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here's my recs: read some old Agatha Christie Poirot or Marple novels. or buy the Sherlock Holmes omnibus and read the whole drat thing
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gleebster posted:Try The Brothers Karamazov.
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Oct 23, 2021 18:22
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I want to re-write a parable for people to take notice and become what I did not writ.
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Oct 23, 2021 18:22
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Also I liked Suttree more than Blood Meridian. But maybe because Suttree lives the life I wish I had chosen.
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Oct 23, 2021 18:25
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i have read many many books and would like to read many many more one of my faves is 'heart of a dog' by bulgakov my fave type of book is short story collections and anthologies stuff like that. short stories are like literary m&ms that you can gobble by the handful
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Oct 23, 2021 18:50
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dee eight posted:my fave type of book is short story collections and anthologies stuff like that. short stories are like literary m&ms that you can gobble by the handful Nathan Ballingrud's 2 short story collections are extremely good and got talked about a bunch in tbb Evenson's Song for the Unraveling of the World was also pretty good DeadFatDuckFat fucked around with this message at 18:58 on Oct 23, 2021 |
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Oct 23, 2021 18:53
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BigBadSteve posted:A Confederacy Of Dunces, if you haven't read it yet. If you're reading GBS you absolutely should read this, it's practically a companion piece.
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Oct 23, 2021 19:28
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w/r/t Vonnegut i mostly like his books that feature his character Kilgore Trout, although i didn't enjoy SH5 all that much my favorites of his are Breakfast of Champions and Timequake
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Oct 23, 2021 21:37
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my first Vonnegut was Sirens of Titan and I was like 13 and I thought Malachi was pronounced how it looks lol. I still can't read the word correctly years later because that book burned so hard in to my brain.
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Oct 23, 2021 21:42
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During the start of covid me and some bros started a book club for something to do while locked down. We read Ubik by Philip K. Dick first and gently caress it was amazing and I'd recommend everyone read it. Then we read Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee which was interesting but pretty hosed up. We we tried to get our Vonnegut on with Player Piano and that's when the club kinda died out, with someone of us not even finishing it (I did not) I'm currently (very slowly) reading a libertarian walks into a bear - Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling and it's a good loling about how dumb libertarians are. I think I found out about it in the trump thread or something. It's a good read so far but I've had a hard time just sitting down and reading anything lately. BOOKS!
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Oct 23, 2021 22:49
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Spinz posted:Dune Shirer’s Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is one I’ve read every so often since I was around 7 years old. My school had it and the Time-Life WW2 series and that’s how I became a history nerd.
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Oct 23, 2021 23:04
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Macnult posted:my favorites of his are Breakfast of Champions and Timequake I honestly forgot it was a book. When I was a teen I had a trip that ended with someone putting on an old VHS copy of it. Maaaaaaaannnnn.... till you're dead it's all life. This book is the reason that I respond to people who ask me how I'm doing with "I ain't dead yet". Hahaha! Look what I just found! Please dont report it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWBgs5_vZg4 Solvent fucked around with this message at 23:24 on Oct 23, 2021 |
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Oct 23, 2021 23:16
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I agree with Vonnegut's own assessment and rate Breakfast of Champions a C. One of my least favourites, but it has been so long I can't remember specifically why. Too self-referential? Mother Night and Cat's Cradle are A+, Galapagos, Sirens of Titan, and Slaughterhouse 5 are about a A. For me, from memory, anyway. Maybe if I reread them now I would rate them differently. But even though Vonnegut is one of my favourites, I found Catch-22 a much stronger book than Slaughterhouse 5.
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stratdax posted:I agree with Vonnegut's own assessment and rate Breakfast of Champions a C. One of my least favourites, but it has been so long I can't remember specifically why. Too self-referential? catch-22 is one of my all time favorite books. Could not get through the sequel. Tried multiple times
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Oct 23, 2021 23:50
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Szyznyk posted:Shirer’s Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is one I’ve read every so often since I was around 7 years old. My school had it and the Time-Life WW2 series and that’s how I became a history nerd. it's a good read. the bizarre homophobia from Shirer is jarring tho
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Oct 23, 2021 23:51
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:catch-22 is one of my all time favorite books. Could not get through the sequel. Tried multiple times The sequel was pretty bad. Had none of the charm of catch-22
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Oct 23, 2021 23:53
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All right. New topic. I am still unsure what the hell happened in American Gods. Great book, I love it. Nothing Shadow did made any difference. It was just a weird story told by a weird guy
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Oct 23, 2021 23:57
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Catch 22 also probably my favourite ever. Tried reading a few other Heller books and they are all pretty bad
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Murdstone posted:Wow I did not know that. I loved those books back in the 90s. thanks for letting me know
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Oct 24, 2021 02:43
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I'm reading the second half of the Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe. I bought the first half in 2011, and it took me ten years to get through it. Not because i don't like it nor am I a dummy, I just kept getting distracted by other books. So ok, i said I'm not a dummy but this book is kinda hard to read, luckily it's really caught my attention now so I'm cruising through the second half.
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Oct 24, 2021 03:27
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Borrowed Ladder posted:I'm reading the second half of the Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe. I bought the first half in 2011, and it took me ten years to get through it. Not because i don't like it nor am I a dummy, I just kept getting distracted by other books. So ok, i said I'm not a dummy but this book is kinda hard to read, luckily it's really caught my attention now so I'm cruising through the second half. don't keep us in suspense. Is it any good?
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Oct 24, 2021 03:32
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Its pretty good imo but I really don't recommend taking long breaks like that from it. Its definitely a confusing book and you kinda need to read it twice to get the most out of it. Apparently the publishers forced wolfe to write a coda to the series to explain things but it didn't help readers at all. Its definitely not a Turn your brain off airport fiction kind of thing
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Oct 24, 2021 16:40
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Almost done with The Book of the New Sun, it's been very fun to read, if weird
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Oct 24, 2021 17:32
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Read a book, read a book, read a motherfuckin' book.
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Oct 24, 2021 17:52
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:don't keep us in suspense. Is it any good? It is really good but I find myself getting lost a lot, and the main character will bring up something that happened earlier and half the time I'm like "did that happen?" and press forward. I definitely shouldn't have taken so many breaks but other books kept calling my name.
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Oct 26, 2021 02:55
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I really like hibakusha literature. Anything by Hara Tamiki is really good, also The Crazy Iris. I like Infinite Jest but have read it too much. A couple good Chinese books in English are Pow! by Mo Yan and Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian. We Need to Talk About Kevin ('s weird balls) was a way better book than a movie. It's so good. Tao Lin loving sucks. Dave Eggers loving sucks. I like Jonathon Franzen. The Gulag Archipelago is a hard read but worth it. Same with Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang.
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Oct 26, 2021 03:04
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i forgot where i found it but i pirated a translated copy of the Ring series of novels and theyre loving insane and well worth a read
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Oct 26, 2021 03:05
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I've always wanted to read Parasite Eve but never have.
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Oct 26, 2021 03:06
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Zeluth posted:Anything with a mind-reading telepatch who is dead but not in this time line and really has a thing about vampires. It is funny how the first book is just guy who can talk to ghosts fighting a vampire and then the sequel is all what about a whole planet of vampires?
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Oct 26, 2021 03:57
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Sid Vicious posted:i forgot where i found it but i pirated a translated copy of the Ring series of novels and theyre loving insane and well worth a read I am interested in this
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Oct 26, 2021 03:58
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Revins posted:I am interested in this The first book is pretty basic but actually goes into the physiological way the ghost tape actually kills a person. Eventually the series turns into The Matrix.
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Oct 26, 2021 04:01
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I don't read that much but i really liked this one non fiction book Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers. It's basically all about dead bodies and what happens to them. It's obviously a bit gross and gruesome but also fascinating.
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im reading THE SPIRIT by thomas page a sasquatch punches a dudes head off in it lol
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