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Post by daveyposhboy on Nov 27, 2018 21:47:49 GMT
infinite jest is fucking wild and i have barely touched the surface- 50 pages, 11 measly endnotes in. you know when you start a book and you just know it's the absolute right time to have started reading it? me rn.
also finished the sound and the fury and by god it's unreal. so far ahead of its time.
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Post by notpropaganda on Dec 19, 2018 16:10:59 GMT
Solar Bones by Mike McCormack is one of the best novels I've ever read. Absolutely incredible writing
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Post by daveyposhboy on Feb 13, 2019 6:26:30 GMT
Gonna order that into work, love a Joycean effort. Eimear MacBride's Lesser Bohemians has a similar although less disciplined style to its prose.
Gonna look to order in a copy of Graveyard Clay/Cré na Cille as well as it's been said that the translation is fairly true to the original Irish text and it's meant to be super poetic ("the greatest book ever written in the Irish language", is on the back of it, or to that effect). Written by an author called Maírtín Ó Cadhain back in the forties or fifties. When Lincoln in the Bardo was picking up awards left and right there was a bit of a furore on literary twitter over the alleged idea that it must have been a massive influence on the style and structure, and yet Saunders just didn't acknowledge it. I thoroughly enjoyed LITB nonetheless but it will be good to read something quite left of field.
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Post by notpropaganda on Feb 13, 2019 9:50:49 GMT
From speaking with people who have much stronger Irish than me, Cré na Cille has never been translated in a way that really captures how brilliant it is. I think there was a recent enough translation that has a good go at it though.
Great premise for a book, I'm gonna work my way up to reading it in Irish.
Can't recommend Solar Bones highly enough. It is really incredible
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Post by daveyposhboy on Jun 19, 2019 4:50:34 GMT
Fuck Ulysses & Infinite Jest, John Fowles' The Magus is quite comfortably the most incomprehensible book I'll ever read. Can't believe I finished it, at all. Batshit and all over the place plot.
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Post by notpropaganda on Aug 16, 2019 12:00:29 GMT
I read Station Eleven a couple of weeks ago. I love dystopian fiction and my god that's probably the best book of that genre I've ever read. Brilliant stuff.
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Post by daveyposhboy on Sept 19, 2019 13:37:19 GMT
Appreciate ya! I'm in a similar boat tbh. Last couple years I'd planned to go through uni reading lists etc and read more non fiction but couldn't seem to pull myself away from yr booker prize lists, and modern classics, etc. Just now I am finally beginning to tell myself that the fiction I want to read will always be there and actually I'm likely to enjoy it more once I've improved my understanding of things beyond a quick wikipedia lol. Especially post- (&post-post-) modernist fiction which for some bizarre reason I seem to want to lean towards these days year later (fucking hell where did it go) and i might actually get round to reading through this list serious.. it's been a year?
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Post by ic on Sept 19, 2019 18:02:28 GMT
Reading the stand by Stephen king atm
love a good doomsday, pls suggest more
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Post by notpropaganda on Sept 19, 2019 18:13:02 GMT
Station 11 World War Z (the film is a travesty) The Road
Only recently read Station 11 and it's really fantastic
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Post by daveyposhboy on Sept 20, 2019 9:13:39 GMT
On the Beach by Nevil Shute is a must
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Post by daveyposhboy on Dec 31, 2019 10:09:03 GMT
Anyone get any decent books for Christmas? I've finally started Tom Holland's Dominion and it's really gripping. He essentially is preparing the argument that morals and society are defined in the modern day by Christianity, and that we are all inherently Christian, so I thought it'd be interesting to ask for.
He's an exceptional narrator, and has a real knack for presenting information in a way that doesn't overwhelm. At the very least, the Notes at the back are providing some good additions to my to-read list!
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Post by The Quito Diet on Dec 31, 2019 10:47:20 GMT
Got Tyson Fury's new one to get through, bstill got a few from last year building up too. Really looking forward to the frying pan of Spain, covers the betis/Sevilla rivalry.
Currently finishing off The New Spaniards, explains how Spain has transitioned out of Franco era politics and culture. Mental (but not surprising) how the church was in the palm of his hand in return for funding and building rights.
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Post by notpropaganda on Jan 2, 2020 13:29:52 GMT
I read the following over Christmas
Constellations - Sinéad Gleeson. A great collection of personal essays, she's an incredible writer and touches on loads of important topics. But I have to say that the most beautiful/tragic essay was about how her and her husband met. I won't say anything about it on the very small chance that one of you pick up the book, but it's a beautiful piece of writing. 5/5
The Uninhabitable Earth - David Wallace-Wells. In short, we're fucked. This book is relentless, one of the chapters is called Cascades and honestly reading the book feels like that. There are a good 100 pages or so of notes which reference the scientific papers so it's really hammering home that this isn't some vague concept of what climate change will do - there is real, hard evidence for a lot of what the book describes and jesus christ it is terrifying. 5/5
The Wall - John Lanchester. First fiction book I've read in a while. A semi-near future where climate change/the previous generation (us) has "fucked the world", the UK has built a wall along the entire coastline to keep out rising sea levels and "the Others" (refugees from around the world). The narrator is a "Defender", everyone must serve 2 years on the Wall defending it from the Others. I really enjoyed this although it's a bit simplistic at times and there are threads to it I'd have really loved to get fleshed out a good bit more. It's an easy read though and strangely hopeful but also feels scarily possible. 3.5/5.
I'm gonna aim to read 2 books a month this year. Next up is My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite.
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Post by notpropaganda on Jan 3, 2020 11:27:34 GMT
Anyone get any decent books for Christmas? I've finally started Tom Holland's Dominion and it's really gripping. He essentially is preparing the argument that morals and society are defined in the modern day by Christianity, and that we are all inherently Christian, so I thought it'd be interesting to ask for. He's an exceptional narrator, and has a real knack for presenting information in a way that doesn't overwhelm. At the very least, the Notes at the back are providing some good additions to my to-read list! I picked up Dominion before Christmas after hearing him on a podcast I listen to regularly. Sounds like a really interesting argument but I haven't gotten around to starting it because of the size of it so far. He is a great writer though, have you read any of his other stuff? Persian Fire is incredible.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2020 19:09:55 GMT
Bought the ASOIAF books on Kindle earlier (I’m sorry I digest information more easily digitally) and it said the estimate time to read start to end on all 5 books would take 100 hours. I’m ready.
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