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Dec 30, 2014 21:54
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- Gone Fashing
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if you're into history I highly recommend germania and danubia
also buried in the sky was a really good book about the 2008 k2 climbing disaster
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Dec 30, 2014 21:56
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- bwatts
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dostoyevsky
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Dec 30, 2014 21:57
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- ulvir
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+ bulgakov and gogol and tolstoy
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Dec 30, 2014 23:02
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- Slush Garbo
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FALSE SLACK
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geek love is the last thing I read, it was good
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Dec 30, 2014 23:11
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- Slush Garbo
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It's about a circus family
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Dec 30, 2014 23:11
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- dogcrash truther
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What kind of books do you like?
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Dec 30, 2014 23:14
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- dogcrash truther
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Do you feel like a challenge our do you want something light and enjoyable or what
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Dec 30, 2014 23:15
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- Pinche Rudo
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First law trilogy
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Dec 30, 2014 23:23
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ive been reading 1Q84 and its pretty good so far
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Dec 30, 2014 23:27
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- ulvir
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ive been reading 1Q84 and its pretty good so far
its probably the most controversial murakami book. a lot of people hated it, but I enjoyed it tbh
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Dec 30, 2014 23:55
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- Gone Fashing
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ive been reading 1Q84 and its pretty good so far
hell yeah. also kafka on the shore and the windup bird chronicle obviously
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Dec 30, 2014 23:59
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- Theglavwen
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Frankly, I don't know anyone who likes Chinese bronzes, but I have one of the finest collections in the country.
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Read some Wodehouse. Jeeves and Wooster are pretty funny.
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Dec 31, 2014 00:30
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Le Grand Renard!
Fou des fous,
imbécile extraordinaire.
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i havent read her new book yet, but a complicated kindness by miriam toews is one of my favorite novels. its a first person coming of age novel a lot like catcher in the rye told by a mennonite girl in southern manatoba. its based a lot on toews own life. if you like a strong 1st person narrative i highly recommend it. beyond the unique setting and voice, its the story of a dysfunctional family tgat really hits close.
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Dec 31, 2014 00:35
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Le Grand Renard!
Fou des fous,
imbécile extraordinaire.
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+ bulgakov and gogol and tolstoy
the double, the death of ivan ilyich, master and margarira and gogol in general all own and are worth your time
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Dec 31, 2014 00:42
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- Al Borland
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Dec 31, 2014 00:47
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Le Grand Renard!
Fou des fous,
imbécile extraordinaire.
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if you want something gloriously pretentious, confrontational, obtuse and genuinely transgressive track down a copy of David Brittons Lord Horror. being savy internet we're not impressed or shocked by this kind of stuff, but back in the 90s lord horror was banned by the British government. its worth reading if only to experience a bit of counter culture history. i genuinely like the book and find it unsettling beyond the obvious shock
i couldnt properly describe what the book is about. one of the main characters is hitler, seeking a truly modern form of art, and lost works by schopenhauer, while his penis gains sentience and a toothy mouth and keeps growing
also check out: reverbstorm, a graphic novel by britton and John Coulthart in the same world.
gently caress yo high art
harlequin romances are a canadian institution. please dont mock my culture
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Dec 31, 2014 01:34
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imo you can never go wrong with kurt vonnegut
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Dec 31, 2014 01:37
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Le Grand Renard!
Fou des fous,
imbécile extraordinaire.
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imo you can never go wrong with kurt vonnegut
when i read cats cradle in grade school it was a revelation. still my favorite book
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Dec 31, 2014 01:42
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- Gone Fashing
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i liked galapagos the best but yeah they're all great
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Dec 31, 2014 01:52
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those were alright but I didn't like the spinoffs as much
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Dec 31, 2014 02:00
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imo you can never go wrong with kurt vonnegut
I  him, he's good. my favorite is Sirens of Titan.
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Dec 31, 2014 02:18
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Dec 31, 2014 06:19
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hell yeah. also kafka on the shore and the windup bird chronicle obviously
kafka on the shore is very byob
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Dec 31, 2014 06:21
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I read kafka on the shore at oldBYOB's recommendation while I was visiting family for the last ever time and it was a fitting book I thought to read lying out by the pond on a summer night with fireflies all around.
Then I made the mistake of reading too much Murakami. Norwegian Wood was really bizarrely not-Murakami and also kind of, abrasively awkward at times.
I liked Dance Dance Dance a lot, I think. After Dark never seemed to go anywhere. I only got like 100 pages in to 1Q84. I think you're better off reading one or two, and then moving on.
Well, that's my thoughts.
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Dec 31, 2014 10:51
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I just read breakfast of champions. I was blown away by Vonnegut's attention to detail. Now I'm starting Generation Kill.
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Dec 31, 2014 10:55
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I just had a chemical induced flashback to my very early grade school days.
not a happy time
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Dec 31, 2014 10:57
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- deep dish peat moss
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imo you can never go wrong with kurt vonnegut
I went wrong with kurt vonnegut once when my "All fiction is boring" friend with no imagination asked me for a novel to read for a paper he had to write. I gave him Slaughterhouse Five because I feel like Vonnegut is divorced enough from what a non-Fiction reader imagines as "fiction" that he wouldn't be bored and he turned in a paper about the Dresden bombing.
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Dec 31, 2014 10:57
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I finished Ulysses and hated every minute of it. I would rather be deaf than listen to an Irishman speak. Unsurprisingly I missed most of the references because I'm not interested in reading the classics and it feels weird to dedicate so much time to a book you're completely not the demographic for.
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Dec 31, 2014 11:00
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- pogi
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I love how Vonnegut gives his characters massive penises as a sort of consolation prize.
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Dec 31, 2014 11:02
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- cat_herder
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I keep trying to read Neil Shute's On The Beach, and having to put it down because it scares the crap out of me. it's so good, and he does am outstanding job of painting this bleak and hopeless world, but it's too much for me at times. that said, I recommend it.
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Dec 31, 2014 13:29
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I finished Ulysses and hated every minute of it. I would rather be deaf than listen to an Irishman speak.
That's the craziest fuckin thing I've heard in a while
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