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What Are You Reading? Part Deux. (pg. 37)
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| chimera66 |
| all three of chelsea handler's books, halfway through the second. i love her. |
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| Sushipunk |
| Just started reading American Psycho. |
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| LAdazeNYnights |
| quote: | Originally posted by couch-potato
On The Sound & The Fury now. I'm struggling a bit...I keep having to reread sections. |
the first third of the book is like that...for obvious reasons |
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| couch-potato |
| quote: | Originally posted by LAdazeNYnights
the first third of the book is like that...for obvious reasons |
Yeah, it's not that I have issues with. Benjamin's condition is quite clear. In fact, I'm past the first third and now Quentin is narrating.
It's just that little is stated explicitly. The narrators' thoughts drift through time and circumstance ing fluidly, and if you can't conceive of a correlation between two segments of text (after winnowing out what's mere description of the happenings around them or something of significance, such as Caddy's muddy drawers, which at first reading I thought meant just as much as her smelling of trees - that is, just insight into the experience of Benjamin and not a metaphor for something which I won't go into for reasons of spoiling the book) then you're out of luck.
It's something like me telling you that out of everything I just wrote, only one sentence conveys something with substance, and the rest is for your pleasure. Now all you have to do is find the ****** if you wish to understand the upcoming portions of text (which I won't write :p). |
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| w_ashley |
Heradotus - The Histories
and various other things (mostly russian, English Language learning related, and current affairs.) |
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| LAdazeNYnights |
| quote: | Originally posted by couch-potato
Yeah, it's not that I have issues with. Benjamin's condition is quite clear. In fact, I'm past the first third and now Quentin is narrating.
It's just that little is stated explicitly. The narrators' thoughts drift through time and circumstance ing fluidly, and if you can't conceive of a correlation between two segments of text (after winnowing out what's mere description of the happenings around them or something of significance, such as Caddy's muddy drawers, which at first reading I thought meant just as much as her smelling of trees - that is, just insight into the experience of Benjamin and not a metaphor for something which I won't go into for reasons of spoiling the book) then you're out of luck.
It's something like me telling you that out of everything I just wrote, only one sentence conveys something with substance, and the rest is for your pleasure. Now all you have to do is find the ****** if you wish to understand the upcoming portions of text (which I won't write :p). |
Kind of what I loved about faulkner. That and his construction of yokonapthwa(spelled that totally wrong, on my phone) |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sushipunk
Just started reading American Psycho. |
It's so ing funny in the most depraved way possible.
Spoiler:
The book really drives it home that it's all internal delusion - none of it actually happened, he was merely fantasizing. Knowing this makes the story much, much better, if you ask me. |
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| Chimney |
Hermes Trismegistus - my next book in cue
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| woscar |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sushipunk
Just started reading American Psycho. |
Fantastic book, IMO. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
Cormack McCarthy - The Road.
Except I'm not really reading it right now, because I've been doing some fiction of my own and strong prose styles with your own. |
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| EddieZilker |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
... strong prose styles with your own. |
I was thinking about starting a thread about that, actually. I've noticed some of my sentence structures mirroring those from a book about Yuri Nosenko, I've been reading, by Tennent H. Bagley. |
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| Sushipunk |
Hal, regarding American Psycho, I won't quote you due to the spoiler, which I don't want to read :p
I'm only very early in, not up to anything hardcore yet. Though, I did totally snort loud enough to wake my gf last night, from the random line in a club "I'd like to tit- you and then cut off your arms". LOL.
I realise the book is highly satirical, but maaaaan it's getting a little tiresome with him describing everyone's ing outfits, down to the labels for every piece of clothing they're wearing. I know that's kinda the point, but still :p |
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