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All goons should read The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, it's To Kill a Mockingbird but good.
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# ¿ Jun 27, 2014 22:11 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 17:19 |
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Big Mad Drongo posted:I read John Cheever's short story "The Swimmer" a while back and it's really stuck with me. I'd recommend it to anyone looking for a quick, accessible read about wealth, happiness and suburban life. There's a good movie based on this story too.
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# ¿ Jul 1, 2014 20:01 |
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OldTennisCourt posted:I love crime films and novels but I'd really like to read some of the best classics of the genre. I'm currently reading Hamett's Red Harvest, can anyone recommend some good classic Noir or any sort of crime/mystery novels that aren't airport fiction level garbage? Jim Thompson, David Goodis
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# ¿ Sep 26, 2014 13:14 |
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Moacher posted:Does someone who really loved the book want to chime in and maybe describe for me what Catch 22 means to them, or why it deserves all the praise it receives? I'd love to get a deeper perspective, and maybe some more explanation on the aspects I might have missed that make this novel one of the greats. really funny drunk driving scenes
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# ¿ Nov 26, 2014 00:13 |
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Mel Mudkiper posted:I've honestly never even bothered to read him because he seems Oprah book club-esque same, except Tolstoy
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# ¿ Mar 22, 2015 19:20 |
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Mel Mudkiper posted:This derail never would have happened if everyone read David Vann like I told them to please go away
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# ¿ Apr 6, 2015 10:06 |
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Mel Mudkiper posted:For example, its hilarious to me that people are acting like Bolano is old hat and trite when I got Savage Detectives day 1 when he was an obscure Chilean guy. Its nice to be ground floor on something important rather than wait for someone to tell you its important. epic win!
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# ¿ Apr 20, 2016 20:55 |
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yeah there's not really a lot of variety in women's writing
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# ¿ May 14, 2016 22:14 |
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A human heart posted:what women have you read? Marguerite Henry, Jk rowling
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# ¿ May 15, 2016 09:35 |
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against the country
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# ¿ Jun 5, 2016 00:15 |
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top 1 sports book: universal baseball association
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# ¿ Jun 27, 2016 07:25 |
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Franchescanado posted:A lot of people I know love/revere that book and talk about how they laugh their asses off at it, but I always found Ignatius to be such a grating character that I only got through about half the book. sometimes books have characters you're not supposed to like
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# ¿ Jul 8, 2016 01:30 |
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Franchescanado posted:No poo poo, Sherlock, but sometimes characters actively annoy you, so you stop spending time with them. stretch yourself
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# ¿ Jul 8, 2016 02:22 |
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Tim Burns Effect posted:I think the 3.5 star rating on Amazon is deserved. Sorry Vann-wagon. That's a good rating.
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# ¿ Jul 10, 2016 03:33 |
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at the date posted:(edit: To be clear, I mean cynicism about exactly how rugged and independent this Harvard grad's lifestyle actually was, being a mile outside of town in a highly developed area of New England, mixed with envy of his rugged and independent lifestyle.) you gotta be kidding me!
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# ¿ Jul 24, 2016 10:05 |
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A human heart posted:Leg Over Leg by Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq sounds absolutely amazing but i haven't read it yet personally because my library ignored my request for it it's good
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# ¿ Aug 23, 2016 02:37 |
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Invicta{HOG}, M.D. posted:and to call DFW arrogant for writing a long book is dumb. well she actually called him arrogant for expecting people to read it twice but we can't let any criticism of dead author man go unanswered
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# ¿ Sep 20, 2016 15:41 |
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Abalieno posted:There is something that links those book that isn't "length" girth?
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# ¿ Sep 22, 2016 11:44 |
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everyone go find a drug thread or something
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# ¿ Sep 24, 2016 00:34 |
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A human heart posted:I want Gerald Murnane to get it because he's extremely good and it might make more people read him. I've only read The Plains and Inland but I agree
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# ¿ Oct 1, 2016 11:51 |
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now that the book is by long-suspected name x instead of name y i will never be able to enjoy it again
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# ¿ Oct 4, 2016 09:14 |
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Burning Rain posted:so which one of you wrote this piece about Nobel: https://newrepublic.com/article/137496/will-win-2016-nobel-prize-literature ? he's right that charles portis should win
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# ¿ Oct 7, 2016 16:40 |
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Mel Mudkiper posted:I don't see what horrifying about the rotting corpse of a murdered hunter literally hanging over a campsite as a physical representation of moral condemnation this guy is dark!
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# ¿ Oct 13, 2016 07:51 |
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Tree Goat posted:This is the ideal situation because now the committee has an excuse not to award another American a lit prize for a decade and a half minimum, but the prize was not given to an American author, who would then put on airs above their station. this is good
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# ¿ Oct 19, 2016 04:35 |
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idk about best but i read the jarvis and it was good
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# ¿ Oct 25, 2016 09:20 |
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Mel Mudkiper posted:I've always theorized the reason everyone remembers Don Quixote attacking the windmill is because its on page 60 and most people never got any further stunning and original theory
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# ¿ Oct 26, 2016 16:22 |
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WAY TO GO WAMPA!! posted:guys I think the most pure way to experience the Odyssey is to hire an old greek man to read it to me, any recommendations on where I can find an old Greek man? http://www.oeaw.ac.at/kal/sh/index.htm
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# ¿ Oct 28, 2016 15:30 |
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CestMoi posted:The correct answer to should I read a prose or verse Odyssey is: you should read the Iliad
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# ¿ Oct 28, 2016 16:20 |
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Rush Limbo posted:It really is an excellent book that feels like a culmination of all of Moore's work thus far, to the point where I'm kind of worried that he might die soon since that tends to be the case when a magnum opus like this is released. working class millionaire alan moore
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# ¿ Dec 7, 2016 21:38 |
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sot-ewed factor is always recommended
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# ¿ Dec 9, 2016 23:33 |
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manga is the superior fantasy vehicle
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# ¿ Dec 23, 2016 00:53 |
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the best books i read this year are the plains, the left-handed woman, and the charles portis anthology
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# ¿ Dec 28, 2016 13:04 |
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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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# ¿ Jan 11, 2017 20:36 |
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Good writers don't write bad books
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# ¿ Jan 30, 2017 18:03 |
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Chamberk posted:New Saunders is still the best book I've read all year. Please read more books
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# ¿ May 3, 2017 07:56 |
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pleasecallmechrist posted:Hillbilly Elegy. Which did come out before the election. You're as dumb as Coates I'm reading Compass and it's cool so far.
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# ¿ May 9, 2017 18:57 |
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Mel Mudkiper posted:To claim the level of proficiency able to appreciate literature in a foreign language in multiple languages if you started in adulthood is solidly impossible. nah you can do this. who cares if you can't keep up with a native speaker, you're reading
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# ¿ May 14, 2017 20:55 |
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I was not aware of all this psychological evidence I'm going to stop working on the language I've been learning
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# ¿ May 14, 2017 22:16 |
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who's the '50s cocksucker pioneer
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# ¿ Aug 8, 2017 10:18 |
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autobiography of alice b toklas but most of them are good
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