I've been part of a book club for about ten years now. The host for each month chooses the book. I've read stuff I never would have heard of, let alone thought to pick up, otherwise. It's been a great experience (witness its longevity).
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 20:43 (one year ago) link
"Trying to get people to voluntarily read anything that doesn't appeal to them is a losing battle. Lots of readers have very narrowly defined ideas of what they want from books and they never break out of whatever narrow niche they fell into."
Lots, not all. Just in this thread three posters talked about their efforts to read more women, and what that might have done for their reading. I certainly see quite a bit of that on book Twitter. Reading women, engaging with more translated literature.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 21:18 (one year ago) link
"And the weird snobbishness (which obvs people here don’t have) about video games."
Yes, did overlook that as I haven't touched a game for 20 years.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 21:25 (one year ago) link
Ah well.
A champion emerges. pic.twitter.com/PjzAit2mFY— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) May 19, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 19 May 2022 07:29 (one year ago) link
And the weird snobbishness (which obvs people here don’t have) about video games. I’d feel desperately sorry for someone who spent more time reading Tom McCarthy than playing Zelda. (Although having bad taste is also ok!)
― Fizzles, Thursday, 19 May 2022 17:43 (one year ago) link
C was a pretty bad book, but I reckon it'd make a semi-decent point'n'click tbf
― imago, Thursday, 19 May 2022 17:57 (one year ago) link
What about bad books vs good video games?
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 19 May 2022 20:59 (one year ago) link
_And the weird snobbishness (which obvs people here don’t have) about video games. I’d feel desperately sorry for someone who spent more time reading Tom McCarthy than playing Zelda. (Although having bad taste is also ok!)_realisation this post prompted in me: im far more interested in - and enjoy - bad books than i do bad video games.
― gyac, Thursday, 19 May 2022 21:01 (one year ago) link
now imagining a YouTube account called The Angry Literary Nerd doing shticky screaming at a book videos
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 20 May 2022 10:07 (one year ago) link
This is not good.
The latest episode of The Backstory with Andrew Neil is out now.This week, @afneil talks to @AyoCaesar about why she’s “literally a communist”, her support for Jeremy Corbyn and how she deals with the abuse she gets on Twitter.Listen wherever you get your podcasts.— Tortoise (@tortoise) May 26, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 26 May 2022 19:07 (one year ago) link
thread drift taken to delirious new heights
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 26 May 2022 19:11 (one year ago) link
I have not read this thread, but this strikes me as a not very helpful use of the poll feature. Why compare in this way?
― youn, Saturday, 28 May 2022 14:16 (one year ago) link
I started to skim the content and realized people here say interesting things whatever prompt they are given.(I stick by the oddness of the comparison. I think you are challenging something outside literature.)
― youn, Saturday, 28 May 2022 14:35 (one year ago) link
(outside the form of the novel assuming it transcends time and place and more or less writers had/have a common idea of what they want to achieve)
― youn, Saturday, 28 May 2022 14:37 (one year ago) link
― youn, Saturday, 28 May 2022 bookmarkflaglink
Most polls don't lead to much interesting discussion. This was a bit different, maybe you could read it?
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 28 May 2022 19:28 (one year ago) link
Or just read this:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/may/28/books-by-women-that-every-man-should-read-chosen-by-ian-mcewan-salman-rushdie-richard-curtis-and-more
"Howard Jacobson: Middlemarch by George EliotNot every page of Middlemarch is a masterpiece of impassioned intelligence, where action is imbued with thought, and thought is shaped by feeling; but every other page is. No man or woman can be considered educated who hasn’t read it at least twice."
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 28 May 2022 20:11 (one year ago) link
I started to skim the content and realized people here say interesting things whatever prompt they are given.― youn, Saturday, May 28, 2022 7:35 AM (five hours ago)
― youn, Saturday, May 28, 2022 7:35 AM (five hours ago)
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 28 May 2022 20:17 (one year ago) link
No man or woman can be considered educated who hasn’t read it at least twice.
Okay, Casaubon
― jmm, Saturday, 28 May 2022 21:21 (one year ago) link
Real car crash of a piece. Just schizophrenic in the way it's put together lol.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 28 May 2022 22:31 (one year ago) link