 6 other 11 year olds. Books weird
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Jun 3, 2017 08:48
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that is a very accurate summary
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Jun 3, 2017 08:48
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Haha. Seems a bit too much of an oversimplification, like describing Lord of the Rings as "dumb midget loses a gold ring".
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Jun 3, 2017 08:49
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i rly like when reading look to windward when the big floating blob creatures talked in the biiigg slllooowwww voooiiiccceee of the eternity, reading it, in that voice.
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Jun 3, 2017 08:50
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theres a bit from mill on the floss i memorised but i enver finsished the book. quote what novelty is worth the sweet monotony of knowing something, and loving something because it is known. the woman who wrote that looked like oscar wilde. very butch. the curls just made it worse
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Jun 3, 2017 08:51
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Colonel Cancer posted:Haha. Seems a bit too much of an oversimplification, like describing Lord of the Rings as "dumb midget loses a gold ring". for all that the book was completely focused on the dude and the game neither was very important to much of anything. i think i like the endings of culture books way more than the rest of them.
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Jun 3, 2017 08:52
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cranking my hog to the memory of that scene in the tatooine cantina-esque place when that amazon babe killed the dwarf by drowning him in a floating cube of mud and then chopping his dead dick off
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Jun 3, 2017 08:55
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:for all that the book was completely focused on the dude and the game neither was very important to much of anything. i think i like the endings of culture books way more than the rest of them. I dunno, it was pretty important to the protagonist. I feel like Iain Banks first came up with the idea of an overcomplicated game reflecting the society at a fundamental level, and then actually tacked on the story with the whole blackmail plot. Gurgeh wasn't a particularly interesting character, but the underlying concept was pretty cool.
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Jun 3, 2017 08:57
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Smythe posted:cranking my hog to the memory of that scene in the tatooine cantina-esque place when that amazon babe killed the dwarf by drowning him in a floating cube of mud and then chopping his dead dick off have u considered changing the gbs name to 'gbs: a floating cube of mud and then chopping his dead dick off'? it has a cadence i think apposite. thats a word i learned that means appropriate, or 'apt' for the vulgar erasmian tradents among us haha
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Jun 3, 2017 08:58
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Orkin Mang posted:have u considered changing the gbs name to 'gbs: a floating cube of mud and then chopping his dead dick off'? it has a cadence i think apposite. thats a word i learned that means appropriate, or 'apt' for the vulgar erasmian tradents among us haha That lacks gravitas.
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Jun 3, 2017 08:59
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I'm reading a book on ancient greek religious practice and one about body building.
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