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Bleeding Edge was probably my least favorite Pynchon book. I thought I would love it a little more since it takes place in my own coming-of-age wheelhouse rather than being set in the 60s or whatever but I found that to actually be a detriment. None of the characters are even slightly memorable to me. It could just be that tech stuff bores me in general though
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I am about halfway through Dictionary of the Khazars (the neutral version I guess since I got it through the Kindle Library) and it is really good. Any tips on ways to keep track of different meta-plots or should I just let stuff wash over me? Right now I have just been reading and enjoying the writing then if I recognize some recurring character I am like "oh yeah I remember that dude!"
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May 12, 2015 20:39
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Guy A. Person posted:I am about halfway through Dictionary of the Khazars (the neutral version I guess since I got it through the Kindle Library) and it is really good. Any tips on ways to keep track of different meta-plots or should I just let stuff wash over me? Right now I have just been reading and enjoying the writing then if I recognize some recurring character I am like "oh yeah I remember that dude!" You really can just read it however you want. I flipped back and forth a lot to crossreference people, though it is probably harder to do that with an ebook. Reading one of the sections all the way through is fine, too, though. A really drat good book.
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Yeah, I might end up buying a physical copy as well to flip around, it really is great. I definitely want to go back through the 3 main sections for Brankovich, Masudi and Cohen, now that I see how they all tie together. Also probably the Ateh sections to compare how she is described in each book. Really I just kinda want to reread the whole thing haha.
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May 13, 2015 00:21
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What's the deal with the different versions? I think I have the female version lying in a box.
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May 13, 2015 01:01
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thehomemaster posted:What's the deal with the different versions? I think I have the female version lying in a box. Its a single line. not very exciting honestly, kind of gimmicky.
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May 13, 2015 01:10
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Guy A. Person posted:I am about halfway through Dictionary of the Khazars (the neutral version I guess since I got it through the Kindle Library) and it is really good. Any tips on ways to keep track of different meta-plots or should I just let stuff wash over me? Right now I have just been reading and enjoying the writing then if I recognize some recurring character I am like "oh yeah I remember that dude!" The plots add up only marginally, I wouldn't worry about it.
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Guy A. Person posted:I am about halfway through Dictionary of the Khazars (the neutral version I guess since I got it through the Kindle Library) and it is really good. Any tips on ways to keep track of different meta-plots or should I just let stuff wash over me? Right now I have just been reading and enjoying the writing then if I recognize some recurring character I am like "oh yeah I remember that dude!" You can take the book apart and make schizoid charts all over your walls with multicolored yarn connecting poo poo to each other or you could read it casually and just bask in the weirdness. Whatever floats your boat.
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May 13, 2015 22:50
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So I read a lot of Real Literature, but I'm still a loving Child, please help?
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May 16, 2015 23:10
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Pursuant to the thread title, I just finished Lolita.
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May 18, 2015 21:39
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I read a lot of Real Literature and I'm still loving a child, so Hey speaking of which does anyone else want to talk with me about Maldoror. No one ever wants to talk with me about Maldoror.
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May 19, 2015 02:11
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Kinbote is literature's greatest villain
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May 19, 2015 02:13
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corn in the bible posted:Kinbote is literature's greatest villain It's robotnik backwards.
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May 19, 2015 09:21
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Anyone into Michael Ondaatje? I read In the Skin of a Lion awhile back, really enjoyed it and I've been thinking about reading The English Patient. Some people say it's boring, but I wonder if that's the influence of the movie?
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May 19, 2015 10:51
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Just wanna say that I'm pretty goddamn psyched that Laszlo K. won the Booker and more of his stuff's being translated.
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http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/07/03/thawing-out/ So I ran into this article on Soviet literature and I hadn't really heard of any of it besides Bulgakov. Are any of those Soviet authors worth tracking down or were they only red because the Soviet Union was the big bad? I read Master and the Margarita and enjoyed it but I think the most fascinating thing about it was that it was not published until after Stalin's death.
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May 26, 2015 19:18
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Kent Haruf's last novel came out today 
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May 26, 2015 19:37
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wangvicous posted:http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/07/03/thawing-out/ Doctor Zhivago,Day in Life of Ivan Denishovic, and some Akhmatova collection should be good enough unless you have deeper soviet interest. (This is not spaceship thread but maybe you're interested in We,Solaris,Roadside Picnic - big 3 of soviet scifi) Next step: Mayakovsky, Isaac Babel,Moscow to the End of Line
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May 26, 2015 21:23
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Babel's Red Cavalry story collection is excellent, just read the first story in the book ('Crossing the River Zbrucz') off the Amazon preview pages and that'll be enough to tell you whether it's your kinda thing, probably
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May 27, 2015 01:13
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BeanBandit posted:Uhhh, if you think Terry Pratchett's latest isn't the Ulysses of our time, then I don't know what to tell you OP. Just started reading Disk world at the recommendation of a friend. Couldn't get into The Color of Magic, but I'm really liking Going Postal. What should I read next?
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May 27, 2015 02:50
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Smrtz posted:Just started reading Disk world at the recommendation of a friend. Couldn't get into The Color of Magic, but I'm really liking Going Postal. What should I read next? Wrong thread friend, but I recommend Mort
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Smoking Crow posted:Wrong thread friend, but I recommend Mort Ahh, sorry. I just made my account earlier yesterday, so I guess I'm still learning... I'll grab it on Amazon. Thanks for the recommendation!
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May 27, 2015 15:33
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Smrtz posted:Just started reading Disk world at the recommendation of a friend. Couldn't get into The Color of Magic, but I'm really liking Going Postal. What should I read next? The Iliad, The Aeneid, The Bible (KJV).
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May 27, 2015 15:56
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Nanomashoes posted:The Bible (KJV).
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May 27, 2015 17:57
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mallamp posted:Hebrew version actually, translations are for plebs Septuagint 4 lyfe
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May 27, 2015 18:06
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Smrtz posted:Just started reading Disk world at the recommendation of a friend. Couldn't get into The Color of Magic, but I'm really liking Going Postal. What should I read next? Wrong thread indeed but if you want a very basic Big Boy Lit for Fantasy Nerds suggestion, start with Borges.
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Smrtz posted:Ahh, sorry. I just made my account earlier yesterday, so I guess I'm still learning... You want the Terry Pratchett thread, or the general SFF thread. Borges is a solid recommendation anyway though.
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I have read very very little classic literature, reccomend me a good first book to start with please.
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Quandary posted:I have read very very little classic literature, reccomend me a good first book to start with please. What types of books do you like already
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Quandary posted:I have read very very little classic literature, reccomend me a good first book to start with please. Graham Greene. Nothing too convoluted in prose or structure. I would recommend The Power and the Glory, The Comedians, or the collection Twenty-One Stories.
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May 29, 2015 03:03
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Raymond Chandler. Brisky, punchy prose with some great wit, and it's fun trying to untangle the plots.
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Been reading One Hundred Years of Solitude. Only four chapters in, and I'm already completely captivated by the goings on of Macondo and the Buendia family. I find it fun how cram packed each individual chapter is so far. Maybe it's just because I came off of reading The Big Sleep, but each chapter here feels more like an individual little short story than what I'm typically used to reading in a novel.
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Raxivace posted:Been reading One Hundred Years of Solitude. Only four chapters in, and I'm already completely captivated by the goings on of Macondo and the Buendia family. Gabriel Garcia Marquez is amazing. He is the master of magic realism. I'd also recommend his The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_a_Shipwrecked_Sailor). It's a short read. I came to this thread to recommend a book by Mika Waltari, it's called Sinuhe, the Egyptian. It tells a story from the perspective of an Egyptian physician living in the times of the Pharaohs (right after Akhenaten's death). It's loving awesome.
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Quandary posted:I have read very very little classic literature, reccomend me a good first book to start with please. Gogol's short stories, particularly The Nose and The Overcoat. There's a Penguin Classics with those and Nevsky Prospekt, Diary of a Madman and the play The Revizor. They're easy and amusing, but absolutely foundational to all of 19th century and modern Russian literature.
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janssendalt posted:Gabriel Garcia Marquez is amazing. He is the master of magic realism. I'll have to look into that one. Is The General and His Labyrinth good? The Wikipedia article made it sound pretty neat, so I was thinking about ordering a copy.
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Raxivace posted:I'll have to look into that one. Is The General and His Labyrinth good? The Wikipedia article made it sound pretty neat, so I was thinking about ordering a copy. His best book is Love in the Time of Cholera if you want to follow up on 100 Years. 100 Years is the classic, but goddamn if Love in the Time of Cholera isn't the masterpiece His novellas are pretty great too, In Evil Hour and Chronicle of a Death Foretold are both quick reads that are fantastic.
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Quandary posted:I have read very very little classic literature, reccomend me a good first book to start with please. You can't go wrong with these: Moby Dick Robinson Crusoe Brave New World The Catcher in the Rye 1984 The Odyssey Don Quixote The Divine Comedy Dracula The Old Man and the Sea The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Oliver Twist Some are rather more lighter reading than the others, but they are all still compelling stories.
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janssendalt posted:You can't go wrong with these: That is literally about four years worth of reading, and "compelling story" is about the stupidest loving description you could come up with for, like, Dante or Homer. And the easily approachable books out of those are bad.
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Mel Mudkiper posted:His best book is Love in the Time of Cholera if you want to follow up on 100 Years. I accidentally picked up LEaf Storm once thinking it was something else and that's a good one too.
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