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what's the name of the guy who secretly wrote a super long, super terrible book series complete with illustrations, only discovered after his death? Google is failing me. I think it was fantasy
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Jun 24, 2021 01:02
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Aardvark! posted:what's the name of the guy who secretly wrote a super long, super terrible book series complete with illustrations, only discovered after his death? Google is failing me. I think it was fantasy I think you are failing Google. I just pasted "guy who secretly wrote a super long, super terrible book series complete with illustrations, only discovered after his death" into the search bar and hey presto Henry Darger!
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Jun 24, 2021 01:05
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I think you are failing Google. I just pasted "guy who secretly wrote a super long, super terrible book series complete with illustrations, only discovered after his death" into the search bar and hey presto! Lmfao, sure enough. I tried all sorts of subsets of all of that info but there he is, first result. Henry Darger. God drat it
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Jun 24, 2021 01:08
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Aardvark! posted:Lmfao, sure enough. I tried all sorts of subsets of all of that info but there he is, first result. Henry Darger. God drat it Mind you, from my experience, Googling like that is pretty much fifty-sixty. Anyway, I have to say his art is pretty mesmerising.
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Jun 24, 2021 02:40
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drat, that is a pretty heavy story.
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Jun 24, 2021 02:46
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Mind you, from my experience, Googling like that is pretty much fifty-sixty. Anyway, I have to say his art is pretty mesmerising. I think googling for my job has convinced me that anything more than a couple of terms at once never brings back anything.  Rand Brittain posted:drat, that is a pretty heavy story. It is pretty fascinating. I got linked it at some point here years ago and it's still something I think about.
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Jun 24, 2021 02:51
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Aardvark! posted:I think googling for my job has convinced me that anything more than a couple of terms at once never brings back anything. Googling for work (my work, that is) has taught me that Google is absolutely 100% geared towards people not searching for anything of practical use or importance. Anyway, I just glanced at the foreword to The Clan of the Cave Bear and the very first sentence itof calls Jean M. Auel a fatty 
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Jun 24, 2021 02:59
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Do we have a poetry thread? Where do I start with poetry if my knowledge is bound to the big names I learned in middle school? I went to a Christian school so my range in authors was stunted at a young age. Looking for shorter (1 page or less) poetry about love, nature, whatever evokes emotion, but I’m unfamiliar with anything less than a century ago so modern stuff is very welcome.
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Jun 24, 2021 04:08
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Rolo posted:Do we have a poetry thread? Where do I start with poetry if my knowledge is bound to the big names I learned in middle school? I went to a Christian school so my range in authors was stunted at a young age. Look for anthologies? Good way to get a sample of a lot of poets at once, and the ones intended for academic use will have good supplementary information.
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Jun 24, 2021 04:26
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Look for a Norton anthology
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Jun 24, 2021 04:33
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Real Lit Thread!
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Jun 24, 2021 06:37
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Dark Mage posted:How bad? The premise sounds close Stephen King's The Stand. That post was based on 9% of a very long book and let me tell you, it got a lot better. Some interesting twists and turns, some fun ideas. However, there was far too much cliche nonsense. Some of the characters were complete caricatures. I wouldn't recommend it and I rather wish I hadn't read/paid money for it.
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Jun 24, 2021 07:22
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Aardvark! posted:what's the name of the guy who secretly wrote a super long, super terrible book series complete with illustrations, only discovered after his death? Google is failing me. I think it was fantasy calling In the Realms of the Unreal a 'series' is fairly bizarre.
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Jun 24, 2021 10:41
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:That post was based on 9% of a very long book and let me tell you, it got a lot better. Some interesting twists and turns, some fun ideas. However, there was far too much cliche nonsense. Some of the characters were complete caricatures. I wouldn't recommend it and I rather wish I hadn't read/paid money for it. It actually got better but still ended up ducking? That's a shame. That book is a hefty time investment.
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Jun 24, 2021 14:20
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Antivehicular posted:Look for anthologies? Good way to get a sample of a lot of poets at once, and the ones intended for academic use will have good supplementary information. regulargonzalez posted:Look for a Norton anthology Wow these are expensive. I can rent one from Amazon for 20 bucks. Edit: oh is this considered a textbook? Edit2: it’s over 2300 pages holy cow. Rolo fucked around with this message at 15:22 on Jun 24, 2021 |
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Jun 24, 2021 15:20
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A human heart posted:calling In the Realms of the Unreal a 'series' is fairly bizarre. drat, if only I had admitted not even remembering the name of it, this embarrassing mistake could have been avoided
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Jun 24, 2021 15:27
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Dark Mage posted:It actually got better but still ended up ducking? That's a shame. That book is a hefty time investment. It's so nothing that it just clips by, though. Some books have high page counts but can be easily chugged. Sort of like a obscene flagon of extremely light beer.
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Jun 24, 2021 15:36
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Rolo posted:Wow these are expensive. I can rent one from Amazon for 20 bucks. The Voice That Is Great Within Us is a solid anthology for American poets. A brief search on BetterWorldBooks shows some Norton Anthologies of poetry starting at $5. Link 1 2. Modern 3. Post-modern I've bought copies of Kenneth Koch's "Making Your Own Days" as gifts for friends a couple of times. It's written for both people interested in learning about poetry for reading or for writing, and the 2nd half is a solid little anthology with annotations to help guide readers into some things to look at. Also about $5 on BWB. If you like podcasts, listen to Michael Silverblatt's Bookworm (using the KCRW app has all of the backlog from the past few decades for free), and just pick a random episode with a poet guest. They'll read some of their poems, they'll talk about poems and poets they like, and it's casual and informative. The New Yorker Poetry Podcast is also good for this. A poet comes on and reads a poem they wrote and a poem they admire, and they discuss it. Posters could list poets they like, but it'd just be like them naming favorite bands. You might like some, you might not like others. Specifically poetry about nature, I'd say "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek" by Annie Dillard, "Leaves of Grass" by Walt Whitman, W.H. Auden, Wallace Stevens, and some John Ashbery. I re-read my Oxford World's Classics copy of Les Fleur du Mal by Charles Baudelaire often. The left side is always the original French and the right side is McGowan's translation in English. Franchescanado fucked around with this message at 15:41 on Jun 24, 2021 |
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Jun 24, 2021 15:39
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Rolo posted:Wow these are expensive. I can rent one from Amazon for 20 bucks. They're so, so good, I've had some from my community college classes and they become all I read in my free time during those semesters. Not just the works themselves but essays, biographies, etc.
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Jun 24, 2021 15:39
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Rolo posted:Wow these are expensive. I can rent one from Amazon for 20 bucks. Check local used bookstores, that's where all my Norton anthologies were acquired.
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Jun 24, 2021 15:53
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regulargonzalez posted:Check local used bookstores, that's where all my Norton anthologies were acquired. Thrift stores close to a college campus, too, if that's an option.
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Jun 24, 2021 15:58
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We have a university in my town so I'll call around and find a used one. All these posts are gold and what I was hoping for. Edit1: Even the used market here is nuts. Got the Norton one for 6 bucks shipped thanks to Franchescanado's links, thank you! Also Rolo fucked around with this message at 17:54 on Jun 24, 2021 |
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Jun 24, 2021 16:32
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Rolo posted:Do we have a poetry thread? Where do I start with poetry if my knowledge is bound to the big names I learned in middle school? I went to a Christian school so my range in authors was stunted at a young age. e e cummings is still my favorite poet. Some of his stuff is straight up nonsense but some of it just HITS and completely captures the human condition ... damnit now I'm sad that my book of his complete poems is back at my folk's place and not here. I don't recall the title of my favorite poem. 
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Jun 24, 2021 17:54
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Rolo posted:Do we have a poetry thread? Where do I start with poetry if my knowledge is bound to the big names I learned in middle school? I went to a Christian school so my range in authors was stunted at a young age. Yes, we do have a poetry thread. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3851808
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Jun 24, 2021 18:27
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Jun 24, 2021 18:39
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Rolo posted:Do we have a poetry thread? Where do I start with poetry if my knowledge is bound to the big names I learned in middle school? I went to a Christian school so my range in authors was stunted at a young age. Literally the only love poem I remember (not the whole poem, just that it existed, I just found it via Google [which isn't hard to do when you remember the title of the poem  ]):Jenny Kiss’d Me by Leigh Hunt Jenny kiss’d me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in! Say I’m weary, say I’m sad, Say that health and wealth have miss’d me, Say I’m growing old, but add, Jenny kiss’d me. You can say it's hopelessly twee but it's a loving love poem so  e: actually, it might not even be a love poem. I don't know who Jenny is. 3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 21:06 on Jun 24, 2021 |
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Jun 24, 2021 20:54
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StrixNebulosa posted:e e cummings is still my favorite poet.
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Jun 24, 2021 22:40
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Has anyone read the Accursed Kings series? I've just finished the first three and enjoyed them quite a lot.
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Jun 25, 2021 02:24
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Do the
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Jun 25, 2021 05:09
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Aardvark! posted:drat, if only I had admitted not even remembering the name of it, this embarrassing mistake could have been avoided I mean it's a bit odd to call a celebrated outsider artist's insanely long novel scrawled on sheets of paper a series, it's not like he was writing for publication.
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Jun 25, 2021 09:26
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A human heart posted:I mean it's a bit odd to call a celebrated outsider artist's insanely long novel scrawled on sheets of paper a series, it's not like he was writing for publication. If it makes you feel any better, I also wouldn't call it a series now that I remember it was an insanely long novel scrawled on sheets of paper. AARD VARKMAN fucked around with this message at 16:17 on Jun 25, 2021 |
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Jun 25, 2021 15:47
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One of the best examples of outsider art novels I’d ever seen was a manuscript submitted to the media company I used to work for. The company didn’t publish books and didn’t accept manuscripts, but somehow we got one in the mail. My boss asked me to take a look and see what it was about. It was, possibly, a spy novel, featuring a character that was supposed to be a version of James Bond. However, it was several hundred pages of that character lounging by the pool and reminiscing on his past successes in espionage and womanizing. None of the successes were ever described in detail nor were there any flashback scenes. Just a dude going in his head “yeah, that time I saved the Queen of England from the Russian assassin and screwed her niece was amazing” and skipping to the next, equally dumb thought. Like a moron’s Tristram Shandy. But there was a certain disturbing quality to the text, something hypnotic. Still unsure whether I chucked a future classic in the bin.
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Jun 25, 2021 16:58
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:One of the best examples of outsider art novels I’d ever seen was a manuscript submitted to the media company I used to work for. The company didn’t publish books and didn’t accept manuscripts, but somehow we got one in the mail. My boss asked me to take a look and see what it was about. It was, possibly, a spy novel, featuring a character that was supposed to be a version of James Bond. However, it was several hundred pages of that character lounging by the pool and reminiscing on his past successes in espionage and womanizing. None of the successes were ever described in detail nor were there any flashback scenes. Just a dude going in his head “yeah, that time I saved the Queen of England from the Russian assassin and screwed her niece was amazing” and skipping to the next, equally dumb thought. Like a moron’s Tristram Shandy. But there was a certain disturbing quality to the text, something hypnotic. Still unsure whether I chucked a future classic in the bin. should have saved a couple pages, that sounds amazing
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Jun 25, 2021 18:41
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:a moron’s Tristram Shandy.
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Jun 25, 2021 23:02
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:One of the best examples of outsider art novels I’d ever seen was a manuscript submitted to the media company I used to work for. The company didn’t publish books and didn’t accept manuscripts, but somehow we got one in the mail. My boss asked me to take a look and see what it was about. It was, possibly, a spy novel, featuring a character that was supposed to be a version of James Bond. However, it was several hundred pages of that character lounging by the pool and reminiscing on his past successes in espionage and womanizing. None of the successes were ever described in detail nor were there any flashback scenes. Just a dude going in his head “yeah, that time I saved the Queen of England from the Russian assassin and screwed her niece was amazing” and skipping to the next, equally dumb thought. Like a moron’s Tristram Shandy. But there was a certain disturbing quality to the text, something hypnotic. Still unsure whether I chucked a future classic in the bin. I deeply regret not being able to read this novel
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Jun 26, 2021 01:04
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https://twitter.com/alloy_dr/status/1409155797486030850?s=20
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Jun 27, 2021 15:27
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Oh cool there’s a book of the month thread? And it’s the thread stickied to the top where I should have seen it years ago?!
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Jun 27, 2021 18:58
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Rolo posted:Oh cool there’s a book of the month thread? Every month it changes! Good news: you can go back through the list of previous BOTM's linked at the top of each thread for a hand-picked selection of Good Books!
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Jun 27, 2021 20:04
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I'm voting #5 - Rebecca. Cause I just finished it and want to talk to someone about it
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Jun 27, 2021 20:45
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Im posting here because its a very weird request. Im looking for an english translation of Juan De Mariana's De Rege et Regis Institutione Libri tres. While I can find it in latin and spanish finding an english translation is a little harder. I dotn mind paying for a irl edition/ebook.
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