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  On 11/10/2015 at 2:09 PM, hello spiral said:

J.M. Coetzee - Disgrace

Didn't know anything about this, just a book that's been hanging around my flat for the last few years. Started out like a literary character piece or whatever and then suddenly gets heavy as fuck. Enjoyed it, but damn.

Once I had hoped to read every Booker prize winner, fucking hell I was depressed after finishing this one. My plan to read every Booker was soon trashed by Vernon God Little, if that pile of shit can win it then anything can.

Hmm, I read that years ago when a work friend leant it to me. Don't remember hating it but don't remember much about it either.

One of those books charity shops always have multiple copies of lol.

Edit: read the wiki and I do remember it now. Was quite derivative of Confederacy of Dunces.

  On 11/11/2015 at 10:54 AM, hello spiral said:

Hmm, I read that years ago when a work friend leant it to me. Don't remember hating it but don't remember much about it either.

One of those books charity shops always have multiple copies of lol.

 

Edit: read the wiki and I do remember it now. Was quite derivative of Confederacy of Dunces.

I've had an unread copy of Confederacy of Dunces for a few years, if they are similar it may stay unread for a few years more. I normally stick reading any old rubbish but that was particularly bad, If I'd known the DBC in his name stood for Dirty But Clean I would never have started it in the first place.

Nah check out CoD. Hilarious book. The antihero, Ignatious J Reilly, is a proto version of the iamverysmart neckbeard fedora man we all know and love today.

  On 11/11/2015 at 11:10 AM, hello spiral said:

Nah check out CoD. Hilarious book. The antihero, Ignatious J Reilly, is a proto version of the iamverysmart neckbeard fedora man we all know and love today.

Haha, I can't get enough of those guys.

After two grim and nihilistic literary books, time for scifi and chill

That cover is dope.

Cute free download for people with kids, or just a love of Cthulu

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Old '60s/'70s sci-fi paperback covers are mental, there's an Oxfam bookshop near where I live that's full of them, need to swing down and pick a few up actually, get some futuristic turbo trash with mind-blowing art.

Got this a while ago, the novel itself had been on my to-read list for a while and wasn't really as good as I'd hoped, although the concept itself is great:

Im once trying to read Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum, now that I'm smarter and shit... Loving it!

I just finished A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and I think it's easily my favorite book that I've read. I don't recall reading anything else with such a unique writing style. Now, onto Ulysses.

Also, I drafted up a list of thirteen books that I want to read sometime in the near future. Highest on the list are Kierkegaard's Either/Or, Stirner's The Ego and His Own, and of course Ulysses.

Just finished ballard's high rise. Surreal and violent and I love how all the building inhabitants just give themselves freely, unquestioningly, to the madness.

  On 11/15/2015 at 3:14 PM, hello spiral said:

After two grim and nihilistic literary books, time for scifi and chill

 

Looks like something that belongs in the bad taxidermy thread.

  On 11/17/2015 at 6:17 AM, frankbooth said:

Just finished ballard's high rise. Surreal and violent and I love how all the building inhabitants just give themselves freely, unquestioningly, to the madness.

Fuck yeah, I would have got involved with that shit too, can't wait for the film.

just finished Tolstoy - Resurrection (10/10), just started reading Dostoyevsky - the Brothers Karamazov

really love Russian authors: Turgenev, Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky are the ones I've read so far

Finished The Corrections. 10/10

I've been reading Ulysses for nearly a week now and I am on page 48, out of 732 pages. This is way more than what I was prepared for, and I love it.

  On 11/20/2015 at 10:40 AM, Berk said:

just finished Tolstoy - Resurrection (10/10), just started reading Dostoyevsky - the Brothers Karamazov

 

really love Russian authors: Turgenev, Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky are the ones I've read so far

have u tried Cancer Ward?

so eloquent, but still a dense, brilliant, shocking novel

  On 11/25/2015 at 10:24 AM, cwmbrancity said:

 

  On 11/20/2015 at 10:40 AM, Berk said:

just finished Tolstoy - Resurrection (10/10), just started reading Dostoyevsky - the Brothers Karamazov

 

really love Russian authors: Turgenev, Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky are the ones I've read so far

 

have u tried Cancer Ward?

 

so eloquent, but still a dense, brilliant, shocking novel

  On 11/22/2015 at 11:31 PM, drillkicker said:

I've been reading Ulysses for nearly a week now and I am on page 48, out of 732 pages. This is way more than what I was prepared for, and I love it.

Read it once, but might need to re-visit again. I liked it, but I am sure a lot went over my head. Didn't find it too difficult. It's a pretty banal story in the end. Or then I'll read some other work byy Joyce. Like Finnegan's Wake.

  On 11/25/2015 at 12:58 PM, azatoth said:

 

  On 11/22/2015 at 11:31 PM, drillkicker said:

I've been reading Ulysses for nearly a week now and I am on page 48, out of 732 pages. This is way more than what I was prepared for, and I love it.

Read it once, but might need to re-visit again. I liked it, but I am sure a lot went over my head. Didn't find it too difficult. It's a pretty banal story in the end. Or then I'll read some other work byy Joyce. Like Finnegan's Wake.

I don't think the story is very important in the book, it's more about the way the story is told, which is really interesting. I can understand that Joyce really isn't for everyone, but I'm really digging his writing style. The edition I have contains notes in the appendices that explain all of the different allusions in the story, so it's taking a long time to get through. It's worth it, though, for the extra understanding that that adds.

Just out of curiosity, did you read A Portrait of the Artist… first, or not? If not, then there are a lot of parts that probably didn't make sense to you, so it would be worth going back and reading both of them just for that.

so much of Joyce is the Dublin lingo & twang.....i spent month after month visiting family in Eire as a kid and teenager, it was only after slowing down my reading that some of the sayings you hear around the streets of Dublin started creeping through the text phonetically

About to start on Robert Heinlein's ''Stranger in a Strange Land''. I don't read enough books and the ones that I do read are usually sci-fi. Watching the film Predestination was to me a sharp reminder how good Heinlein's ideas & concepts are, the ultimate mindfuck. And that was only a short story in a pulp magazine back in '59!

  On 11/28/2015 at 12:38 AM, cwmbrancity said:

so much of Joyce is the Dublin lingo & twang.....i spent month after month visiting family in Eire as a kid and teenager, it was only after slowing down my reading that some of the sayings you hear around the streets of Dublin started creeping through the text phonetically

I can second this. Even a lot of the references to Orange marches, say, and figures like Parnell, probably go over a lot of folks' heads unless you're into Irish history and culture.

Those things would probably go over my head if it weren't for the explanatory notes in the appendices. They really help a lot. Parnell is sort of a universal Joyce thing, though, so that one didn't slip by me the second time he used his death in his writings.