BotM: MARCH: LINCOLN IN THE BARDO by George Saunders

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chernobyl kinsman: Mar 18, 2007; a friend of the friendly atom; Soiled Meat

Bardo rules and definitely owes a fair bit* to edgar lee masters' spoon river anthology, which is also excellent but has fewer dick jokes

*obviously in that they're both about talking ghosts in a graveyard, but specifically in Saunders' weird way of writing this novel: the way that everything is communicated through, not so much dialogue, but more what are effectively very brief (sometimes one sentence) monologues, with alternating speakers who are always identified by their full names like an epitaph

this post is a syntactical mess but hopefully ive gotten across what im trying to say

# ¿ Mar 10, 2018 18:07

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chernobyl kinsman: Mar 18, 2007; a friend of the friendly atom; Soiled Meat

Ben Nevis posted:

I didn't think I'd get this in time but somehow being 4th in line at the library paid off quick. I'm glad to see it opens talking about poop. All real literature does.

wait till you get to the dick jokes

# ¿ Mar 13, 2018 15:37

chernobyl kinsman: Mar 18, 2007; a friend of the friendly atom; Soiled Meat

pleasecallmechrist posted:

Implying that at the highest levels of power the Civil War wasn't actually fought to consolidate Industrialist power by destroying the agricultural barons of the South.

You are a pathetically predictable idealogue.

lol

# ¿ Mar 20, 2018 18:30

chernobyl kinsman: Mar 18, 2007; a friend of the friendly atom; Soiled Meat

pleasecallmechrist posted:

Herp derp slavery.

im really gonna need to know what level of irony you're operating on before i reply to this post

# ¿ Mar 22, 2018 01:48

chernobyl kinsman: Mar 18, 2007; a friend of the friendly atom; Soiled Meat

Mel Mudkiper posted:

Like, there's a reason the title specifically evokes a Buddhist concept

and a reason it's ambiguous as to which Lincoln it's referring to

# ¿ Mar 24, 2018 02:07

chernobyl kinsman: Mar 18, 2007; a friend of the friendly atom; Soiled Meat

do the twenty days of turin. it's big-dick lit enough to appease most of the child loving thread and it has enough trans-dimensional monsters to satisfy the genre fiction contingent

quote:

Written during the height of the 1970s Italian domestic terror, a cult novel, with distinct echoes of Lovecraft and Borges, makes its English-language debut.

In the spare wing of a church-run sanatorium, some zealous youths create "the Library," a space where lonely citizens can read one another�s personal diaries and connect with like-minded souls in "dialogues across the ether." But when their scribblings devolve into the ugliest confessions of the macabre, the Library�s users learn too late that a malicious force has consumed their privacy and their sanity. As the city of Turin suffers a twenty-day "phenomenon of collective psychosis" culminating in nightly massacres that hundreds of witnesses cannot explain, the Library is shut down and erased from history. That is, until a lonely salaryman decides to investigate these mysterious events, which the citizenry of Turin fear to mention. Inevitably drawn into the city�s occult netherworld, he unearths the stuff of modern nightmares: what�s shared can never be unshared.

# ¿ Mar 30, 2018 04:02

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chernobyl kinsman: Mar 18, 2007; a friend of the friendly atom; Soiled Meat

here's the LA review on the twenty days of turin

NPR made it a best book of 2017

chernobyl kinsman fucked around with this message at 18:38 on Mar 30, 2018

# ¿ Mar 30, 2018 18:32

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