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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:I can’t read novels on a screen. My eyes just slide right off. Luckily there’s a magical place my tax dollars already fund that lets me just take any novel i please. There’s a nice new one I went to today that has a coffee shop built in. Totally get it; I like my e-ink reader, but can’t enjoyably read off my phone, etc. also agree on the library front; public libraries literally changed my life for the positive in so many ways and it’s super depressing that many communities don’t realize the power not just in the books and the access provided by public computers, but the shared nondenominational common space
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I like The Overcoat cuz it's short.
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Oct 26, 2021 02:55
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that's it i'm grabbing my kindle and reading books again
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Oct 26, 2021 04:12
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:that's it i'm grabbing my kindle and reading books again hell yeah!!!! i get hyperfixated on reading a few months a year and its always so satisfying
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Oct 26, 2021 04:13
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Who wants tonread a book about some drat frog
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Oct 26, 2021 04:19
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Nooner posted:Who wants tonread a book about some drat frog you better be talkin about the french book not wind in the willows nooner!!!!!!
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Oct 26, 2021 04:20
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I'd read about the bosom of a spacious cove
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Oct 26, 2021 04:20
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If it was written more than 50 years ago it probably isn't relevant to modern experience 
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Oct 26, 2021 04:46
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Maybw you need to read another book sid, its xalled the BIBLE
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Oct 26, 2021 05:10
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I opened a Gideon bible the other day to the part where you’re supposed to have the priest give your wife an abortion if you think she cheated on you—I didn’t realize that was in there (to be fair god will magically make the abortion potion not work if she was faithful (the priest switches it out I guess lol))
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Oct 26, 2021 05:13
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I'm reading I, Claudius right now and it's good.
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Oct 26, 2021 05:22
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Orlando Furioso has been stupendous for 489 years now. After chasing her around the known world, Orlando discovers his beloved Angelica has married some rando Arab soldier and gone back to China. It drives him stark raving mad. He strips off his clothes and then rampages naked across Europe, murdering everyone in his path, until Astolfo flies to the moon on a chariot pulled by two hippogriffs on loan from John the Baptist to recover his lost wits (because lost things inevitably wind up on the moon). I've read it three times in three different translation. I suggest the Guido Waldman prose one. The Inferno from The Divine Comedy is great, Purgatory is all right, and Paradise is rather dull. Don Quixote, I could never get through. Maybe the translation was bad but it bored me to tears. Les Misérables is the perfect book. A jot or tittle more or less would lessen it. Some say its explanatory diversions are tiresome and I say you're nuts. Moby-Dick, now, I will agree is exhausting in its descriptions of whales, whaling ships, and the practice of whaling, devoting -- at most -- 10% of the text to the actual plot.
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Oct 26, 2021 05:54
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Is The Exorcist considered a classic book? Because it's older than me and also really loving good.
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Oct 26, 2021 06:05
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Reading "A City of Two Tails" and it's got some real strong furry vibes for a book from the 19th century.
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Oct 26, 2021 06:16
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imma reread don quixote, thanks thread for inspiring me to read about a mans descent into his inner fantasy world
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Oct 26, 2021 06:34
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I read that book in jail and was called gay because the cover had some pink on it. Pretty good book.
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Oct 26, 2021 06:52
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Lord Decimus Barnacle posted:Same. Tried 3 times. Not sure why I stop though I feel like the pacing is quite slow after the big event, feels like the book could have been shorter Are the Harry Potter books considered classics yet cause I've been reading them for the first time
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Oct 26, 2021 07:15
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war of the worlds is a rad book about how getting colonized sucks and also has sweet mechs fighting a type of steam ship cool enough to be called a "naval ram"
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Oct 26, 2021 07:27
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I learned a lot about life and adulthood from reading Fight Club
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Oct 26, 2021 13:25
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Reading The Brothers Karamazov RN
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Oct 26, 2021 14:36
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I started the Power and the Glory by Graham Greene. It's about a drunk crypto-priest in 1920s Mexico on the run from an atheist assassin. P cool imo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_and_the_Glory
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Oct 26, 2021 14:47
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Its been said before but it needs to be said again Moby Dick is great. Does Focualt's Pendulum by Umberto Eco count as a classic?
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Oct 26, 2021 15:02
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wesleywillis posted:Robinson Crusoe I tried and tried to like it, but just couldn't get in to it. It was like reading someone's blog about their Minecraft playthrough, with some racism thrown in. Poohs Packin posted:Reading The Brothers Karamazov RN I need to give that a try, I absolutely loved Crime & Punishment and War & Peace. Those people saying they couldn't get through Crime and Punishment are crazy, I burned through it in a week.
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Oct 26, 2021 15:57
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The power and the glory and Foucault’s pendulum are both awesome, but tbqh I don’t think they count as Classic literature because they weren’t written with quills and they’re not older than my grandpa.
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Oct 26, 2021 16:08
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Also I am trying to re-read leviathan and haha holy poo poo is that excruciating.
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Oct 26, 2021 16:10
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Prof. Crocodile posted:The power and the glory and Foucault’s pendulum are both awesome, but tbqh I don’t think they count as Classic literature because they weren’t written with quills and they’re not older than my grandpa. foucault's pendulum is a bit recent to be called a "classic", sure, but i think the power and the glory classifies the same way this:  is a "classic car" now. maybe they don't belong to a certain "era" of literature or cars, but as time advances on, things that were new become old, and things that were old become desirable classics that represent a time gone by
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Oct 26, 2021 16:13
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Elman posted:It was like reading someone's blog about their Minecraft playthrough, with some racism thrown in. I remember hearing Russian literature has had some real serious issues with good translations like far more than most languages which are hit or miss with translations already but I don’t know anything about it beyond “the man in the pub”.
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Oct 26, 2021 16:39
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Everyone owes it to themselves to read Germinal by Emile Zola. I don’t hear enough people talk about it when the matter of “the classics” comes up.
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Oct 26, 2021 16:58
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wesleywillis posted:I read Frankenstein. This is one instance where the movie was better than the book. bob crusou fucks goats
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Oct 26, 2021 17:00
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I've read a dozen or two of Shakespearean plays and the fucker doesn't even speak English. Who's paying him the big bucks for this garbo?!?
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Oct 26, 2021 17:04
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Pocket Classics #lifehack
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Oct 26, 2021 17:11
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has anyone ever eaten a monte cristo? p good if i ask me
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Oct 26, 2021 17:13
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np19 posted:Everyone owes it to themselves to read Germinal by Emile Zola. I don’t hear enough people talk about it when the matter of “the classics” comes up. Souvarine ftw
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Prof. Crocodile posted:The power and the glory and Foucault’s pendulum are both awesome, but tbqh I don’t think they count as Classic literature because they weren’t written with quills and they’re not older than my grandpa.  Jack London was racist and stuff but he wrote dogs really well. Nobody got dog voice as good.
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Oct 26, 2021 17:19
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np19 posted:Everyone owes it to themselves to read Germinal by Emile Zola. I don’t hear enough people talk about it when the matter of “the classics” comes up. Nana is the best and I won't hear anything else E: also L'Œuvre but sad to read how Cezanne never spoke to him after it was published OMFG FURRY fucked around with this message at 17:27 on Oct 26, 2021 |
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Oct 26, 2021 17:24
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:I remember hearing Russian literature has had some real serious issues with good translations like far more than most languages which are hit or miss with translations already but I don’t know anything about it beyond “the man in the pub”. Oh yeah I did check which translations were recommended. A few of them were supposedly pretty bad. And I did read C&P in Spanish, for what it's worth.
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Oct 26, 2021 17:25
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I wrote a new book you guys should read actually, pretty sure it's gonna be a classic. It's called "The Baron of Christ Mountain"
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Oct 26, 2021 17:27
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The best book i was forced to read in school was probably Lord of the Flies. Loved that one. Least favorite was Wuthering Heights. I could never make it through, i just cliffs noted it.
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Oct 26, 2021 20:37
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i read david copperfield it was absolute trash, not a single levitation but the cake was cool
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Glad we all agree Moby dick owns
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