I tried to find a way to show my randomizer results but I couldn't figure out how and I was ill prepared and didn't write it out properly. Anyways, their weeks pick was Eugene Onegin by Pushkin. >The story is told by a narrator (a lightly fictionalized version of Pushkin's public image), whose tone is educated, worldly, and intimate. The narrator digresses at times, usually to expand on aspects of this social and intellectual world. This narrative style allows for a development of the characters and emphasizes the drama of the plot despite its relative simplicity. The book is admired for the artfulness of its verse narrative as well as for its exploration of life, death, love, ennui, convention, and passion.
Now the pdf is not the Nabakov translation which is what was requested but I could not find the ebook for that.
This is a shorter novel (thank goodness), essentially I don't want to pressure you all into concluding each novel on time but at least a solid list will be built and we can read on our own time.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://open.library.ubc.ca/media/download/pdf/831/1.0087008/1&ved=2ahUKEwiO0PzhqcTrAhWRWM0KHXTnAQ4QFjAHegQIAxAB&usg=AOvVaw3V7bdlHrCRS2v2wJXSvTdY >The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie's fourth novel, first published in 1988 and inspired in part by the life of Muhammad. As with his previous books, Rushdie used magical realism and relied on contemporary events and people to create his characters. The title refers to the satanic verses, a group of Quranic verses that refer to three pagan Meccan goddesses: Allāt, Uzza, and Manāt. The part of the story that deals with the "satanic verses" was based on accounts from the historians al-Waqidi and al-Tabari. >The Satanic Verses controversy, also known as the Rushdie Affair, was the heated reaction of Muslims to the publication of Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses, which was first published in the United Kingdom in 1988 and inspired in part by the life of Muhammad. Many Muslims accused Rushdie of blasphemy or unbelief and in 1989 the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran issued a fatwa ordering Muslims to kill Rushdie. Numerous killings, attempted killings, and bombings resulted in response to the novel
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/608/608-h/608-h.htm >Areopagitica is among history's most influential and impassioned philosophical defences of the principle of a right to freedom of speech and expression. Many of its expressed principles have formed the basis for modern justifications.
did u wanna haev a thread each week 4 commentary awn the reedin oar r >we just knockin'em aot @ a steady clip? i'm k00l 4 w/e just lmk - eef its gunna b weekly overturn lyk this eye'll probably gnawt sticky the threads unless u wanna aggregate the weeks ean2 a monthly general oar w/e since it'll usually reside @ top of the page newaie.
precursor/inspiration 4 flaneur period ov oscar wilde's aotput, a rebours wuz banned ean plethora ov countries @ time ov eets publishean due 2 eets scandalous deviation frum naturalism ov eets tyme n superb catholic btfoean via weaponized dilettantism
>>469 Knocking em out at a steady clip I think and I don't think we need to sticky it cause let's face it there's 4 people on this board. It's gonna be tough and in retrospect I wish I hadn't done weekly, maybe biweekly would be more appropriate in the new year, I just don't see myself being able to keep up with a longer work gets selected but we'll see, I'm trying to do more short ones with a long one thrown in for a bit of a gamble.
>>471 I do fear I will flood your catalogue so maybe I can do a month per new thread, so next week I'll bump this thread actually with the updated image.
wuz contemplatean wtf 2 dew n thinq eye've gawt flight plan 4 fewchor nom daies down pat:
- expand current topic list to fit biweekly schedule (dis prolly necessitates slight readjustment awn ur end e.g. 4 christmas entrie soe eet falls awn such a week but hopefully not 2 big a deal given we're @ inception ov endeavor) - current thread remains stickied 4 upcoming 4 nominations - thread doubles as nomination thread & commentary thred 4 ppls thawts awn the books, reviews mayb?, etc - quotepoasting preceding biweekly book listean w/ nu book listing 4 easy blockean ov nomination/critique weeks - once a 4 nom cycle's completed eye'll unstiqqy the thread 4 a nu 1, w/ cycle resetting then
this prevents clutter by ensurean only 6 individual threads r ever made awn the board on a yearly basis while awlsoe segmentean nominations bie quotepoast across course of said thread allowing ez reference + access 4 ne1 luekin 2 catch auwp/read poaster comments awn specific book @ specific time period - it awlsoe justifies thread as sticky since it'll accrue higher poast count # by virtue ov collective intent lent
hopefully ideas amenable 2 logistics awn ur side - eef u awlsoe rnt feelin doing biweekly w/ current selection i can simply run same course ov action but sticky thread swapping every 8 nominations eanstead
>>474 Sure, how is this for a spreadsheet. Sticky it as you see fit I think one per month but we'll see how many replies we get. I like the quotations idea or interesting passages from the book
? Why the new thread? I don't think anyone would have missed the other one or gotten LOST in the 5 reply discussion Also this books looks insanely boring!
>>481 You didn't even nominate anything so you've brought this onto yourself. Also don't judge a book by its cover. Its short enough I trust you will have faith in my nom.
>>465 >Now the pdf is not the Nabakov translation which is what was requested but I could not find the ebook for that. Found it. Unfortunately, the only copy I could find was an image-based pdf, which is cancer to render in most pdf readers. Also the Nabokov translation apparently comes in 4 volumes, but only the first volume actually contains the story. Volumes 2 and 3 are a commentary on the story that's literally 3 times longer than the story itself. Volume 4 claims to be a photographic copy of a 1937 edition but the file is corrupt. Here's volume 1, aka the only volume that matters: https://files.catbox.moe/qrggh0.pdf
btw baot a coupla cantos ean n btwn the non-nabakov version n duh nabakov translation the former's exponentially superior ean readability IMO but eye havent read uddur parts 2 dat volume soe wont condemn nab-nab 4 gab-gab glib bilg carpitbag-baggery just yiit %^x
awlsoe am gnawt a fan ov diz sheeyut frum briev portions eye've read but we gawta SARGE ON
We is a dystopian novel by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin, written 1920-1921. The novel was first published as an English translation by Gregory Zilboorg in 1924 by E. P. Dutton in New York. The novel describes a world of harmony and conformity within a united totalitarian state. Banned Russia for 60 years, inspired 1984 and Brave New World
>>503 It's great! It was during the years Doga Kobo was really TRYING with their SOL shows so it has infinite budget and the source material is nice and comfy so it translated well
>>467 /lit/ club head honcho here, I nominated this shit based off a recommendation from a friend and essentially it's too long for this type of thing (550+pages) so I'm removing it from the nominations
How is Eugene coming along for everyone by the way ? I keep getting low blood sugar while trying to read it and I'm struggling to pay attention to it. I'm on Cantos 3 and it's pretty but I don't like all the footfag stuff. I relate with everyone's diaspora though and wish the introductions didn't spoil it all
eets gnawt muh kinduh read IMO but eye mite trie n compare/contrast duh 2 diff translationz provided hurr 4 a lil synthetic analysis dialysis-paralysis tally cisturn twinge ov duh aol' thyinkun kap tbh %^x cuz discrepancies btwn both r p. severe n ean mie opinion moast dont default 2 pronabakov's posh-toffy hog molly bohemian solly-selleanz
>>520 Tried reading it, failed. Now listening to the audio book I found on youtube, and quite enjoying it. At times I lose track of whether I'm following the narrator or Eugene though. Is that the point? I'm not very big brain.
So after an anon suggested the YouTube audiobook I was able to hunker down and really enjoy the translation. What a clusterfuck this nomination was.
The novel was definitely enjoyable, there was some statements the narrator makes regarding life that I related with, can't name any except the one about no passion leads to ennui. I thought that Eugene was gonna get shot at the end and I'm surprised that he was a villain all along. It was all very well done and the rhymes were definetly on point. Would I say it's a top 5? No, a top 40? Yes. My favourite scene was the pagan bear stalk and bear rape, really took me for a left turn
Tomorrow is the last day for nominations. Did anyone besides >>539 finish the novel? Apparently it's one of the most read books in Russia so does that make us brainlets because we are having trouble and Putin's dogs are the true masterrace? I for one hope not. Anyways, submit your nomination
eye ploughed threw moast ov eet but tbh nabakov's translation sucked soe many ruskie hush puppies n kind ov gnawvuel eet wuz wuz kinda gaie tbh it rly threw mie auwf
eef hes attemptin 2 b legitimate 2 the russian text ean engrish dats 1 thang awn preservationist note but it thrums w/ trepenatin boredom %^( ovurawl
eye'll fill aot duh recs eef eets necessary but crushin pushkin's gem ean2 alchemy dust's da priority nao…stoopid coon cossack boutta GET THAT ASS BANNED
Alright not a lot of noms these past 2 weeks, I want to cross advertise on /tv/ but I don't know how it will be received type of thing. Anyways, enjoy A Rebours, like I will.
>>545 >precursor/inspiration 4 flaneur period ov oscar wilde's aotput, a rebours wuz banned ean plethora ov countries @ time ov eets publishean due 2 eets scandalous deviation frum naturalism ov eets tyme n superb catholic btfoean via weaponized dilettantism
No recommendations? Guess I'll go then. I recommend Perfect Dark - Initial Vector, which I just found out exists, and can be found here. https://archive.org/download/RetroGamingBooksFiction Why? I don't know. Maybe it'll be good. Also, I couldn't find any downloads for Babylon 5 novels.
This is a hard week, I tried to find random things but it's all not satisfying I.E. a suicide squad novelization that doesn't take risks. But I found this and anyone who's watched the classic movie should go wtf? >A group of angry appliances, having fled to Mars to avoid becoming obsolete, now plans to take over the Earth, unless the Brave Little Toaster can stop the invasion
On Onegin I think there are 2 perspectives you can either see him as a villain or a man of fear. It's tragic because he knows he wants Tatiana, but he is intellectually reasoning that they will eventually hate each other which is more based on fear than logic. He had grown too accustomed to his rejection from society and developed such a fear of commitment that it undid him.
Conversely, I wouldn't have called him a villain, I wouldn't have called him a tragic guy out of fear, I would call him a well written human character who was cocky and as the novel progressed and we focused on Tatiana he came around as men do in their 30s without offspring, tried to be a roastie and exert his influence over the one woman we know he once controlled and she being an ideal trad wife rebounds him and the lesson is learned to cherish what you have and not be cocky. I think that's a fairly grounded and well spoken of point of view.
Anyways having these 2 viewpoints simultaneously must make it a great little novel. Plus his use of meta narrative I think was not often used except in Don Quixote.
>>564 I'd like to recommend one of the Doctor Who New Adventures because I have a lot of affection for them (not necessarily because they're great on the whole). You want one of the ones I think is kind of good for what it is, or one of the ones that'll leave you scratching your head, wondering how it got published?
im not rly an enormous fandom guy tbh but these r such horrendously awful dogshit n r tangentially related 2 nostalgia critic universe 2 such an extent (such az havean his co-worker's names as rapee-manatee victims) dat we mite as well stack'm awn the list n bloat eet aot a little >%^>
pheel frie 2 nom it as 1 n RNG randomize which fic we read though eef moar submissions come ean dat r partially palatable
>>570 Transit probably isn't the worst, but I'd say it's bad in ways that are the most entertaining. There are some that are just forgettable and boring, which I don't think anyone wants. Transit is edgy and stupid and presents quite a fun universe.
>>571 Ya that was what I meant, the most entertaining and zany, looking forward to it >>567 I'll include them as a bundle and then raffle them individually if it wins, if everyone is ok with that.
How is everyone progressing? I can't help but feeling like this novel could be rewritten contemporarely with an angsty neet at the helm. Dropping redpills, critiquing anime, film, the JQ, women, it would also get banned and someday in a VR neuro room 140 years from now, it will serve as inspiration for another outlook on life.
Im halfwayish, I thought the part with the turtle was hilarious, cholera was cool and him wanting to get manhandled. I can relate with a lot of his views and I don't think I am supposed to, similar to Essaies by Montaigne. I was weary at the beginning but am really enjoying it now
iz goean p. gud 4 mie. eye rec'd eet mainly bc theres a throughwaie in michael houellebecq's submission re: duh narrator n his relation az huysmans scholar 2 changin infrastructure ov society araond heem via hajj-heralded mudslimification - v prescient book 2 btw will prolly b suggestean eet @ sum pt daon the line - dat characterizes precisely wat a rebours' narrator's concerns r tew, ean metonymically muddled sense
it scans lyk moar aptly paced, bettur-written american psycho ean 1880s tbh w/ sum ov the opulence overphloe 2 but eet waie dat just aint runnin power bidniss mewv apologetics 4 niggas %^x
>>573 I was gonna say it was similar to American Psycho, but not sinister, also different format because there's dialogue in American Psycho. I'll be surprised if Des Esseintes brings home a woman and kills her, Patrick Bateman and Des are both gay tho
I finished it out and will admit I petered out towards the end. I just couldn't keep track of all the different authors and philosophers but I got some of it. I loved the perspective of that era and am glad to see how the counter culture has always sort of been there. I really enjoyed the ending especially the digression into religious priests fucking up everything and I will use the body of Christ argument on all Catholics I see. I am not anti religious though. In fact I am Catholic myself. Although I don't practice any of it and was raised Christian.
My friend that is coreading it always says MC-kun is an evil frightening man but we will see what he says by the end of it. I will read at least 1 chapter in French eventually. I preferred this novel to Eugene.
On a side note, is 2 weeks too short? Should I bump it to 3?
Here's a review I'll steal >Did I really read this book forty years ago? Or did I just read the passages about the "perfume organ" and the jewel encrusted turtle and later assumed I had read the rest? If I did read it, I was completely wrong in my evaluation of this as a static, effete precursor to Dorian Gray, a work marooned in the vanished aesthetic of the late nineteenth century. No, no. "Against the Grain" is much, much richer than that. >For starters, it is an accomplished work of realism that turns realism on its head. Huysman-just as effectively as the Goncourts or Dreiser-knows how to accumulate a wealth of detail to convey the physical reality of the situation he wishes to describe. Just because he's describing the fantastically decorated and furnished apartment of an extremely wealthy aesthete concerned with pleasing no one but himself is irrelevant to this particular aspect of the "novel." >I say "novel" because-in spite of its sound realist credentials-I'm not sure it really is a novel at all. It resembles more the philosophical treatise/fictionalized autobiography of Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Sartor Resartus, or Marius the Epicurean. In total effect, Huysmans' work has more in common with De Quincey, Carlyle, and Pater than it does with Zola, Frank Norris, or Dreiser. >It also reminds me of that great short story of Flaubert's, "The Temptation of St. Anthony," for Des Esseintes-the novel's protagonist-is a saint of the senses, and on his path to enlightenment he encounters demons, delusions and disease. Indeed, the spiritual aspect of this book is so strong-particular in our hero's love for the fullness of the Catholic tradition-that I'm almost surprised at the reaction to the book in conservative circles. In hindsight, it is easy to see that Huysmans is on the road back to Rome. >And yet . . . the book is wickedly funny too. Huymans views his protagonist with devastating irony, particularly in the frequent juxtaposition of grandiose schemes with physical illnesses and practical and psychological failings. In addition, in more than a few passages-Des Esseintes scheme for making a murderer out of a street boy is the most remarkable example-Huysmans obliquely reveals a consciousness of the plight of the poor that suggests a world of Christian compassion and duty beyond all this preciousness. >This is a deep, rich work, and-although it is a classic representative of the fin de siecle-it transcends its age and has the ability to speak to ours as well
There's a general rule in my life which has been to avoid anything Dr.Who and Star Trek and this will be my first venture into the series so I hope for the best
On October 11th, the next theme will be Letters I apologize I could not find an audiobook version.
moar figuratively prompt-fulfillment den literal; allegorical renderin ov a senior devils letturs 2 his lil luciferian charge awn basis ov hao 2 /lit/tily corrupt an unawares shabbos goyim. replete w/ referrendums awn catholicism, faith, etc. disbursed via dis-dissident's dipthongary but eyeve nevur read eet b4 soe eyedk wat 2 expecht %^.
n den 2 cleave 2 the letter ov der epistolary measures ean rubriqq'd hoity-toit, the uddur recc eye'll provide r Selected Letters ov H.P. Lovecraft (1925-1929) - doozy ovuh thang but eye've nevur had opportunity 2 read wat >ourguy the yog'shoggath shat hogg-goy defiluurr wroet 2 err1 else soe ean2 the box eet goes.
I'm finding letter anthologies are freaking long. I'm trying to find a copy of Philip K. Dicks letters but I haven't found a copy yet. Here's another one that caught my eye.
Ezra Pound letters to some lawyer: >This volume provides a first-hand survey of the arts and literature during a crucial period in modern culture, 1915-1924. Pound was then associated with such germinal magazines as BLAST, The Little Review, The Egoist, and Poetry; he was discovering or publicizing writers such as Robert Frost, Hilda Doolittle, T. S. Eliot, and James Joyce; and he was championing the painters Wyndham Lewis and William Wadsworth as well as the sculptors Jacob Epstein, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, and Constantin Brancusi. >Pound wrote to John Quinn-a New York lawyer, an expert in business law, and a collector of unusual taste and discrimination-about these artists and many more, urging him to support their journals, collect their manuscripts, and buy and exhibit their paintings and sculptures. Quinn at one time owned manuscripts of Ulysses and The Waste Land, Brancusi's sculpture Mlle. Pogany, and Picasso's painting Three Musicians. Yet he was often skeptical about the value of new schools of art, such as Vorticism, and disturbed by the outspokenness of authors such as Joyce. Pound's letters are unusually tactful when he counters Quinn's doubts and explains the premises of experimental art. Pound's letters to Quinn are touched with his characteristic humor and wordplay and are especially notable for their lucidity of expression, engendered by Pound's deep respect for Quinn.
He's got more letters out there if it inspires anyone else to pick more
>>610 This week is fucked for length Exigesis is 700 pages and I read they wanted to make it 2k pages, I don't expect to read some of these noms in the 2 week period and I hope that I won't fall behind on it
>>612 I've been hammering away on the Exegesis for a year or so. it's really the kind of thing you have to just pick at every now and again, or it all just becomes a jumble of nonsense in your head. It is pretty much a book of stream of consciousness schizophrenic ramblings, which is fun, but not a light read. Then again, I don't know if it's always that important you read the whole book. Maybe just read what you can and get a taste. There's value in that.
apologize 4 laq ov poastin re: current readins fellas, think eyem gunna set toumourrou aside 4 dedicated catch-auwp day n blast threw few ov da selections eye havent been dutifully attendin 2 regularly <%^(
will haev sum commentary poasts 2 baot past n present submishs auwp sumtime aftur dat prawbs, gittin baq ean2 the /lit/ty swing ov thangs aftur pc gnirly gnuked eetselv 2 gnottingham
So, anyone actually manage to read Transit? I skimmed through it again, and I think I feel the same way as I did before. I don't think it's a good book. It's messy and laughably stupid in places, but I kind of like it. It's creative and I love all of that 90's cyberpunk shit.
>>643 I just finished it, having had no experience prior I was enjoying the ride for the most part but felt he had issues with his scaling of the whole environments. I liked the way he named everyone and did his perspectives though. There was some humor and more visceral details than I would have expected from a well loved mass appeal series.
The whole tunnel and teleporting thing didn't make any sense to me but in effect it did the job. I think that's the scaling I was talking about and the uprising subplot didn't go anywhere but that's ok. I did like the subtle/not so subtle nod to losing to communism and everyone is multiracial and ruled by Africa and China, very progressive and predictive.
Like driving on the highway and following someone who is speeding but keeping enough distance that the patrol pulls them over instead of you, but ultimately they go their own way and you yours is how I felt towards the end after they save Benny I would like to see where these speed demons end up but I have my own shit to do and will not be following them to their final destination in Transit™. Ultimately I feel bad for the author so I'll give it a 3.5 rounded up to 4.
>>646 It kind of feels like Aaronovitch had a bunch of ideas and threw them all at a wall, when it might have been better to focus on just one of those concepts and develop it better. I feel like there were three different books happening at once here. >the Doctor battling an emergent AI that has taken control of his friend >working class labourers doing dirty mercenary work for a big company >something about genetically engineered African super soldiders Still not entirely sure what Mariko and her gang were trying to achieve, or what they even were.
>>647 Anything involving Mariko I mentally checked out of, I had a Spidey sense she would go nowhere or be tied in at the end. I didn't realize everyone but Blondie was black until I did some further reading. That hit me like Gatsby being black, even though I should have put 2 and 2 together when Kadiatu was said to be from an African Tribe ancestry. Also I picture Ming as being like 18 but she's a goddamn grandma, so I mentally checked out anytime it described her life and pictured her as a young Lucy Liu
>>648 Kadiatu's the girl on the cover, so I picked up that she was black from the start. Didn't pick up that Lambada was a woman though. They drop that on you in like the last quarter of the book. Dogface is meant to be Asian, I guess, since his real name was Yang. Could have definitely done with some more visual descriptors for these characters.
Exigesis is this biweek's winner, as a previous anon stated: >I've been hammering away on the Exegesis for a year or so. it's really the kind of thing you have to just pick at every now and again, or it all just becomes a jumble of nonsense in your head. It is pretty much a book of stream of consciousness schizophrenic ramblings, which is fun, but not a light read. >Then again, I don't know if it's always that important you read the whole book. Maybe just read what you can and get a taste. There's value in that.
So don't feel pressured to read it all, I was thinking maybe we could all get assigned pages then write a summary but I don't see a lot of value in that.
aheadov da zeitgeist geit-zeist bie baot 500 oar soe deca-decades. prolly kneads no introduction but eye'll leave u w/ my favorite title aot the werk - "The Seditious Genius of the Spiritual Penis of Jesus"
1.9k pages soe obvs readin duh whoal thang aint a tasq 4 the timid but turid loveboaters mite find sumthin aotta ne gievin selection n eets doep 2 discuss az a whole esp considerin the born again bie 12 gauge god-repudiatin layovur he gaev heemself ean frontta duh steps ov havard %^x
The Western Lands, the third book in the Red Night Trilogy, I don't think you need to read the other 2 and it's been a while since I've read them but I'm pretty sure the whole thing is pretty nonsensical. I also have the opportunity to nom. This for the beats and swan song categories but let's try it out now.
I think the cover is one of the most pseud covers I've ever seen
synce duh dewtiphull thread ownurs runnean a tad tardy awn publishean the next biweekly bookclub-bonanza figured eye'd taek eet upon mieself 2 rando eet - the option selected wuz BEHOLD A PALE HORSE by Bill Cooper (link located here: >>662) [eye can't fuckin print scrn awf diz dawgshite laptop but the lads can take mie werd eye hoep %^x]
git crackean 2 da curmudgeontology ov florilegium-flourishistology mie body-polylectic woadies %^>
So seeing as the week started late, and this is pretty dense and almost 500 pages what do you think if I push everything back a week and next Sunday (Nov 1st) would be the official start of this week?
I sparsely read the Dick as an anon suggested and usually I keep track of the week by my progress through the novel. Anyways, I played strip poker with anime girls online and I regret it now but I won't if we push it all back a week
ur aight amigato n yeh eyem gud 4 w/e, eye've skimmed da dickensian ass-pecked werk 2 hvnt rly had tyme 2 plop daon n grind eet aot w/ uddur writtan obligations so if u gawta push eet baq a tad am copacetic w/ dat
eye thinq im awlsoe gunna begin compiling txt ov errie suggestion 4 errie category present ean2 a /lit/pendium 4 fewchur usage/perusal n throe eet auwp awn mega ean the oncomean present - lets /lit/frens revisit selections dey mayb wantid 2 reed but couldnt git raond 2 @ the time n provides bulwark ov /lit/ty board culture traceable ean a rl bodee ov werk
eye'll add l1nk 2 the /lit/pendium ean OP hurr 1nce eye've dl'd/assemblaged errthin spic n spanned %^D
OP upd8 w/ /lit/pendium lank, eyem missean coupla entries doe:
- The Maimed (TRADgedy) - A Season in the Life of Emmanuel (TRADgedy) - Doctor Zhivago (TRADgedy) - Salman Rushdie - Satanic Verses (Banned!) - Au rebours - John Huysmans (Banned!) [mite b abel 2 aggregate scite's html files ean collective foaldur just knead 2 test eet aot] - The Brave Little Toaster that Went to Mars (Obscure Tie-In) - Dear Scott, dearest Zelda : the love letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald (Letters) - The Western Lands (Burroughs, Schizopoasting)
will dew mie aon trawlean l8r 2daie/manana but eef ne1 haz pdfs ov ne ov deez email mie @ [email protected] wittem
>>688 There's things that I can relate with the guy but as soon as I'm about to vocalize BASED AND REDPILLED he starts going of on shit like this or his gook wife and hatred towards fascism. So far it's a decent enough read though. I think he would've benefited from reading some George Rockwell to better shape his worldview
>>692 He's very much the "guns and freedom" American Boomer variety of conspiracy theorist. I find it charming in a way. Not something I would go in for when push comes to shove though. You need to build a society on a little more than that. I'd be curious as to how real people think some of the documents in the book are. I feel like he may have made some of them up to illustrate his point. I feel like they don't really read like government documents, you know? But then what do I know about secret government documents.
So far, this book has inspired me with the idea of creating a novel similar to this, where he starts out kooky (but not too kooky) and as the novel progresses he slowly changes his opinion on who leads the world from say reptilian illuminati to a more immigration loving, persecuted race.
I'm almost halfway and it's always the same shit different smell. If I was reading it the year it was published I'd have probably been worried but hindsight is 2020. But I'll always read an anti government book so it's good
>>695 Did you get to the part where he straight up reprints the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in it's entirety? I do respect the man's balls, even if I don't know if he was entirely on the money about everything. Unsurprising he was shot and killed by the police shortly after 9/11.
>>696 At the concentration camps in Alaska and the courts denying it all, I was going to assume he was killed but I was waiting till I finished the book first. I like the description for the book I sent a friend >According to Behold a Pale Horse, JFK was assassinated-because he was about to reveal that extraterrestrials were about to take over the earth-by his driver, an alien himself; AIDS is a government conspiracy to decrease the population of blacks, Hispanics, and homosexuals; and the Illuminati are secretly involved with …
Like he's maybe done 6 pages total so far on aliens and maybe 1 or 2 pages total on JFK I dont know why they can't make a real synopsis on the book but I'll finish and see if it fits.
I've read the Protocols a year or 2 back so it will be a nice refresher. Im impressed he went that route and maybe he will have done my idea
eye'll cheque eet aot awn prowl 4 current missean dls 4 /lit/pendium (eye've added Satanic Verses n Doctor Zhivago ean their respective categorreez btw - gnawt prittyizt but tangiblet legibility's prio atm ovur edition selekshun)
awlsoe mite az well nominate mie beats selection - ALLEN GINSBERG'S HOWL and prolly FOOTNOTES 2 HOWL az well
ppl can read his uddur werks but hes a filthy facetious pedophile kike (brushean auwp awn knowledge ov enemy combatants) n eet'll b a shorter readean selection 2 ease up awn the pedal w/ these monstrous 1,400 paginated grimoires >we've bean subjichted tew l8ly, wud awlsoe let ppl catch auwp awn previous reedin 2 %^x
I finished off the first book, I gotta admit after The Protocols started I started to drift off a bit when he talked only because I know none of the alien stuff came to fruition, it was still cool to read but too serious for me. All in all I really felt this hit the /littyclub/ theme on the nose.
I don't know if I'm right in saying this but did Cooper inspire all the modern hatred towards the Illuminati and Freemasons? Is he the guy that put it in the forefront and brought it to the masses? I can see from the book referential stuff from pop culture and I'm proud of him for that. But looking at a broad sense theres a lot of people dragging his name through the mud to give credence to their own conspiracy theories. Pic related would make you think he had something to do with pizzagate
iz important 4 anti-samzidat authoritarians 2 "indelibly contaminate" troof w/ mingleans ov hairbreihn'd "dupspiracy" - n reprintean goy-mischling-starred document (protokaulz) wittin bounds p. much eansured his palanquinizin az scarecrow-scapegoat 4 de-accoutromentalization ov illuminated man/non-orange-ean-blew circles klubas
eye aint turrably surpryss'd tbh (mfw when incorporated)
>>719 From what I gather he was kind of a proto Alex Jones. He ran a radio show and had a sizable audience for a while there (until they shot him). The show was called The Hour of the Time, and it used to all be on Youtube, if you're interested in tracking it down.
Good tier: >Protocols, >Panama Papers (I knew nothing about), >anything related to the Bushes (I'm not from states I thought he was just an innefectual leader that screwed up from incompetence, not from being the leader of the C.I.A.) >His opening >Freemasonry. >Jfk
/x/ tier I wish was true >Alaska Superjails >Jupiter Nuclear Holocaust accompanied by Lucifer I wonder if he ever regretted this >all alien talk
Shit tier >Chinese wife >Not blaming Zionists and Mossad till the end >Getting killed before his Magnum Opus exposé on the Twin Towers
All in all 4/5 maybe 3.5, but I'm a sucker for someone who works hard especially pre-mainstream internet
Sunday is beats so get your noms in, there ain't much and a lot I've looked for I can't find so I'll try to get one out beforehand
kk soe eye ran the 3 subs threw da randomizer n eet came auwp w/ HOWL and FOOTNOTES TO HOWL soe synce eye'm ov mynd err1's otheriwse foremoastly occupied/cupidly conkified bie pass't coupla copula-wiekz AND we've been slammerhoauzin'd bie ungoliant monsterwerks ov scrolls dat caem b4 eye haev proposition 4 dis week: dis can double az a catch-up interregnum 4 ppl whue haevnt been abul 2 maintain pace w/ da list OR give >us a bit ov breathean rewm 2 investigate 4 moar recs 4 upcomean categories since dis goe-araond wuz sparse n parsley-palsey %^(
r ppl gud w/ dat? shud the img b repurposed 2 mirror dis lacuna? lmk
>>726 I had talked about the theme with my friend and we both agreed that it was too strict of a category so my bad for including it in the list. Realistically, it's like 10 authors total or whatever, and most of their works are kind of the same barring the poetry. I can see some of the next categories getting more nominations like coming of age or even the vanity project one. I'll try to crosspost on /tv/ on occasion, and I could look into publishing this list on other sites Goodreads, Reddit (yuck!) if we are really desperate for more inclusions. But so kind of like it because it's pretty quality and I've been interested in everything nominated
o sry lemme b clur - eye thinq the categories u established r v. kewl n super fine, just meant dat a short readin entry this goe-around would give people moar time 2 scrounge 4 recommendations 4 the upcomean categories %^>
u've dun a splendiferous jawb keepin dis auwp fren n eye'm hurr 2 help aot errie steppuv duh wei. eye dont thinq >we shud goe newhurr aotside ib circles butt w/e ur binnacle pts will suffice 4 wat happinz tbh %^' am confident leavean eet ean ur handz
>>729 I've wanted to read Howl since highschool so I'm fine with this, no problems on anything and I'll keep my cross advertising to irl.
What I would like to know and this is probably going to have sad results, but does anyone lurk and not post? Or has anyone joined since post inception?
Here's an updated list, with some updated dates but I don't have a calendar and don't want to do the rest ATM.
NEXT NOMINATION IS AUTHORS TERRIBLE VANITY PROJECT, WHICH CLOSES NOVEMBER 29TH
>>732 I was planning on A Story of the Artist as an Old Man by Joseph Heller (Catch 22) but I gotta find a copy still so I'll stall with the classic WHAT HAPPENED by Killary Clinton since it fits the theme and is an easy find
As well, I have 120 bucks worth of Amazon credits and I can waste them on any books that you can't find a copy of. I won't purchase it unless it wins the nomination and once I purchase it I'll upload it so it can be shared. This should free up a lot of nominations
>>738 I haven't read the footnotes yet, but Ive read On The Road and have kind of an understanding of Burroughs life and I guess it's just a summation of each of the major beats existence done in an effay way at least for part 1, part 2 I don't know about all the Moloch business or if he is actually going /x/ tier with it part 3 references someone from part 1 I'm not too familiar with their backstory and essentially is their lovers quarrel and subsequent makeup/more backstory
I don't know if this is what you were seeking with your comment but there ya go
Here's the deal, A Portrait won, but I nominated it myself and having read reviews and whatnot I've come to the conclusion that at worst it's mediocre, so I am redoing the draw, but only including the Hillary, the Linkara and the furfag.
So it turns out Mr.Jahans himself is the winner. So I will be doing a second draw with all his titles included. I am going left to right, top down ordered 1 through x.
Once again I've randomized it. I am not familiar with this series at all, so I'm open to either The Many Claras http://archive.is/79c1w (19) or the first in the series (Pretty and the Brain) http://archive.is/XghVo I'll leave it open to debate and if no one puts input by the end of day we are going with The Many Clara's, a Doctor Who companion piece.
>>768 As far as I'm aware most of these are just single page blog posts, so the idea was to submit all of them as a singular entity, but I guess you can just read as much or as little as you like.
gadspeed ganjahans amanuensis-anon, @ sum pt eye'll trie n convurt awl ov these archive links ean2 files 4 the /lit/pendium but ty 4 givean the thread da manual linkage touch %^]
>>736 Some of these say audiobook available, and I'm gonna assume it's him doing it. I really wanna listen to that but on the archive site I can't find an audio link or file. Any tips?
>>782 It was probably on his Youtube channel, but he seems to have deleted those videos. You might just not be able to find them at this point, unless someone saved them.
The /cow/ thread has a good amount cataloged, and there's a bitchute archive of his videos https://www.bitchute.com/channel/oYLqTP5PaYan/ You'll have to sift through them though. Bitchute doesn't seem to have great search functionality.
>>786 Just finished it, I hope the rest aren't that long but there was humor in it. He really seems to get tripped up on his dysmorphia about 3/4 through and starts preaching about it, the end lines for example: The sylph pills offered new ways to live and new ways to love. The society became more liberal as the shame that held it back and repressed it was exorcised. Trans and genderfluid people ceased to have any discrimination or dysphoria because the cure to the sylph pill was the answer to their problems. Like I can't think of anything to say that I'm sure hasn't been said. But it's real cool he's able to include that in the short summary of life in the normal
>>787 You can definitely see that two sides of him are at odds in his writing. He has this fetish for dominating women, but then he'll flip it around and make it a pro-liberal thing. It's very interesting to see the gears in his head turn.
aight /lit/pendium's been upd8 w/ sum missean werks (au rebours, western lands) n awl epubs haev been converted 2 pdf/r ean midsts ov eet az wie speak. duh last missean noms 2 b thrown auwp r:
- A Season in the Life of Emmanuel (TRADgedy) - The Brave Little Toaster that Went to Mars (Obscure Tie-In) - Dear Scott, dearest Zelda : the love letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald (Letters) - Her Story (Terrible Vanity Project)
so eef ne1 has waies 2 funnel variants ov thoz mie waie eye'd b v appreciative
eye'll b nominatean CATCHER EAN THE RYE by J.D. Salinghur 4 Comin' ov Age - quintessential bildungsroman, de-ansiblither ov /lit/ty consensus, guaranteed gr8 time 4 awl eef selected %^>
Cat and Mouse is the shorter one of the Danzig Trilogy, but also the most boring. I remember it being ok though and I never see old Gunter get the attention he deserves.
Rounding out my nomination blitz with Prester John, I read about half and then I lost the book somehow, so here's hoping it wins http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/611
tanks 4 plethora ov recs fren - the issew w/ the archive.org lonk 4 season ov emmanuel eez dat it dsnt let u actewallie dl the phile bc archive.org iz kiked %^x iz onlee rzn eet hasnt been eanclewdid atm. eef u can rip the file frum thurr az a pdf and upload eet sumwhurr eye'll slot eet ean2 the /lit/pendium
awl your other recs r uploaded 2 the /lit/pendium az pdfs soe readahs phiel free 2 drauwp awn bie ean the link above at the OP >>465 if ur ean pursuit ov perusully oar catchean auwp w/ a piece frum a category prior 2 u joinean /lit/ty kloobaz %^Y
The Jahans update >Laura Queen of Earth That was a fucking ordeal. Feel like I just waded through an Odyssey of smut. Not much to really say about it narratively. Did it have a story? Feels like it almost did in a few places, but Gordon's fetishism kept rising to the surface and compelling him to write another paragraph about turning women into sharks and frying their buttcheeks in breast milk, or whatever else. Cute to see him trying to come up with solutions to things like ethical farming through this bizarre mythology of his. I can't tell if he really believes in all of that, or if he's trying to excuse himself (in the eyes of what I guess he perceives to be an existent and very liberal readership) for this clear fetish for dominating and butchering women. I can just hear him saying "no look, it's okay, they want it!" >Pretty and the Brain Not much to say about this one. Short and kind of boring >The Fall of the Patriarchy More a blog post than an actual story. Fun to read Gordon raging about 4chan and Gamergate though. He seems to think 4chan and sci-fi fanboys are in league with world governments, and there was something inherently patriarchal and illiberal about the Barack Obama and David Cameron administrations of 2015? I don't really get it. Funny to see him call out other people for "wanting to rape" when that makes up the thrust of most of his own writing. >The Ludicrous Logic Lady I kind of liked this one. It was almost an actual story. Only a little bit of anal rape. I might be developing a form of Stockholm syndrome for Alex's writing though >The Valkyrie Felt like a tighter version of The Taming of Me. Interesting to note that he actually has progressed as a writer, if only a little. Gordon lays out a little more of his cosmology and philosophy of ethics (which seems to amount to it being okay to abuse someone if they want it. I don't really get it). Some surprisingly lucid observations on the true nature of feminism, and also a sneaky suicidal cry for help hidden away in there. Not bad.
I want to add that I actually do kind of like some elements of this fictional universe of his. These psychopathic god beings who incarnate in different forms and have their own twisted sense of morality. The concept of this highly logical race who came to the conclusion that reality itself was illogical and needed to be destroyed. These are fun ideas in a pulp sci-fi kind of way. Okay, 80% is Doctor Who, but it's an intriguingly warped take on Doctor Who. Hope one of these stories is eventually about all of this stuff, rather than squirrel sylph shit injections, but I wont get my hopes up.
>>800 I liked The Valkyrie because he started using actual metaphors especially about infinity. Like when Jessica says "Im just a snowflake in a blizzard" and his musings on killing himself. I do think it was that one that I physically cringed the most at though. I do like the fall of the patriarchy the most though and I get that he finds solace in thinking that the left will defend his malformed ass but I just wish that he would see even he takes part in the canabalization of those who dont tow the line in virtue signaling and he will never truly be comfortable with his left leaning kin as they are always degrading those around them in an effort ro onw up each other. But maybe the right side is exactly like that as well in his experience with all the /cow/ threads. I just like to think if he rejected modernity and applied himself he would find himself more comfortable in his own skin among those that (I may me generalizing here) dont truly view women as saviours and equal minded individuals.
>>801 I think Gordon's supposed political affiliations come from two places. Firstly, he hates bullies. true or not he identifies the right as being the bullies, and the left as being the anti-bully rangers. Secondly, he recogninises himself as being more or less unemployable, and he wants free money. All his posturing about the coming "post scarcity society" amounts to that. He doesn't think he can support himself and he likes the idea of UBI. The feminism angle is interesting because he clearly has (and I'm not judging) quite misogynistic attitudes toward women. I don't think he's really a feminist, so much as he's anti-masculine out of spite for what he can't be. And I don't doubt there's some misconception there that if he presents as a good enough leftist, his friends on the left will eventually swoop in to save him and reward him with sex, because they're the "compassionate ones".
Toy Maker completed. Struggling to comprehend how the Farshnuke and Bamkursh even differ as characters. The Farshnuke turns women into pets, and the Bamkursh turns women into toys. Clearly this all means something to Gordon, but if anything the Bamkursh seems to be the nicer and less psychotic of the two. This man's mind is a labyrinth, I tell you.
aftur baot a coupla hrs ov copy-pastean + brief reformattean, eye bring 2 /lit/ty glyphic-slyphic non-syphillic lyf - THE ALEXANDER GORDON JAHANS READER
incorporatean awl archive linkz ean duh current img, arranged relativelee ean oerdughr (barring Weresylph Rising, which will b deposited ean2 the /lit/pendium az separate pdf posthaste), n eantended moar az archival document den reedan thang (unless niggas rly want mie 2 fucking put a table ov contints durr given the archive img exists/will b maintained ean the /lit/pendium, etc)
This is a long one, I am going to post the audiobook as well which is 22 hours, doable if you bump up the speed. https://youtube.com/watch?v=tBBC2T_wLhQ Within a Budding Grove aka In The Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
aight mayde dis bitch a pdf n tossed eet ean2 the /lit/pendium, blessed bie the niggas whew waulc duh waulc n taulc duh taulc w/ records n sheeyutt
i'm missean A Season in The Life of Emmanuel bc archive.org is kiked w/ regards 2 eets acquistion, as noted hurr >>789 ean index ov missean pieces, soe if ne1 can render dat shit daon az eithur an epub oar a pdf eet will b acceptable 4 the rng ov nxt book klub entrie but uddurwise shud prolly b discardid (much az eye h8 2 dew shit lyk dat)
does sum1 have an archive.org account oar noe hao 2 rip frum a daisy file? dis wud b halpphoal infoe 4 horizon ov nominationz, etc.
>>811 For completionists sake i tried to buy it off amazon but i could only get a physical copy. Ill keep looking for a digital i could buy but i got sidetracked afterwards
It (un)fortunately happened that A Season in the Life of Emmanuel got the pick this week, ill work on finding a stable source but for the time being you can find it here if you make an account.
>In her third and most powerful novel, Marie-Claire Blais explores, with sober compassion and realistic detail, a season in the life of Emmanuel, the sixteenth child of a poverty-stricken farmer's family in rural Quebec.
NEXT TIMES THEME IS CHRISTMAS ON DECEMBER 27TH (OOPS)
>>827 Ive been using the archive link, just made an account real quick and it lets you borrow it in perpuity, works like other archive links. In fact maybe just include the link in the compendium? Its the best your gonna get. I dont think a digital version exists. I even tried looking for the french version and couldnt find a copy but a lot of university papers on it, so whats up with that?
Its pretty alright so far Im about 2/3s done. It feels sort of like misery for the sake of misery but I grew up in -40 winters that last 6 months out of the year and that farming lifestyle. I dont see why the priest is the only recurring non family member. I feel like there would be a much greater sense of community in a small village, and I think the author really hates her father as he only serves one function, so far (maybe 2 if you count babymaking). Anyways its probably the same quality as Eugene Onegin in English in its original french format, maybe thats an over appraisal though.
In closing: The want us to celebrate a female author as she tells the pov of a male mc but when your a tranny isn't your original viewpoint that of a male?
We know Tolkien for high fantasy but lets see his holiday spirits. >The Father Christmas Letters, also known as Letters from Father Christmas, are a collection of letters written and illustrated by J. R. R. Tolkien between 1920 and 1943 for his children, from Father Christmas.
Coulda fit in Letters too but oh well…
Also, has anyone read this weeks book? I finished it today and it really felt like misery for the sake of misery. I sympathized at times but everyone is so apathetic and just lets fate give their strings. Something like a female Quebec Thomas Hardy was the vibes I got, just not as good. 3/5 or lower
CHARLES DICKENS - A CHRISTMAS CAROL shudnt rly require ne explanation but will b phun 2 read a nigga who gawt paid bie the world sesquipedalianly dilly-dally his azz raond duh chimneysweep jointz ov heez lyf
and
THE X-MASS SMORGASBOARD: Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, Philip Van Doren's The Greatest Gift, and O. Henry's The Gift of the Magi
collectively the above totals baot 40-sumtin pgs but iz a hodge-podge which eye thinq justifies aggregated brevity, n mite put a jolt baq ean2 avenues ov discussion ean contrast 2 1-anuddur az a solitary entrie %^x
both ov deez r slightly shorter recz but eye suspect eet'll behoove time 2 sneak aot n whorf'm daon rl celerituous-lyk durean festivities
dey'll awl b auwp awn the litpendium bie the time dis iz published alawngside the pdf Father Christmas letturs %^>
Figure people wont want a heavy read around this time, so I guess I'll nominate one of my favourite kids' books. I have the scans on file, so if anyone wants to hook me up with some place to dump them, that would be appreciated. Otherwise, I guess I can start a fresh thread and just drop them there if I get the pick.
Almost forgot This week had a decent amount of noms and I think they are all short except the Tolkien, if you could post the links for the trio for this week and the Father Christmas I wouldnt mind reading it.
All in all, my place of being was in lockdown so it was a boring christmas, but I caught up on some mangabooks.
Next Weeks Times Theme Is:PSEUDOPIGRAPH which to my understanding means Ghostwritten? Or possibly 2 writers?
eef the father christmas anon wants 2 maek a thrad 2 poast his screens eye'll attempt 2 merge'm ean2 a singular pee-dee-yeff 2 awlsoe plop ean2 the 'pendium
pseudopigraph relates 2 a werk attributed 2 sum1 (usually purported 2 b real) dat iznt actewallie whew wrote eet az well
w/ dat beyin said HAVE A HAPPY NEW YEAR /LIT/TERATI N RETERRITORIALIZEAN TORT-TORRID LOVAHS %^>
am glad the .txt inspyred u 2 pick auwp sum tomes urcelph fren %^> keep dat bad boy handee cuz eet mite maek a valuable scansion-sampsonite historycaul artikuel eef thangs goe topsy-turvy ean meatspace sewn enuff
newaie since eye've been sumwat remiss 4 initial run ov /lit/ty book club supposed eye'd remand such inclinations bie scribblean daon sum thawts baot the selectionz hurr:
gift ov duh magi - v terse, tight-strung lil comfy tale. impressed w/ o henrys writtan and eye will 100% b investigatean his uddur werks 2 c eef the trend follows through elsewhurr
the greatest gift - gnawt a supar-favorito tbh, kinda 2 evun-keeled n the writtan dsnt hoald much 2geydur
adventures of duh blew carbunkull - a /lit/ty classic. big birds, bridled gemstones, and topaz 2 blue-heron heroin deduction duptfos. v good /lit/ty xmizz taelz, mie fav aotta duh bunch
have until duh end ov 2daie 2 git ur noms ean 4 PSUEDEPIGRAPHIA , which again iz a work attributed 2 a writer oar historical source that didnt rly exist/wuz falsified
>>932 I also enjoyed it in that order as well. Liked having short stories and a variation thereof. Ive got Titonus Andronicus (sp?) I worked with a guy whom I dislike and he says its his favourite play, so Id like to have the chance to read it and fuck up his hipster shit with some hot takes.
I am fine continuing on to the next category but if one of the other 5ish people want to wait I dont mind maybe waiting an additional week, I am trying to get through some Twin Peaks lit. and its a time as well
So I think I finally understood the theme. Would Lolita or The Secret History of Twin Peaks fit then? The first, is an account by Humbert Humbert (if I remember) and a police epitaph and the Secret History is written by Tammy Preston, reading notes of "The Archivist" but was totally written by Mark Frost. Anyways too late now, I just wanted to post the audiobooks for lazy listeners: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yxr3gq2ceyo https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ThNFCUeno0g
eef sekrit historee ov twin peaks wuz published az tammy preston irl but obvs beyin writtan bie mark frost wud def qualifie - lolita dsnt since eet wuz published undar nabakov's name but eye'd b daon 2 allow eet since its /lit/tyrature newaies %^x
eye can grab cawpees ov both az l8 nominees 2 supplement the audiobook variants n will dew soe shortlee 4 the /lit/pendium
gunna put 4wurd THOMAS PYNCHON'S V. az mie nom - apologies 4 gnawt updatean the litpendium atm, eye'll c 2 dat shortlee
>>996 dis link dsnt resolve anon unless eye'm a massive fuccin dummy but mite b able 2 find a dubliners cawpee newaie - but eef u haev an alternative link plz bie awl means poast eet %^.
>>998 I really enjoyed V, one of the only books to make me laugh out loud while reading. Theres also a great rape scene thats actually a nose job? Or perhaps dental work I forget… anyways I hope it wins, but Ill spice it up with Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut
Stuka Pilot >Hans Ulrich Rudel was a Stuka dive-bomber pilot during World War 2. The most highly decorated German serviceman of the war, Rudel was one of only 27 military men to be awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds
I have the pdf not sure where to upload it, but I'll try mega at some point
mega def. werks, u can awlsoe email eet 2 mie @ the feuilleton email dependant awn size n eye'll just throe eet auwp awn the /lit/pendium stat
aight everythin ean the /lit/pendium shud b up 2 date, eye wuznt abul 2 pull frum the given lanks 4 titus adronicus and dublinahz but secured sum repleycemints soe forgive mie 4 ne inconsistencies/foie pas ean their formattean (the titus adronicus iz a dif translation + dublinahz a bit bootlegged butt moar werkable az a pdf den uddur variants)
I thought I wouldnt like Confessions, but it was actually pretty great. It just kept getting better and better especially once we got to the main characters. Anyways, 5/5 perhaps the best pick yet. Im going to nominate Carrie by Stephen King https://archive.org/stream/StephenKingCarriev5.0pdf?ref=ol#page/n1/mode/1up and also double up the V vote.
V by Thomas Pynchon won out this week possibly to having 2 votes, but here we are and if you choose to read this one you are in for a real treat.
As far as first books go Im going to call this a postmodern masterwork although alledgedly his other books are better.
Next week is Authors Swan Song aka last book an author published before death (or posthumously) or before retiring. Draw will be Valentines day or the week after, this is a dense one.
ya eye'm def daon 2 give V an extra week tbh just bc eets v. meaty + wud b supar fun 2 taulc abaot w/ the roight time overhead - pynchon iz rly one of those niggas who can thread duh needull ov a yarn yeetably untarnished n maruunatean ean duh joosiz iz wurth errie sizzle he firewerks auwf imo
eye've nevur evun crackid opin duh payges oar read a dayum thang bie dis nigga but eets anuddur hulkean juggernaut n a duptective gnawvull ostensibly soe will prollie maek 4 a drivean reed %^>
tanks again 4 err1 contributean/reedin, as usual awl noms @ sum pt will b poasted awn2 the /lit/pendium ean the thread OP ean pdf format
Im extending it another week (at least). How's is going for everyone? I dont remember there being so much war parts. My fav. Is the alligator hunting mouse church area, anything with Mafia or Pig Bodine and Esther.
>>1145 Got through about two hours of the audiobook. I'm intrigued, but I don't know if I have the stamina right now. Will probably revisit at a later date.
The Decay of the Angel won yr his week, I didnt realize when I was nominating it that it is was a tetralogy, and is the 4th. So I mean I can redo the nom's alternatively we can read all 4 or option C just this one. Ill give 48 hours notice for a consensus. https://archive.org/details/decayofangel00yuki
NEXT THEME IS CRIMINAL INTENT The author must be a certified criminal. Ill start with My Twisted World by Elliot Rodger.
I finished The Sea of Fertility series this morning and have atoned for my sin of such a shit week. Overall the series is really good but not masterwork level, the concepts are vast but maybe a little too shallow and the characters are more ideals than flesh and bone. I felt the same way as when I read Crime and Punishment, that the hype was overblown but its definitely something I could reread. Spring Snow 4/5 Lays the framework for everything and gives you that glimpse into Nipponland and how it once was. Characters are worst in this one but there is a lot of amazing musings Runaway Horses 5/5 Going on my top 3 nationalistic literatures, everything is so bleak and resonated with me to a degree where he has thought everything and more than I ever could. Temple of Dawn 4/5 Cool concept but too much spiritual ennui, his overall message gets muddied to justify his reincarnation plot but I appreciate Hondas lust. Ends very poorly Decay of an Angel 5/5 Whos the angel? Whos decaying? We live in a society Youll have to read to find out. Ending subverted my expectation and was perfect.
Anyways, this week we are taking a trip to Georgia to learn the perspective of some fugitive. I was really hoping for My Twisted World but alas.
This book is pissing me off to no end. I did not read the introduction except the brothers statement so I dont know if they talk about it. This guy is probably the biggest liar I have ever read, I have never heard so many convenient little occurrences without witness or with an unreliable witness. He also has such a drive to pass himself off as normal and good it reeks of criminality. The Georgia chain gang may have been glad but I am happy he had to suffer through it.
I finished the book and Im glad the foreword politely called him out on his bullshit. It also said The brother wrote it and the other guy dictated it, and the brother was a piece of shit hippy who never got famous
This week is a bust I cant think of any except The Cummoner which is a webcomic and I think the author is from north Europe and Alfie which might be German
I read Elliot Rodgers manifesto too, Ive provided some screencaps. I think he was partially autistic, he couldnt stay in school, he was obsessed with lottery tickets and get rich quick, he wasnt self aware and he retreads the same 5 topics for the whole book with minimal metaphor or pretty language. That being said I feel for the guy definitely, but Im sure its all been stated before. I have to upload this separately.
am terribly sry baot still gnawt puttean nethin 4wurd 4 the kawmiks categorie, but eye come bearin tidings 4 a bettur idean den wat march marched awn 2 left us wit %^i
r mie noms 4 dis week's shazbawt - eye'll b incorporatean erriethin else ean2 the /lit/pendium shortlee par the usual
hoap u lads enjoied the festivities this past weekend - eye'm p. shoar eye shaoted aot the book klub thrad but the absinthe haze puts the memories ean2 an azimuth-spiral a smidge D^%
I forgot that it was Sunday, I didnt read Corto Maltese but I skimmed the pages up to the third chapter, the girl was good looking but I didnt like the plotline overall it was too much effort to get invested and I wanted to read Re Zero the webnovel instead. Anyways, heres Postmodern, one of the subjects Ive been looking forward to since inception. Anyways, Ive never heard of Tommy Pinecone Fuck its Pynchon but I have high hopes in my fellow bookreaders.
Read the first fifth of the Corto Maltese TPB. I liked it, mostly for the interactions between the characters, but I got tired past a point. May return to it in future.
>>1448 This is definitely a 3 week minimum'er I dont know if anyone is reading it but its not as polished as V was, I like the Chums of Chance and the concept of light but its jumping so much without context I have to keep rereading and Ive fallen asleep multiple times.
apologize 4 duh sabbatical recentlee, had 2 deal w/ sum IRL concurns but eye'll put 4wurd mie recommendeyshun as BARACK HUSSEIN O-BAH-MUUUH'S DREYUMZ FRUM MAH FAD-DURZ N SHEE-YUTT - http://library.lol/main/1D78D0A3FF01DCC78163DB6ABF098EC0
a lil poison pill ean duh roulette will dew >us nicelee @ pts methinks >%^)
awlsoe eye'm gud w/ keepin auwp w/ the current theme's pick 4 anuddur week cuz eet iz quite a fookin doozy
i'll put the current autobiography noms up awn the /lit/pendium shortlee
I postponed it a week, I'll finish it up by then, not liking it as much as V. I do admire his confidence to write it though. Favorite part is the dog blowjob, very funny stuff.
>>1480 Does anyone want me to delay it one more week? I have 80 pages to go, so I cant provide insight whether it was worth completing or not quite yet.
ya eye wouldn't mind keepean eet auwp 4 anuddur week, awlsoe bc categories r kinda gittin scarce n durr shud prollie b a pow-wow frum where das kloobas goes from hurr wrt 2 the next crop ov category entries imo %^x
I finished it up and I cant summarize it like this review can. Caution Spoilers: Like all great things, Against The Day refuses summary. By its length and complexity, the sheer amount of Time it takes to get through, the concentration it requires to keep track of its multitude of characters, its encyclopedia of settings and events, its fascination with emerging ideas, scientific advances, political movements, technologies, its exploration of a wide variety of metaphysics and religious ideas, its globe-spanning survey of world events at the turn of the last century, by its very form and nature and what it demands of its serious readers it consumes one as one consumes it- a dedicated reader must live with it and make it live with them. I found myself unable to read anything else while reading it. It tendrils itself into one's being, and at multiple levels, for its vast intellectual wells, its deep humanity, its overt tenderness, its tendency to search out the ineffable anima of its characters, to locate the emotional node in a natural setting, often only by a fleeting observational note, how it errs on the side of the complex and the mind-bending and often absurd, how it is dedicated to not explaining its mysteries, while at the same time not shying away from lengthy digressions on mathematical abstractions and physical properties of minerals and light and space, might seem in contrast to the fanciful "boy's adventure comic" framing device of the novel, its frequent low-brow wordplay and ridiculous jokes, and the many turn-of-the-century story cliches it employs, expands upon, subsumes into its cosmos- pistol-packin' Westerns, hard-boiled detective novels, science fiction, prairie family dramas, etc.- but this is far from the case. The "types" employed that fill out this huge cast of characters and events are only more framing devices, tropes, daubs on the palette of a set of collective narrative tactics, a kind of collection of familiar apparitions used to set in motion Pynchon's universe-sized epic.
This is one of those Big Books where it is arguable that the true "characters" of the novel are the mechanics of the universe. Light and Darkness, Time, the Stars, Gravity, Earth, Mathematics, Death, Rebirth, New Life. But this would be disregarding that the novel is really, simply, a drama of two families at the end of the 19th and early decades of the 20th century, living through its changes and disasters, its sociopolitical upheavals. And how perfect their names- Traverse and Rideout. Rideout and Traverse. One might also easily be persuaded that this is a pure fantasy novel, for it cares not for adhering to the rules of this universe, and the Chums of Chance, the aeronautic motivus of action in the book, transcend all rules of space, time, and physics. Ghosts and wanderers from the future dwell in its pages- psychics, seances, the Tarot, other-dimensional interventions are ubiquitous, impossible objects and geometry-defying buildings and landscapes abound. Within the world of ATD the fantastic lives directly astride the Real, parted only by a thin veil that is constantly leapt across. As well, one could be tempted to call ATD an historical novel (because it is pure historical fictioneering) for one of Pynchon's great preoccupations here is the "singling up of all lines" of history into its inevitability- how the past, when it was present tense, shed all other possibilities to become the future it became. But he extends this and asks: What of the infinite possible pasts, and if their infinite futures were realized? What have become of and where are located the possible futures we have shed by narrowing down potentiality through choice and chance?- These other worlds, dimensions, or speculative universes are the true setting of Against The Day, and all the talk of Vectorists, Quaternions, Riemann surfaces, tesseracts, properties of the Aether, of Light, of Iceland spar and its double-refractive properties, are ways of asking a huge question, one we are caught in the very middle of in this experiment of becoming ever more conscious beings: Once, men sat and looked out on a flat plain and called that plain the world, and the world was thought flat and the center of the universe- then we built ships and set out, and found the world was round, and then we went further and found that the earth was not the center of the universe at all, but a speck in a cosmos unimaginably huge and complex- and so we built ships to attempt a crossing of that other ocean, the one not of water but of Space, and as we progress onward making discoveries and refining mathematics, it might follow that that first uncentering of the earth, the first rounding of the earth, might be the first of a long process of uncentering, of "rounding" the universe into its proper form and setting- maybe a thread, a membrane, or a spheroid amongst countless, uncountable other universes, maybe expanding forever into what we can't conceive, and what might this mean, and who is out there living beside us, invisibly, each and every fractured moment of our lives? And are there other Selves out there, doubled, trebled, even uncountable versions of us living out lives across this multi-dimensional sprawl? What are their destinies? And, considering the unbearable tragedies of History personal and universal, what might have been?
Light and darkness, their ambiguities, how their antagonism creates our reality. Life and death, and the borderlands between, thin as a tissue, wavering in a gust of wind. Dreams and waking life, and what's the difference and how would we know when we are within one and within the other? Identity, what we are at any given moment, the way we know ourselves to be ourselves. Mathematics, science, and religion, the development of how humans attempt to explain their strange presence here in this baffling realm, which seems made not to be bound in words and symbols, but always becomes so, more and more, each day, with each new sunrise, both more understandable and simultaneously more mysterious, unexplainable. The heart and the head. All lines of history, specifically at the turn of the last century, singling up into the slaughterhouse of WWI and its death-twin two decades later, hand in hand, devouring generations and echoing like the tolls of dead bells even now, remaining in toxic presences flitting in and out of our collective consciousness, what those events tell about our nature. The horror behind us, and what's ahead? What might we make of the Time remaining? Love and absence. Family. Madness and revenge. Chance and determination. Free will or despotism. Anarchy and capitalism. These ideas, questions, problems, swirling around us in the aether, facets of mind and world- our Being is composed of how we confront these. Against The Day has somehow managed to map and tell a comedic epic of Being underneath these storm-skies, these cloud-form-phenomena that hang above us all, ready to let light in or rain down lightning and thunderous darkness. How does one possibly novelize questions like these, bring them into our terms and under the control of our language? However it is done, Pynchon has achieved that here.
And it builds and builds throughout its 1100 pages to the finale, and it is fun and funny the entire time, and it is packed full of adventure and danger and heros and villains, narrow escapes and love affairs, and it is deep and wide and tender and sad and strange and struck through with longing and loss and incomprehensibility, like existence. And like us it anticipates something parting the darkened sky, a vehicle of magic bearing "good unsought and uncompensated", from some dimension better than ours, to deliver us, to carry us away in light- We of the Futurity of Narrowing Possibilities, we await our Chums of Chance. They fly toward grace
I guess we are going to read/listen to a roastie talk about her exploits. I dont know what this book entails but when I was looking for source material I thought it would be a good pick because Im assuming shes going to cover a lot of ground.
I am going to keep the book club going so we will need more themes. I am fine retreading themes that might not have got your nomination or were popular enough. Ill leave it open until the final week where ill amalgamate. Anything you think I'll most likely add.If there is anything you would like to change about my process I am open to that as well. That being said NEXT TIME IS BALZACS BALLSACK The guy wrote over 1k stories (I think) and in the competition for premier French writer he should be in the running. Anyways the tentative date is the 23rd of May.
>>1528 I got a couple of themes that you might like: >way down in dixie Books written by a southern and sets in the south >wild wild west Books set in the wild west but includes the Mexican revolution and neo-westerns > Picaresque Novels that are picaresque. Which is about a hero usually of low social class, who lives by his wits in a corrupt society. > grimoire Basically Books with spells, talismans , amulets and other such things >the pipes, the pipes are calling Books by an irish and set in ireland >sea faring Books set in the sea
the /lit/pendiums been upd8'd w/ moast ov the subs (eye can't phind ne ov duh kawmikz 1s soe eef sum1 cud aggregate those/point mie ean duh riet direkshun durr dat'd b splendid tbh %^x) n eye'll throw a coupla rec-recs ur waie OPmigato:
- Ergodic literature (requires "work" done outside of reading it to read it - House of Leaves flip-pages, hypertext werks lyk The Maze, etc.) - Non-fiction historicals/primary sources - /lit/ty blogs (things lyk Unqualified Reservations, The Last Psychiatrist, etc. oar nethin similahr) - Cinema scripts of X period (mayb dual-selection dis 1 given script lengths) - THE DUP BTFO - ne sorta literary/non-fictional werk seething/related 2 Dup oar his BTFO @ ne point ean time
just wanna lob a yuuge ty aot 2 duh OP 4 ur efforts n scrivene-striveenin ean maintainean dis thread - its v. phun 2 have an index ov wat /lit/ reads az a board n attendin 2 the /lit/pendium awlsoe gives ppl a resource dey can goe 2 eef dey evur wanna git awn track w/ the mien ov duh times/c whurr its derived frum aotta the maelstrom ov user enthusiasm/recs ov their own impeccable reckonean %^D
>books that didn't make the randomizer (any previously nominated) >free week (whatever you want) >Eastern Philosophy >Russian >Erotic >Shakespeare >Play >Poetry >Criminal Intent >Postmodern >WAR >Playboy Issue or magazine >One Shot Manga (or short one)
I don't have much. Maybe just pulp (anything originally published in a magazine or disposable format), and maybe audiobook as it's own catagory, since recording a good audiobook is a whole artform in itself. New Age or religious literature could be an interesting one. To be honest, I just want an excuse to read Dianetics.
It was a nice viewpoint into the pre globalized roastie mindset. She claims all these rockstars loved her but while searching for her Jimmy Hendricks sextape (which wasn't her anyways, she just said it was real on no basis and many believe its not) I read on some old message boards shes a big phoney and just a loose woman (back when you didnt have fear of reprisal) anyways, Ill give it a 2 out of 5 because I think shes a liar and she ruined an entire generation of women.
Way down in dixie Wild wild west Picaresque Grimoire The pipes, the pipes are calling Sea faring Ergodic literature Non-fiction historicals/primary sources /lit/ty blogs Cinema scripts of X period (mayb dual-selection dis 1 given script lengths) THE DUP BTFO Books that didn't make the randomizer (any previously nominated) Free week Eastern Philosophy Russian Erotic Shakespeare Play Poetry Criminal Intent Postmodern WAR Playboy Issue or magazine One Shot Manga (or short one) Pulp Fiction Audiobook Extravaganza New Age/Religious Philosophy Revenge Book you have recommended to someone else
Few more days to get your noms in, I did it chronologically but I can also randomize the weeks too if you like.
eyell throw ean Finnegans Wake 4 thangs eyeve put auwf reedin eef noms r still open - duh bezt pleyce 2 givvit a shawts def here: http://www.finwake.com/ch01/ch01.htm since dis joint has p halphul annotations etc
>>1590 Of course >>1592 Theres a guy who does the audiobook on youtube and its pretty crazy. I would have thought you read it by now based on your prose, it's really something else and always what I say the number 1 book of all time is
I feel like Im the only one that is reading this one, and Im almost done, but I could use another week. If anyone says yes to another week Ill take it. But if not Sunday it is.
eye'm daon 2 keep eet goean 4 anuddur week eef u knead dat %^x
irl batterys clonked ne attempt 2 keep auwp w/ thangs but eye've crested dat hurdeleemosynary swill-swell soe eye'm swoled n malandrageminently readie 2 giev a full synopsis ov diz last entrie %^> n eye'll trie n participate moar overawl 2 ean2 the fewchur w/ the nxt set ov entries
I typed out the first season of bookclub, if you could attach it to the MEGA for reference sake. I feel like a different person since the 9 months we have been doing this, I didn't finish Exigesis or Corto Maltese but I have enjoyed all of the books so far. My top picks were Sins Justified, A Rebours, The Sea of Fertility and Father Christmas. It doesn't seem like a lot read but it feels like it.
You can still add more themes and I can put them through a randomizer too, so that everyone has a chance of seeing their week sooner, but I won't unless explicitly told to but this is how it's looking to shape up, I'll draw the put off book on Sunday
ya eye gawta catch auwp awn addean awl the balzac pdfs + erriethang else refurranced 4 duh next category soe eye'll def throw dat ean2 the mega sewn enuff %^x
n this has been a v. gud exercise/robust literary exploration awl araond methinks - pluz duh added boenus ov havean a repository ov letturs w/ which tew preserve 4 future edjewcationallie BTFO'd generations bein a sawlid supplement ean mie book >%^>
i wud hard vote for scrambling the noms ean w/e waie seems moast fair - mayb takean 1 @ random frum each rec poast for the first few weeks, then trew RNGin' the remainean bundle ov'em
I'm going to take the first theme nomination of each post in chronological order, and randomize the rest, so in 2 weeks Way Down in Dixie >Books written by a southern and sets in the south My nomination for now: As I Lay Dying https://archive.org/details/AsILayDyingFullTextWILLIAMFAULKNER
>>1643 Just do audiobook format, reading takes time and until you treat it as a past time and not a goal you wont enjoy it (probably). I take the file and download it on my phone, then I use Epubator to convert it to a pdf, then I use AIreader and text to speech it, then when Im driving or walking I listen to the soothing voice of my robot gf as she narrates the stories to me (at x175 speed).
If I actually sit down to read I prefer a physical book, no distractions and no deadlines, you should also consider its an average of like 10 hours investment so thats where treating it not as a goal comes in.
I took the first nomination of each poster and added them chronologically to the chart, the remaining nominations I put through a randomizer and these are the results. You can still add but unfortunately you will be placed at the bottom. Anyways, I hope thats to everyones satisfaction.
aight puttean ean mie two cents awn mewviebobs bloboreel bona-fide jeremiad baot super markio gaymes:
its p. fuckin shit, basically a prima strategy guide flatlined bie duh voice ov a bing bong wahoo golem who's waie 2 investid ean recapturean n bein obsequious 2 the idea ov his minimal 16-bit childhood life distraction. mayb az a document awn moviebob's ineptitude az a writar/cultural critic/etc eets a decent read but uddurwise brought the propur form ov bile 1 wud expect vituperative /v/igger vexeans 2 exude aotta mie n eye won't b perusean eet again aftur dis >%^(
as 4 mie nom 4 waie daon in dixie, i'm gunna re-submit Kate Chopin's The Awakening cuz eye'm phielean a bit lazy atm n bix nood creole befits a raond auwf ov the buck broken juneteenth we awl didnt noe we kneadid, but awlwaies knew we bucked >%^)
>>1686 Didn't read it, but I actually kind of respect MovieBob in a strange way. The man's fucking nuts, but he sticks to his guns, I don't know. He's not the kind of man to bend to the times. He's going to be calling for his Randian Nintendo utopia where his highschool bullies are publically executed in the town square, until he dies. There's something admirable in that. I just don't ever want to meet him in a dark alley.
>>1686 I love that he inherently knew his story was boring as shit and added the part of his grandma dying to spice it all up, very psycho move imo. >>1689 I also liked him decently for the same reasons but then at some point he talks about The Passion of the Christ coming out and some military man who was employing him fired him for not giving it a good review, which is out of place for a Mario Bros book. I havent seen any of the eugenics stuff but whenever I looked the guy up that was always talked about. Overall though, it was a very peaceful read and I was sad it was over so soon.
In regards to this weeks, its Steamboat Round the Bend, which as usual I have no clue whats its about but it sounds like a Tom Sawyer Spiritual Succession.
well since diz wuz a category eye suggestid eets onlee rite dat eye lead auwf w/ sum noms -
House of Leaves - this shud already b under the POSTMODERNISM section ov duh /lit/pendium but its p. much duh framewerk auwpon which moast common references 2 ergodic literature start aot frum ean league ov duh academe soe mite az well b a joint startid frum hurr 2 (eye'm gunna b poastin a massive catch-up upload 2 the /lit/pendium btw these past coupla months haev just been D^% ean regourds 2 prsnl/IRL thangs inhibitean mie ability 2 keep auwp the pace)
a lil bit different, but ov the sayme principle, n far moar interactive ean hao its requestin 4 eets reedohrs 2 werk aotta dis. a fren recommended eet 2 mie n eet wuz the inspiration 2 suggest duh categoree tbh %^x eye won't ruin wat eet iz but the site dsnt have ne jumpscares oar nethin lyk dat just html pgs 2 cliq araond, but it does 100% fit duh prophiel %^>
again /lit/pendium'll b upd8d sewn n awl dat jazz, tanks 4 patience awn errie1s end w/ dat %^x
Round the Bend was pretty good, reminded me of a swamp-like, nicer Of Mice and Men for some reason. It doesnt seem very well known so impressive that you nominated it.
For me its If On a Winters Night a Traveller which is probably Ergodic based on a list I had, so apologies if it isnt
House Leaves is the winner this time. I wanted the Maze one, I even had a weird dream where I was experiencing it, like that Windows Screensaver but book style. I havent done any research into House of Leaves but I hope it translates well to an ebook format.
I took a break this week from reading so someday Ill read House of Leaves, in the meantime I have 2 nominations, one would be a reread of Lolita for me, https://ca1lib.org/book/1244192/8f64ec and secondly Babyfucker.
The Catcher in the Rye was banned from several schools at different points in time, one as late as 2001 with the reason being "because it's a filthy, filthy book".
shayme u skippid aot awn house ov reabes, butt eets an understandable book 2 pass awn givin hao free-roamean/-wieldee eet eez - it's gawt 1 ov the best triplicate frame narratives dunn eannuh book doe n low key BTFOs roastoid insanity/abortion luvvean @ its moast esoteric lvl soe eef u evur git duh tiem eye'd def revisit eet 4 a sawlid folloe-threw
eye'm gunna put 4ward Paul Muldoon's One Thousand Things Worth Knowing bc the onlee cawpee ov Moy Sand and Gravel i can find online converts lyk shite n looks awl fugged :DDD auwp (n eets awlsoe a sawlid introduction 2 muldewn's poetry imo): https://mega.nz/file/2t4GVKrb#Gg3m1tFJTkvWe4RuG5p--cBSPTe0N_GBetzX7tU8VUs
when i was looking up for the pdf file of red harvest, i found out that H. L. Mencken created the black mask magazine. which is bizarre, because i always thought he hated these kinds of things.
eet wuz v. comfveve 2 romp threw the hobbit again, tolkien's 100% goatelier'd tbh ean duh care n state ov manufacture he puts ean2 ne 1 ov hiz scribbulls n ean duh brawdur lotr kawntixx'd eets p. essential 2 c wat a lead-auwp 2 a time ov absolute strife wud resemble vis-a-vis the exploration ov duh hawbit/dwarf/elven/hummie dynamic b4 duh unifyean instance ov sauron's dupturn emerges
eye'll haev stuph auwp 4 the /lit/pendium @ sum fewchour pt - IRL tahngs sorta walloppean mie tiem again harr'dkkkorewa D^%
I didnt nominate this week because frankly, I have never read anything Pulp Fiction except a book by Samuel Delaney "Dhalgren" and it was ok but not worth rereading. Anyways glad you were both able to put something down and I look forward to what I am anticipating is some sort of murder man or communist plot.
The Hobbit was great and goes to show that simple things have a lasting presence. My only complaint is LotR adjusting the pre-established lore, and maybe the eagles only because I didnt see it coming. It almost made me want to watch the trilogy but I dont think so.
NEXT THEME IS Alternative History which is pretty vague, so show me a paradise where the Nazis won, JFK lived or maybe something even more generic than that.
Im scared to nominate The Plot Against America because what Ive read thus far of Roth he has been able to be Jewish in viewpoint but bearable. This one however, seems like it's going to be over the nose semitic, but maybe Ill give him the benefit of the doubt.
The Red Harvest was pretty kino. I wouldnt have been able to tell it was written in the 1920s. While the characters are slightly one dimensional I didnt see the plot coming and liked that the inital murder only took up like a quarter of the book and the femme fatale gets her comeuppance, and he may have done it I guess its got a sequel and possibly more so Im inclined to check those out at some point. Its also pretty indicative that Dashielle would be a /tvch/ poster, pic related
I almost forgot this week. Hey!1776 is the winner, looks like an audiobook havent clicked it yet if its short Ill do a second. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k8QcoLL0nE NEXT THEME IS A PLAY
For the Play theme Im going to nominate True West by Sam Shephard. In university I took acting classes and we had to do a scene from a play that the professor thought would fit our character, I was the younger brother and a friend was chosen to be the older brother. It was some scene in the early part where they are hatching a get rich quick or something, anyways I want to see what the professor thought of me. We got a 65% because my friend forgot his lines and I dropped out of university at the end of the semester.
Lest Darkness Fall was just like my shonen isekai adventures. The MC is a genius, he has a sidekick that calls him boss every sentence, the characters are just one dimensional tropes, he becomes king and defeats the evil villain, and he marries his childhood friend.
That being said it was fun and funny and the plot kept ticking throughout. My favourite parts are when he sleeps with his maid and the passage where he explicitly instructs to kill baby Mohammed The book is pretty edgy atheist at times but again Id reccomend reading it
My initial delve into mystery books left me feeling kind of bleh but I found a good list to steal from. I didnt realize Japs love mystery so much. Ill provide a source for the book if it gets picked. Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Soji the Miso Soup by Ryū Murakami All She Was Worth by someone Goth by Otsuichi
Tis Pity was an interesting take, I cant tell if Mr. Ford is a supporter or at least tolerant of incest but regardless its nice to see thots get unabashedly btfo, especially that FUCKING BITCH Hippolyta.
Flicker: A Novel https://1lib.us/book/4626394/87738e >Flicker is a novel by Theodore Roszak published in 1991. The novel covers approximately 15-20 years of the life of film scholar Jonathan Gates, whose academic investigations draw him into the shadowy world of esoteric conspiracy that underlies the work of fictional B-movie director Max Castle.
Next TIME it's Non-Fiction Historicals, Primary Source
By primary source did you mean first hand accounts by someone taking about their experience? If so Alive Story of the Andes https://ca1lib.org/book/4549452/6651a1
Halfway through now, and its pretty /tv/ and I like that its kind of a unique mystery style, surprised it has less ratings than it does at the moment. The only thing I didnt like is that Castle directed an interracial full penetration scene but maybe there was religious connotations and its calling God black to piss off the twins.
Ill do the next theme on Sunday, I finished Flicker and enjoyed it. I didnt care for the authors fetishism with Gilfs or chubby nerdgirls and it did fall into some trappings of a mystery novel (he connects with a lot of women), each piece of the puzzle comes a step at a time and its just too lengthy. I didnt see the ending coming and thought it was a neat take. The Kathars are a really great standin for the Jew, and he mentions WW2 and the Holocaust and concentration camps every so often and I think it was deliberate to either keep the Jews in the readers mind or perhaps as a penance for calling them out. His film descriptions were cool and I may have searched for Max Castle twice since it seemed like a real production.
I checked it out a little bit and its fairly short so, feel free to select another, take a break or whatever. I personally will pair it like a glass of fine wine with Nuremberg Executioner.
Kinda reminded me of religious posters on imageboards. Gonna nominate The Old Man and the Sea and that Hermann Melville short story about the 2 ships I'll provide sources later
I'm almost done the executioner nuremberg diary, lotta schizos, lotta eye opening maybe the 1500s were kino. This week it's a classic with a spooky Halloween twist: The Ghost Pirates by William Hope Hodgson https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10966/pg10966.html
NEXT TIME ITS CINEMA RX'S X2 (not sure how long they are)
I'm almost done the executioner nuremberg diary, lotta schizos, lotta eye opening maybe the 1500s were kino. This week it's a classic with a spooky Halloween twist: The Ghost Pirates by William Hope Hodgson https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10966/pg10966.html
NEXT TIME ITS CINEMA RX'S X2 (not sure how long they are)
tanks 4 linkean 2 duh screenplaie scite 4 refurrence, will maek a valuable resource 4 duh bohrd OP/kindlee anon eef wie evur wanna run a week lyk dis again %^D
That ghost story was awesome. I've never been on a ship like that but it's inspired me not to. Some characters did act irrationally and I don't understand the lingo or maybe i missed it but where is the captain? Is the second captain?
I nominated this one because I watched Satantango and Werkmeister Hatmonies and I told a coworker to read this one because it's the Hungarian author and relatively new. https://ca1lib.org/book/2640054/d888f8
subs/duh board ewesually slow daon this time ov year which iz nbd tbh but wanna express mie thanks 2 duh OP 4 keepin dis chuggean alawng - awldoe eye hvnt been commentatin az much eye've read sum p. interestean thangs bcuz ov eet (particularly the 2 scripts poastid ean the category b4 dis biweekly's subs) n eef gnawt 4 dat autonomous outside encouragemint eye'd b awl the less savvy %^>
hoap errie1 haz a moast-importante n marivaudagely merry christmas w/e u niggas r @
Now its time for one I have been waiting for and none too soon since THE NIGHTMARE has been completely forgotten from every talking circle. THE DUP BTFO EDITION I guess as long as it pertains to Dup and there is a modicum of btfo in any regard Ill allow it
>meet an Irish husband and wife and their 2 kids >say hi and ask the wife if she knows Carey Joyce to break the ice >She nods suspiciously >let her know its a funny question but essentially I am in a book club and the theme was Irish authors and the setting takes place in Ireland and I dont know if you are familiar and its ok if you say no but I nominated a book The Horses Mouth and I think it takes place in England but Im not sure… you wouldnt happen to know? >her husband is now standing beside her eyeing up my sweaty face >she says no thank you and they all walk away
So I skpped the Bob Woodward book because something about going by the name Bob just makes me think you are autistic. So to avoid another Brick by Brick scenario I went with the sensationalist title Yes we really did win the election or whatever.
It's nice to relive those moments of oh I remember that post. I think the author really paints everyone as retarded and incompetent without going into detail about why they acted that way. Jared it's way to behind the scenes as I knew but especially so. They don't touch on the good elements really, and their whole proof that Biden won seems to rest on advance polling which could have been influenced. They do not criticise Biden at all, and while touching on the laptop and Hunter stuff they absolve him of all guilt.
Lookslike its also by Tobias Smollet which is probably good.
Time for some Erotic stories, so as long as it will give me a hard-on, Ill allow it
On that note Ill nominate The Life of an Amourous Man by Saikaku Ihara The Castle of Communion by Bernard Noel Edition 69 by Viteslav Neavel The Autobiography of a Flea
aight eye'm gunna put 4ward the 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade gnawt bcuz im hronz'd 4 this nasty nigga shit but bcuz eet eez gud 2 noe ur enemy - n dis book rly gives an eansight ean2 hao buku deranged moast elite niggas were from the beginnin ov time (oar @ least sewn aftur the dutch east india company lawst cohesion D^% )
The Valerie and her Week of Wonders entry is in lieu of Edition 69. Its really interesting because I watched that movie this morning and I didnt realize it was a novel. I hope its erotic in the sense that it fits the weeks theme
On another note, I have been really enjoying this weeks entry. I really feel like it could have been written yesterday. I am about 70 percent through and I have got a few chuckles but have not outright laughed, except at the part where Matt complains about his swollen shins. The part with the love letter has got to be one of the most endearing things I have read and I have contemplated sending tit word for word to a girl I am currently in love with, anonomysously, except she will know it was me. So as always, thank you book club.
THE BOOK OF MASTER LIE a taoist classic wins. All the entries were pretty short so I might try them all and see whata best, and if they all say the same thing. Criminal Intent Redux is next week. This is a book written by a criminal, like the Marquis de Sade. I will accept any previous nominations so long as they are nominated again for interests sake.
Juliette is the winner Its about triple the size of our usual entries so Im going to say 3-4 weeks. I nominated it, so Im going to read it. I will read it as fast as I can though. If you choose to read it, I will delay the weeks to your liking.
>>2780 Its going to take me more than 3 weeks to finish this, I am still going to try my best but if anyone want me to carry on after 3 weeks just let me know.
Finished up, I have 2 takes on it: 1. The book deals with the fact that god does not exist, but I think that she is actually in heaven, the unlimited lives she takes, the fact she escapes everything, everyone loves her. It really depicts heaven and at the very end shes like if god exists then he'll strike down Julia for being such a bitch, and low and behold she is struck down from the vagina by lightning and they rape her one last time 2. I dont know if Marquis de Sade was familiar with Buddhism but he really showcases Juliette achieving enlightment through vice. Every stituation shes in she chooses vice outright and by the end she fades away into nothingness
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Some memorable parts: the turkey, bulldog, eunich, hermaphrodite, young boy, donkey orgy Killing all her friends The giant Getting impregnated by her father and killing him immediately after, then aborting the child killing her other daughter after she refuses vice by chopping off her fingers, tongue, ears, hands, breaking her bones, and then raping and starving her and then killing her through beating
Im gonna miss that lil nigga like you wouldnt believe
Christian girls, Linkara fanboys and baneposting will have to wait because the winner is NO LONGER HUMAN what could that mean? Perhaps cyborgs? Or vampires? Or a simple loss of humanity.
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All I know is that it isnt about rootin and tootin like the next nomination period, because cowboys are peak soul.
Typical Westerns or like suberversions of the genre? How come you picked them?
I finished No Longer Human and as the class clown in life I gotta say he gives me a bad name. The epilogue was great and his writing style was repititive at times but I still enjoyed most moments of it. Alchoholism and addiction are hell of a drugs.
>>2966 Both. Warlock is a realistic approach to westerns while also it also plays around with myths, à la liberty valance. But it's much more then what I'm telling you. Haven't read the other books but from what i heard is Butcher's crossing also dispel alot of western myths, outlaw josey wales is pulp and hard times is an allegory or something. And the Virginian is the first of the genre and it's also a considered a classic. Some even says it did what moby dick did to sailors. Don't know what that means, but it did it.
By the by i finished Humphrey clinker and read his other book roderick random. Humphrey was funny, really like the silly and, at times, macabre scenes of the book. Like the funeral part during their Scotland visit. Matthew Bramble Is probably my favorite character, love his rants on the public baths in London.
Unfortunately I can't say the same for roderick. I really wanted to like it, sense it's a book about sailors, but i thought it was alright. There some funny moments sure, but it just didn't have that same kick as humpry. It's was mostly dry and expect for a few debacles he get himself into. But his formatting was atrocious. I read the oxford edition, don't know if it's their fault or what, but reading it was chore. Most of the pages are filled with these long wall of texts and he doesn't even spaced out the dialogues, they're in those paragraphs. And you're know if it's a sentence by him ending it with "he said" or "roderick said". I guess you can't be too hard on him. He was a sort of pioneer of literature.
I think novels were kind of a novel thing back in the 18th century. since lower class people got some enough free time and even reading skills to finish a book like these.
>>3013 So its a chick flick novel. Strong woman, random buff guy instantly falls in love with her, religious heavy handed criticism. Im not going to read it, and will be drawing another option later today
Heres the new draw I hopefully wont do this again but it was my book nomination and I aint reading a Hallmark cowboy novel Warlock https://u1lib.org/book/4964188/794c4d Everything stays the same
In a shocking twist of events Pynchon did not edge out the competition. ABSALOM, ABSALOM wins. I thought it was by Gaddis who people think Pynchon might beso I was excited but I was wrong its Faulkner.
Just wanted to say Warlock was kino, I dont regret changing the nomination but I only did it because it was my nomination and I was unfamiliar with the category as usual. I will never change yours unless its an outright troll and doesnt apply to the subject.
since eye've been recommendean diz 4 lyk 2+ yrs nao eye guess eye'll give a lil overview ov sum ov duh poems aftur reedin'em again:
paul muldoons 1 ov the best present daie contemporary poets partly bcuz ov hao he manipulates/erratas his formahr/fewchur werks w/ pointed lines oar phrases he saies ean earliyur/l8r pieces. his moast famous poem cawled "errata" iz evun amended/referenced/abridged ean "noah & sons" ean diz collection. he's awlsoe 1 ov the only contemporary poets who's actuallie gud @ employean the english language ean an innovative fashion - 4 instance, ean "a dent", using "graip above a groop" to intimate "grape above a group" ean discussean boath a barnyard layout n a tumor awn a horse. gittin ean2 the whole spiel ov hao he spirals erriethang aot wud b mega faggotry but imo diz sorta continued injunction between/within/amongst awl the poems in his corpus iz the moast phun part baot reedin the guy - ur awlwaies awn the prowl 4 a new meaning 2 find n a nu waie 2 interpret wats bein placed b4 u linguistically, which maeks the practice ov dewin eet awl the bettur.
unfortunatel eye've gawt no grimoires 2 recommend 'cept petit albert but eye can't rly find a link 2 eet, eef eye dew git 1 eye'll put eet awn hurr shortlee %^x
soe w/ onlee the 1 nom eye figour we just run eet n c hao eet pans aot, since eye wuzn't able to locate a copy ov petit albert dat didn't look pajeetified ean sum sense/fashion - Liber Lilith A Gnostic Grimoire, by Donold Tyson: https://archive.org/details/LiberLilithDonoldTyson
AUDIOBOOK EXTRAVAGANZA follows dis week auwp - eye'll note aot a rec ean a sec but dat category will definitely gain moar traction than the esoteric weltanschtung-waileans ov the Proto-Indo-European aryan saileans we awl luv n noe
>>3304 Thanks for the post, I spent the whole day flying around North America and only got access to internet now. I was going to put The Book of Goetia of Solomon the King as a nomination but alas time ran out.
I just bought a 6 part series written and narrated by Electric Six frontman and one of my heroes Dick Valentine. Im listening to the first "Chinatown Reacharound" and its the classic erotic detective story. Its a sardonic humor reminescent of a tvch /lit/ user who has never browsed an imageboard before. I'll post the anthology maybe if I get around to it https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TBmUaKZ0OOZ6WsNiI6j1JR0Jj69oZB4_/view
NEXT TIME ITS SHAKESPEARE An easy week that acts almost as a break. Though if Im being honest I skipped grimoire for now. Theres a lot of good audio plays on Shakespeare if that interests anyone for noms too
>>3416 I think someone's doing it. Also, we need to get that as a bookclub rec at some point. If I can bully at least one person into reading the whole thing, I'll feel accomplished.
I feel like a gay for not having read The Tempest yet, and an even bigger faggot I once knew said Titus Andronicus was his favourite for hipster points.
sry fellas have been dewin a lawta IRL stuph az ov l8, the /lit/ writes a gnawvul pdf will b aot bie next weeks end aftur eye dew a final proofread + formattean bit 4 eet
ean duh meanwielz eye'll flesh aot the play selections bie droppean three randoz frum each kinda genre (tragedy/comedy/history) hurr:
Next week is SOME SORT OF /LIT/TY BLOG I cant remember if I nominated this one or not, but Im going to assume any online publication on par or greater than what we can put out on a good day. Whether 1 mag or the whole site I think it doesnt matter.
If it wasnt me that nominated it and my description is all fucked up you can correct it ITT
Flashman was definitely a fun tale and one of the better Antiheroes Ive read. I dont know any background still but I can say I got pulled into the setup of it being found papers until like halfway through and found out it was just a series. My only big complaint was that he always leaves the sole survivor of any situation, it got tiring and predicatble. But fun regardless.
Founding Questions (moar dissident thawt blawg den /lit/ but eet fits because ov duh waie duh guie inflects his terminology n awl dat): https://foundingquestions.wordpress.com/
aftur the /lit/ blog category's chosen OP u want the next reading selection 2 just b duh gnawvull? we can phlip eet ne waie u wish am just preoccupied w/ IRL atm soe am gnawt araond az much az eye wud wanna b 2 giev mie taeks awn aohr frankensteinian duplight 2 the thread %^x let us noe wat werks
>>3428 am lookean @ l8 october/early novemburr 4 the next issew (werkin awn a holistic theme 4 eet dat requires a decent amount ov my writtan time 2 realize) soe u've gawt a waies 2 goe awldoe daobt dat rly resolves ur present predicament ov procrastinative presdigitation D^% lo siento woads
Going to take a break from nominating for next week as, we should all take time to liturgize on the novel you may or may not have contributed to. I know I fell behind and never caught up circa desert hijinks.
>>3443 I read a few of the psycholigist ones but I got depressed he isnt doing more. The True Detective one kind of shed a light on Rusts character, I understood he was nihilist and the ending made him accept god but I havent read much philosophy so I missed the true connections. I didnt like his character initially but it helped shed a light.
The other one I really liked was the last entry and how he kind of talked about anonimity. Id like to see his opinion now because the internet has really been compartmentalized since then with people using the same 5 sites and how thats a good thing*
lettin phoalks noe that this next 2 weeks assignmint iz THE DOOR WAS (aka the total aotput ov duh inaugural /lit/ wriets a gnawvul thrad) which can b found stickied @ duh tawp ov duh board and awlsoe hurr eef ur feelin lazy af: https://mega.nz/file/T4JVTaAK#JoNDGajExr1OicnR0AOJwck21341Gwd548-fkUnSxWc
TLP's best articulls IMO r the 1s solely related 2 psychiatry/downwind technical observations takean frum dewin statistical analysis werk regourdin promotional slides baot medications/psychiatric studies, soe eef u missed aot awn reedin a phew ov doz sohrts eye'll linkum belohw:
angelicism01's Substack was also nice. I assume it was a female author and she felt somewhat relatable which being normally relegated to tvch and other forums where there is an extreme minority of women is a nice change of pace. Like meeting that cute religious girl who you wish you could make a family with but you know you are already too fucked to be eligible for her good graces
Well, I already read the thing once, so I guess I'll start posting some passages I like. This part always cracks me up for some reason >It reminded me of Greg, from America. Greg would always find some object likea chair and pretend to hump it, everyone would start clapping, then he'd yell: "I'm the king of chair-fucking." Everyone would hoot and laugh and he'd find something else to hump and yell about his royal powers to hump that thing. Or maybe it reminded me of Felix, he'd take long objects and pretend they were his dick and when people took notice he'd yell "hey, I'm banana dick" if it was a banana or "hey, I'm TV tray dick" if he had grabbed a TV tray and used it as a phallus. Or Barry who would pretend to be shitting things and, well, you get my drift about these Americans and how they pretended things were other things to great applause.
>>3493 Okay, here's something a read a little of about a year ago. Jim and Debbie Goad's "Answer Me" magazine. https://archive.org/details/GoadJimAnswerMeTheFirstThree/mode/2up It's a little bit eyerollingly edgey, in an early 90's way, but I kind of like that. As far as I can tell only the first three issues are archived here, so if anyone has the others, please share them.
ya eye am and awlsoe since eet looks lyk thurr rn't dat manee upd8s ATM 4 duh next categorhee eye'm makean duh exekewtieve dupcision 2 extind reedin the gnawvul bie a week (soe til next Sunday, the 31st) n propose an addendum 2 the magazine recommendation in SUPERPREDATOR.ZONE (which iz/wuz technichoallie a maguzeen but eez defunct atm n onlee has baot 2 issews, soe eef eets chosin u can randomize 4 ne uddahr magazine repository ean addition): https://superpredator.zone/
JAN JAN EDITOORIAL: awlsoe throwean ean THE STRAND MAGAZINE as an opsheen, 1850s-1950s /lit/ty werks soe mite b a valuable time capsule comparative 2 aohr own board-oriented affair: https://archive.org/details/thestrandmagazine?tab=collection
>>3524 I'm here, just moving and putting everything into storage. Got accepted for a job and have to move so been busy this month. I will admit I have been kind of confused on the weeks these past 2 (now probably 3) nominations because they arent typical book length and I finish them rather quick. As previously stated its graphs, and Ill kick off with this one.
P.S. some ground rules, you put a graph and can nominate any book also you can nominate any book from others graphs too. Most of my graphs are for book club themes already so I apologize
My life is pretty fucky right now, moved to another province. Im in school and its like 10+ hours a day, Im on a campus with a bunch of normalfags and Im not allowed to use the wifi for any sites that arent basic. So I apologize for lack of activity. I also failed to integrate into the cool crowd so Im kind of isolated which is good because I can hopefully spend more time online.
noe harm noe faowoll amigato - taek ur time settlean daon ean2 ur nu routine woadie n trie n git eanvolved w/ + suss aot whew's not a lewnatic @ the skool ur @ atm - they mite b few n far between but those sorta phoalks r thurr n will halp maintain ur sanitee against the tide ov prog glish-galoshin baond 2 git shoved daon ur throat %^x @ least dats mie opinion baot hao 2 surviev dat sorta hellhole relatively sane n eantakt
w/ dat bein said eye'm gunna nominate a coupla frum the images hurr (>>3525) dat dun already haev a selection 2 raond'm aot:
>>3568 THE BEGGARS OPERA wins here is the source https://www.gutenberg.org/files/25063/25063-h/25063-h.htm I want to take a moment to say thank you to all participants currently and in the past. Lotta nominations this week and I would have liked to read all of them. With the stabbing of Rushdie I dunno if we want to read Satanic Verses also if this one is short (if it's an actual opera) NEXT TIME ITS WAR HAVE A GREAT DAY and note* its getting close to the end of season 2 of bookclub so if you have any nomination ideas get them ready, I will be collecting them in the coming weeks
eye'm gunna archive diz thread aftur the next raond ov nomz/w.e recede ean2 season tres but u + awl duh poastahrz whew anon'd boat positivistlee nominatean a thang @ errie point ov diz ting ov aohrs [tony sirico voice] r the guiez whew maek /lit/ty culture a real-ass jawn - soe eye'm daon dat this continues, irrespective ov flangean manglean ov relegative infringe-floo'z foo-fooz; the consistency ov establishment ov /lit/ty culture curates eetcelph big time vro %^DDDD god is three and god is one and the woadies werk auwpawn confabululatean eet az an against-a-gun nugget tugged value-spayce fun-phhun hawl howitzurr'd; soe 4 mie board, eye cud gnawt cower-crimper (bix nood ltg voice)
errie /lit/ty nigga is the best - u guiez give attestment 2 assessment, requisiton 2 inquisitivity against impressions and comprisions of /lit/erary litigations . the soul ov the board iz accordance 2 concords u niggers ordain - maimed az much az ne mainphramed reference stainz, n hao dat iz hao-wit-zers a wowwerz hao dat iz %^x soe u noe.
der nxt entrie aftur the affirmative OP's >>3601 we shud prollie read THE SANATIC VERSES just bcz ov rushdie's disbursemint ean2 yurt-yurt yeet-yeet provocative bleat-bleat blurt-blurt sanctative staytmint towards god as erriethang u can giev-aru - correspondeanlee doe, ty 2 the /lit/ty book klub OP 4 bein a pub-stompah n wualifyean erriethang aot awl ov aohr best n berestest ean errie prospectus <3
aight the DIE IS KAST alabastduplee'd - the next week's entrie will b THE SATANIC VERSES by SALMAN RUSHDIE 2 commemorate his kourage @ cawlean mohammadians the phreik fag-ghets they ritephoallie kan't git ovahr gittin BTFO'd @ implicitlee acknowlidgean n the next 2 weeks entries will still b WAR rel8tid (soe >>3601 's nom still stayunds)
>>3656 I'm in school as previously mentioned, so my reading time is cut drastically. Ill be taking 3 weeks to read this. Sorry for the incovenience, if I am on track for 2 weeks Ill let you know.
50% through, I think Ill finish it next week. I like the book so far, definitely not what I thought it would be about. Reminds me a little of the flounder by Gunter Grass but not as masterful. There are some good moments and I had one in particular but I forgot it, something about men in heaven giving a spoon to the person next to them but in hell the everyone keeps the spoon for themself but devils are actually in heaven because they are devils and thrive in that shit.
Besides that, it didnt make me less racist but I wish more immigrants were chill and selfaware like these fuckers. I ponder if the 80s and 90s immigrants were like that.
Looks like Manga is our last nomination cycle, so feel free to contriboot, Ill think of some for sure. My exams are this week and Ill find out if I pass on the proceeding Monday afterwards, either way Ill have more time to read afterwards. Thanks for a good Season 2
>on Jews >published in the last 2 years from nomination date >erotic >ruined the authors career >childhood faves >your friends favourite book >inspired you to read more >eastern european >philosphy >greek >/cuckchan/ top 100 novel >wrote during the american civil war or after the fact >poems >vidya game adaptation >is the book better than the movie? >tie in with a film club selection
>>3717 Sure, but it was probably more of a 70's and 80's thing, that seems to be going out of fashion over time. You've got Vagabond, Cobra, Golgo 13, Fist of the North Star, early Berserk and Jojo. Most of this stuff I need to actually get around to reading.
eye gawt nuthin 4 the cuckime this nxt week's jawnz but eye'll chuq mie hat ean 4 the next season's nominobals: > ANIMAL PLANET (all characters r animals, i.e. watership daon) > LAMPOONED BY A SATIRICAL MAGAZINE/CINEMATIC WORK/SHOW > IN SPIRIT OF - 2 werks 2gethur, suggestid bcuz ov similarity oar difference maintained between > WHAT BLOOMS IN GASS - from Harold Bloom's canon > DOGGOREL - truly dogshit pieces ov writtan > UTOPIAN - involvean manifestation oar denegration ov > TALES OUT THOSE MINISTRATIVE - religious myths/stories frum awl ovahr the world > 3 DEGREES OF SEPARATION - don't haev 2 explain hao, but frum sum1 u noe bie the category title
when this wseason's finnito eye'll archive this thread n wait 4 the OP 2 start anew n den stiqqie duh knew thread 2 since eets a PITA 2 trawl through this one @ this pt %^x n we're reachin the retention lvls ov poastean necessary 2 maek that habitual atm
ty awl 4 the investmint n the archivean ov the fewchour ov ur own imprewvmint n the palette ov duh board 4 awl times 2 come %^>
>>3775 Ive laughed out loud in some places and its not often a book does that. Major Major Major Major is a relatable character and I thought I'd hate Yossarian but hes chill. Almost halfway through and happy for the nom.
Id like the themes of: Book written in the past 2 years from nomination date Far-Right ideology Biography Book of Learning Free Week Book from the region you consider the sexiest accent Kino-kover Page
460 posts later, lotta books later, it seems fitting that the last book is not an actual book but a cartoon ensemble for weebs. Not sure on the premise of the story but it's only 50 chapters.
I can't say much has changed since 2 years ago except I made some friends, lost some friends, changed work, got old.
My favorite books were Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Horses Mouth, Seiobo, Juliette, Against The Day, und countless others
Id like to say, there were some possible additional nominations but it wasn't overly clear if they were in the nomination process, if they were Ill redo the draw. I also don't know what manga sites are hip these days so here is one.
If you want to add all of this into the running for the variety>>3720 You can do. I wasn't explicitly nominating them though. I imagine most of the weebs here have probably read a lot of that stuff already.
I'll let the next guy decide. I'm pretty geared up to read Green Blood, personally.
PUBLISHED IN THE LAST 2 YEARS is the next theme Id like to do, it's not the first theme which is On Jews so if that's what people want we can do that instead
tbh eye haev fuq awl 2 recommend 4 newest thangs publisched ean duh pazt 2 yurrs bcuz eye cbf 2 keep auwp w/ duh joneztownziz ean dat sensearu - eef u gawt ur own personal rec OP u mite as well just poast dat 1 az duh result 4 diz weeks since eets been a deadarooni diz goe raond %^x prollie cuz duh hawlidaiez r comean auwp [oar u cud swap 2 anuddur categorie diz week n push diz 1 baq idk]
awlsoe eef u gawt the list ov acceptid categories cud u poast'm auwp? uddurwise eye'll maek a lil documemento miecelphu n filch aot sum phile speihs 2 plate eet noicelee %^>
>>4011 It was part of a network of sites around the z-library file sharing community hosted in Russia. A lot of my bookmarks for their libgen search engine don't work anymore but that service is still up with working mirrors. https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-authorities-seize-z-library-domain-names-221104/ It's just a DNS takeover so their numerous backups URLs are still available, they were ready for this.
>>4012 Nice to know our government has its priorities in order trying to prevent Amazon from losing a few pennies while our country is being invaded by millions of illegals and is bursting at the seams with fentanyl.
>>4013 What makes this worse is the US government's shameful history of ignoring copyrights on books during the early years when it suited them, other nations had to put higher taxes on shipments of books going there as it was a given that they'd be copied.
Ill make a thread when I can figure out a reliable place to get books from for my nominations. I've tried to find some but still haven't found a concrete I hace
went perewsean 4 a coupla mitigatean opshunz n faond'sum:
- thurrs a TOR lonk floatean araond 4 Z-librarhee but eet onlee werks eef ur lawged ean, soe idk hao valewabull eet'll b, n eet didnt werk awn mie end but mite b werth a shawt (EDIT: 4gawt the hooligan bloqqed TOR links awn hurr rip %^< thurrs a reddit thrad w/ the TOR lonk eanclewdid within thurr doe: https://www.reddit.com/r/zlibrary/comments/ypm1t1/z_library_downloads_now_available_again_on_tor/) - oceanofpdf.com seemed reliable enuff (plus eet had a mangos tab soe eef we rerun the verso-recto nip-nong 'rect row categorhee dat mite halp) - libgen.is can def suffice 4 oaldahr werks and gutenberg press halps securean those selections az well
eye'll rev auwp the /lit/pendium again 4 this next season az well since eet seems lyk wie mite gnawt actuallie haev complete n total access 2 deez biblographic scites 4evur eef duh federated faggot hammurs comean daon awn'm %^x