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Postby Pnin » Wed Jan 03, 2018 12:20 pm

Didn't realize there is a new Denis Johnson short story collection coming out in a couple weeks http://a.co/1h28TQb
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Postby walt whitman » Wed Jan 03, 2018 1:54 pm

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Postby dmitry » Wed Jan 03, 2018 2:10 pm

this Entitled Opinions interview with monkia greenleaf about joseph conrad makes me really want to read him. i am attracted to english prose written without english sensibility. what are the books by him y'all love?
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Postby dmitry » Wed Jan 03, 2018 2:10 pm

by the way, since this is a literature lovers thread, this is a good opportunity to beg you to listen to entitled opinions. it's run by a (pretty pompous, but loveable) italian scholar out of stanford, who interviews a bunch of incredibly enthusiastic lit scholars
inga pierson on frankenstein - monika greenleaf on nabokov - monika greenleaf on dostoyevsky - nehamas on beauty (my favorite) - jessica merril on futurism - a hilariously disorganized interview with Herzog
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Postby Dead_Wizard » Wed Jan 03, 2018 2:26 pm

Rest in peace to the Strand Man, Fred Bass
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Postby Kenny » Wed Jan 03, 2018 2:28 pm

What did you think of More Than Human? I didn't really like it...
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Postby DRAGONS 666 » Wed Jan 03, 2018 2:46 pm

santos l halper wrote:
atomicbombshell wrote:
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dragons69 wrote:im trying to track my reading more. stayed up all night reading human acts by han kang last night. really enjoyed it and one of the most dark things ive read. the chapter on the dead soul floating around sensing others was my favourite but holy shit reading the bodies burn in that chapter was tough. really played up bodies as bags of meat, got v strong mental imagery. was hit most by the portrayal of ptsd and struggles to continue on and connect with others. excited to read more by han kang!

going to read the woman in the dunes now which i haven't touched since first yr philosophy student.


have you read the vegetarian? i enjoyed it, though having read this article i'm not sure how to feel


whoa! thanks for sharing this article. read the vegetarian around this time last year and really enjoyed it but this is another layer...


Yeah thanks for this - I read The Vegetarian and Human Acts towards the end of last year and thought they were two of the best contemporary novels I'd read in a long time. In the former case I did notice some strange tonal shifts at points, but figured it was a deliberate stylistic thing, so this is very interesting.


this was my first! there was a point in the introduction that stood out to me about how her translation was to have the same effect on the reader rather than correct syntax and she used having a yorkshire dialect to replace a korean one as an example. i think it was joked as translators licence?

anyway i finished the woman in the dunes last night and i wish i had notes on when i first read it as it was for class. would love to see how my relationship with it has evolved. i got a new note book to write down quotes and thoughts on books so hopefully i wont have this issue again! the sexuality i think always repulsed me and i became really aware of every bit of grot on me and my need to bathe. s a n d. it was a hot day but real intense feelings of myself being trapped in the dirt and sand.

about a third of the way through yu hua's chronicle of a blood merchant, can u tell im picking from the 2017 best of thread for things i think i would like ~____~ think this is going to be one of my favourite books but again incredibly difficult at times. i thought my issues would be my own anemia and weird blood fetish troubles as im an idiot but the gender dynamics ooof.
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Postby forest design » Wed Jan 03, 2018 3:18 pm

dmitry wrote:by the way, since this is a literature lovers thread, this is a good opportunity to beg you to listen to entitled opinions. it's run by a (pretty pompous, but loveable) italian scholar out of stanford, who interviews a bunch of incredibly enthusiastic lit scholars
inga pierson on frankenstein - monika greenleaf on nabokov - monika greenleaf on dostoyevsky - nehamas on beauty (my favorite) - jessica merril on futurism - a hilariously disorganized interview with Herzog


Holy shit thank you for this
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Postby forest design » Wed Jan 03, 2018 3:22 pm

HotFingersClub wrote:My annual tiered roundup of what I read:
Claire-Louise Bennett – Pond
Emma Glass – Peach


Just requested the Bennet from the library and ordered the Glass based on the descriptions and your recc - thanks! Loved Pascoe’s Animal as well
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Postby walt whitman » Wed Jan 03, 2018 4:22 pm

Kenny wrote:What did you think of More Than Human? I didn't really like it...

just started! like literally on pp2. will report back after some reading on a plane
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Postby walt whitman » Wed Jan 03, 2018 4:24 pm

dmitry wrote:by the way, since this is a literature lovers thread, this is a good opportunity to beg you to listen to entitled opinions. it's run by a (pretty pompous, but loveable) italian scholar out of stanford, who interviews a bunch of incredibly enthusiastic lit scholars
inga pierson on frankenstein - monika greenleaf on nabokov - monika greenleaf on dostoyevsky - nehamas on beauty (my favorite) - jessica merril on futurism - a hilariously disorganized interview with Herzog

nice! thx
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Postby madness and chaos » Thu Jan 04, 2018 1:01 am

Pnin wrote:Didn't realize there is a new Denis Johnson short story collection coming out in a couple weeks http://a.co/1h28TQb


just wanna read this so bad right now

edit: nm! found it! putting in ebook thread and db
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Postby vivian darko » Thu Jan 04, 2018 6:39 am

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vivian darko wrote:What 2018 releases are yall pumped for?


the changeling by joy williams is being republished in april.

Fuck yeah. I just got The Visiting Privilege (which I think I've read most of honestly?), so Williams completionism is around the corner for me.
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Postby Viola Swamp » Thu Jan 04, 2018 8:13 am

vivian darko wrote:What 2018 releases are yall pumped for?


i'm in this and i'm also very excited to read it, it's pre-orderable now
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Postby mudd » Thu Jan 04, 2018 10:28 am

that looks excellent! i'll pre-order it. even though pre-ordering a book for june is kind of silly.

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Postby winj » Thu Jan 04, 2018 7:38 pm

vivian darko wrote:What 2018 releases are yall pumped for?


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Postby j-ol » Fri Jan 05, 2018 3:12 pm

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Postby abs » Fri Jan 05, 2018 5:08 pm

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damn, totally forgot this came out.
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Postby Riverchrist » Fri Jan 05, 2018 5:17 pm

winjer wrote:
vivian darko wrote:What 2018 releases are yall pumped for?


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This is cool. I was very disappointed in his last novel. Which sucks because it took place on my streetz.
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Postby winj » Fri Jan 05, 2018 5:43 pm

damn, i just found it on remainder yesterday & was excited (Making of Zombie Wars, i presume). have loved his other work.

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Postby criss elliott » Fri Jan 05, 2018 6:19 pm

finished ice

having a hard time quieting down and reading. i've started four books without much follow-through in the past few days:

beloved by toni morrison
dhalgren by samuel r delany
if on a winter's night a traveler by italo calvino
the notebooks of malte laurids brigge by rainer maria rilke
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Postby abs » Sat Jan 06, 2018 1:07 am

whoa that's a big list all at once. let me know what you think of dhalgren!
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Postby Dead_Wizard » Sat Jan 06, 2018 1:11 am

man Left Hand of Darkness is so good. what I needed
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Postby tarantula » Sat Jan 06, 2018 5:37 am

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Postby tarantula » Sat Jan 06, 2018 5:37 am

got a amazon gift certificate for xmas and spent it on outliers
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Postby bongo » Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:48 am

Dead_Wizard wrote:man Left Hand of Darkness is so good. what I needed


hell yeah

i actually have been thinking about a reread
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Postby An Indulgent Mother » Sat Jan 06, 2018 9:52 am

criss elliott wrote:if on a winter's night a traveler by italo calvino


One of the few books that I felt truly defeated by
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Postby incoherent grunting » Sat Jan 06, 2018 12:28 pm

Heroes of the Frontier was such crap I'll never read another Dave Eggers
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Postby woozy ducks » Sat Jan 06, 2018 11:43 pm

Dead_Wizard wrote:Very much enjoying Rainald Goetz's "Insane". Reads like a series of vignettes on mental health from the perspective of patient and clinician. Traces of Bernhard, Gaddis, etc. I love his ability to inhabit the mind of an MD (he went to med school) one of the most convincing "clinical" voices I've seen in fiction.


ah nice. i think i'm gonna bump this up on my to-read pile. i think it was recently written about in the economist.

atomicbombshell wrote:out of curiosity, how many books per year are people reading? i set my goal as 60 this year and i will be coming in right on target (hopefully) by dec 31.


i read 25 in 2017, but some big sci-fi monsters were included. in 2014 i read 39. this year i'm going for 40. i understand book length has a lot to do with it, but whatever.


here's a few i'd like to finish this year:
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The Wolverine Way by Douglas H. Chadwick (almost done)
The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom by John Pomfret (almost done)
Eating The Flowers of Paradise by Kevin Rushby (almost done)
Desert Towers by Steve Bartlett
Powder Burn by Daniel Glick
Paul's Records by Andrew S. Guthrie
A Mountain of Crumbs by Elena Gorokhova
Bomb The Suburbs by William Winsatt
Running The Amazon by Joe Kane


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The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan (almost done)
Waiting by Ha Jin
The Unseen by Roy Jacobsen
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Wolf Totem by Jiang Rong
The Colonel by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
Max Havelaar: Or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company by Multatuli
The Vegetarian by Han Kang

Really been getting more into fiction the last few months
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Postby Kenny » Sun Jan 07, 2018 7:34 pm

Kenny wrote:Starting up this morning:
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Really liked this a lot, very beautiful book. I wish it was longer!
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