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Is The Name Of The Rose a good (the best) starting point for Eco? That's the big obvious one which I've never gotten around to reading.
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ToxicFrog posted:I mean it's not like I ever actually looked at the literature thread in this forum—between the child-loving title and the fact that the BotL was the most prominent face of the literature crowd here, why the gently caress would I ever be tempted to? I'm happy this thread was made, please do not tempt restarting this argument  Was already in the middle of a book but I think I'll be starting Name of the Rose this week. Apparently already owned on my Kindle(?). I'm assuming there's only the one translation?
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Jun 2, 2020 00:14
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nut posted:I use two hands and just set the beer against my side I can't concentrate on reading at all while drinking. Which is bizarre because I have no problem reading for hours while blazed out of my mind.
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Jun 2, 2020 22:14
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Famethrowa posted:Alright here's a real dumb barrier to me reading serious books: I struggle with reading long or complicated things on an ereader since it's so easy to zone out with a dumb genrebook but reading traditional books is uncomfortable for me. Are you specifically talking about hardcovers by any chance? The 1-3-1 posted is how I always do it with paperbacks, but you might be out of luck with big old hardcovers.
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Jun 2, 2020 23:01
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The Count of Monte Cristo was easily the fastest thousand pages I've ever read. What a fantastic book. I wonder whether we might have lost something by no longer having serialized novels. I posted about a similar thing in the general discussion thread - characters like Sherlock Holmes with huge histories of short stories and intervening novels. There isn't really a market for a novel spread over months of publishing, or characters reappearing between short stories, because short stories just don't have a popular audience anymore.
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Jul 1, 2020 20:41
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fridge corn posted:Tbh the count of monte Cristo was probably like that era's equivalent of comic books i feel like there's an interesting parallel here with modern television. reading is mostly novels now, as it is easy to publish a novel, and the economics of serials and short stories aren't there any more. isn't that basically happening in TV right now? we get access to ways to consume longer form media, and we get rid of short form? episodic TV still exists, but most young people are watching stuff that is only episodic in literal format, rather than distinct stories. The episodes only act as chapters or bookmarks.
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Jul 1, 2020 20:56
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I'm about halfway through The Name Of The Rose. I had heard the first 100 pages are a bit of a slog, but I got in to a kind of zone and ended up enjoying them as sort of setting up the tone of life at the abbey. Definitely a step up from my most recent genre/mystery reads in terms of pure writing. Should I do more Eco next or try some other Real Adult Authors?
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Nov 26, 2020 18:13
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