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pecan posted:welcome 2 the dark path to nonfiction eclipsing all the fiction u had planned for the rest of the year, friend I was reading histories of China (up to early Song) and was sidetracked onto Japan's Heian Era. Any day now, I'll get back to T'ang. Annny day now. |
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beer pal posted:the master and margarita is a lot of fun. whatever satire is in there goes over my head but thats fine. also started listening to auidio book version of the jakarta method READ GORKI (nothing to do with Bulgakov, I just want people to read Gorki.)
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Nov 20, 2020 23:56
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not really into anime jk whats the one to read? https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png |
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Nov 21, 2020 00:10
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beer pal posted:the master and margarita is a lot of fun. whatever satire is in there goes over my head but thats fine. also started listening to auidio book version of the jakarta method Master and Margarita is solid gold. Easily Bulgakov's best. The whole sequence with the olive oil in the early bit of the book is still so eerie |
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Nov 21, 2020 11:02
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lmao ljubljana wtf you doin in my city get to da choppa anyway i'm reading titus groan by mervyn peake it's really cool fantasy from the 50s .. very nice ---------------- |
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Nov 21, 2020 19:21
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Plutarkhos' biographies of famous men are really boring. I'm glad he's dead! |
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Nov 21, 2020 23:21
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here's my review of marcus aurelius - meditations: it's good but it should have been 20 pages long instead of 160
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Nov 22, 2020 17:28
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I just finished Calvino's Le città invisibili and I don't know that I liked it as much as I should have :-/ This is the first time I've had this happen with Calvino; I guess I'm just a narrative guy. e: Also I felt that there was a lot of repetition but maybe I just didn't "get" some nuances.
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Nov 23, 2020 01:47
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dang i loved invisible cities... i picked up cosmicomics this weekend, also gravitys rainbow which i just started
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Nov 23, 2020 19:03
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I can't resist going to the Red Cross flea market down the street and buying books for a few euros each so next up I have some Yashar Kemal (never read anything by them), as soon as I finish Bolaño's La pista de hielo, which I'm liking a lot.
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Nov 23, 2020 19:17
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Casey Plett put her first book of short stories up for free on her website. I've been reading it and a lot more of them are about people making love than I expected. Kind of feel like I fell into some kind of erotic snare.
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Nov 24, 2020 05:35
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ive p much dipped out of anything written conventionally but im taking another stab at the ticket that exploded by burroughs and also outplace by lital khaikin
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Nov 28, 2020 18:27
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I didn't start reading Yashar Kemal I picked up a Dragonlance novel instead  Did you know that a draconian's bones explode when they die? I didn't! |
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Nov 30, 2020 04:42
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I'm reading the Songs of Maldoror by the Comte de Lautréamont. 19th-century French people were so gross lol |
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Nov 30, 2020 16:40
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i finished the jakarta method and its very good. feels liek its already affected my thinking. really lays bare how paper thin thw hole "freedom and democracy" myth of western capitalism is. dont tell the mods im posting politics in here. now im just started 'how europe underdeveloped aftrica" and its great so far also like ~200 pages into gravitys rainbow & its incredible just totally wild loving it https://i.imgur.com/xQxnooW.png |
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Nov 30, 2020 19:45
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I am now reading a not very interesting biography of Robert Duncan and revisiting a bunch of good Nathaniel Mackey books. I think his essays rule so much, very stoked to read Discrepant Engagement again.
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Dec 1, 2020 05:56
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deadking posted:I'm reading the Songs of Maldoror by the Comte de Lautréamont. 19th-century French people were so gross lol Is it good? I bought it like... 10 years ago? And haven't even started. What even is it?
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Is it good? I bought it like... 10 years ago? And haven't even started. What even is it? I like it. It's hard for me to describe what it's about but it's basically about a hosed up guy named Maldoror who roams the French countryside doing hosed up and depraved things. Meanwhile he hallucinates (?) a bunch of crazy stuff. It's regarded as an early example of surrealism and Lautréamont employs a lot of experimental narrative techniques that were wild for the late 19th century I gather. For example, he had an interest in scientific writing so he weaves a lot of that into the book. Definitely recommended if you like grotesque and off-kilter fiction and it's a pretty quick read too. |
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Dec 1, 2020 19:48
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It pairs really well with the 1926 Blaise Cendrars novel Moravagine if you've never read that. I like both of those books a lot.
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Dec 1, 2020 21:43
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How Wonderful! posted:It pairs really well with the 1926 Blaise Cendrars novel Moravagine if you've never read that. I like both of those books a lot. Heck I've never even heard of Blaise Cendrars. But I want me Moravagine. Sorry. |
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Dec 1, 2020 22:47
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Just finishedThe Deep by Rivers Solomon, but credited also are Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes of clipping. and James Stinson/Gerald Donald from Drexciya. It's a wild story about the power of memory and trauma and is related to slavery. It is a very powerful novella and I'd recommend it to anyone. The afterword explains how clipping. made a few songs based on Drexciya's body of music, the book is really another telling of the same sort of story. |
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Dec 5, 2020 07:16
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I'm in the mood to re-read one of the best Christmas books ever published: Max Beerbohm's A Christmas Garland this year, so that's Christmas Day sorted! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Garland With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain inside |
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Dec 14, 2020 19:14
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Finally started reading my next book, Peace Talks by Jim Butcher. It is the latest in the Dresden Files series and I haven't read any of the other books since probably when I caught up two or three years ago, so every time he references a character or event I go "oooooohhhh" like a idiot.
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Dec 16, 2020 07:22
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I got the big new Bruce Boone reader, Dismembered, because I wanted to cite something in it that I'd previously only had as a really raggedy looking scan of a scan of a xerox. It's so good. His writing about Duncan is just the best and funniest ever, his Spicer essay is the tops, he's just the perfect guy. I read his little translation of La Fontaine a bunch of years ago but rereading his intro tonight it just took my breath away.
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Dec 16, 2020 07:38
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I just realized I haven't read the book I got from my sister last Yule, but it's written by a mercenary so I don't know that I want to read it :-/
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Dec 16, 2020 07:41
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I finished Maldoror and now I'm reading the Jakarta Method. I'm gonna be so freakin smart about the world after this! |
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Dec 16, 2020 16:32
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OK this Comte de Lautréamont dude wrote some hosed-up stuff, I tell you what! (Apparently I bought "Maldororin laulut" in 2009 and got as far as page 16 last time I started reading it.) |
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Dec 20, 2020 14:11
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I'm certainly not going to read it but can we all laugh about Ernest Cline's Ready Player Two?
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Dec 20, 2020 22:06
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I never read the first one!
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Dec 20, 2020 22:10
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rear end-penny posted:I'm certainly not going to read it but can we all laugh about Ernest Cline's Ready Player Two? OK 
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Dec 21, 2020 02:29
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xcheopis posted:I never read the first one! I thought it was worth a read but have since been informed I have no taste. Anyway, it's very heavy with 80s references and a barely likeable main character. You're not missing much.
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Dec 22, 2020 07:24
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I read a few pretty unsatisfactory biographies of Magnus Hirschfeld so I gave up and just started reading Gay Berlin, a study that a few people I trust have recommended. Although I don't know why I don't just read Isherwood's stuff about Berlin and cut out the middlemensch.
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Dec 22, 2020 09:35
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Oh darn it, I left Jules Verne's From the Earth to the moon in my side pocket of my checked baggage. Maybe if I explain how important it is to the pilot they'll get it out of the hold for me |
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Dec 23, 2020 20:35
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Jaguars! posted:Oh darn it, I left Jules Verne's From the Earth to the moon in my side pocket of my checked baggage. Maybe if I explain how important it is to the pilot they'll get it out of the hold for me Most planes have a hatch that leads into the cargo hold I think, maybe that's an option. I just finished reading "Darkness at Noon" by Arthur Koestler. A bit of a downer, so I kept finding excuses not to read it, so it took a while. Next I'm reading "Declare" by Tim Powers. I'm also slowly picking my way through "Sunrise with Seamonsters" by Paul Theroux. |
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Dec 23, 2020 21:47
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I picked up a bunch of books for my birthday and have finally started reading them!  I finished reading a collection of Rilke's poetry, which I really enjoyed. I also read through Asylum Piece by Anna Kavan, which although there were some good stories in that collection, didn't blow my socks off like Ice did. I just wrapped up The Soft Machine by Burroughs, going through Nova Express next.
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Dec 24, 2020 03:53
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My plan for this holiday season: "Seven Blades in black" "Zoey Punches The future in the Dick" "This is How You Lose The Time War" |
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Dec 24, 2020 07:22
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Dr. Yinz Ljubljana posted:My plan for this holiday season: Most of the way through This is How You Lose The Time War and it's really intriguing - two agents from warring factions of time travellers wind up falling for each other in the old Enemies to Lovers trope but without having much actual contact. Their communication is through letters created out of the random detritus of the time period they're in. One of the more original books I've read about time travel |
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Jan 3, 2021 12:57
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i’m reading Death of Virgil atm, it’s really good |
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Jan 3, 2021 14:20
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I started a crime novel and felt very sad when it hit "the world had gone mad with political correctness in recent years, and the criminals were enjoying every last bit of it!" by like page 30 
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it took so much longer than i had hoped but i dragged myself through the politics of heroin and it was alright but far more detailed about the aspects I was maybe least interested in so I feel like I learned insanely too much about postcolonial southeast asia, but I'm happy I didn't abandon it. Am going to take a bit of a break of tone by reading Subliminal Seduction by Wilson Bryan Key because if nothing else the cover is amazing
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