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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: OZA]
#20159405 - 06/20/14 01:06 PM (9 years, 7 months ago) |
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DFW is my favorite author and Infinite Jest is my favorite book. I love that it is so long. It really gets you into the world and the characters.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Trippinhighman]
#20179496 - 06/24/14 02:29 PM (9 years, 7 months ago) |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray is really good. The only part I didn't really like was the whole chapter describing all the random stuff in a room or whatever. Also Gummo!
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Abuse]
#20210670 - 07/01/14 01:18 PM (9 years, 6 months ago) |
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Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: eira]
#20245239 - 07/08/14 11:03 PM (9 years, 6 months ago) |
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clock_of_omens said: Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
That book (or rather, the essay its titled after) was/is a big part of my decision to be a vegetarian.
I'm already vegetarian, but I could see how that essay would make someone think if either they didn't know about the horrible stuff that goes on in factory farms or they never thought about the moral aspects of meat eating. I thought it was a really good essay.
My favorite essays in the book were probably Up, Simba, The Host and the usage one. Overall I still like A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again more. The title essay, the fair one and the David Lynch one are all really great.
I just started Where I'm Calling From by Raymond Carver.
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I'm about to start V. by Thomas Pynchon.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: zappaisgod]
#20335251 - 07/26/14 11:13 PM (9 years, 6 months ago) |
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Nope, the only one I've read fully is Inherent Vice. I read part of Mason and Dixon a few years ago. I decided I was going to just read the rest of his books in chronological order.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: FractalReal]
#20395745 - 08/09/14 12:55 PM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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I finished V. It was pretty strange. I'll definitely have to read it again sometime to pick up all the stuff about history, time, mirrors, animate vs. inanimate, etc. Plus there is all the shifting of character relations and stuff. My favorite standalone bit was the priest who believes the rats are going to take over NYC and so goes down in the sewers to convert them to Christianity. That was hilarious.
I'm about to start Falling Man by Don DeLillo next.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: zappaisgod]
#20397632 - 08/09/14 10:47 PM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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I've read the Lost in the Funhouse collection. I thought Ambrose His Mark and Water Messege were great. I've seen you rec The Sot-Weed Factor a few times around. I'm going to read that one soon.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: zappaisgod]
#20401415 - 08/10/14 10:42 PM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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I'll be sure to save Letters for after I read his previous stuff. I've wanted to read Giles Goat-Boy for a while as well; I like the title, it reminds me of Julien Donkey-Boy the Harmony Korine movie. I wonder if the similarity is intentional.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Buster_Brown]
#20537064 - 09/08/14 09:51 AM (9 years, 4 months ago) |
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I'm about to start Under the Skin by Michel Faber.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: SoupSandwich]
#21077661 - 01/06/15 03:20 PM (9 years, 23 days ago) |
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I started The Sot-Weed Factor a while back, and I'm finally getting back to it. I'm enjoying it so far. It's funny, and I liked Henry and Eben's conversation about identity and memory. It reminded me of a movie I watched recently called Amateur about a guy who loses his memory which made me think about the connection between identity and memory, and it was cool that the book touched on it. Also I started reading The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: zappaisgod]
#21216261 - 02/02/15 02:01 PM (8 years, 11 months ago) |
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zappaisgod said: Henry Burlingame is a tree swiver.
Read the book. You'll know what I mean. It is absolutely worth it
Just read this part today.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: zappaisgod]
#21217047 - 02/02/15 04:50 PM (8 years, 11 months ago) |
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I guess I didn't know the virtues of those "barky boles."
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: KMt]
#21294804 - 02/18/15 05:44 PM (8 years, 11 months ago) |
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I finished The Sot-Weed Factor. It was really good. I'll have to re-read it sometime after I read some of the historical fiction novels that he was emulating. I also read Tortilla Flat by Steinbeck which was good. Next I'm going to read Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein.
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#21299938 - 02/19/15 04:45 PM (8 years, 11 months ago) |
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I also bought The Floating Opera and The End of the Road, so I'm going to read those soon. Then I'm going to tackle Giles Goat-Boy.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: akira_akuma]
#21311631 - 02/22/15 02:15 AM (8 years, 11 months ago) |
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IJ is funny in a lot of places, but the way people try to sell it as a full on comedy is kind of harmful to people's perceptions of it. It is mainly supposed to be sad.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: akira_akuma]
#21313855 - 02/22/15 04:58 PM (8 years, 11 months ago) |
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It's definitely sad the lengths people in the book go to entertain themselves. In every interview I've heard with DFW on the book, the interviewer says how funny the book/something in the book is, and DFW usually responds by saying that the book was supposed to largely be sad/the thing was meant to be entirely plausible. I think it comes through in the book.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: akira_akuma]
#21313942 - 02/22/15 05:20 PM (8 years, 11 months ago) |
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Perhaps if you're into schadenfreude.
Edited by clock_of_omens (02/22/15 05:22 PM)
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: akira_akuma]
#21314105 - 02/22/15 05:49 PM (8 years, 11 months ago) |
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It took me almost a whole semester to read it as I was mainly reading it during my breaks between classes.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: millzy]
#21392524 - 03/11/15 12:02 PM (8 years, 10 months ago) |
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Stranger in a Strange Land was pretty good. I've been watching Desperate Housewives and it keeps making me think about the part where Jubal talks about jealousy and love. This distinction would pretty much solve all the problems on the show.
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler was good. I also watched the movie which was also good. The book was better overall, and the ending was much better.
Oxherding Tale by Charles Johnson was great. It kind of reminded me of The Sot-Weed Factor in the way it takes a certain kind of story (in this case a slave narrative) and uses it to tell a new funny and philosophical story. There are also a few authorial interjections like Barth uses. The writing is also really great. I recommend it to everyone.
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