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Originally posted by Ted Promo And looking at my penis.

What does it say?

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SHORTEST BOOK EVER WRITTEN LOL

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There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

Give up.

I found a copy of Stephen King's Danse Macabre on my housemate's bookshelf and gave it a try. For those who don't know, it's King's non-fiction musings/history of the horror genre. After a couple of hundred pages I finally got sick of King's authorial voice, which is like reading a transcript of him drunk at the end of a bar, rambling on about Ray Bradbury to an unconscious truck driver and the barman's unsympathetic cat.

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Let's see. Lately:

Franzen - Freedom
DeLillo - White Noise
Pynchon - Crying Lot
Burroughs - Naked Lunch

Now:

Pynchon - V.

(I should have known. After Gravity's Rainbow AND Crying Lot, I was not going to read anything better from his first novel.) I wish this ****** would use a freaking plot and stop throwing away characters like bubblegum wrappers. Oh, well, I brought it on myself. To-morrow I will get back to it.

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Also, I've just realised I haven't posted in this thread for ages, so before my abortive attempt with King, I was reading King Crow, the debut novel from my old creative writing tutor, Michael Stewart. And before that, Neuromancer.

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Also, why is that the "big" post-modern writers have to use 300+ pages to say something that could have been said better in 200? Fuck.

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Post-modern literature being self-indulgent? Heaven forbid!

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Post-modern literature being self-indulgent? Heaven forbid!

Okay, I should take that for granted. But how the fuck does this keep on being a literary trend? Do people 'really' like reading that? Do "you" like reading that sort of stuff?

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I'd say about 20% of the people who read those books actually enjoy the style, and the other 80% are people like you who read them because they feel they're supposed to. I personally had to read a lot of that stuff while I was at university, and after having got up-close to it for a few years I've had no desire to read any more since then.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J I'd say about 20% of the people who read those books actually enjoy the style, and the other 80% are people like you who read them because they feel they're supposed to. I personally had to read a lot of that stuff while I was at university, and after having got up-close to it for a few years I've had no desire to read any more since then.

Pssh. I'm barely AT the university.

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