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!@#$%! · 06.30.2015, 10:40 PM

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Originally Posted by schizophrenicroom

i've tried- i love pride and prejudice and emma, but prefer to watch (including clueless.)

oh, yeah, i even fall asleep watching! though clueless was funny. seen it more than once. but those masterpiece theatre versions...

zzzz

i'm not saying it's her fault or anything. that would be ignorant of me. but yeah, can't connect with it.

wuthering heights on the other hand is INSANITY. is it even a novel? what is it? i don't know. hell.

used to be a time i sort of related what goes on in that novel. deranged passions & what not. fury and depression. fortunately not anymore. that kind of shit isn't fun when you live through it. almost got me killed.

schizophrenicroom · 07.01.2015, 12:43 AM

yeah, it's much more fun to read entirely detached from those feelings. it really isn't like any other novel (barring the avant garde-y post modern types, etc) just in terms of how claustrophobic every sentence feels.

gmku · 07.01.2015, 06:35 AM

How about some Mark Twain?

!@#$%! · 07.01.2015, 09:24 AM

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Originally Posted by schizophrenicroom

yeah, it's much more fun to read entirely detached from those feelings.

it brings memories of a deranged me calling my on/off/on/off/on/off/on/off crazy ex-girlfriend from a payphone that would take too many coins, screaming desperately:

"you're marrying lintoooon! you're marrying lintoooon!"

damn, those were desperate times.

of course we got back together, only to fuck it up again.

i read somewhere, a critic, praising the book, saying that writing it was probably what killed brontë. maybe it was bataille, yeah. ANYWAY. brrrrrrr! i do not miss insanity. romanticism my balls.

Mortte Jousimo · 07.02.2015, 12:15 AM

Read also Wuthering heights quite many years ago. What I remember that is that I didn´t like it as much as I thought I would like.

They have been translated Kim´s book in Finnish! Coming August.

pony · 07.02.2015, 03:20 PM

This was in the mail today:

good timing cause i handed in my thesis this morning!

Rob Instigator · 07.02.2015, 03:28 PM

!@#$%! · 07.02.2015, 03:35 PM

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Originally Posted by pony

This was in the mail today:

good timing cause i handed in my thesis this morning!

dammit, you're speedy! let me know when you get "the namesake" (her first novel), which is fucking great.

i just got something too:

THE SPARROW (MARY DORIA RUSSELL, 1996)

yes pony it is A WOMAN and the first pages of it are good clean prose that doesn't talk about "memememememememe", so i'm about to probably highly recommend it, but i'll only get into the meat of it this coming weekend so i'll let you know after that.

evollove · 07.02.2015, 05:24 PM

"Interpreter of Maladies" - O. Henry Award 1999, also Best American Short Stories 1999
"The Third and Final Continent" Best American Short Stories 2000
(later: "Nobody's Business" Best American Short Stories 2002)

See Pony, others give opinions. I give facts. If you had bowed before my vast erudition, you would've come across Lahiri anyway. Past volumes of O. Hen, BASS and Push are all dirt cheap, and you should've gotten a bunch. Imagine the riches. Instead, your life is now in tatters and suicide is the only honorable way out.

On second thought, I don't care what anyone reads. Never mind. Keep living.

!@#$%! · 07.02.2015, 05:32 PM

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Originally Posted by evollove

[reduced for quick sale]

friends don't let friends speak douche

evollove · 07.02.2015, 05:34 PM

You actually liked THE NAMESAKE, so you're hopeless.

Others, bow down before me!!

!@#$%! · 07.02.2015, 05:54 PM

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Originally Posted by evollove

You actually liked THE NAMESAKE, so you're hopeless.

Others, bow down before me!!

can't relate to a brown woman, eh?

get out of your whiteboy ghetto, wasp wannabe

evollove · 07.02.2015, 06:37 PM

That book's about a brown boy.

But I do sort of want to be a wasp.

tie

!@#$%! · 07.02.2015, 06:43 PM

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Originally Posted by evollove

That book's about a brown boy.

you know he's an imaginary creation, right?

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Originally Posted by evollove

But I do sort of want to be a wasp.

no... really? i if you hadn't told me this i never would have known

namesake is great-- it's a story of degradation through integration

pony · 07.02.2015, 09:48 PM

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Originally Posted by evollove

"Interpreter of Maladies" - O. Henry Award 1999, also Best American Short Stories 1999
"The Third and Final Continent" Best American Short Stories 2000
(later: "Nobody's Business" Best American Short Stories 2002)

See Pony, others give opinions. I give facts. If you had bowed before my vast erudition, you would've come across Lahiri anyway. Past volumes of O. Hen, BASS and Push are all dirt cheap, and you should've gotten a bunch. Imagine the riches. Instead, your life is now in tatters and suicide is the only honorable way out.

On second thought, I don't care what anyone reads. Never mind. Keep living.

Oooh, I will get some of those volumes! was only looking for Push, haven't found anything. at least not on german websites. But one or two BASS volumes is what i'll be getting as soon as I am getting paid!

evollove · 07.03.2015, 05:52 AM

Wish you lived closer. I could hook you up. I have about 1000 books and I'm thinking about cutting that in half.
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Originally Posted by !@#$%!

namesake is great-- it's a story of degradation through integration

I thought Philip Roth wrote that already.
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Today's theory: literary fiction is a genre like any other. While it isn't as constrained as, say, mystery, it still has its conventions. The literary reader expects certain things from the work, and the work is considered successful if it delivers. This is ultimately more important than the race/gender/nationality of the author. I don't think it's fair that one group should produce all or even most of the works, but bringing in new voices doesn't really change the genre expectations.
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I've read exactly one book in 2015, and it was about protest music.

!@#$%! · 07.03.2015, 08:49 AM

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Originally Posted by evollove

Today's theory: literary fiction is a genre like any other. While it isn't as constrained as, say, mystery, it still has its conventions. The literary reader expects certain things from the work, and the work is considered successful if it delivers. This is ultimately more important than the race/gender/nationality of the author. I don't think it's fair that one group should produce all or even most of the works, but bringing in new voices doesn't really change the genre expectations.

pony · 07.04.2015, 09:20 PM

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Originally Posted by evollove

Wish you lived closer. I could hook you up. I have about 1000 books and I'm thinking about cutting that in half.

1000? this makes me feel all warm inside and happy. books are great!

Rob Instigator · 07.09.2015, 10:59 AM

RXTT's Intellectual Journey continues with the exploration of the war between religion and science, as told by the President of Cornell University over 125 years ago. http://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2015/0...d-attacks.html

evollove · 07.09.2015, 03:38 PM

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I don't get it. Is that me or you? If it's me, that's the wrong sort of wasp I envy. If that's you, sorry I made you identify with someone who uses the word "spic."

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Originally Posted by pony

1000? this makes me feel all warm inside and happy. books are great!

They do furnish a room, but it's a fucking burden after awhile. All day they shout "Why aren't you reading one of us you lousy lazy bastard?" 500 is ideal. 1000 is just dumb gluttony.

My library has a killer book sale every single month, and they have for years. Only recently have I started resisting the urge to go. At least I didn't pay much for this torment.

07.01.2015, 12:43 AM	#4002
schizophrenicroom invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: behind you Posts: 10,807	yeah, it's much more fun to read entirely detached from those feelings. it really isn't like any other novel (barring the avant garde-y post modern types, etc) just in terms of how claustrophobic every sentence feels. __________________ fuck i'm frustrated, freaking out something fierce, would you help me? i'm hungry and i stuffer and i startle, i struggle and i stammer til i'm up to my ears in miserable quote unquote "art"
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07.01.2015, 06:35 AM	#4003
gmku invito al cielo Join Date: May 2006 Location: Oxford, England Posts: 15,225	How about some Mark Twain? __________________ Ever notice how this place just basically, well, sucks.
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07.02.2015, 12:15 AM	#4005
Mortte Jousimo expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 2,019	Read also Wuthering heights quite many years ago. What I remember that is that I didn´t like it as much as I thought I would like. They have been translated Kim´s book in Finnish! Coming August.
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07.02.2015, 03:28 PM	#4007
Rob Instigator invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the land of the Instigator Posts: 27,973	__________________ RXTT's Intellectual Journey - my new blog where I talk about all the books I read.
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07.02.2015, 05:24 PM	#4009
evollove invito al cielo Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 2,879	"Interpreter of Maladies" - O. Henry Award 1999, also Best American Short Stories 1999 "The Third and Final Continent" Best American Short Stories 2000 (later: "Nobody's Business" Best American Short Stories 2002) See Pony, others give opinions. I give facts. If you had bowed before my vast erudition, you would've come across Lahiri anyway. Past volumes of O. Hen, BASS and Push are all dirt cheap, and you should've gotten a bunch. Imagine the riches. Instead, your life is now in tatters and suicide is the only honorable way out. On second thought, I don't care what anyone reads. Never mind. Keep living.
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07.02.2015, 05:34 PM	#4011
evollove invito al cielo Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 2,879	You actually liked THE NAMESAKE, so you're hopeless. Others, bow down before me!!
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07.02.2015, 06:37 PM	#4013
evollove invito al cielo Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 2,879	That book's about a brown boy. But I do sort of want to be a wasp. tie
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07.09.2015, 10:59 AM	#4019
Rob Instigator invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the land of the Instigator Posts: 27,973	RXTT's Intellectual Journey continues with the exploration of the war between religion and science, as told by the President of Cornell University over 125 years ago. http://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2015/0...d-attacks.html __________________ RXTT's Intellectual Journey - my new blog where I talk about all the books I read.
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