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reuben- President Bannon
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C-poots- Shiek
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I'm getting close to the end of GR and it is picking up steam again. There was about 100 pages where it was starting to lull for me a bit but I think it was partially an issue of losing the plot. Once I did a little review of who everyone was and where they stood in the whole structure, it immediatly became fantastic again.
Next in line is The Odyssey, and I'm going to buy Ulysses and put it on my bookshelf just to keep me motivated enough to finish its Greek forebear/inspiration/whatever.
Sorry WP64, but its going to be some time until I can engage a conversation about Bolano with you.
Next in line is The Odyssey, and I'm going to buy Ulysses and put it on my bookshelf just to keep me motivated enough to finish its Greek forebear/inspiration/whatever.
Sorry WP64, but its going to be some time until I can engage a conversation about Bolano with you.
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Finished 100 Years of Solitude last week. Felt a little weepy as I approached the end of the book.
About to finish Shantaram in a day or two. While the story is interesting, I hate the author's writing. Reading him describe Indian people or Indian food revolts me for some reason, and his editorializing on love, evil and the human condition, etc. at the end of every chapter makes me want to pull out my hair. Would not recommend.
About to finish Shantaram in a day or two. While the story is interesting, I hate the author's writing. Reading him describe Indian people or Indian food revolts me for some reason, and his editorializing on love, evil and the human condition, etc. at the end of every chapter makes me want to pull out my hair. Would not recommend.
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Sunny.
The Odyssey is a bunch of crap.
C-poots- Shiek
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Duff... wrote:The Odyssey is a bunch of crap.
Neat, I'll keep this in mind while reading.
WP64- Mystery Thread Deleter
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Let me know when you start The Odyssey because I might be interested in working through that one with you. I'm working through Plato's Republic for the first time and it might be a nice little independent companion project to that.
Also, that is the weirdest Duff post I've ever encountered.
Also, that is the weirdest Duff post I've ever encountered.
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Duff... wrote:The Odyssey is a bunch of crap.
you didn't like the trip to Calypso's island? or where Odysseus basically kills everyone at a dinner party for being Penelope's suitors?
it's decent
Gene Bootcut- A fanatic of the sketch genre
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Just ordered
I hope I actually read it.
I hope I actually read it.
WP64- Mystery Thread Deleter
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That one might actually just be a bunch of crap, Soma.
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jasperness wrote:Duff... wrote:The Odyssey is a bunch of crap.
you didn't like the trip to Calypso's island? or where Odysseus basically kills everyone at a dinner party for being Penelope's suitors?
it's decent
I dunno, Odysseus has this self-aggrandizing hypocrisy where he often endangers his men and otherwise treats them as expendables and goes off for several years to fuck a couple of goddess/nymph ladies and then gets home and is aghast to find his wife has considered the possibility of maybe thinking about moving on after 20 years. Had the same problem with Walt White.
Admittedly I haven't touched this thing since high school.
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This is a hilarious post to neg. Damn anyone who ever questions Bertrand Russell's reading of the history of Western philosophy. To Hell with those people.Ҩ wrote:That one might actually just be a bunch of crap, Soma.
Gene Bootcut- A fanatic of the sketch genre
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Yeah, I've heard mixed reviews. Such is life.
Not my neg.
Not my neg.
C-poots- Shiek
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I've started writing a bit. Waylon, we should give the readers a two-for and sell our books together. What do you say?
reuben- President Bannon
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I'm in. What's yours about?
C-poots- Shiek
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Its about a bunch of kids who are all getting into a big mess of trouble.
reuben- President Bannon
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Do they need a lawyer? Maybe we can work in a crossover.
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^ vanity-published legal-horror fiction writer
C-poots- Shiek
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Finally got around to finishing the Pynchon, though it is going to take me another week to fully wrap my head around that ending.
C-poots- Shiek
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Gravity's Rainbow ending, my thoughts:
I think this book is great, I want to read it again already but know that I won't make it through The Counterforce section again without clearing my mind and letting the narrative and characters of the book fade from my memory a bit. I'm almost certain I'll be returning to this book in the next few years and I'm likely going to be re-purchasing Against The Day, a book I foolishly bought when I was 16 or so, quickly gave up on, and in the years to follow lost in a link of borrowing friends.
On to The Odessey, "a bunch of Crap" as one reviewer called it, and "decent" by another. Excited by this one!
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- Immediately after reading the ending I found myself a little bit disappointed. I saw Slothrop as a central character and wanted some sort of resolution, or even a better understanding of where he stood in the greater structure of the system by the time Enzian and team have assembled the 00001, but instead was told of his continuous fragmentation across The Zone, basically his dissolving into the background literally, and was instead given detail on Pointsmann, Blicero, Gottfried, etc.
After thinking about it though, there are elements I really like about the ending. The scene where Tchitcherine and Enzian cross paths unknowingly and trade cigs and nods, the movie theater explosion killing us inside (at absolute north? basically, we all sit at the axis and "They" move around us in all directions?), and I do like how Pynchon fragmented Slothrop in the book so far and left him visibly coming apart at the seams, hallucinatory, jarred from the origin and focus of his quest for the rocket, so that his eventual evaporation from the story makes sense - though again I guess being trained in resolution, I still feel like I need more about him despite it not being there to give. I am also curious about the 00001, Enzian, his schwarzcommando, his own counterforce. What happens to all of them now that their rocket is real? It is something I can't totally get my head around and welcome any analysis or ideas on.
I think this book is great, I want to read it again already but know that I won't make it through The Counterforce section again without clearing my mind and letting the narrative and characters of the book fade from my memory a bit. I'm almost certain I'll be returning to this book in the next few years and I'm likely going to be re-purchasing Against The Day, a book I foolishly bought when I was 16 or so, quickly gave up on, and in the years to follow lost in a link of borrowing friends.
On to The Odessey, "a bunch of Crap" as one reviewer called it, and "decent" by another. Excited by this one!
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Started on The Odessey which feels like a breeze to read after Pynchon. Going to fly through this book I feel, and I'm already pretty engaged with the primary characters, the gossipy gods and the descriptions of food are giving me enjoyment.
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I'm enjoying PKD's Galactic Pot Healer. It's everything I need in a story right now after reading a bunch of crap like Brothers Karamazov.
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I'm about halfway through Spook Country by William Gibson. Pretty good so far, pretty plausible sci-fi-ish thriller. Like PKD could have written something like this 50 years ago.
This is my first time reading this guy, despite having become interested a few dozen years ago when I read a Thurston Moore interview where he was all excited about 'cyberpunk'.
This is my first time reading this guy, despite having become interested a few dozen years ago when I read a Thurston Moore interview where he was all excited about 'cyberpunk'.
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The same day, I also bought a hardcover of The Corrections for a dollar. I will probably never read it.
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Ted Falconi wrote:The same day, I also bought a hardcover of The Corrections for a dollar. I will probably never read it.
That would be unfortunate. It's really excellent and definitely worthy of the hype, IMO.
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So I've talked myself into thinking of "Harrison Bergeron" as an ultra-sarcastic mockery of where right wing savages think striving for equality would take our country, but I'm still kinda scared I'm giving Vonnegut way too much credit.
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