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It won't have, trust me, the fun's just getting started. Anyway, 2/3 through and this is a good book and insanely hosed up. I'm wondering if there's any significance to her seemingly becoming more attractive to men as she sheds her humanity, when she was initially described as fairly plain. Also if there's anything to J refusing to have sex w her
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The brother says he doesn't know why he's attracted to her because she's less conventionally attractive than his wife, so I don't think it's just the husband's perspective, but I suppose it ultimately reinforces the same pointCorrode posted:Post history: 10,000 posts in the Malazan thread lmao Lunchmeat Larry fucked around with this message at 17:26 on Jun 29, 2016 |
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Abalieno posted:And in overall less pages, through the Mhybe, Malazan deals with very similar themes of this book but without the banality, including the woman reduced to a tool, being caged into a purpose imposed on herself, lack of empathy all around her, self-harm and dream sequences that are actually meaningful and hide layers of meaning for anyone with enough care to pay attention. One point I do agree on - I did think the dream sequences in The Vegetarian were a bit... trite, I guess. They didn't bother me but nor were they as striking and original as the rest of the book, they wandered into the realms of cliché quite a bit. Not sure what I thought about the ending. I feel like the last third was generally a bit... muddled? I understand not wanting to provide easy answers or clear conclusions, I don't think the book could have had those. I feel like it lacked the clarity of purpose of the first two parts, though, with the narrative straying in random directions and even feeling a bit farcical/silly at points (the handstands). I'm finding it unfortunately hard to articulate, wondering if anyone felt the same way. I probably sound a bit over-critical, I still really loved it, probably one of the best books I've read this year.
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in what way is the tree stuff a "revelation" anywayGuy A. Person posted:I also think it's weird to assume a South Korean author is writing for a Western audience hoping they would pat themselves on their backs and then give her awards. The likely intended audience for this was South Koreans, who would have a very different reaction to the challenges presented in this book.
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Malazan is good even though it has elf wizards honest
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maybe Lord of Light?
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you literally rambled into a thread about minimalist Korean literary fiction to explain that you didn't read the book but everyone should read Prince of Nothing instead because it's what real literature looks like. I have a huge soft spot for fantasy and will hold up Malazan as a genuinely great series if you can get over the typical fantasy nonsense it's filled with (to its detriment), but you literally started this argument over nothing except maybe Mel saying it's not his kind of book, which makes you insane. I'm sure you have genres you aren't particularly interested in as well, and that's also legal and ok. The book of the month this month is fantasy, imagine if someone who really really loves crime fiction barged into that thread and started shouting at people that they should be reading Inspector Rebus novels instead. Chill out, nobody's loving persecuting you. Mel Mudkiper posted:So far you have praised [dongs]
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Jul 9, 2016 03:25
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Misandrist Mudkipper
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okay we've had our fun can we kick this guy out of the thread now
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