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arjuna
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Nowhere Man
Joined: 08 Feb 2004
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| i don't exactly have a thumb on the pulse anymore, so anyone who's into similar styles please recommend some authors. thanks in advance |
I have yet to readInfinite Jest, but the person who suggested it got me into House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski. |
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faster
Joined: 03 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 2:46 pm Post subject: Re: ... |
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| i don't exactly have a thumb on the pulse anymore, so anyone who's into similar styles please recommend some authors. thanks in advance |
I have yet to readInfinite Jest, but the person who suggested it got me into House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski. |
Read that Foster Wallace tome a few years ago. It's a really good time and pyrotechnically clever, but I'm unconvinced that it offers enough of a payoff for its prodigious length. A lot of fun and I'm glad I read it. I'll do it again sometime I suppose. |
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micahjwhite
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| I am currently reading The Children's Hospital by Chris Adrian, and it is amazing. I got my Master's in Literature, and I would place this book, so far, up there with classics. It was published by McSweeney's, a.k.a. Dave Eggers and Company. I would recommend this book to everyone. However, it is a long one, about 700 pages. |
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The_Eyeball_Kid
Joined: 20 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 2:39 pm Post subject: |
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| micahjwhite wrote: |
| I am currently reading The Children's Hospital by Chris Adrian, and it is amazing. I got my Master's in Literature, and I would place this book, so far, up there with classics. It was published by McSweeney's, a.k.a. Dave Eggers and Company. I would recommend this book to everyone. However, it is a long one, about 700 pages. |
Wow - someone who has got a master's in Literature is recommending a book as a classic. Just give me a second whilst I reconfigure the literary canon to accommodate your recommendation, won't you?
'Dave Eggers and Company' specialize in cloying, self-satisfied, smug, tricksy writing that freshly-graduated oxygen thieves such as yourself lap up like buttermilk, believing that a few achingly glib postmodernisms transform empty, sentimental, self-indulgent juvenilia into something that changes the path of human understanding. Let me guess - you've got some sort of stupid configuration of facial hair and wear thick-framed glasses, don't you? And you spend your entire social existence trying your darnedest to project an air of cool, detached and knowledgeable aloofness, right? |
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The Bobster
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| Haunted, by Chuck Palahhuniuk |
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Jessie
Joined: 20 Jan 2008
Location: Seoul
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| From your avatar you might like Chuck Palahnuik books. My favorites were Choke and Lullaby. The Gospel according to Biff (Christ's childhood friend) by Chris Moore was entertaining. All Families are Psychotic and Microserfs by Douglass Coupland are also really good. |
Choke, by Chuck Palahniuk is one of my all-time favorite books, but my absolute favorite is without a doubt, The Diceman, by Luke Rhinehart. Wicked good read!!! |
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SHANE02
Joined: 04 Jun 2003
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faster
Joined: 03 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 4:32 pm Post subject: |
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| The_Eyeball_Kid wrote: |
| micahjwhite wrote: |
| I am currently reading The Children's Hospital by Chris Adrian, and it is amazing. I got my Master's in Literature, and I would place this book, so far, up there with classics. It was published by McSweeney's, a.k.a. Dave Eggers and Company. I would recommend this book to everyone. However, it is a long one, about 700 pages. |
Wow - someone who has got a master's in Literature is recommending a book as a classic. Just give me a second whilst I reconfigure the literary canon to accommodate your recommendation, won't you?
'Dave Eggers and Company' specialize in cloying, self-satisfied, smug, tricksy writing that freshly-graduated oxygen thieves such as yourself lap up like buttermilk, believing that a few achingly glib postmodernisms transform empty, sentimental, self-indulgent juvenilia into something that changes the path of human understanding. Let me guess - you've got some sort of stupid configuration of facial hair and wear thick-framed glasses, don't you? And you spend your entire social existence trying your darnedest to project an air of cool, detached and knowledgeable aloofness, right? |
Actually I disagree. Although I think everything Dave Eggers writes is crap, everything he edits is pretty awesome. He's a major editorial voice right now, whether you like it or not (yeah, that's rhetorical, you were perfectly clear which side you come down on), and I encourage you to read [i]What is the What[i]. |
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BluEnglnd
Joined: 14 Nov 2007
Location: Seoul, Korea
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| Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 4:52 pm Post subject: George Carlin |
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| George Carlin-3X George/An Orgy of George |
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grnmle
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
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It all depends what you are into I think. But, there have been some excellent books post so far.
The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy was as good or better, do to its brevity, than War and Peace.
Anything by Dostoevsky, Thomas Mann or Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
If you like something lighter I suggest anything by Douglas Coupland or Kurt Vonnegut.
One of my all time favorites is 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene.
Right now I am reading Michael Foucault's Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, which isn't bad so far. |
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rumdiary
Joined: 05 Jun 2006
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the best book i have ever read is A confederacy of dunce, by John K Toole-
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I've read some funny books (I love David Sedaris) but A Confederacy of Dunces had me laughing my ass off like no other. |
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faster
Joined: 03 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 7:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Right now I am reading Michael Foucault's Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, which isn't bad so far. |
This is an awesome book...the Panopticon chapter alone is so prescient. |
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Mebertz
Joined: 16 Dec 2007
Location: Suncheon
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I just finished 'The Necronomican' and 'Alhazred' by Donald Tyson.
They were a good time, especially if one likes things Lovecraftian. I believe he really followed the concepts as put down by Lovecraft.
Hard to find, but Barnes and Noble I'm sure has them available online.
Also, Llewellywn publications in my hometown (yeah!) makes them available for delivery all over the civilized world.
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