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So I'm reading a bunch of books that I should have already read, and I just finished Judith Butler's "Gender Trouble." I think it's strange how naively she treats her own metaphor of the drag show as a performance that reveals the constructedness of our own ontological conceptions of sex and gender when she applies such intense methods of deconstruction onto previous writer's metaphors. The same goes with her conception of "comedy" and "giddiness" as somehow necessarily subversive (and she hardly considers what the "content" of subversive performance might be). She doesn't seem to treat drag as if it may very well be part of the theatricalization of gender that a hegemonic discourse requires, nor does she historicize drag (I immediately think of Joan of Arc, Elizabethan Theatre practices, and Restoration Comedy). It's also unclear whether she thinks we should construct our gender identities (and inevitably "identities" in general) according to subversive, comedic principles; since for her, own can only "perform" a gender identity through ritual repetition, and so simply taking on a costume occasionally would not be truly subversive. I think her seemingly implied aesthetic affinity - for the postmodern embrace of multiplicitous identity vs. Kristeva's championing of the modern struggle with personal disintegration, or comedy vs. tragedy - blinds her occasionally to her own critique.
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Jun 7, 2010 19:37
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ONE TWO THREE TIMES TWO TO THE SIX/JONESING FOR YOUR FIX OF THAT LIMP BIZKIT MIX
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deety posted:"Swap" was probably a bad choice of words on GR's part. You don't need to find someone to trade one for one with. The requester pays for the shipping, and for every ten books of your own you send you get one free shipping credit. Once you list or request books, you'll have a little "karma" box on your profile that'll show how many books you've listed, sent off, and requested. Some users care about the karma and refuse requests from those who have really unbalanced stats, others don't give a drat. Oh, that's a lot better system tbh. Awesome. I might put some books up to swap then.
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Jun 7, 2010 23:06
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I imported my library into goodreads from some other book program, only to realize that I had stopped updating it a while back. http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/3838124 Alright have to go through and add everyone as friends now.
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Jun 8, 2010 00:59
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Donkey Darko posted:Oh, that's a lot better system tbh. Awesome. I might put some books up to swap then. Yeah, I just shipped my first book today to a guy who's shipped 0 books but requested like 15. Wonder if he's just selling them or something. Anyways doesn't matter to me, I don't care to keep books around. But it does look like a decent amount of fantasy/other novels are available for just the cost of shipping. Beats getting a cheap book off half.com that looks like it just got out of a paper shredder. http://www.goodreads.com/swap Go go go, request away!
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Jun 8, 2010 03:06
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In the Feedback forum over there, a few people reported getting requests from an account that had received hundreds of books but not shipped any. The person who sent books off to them googled the address and it matched a used bookshop's. The oddest thing about that thread, to me, were the number of people that didn't seem to give a drat about the idea of a bookseller stocking themselves through the swap. I think they've added a maximum number of open requests you can have at once since then.
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Jun 8, 2010 04:44
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I wouldn't give a drat about a second-hand book seller taking my old paperbacks, so long as they were upfront about it. If it were a particularly popular book, I might be tempted to hold out for someone who genuinely wants to read it, however. Hell, if I wanted money for my old paperbacks I'd stick them on my eBay account; if someone is going to take them off my hands and all I have to do is post them, I can't complain.
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Jun 8, 2010 09:40
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deety posted:a bookseller stocking themselves through the swap That sounds like a really lovely thing to do, making money off it. On top of never giving anything back.
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Jun 8, 2010 13:38
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LooseChanj posted:That sounds like a really lovely thing to do, making money off it. On top of never giving anything back. I agree. it is taking advantage of people's' goodwill, and contrary to the reciprocal nature of the site. Too many free riders and the system will collapse.
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Jun 8, 2010 15:24
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What about a thread about detective/mystery fiction; would there be any interest? I'd start one myself but I've never started a thread in SA before and I might not be enough of a TBB regular to be comfortable doing so.  Re: the kerfuffle a few pages back -- I'm also very interested in travel books, such as the works of Bill Bryson, Paul Theroux, etc. New thread or discuss here?
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Jun 13, 2010 18:42
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I'd certainly be interested. I've read a lot of older detective fiction (Chandler, Hammett, etc.) but I haven't really followed the genre into the modern age. I'd like to see what other authors I should check out.
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Jun 13, 2010 19:54
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That'd work; I tend to favour British authors anyway.  I'd be happy to start a thread if no one objects?
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Jun 13, 2010 20:28
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When you guys first started a goodreads account, did you just start recording books you read from that point on or actually enter in everything from your past read bookshelves/libary?
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Jun 14, 2010 13:47
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ultrachrist posted:When you guys first started a goodreads account, did you just start recording books you read from that point on or actually enter in everything from your past read bookshelves/libary? I entered a bunch of stuff that I remembered reading fairly recently. I didn't enter everything I had ever read.
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Jun 14, 2010 14:01
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My GR account is only what I've read since I started it. I keep thinking about putting in things I remember well enough, but I never get around to it.
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Jun 14, 2010 14:28
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I need ideas for the book of the month poll I'm planning on posting tomorrow, por favor.
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Jun 14, 2010 15:42
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LooseChanj posted:I need ideas for the book of the month poll I'm planning on posting tomorrow, por favor. Hopscotch (Cortazar), The Good Soldier Svejk, Suite Francaise, The Voyeur (Robbe-Grillet)
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Jun 14, 2010 16:35
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LooseChanj posted:I need ideas for the book of the month poll I'm planning on posting tomorrow, por favor. Ferdydurke, Witold Gombrowicz.
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Jun 14, 2010 17:19
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LooseChanj posted:I need ideas for the book of the month poll I'm planning on posting tomorrow, por favor. Accelerando by Charles Stross It's available for free! http://manybooks.net/titles/strosscother05accelerando-txt.html
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Jun 14, 2010 18:13
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LooseChanj posted:I need ideas for the book of the month poll I'm planning on posting tomorrow, por favor. I'm reading Henry Miller: Tropic of Cancer atm, I might as well suggest that.
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Jun 14, 2010 19:17
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7 y.o. bitch posted:Hopscotch (Cortazar), The Good Soldier Svejk, Suite Francaise, The Voyeur (Robbe-Grillet) Svejk is a good call.
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Jun 15, 2010 12:06
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7 y.o. bitch posted:The Good Soldier Svejk There has to be a freebie version somewhere, someone find it.
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Jun 15, 2010 13:15
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LooseChanj posted:I need ideas for the book of the month poll I'm planning on posting tomorrow, por favor. The Leenane Trilogy by Martin McDonagh also yeah tropic of cancer is really good
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Jun 15, 2010 13:16
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LooseChanj posted:There has to be a freebie version somewhere, someone find it.
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Jun 15, 2010 17:30
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inktvis posted:Published in 1923, so maybe it falls under the same extension of copyright that's keeping the last volumes of Penguin's new Proust off the shelves in the US. Something about copyright being extended to 95 years after the artist's death, that being 2018 in this case. I am all for copyright protection (my livelihood depends on it)m but give me a loving break. 95 years is ridiculous. Even 70 is pretty drat long. This goes beyond the original point of copyright protection. While the original miiight be out of (c), the translations probably aren't. I just saw that the Malazan book of the fallen thread has almost 5000 posts. The mind boggles. What the hell are they talking (more likely, arguing) about in there? (I'm too scared to look) therattle fucked around with this message at 15:13 on Jun 17, 2010 |
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Jun 15, 2010 19:34
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Big thank you to my man Bret Easton Ellis for charging $26 for a sequel to Less than Zero that is less than 170 pages long. Dap, homey
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Jun 17, 2010 19:19
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To be fair, I don't think price is in the author's control most of the time, isn't pricing a publisher's decision?
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Jun 18, 2010 02:30
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Publisher or bookseller depending on the arrangement. But yeah almost never the author.
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Jun 18, 2010 04:02
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In that case thanks for calling your novella a novel, Sunglass Lord of the Eighties
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Jun 18, 2010 05:21
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Book prices are determined by supply and demand just like everything else, hth.
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Jun 18, 2010 05:29
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7 y.o. bitch posted:Book prices are determined by supply and demand just like everything else, hth. That actually helps a lot. Thanks!
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Jun 18, 2010 05:40
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This isnt entirely the right thread for this but I didnt feel confident, or see a big enough demand, in starting a new one just for this. I've recently started buying books and setting aside the time to read them and I'm on the lookout for new authors. I remember one sci-fi author that was recommended in a sci-fi thread here long ago, it was an "Asian" sounding name which I think was in the format of "A.A. Aaaaaaa" although I could be wrong. He had written a series, possibly hard sci-fi, everybody was raving about how awesome it was. At the time I even went into a local bookstore and asked for it by name but I cant for the life of me remember it or the books title and its driving me up the wall.
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e: I don't know why I thought this was the grad school thread.
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THRILLED 2B HERE posted:This isnt entirely the right thread for this but I didnt feel confident, or see a big enough demand, in starting a new one just for this. Your description is pretty vague, but are you possibly talking about the Mars series (Red Mars/Green Mars/Blue Mars) by Kim Stanley Robinson? I guess Kim is sorta Asian sounding although he's not Asian as far as I know.
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THRILLED 2B HERE posted:This isnt entirely the right thread for this but I didnt feel confident, or see a big enough demand, in starting a new one just for this. name like that has to be A. A. Attanasio
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Apologies for being so vague, its partly whats fustrating me so much that I remember so little. I dont remember anything of the names, just the format I think was two initials then a surname, although I may be wrong and it was a three name affair. It was pretty exotic, not something like "kim" or "lee". I remember having to give the woman at the bookstore the title of the book as I didnt have any hope of spelling the authors name. For some reason I keep thinking of "A Song of Ice and Fire" being mentioned along with this author despite it being fantasy. I've trawled various sites online and even spent a good while reading through a list of published sci-fi authors in the hope i'd see the name but alas, i've not found it. Posting here was a last ditch effort on the off chance somebody would make sense of my vague ramblings and pull the name out of somewhere. It was definitely here in a "Reccommend me sci-fi/fantasty authors" thread but it was a long time ago, more than two years now I think. THRILLED 2B HERE fucked around with this message at 16:58 on Jun 20, 2010 |
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Jun 20, 2010 16:56
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THRILLED 2B HERE posted:I dont remember anything of the names, just the format I think was two initials then a surname, although I may be wrong and it was a three name affair. All I can think of now is R.B. BAPPERCHAPS from that sci-fi book photoshop thread.
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edit: nm
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Jun 20, 2010 19:04
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Oh, and I FINALLY got around to making that thread: The butler did it: mysteries and detective fiction.
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Drimble Wedge, why did you close that thread? People were responding to it and seemed interested. For my part, I don't see why we can't have discussions about feminism's relationship to the mystery genre, and I would have liked to hear your defense to what I thought were valid points about the genre. I mean, it did seem like you put a lot of effort into it. You also have no obligation to respond to me, as well, in the thread.
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Yes, you're right. I got a little sore. I didn't spend an hour typing all that up only to get accused of calling someone a self-righteous oval office (a noun I never used). I'll pry it back open and respond once I've cooled off a little.
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