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Heath posted:This post is from like 3 months ago but this was exactly my reaction to Camus. I was completely indifferent to The Stranger and I loved The Plague. I tried to read The Fall but the second person narrative was weird The Fall is his most interesting work, imo he does terrible things with the unreliable narrator
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I def wanna go back to it sometime soon. I just finished The Handmaid's Tale and enjoyed that a lot so perhaps I will revisit The Fall
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Needing something different, I found Of Mice and Men on my kindle and read it. I'm really glad that we didn't read this in high school, because I wouldn't have appreciated it. (We did have to read the Pearl, which I hated because I hated all the characters. But I was a pretty stupid and jaded teenager, so my opinion may have been terrible.) I already knew how it ended because we watched the movie in high school. But the ending still got me. Poor Lennie. I normally tear through a story, but for some reason, I had to go slow with this one. Something about the writing style, I guess?
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I haven't read The Pearl since high school either, but I think you're supposed to be critical of the characters at the very least since they're all succumbing to greed or whatever.
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That'd make sense. I think I got to the end and was disgusted. Like "wait, that's it? They're worse off than before?" I don't think I necessarily expected a happy ending, but I don't think I was expecting that.
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hi whats a good book for me to read that is available for free legitimately. im a big idiot whos read almost nothing
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jsoh posted:hi whats a good book for me to read that is available for free legitimately. im a big idiot whos read almost nothing Metamorphoses
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jsoh posted:hi whats a good book for me to read that is available for free legitimately. im a big idiot whos read almost nothing The Man Who Was Thursday, A Nightmare by G. K. Chesterton.
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I just finished The Sickness Unto Death and it is both more difficult and less interesting than Fear and Trembling but still pretty cool. Now I'm probably going to read some weird anarcho-primitivist essays because I love how crazy they are even if I'm frequently disappointed that their genocide advocation is always implicit and never explicit.
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jsoh posted:hi whats a good book for me to read that is available for free legitimately. im a big idiot whos read almost nothing Moby Dick
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jsoh posted:hi whats a good book for me to read that is available for free legitimately. im a big idiot whos read almost nothing Go on https://www.gutenberg.org search for Moby Dick, Notes from Underground, The Trial (Kafka), Bartleby the Scrivener, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners, or The Bible (KJV).
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Dec 4, 2015 01:45
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Go to the library all them books are free
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Dec 4, 2015 19:26
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CestMoi posted:I just finished The Sickness Unto Death and it is both more difficult and less interesting than Fear and Trembling but still pretty cool. Now I'm probably going to read some weird anarcho-primitivist essays because I love how crazy they are even if I'm frequently disappointed that their genocide advocation is always implicit and never explicit. which ones because against his-story against leviathan is not nearly as exciting as the design leads one to believe
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Guy A. Person posted:Go to the library all them books are free A lot of them do e-books now so you don't even need to leave the house!
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Dec 4, 2015 20:03
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but then you won't see the cute librarians
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Planetarium posted:which ones because against his-story against leviathan is not nearly as exciting as the design leads one to believe I've got that lined up but I'm currently reading some essays by Feral Faun who isn't as anarcho-primitivist as you'd think based on his name just sort of Stirnerist. My search for an anarcho-primitivist who actually says step one of their plan is the death of billions continues.
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CestMoi posted:I've got that lined up but I'm currently reading some essays by Feral Faun who isn't as anarcho-primitivist as you'd think based on his name just sort of Stirnerist. My search for an anarcho-primitivist who actually says step one of their plan is the death of billions continues. Read Ted Kaczynski
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CestMoi posted:I've got that lined up but I'm currently reading some essays by Feral Faun who isn't as anarcho-primitivist as you'd think based on his name just sort of Stirnerist. My search for an anarcho-primitivist who actually says step one of their plan is the death of billions continues. honestly I would skip it or preview it for free; if you have an okay history background you will know basically everything Perlman says i have been meaning to read wolfi landstreicher and will check out those essays
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CestMoi posted:Just do Invisible Cities again and keep doing it I liked that one He should do The Nonexistent Knight
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Smoking Crow posted:Read Ted Kaczynski CestMoi posted:My search for an anarcho-primitivist who actually says step one of their plan is the death of billions continues. Pentti Linkola basically wants to do that, but he's a deep ecologist rather than an anarcho primitivist(I think there's some overlap there but they're not the same thing). He also thinks the holocaust was good because it reduced the human population.
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a lot of anarcho-primatists call for human genocide but not a lot that have published (legit publishers bat least.,) will out right say it. so far dorris lessing's the good terrorist is ftw and some of the characters remind me of people i used to hang with.
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A human heart posted:Pentti Linkola basically wants to do that, but he's a deep ecologist rather than an anarcho primitivist(I think there's some overlap there but they're not the same thing). He also thinks the holocaust was good because it reduced the human population. Lmao awesome and also I agree.
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Stravinsky posted:a lot of anarcho-primatists call for human genocide but not a lot that have published (legit publishers bat least.,) will out right say it. so far dorris lessing's the good terrorist is ftw and some of the characters remind me of people i used to hang with. Yeah I guessed it was an assumed position that anyone that was a smart enough writer to seem legitimate was also smart enough to not really say. I just got annoyed with reading Bob Black and having him never commit to an actual position and then reading John Zerzan and having him constantly be like "it would be good if everyone was hunter gatherers and we all had a good time I will never mention how I plan to get 7 billion humans living off foraging".
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Planetarium posted:i have been meaning to read wolfi landstreicher and will check out those essays Feral Revolution has good essays and catchy phrases.
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Yeah human genocide and primitive society is pretty funny. Kind of reminds me of Baudrillard's fatal theories with the spectacle and commodities of mother nature being pushed to its catastrophic conclusion.
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Dec 6, 2015 00:32
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Meiosis by Calvino has the best twist of any short story I have ever read.
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I'm reading fear and trembling and it's quite good.
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I'm reading a book of futurist manifestos, which are cool if you want lots of hot blooded Italians ranting about how bad all other art is.
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A human heart posted:I'm reading a book of futurist manifestos, which are cool if you want lots of hot blooded Italians ranting about how bad all other art is. How many fascism boners have you seen
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Finally finished City on Fire after reading the last 300 pages in 12 hours (some sleep thrown in the middle there) and wow. That was masterful writing, almost perfect pacing, and such great characters. The ending got a little too ambiguous for me in some scenes, which was frustrating given how frenetic everything else was during that final part where everything is all coming together, but that was still one of the best books I've read in the last few years. Stunning prose. Now on to A Visit from the Goon Squad, for something shorter.
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CestMoi posted:Meiosis by Calvino has the best twist of any short story I have ever read. counterpoint: nabokov's 'the vane sisters'
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Isn't City on Fire the book that was supposed supposed to be THE BOOK OF THE YEAR Jonathan Franzens crappiest novel Purity has 3 times more ratings and better rating on amazon
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Italian futurists were the best because they thought war was the height of technology and art and they loved war, then war happened and they all joined up and went to war, and now there are no more Italian futurists.
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Actually only one or two of them got killed in the war, most survived but eventually dwindled out into irrelevancy(or stopped doing art in a futurist style) because Mussolini came to power and wasn't radical enough by their standards(mainly because he was a practical politician who had to make deals with existing political entities like the church).
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Futurism was a movement spearheaded by the Toad of Toad Hall of the art world.
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A human heart posted:I'm reading a book of futurist manifestos, which are cool if you want lots of hot blooded Italians ranting about how bad all other art is. The Technical Manifesto of Futurist Literature is really great it starts with "It is imperative to destroy syntax" and just gets cooler from there. Guy comparing F T Marinetti to Mr Toad; you'd better have meant that as a good thing.
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mallamp posted:Isn't City on Fire the book that was supposed supposed to be THE BOOK OF THE YEAR Better rating on Amazon you say? Well then I take it all back All the critics, based on my googling, either loved it or liked it a lot but thought it should have been a hundred pages or so shorter and that the ending didn't live up to the rest of the book. I loved it and thought the ending, while not wholly satisfactory, was still great. blue squares fucked around with this message at 14:02 on Dec 9, 2015 |
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mallamp posted:Isn't City on Fire the book that was supposed supposed to be THE BOOK OF THE YEAR Goodreads said Go Set a Watchman was the best novel of the year. Popular opinion on books means jack poo poo Also Novel of the year is pretty clearly A Little Life if we're going to go by abundant critical praise.
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Also Novel of the year is pretty clearly A Little Life if we're going to go by abundant critical praise. Huh. This is the first I have heard of this book. http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-subversive-brilliance-of-a-little-life
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Goodreads said Go Set a Watchman was the best novel of the year. Goodreads also ranks Harry Potter/Twilight/The Hunger Games against any classic novel you can name, and there was that one New York Times(?) poll where Atlas Shrugged was voted to be the greatest book ever written.
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