santos l halper wrote:atomicbombshell wrote:shrinemaidens wrote: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.
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
HotFingersClub wrote:My annual tiered roundup of what I read:
Claire-Louise Bennett – Pond
Emma Glass – Peach
Kenny wrote:What did you think of More Than Human? I didn't really like it...
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
Pnin wrote:Didn't realize there is a new Denis Johnson short story collection coming out in a couple weeks http://a.co/1h28TQb
lefthandshake wrote:vivian darko wrote:What 2018 releases are yall pumped for?
the changeling by joy williams is being republished in april.
PROBLEM ATTIC wrote:I see dear sweet Vivian, one of the boys of Lmao
vivian darko wrote:What 2018 releases are yall pumped for?
winjer wrote:vivian darko wrote:What 2018 releases are yall pumped for?
Dead_Wizard wrote:man Left Hand of Darkness is so good. what I needed
yeaaaaaaaaaaaa american nostalgia love it suburban living civilized families this could be my life
criss elliott wrote:if on a winter's night a traveler by italo calvino
mites wrote:I'm a factory where every input is pizza and every output is depression
"let's get psychic not blacked out. Let's get wild without getting sick. Let's get turnt while staying woke."
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.
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.
Kenny wrote:Starting up this morning:
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