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I just finished Something that May Shock And discredit You!!!! I laughed! I cried! An incredible book!!! 📖<----- pretend that is a picture of the book I read |
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SpaghettiArmstrong posted:I just finished Something that May Shock And discredit You!!!! I laughed! I cried! An incredible book!!! 📖<----- pretend that is a picture of the book I read Wow that's a small book!
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Sep 18, 2021 09:07
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That book is really great, I gave it to some people when they had questions about trans stuff just because I think it's such a warm and capacious book.
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Sep 18, 2021 17:20
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i'm reading the moviegoer and it's super good, i would've given it a national book award too |
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Sep 19, 2021 03:22
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I'm reading this but don't be fooled by its potentially overhyped pop sci title, it's a really enjoyable criticism of the internalization of capitalistic/neoliberal profits-before-people ethos in neuroscience, as well as a criticism to tons of brain research hype. The Roses are always a good read imo.
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Sep 19, 2021 03:51
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I have this and I want to read it but I'm looking at the upcoming week and I'm probably not going to read anything that's not an undergrad paper or a comic book.
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Sep 19, 2021 04:24
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i'm also reading wake: the hidden history of women-led slave revolts, which sounds like an academic or pop-history book but which is actually a nonfiction graphic memoir about/by a historian telling the story of them researching their diss on the issue. i am not a big fan of the art style but the story is very compelling. it's hard to make scholarship into a story, particularly an emotionally affecting one, but she does a really good job imo. |
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Sep 19, 2021 17:19
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How Wonderful! posted:I have this and I want to read it at first i thought each of those people had one weird claw but now i see it's the bird that has the claws |
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Sep 19, 2021 17:20
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im taking a break from swanns way (having some trouble getting into it tbqh, i like all the interpersonal stuff but long sequences of description of landscapes and my eyes start to glaze over, maybe i'm not in a patient enough mindset for it right now) and reading a collection of dostoyevsky short stories ive had probably since i was a teen and never read. looking forward to notes from the underground
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Sep 20, 2021 19:53
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beer pal posted:looking forward to notes from the underground I read that for the first time around the same age as kids read the catcher in the rye and it explains a lot of things about me, in hindsight. Great book though. You can really see where Taxi Driver cribbed its character notes from. Probably my favorite dostoyevsky work.
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Sep 21, 2021 00:29
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here's my problem with proust, he's not funny enough to write long books. if you write long books they either have to be super exciting like the count of monte cristo or they have to be funny like moby dick. a long solemn book is a slog. i like my solemnity quick and to the point. give me a nice solemn poem and i'm doing fine |
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Sep 21, 2021 02:51
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Wow that's a small book! It is big in my heart 
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Sep 21, 2021 23:51
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My feeling about Proust so far: I love him while I'm reading him. But I have no desire to rush home in order to read him. Like, here I am shitposting about Proust instead of reading him.
OMGVBFLOL posted:if you have the money and the patience, you can Hello Kitty anything   Thank you deep dish peat moss! |
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Sep 22, 2021 04:16
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Like 70% of my time reading Proust was from just having a book by him in my bag and taking it out to read on the subway or waiting for my car to be inspected or in the dentist waiting room or wherever. Yeah I think if I just shut the door of my office and said begone I'm pondering the tomes of Proust I would lose patience but the prose is so dense and thick its perfect to just digest chunks of it in 10 minute increments. Also bad guy's critique about him not being funny reminds me of this conversation I had with a guy maybe a decade ago who was one of the best writers I knew, and he said he hated reading Proust because there was no hardness to him at all, everything about his writing was so soft and yielding that there was no way to like, get INTO IT, to read it antagonistically or ram up against it or whatever. And I think both critiques are pretty true. Buying a Proust book is like buying a truly enormous pillow. I like truly enormous pillows though.
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Sep 22, 2021 05:19
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I disagree that Proust isn’t funny, pretty much every volume has scenes that I’ve laughed loudly at
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Sep 22, 2021 12:00
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ulvir posted:I disagree that Proust isn’t funny, pretty much every volume has scenes that I’ve laughed loudly at post one! this is not a challenge or anything, i would just love to be proven wrong and i like to laugh |
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Sep 22, 2021 17:11
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"funny scenes from proust" would be a good resource thread |
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Sep 22, 2021 17:12
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bad guy posted:post one! this is not a challenge or anything, i would just love to be proven wrong and i like to laugh i’ll have to push this to the weekend when I have the time to go back through them (and also to translate from norwegian or alternatively find the corresponding quote on gutenberg or w/e), but i’d love to |
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Sep 22, 2021 17:19
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here’s an example from the latter 2/3rds of Swann’s Way Proust posted:
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Sep 22, 2021 17:26
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I'll admit I have a pretty high bar for actually laughing out loud at a book. I think I read in a pretty staid way. The last time I really laughed laughed laughed at a book was We Both Laughed in Pleasure, Lou Sullivan's diaries, but even those were mostly laughs of recognition.
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Sep 22, 2021 17:26
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I feel like 95% of the time I laugh at a book it's like the dryest humor imaginable. Like a guy talking about how he hopes he doesn't get wet and then it's raining outside or something dumb.
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Sep 22, 2021 18:01
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ulvir posted:here’s an example from the latter 2/3rds of Swann’s Way lol you're right that is straight up funny. maybe i need to have a better attitude |
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Sep 22, 2021 18:44
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Finally finished Delilo's Underworld and I was underwhelmed. Such a long book for this to be the ending? A series of narratives all about Life in America. Yeesh. Started Consensual Hex by Amanda Harlowe and it's a bit cringe with the modern references that really date the book but a nice modern update on The Craft Goes to College story |
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Sep 28, 2021 14:15
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Dr. Yinz Ljubljana posted:Finally finished Delilo's Underworld and I was underwhelmed. it's got a great opening scene and then immediately becomes pretty darn bad imo. it's no white noise. not even a mao II. |
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Sep 28, 2021 14:30
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he should of called it underwhelmed instead of underworld |
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Sep 28, 2021 14:31
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Dr. Yinz Ljubljana posted:Finally finished Delilo's Underworld and I was underwhelmed. I bought it because what with the name and the title I thought it was about crime. I guess I was hoisted by my own racism!
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Sep 28, 2021 14:49
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I don’t need to read the book I watched all the movies
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Sep 28, 2021 14:52
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I started reading Sven Delblanc's "Prästkappan" ("Priest's Robe" or something) which is a historical novel and possibly a picaresque but mostly I don't really know what it is and I'm on page 148. I guess it's a good sign I'm keen to find out what happens. |
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Sep 28, 2021 15:32
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im reading remains of the day now, pretty enjoyable so far
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Sep 28, 2021 21:16
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Finger Prince posted:I fuckin hated that book. It is 1000% full of its own fart smelling. I think it's the only book I ever read that when I got to the end I was actually upset that the author would be so blatantly smug and up his own arse. It's also the only book I ever stopped to leave a negative review for, and I never leave reviews for poo poo. So I guess it is powerful, but maybe not in the way the author intended. 
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Sep 28, 2021 21:48
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Great now I'm thinking of that book and mad again. It's the book equivalent of a lousy lay that just nuts ineffectually on your stomach after a few pumps and a tedious attempt at foreplay and then tells you how much you loved it and how much he rocked your world. |
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Sep 29, 2021 02:02
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Starting Sabatini's Captain Blood. Dunno what it's going to be like but I'm expecting my swashes to become buckled. According to the inscription it was given to my father on his name day when he was 13. When I was 13 I only read fantasy poo poo and murder mysteries. e: Oh cool cool this Sabatini guy thinks black people are animals, and also does the thing where he explain what's happening as it's happening, before it happens, and after it's happened. You might think that's what story-telling is? No! I mean yes, but not like this: quote:Little did Captain Blood know he was going to meet the lovely Isabella on the road, and greet her. He met the lovely Isabella on the road. "Hullo", he said. On the road, he had met the lovely Isabella and said "Hullo" to her. 3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 20:53 on Sep 30, 2021
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Sep 29, 2021 12:08
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i just finished reading hurricane season by fernanda melchor, i thought it was very good! its very heavy subject matter, loved the writing style - no paragraphs very long sentences and wandering narrative, it reminded me of the one faulkner book ive read, the sound and the fury
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Oct 7, 2021 18:23
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3D Megadoodoo posted:e: Oh cool cool this Sabatini guy thinks black people are animals, and also does the thing where he explain what's happening as it's happening, before it happens, and after it's happened. You might think that's what story-telling is? No! I mean yes, but not like this: lol ---------------- |
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Oct 7, 2021 19:03
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I did NOT mean it's actually cool. |
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Oct 7, 2021 22:21
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no i know i was loling at ur example. its def egregious
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Oct 8, 2021 02:20
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I just got this in:
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Oct 8, 2021 02:28
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Dr. Yinz Ljubljana posted:Consensual Hex by Amanda Harlowe and it's a bit cringe with the modern references that really date the book but a nice modern update on The Craft Goes to College story the ending kinda felt thrown together on deadline, but a good ride started a new witchy book "Everybody Knows Your Mother Is A Witch" by Rivka Galchen and this one is a bit weirder and funnier, more of if Douglas Adams did a spec script for Blackadder about an old witch
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Oct 8, 2021 06:45
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Dr. Yinz Ljubljana posted:the ending kinda felt thrown together on deadline, but a good ride That sounds fun! |
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Oyate has some of the best book reviews http://oyate.org/index.php/rss-feed/15-review-darkness-under-the-water With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain inside |
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