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beer pal posted:whts up yobbos heres what ive been reading. the calvino book winter traveler night is very silly and fun and good. u ever read a book and think wow the author really seemed like they were having a good time with this one. then i read the short stories collection exhalation by ted chiang and thought it was pretty good. i would describe it as "solid". i finally finished a scanner darkly by phillip k dick which was my book for at work and i didnt much like it, i found it very ugly in a way that i didnt enjoy. just this morning finished the sailor who fell from grace w/ the sea by yukio mishima & i dont know how to talk about a book like that so ill just say "its a wild one" The only mishima i've read so far was spring snow but i really enjoyed that one. should read the rest of those books at some point. Calvino owns. Love everything i've ever read of his.
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my nonfiction streak has continued with yasha levine's surveillance valley and today i just started the end of policing after finally getting a physical copy
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beer pal posted:the sailor who fell from grace w/ the sea by yukio mishima idk anythin bout this or the author but that's a dank title lol sry u didn't like pkd. I haven't been able to read much l8ly I'm becoming one or those. gotta stay trashed and reading freal ---------------- |
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beer pal posted:hell ya. u read any other calvino? probably gonna pick up invisible cities before too long invisible cities is pretty great and imaginative too, if you like that one I can also recommend Borges |
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ah yes, guy de borges
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take the moon posted:idk anythin bout this or the author but that's a dank title lol its a great title i love a nice long evocative title, others in this genre i like are "drive your plow over the bones of the dead" and "we have always lived in the castle" https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png |
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Gotcha you little bastard "KANGAROO JACK I FOUND YOU NOW U R NOT A DOG OR CAT OR COW KANGAROO JACK ITS YOU I HATE IT IS ABSOLUTELY NOT A G'DAY, MATE" Kaiser Schnitzel fucked around with this message at 21:01 on Jul 23, 2020
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xcheopis posted:The second in Lewis' space trilogy is decent, the final one not so much. KANGAROO JACK I FOUND YOU NOW U R NOT A DOG OR CAT OR COW KANGAROO JACK ITS YOU I HATE IT IS ABSOLUTELY NOT A G'DAY, MATE
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more falafel please posted:KANGAROO JACK I FOUND YOU NOW gently caress you jack, like seriously gently caress you |
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:Gotcha you little bastard I don't get it. The concrete floor is cold; the walls are bare |
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Jul 23, 2020 19:27
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xcheopis posted:I don't get it. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=1&threadid=3930934&perpage=40&pagenumber=19#post506711590
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:It’s part of the byob advent calendar nut is doing! Wow, that is unchill. |
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i'm reading a book about art forgeries called "art forgeries" and it's rather badly written but very interesting and well-sourced. i think the only kind of "true crime" books i enjoy reading are ones where only rich people are affected. e: oh i didn't know the writer was the lady from the antiques tv show but i guess it makes sense. also used to be married to a guy i know (of) through work. small country i guess. 
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beer pal posted:"we have always lived in the castle" this is a song i like i didnt kno it was a book ---------------- |
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bedtime/stoned reading: kafka on teh shore vape-walking book on tape: last winter we parted by fuminori nakamura ---------------- |
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im having a great time reading dracula
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beer pal posted:im having a great time reading dracula when I read Dracula I was like let’s get this lame gothic poo poo over with and two years later I had read it like three times because it owns
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Stormlight Archive and all Cosmere books Kingkiller Chronicles (RIP book 3 though) Dune (again)
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beer pal posted:im having a great time reading dracula i lost my frankenstein* on the bus  *) IT*S ACRTUALLY MY COPY OF "FRANKENSTEIN"
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beer pal posted:im having a great time reading dracula I think you left out a comma in this sentence beer pal posted:im having a great time reading, dracula there you go. he told me to tell you he's really proud of you, beer pal
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I tried to start the second portion of Savage Detectives by Robert Bolano today but I just found myself hating how the book is gonna be told for the next huge hunk. I think I’m just too dumb and wholly unfamiliar with poetry, let alone poets in Latin America specifically, so I’m abandoning it. I actually was getting heated at how inaccessible it felt to me.
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That was me with Borges - I was just reading two lines and getting angry at labyrinths. currently reading neuromancer... or trying to. I read 20 pages then fall asleep. That's mostly because my bed is too comfy and I refuse to read anywhere else, but still.
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nut posted:Robert Bolano I really enjoyed 2666 even though it was unfinished
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magic cactus posted:I really enjoyed 2666 even though it was unfinished ya i only picked up savage detectives because of how highly people speak of him but I just can't with savage detectives Musluk posted:That was me with Borges - I was just reading two lines and getting angry at labyrinths. Thanks, this made me feel a lot better and gives me the chance 2 move on to the next book 
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I just ordered two Procrastination Self Help Books. We'll see how far I get into those. Or if I ever open them. Also ordered Beneath the Rising: Genres: Horror fiction, Alternate history, Coming-of-age story, Fantasy Fiction, Urban fantasy, Occult Fiction So that should be fun.
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I just finished the left hand of darkness. It was pretty good, I enjoyed it. I felt there was a bit of unnecessary explaining with some of it, but I put that down to a product of its time, where maybe the audiences of the day needed the hours of the day or the words for dwellings explained to them. But after tapping the second asterisk or so, I just ignored them and got on with reading. I wonder how the original text handled it? Probably footnotes. Some bits were predictable but it was a good story overall, a bit allegorical, but not heavy about it, more just an examination of the human condition. Thanks for the recommendation! |
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Finger Prince posted:I just finished the left hand of darkness. It was pretty good, I enjoyed it. I felt there was a bit of unnecessary explaining with some of it, but I put that down to a product of its time, where maybe the audiences of the day needed the hours of the day or the words for dwellings explained to them. But after tapping the second asterisk or so, I just ignored them and got on with reading. I wonder how the original text handled it? Probably footnotes. Some bits were predictable but it was a good story overall, a bit allegorical, but not heavy about it, more just an examination of the human condition. I'm a bad sci fi fantasy fan because I haven't read Le Guin. I need to buckle down and read a few of her books.
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i just read The Elementals and it was real good, not sure if I'm gonna move on to House of Leaves or The Master and Margarita |
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I just finished the cheese and the worm, it's a lil history book about this guy named menocchio who loved in Italy in the 1500s. He read books and bothered everyone in his village about what they thought about God and reality and the church and eventually the church killed him for saying stuff like how the church was making up Bible stories. It was really good and I felt sad for mennochio even though they didn't kill him the first time he got in trouble instead they made him stay in his village and wear a shirt that said "ask me about my heresy" |
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Badactura posted:I just finished the cheese and the worm, it's a lil history book about this guy named menocchio who loved in Italy in the 1500s. He read books and bothered everyone in his village about what they thought about God and reality and the church and eventually the church killed him for saying stuff like how the church was making up Bible stories. It was really good and I felt sad for mennochio even though they didn't kill him the first time he got in trouble instead they made him stay in his village and wear a shirt that said "ask me about my heresy" my "ask me about my heresy" shirt has a lot of people asking questions already answered by my shirt ---------------- |
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I started the Selected Works of T.S. Spivet today and outside of the kid talking like a dickhead its very cool and fun
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like 90% of the way through dracula and he still hasnt used his catchphrase... must be saving it for the finale
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cda posted:my "ask me about my heresy" shirt has a lot of people asking questions already answered by my shirt There's a funny part where the inquisitors asked him why he took his shirt off and he's like "it's scratchy and nobody talks to me because they thought I was a heretic" Yeah mennochio, that's why they made you wear it. Can a mod change my name to mennochio I love this guy |
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I just binged the Borne series by Jeff Vandermeer (Southen Reach trilogy and many more) and all three books (Borne, The Strange Bird, Dead Astronauts) were excellent. Vandermeer has been called the 'weird fiction Thoreau' and it's very apparent why. The first book, Borne, lays out a rich tableau of a postapocalyptic world where bio/nanotech ruined everything after a company's overreaching destroyed everything. The Company's mistakes ran free a generation ago and have imposed a new, savage world order and scattered human survivors in The City scrounge for survival and deal in bits of biotech that augment their lives. Borne is the name of one of those bits of biotech that is taken in by a woman and grows to learn humanity from the outside-in and challenge the nature of free will, family, and existential dread through the lens of something that wants to be human but is anything but. Strange Bird and Dead Astronauts are quick reads that expand the world of Borne through the narratives of tangential characters. Every creature is fascinatingly yet believably bizarre, every character is unique and morally grey, and the setting is so expertly crafted and lived-in that the massive buoyancy of your suspension of disbelief only kicks in after you're done. Hard and soft sci-fi, god-tier experimental wordplay, monster horror, narratives that shift deftly between creatures and humans, a post-apocalyptic setting, and engrossing emotional exploration come together in wonderfully weird fiction. Can't recommend them enough. |
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Badactura posted:There's a funny part where the inquisitors asked him why he took his shirt off and he's like "it's scratchy and nobody talks to me because they thought I was a heretic" Lol. 1500s Italian dudes were cool |
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Pissed Ape Sexist posted:I just binged the Borne series by Jeff Vandermeer (Southen Reach trilogy and many more) I've heard a lot of good stuff about Vandermeer I should read his stuff because you make it sound pretty cool. Pissed Ape Sexist posted:Guido DiPlombus, of course I make-a the pipes, I dont-a believe in the virgin Mary, eyyy |
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Badactura posted:I've heard a lot of good stuff about Vandermeer I should read his stuff because you make it sound pretty cool. I'd read Borne, not the whole Borne trilogy, before diving into his longer mass-market stuff (Southern Reach trilogy-- Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance) because it'll give you a better sense of his weirdness and worldbuilding without having to invest too heavily in a world. Ignore the movie of Annihilation because there are some things that just can't be adapted to film. He's not for everyone but if you like the existential stuff in Borne and how he builds settings that hint at unknowable weirdness, you may like the Southern Reach trilogy. It's all long-form and a bit more satisfying but that's because each SR book focuses on a central character and their descent into giving up, instead of the Borne series narrative model of hopping between a giant mutant bear, a scientist with surgical symbiotic mice in his throat, a bioengineered shapeshifting weapon with the mind of a child, and a sentient invisibility cloak. |
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