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reading Malone Dies. sapo is a cool name
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Heather Papps posted:once i woke as a newt, but, well.... i got better. |
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Oct 15, 2019 21:24
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beer pal posted:yall ever awake from troubled dreams to find yourself changed into a monstrous cockroach in your bed? My girlfriend and I have an inside joke lately where we put our chihuahua on her back and tickle her belly so she twitches her legs and say, "She's a little Kafka! Look, a Kafka! Ruby, are you a Kafka? You're a sweet baby Kafka!" |
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Oct 15, 2019 22:44
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DOPE FIEND KILLA G posted:reading Malone Dies. sapo is a cool name 
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Oct 15, 2019 23:22
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DOPE FIEND KILLA G posted:reading Malone Dies. sapo is a cool name Beckett's novels are underappreciated, and also very good to read out loud after three or four whiskeys. ---------------- |
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Oct 16, 2019 07:16
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also here is my invitation for anyone reading this to join me in the childrens' lit thread I made in the Book Barn. big ups to Android Blues for making a real smart and interesting post in it, thus demonstrating once again that byob is the best: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3900957 ---------------- |
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Oct 16, 2019 07:17
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cda posted:also here is my invitation for anyone reading this to join me in the childrens' lit thread I made in the Book Barn. big ups to Android Blues for making a real smart and interesting post in it, thus demonstrating once again that byob is the best: It's a shame I have no working computer, as I have boxes of pre1980s children's books. You mentioned E. Nesbit; have you read Edward Eager? Also, in terms of indoctrination, the McGuffey Eclectic Readers and similar series are a gold mine for assessing the expectation of a child's literacy. |
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Oct 16, 2019 15:42
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Where The Wild Things Are owns bones. I will not be persuaded otherwise. |
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Oct 16, 2019 15:49
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xcheopis posted:It's a shame I have no working computer, as I have boxes of pre1980s children's books. You mentioned E. Nesbit; have you read Edward Eager? Hell yeah. Half Magic was a favorite of mine when I was a wee un. xcheopis posted:Also, in terms of indoctrination, the McGuffey Eclectic Readers and similar series are a gold mine for assessing the expectation of a child's literacy. Primers are loving fascinating on all sorts of levels. One underacknowledged aspect which I find very interesting is the way they use cursive fonts to teach children to decode handwriting, as in:  I haven't had the time to research it that I'd like, but I imagine creating ligatured cursive fonts (that is, cursive fonts in which all the letters are connected) may have presented a special challenge for printing presses. It's also cool to think about the function of the pictures in such texts, and how/whether the textual demands of reading instruction shaped the production of those pictures (i.e. which came first, the picture about which text was then written, or the text, for which a picture was then drawn?). ...but what are we doing talking about this here? Take it to the Book Barn, buddy! (And if you ever get a working computer, post cool images/quotes from those children's books) ---------------- |
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Oct 16, 2019 16:26
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SweetWillyRollbar posted:Where The Wild Things Are owns bones. I will not be persuaded otherwise. You will be happy to know that Where The Wild Things Are is the most universally critically acclaimed and discussed book in the entire children's literature canon. Its only competition is from Goodnight Moon and the Alice books. ---------------- |
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Oct 16, 2019 16:27
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cda posted:You will be happy to know that Where The Wild Things Are is the most universally critically acclaimed and discussed book in the entire children's literature canon. Its only competition is from Goodnight Moon and the Alice books. I know but I just kind of love it so much. I loved it as a kid and it retrospect I really understand why. Also that Fresh Air interview of Maurice Sendak made me cry. |
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Oct 16, 2019 16:31
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SweetWillyRollbar posted:I know but I just kind of love it so much. I loved it as a kid and it retrospect I really understand why. I, also, love it, and I am interested in why you love it, and if we love it for the same reasons or different ones. ---------------- |
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Oct 16, 2019 16:36
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cda posted:I, also, love it, and I am interested in why you love it, and if we love it for the same reasons or different ones. I guess it was originally those really cool illustrations. As a kid I can't remember another book that looked like it. I was a good kid but I think I understood that feeling of alienation. Being shoved away to another place you eventually feel uncomfortable with I guess. |
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Oct 16, 2019 16:40
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Robert Munsch, baby
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Oct 16, 2019 17:10
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i hated it as a kid and now it'd make me cry because i grew to have a mega soft spot for not knowing how 2 express urself
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Oct 16, 2019 17:11
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cda posted:also here is my invitation for anyone reading this to join me in the childrens' lit thread I made in the Book Barn. big ups to Android Blues for making a real smart and interesting post in it, thus demonstrating once again that byob is the best: very insteresting posts https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png |
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Oct 16, 2019 18:39
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Orwell's essay on Dickens has a very brief digression on The Fairchild Family, which was considered a fine tale for the little ones. His essay analysing Boys' Weeklies is also worth a read, especially when he does a compare and contrast with the weeklies written for girls. ALSO! Der Struwwelpeter, Charles Addams' comics, and Edward Gorey were much beloved by myself and my siblings. xcheopis fucked around with this message at 18:56 on Oct 16, 2019 |
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Oct 16, 2019 18:47
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reading metamorphosis the same time of year all the little buggies come into my apartment out of the cold. these buggies are not gross, they are my brothers and comrades. welcome to my home little buggies.
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Oct 16, 2019 18:55
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if it makes you feel any better Malone is a very old man and has lived a varied life cda posted:Beckett's novels are underappreciated, and also very good to read out loud after three or four whiskeys. oh, they kick rear end. finished malloy not too long ago. highly recommend to anyone who hasn't read it, as long as you can handle uhh reaaaaaaaaaallly long paragraphs
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Oct 16, 2019 19:40
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DOPE FIEND KILLA G posted:you can handle uhh reaaaaaaaaaallly long paragraphs IS THIS A CHALLANGE
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Oct 16, 2019 23:56
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yall ever read house of leaves, should i read house of leaves
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Nov 1, 2019 21:59
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also whats up yobbos what u been reading. me im just read the haounting of hill house and it was pretty good. now im reading solaris by stanislaw lem and then im gonna watch the tarkovsky movie when im done
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Nov 1, 2019 22:01
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i saw a book the other day |
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Nov 1, 2019 22:09
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beer pal posted:yall ever read house of leaves, should i read house of leaves It's fun. Some people think it's like really good but it's not that good it's just fun. |
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Nov 1, 2019 22:19
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Nov 1, 2019 22:20
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Imagine if the Library of Babel was Infinite Jest and you're like 75% of the way to House of Leaves. It has more themes than Dune. |
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Nov 1, 2019 22:27
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cool that was one f my worries about it, that with all the unconventional structure that it would be very self seriously avant or something
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Nov 1, 2019 22:27
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someday when i can read books again I am gonna read G.E.B.
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Nov 1, 2019 23:29
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i told a friend i'd read "of human bondage" which i think is the right name, but when i went to the local library they didn'th ave it but they did have like loving 3d printers and i had a minor existential crisis when i had to leave a "library" without a book but a dvd of a filmed version of a play of the book that i never ended up watching cause life
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Nov 1, 2019 23:57
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Checks out. |
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Nov 2, 2019 00:05
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cda posted:It's fun. Some people think it's like really good but it's not that good it's just fun. the navidson record owns everything afterward ehh
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Nov 2, 2019 00:26
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when i returned it they told me i owed them 4 dollars and i looked the lady in the eyes and said i',ll be right back and then never went back
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Nov 2, 2019 00:26
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beer pal posted:also whats up yobbos what u been reading. me im just read the haounting of hill house and it was pretty good. now im reading solaris by stanislaw lem and then im gonna watch the tarkovsky movie when im done I love Haunting of Hill House so much and you should, if you haven't already, read The Sundial next. Jackson does supernatural encounters so well! |
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Nov 2, 2019 05:35
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I tried to read Solaris in college in an effort to be more learned in the nerd canon but just couldn't get into it. That may have been the moment of self-realization where I discovered that loving wizards and dragons does not mean I care about space men. I'm listening to a library book called Mortal Engines set in a post-apocalypse steampunk world where cities are basically giant tanks that tread around Europe conquering and scavenging each other in the name of "Municipal Darwinism." I encourage everyone to investigate the Libby app; it may change your relationship with the local public library. |
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Nov 2, 2019 17:02
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| Most Lem books are, in my humble, pretty poorly plotted even if they are full of interesting ideas and cool individual scenes. The exceptions are his short stories which are way better plotted. I also really like his reviews of books that don't exist. But Solaris, Fiasco etc. kind of fall apart at the macro level. I have read a lot of Lem so obviously I don't think these problems are disqualifying | |
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Nov 2, 2019 20:04
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it definitely feels pretty messy so far . also lol at this misleading movie tie in cover 
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Nov 2, 2019 22:14
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xcheopis posted:I love Haunting of Hill House so much and you should, if you haven't already, read The Sundial next. Jackson does supernatural encounters so well! definitely would like to read some more shirley jackson at some point, i'll make the sundial the next one https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png |
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Nov 2, 2019 22:19
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beer pal posted:it definitely feels pretty messy so far . also lol at this misleading movie tie in cover The more I look the weirder that gets |
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Nov 2, 2019 22:39
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got halfway through ursula k le guin's the other wind on a long train ride recently and was reminded why she is one of my favorite authors. she writes as if in a dream and transitions seamlessly from past to present. i'd had the book for ages and just never gotten around to reading it and now i want to find the time to read the last half and dig through my books and find the others i have of hers and reread them
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Finished re-reading Pratchett. Now re-reading A. Lee Martinez. Might re-read Genji in between Martinez books. |
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