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RadicalTranslation posted:Currently working through Anthony Trollope's The Warden. I adore his writing style. Does anyone have any other suggestions for authors who write with a similar prose? If you're reading Trollope I assume you've already read all of Austen? Trollope is at best her apprentice. Still there are like four or five more Barsetshire books after that and they're all about as good as Warden so just read the rest in sequence and that should keep you busy for a while.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:If you're reading Trollope I assume you've already read all of Austen? Trollope is at best her apprentice. Aha! You know, I've never read any Austen because my mom as a kid (and still now) harps on and on about her. As a result, I have an image of Austen's books that has been tainted with my hate of historical drama/romance that I had as a kid. Even though I now appreciate both genres, I still associate negative feelings with Austen for no good reason. Though I do own everything by Austen, and so maybe it's finally time I crack into one. Which would you recommend to start? (I assume not her best because then it's all downhill afterwards)
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Jan 27, 2021 04:53
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RadicalTranslation posted:Aha! You know, I've never read any Austen because my mom as a kid (and still now) harps on and on about her. As a result, I have an image of Austen's books that has been tainted with my hate of historical drama/romance that I had as a kid. Even though I now appreciate both genres, I still associate negative feelings with Austen for no good reason. Oh, that's a tough call. Thing is each Austen novel is different. The main thing about Austen is that you need a lot of context to read her, but if you're reading Trollope you have a lot of that context (you know what a "living" is, etc.). Honestly probably start with Pride and Prejudice and then branch out. It's her most classically romantic but each of her other books is also interesting in some other way (Northanger Abbey is a marvelous send up of gothic novels, etc.) I did a Let's Read thread of Pride and Prejudice a few years back that I never got around to finishing before it got vault-locked but it should still serve as enough of an "assist" to help you get into the book if you're having trouble: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3662001&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1
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Jan 27, 2021 04:59
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Oh, that's a tough call. I think (?) my copies all have notes in the back that tend to fill in background information, so I should be mostly set but will absolutely give this thread a read. Even with Trollope some stuff is just assumed to be known given the time it was written (e.g. the various church scandals). Edit: reading through some of the past books of the month and so sad I missed a bunch of them haha. Decameron, Don Quixote, 1491, etc., all marvelous books. RadicalTranslation fucked around with this message at 05:08 on Jan 27, 2021 |
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Jan 27, 2021 05:06
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Oh, that's a tough call. serious question: since we are free of the shackles of Lowtax's desire to earn shekels can we revisit the timing of archive vaulting?
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Bilirubin posted:serious question: since we are free of the shackles of Lowtax's desire to earn shekels can we revisit the timing of archive vaulting? I think that's already happened actually, my robin hood thread lay fallow for like four months.
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Jan 27, 2021 14:10
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RadicalTranslation posted:I think (?) my copies all have notes in the back that tend to fill in background information, so I should be mostly set but will absolutely give this thread a read. If the threads are still open feel free to read now and bump em. The whole idea of keeping the list is developing curated reference threads of good poo poo.
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Jan 27, 2021 14:11
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Bilirubin posted:cool now write it off as insulation and start on the next wall whenever we buy a place instead of rent, I am so going to figure out a way to make an entire wall lined with custom bookshelves
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Jan 28, 2021 18:52
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Started reading a book that, on the back, advertises the photographs of dogs that the author uses to illustrate his points. There are zero photographs of dogs - or of anything - in the book, I guess because it's a book club edition? 
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Jan 30, 2021 12:55
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Love my parents garbage book club shelves
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Jan 30, 2021 13:55
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Carthag Tuek posted:Love my parents garbage book club shelves Book clubs publish a lot of decent stuff, for obvious reasons. Or do you mean the actual shelves are from the book club? Back in the day when you bought a bookshelf, the books would come with it. Very handy.
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Jan 30, 2021 14:12
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I do love them with an honest heart but they're funny Like they have five books by joseph heller, but not catch-22. Classic book club style There's a bunch of books that have obviously never been read, the pages are literally uncut The shelves are 1970s ikea, they're pretty nice
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Jan 30, 2021 14:39
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Carthag Tuek posted:Like they have five books by joseph heller, but not catch-22. Classic book club style Why exactly would a book club do that?
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Jan 30, 2021 15:27
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Why exactly would a book club do that? Don't book clubs usually do recent books? So if they joined the book club after Catch-22 came out, they wouldn't get Catch-22
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Jan 30, 2021 15:43
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Gripweed posted:Don't book clubs usually do recent books? So if they joined the book club after Catch-22 came out, they wouldn't get Catch-22 Oh I see. But all the book clubs I know (so, two) also sold their back catalogue so if you actually gave a poo poo you could order Catch-22.
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Jan 30, 2021 15:48
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The successful books are expensive for the book club so they usually get you all the lesser known works, at least the ones my parents were in. Or maybe my parent just always only ordered the cheaper ones. Which is fine tbh, I really like heller and I'm glad that I had access to them
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Jan 30, 2021 15:52
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Carthag Tuek posted:The successful books are expensive for the book club All domestic book clubs were owned by publishers so this wasn't an issue.
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Jan 30, 2021 15:59
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3D Megadoodoo posted:All domestic book clubs were owned by publishers so this wasn't an issue. The book club part of the company would still have to buy the books from the publishing part of the company.
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Jan 30, 2021 16:11
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I guess also they prefer if you buy the missing books separately
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Jan 30, 2021 16:35
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I thought it was just a joke about Catch-22 being the only good thing Heller wrote.
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Jan 30, 2021 21:28
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For some reason - in addition to Hugh Howey's Shift and Death in the Afternoon - I bought an Agaton Sax novel from the Salvation Army flea market. I remember reading one as a kid and liking it but it's actually pretty boring. Anyway I did some Googling and apparently the books were rather popular in the UK at the time? Seems like the author is really pandering to that audience so makes sense. Also cool to see the differences in the cover art, as always. Original Sax:  British Sax:  Finnish Sax:  (Not the same novel.) Anyway, buying kids' books as an adult with no kids is stupid, way to go dumb-rear end me.
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When I was a kid our living-room bookcase had two books in it that fascinated me because they had Disney characters on the covers. The one I actually read (and didn't really understand at the time) was Para leer al Pato Donald, the other I only read a few years ago; it was Urie Bronfenbrenner's Two Worlds of Childhood: US and USSR, which is actually also interesting.
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Feb 2, 2021 17:02
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What’s y’all’s opinions on Bukowski?
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Modest Mouse - Bukowski posted:... Bukowski.
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I like him, but yeah, he's definitely not a role model, he is a massive rear end in a top hat. his poetry (can be extremely misogynistic and bad) is sometimes really powerfully emotive in my humble opinion.
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Sandwolf posted:I like him, but yeah, he's definitely not a role model, he is a massive rear end in a top hat. his poetry (can be extremely misogynistic and bad) is sometimes really powerfully emotive in my humble opinion.
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Sandwolf posted:I like him, but yeah, he's definitely not a role model, he is a massive rear end in a top hat. his poetry (can be extremely misogynistic and bad) is sometimes really powerfully emotive in my humble opinion. My wife likes that kind of writer, so I was thinking of getting him one of Bukowski's books. Would you have any recommendation for a first time Bukowski read?
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Feb 4, 2021 06:11
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Still the best opinion of Bukowski
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Mordiceius posted:My wife likes that kind of writer, so I was thinking of getting him one of Bukowski's books. Would you have any recommendation for a first time Bukowski read? Post Office
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Mordiceius posted:My wife likes that kind of writer, so I was thinking of getting him one of Bukowski's books. Would you have any recommendation for a first time Bukowski read? I haven’t read any of his fiction and honestly I’m afraid to, but Love Is A Dog From Hell is a poetry collection with a romantic bend that I enjoyed? It’s still pretty hit or miss but when it hits it hits well.
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Sandwolf posted:I haven’t read any of his fiction and honestly I’m afraid to, but Love Is A Dog From Hell is a poetry collection with a romantic bend that I enjoyed? It’s still pretty hit or miss but when it hits it hits well. Ooh, I'll check that out. I think I am looking for poetry right now. Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Post Office Post Office sounds good, but I don't know if she'd want to dive straight into a novel or stick to bits poetry currently.
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I thought you were looking for a novel for some reason but if his poetry is an option, yes, go for that. It's all a better intro to Bukowski than any of the novels, even the mediocre stuff.
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Mordiceius posted:What’s y’all’s opinions on Bukowski? I think people go through at least 3 phases. 1. Holy poo poo, Bukowski is a genius! Being a drunk is so romantic! 2. Overrated, mediocre prose written by a wino (which is not glamorous AT ALL). 3. An amazing view into a lifestyle I'll never experience, akin to Emile Zola. Given where he was at in life, the prose is better than it has any right to be. Post Office is legitimately great with scenes that made me literally laugh out loud and one that I still think about every month or two (where he lets the birds out of the cage and one can't decide whether to fly away). regulargonzalez fucked around with this message at 07:00 on Feb 4, 2021 |
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Feb 4, 2021 06:58
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Women maybe
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bowmore posted:Women maybe Women is even more misogynistic than his other works. I say go straight to the source and just read Fante
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:Women is even more misogynistic than his other works. I say go straight to the source and just read Fante
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Man, Death in the Afternoon just makes Hemingway look like a complete rear end. I bet he would've been into My Little Pony and Reddit had he been born in the 1970s. "You have to have a high IQ to understand Rick & Morty" - -=#ERNEST42069[BTC]#=- e: My only experience with Bukowski is that my older brother has bought all his novels several times over because people keep borrowing them and not giving them back. I guess that says more about Bukowski readers than the author himself 
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I think Factotum is maybe a better intro than Post Office. It's more episodic.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:
I don't have any Bukowski, but I've just come to expect that no one ever returns books they borrow. I never loan a book I expect to see again. Maybe I just have lovely friends though
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