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hey yobbos what you been reading |
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Sep 9, 2019 17:30
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me personally, ive been reading a book called anna karenina. im just started part 2 and boy this vronsky dude is a real peace of work if you ask me. i need more of my dude levin and his alcoholic communist brother.
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Sep 9, 2019 17:32
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i read a short story collection by chekov in english translation. i think i read it before a while ago. the "chekov's gun" story kid was being a bit of a drama queen tbh
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Sep 9, 2019 17:36
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also pls live blog anna karenina as u find convenient
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Sep 9, 2019 17:37
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I started the dead father by donald barthelme yesterday and i think i like but im dumb and its confusing for me but good confusing
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Sep 9, 2019 17:50
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is it weird in structure? wikipedia calls it a 'post modern' novel. ive never read one of those
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Sep 9, 2019 18:55
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beer pal posted:is it weird in structure? wikipedia calls it a 'post modern' novel. ive never read one of those read infinite jest it is long but it is basically the finest young adult novel ever written
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Sep 9, 2019 19:00
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except for that animorphs where they turn into ants
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Sep 9, 2019 19:00
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beer pal posted:is it weird in structure? wikipedia calls it a 'post modern' novel. ive never read one of those its unstructured enough that it is tough to always know who is talking and there's a lot of inconsistency in how characters act but in a very funny yob way imo
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Sep 9, 2019 19:05
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Last book I read was The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe. Even for early Wolfe (I think it was his first "official" novel), the pieces and hallmarks of his style are already apparent. The puzzlebox narrative structure, the unreliable narrators, it's great and if you're looking for a more philosophical/slow burn read I highly recommend it. I'm trying to read through his bibliography since he just passed away not too long ago.
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Sep 9, 2019 20:08
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magic cactus posted:Last book I read was The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe. Even for early Wolfe (I think it was his first "official" novel), the pieces and hallmarks of his style are already apparent. The puzzlebox narrative structure, the unreliable narrators, it's great and if you're looking for a more philosophical/slow burn read I highly recommend it. I'm trying to read through his bibliography since he just passed away not too long ago. I really like his book "The Sorceror's House." It's about a guy who gets out of jail and then moves into an abandoned house that may have belonged to a sorceror. It's a lot of fun. The story is told completely through letters sent and received from the guy living in the house and as is common with Wolfe's books, you start to get the feeling early on that what's being written isn't necessarily the entire story.
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Sep 9, 2019 20:15
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beer pal posted:me personally, ive been reading a book called anna karenina. im just started part 2 and boy this vronsky dude is a real peace of work if you ask me. i need more of my dude levin and his alcoholic communist brother. hells fuckin yeah ---------------- |
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Sep 9, 2019 21:04
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Jolo posted:I really like his book "The Sorceror's House." It's about a guy who gets out of jail and then moves into an abandoned house that may have belonged to a sorceror. It's a lot of fun. The story is told completely through letters sent and received from the guy living in the house and as is common with Wolfe's books, you start to get the feeling early on that what's being written isn't necessarily the entire story. I liked the sequel, The Witches Apartment, about a guy getting an AirBnB but it turns out that the owner of the apartment is a witch. ---------------- |
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Sep 9, 2019 21:05
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bee eater posted:I started the dead father by donald barthelme yesterday and i think i like but im dumb and its confusing for me but good confusing don b. whips rear end and "good confusing" is a good description of him, but, imo, the novel was not really his form. you need to be able to take breaks. his short stories are some of the best ever though and some of them are very byob. ---------------- |
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Sep 9, 2019 21:07
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i keep getting myself spoiled on the 140 year old book. like im just looking up so i can keep straght which of the dozen charachters each with three different names and a nickname is which and im seeing like kitty (wife of levin ) ...buh??? wife of levin???
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Sep 9, 2019 21:11
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cda posted:I liked the sequel, The Witches Apartment, about a guy getting an AirBnB but it turns out that the owner of the apartment is a witch. H.P. Lovecraft wrote exactly this story lol
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Sep 9, 2019 21:15
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i'm reading many things. i just finished The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon, which paints the world of West Indian immigrants living in London in the 1950s. it was very entertaining and well-written, but if you don't like regressive sexual politics watch out because there's a lot of casual misogyny in it (which was probably accurate to the time and place and is used in thematically complex, if ultimately tolerant-of-misogyny ways. it didn't bother me, but it might bother some). Before that I read Voyage in the Dark by Jean Rhys which is maybe a work of genius? I'm hesitatnt to call it that because then maybe someone will pop in and make fun of me for saying that. But it is really really good. The writing is phenomenal. It's super-depressing though. It's about a young white woman from Dominica who moves to London and then her life falls apart. It was started in 1914 and finished and published in 1934 but the writing style is fresh as a daisy. Both of the above books are fairly short so if you want to read something good and short, you could read them. ---------------- |
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Sep 9, 2019 21:16
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cda posted:don b. whips rear end and "good confusing" is a good description of him, but, imo, the novel was not really his form. you need to be able to take breaks. his short stories are some of the best ever though and some of them are very byob. you can read some don b short stories for free here: http://jessamyn.com/barth/ my favorites are: me and miss mandible glass mountain the balloon the school but they are all good, event eh ones i haven't read ---------------- |
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Sep 9, 2019 21:19
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trying to crush all of borges shorts, thne onto poetry i think
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Sep 9, 2019 23:10
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Should I read books y/n? |
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Sep 9, 2019 23:59
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google THIS posted:Should I read books y/n? Y
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Sep 9, 2019 23:59
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im reading “how to change your mind” its about drugs |
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Sep 10, 2019 02:05
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cda posted:you can read some don b short stories for free here: http://jessamyn.com/barth/ [Miss Mandible] is worried about the excellence of my themes. Have I, she asks, been receiving help? For an instant I am on the brink of telling her my story. Something, however, warns me not to attempt it. Here I am safe, I have a place; I do not wish to entrust myself once more to the whimsy of authority. I resolve to make my themes less excellent in the future. https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png |
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Sep 10, 2019 02:14
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beer pal posted:[Miss Mandible] is worried about the excellence of my themes. Have I, she asks, been receiving help? For an instant I am on the brink of telling her my story. Something, however, warns me not to attempt it. Here I am safe, I have a place; I do not wish to entrust myself once more to the whimsy of authority. I resolve to make my themes less excellent in the future. - Frank Herbert |
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Sep 10, 2019 02:39
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just realized Iain Banks totally ripped off Sleepaway Camp today, wtf also spoilers, don’t read my posts if you haven’t read the book [spoilers] seriously just don’t read my posts[/spoilers]
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Sep 10, 2019 04:21
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Most recently I read The Stranger. I'm reading Libra by Don Delillo at the moment. May take another stab at Gravity's Rainbow after that. |
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Sep 10, 2019 11:13
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The Key by Junichiro Tanizaki is a great novel with TWO unreliable narrators. |
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Sep 10, 2019 11:19
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oh yeah stormlight archives are very good just finished oathbringer a few weeks ago
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Sep 10, 2019 13:49
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SweetWillyRollbar posted:The Key by Junichiro Tanizaki is a great novel with TWO unreliable narrators. Books like this are incredibly frustrating. With a backup narrator you would hope to not get to a chapter without any narration but if they're both unreliable then dang. Reading the book like, "what the hell yall, are we still in Narnia or are we standing in front of the wardrobe? is this Aslan speaking here or one of these goofy kids? where da witch at? "
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Sep 10, 2019 13:50
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Jolo posted:Books like this are incredibly frustrating. With a backup narrator you would hope to not get to a chapter without any narration but if they're both unreliable then dang. Reading the book like, "what the hell yall, are we still in Narnia or are we standing in front of the wardrobe? is this Aslan speaking here or one of these goofy kids? where da witch at? " The central premise makes it a bit easier to understand. It's basically the story of an elderly couple in post war Japan told from the perspective of both of their journal entries, which they both know the other is reading on the sly. It's also relatively short. I dunno. I really enjoyed it. |
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Sep 10, 2019 13:55
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every narrator is unreliable, even a third person omniscient narrator has the implied goal of telling an interesting story.
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Sep 10, 2019 13:56
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Heather Papps posted:every narrator is unreliable, even a third person omniscient narrator has the implied goal of telling an interesting story. i love magical realism tho so..... 
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Sep 10, 2019 13:56
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SweetWillyRollbar posted:The central premise makes it a bit easier to understand. It's basically the story of an elderly couple in post war Japan told from the perspective of both of their journal entries, which they both know the other is reading on the sly. It's also relatively short. I dunno. I really enjoyed it. I was just making a goof about neither narrator showing up for a chapter because they're both unreliable. Or like one narrator shows up but he leaves his punctuation in the car and then all of a sudden one chapter reads like a Cormac McCarthy novel.,
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Sep 10, 2019 13:58
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Jolo posted:I was just making a goof about neither narrator showing up for a chapter because they're both unreliable. Or like one narrator shows up but he leaves his punctuation in the car and then all of a sudden one chapter reads like a Cormac McCarthy novel., new thread, now, please. this fuckin' owns e: one chapter is like chunks of blank space with the dialouge occasionally there, but no commentary by the narrator
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Sep 10, 2019 13:59
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Jolo posted:I was just making a goof about neither narrator showing up for a chapter because they're both unreliable. Or like one narrator shows up but he leaves his punctuation in the car and then all of a sudden one chapter reads like a Cormac McCarthy novel., I should have known! Arggggg! |
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Sep 10, 2019 14:03
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i just finished bad feminist by roxane gay. good collection of essays, really human and moving. gay clearly cares intensely about fiction, and i was pleased and surprised how much of the book was her commenting critically on something she'd recently read or watched, with the kind of attention you only get from someone who truly gives a hoot about stories |
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Sep 10, 2019 15:57
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i've almost finished my 'books i should've read awhile back' list that i started earlier this summer but it has started to lose traction. i finished infinite jest, moved on to house of leaves, then still life with woodpecker, slaughterhouse-five, and now i'm on camus' the plague. out of that list, the order i've read them matches up with my favorite to least favorite. slaughterhouse-five was okay, but a bit of a downer (for obvious reasons) and is my least favorite vonnegut book. i enjoy vonnegut's sarcastic tone but there's (understandably) a lot of bitterness behind it in sh-5. the plague is also a downer, also for obvious reasons, but i really enjoy camus' style of writing so it's not *too* painful. the next book on my list is catch-22 which i've heard nothing but good things about, but after slaughterhouse-five i'm kind of tired of the war genre i think i'm also just kinda tired of white male authors tbh |
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Sep 10, 2019 17:34
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Macnult posted:i've almost finished my 'books i should've read awhile back' list that i started earlier this summer but it has started to lose traction. i finished infinite jest, moved on to house of leaves, then still life with woodpecker, slaughterhouse-five, and now i'm on camus' the plague. I really like Slaughterhouse Five, I think it was the first Vonnegut I read. Catch 22 reminded me a lot of it, but a bit more...loopy? I dunno. I enjoyed both a lot. I really liked The Stranger so I would love to read The Plague, but I also like depressing books a lot. |
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Sep 10, 2019 17:41
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my dad got me catch 22 when i was like 12 and it was solely responsible for me watching mash marathons throughout p much my whole teens
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Sep 10, 2019 17:43
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I'm not a fan of Catch-22. It starts strong but then goes slack in the middle and really wanders. I think it's one of those books where when people are done with it all they remember are the good parts and not the stretches of filler. My favorite Vonnegut is Cat's Cradle which is bitterer than Slaughterhouse 5 I think but I dunno I could be convinced otherwise. |
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Sep 10, 2019 19:30
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