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the Navidson Record owns but the rest of house of leaves wasn’t as fun to read. I recently read our man in Havana and just didn’t like it like I thought I would. I started the Erstwhile, the second book in the Vorrh trilogy and it owns but I got a cheap tablet and I’ve been reading jojo’s bizarre adventure instead
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cda posted:Dang, sorry about Our Man in Havana. I love that book. What hit you wrong about it? think I was looking for something fantastical when I was picking a new book, couldn’t find anything, and assumed our man would be a safe like no matter what but my mood just wasn’t right. I feel bad for not liking it because it is funny
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Apr 19, 2020 22:08
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I got hooked on the cspam thread and read Chaos by Tom O’Neill which outlines all the wild inconsistencies and errors in the official Charles Manson story it was very good and fun
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Apr 30, 2020 22:07
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im reading another political cover-up book whydid we ever visit cspam
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May 6, 2020 21:40
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cda posted:Prepare to be disappointed I’m reading this mediocre expectation
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May 7, 2020 23:19
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Finished another conspiracy cover-up book from the thread in cspam but i think they wore me out so i got north american lake monsters to read next based on seemingly unanimous positive reviews fromt he general horror fiction thred in tbb
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May 12, 2020 12:15
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I’ve been posting in tbb about what I’ve been reading recently but I remembered this thread and thought to share! I was trying to go on a Canadian fiction year and read The Little Girl Who was Too Fond of Matches by Gaetan Soucy (eng translation) which was very dark but also incredible in its narration style (doubly amazing because it’s translated) and then I read Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner (eng translation), which was very sweet and relaxing but left me wanting to read something meatier.
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Jun 1, 2020 16:32
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beer pal posted:u canadian nut me too. i think the only canadian novel ive read is station eleven which i didnt like all that much. ya! I’m not super wild about a lot of canlit I’ve read but outside of the two above I’d rec Miriam Toews, maybe specifically a complicated kindness, and oh come thou tortoise (which I liked even more) by I can’t remember her name
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Jun 1, 2020 17:33
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I started up Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides today and it is good so far
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Jun 2, 2020 02:25
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high sex I’m dad
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Jun 2, 2020 02:47
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nut posted:canlit I don’t see suggested enough is Stephen Leacock I guess mostly because he was very goofy but his writing is intensely byob and good and so much funnier than any book that’s won the award named after him gently caress you terry fallis if you’re reading this sorry If you get a chance (it’s small and on project Gutenberg) read Nonsense Novels and tell me you wouldn’t have 5’d that thread nut fucked around with this message at 03:20 on Jun 2, 2020
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Jun 2, 2020 03:14
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wow I messed up that post something fierce
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Jun 2, 2020 03:20
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started mr. Palomar after sitting on it for seemingly forever. it’s very funny and acts as a way more accessible and practical explanation of philosophical ideas I wasted too much time trying to understand from Wikipedia articles
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Jun 4, 2020 20:59
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beer pal posted:im reading crying of lot 49 which ive heard is either his best or worst novel. an alternative position ive hard is that its somewhere in the middle. I dragged myself through it but just never got into it. I have so many friends that adore it that I feel like I should try again
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Jun 4, 2020 21:23
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how about the trying of pot 420
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Jun 4, 2020 23:40
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beer pal posted:i didnt like lot 49 that much (i liked v a lot better) now im reading 100 yeras of solitude and its pretty charmign so far i love 100 years so much, changed my entire taste
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Jun 9, 2020 23:30
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beer pal posted:the author did a very rude prank on me where he named all the characters the same name r u reading physical or ebook? i found physical esp good for 100 years because there's a family tree in the start w all the namers
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Jun 10, 2020 18:05
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Jun 10, 2020 18:10
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I finished Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides recently and am waiting for books in the mail but they will probably take a week. I’m filling the time with a biography of the guy behind MK ULTRA and the ARPA background of the internet and am now realizing I gotta find some fiction to supplement before I go insane
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Jun 18, 2020 22:11
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I read a robert aickman short story called the unsettled dust and it was aright but leaves you kind of disappointed but it sounds like that’s a common reaction to his work
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Jun 22, 2020 17:51
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beer pal posted:im reading catch 22 and not enjoying it all that much read it when I was like 12 and thought it was awesome but I also loved MASH and I don’t think I could enjoy either nowadays
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Jul 4, 2020 21:50
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confederacy of dunces was my favourite book for a very long time but I could completely understand someone finding it tedious and, although it is wildly funny to me, it is not a broad appeal funny by any means
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Jul 5, 2020 00:45
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cda posted:Yeah that's a good one oh hell ya
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Jul 6, 2020 18:04
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I’ve been reading Poisoner in Chief which is definitively not byob but I’m in too deep
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Jul 6, 2020 18:04
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think they're referring to android blues posts in the genitals thread just now
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Jul 7, 2020 20:34
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beer pal posted:hell ya. u read any other calvino? probably gonna pick up invisible cities before too long i've tried mr palomar but i kinda burned out on it after a couple chapters because iget it i get italo
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Jul 21, 2020 02:58
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my nonfiction streak has continued with yasha levine's surveillance valley and today i just started the end of policing after finally getting a physical copy
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Jul 21, 2020 03:05
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beer pal posted:im having a great time reading dracula when I read Dracula I was like let’s get this lame gothic poo poo over with and two years later I had read it like three times because it owns
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Aug 2, 2020 02:46
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I tried to start the second portion of Savage Detectives by Robert Bolano today but I just found myself hating how the book is gonna be told for the next huge hunk. I think I’m just too dumb and wholly unfamiliar with poetry, let alone poets in Latin America specifically, so I’m abandoning it. I actually was getting heated at how inaccessible it felt to me.
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Aug 4, 2020 17:09
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magic cactus posted:I really enjoyed 2666 even though it was unfinished ya i only picked up savage detectives because of how highly people speak of him but I just can't with savage detectives Musluk posted:That was me with Borges - I was just reading two lines and getting angry at labyrinths. Thanks, this made me feel a lot better and gives me the chance 2 move on to the next book 
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Aug 4, 2020 20:01
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I started the Selected Works of T.S. Spivet today and outside of the kid talking like a dickhead its very cool and fun
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Aug 5, 2020 16:41
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I finished the Selected Works of T.S. Spivet and it was pretty cute though i'd say some of the last chapters leave a decent amount to be desired and it definitely functions better for the ride than the destination. Gonna tuck in2 the Nocilla Trilogy
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Aug 10, 2020 02:12
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I finished the first book in the nocilla trilogy, Nocilla Dream, which was surreal and incredible and fun in a very different way from most fiction I like. I also finished the Jarkarta Method today which is very unbyob nonfic but really well explained history that is ultimately pretty depressing.
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Aug 16, 2020 01:20
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I, too, don't absorb nearly anything from audiobooks. I tried Master and the Margarita on audiobook like 4 times before I just got a copy and destroyed the thintg
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Aug 17, 2020 20:36
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ya and when I read a lot of times I read sentences a couple times because my brain can’t comprehend well and that’s frustrating when you miss something in audio
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Aug 17, 2020 20:44
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i haven't come closer to ever finishing don quixote but it owns and I dunno anything about Infinite Jest, but I reflexively am offended by the comparison
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Aug 19, 2020 18:18
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after I finished true detective season one I got a ligotti collection and I really liked one of three stories I have read so far but I hear his best stuff is grimscribe and that’s the back half of the book
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Aug 21, 2020 12:41
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I have begun reading Moby Dick, the novel
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Aug 24, 2020 18:18
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cda posted:hell yeah, it is the best it is not only awesome, but infinitely more readable than I was led to believe. I can see how people would find it long and annoying, but if you love people that infinitely ruminating about everything, it is so funny.
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Aug 24, 2020 18:33
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feel like I read that way mostly where it’s unintended
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Aug 25, 2020 18:03
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