A Novel You've Always Intended to Read. - Page 6

Silent Dan Speaks · 06.25.2008, 01:03 PM

I've been meaning to read The Magic Mountain for like three years now. But for some reason, something else always catches my eye. Also, I heard it was boring, but my Dad strongly recommended it to me and he's usually dead on when he recommends books to me.

✌➬ · 06.25.2008, 01:04 PM

Ulysses.

gmku · 06.25.2008, 01:05 PM

People have recommended the Charles Schultz bio. It's something I think I'd like but I haven't tracked it down yet.

✌➬ · 06.25.2008, 01:08 PM

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Originally Posted by gmku

People have recommended the Charles Schultz bio. It's something I think I'd like but I haven't tracked it down yet.

What for real? I see it all the time in the bookstore.

gmku · 06.25.2008, 01:09 PM

I just mean I haven't bothered tracking it down. Sorry. It's not a novel, either, is it. Sorry for going off track.

gmku · 06.25.2008, 01:10 PM

In reality, I read so many literary novels as an English minor that I can't think of many "serious" novels I still need or want to read. Which is one reason I do a lot of re-reading.

gmku · 06.25.2008, 01:11 PM

I somehow missed out on The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and have always been curious about whether it's a good read. Again, not a novel, but interesting?

✌➬ · 06.25.2008, 01:12 PM

I don't know if I want to read about Hippies.

gmku · 06.25.2008, 01:14 PM

Really? Why not? They're part of our history and culture.

fugazifan · 06.25.2008, 01:14 PM

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Originally Posted by schizophrenicroom

haha, i'll take your word.

i fucking love unbearable lightness of being, but it's for a battery of personal reasons.

i really enjoyed the incredible lightness of being. it was a very smart book. i also read it in hebrew, which i dont often do, and iot transfered incredibly well

✌➬ · 06.25.2008, 01:16 PM

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Originally Posted by gmku

Really? Why not? They're part of our history and culture.

Their whole attitude was boorish. Let me rebel against my middle-class upbringing. Sorry, they do not appeal to me.

Rob Instigator · 06.25.2008, 01:17 PM

everyone shoud read

HOUSE OF LEAVES by mark Danielewski

I like literary mind fucks

✌➬ · 06.25.2008, 01:18 PM

I always want to read that one, but they never have it. Another book, that was funny as hell was The Raw Shark Texts.

fugazifan · 06.25.2008, 01:25 PM

i have been reading less since i started studying literature. and i keepon buying books and nat reading them. next ones that i want to read are master and margerita and sorrows of young werther and faust

✌➬ · 06.25.2008, 01:26 PM

Sorrows of Young Werther is pretty Depressing. Go Goethe.

!@#$%! · 06.25.2008, 01:27 PM

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Originally Posted by fugazifan

i have been reading less since i started studying literature. and i keepon buying books and nat reading them. next ones that i want to read are master and margerita and sorrows of young werther and faust

studying literature will kill your love of reading, i'm afraid.

!@#$%! · 06.25.2008, 01:30 PM

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Originally Posted by schizophrenicroom

are you on yahoo? send me the link.

oh that? sorry-- i wasn't-- but anyway, not sure about a link.

i read it in a book of essays by him. he didn't write many, it's in a volume. im sure you can research it-- it's what you're going to be doing everyday for the next 4 years anyway!

THE SACRED WOOD.

that's the title.

he was a pompous fucker.

no, im sorry, that's not it. sacred wood is from 1920.

it's a later book...

acousticrock87 · 06.25.2008, 01:30 PM

Going back to Kafka, I wouldn't call him a young person's author. Not to say I'm very far from "young". Even Metamorphosis is so multi-layered... When I was younger I enjoyed it, sort of, for its mildly funny and desperate tone, but now, several years later, it feels much more impressive than it ever did. Obviously, Kafka's talent is in writing the indescribable, but the older I get and the more I reflect on his stuff, the more I realize how epically indescribable the Metamorphosis is. Not a word of it means what it says. It's all a singular "thing" that most young people won't appreciate until they're older, even if they know the concept. Read something like Josephine the Singer, or the Judgement, and try to take it in as a single word. It's fucking intense.

Has anyone read House of Leaves? It's pretentious as hell, but the guy is as talented as he thinks he is. One of my favorites. I recommend adding it to everyone's list. At least for a look.

Glice · 06.25.2008, 01:32 PM

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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
once you get older however, like me or grandpa glice, you're going to start to notice a lot of repetition, a lot of irrelevance, a lot of fluff, and you'll become [I

picky[/i].

I must come across as fantastically misanthropic if I come across as elderly at the sprightly age of 26. Winner!

Otherwise I agreed with the post.

Glice · 06.25.2008, 01:33 PM

There's an article in the most recent issue of radical philosophy about Josephine the piper, I'd recommend it to Kafka types.

06.25.2008, 01:03 PM	#101
Silent Dan Speaks the destroyed room Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 603	I've been meaning to read The Magic Mountain for like three years now. But for some reason, something else always catches my eye. Also, I heard it was boring, but my Dad strongly recommended it to me and he's usually dead on when he recommends books to me.
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gmku invito al cielo Join Date: May 2006 Location: Oxford, England Posts: 15,225	People have recommended the Charles Schultz bio. It's something I think I'd like but I haven't tracked it down yet. __________________ Ever notice how this place just basically, well, sucks.
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06.25.2008, 01:09 PM	#105
gmku invito al cielo Join Date: May 2006 Location: Oxford, England Posts: 15,225	I just mean I haven't bothered tracking it down. Sorry. It's not a novel, either, is it. Sorry for going off track. __________________ Ever notice how this place just basically, well, sucks.
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06.25.2008, 01:10 PM	#106
gmku invito al cielo Join Date: May 2006 Location: Oxford, England Posts: 15,225	In reality, I read so many literary novels as an English minor that I can't think of many "serious" novels I still need or want to read. Which is one reason I do a lot of re-reading. __________________ Ever notice how this place just basically, well, sucks.
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gmku invito al cielo Join Date: May 2006 Location: Oxford, England Posts: 15,225	I somehow missed out on The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and have always been curious about whether it's a good read. Again, not a novel, but interesting? __________________ Ever notice how this place just basically, well, sucks.
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gmku invito al cielo Join Date: May 2006 Location: Oxford, England Posts: 15,225	Really? Why not? They're part of our history and culture. __________________ Ever notice how this place just basically, well, sucks.
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06.25.2008, 01:26 PM	#115
✌➬ invito al cielo Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: ιλ Posts: 5,754	Sorrows of Young Werther is pretty Depressing. Go Goethe. __________________ We Kill Homosexuals!!!
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06.25.2008, 01:30 PM	#118
acousticrock87 invito al cielo Join Date: May 2006 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 5,515	Going back to Kafka, I wouldn't call him a young person's author. Not to say I'm very far from "young". Even Metamorphosis is so multi-layered... When I was younger I enjoyed it, sort of, for its mildly funny and desperate tone, but now, several years later, it feels much more impressive than it ever did. Obviously, Kafka's talent is in writing the indescribable, but the older I get and the more I reflect on his stuff, the more I realize how epically indescribable the Metamorphosis is. Not a word of it means what it says. It's all a singular "thing" that most young people won't appreciate until they're older, even if they know the concept. Read something like Josephine the Singer, or the Judgement, and try to take it in as a single word. It's fucking intense. Has anyone read House of Leaves? It's pretentious as hell, but the guy is as talented as he thinks he is. One of my favorites. I recommend adding it to everyone's list. At least for a look.
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