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What Are You Reading? Part Deux. (pg. 50)
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| Ted Promo |
hrrrm, recently
The Elegant Universe
The Hidden Reality
In Search of Schroedinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
The Black Hole War: My Battle With Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
The Selfish Gene
One Nation Under Contract: Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy
The History of Freemasonry
Currently reading The Post-American World 2.0.
And looking at my penis. |
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| Cloudburst |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ted Promo
And looking at my penis. |
What does it say? |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| SHORTEST BOOK EVER WRITTEN LOL |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| 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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| R.j. |
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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| SYSTEM-J |
| 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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| R.j. |
| 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? . |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| Post-modern literature being self-indulgent? Heaven forbid! |
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| R.j. |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Post-modern literature being self-indulgent? Heaven forbid! |
Okay, I should take that for granted. But how the 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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| 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. |
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| R.j. |
| quote: | 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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