You Know Nothing
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What are you reading? (August 2015)
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Well, this is going to be a new favorite Tumblr.
nailbombxx
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fantasy just seems fake
All fiction is fake.
"Just throw the fucking fish back in. Fuck.
You Know Nothing
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I think I've found a possible peak.
AngmarsKing701
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When you laugh loud enough to wake your SO at 3am you'll know which one we're talking about.
Jo Walton gives a great description of a particular type of moment that Bujold excels at:
You could read the Vorkosigan books as stand-alones. But without the weight of the spear behind them, those sharp points aren't going to have the same impact.
So Cyan, since you are an expert on all things Drazi, did the creator of Babylon 5 get his inspiration from the Nika revolts?
I am currently listening to great courses course on the Byzantine Empire and I was pretty amused when the lecturer discussed how the citizens of the empire started to chant blue or green (depending on which faction they associated with) during one of the massive imperial sponsored hippodrome games. Eventuallyl they finally decided to come together and shouted Nika! Then they revolted.
All I could think of was Drazi
I am currently listening to great courses course on the Byzantine Empire and I was pretty amused when the lecturer discussed how the citizens of the empire started to chant blue or green (depending on which faction they associated with) during one of the massive imperial sponsored hippodrome games. Eventuallyl they finally decided to come together and shouted Nika! Then they revolted.
All I could think of was Drazi
Green for life!
Atraveller
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lol what a gold mine!
I don't know that he's ever said, but I'm very confident that you're right and that the purple/green thing was inspired by the blue/green factions in Constantinople.
Dicktatorship
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welp
Translation: I am a prejudiced bigot, and while her arguments make a good deal of sense and are well supported, I am not going to believe them because she is a liberal black woman with an obvious bias and agenda. I can't trust her.
Now, if someone like me told me this stuff, then i would totally believe them, maybe. Possibly, i mean, I am still a prejudiced bigot after all...
TheKaeptain
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I recently finished The People in the Trees, and was sufficiently impressed with the writer to read A Little Life soon, but needed a breather with some lighter reading so I started Stephen King's Joyland on my new kindle voyage.
I also read A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian and did not really care for it.
I'm also on goodreads and I read a lot, so if anybody wants to add me.
I also read A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian and did not really care for it.
I'm also on goodreads and I read a lot, so if anybody wants to add me.
welp
She's totally bias, Mumei. I need a Scott Walker loving, white male to review this book, and if this person likes it, then I can treat this book seriously.
welp
didn't you hear? black women aren't allowed to have opinions on racism.
Nappuccino
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Racism doesn't affect them. They don't understand it, not like us white men.
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Mu cephei, I'm going to start reading Pale Fire right about...
NOW!
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First impression: nice cover!
NOW!
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First impression: nice cover!
Incandenza
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Toll the Hounds by Steven Erikson
I think the last time I made a post about this book I said that I was definitely going to see the series to the end, but this one has been by far my least favorite. All of Erikson's worst tendencies have been cranked up to eleven for this one. So many instances of characters being introduced and given zero development and even less to do, yet still getting pages and pages of screen time, presumably so they can be summarily killed off after playing some small role in the Rube Goldbergian climax that I'm currently struggling through. It's soooo frustrating to feel so close to the end of this thing and just watch my interest deteriorate. Not to mention my reading speed. I was expecting to have finished this series by the end of the summer but I think I've read like 150 pages in the last month at most. I dunno. I need to take a break I guess.
The Last Wizard
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Finished Woman of the Dunes the other day, it was a slog to get through. Too heavy handed for me and I was really looking forward to reading it as when I seen the movie a few years back I loved it but I guess time might might've killed the true enthusiasm. I really dislike dhow their wasn't much shown between the Junpei and the woman, most of the book was just him thinking:/
On to the alchemist.
On to the alchemist.
About The Count of Monte Cristo
Are these all one-sentence reviews or are choice quotes?
Either way, people have some odd opinions.
TheKaeptain
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We should play a game:
Name that book.
Name that book.
fredrancour
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The Bell Jar?
Nappuccino
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Don't get me wrong, I understand the intent. But I just can't get into books where a primary character serves as little more than an allegory. If I can't care about them as a person, I'm certainly not going to care about them thematically either.
FortuneFaded
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All My Friends Are Dead.
Ah yeah, I didn't meant to say you weren't right in your criticism. Just wanted to explore it a bit more because I think The Road is very interesting that way.
Nappuccino
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Ah, fair enough! I do think it's an important element to understanding the book, so it's good to point out.
TheKaeptain
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Hint: It involves a young man's letters and the man that is boning the girl he is in love with pistols.
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Die Leiden des jungen Werthers
Marcovaldo
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either sorrows of young werther or one of dostoevsky's short stories whose name i can't remember
woo <3
eat it, cyan
Second impression: wtf do i read the whole poem and then the commentary or back and forth and when do i read the index also does the foreword matter????
The bottom left bookshelf is nearly empty *shocked* fill it quick.
That's the edition I have. I still have about 50 pages to go on Augustus, but I should be able to start tomorrow. What's it like so far?
Marcovaldo
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i kept on going back and forth but i don't think there's really a wrong way to read it
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Yeah, I actually considered consulting you regarding this.
I followed old Kinbote's advice, despite him being untrustworthty narrator incarnated, so I skipped poem for now and went straight for commentary after intro.
That's my 'currently reading' shelf
right now most of that is spread around the aptIt's wonderful so far, it has the same kind of docu-fictionary style as Lolita, and Nabokov's prose is such a sensual experience. As you can tell from the above exchange with Mumei it's also a bit confusing
Yeah, you'll have a different experience depending upon what you do, but I don't think anything is wrong. I read it straight through, myself.
Ooh. Interesting. I wonder how mu cephei will be reading it.
Easystride
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So I just finished Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend, and it was excellent. I am on my phone, so I don't want to write too long of a message, but it was totally not what I was expecting. I was pretty much glued to book from beginning to end. I love you, Budo!
Feel like there is a bit of a void in my reading now that it is over
Don't know what to read next.
Feel like there is a bit of a void in my reading now that it is over
Don't know what to read next.So I just finished Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend, and it was excellent. I am on my phone, so I don't want to write too long of a message, but it was totally not what I was expecting. I was pretty much glued to book from beginning to end. I love you, Budo!
Feel like there is a bit of a void in my reading now that it is over
I have no idea what your taste is, but you should read The Goblin Emperor.
Some stuff I finished recently.
First one was Faces in the Crowd. Enjoyable bizarre metafiction type of story. The narrator is trying to write a book about her time before marriage where she used to work for a small publisher. Trying to get a book about an unknown dead poet from 50 years ago published. But as story progresses, you start to realize, not everything being written is the truth and it becomes hard to know what's fictional and reality. Cool stuff even though I was mostly confused near the end.
I also finished A Personal Matter. I had a misconception regarding what the story is about. The main character, Bird, just became a father, but discovers his son has brain hernia. I thought it's a story about the family raising their newborn and dealing with the challenges. But instead if's about showing how Bird can't handle his new responsibilities, by cheating on his wife and wishing his kid would die instead of having to raise him with his condition. Rather grim stuff, but I thought it's a good book to show how people can deal with these life changing events.
Finished reading The Festival of Insignificance, my first Milan Kundera book. And I'm really puzzled by it. I still don't know what's it about or what the book is trying to say. I felt like I just wasted my time reading ~100 story about nothing. Maybe that's the point hence the title? Oh well, it seems like not even Kundera fans like it from reading online reviews so maybe I just started with the wrong book.
First one was Faces in the Crowd. Enjoyable bizarre metafiction type of story. The narrator is trying to write a book about her time before marriage where she used to work for a small publisher. Trying to get a book about an unknown dead poet from 50 years ago published. But as story progresses, you start to realize, not everything being written is the truth and it becomes hard to know what's fictional and reality. Cool stuff even though I was mostly confused near the end.
I also finished A Personal Matter. I had a misconception regarding what the story is about. The main character, Bird, just became a father, but discovers his son has brain hernia. I thought it's a story about the family raising their newborn and dealing with the challenges. But instead if's about showing how Bird can't handle his new responsibilities, by cheating on his wife and wishing his kid would die instead of having to raise him with his condition. Rather grim stuff, but I thought it's a good book to show how people can deal with these life changing events.
Finished reading The Festival of Insignificance, my first Milan Kundera book. And I'm really puzzled by it. I still don't know what's it about or what the book is trying to say. I felt like I just wasted my time reading ~100 story about nothing. Maybe that's the point hence the title? Oh well, it seems like not even Kundera fans like it from reading online reviews so maybe I just started with the wrong book.
This is correct.
Holy hell this tumblr, On A Canticle for Leibowitz.
Had to read this in HS in the 70s when all the teachers were going on and on about the horror of nuclear weapons and all that other alarmist left wing crap.
Anyway amongst the many other things I've read I just finished Ilium and Olympos.
I enjoyed both of them but the mans seems to have a thing about Islam that comes through in the writing. I was able to look past it though. Mind you I began to feel like Mahnmut every time I had to read another page of Proust.
Had to read this in HS in the 70s when all the teachers were going on and on about the horror of nuclear weapons and all that other alarmist left wing crap.
Anyway amongst the many other things I've read I just finished Ilium and Olympos.
I enjoyed both of them but the mans seems to have a thing about Islam that comes through in the writing. I was able to look past it though. Mind you I began to feel like Mahnmut every time I had to read another page of Proust.
*screaming*
Yeah, it's a really uncomfortable read, especially since it's semi-autobiographical. I really recommend picking up Rouse Up, O Young Men of the New Age! now, since it deals with some of the same issues (of raising a profoundly brain-damaged son), but when his son is much older. It's really quite beautiful.
Yeah, it's a really uncomfortable read, especially since it's semi-autobiographical. I really recommend picking up Rouse Up, O Young Men of the New Age! now, since it deals with some of the same issues (of raising a profoundly brain-damaged son), but when his son is much older. It's really quite beautiful.
AngmarsKing701
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You Know Nothing
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I'm currently reading The Goblin Emperor!
Only on chapter six, but so far it seems like a good coming of age tale. And I love the world building.
Yeah, I actually considered consulting you regarding this.
I followed old Kinbote's advice, despite him being untrustworthty narrator incarnated, so I skipped poem for now and went straight for commentary after intro.
That's my 'currently reading' shelf
It's wonderful so far, it has the same kind of docu-fictionary style as Lolita, and Navokov's prose is such a sensual experience. As you can tell from the above exchange with Mumei it's also a bit confusing
Wonderful is good. Confusing is fine
incomprehensible might've made me nervous.
I'm wondering this myself!
So I just finished Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend, and it was excellent. I am on my phone, so I don't want to write too long of a message, but it was totally not what I was expecting. I was pretty much glued to book from beginning to end. I love you, Budo!
Feel like there is a bit of a void in my reading now that it is over
=)
Glad to hear you thought it was excellent as well! It's a good sign when you have no idea what to read next, thinking it won't live up to what you just read!
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