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War and war, satantango and melancholy of resistance are all solid 5/5. How about them bela tarr movies though? I haven't seen em but just ordered wreckmeister harmonies (based on melancholy of resistance). Thinking of it as a sort of warm-up for satantango. Worth it? Jerome Agricola fucked around with this message at 22:19 on Jan 6, 2017 |
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ulvir posted:this year will be the year that I read krasznahorkai me too. I'd also like to read The Tale of Genji, Terra Nostra, and Against the Day this year. It'll be a challenge but I believe in myself.
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that guy thinks American Gods was really good and clever
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fridge corn posted:that guy thinks American Gods was really good and clever I think it's a lady. But anyway, I already found that website, just wondering if goons have any particular recommendations.
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Read Pedro Páramo you mofos.
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fridge corn posted:that guy thinks American Gods was really good and clever ... was it not good and clever?
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I started rereading it again when the trailer for the tv series came out, and it turned out pretty tiresome.
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i posted this earlier in the thread but i think the only two notable things about it were how clearly it's a comic book script turned into a novel (or gaiman has no idea how to write novels, i haven't read anything else by him) and how bungled the entire idea of american gods made flesh is. the passage with the taxi driver was really good though except for the incessant need to hypersexualize everything. it's not art if it doesn't end with two dudes blowing each other or a goddess eats someone with her vagina.
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I personally think American Gods was a fun book if not amazing and I think the TV show will probably follow that characterization. Along those lines, someone was asking about The Shadow of the Wind earlier. I can't say it's a fantastic book that really made me think, but drat if it wasn't a lurid and melodramatic page-turner - and that's what I think it was trying to be. The prose is a little purple - which may have been an effect of the translation - but it fits into that gothic/romantic pulp tradition very nicely.
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Chamberk posted:Mel I'm starting The Snow Child which you recommended earlier this year. It's pretty good/bleak so far. Yeah it's one of my favs. She has a new one I haven't gotten to yet.
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david crosby posted:me too. I'd also like to read The Tale of Genji, Terra Nostra, and Against the Day this year. It'll be a challenge but I believe in myself. Terra Nostra is great
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Pentaro posted:Read Pedro Páramo you mofos. this book owns & you can read it in like an hour
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Chamberk posted:Mel I'm starting The Snow Child which you recommended earlier this year. It's pretty good/bleak so far. i also read it based on mel's rec. it is very good
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david crosby posted:me too. I'd also like to read The Tale of Genji, Terra Nostra, and Against the Day this year. It'll be a challenge but I believe in myself. Good luck. Against the Day is taking me forever because it's so dense. Earnestly posted:... was it not good and clever? Sandman is so much better.
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fridge corn posted:that guy thinks American Gods was really good and clever i think she gave a glowing (or close to it) review to every book because not to upset ppl from that country
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Terra Nostra is great Uh oh.
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Burning Rain posted:i think she gave a glowing (or close to it) review to every book because not to upset ppl from that country Lol oh dear
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david crosby posted:me too. I'd also like to read The Tale of Genji, Terra Nostra, and Against the Day this year. It'll be a challenge but I believe in myself. I want to get through Mason & Dixon this year. Against The Day is probably going to be the one I leave for last, unless he releases a book this year.
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david crosby posted:Uh oh. 
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Franchescanado posted:I want to get through Mason & Dixon this year. Against The Day is probably going to be the one I leave for last, unless he releases a book this year. You...don't have any reason to think he will, do you? Have I somehow missed the signs? grabs entrails, chalks a circle
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david crosby posted:Uh oh. He's probably right on that one, despite his other opinions
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I'm halfway through Genji and it's still getting better but remains wildly incoherent
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I'm reading Pynchon's Slow Reader compilation of early stories. Apparently, he also thinks Crying of Lot 49 isn't very good.
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It's not. comparatively
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mdemone posted:You...don't have any reason to think he will, do you? Have I somehow missed the signs? For an author that likes writing novels with patterns, he seems to release 2 short novels then a big novel, and we haven't has a big one since Against The Day. Really it's just wishful thinking.
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Franchescanado posted:For an author that likes writing novels with patterns, he seems to release 2 short novels then a big novel, and we haven't has a big one since Against The Day. He's also getting up there and he might just be out of ammo for the big guns. Couldn't blame him if he just had fun with Inherent Vice and Bleeding Edge type of novels until hanging it up.
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So Marlon James is writing a fantasy trilogy. http://ew.com/books/2017/01/10/marlon-james-dark-star-fantasy-trilogy/ It's literally for 12-year-olds.
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Sounds pretty rad to me.
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Safety Biscuits posted:So Marlon James is writing a fantasy trilogy. It will be bad, but possibly less bad than fantasy written for adults.
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It is actually extremely cool and good that a black author is making a fantasy trilogy based on African mythology to shut up his dumb friend who didn't want black hobbits
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so basically fantasy Rashomon
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I finished Moby-Dick. It was good.
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Safety Biscuits posted:So Marlon James is writing a fantasy trilogy.
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Guy A. Person posted:It is actually extremely cool and good that a black author is making a fantasy trilogy based on African mythology to shut up his dumb friend who didn't want black hobbits What this guy said
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I'm looking for books with unreliable narrators, preferably ones that are somewhat "weird" along the lines of Kafka. Did Nabokov do any unreliable narrators other than in Lolita or Pale Fire?
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Man is fallible. Are not all narrators unreliable, in the end?
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Slackerish posted:I'm looking for books with unreliable narrators, preferably ones that are somewhat "weird" along the lines of Kafka. Did Nabokov do any unreliable narrators other than in Lolita or Pale Fire? I can't think of a story of his with a reliable narrator. For Next Nabokov, I'd suggest Ada.
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Slackerish posted:I'm looking for books with unreliable narrators, preferably ones that are somewhat "weird" along the lines of Kafka. Did Nabokov do any unreliable narrators other than in Lolita or Pale Fire? the good soldier
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Slackerish posted:I'm looking for books with unreliable narrators, preferably ones that are somewhat "weird" along the lines of Kafka. Did Nabokov do any unreliable narrators other than in Lolita or Pale Fire? transparent things is weird and short and very good, you could basically read burroughs' entire bibliography too depending on your tolerance for his eccentricities like his cut up technique or digressions about the pros and cons of mummification ('Perhaps a mummy's best friend is an Egyptologist: sealed in a glass case, kept at a constant temperature . . . but your mummy isn't even safe in a museum. Air-raid sirens, it's the blitz!') place of dead roads is about an association of gay cowboy assassins trying to bring america to its knees and invent space travel, told from the point of view of a time traveler who has a lot of gay sex and shoots a lot of guns.
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Slackerish posted:I'm looking for books with unreliable narrators, preferably ones that are somewhat "weird" along the lines of Kafka. Did Nabokov do any unreliable narrators other than in Lolita or Pale Fire? A Prayer for Owen Meany (J. Irving), Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me (R. Farina), Mother Night or Cat's Cradle (K. Vonnegut) The Toy Collector (J. Gunn) My Name Is Red (O. Pamuk) Any book by Daniel Handler
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