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post-feminist rimjob: Jan 15, 2005; There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either

Van Dis posted:

This forum has terrible taste but here goes nothing.

I'm on a cross-country bicycle trip and would appreciate recommendations for actual good books relevant to the places I'm riding through. For example, so far I have read:
Bill Bryson's The Lost Continent (before the trip)

Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose (through the Columbia River Gorge, Idaho, and parts of Montana)

Norman Maclean's A River Runs Through It and Other Stories (along the Blackfoot River itself and other parts of Montana)

John Fire's Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions (through the Indian reservations of South Dakota, including Pine Ridge)
And right now I'm blazing through On the Road. I am currently in Omaha and on my way through Des Moines, Kansas City, St. Louis, Nashville, Atlanta, then northeast through Richmond, DC, Philadelphia, New York, and finally Boston. Since you guys can't seem to read anything not in bold, let me just ask,

What literature do you recommend for going through those parts of America?

Keep your lovely science fiction, fantasy, airport books, milporn lit and all similar recommendations to your goddamn self, you worthless loving teenagers. I swear to Christ I will ride to your house and stab you with my spare spokes if you even think about posting that poo poo at me. I will tear your limbs off and beat you with them. I will kick a hole in your torso with my ironwoon legs. I will use your entrails as handlebar streamers. Why is this forum so obsessed with bad literature. It's like you are actually retarded, unable to read anything without a spaceship or elf babe on the cover, unable to think about words and sentences and paragraphs and narratives beyond "That was a cool fight/sex scene." God drat every single one of you.

(Also, I've read a ton of Mark Twain, which is what I'd recommend first to someone asking me this question, so don't bother recommending him. Thanks in advance!)

This may not be exactly what you're looking for, but have you tried A Song of Fire and Ice by George R. R. Martin?

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post-feminist rimjob: Jan 15, 2005; There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either

BABY FlNLAND posted:

The primary objective of this forum is actually GRRM evangelism. Please respect our cultural mores.

Hey Fuckshit: please do NOT troll The Book Barn. THanks.

# ¿ May 21, 2010 16:55

post-feminist rimjob: Jan 15, 2005; There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either

Dub Mapocho posted:

Hey! Book Barn! Let's Develop a Rhizomatic Model Of Plotting And Narrative! Then nobody will have to worry about spoilers

In a Derridean reading of A Song of Fire and Ice, the primary objective of the reader (or "lecteur") of George R. R. Martin is to acknowledge the extent to which R. R. Martin's opus can be viewed a multitude of different ways, depending on how the "reader" ("lecteur") interprets the cultural signifiers evoked by the novel, as well as the subsequent assumptions within not only the mind of the novel's "author" ("auteur")("George R. R. Martin"), but also in the "reader" ("lecteur") themself[ves]. Contextually, none of these interpretations can be materially proven to be any more or less correct than any other.

The only material fact that we can establish conclusively is that while George R. R. Martin's work purports to be "about" "a dynastic civil war for control of Westeros between several competing families," when properly read in the context of the deconstructive literary tradition spanning from the mid 20th century post-colonial scholarship to modern-day counterimperialistic/maoist third-worldist blogging, the novel can be best understood as being "about" the unknowing participation of bourgeois hierarchical assumptions which are complicit in the exploitation of the Third World.

# ¿ May 21, 2010 18:46

post-feminist rimjob: Jan 15, 2005; There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either

Dub Mapocho posted:

...normative gender traits...

Dub Mapocho posted:

...queer and trans theory...

Dub Mapocho posted:

...gay...

Dub Mapocho posted:

...turgid...

Case notes:

Patient's language, as well as fixation on slides 17 and 32 ("nectarine cross-section," "rear trunk assembly") plainly evident -- powerful manifestations of erotic fantasies of an anal-sadistic type?

Patient is noted to be parsimonious, obstinate, hoarding, and perfectionistic. Rec. further therapeutic monitoring.

# ¿ May 21, 2010 19:30

post-feminist rimjob: Jan 15, 2005; There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either

Dub Mapocho posted:

A wandering Jew for the digital age -- a neutered dog instinctively protecting its empty sack of testicular flesh -- Dub Mapocho's communal guilt for the death of his messiah and savior at the hands of his forebearers occasionally manifests itself in the form of Book Barn trolls or rooftop violin solos. I'm sorry guys. I'm sorry.

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

# ¿ May 21, 2010 19:52

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