Does he live in Brooklyn? Ok I'm definitely not reading it then.
― Number None, Monday, 23 August 2010 03:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Fine, I didn't say I wasn't going to read it, I'm just saying I had a visceral reaction to dude's photo.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 23 August 2010 04:54 (thirteen years ago) link
v neck t-shirts and why they suck and whatever
― chill.wav (Lamp), Monday, 23 August 2010 05:41 (thirteen years ago) link
i only read people who wear v-necks and live in brooklyn
― max, Monday, 23 August 2010 05:49 (thirteen years ago) link
i have only my own beard to burden
― chill.wav (Lamp), Monday, 23 August 2010 05:53 (thirteen years ago) link
hello i picked up a copy of oscar wao in part because of this thread/max & nabisco's rec and i really enjoyed it & so did my girlfriend
― to be rill rill (samosa gibreel), Monday, 23 August 2010 18:13 (thirteen years ago) link
kind of a silly thing to say since the book has won a pulitzer prize and was book of the year 2007 on like a billion ppl's lists but i am not hip to these things and this was the first i'd heard of it
― to be rill rill (samosa gibreel), Monday, 23 August 2010 18:15 (thirteen years ago) link
i wish the new franzen book was coming out a week earlier, i'm going out of town this weekend and need something new to read.
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Monday, 23 August 2010 18:21 (thirteen years ago) link
oh god what will u do
― what if "middlebrow" is pubes? (Matt P), Monday, 23 August 2010 19:09 (thirteen years ago) link
i am looking forward to this: http://htmlgiant.com/author-spotlight/the-orange-eats-creeps/
― johnsons in my pubescence, other than my own (the table is the table), Monday, 23 August 2010 19:27 (thirteen years ago) link
just posting to say that light boxes sounds horrible
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 23 August 2010 22:12 (thirteen years ago) link
but kudos to all
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 23 August 2010 22:17 (thirteen years ago) link
HEY SO I READ REMAINDER LAST WEEK
THAT BOOK IS REALLY FUCKING GOOD YALL
I MEAN
SHIT
― max, Monday, 23 August 2010 22:42 (thirteen years ago) link
I DIDNT MEAN TO POST IN CAPS BUT IT SEEMED APPROPRIATE
CAUSE THAT BOOK
DANG
I read mulligan stew last week. It was pretty funny but the best parts were in the beginning
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 23 August 2010 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
new novels and why they suck or whatever
― Mr. Que, Monday, 23 August 2010 23:09 (thirteen years ago) link
what is new
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 23 August 2010 23:21 (thirteen years ago) link
new is today's tomorrows
ive only read like 10 pages but linda le's the three fates seems p interesting
― Lamp, Tuesday, 24 August 2010 06:24 (thirteen years ago) link
read David Mitchell's "Cloud Atlas" b/c of this thread and it was aawweessoommee
― dmr, Thursday, 23 September 2010 01:44 (thirteen years ago) link
man reading is so pointless. reading 400 pages of some shitty book that i can use sparknotes to find out the basic point (like being a lawyer i guess), you're only gonna forget that shit a few days later. pointless invention, books
― mittens reduxeo, Thursday, 23 September 2010 02:25 (thirteen years ago) link
thanks for the David Mitchell rec guys. Really enjoying Cloud Atlas. I guess not all new novels suck or whatever
― garage rock is usually very land-based (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 15:15 (thirteen years ago) link
yayyyyy
― max, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah that book was great
― SBlendor in the grass (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 16:05 (thirteen years ago) link
how far along are you shakey?
third section - "Half Lives: the firt Luisa Rey mystery", sooo 90 pages or so?
― garage rock is usually very land-based (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link
ppl should stop writing, publishing novels in 2014
― Forks I'd Clove to Fu (silby), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 23:49 (nine years ago) link
free advice! step right up and get your free advice!
― Aimless, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 23:59 (nine years ago) link
lol stfu silby
― avicii usque ad arse (imago), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 00:05 (nine years ago) link
xp: uh oh im having a fantasy u started a thread about an east european or mb german dude like a year ago whose books i really wanted to read but i forget who it was now. also did i ever ask u about hard rain falling? i really really love that book
― Lamp, Friday, June 25, 2010 3:11 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I went to the library today and picked this book up among other things because I remembered it from somewhere, I guess it was here
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 00:39 (nine years ago) link
Who was the east european or mb german dude tho
― 龜, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 00:41 (nine years ago) link
I also picked up The Alp by Arno Camenisch, which isn't really a novel, but seems to be a 2014 thing that I, so far, really enjoy. It's also the first new Dalkey book that I've enjoyed reading in a while, I mean I usually get something out of new Dalkey things but they're, often-times, painful to get through.
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 00:44 (nine years ago) link
probably laszlo krasznahorkai, war n war is the only book of his I can actually get through. xp
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 00:47 (nine years ago) link
cant believe we had a thousand post thread on nu novels and now ppl only read young adult fan fic graphic novels rip literature
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 01:02 (nine years ago) link
a lot of this thread was about sci fi though
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 01:15 (nine years ago) link
silby otm. fiction is dull.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 01:19 (nine years ago) link
hey I didn't say fiction is dull
― Forks I'd Clove to Fu (silby), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 01:20 (nine years ago) link
like obviously I'm adopting some sort of semi-disingenuous lol internet position by posting "people should stop writing novels" but just the continued existence of the market for new lit-fic novels is kind of legitimately weird to me
― Forks I'd Clove to Fu (silby), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 01:23 (nine years ago) link
ahem, *new* fiction is dull
― Mordy, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 01:23 (nine years ago) link
but honestly i'm bored* of all fiction for the last couple years. this must be the curse of studying english lit.
*i'm also pretty sure that the more non-fiction i read, and the less fiction, the more boring i get
― Mordy, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 01:24 (nine years ago) link
always a risk that when you say something, mordy will agree with you
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 01:26 (nine years ago) link
haha
― Forks I'd Clove to Fu (silby), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 01:27 (nine years ago) link
anyway I'd settle on a moratorium on new novels written in English by white men
― Forks I'd Clove to Fu (silby), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 01:29 (nine years ago) link
I realize I can adopt this as a personal rule but I read a wikipedia article about Kant once and I think it means I'm supposed to babble about it on the internet too.
― Forks I'd Clove to Fu (silby), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 01:30 (nine years ago) link
When novels like 2666 are being written, there is still a reason to write and publish novels. QED.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 03:10 (nine years ago) link
silby have you read the sugar-frosted nutsack?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 04:47 (nine years ago) link
no but I have to confess this looks disturbingly like something I would enjoy
― Forks I'd Clove to Fu (silby), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 05:10 (nine years ago) link
it's not that I haven't enjoyed any recent long fiction, I just think it's weird that it exists
― Forks I'd Clove to Fu (silby), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 05:12 (nine years ago) link
like I walk into the bookstore and I look at the New in Fiction table and I'm like, who are these people? how did they get around to writing a novel? is anyone going to read this?
― Forks I'd Clove to Fu (silby), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 05:13 (nine years ago) link
a lot of people (me included) have creative writing degrees/MAs/MFAs - we've got to do something with them
― online hardman, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 08:31 (nine years ago) link
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay is one of the best novels I've ever read. I'm a big fan of Jonathan Franzen as well.
― goth colouring book (anagram), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 08:53 (nine years ago) link