what are you reading? - Page 277

Severian · 04.17.2019, 05:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ilduclo

“......most underrated masterpieces”......oh, yeah....

What?

Shut up.

You are.

It is.

Underrated. And also a masterpiece.

Judge when you’ve read it, Judgey McDredd.

d.sound · 04.17.2019, 08:55 PM

Thank you rob on recommending the Asimov guide to the bible. I'm enjoying it.

Any good books on the Sumerians?

Downloading some gene wolfe now.

!@#$%! · 04.17.2019, 09:20 PM

i don't know good books ON the summerians but i used to read online actual summerican books (translated)

mostly religious stuff but their concerns were very modern (money, luxuries, crops, shitting on their enemies, etc, lol)

do a search and you'll find free.

!@#$%! · 04.17.2019, 09:21 PM

ps- here you go lol

http://sonicyouth.com/gossip/showthr...#post12 95697

eta: http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/edition2/etcslbycat.php

each text comes from a transliteration (of cuneiform) and a translation (into english)

ilduclo · 04.17.2019, 10:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Severian

What?

Shut up.

You are.

It is.

Underrated. And also a masterpiece.

Judge when you’ve read it, Judgey McDredd.

ha

Rob Instigator · 04.18.2019, 04:42 PM

soo..... is it only pedophiles that read Nabokov?

Lolita is fucking gross in every way.

Ada or Ardor is even grosser, telling the story of two siblings who have a life-long affair that starts at age 12/13. fucking gross. who wants to read this shit?

why is this bullshit considered important?

SonicSleuth · 04.23.2019, 10:05 PM

Serving the Servent: Remembering Kurt Cobain, cause why not?

Rob Instigator · 04.25.2019, 11:35 AM

Good overview of Gene Wolfe's life https://www.theringer.com/2019/4/25/...fiction-author

LifeDistortion · 04.25.2019, 11:47 AM

American Vampire Vol. 4.

pony · 04.26.2019, 03:02 PM

Elena Ferrante is <3 ! currently reading book two of the neapolitan series

afterwards I will try and translate Stratégie d'une passion by Nathalie Gassel. I went to a reading this week, and even though I didn't understand her, I immediately fell in love with her? Afterwards we tried to communicate through the help of her friend, who only spoke little english. It was hard, but it was lovely. she brought 2-3 copies of her book to the store and I knew I had to buy it IMMEDIATELY (It's out of print?). Well. And now I sill soon start translating it and i am very excited about it.

LifeDistortion · 05.01.2019, 12:59 PM

First of the month tends to mean starting a new book, and this May 1st I'll be starting this. Curious question for you guys, how many Pulitzer Winner books have you read? This will be the second that I'm sure of. The other one was Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides.

!@#$%! · 05.01.2019, 01:03 PM

i cant remember what ive read from the charts. “i liked them before they were cool”

really no idea... now you got me wondering...

Rob Instigator · 05.01.2019, 02:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LifeDistortion

First of the month tends to mean starting a new book, and this May 1st I'll be starting this. Curious question for you guys, how many Pulitzer Winner books have you read? This will be the second that I'm sure of. The other one was Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides.

I am not sure what has won a Pulitzer. I will look for list.

Rob Instigator · 05.01.2019, 02:33 PM

I am reading a sci fi novel BIG RED from Damien Larkin.

Rob Instigator · 05.01.2019, 02:37 PM

Pulitzer winners I have read

Grapes of Wrath
Old Man & The Sea
To Kill a Mockingbird

wow. not much. Most novels on that list seemed REAL boring. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitz...ze_for_Fiction

pony · 05.01.2019, 03:35 PM

This was (unexpectedly?) SO GOOD. It's about the author's search for her family's history. Her parents came to Germany from the Ukraine as forced labourers during WW2, her mother killed herself when the author herself was very young. Her father lived a bunch longer, but he apparently didn't talk a lot about their family? So, one day the author googles her mother's name, makes a post on a message board, and WHAM! some guy emails her, and, for some reason, helps her research the family on her mother's side. SOMEHOW; they find SOME members of her family, but most of them have never met the author's mother. Very interesting family history. Through one relative, she comes into the possession of one of her aunt's diaries, so one part of the book is the reproduction of that diary. However, she doesn't find out much about her mother in that diary, since the aunt left the family very early to study in Odessa... Though the diary, the author finds out how her family got seperated in the war, though. Third part is the author's own memory of her mother and her own early life in germany. I THINK there is a book out about her father, too. Can't wait to get my hands on it!

ilduclo · 05.01.2019, 04:02 PM

me

• 1926: Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
• 1928: The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
• 1932: The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
• 1937: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
• 1939: The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
• 1940: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• 1943: Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair
• 1945: A Bell for Adano by John Hersey
• 1947: All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
• 1956: Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
• 1958: A Death in the Family by James Agee
• 1961: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• 1963: The Reivers by William Faulkner
• 1967: The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
• 1968: The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
• 1972: Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
• 1974: No award given[d]
• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
• 1975: The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
• 1976: Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
• 1977: No award given[e]
• A River Runs Through It by Norman MacLean
• Roots by Alex Haley (special Pulitzer Prize)
• 1980: The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
• 1982: Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
• 1983: The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• 1984: Ironweed by William Kennedy
• 1988: Beloved by Toni Morrison
• 1990: The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
• 1991: Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
• 1992: A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
• 1994: The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
• 1996: Independence Day by Richard Ford
• 1998: American Pastoral by Philip Roth
• 1999: The Hours by Michael Cunningham
• 2007: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• 2009: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
•

LifeDistortion · 05.01.2019, 04:35 PM

Wow llduclo, that's truly impressive. SYG won't allow me to rep you for this post but know that I rep you.

tw2113 · 05.04.2019, 05:15 PM

Latest haul cause lately I buy more than I get through reading.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BxDhprWnS32/

tw2113 · 05.11.2019, 01:26 PM

I have since added Stephen King's "IT" and "Feed" by Mira Grant.

Finished up "The Lost World" finally last night, and soon starting "Down and Out In The Magic Kingdom" by Cory Doctrow.

04.17.2019, 08:55 PM	#5522
d.sound the destroyed room Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 553	Thank you rob on recommending the Asimov guide to the bible. I'm enjoying it. Any good books on the Sumerians? Downloading some gene wolfe now. __________________ http://chaotropics.bandcamp.com http://seatone.bandcamp.com
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04.17.2019, 09:20 PM	#5523
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,548	i don't know good books ON the summerians but i used to read online actual summerican books (translated) mostly religious stuff but their concerns were very modern (money, luxuries, crops, shitting on their enemies, etc, lol) do a search and you'll find free.
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04.17.2019, 09:21 PM	#5524
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,548	ps- here you go lol http://sonicyouth.com/gossip/showthr...#post12 95697 eta: http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/edition2/etcslbycat.php each text comes from a transliteration (of cuneiform) and a translation (into english)
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04.18.2019, 04:42 PM	#5526
Rob Instigator invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the land of the Instigator Posts: 27,960	soo..... is it only pedophiles that read Nabokov? Lolita is fucking gross in every way. Ada or Ardor is even grosser, telling the story of two siblings who have a life-long affair that starts at age 12/13. fucking gross. who wants to read this shit? why is this bullshit considered important? __________________ RXTT's Intellectual Journey - my new blog where I talk about all the books I read.
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04.23.2019, 10:05 PM	#5527
SonicSleuth little trouble girl Join Date: Feb 2016 Posts: 60	Serving the Servent: Remembering Kurt Cobain, cause why not?
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04.25.2019, 11:35 AM	#5528
Rob Instigator invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the land of the Instigator Posts: 27,960	Good overview of Gene Wolfe's life https://www.theringer.com/2019/4/25/...fiction-author __________________ RXTT's Intellectual Journey - my new blog where I talk about all the books I read.
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04.25.2019, 11:47 AM	#5529
LifeDistortion expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: CA Posts: 2,457	American Vampire Vol. 4.
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05.01.2019, 12:59 PM	#5531
LifeDistortion expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: CA Posts: 2,457	First of the month tends to mean starting a new book, and this May 1st I'll be starting this. Curious question for you guys, how many Pulitzer Winner books have you read? This will be the second that I'm sure of. The other one was Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides.
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05.01.2019, 01:03 PM	#5532
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,548	i cant remember what ive read from the charts. “i liked them before they were cool” really no idea... now you got me wondering...
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05.01.2019, 02:33 PM	#5534
Rob Instigator invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the land of the Instigator Posts: 27,960	I am reading a sci fi novel BIG RED from Damien Larkin. __________________ RXTT's Intellectual Journey - my new blog where I talk about all the books I read.
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05.01.2019, 02:37 PM	#5535
Rob Instigator invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the land of the Instigator Posts: 27,960	Pulitzer winners I have read Grapes of Wrath Old Man & The Sea To Kill a Mockingbird wow. not much. Most novels on that list seemed REAL boring. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitz...ze_for_Fiction __________________ RXTT's Intellectual Journey - my new blog where I talk about all the books I read.
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05.01.2019, 04:02 PM	#5537
ilduclo invito al cielo Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 3,305	me • 1926: Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis • 1928: The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder • 1932: The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck • 1937: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell • 1939: The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings • 1940: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck • 1943: Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair • 1945: A Bell for Adano by John Hersey • 1947: All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren • 1956: Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor • 1958: A Death in the Family by James Agee • 1961: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee • 1963: The Reivers by William Faulkner • 1967: The Fixer by Bernard Malamud • 1968: The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron • 1972: Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner • 1974: No award given[d] • Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon • 1975: The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara • 1976: Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow • 1977: No award given[e] • A River Runs Through It by Norman MacLean • Roots by Alex Haley (special Pulitzer Prize) • 1980: The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer • 1982: Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike • 1983: The Color Purple by Alice Walker • 1984: Ironweed by William Kennedy • 1988: Beloved by Toni Morrison • 1990: The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos • 1991: Rabbit at Rest by John Updike • 1992: A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley • 1994: The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx • 1996: Independence Day by Richard Ford • 1998: American Pastoral by Philip Roth • 1999: The Hours by Michael Cunningham • 2007: The Road by Cormac McCarthy • 2009: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout •
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05.01.2019, 04:35 PM	#5538
LifeDistortion expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: CA Posts: 2,457	Wow llduclo, that's truly impressive. SYG won't allow me to rep you for this post but know that I rep you.
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05.04.2019, 05:15 PM	#5539
tw2113 expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: South Dakota Posts: 2,147	Latest haul cause lately I buy more than I get through reading. https://www.instagram.com/p/BxDhprWnS32/ __________________ Shake shake
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05.11.2019, 01:26 PM	#5540
tw2113 expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: South Dakota Posts: 2,147	I have since added Stephen King's "IT" and "Feed" by Mira Grant. Finished up "The Lost World" finally last night, and soon starting "Down and Out In The Magic Kingdom" by Cory Doctrow. __________________ Shake shake
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