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The Something Awful Forums > Main > BYOBOOOO > yall into reading Books? the what books u been reading thread
 
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ulvir posted:

im reading to the lighthouse, and its v good

Its one of my favourites OP


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# ¿ Nov 18, 2025 08:01
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 I am reading a collection of short stories by J.G. Ballard called Low Flying Aircraft. A bit dated and twee as a result but good nonetheless


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* # ¿ Jun 26, 2021 15:01
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How Wonderful! posted:

Nut I started that Lewontin book and so far it really appeals to me. I briefly considered doing my PhD work on early modern medical rhetoric (there are very very weird and poetic 17th century textbooks and tracts about the plague that imo have an influence on medicalized political metaphors later in the century) but I was too lazy to learn Greek and I realized that if I had to spend years reading only about the plague I'd get too depressed, and so far I'm reading along going like yeah that's a good way of thinking about it, that's really interesting. I'm pretty tired so I'm not making a ton of speedy headway but I keep thinking about this contrast Lewontin draws between how much cancer research is geared single-mindedly towards a theoretical grasp of what cancer is and how it operates, versus the very very nitty gritty and empirical methods used to actually do something about patients with cancer.

That rings super true but I was still kind of shocked to consider how much it cohered in 1991 as much as in the 1660s.

Like... yeah! That says so much in one sentence and I think it says it really well.

Richard Lewontin? Weird seeing him mentioned in YOB, I just got word that he passed away yesterday (3 days after his wife, as often happens). Sad, evolutionary biology looses another major figure.


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* # ¿ Jul 5, 2021 20:06
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How Wonderful! posted:

This summer I did not finish In Search of Lost Time but I got pretty far. It has taken me a ton of years because I don't like the old Montcrieff translations and really liked the job Lydia Davis did on Swann's Way. Well, I still wish she'd just been allowed to do all of them because the different Penguin translators feel pretty uneven to me, but they're all definitely a lot better than what was available when I was younger.

I think Proust is the pinnacle of weird creep pervo novelists, I think his obsessiveness and luridness is a billion times more persuasive and narcotic than more explicitly over-the-top people like Dennis Cooper or whoever. You sort of get roped into the narrator's mania and soon enough you too are afraid of telephones and just wandering around going Albertine Albertine... Anne Carson was right about this all along. You kind of just get stoned off his methods of looking and unpeeling things. It's too bad he has such an unfounded reputation as this very delicate, brittle novelist, because he's not, at all.

I also read my friend Alice Hall's new book Universal Casket this week, wonderful.

I am reading Swann's Way right now for the first time, the Montcrieff translation, and am very much enjoying it. Not finding it problematic in the least. How would you say Lydia Davis differed?

I mean I should probably just get off my rear end and read it in French but I lack vocabulary in aesthetics


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* # ¿ Aug 20, 2021 22:58
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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.


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* # ¿ Sep 22, 2021 03:16
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 Thanks for this discussion, its really timely for me and I'd love to hear more. I've been reading through the Ginsberg collection Planet News off and on since Ferlinghetti passed (its the only City Lights Pocket Poets volume I still have, my copy of Howl having long been lent/stolen into oblivion). I really like some of his stuff, but am meh to :yikes: with quite a few others. Its also quite dated and removed from a post boomer immediacy of experience. Ultimately I think it really needs to be read aloud for the full impact to be felt. There is a Youtube video of Allen reading one of his poems on Buckley's show back in the day that is really powerful in particular--even old Bill was left speechless.

I'm old enough that I would see him around Ann Arbor from time to time but never interacted with him. He was friend and mentor to some friends, reportedly hit on another friend of mine with a truly classy "who wants to sleep with a famous poet" line, and that concludes my Allen Ginsberg Ted talk.


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* # ¿ Nov 22, 2021 05:08
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baka fwocka fwame posted:

o that’s gotta be a sequel to dead astronauts. that book was quality work i should scope this

Iirc it has nothing to do with it. Hummingbird Salamander is this sort of weird noir thriller. It's good but it's not Southern Reach good imo

I just finished a collection of "philosophical horror" by Thomas Ligotti and am now reading the newly translated to English novel Solenoid by Mircea Cartarescu. It's a foot book that should keep me entertained for a while


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biosterous posted:

sounds like princess bride (the novel not the movie)

Inconceivable


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Dr. Yinz Ljubljana posted:

Veniss Underground : A newly reissued collection of Jeff Vandermeer's early stuff set in yet another bizarre Chia Mieville type setting. (The other is Ambergris)

I really liked this one!


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* # ¿ Jun 11, 2023 05:24
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