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Fandyien
But Otto, what about us? Registered User regular
But Otto, what about us? Registered User regular
So I noticed that my favorite thread, the book thread, has gone the way of the dodo and nobody has bothered to make a new one. I've been reading "books" or "tomes" lately and I needed some people to discuss the arcane and dying art of reading for leisure with.
I'm burning my way through some junky fantasy right now, but after that I'm thinking about moving on to The Neon Bible by John Kennedy O'toole. I fucking love A Confederacy of Dunces, which is pretty objectively an incredible piece of literature, so I'm curious as to how The Neon Bible has acquired it's reputation for being total shit.
Book thread, go!
I'm burning my way through some junky fantasy right now, but after that I'm thinking about moving on to The Neon Bible by John Kennedy O'toole. I fucking love A Confederacy of Dunces, which is pretty objectively an incredible piece of literature, so I'm curious as to how The Neon Bible has acquired it's reputation for being total shit.
Book thread, go!
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I dunno what's going on, but my attention span throughout the last couple books I've read has been shit
need to just buckle down and get into it
i havent really been reading it
i wish i was
I'm reading through the first book in the Recluce series or whatever right now. It's really pretty good, if you don't expect anything akin to high literature, and his take on magic and the intricacies contained therein is pretty unique. It reminds me of the Belgariad.
My brother, who has read the whole series, says theres no immediate continuity between the books, but that it's more of an overarching history of a world in turmoil and stuff. So I really look forward to progressing through the series and seeing how he slowly reveals a lot of stuff that is pretty blatantly intentionally obfuscated in the first.
Christ on toast is it amazing.
Which collection of short stories was it? Robert E. Howard writes the most awesome pulp fiction. I think my favorite story is Maneaters of Zul'Kunda, or the one where he climbs the ivory wizard tower in the middle of Stygian city and finds an ancient, lost, God imprisoned there.
He's so rad. I love how semi-lovecraftian and bizarre Howard was. It's cool to look at it the other way around, too, and you can sort of see some elements of Howard's prose and narrative style in Lovecraft's work. They were regular correspondents so it seems like they had some hella influence on one another.
Oh? Then I'm even more intrigued. Think I'll pick it up after I finish Dexter.
And this Elmore Leonard novel I bought, Glitz.
edit - and Michael Chabon's The Final Solution
I think I should join a book club so that I can have someone to force me to read books.
I enjoy it and it's written pretty well but I can't help but feel it's a bit pretentious because it's about The Simpsons and the cultural impact that it has had. Even though I know it has.
Got it in those adorable £2 Penguin Classics series.
I have too many books.
I don't read books.
Yeah. The first few chapters of The Magic of Recluce struck me as generic, dry, "kid from average farm with average parents is destined for ADVENTURE!" sorta deal. But now that I'm like three fifths of the way through it I'm really beginning to appreciate the subtle tweaks and changes he added to the otherwise derivative vision of a fantasy world.
Indeed, I'd go so far to say that his depiction of the first non-Recluce province Lerris wanders into was, in terms of imagery and general evocation, almost as good as GRRMs descriptions of generic 'travelling through a horrible medieval landscape' sections.
and they had a display for a book that is apparently a collection of unpublished vonnegut books/essays
Armageddon in Retrospect
anyone know anyhting about it
I was thinking earlier today that it'd be pretty interesting to write a paper or something addressing the various positive portrayals of mainstream culture in The Simpsons / King of The Hill. It's neat how a lot of the older, more established animated parodies tend to occasionally say something legitimately profound and illuminating.
I read my physics/science books at the gym on the bike.
kurt vonnegut (and other easy to read in small segment stuff) in the rest room
and my main book in my living room.
yeah, I am engrossed in 2-3 books always. Never just 1 book
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Yeah, the book is basically that. It's about five years out of date, though, so I don't know what the guy would say about the show now. Granted, he does say that after season 8 or so the show declined in quality although it's still pretty good.
I should just man up and finish it
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Tute on, Fandy. Tute on.
Oh boy. All the joys you will experience.
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Luckily, that almost never happens. Ever.
I just read one for a while, get part of the way through it, and then a few days later something comes up that makes me go "this makes me wanna read some hard sci-fi now" and then I read Red Mars for several chapters and then something comes up that makes me go "you know what? I could go for some paranormal shit" and then I read an F. Paul Wilson book part of the way through and then it loops back around to what I was reading to begin with
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And hey look at that it's been released under Creative Commons for you to read, too!
Haha, I loved the shit out of Cussler when I was in seventh grade
That takes me back
That sounds pretty neat. What is the book called / who wrote it? I'm pretty interesting in modern parody and the actual, non-comedic implications and message they can convey.
Like, with KOTH, they ostensibly criticize any number of aspects of white semi-suburban culture, but while they simultaneously rip and tear they tend to praise the various values that Hank exhibits. The message always seems to be - Good, hard working, ignorant, blue collar individuals are not holistically bad and the humanism innate in their perceptions of others lends a very sympathetic note to the whole presentation. The idea that dogmatism or traditional square-ness is lamesky is totally contrary to the whole theme of the first few seasons.
So bad, but so entertaining.