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Old 06.30.2015, 10:40 PM   #4001
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i've tried- i love pride and prejudice and emma, but prefer to watch (including clueless.)

oh, yeah, i even fall asleep watching! though clueless was funny. seen it more than once. but those masterpiece theatre versions...

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i'm not saying it's her fault or anything. that would be ignorant of me. but yeah, can't connect with it.

wuthering heights on the other hand is INSANITY. is it even a novel? what is it? i don't know. hell.

used to be a time i sort of related what goes on in that novel. deranged passions & what not. fury and depression. fortunately not anymore. that kind of shit isn't fun when you live through it. almost got me killed.
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Old 07.01.2015, 12:43 AM   #4002
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yeah, it's much more fun to read entirely detached from those feelings. it really isn't like any other novel (barring the avant garde-y post modern types, etc) just in terms of how claustrophobic every sentence feels.
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Old 07.01.2015, 06:35 AM   #4003
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Old 07.01.2015, 09:24 AM   #4004
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yeah, it's much more fun to read entirely detached from those feelings.

it brings memories of a deranged me calling my on/off/on/off/on/off/on/off crazy ex-girlfriend from a payphone that would take too many coins, screaming desperately:

"you're marrying lintoooon! you're marrying lintoooon!"

 


damn, those were desperate times.

of course we got back together, only to fuck it up again.

i read somewhere, a critic, praising the book, saying that writing it was probably what killed brontë. maybe it was bataille, yeah. ANYWAY. brrrrrrr! i do not miss insanity. romanticism my balls.
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Old 07.02.2015, 12:15 AM   #4005
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Read also Wuthering heights quite many years ago. What I remember that is that I didnīt like it as much as I thought I would like.

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good timing cause i handed in my thesis this morning!
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Old 07.02.2015, 03:28 PM   #4007
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good timing cause i handed in my thesis this morning!

dammit, you're speedy! let me know when you get "the namesake" (her first novel), which is fucking great.

i just got something too:

 


THE SPARROW (MARY DORIA RUSSELL, 1996)

yes pony it is A WOMAN and the first pages of it are good clean prose that doesn't talk about "memememememememe", so i'm about to probably highly recommend it, but i'll only get into the meat of it this coming weekend so i'll let you know after that.
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Old 07.02.2015, 05:24 PM   #4009
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See Pony, others give opinions. I give facts. If you had bowed before my vast erudition, you would've come across Lahiri anyway. Past volumes of O. Hen, BASS and Push are all dirt cheap, and you should've gotten a bunch. Imagine the riches. Instead, your life is now in tatters and suicide is the only honorable way out.

On second thought, I don't care what anyone reads. Never mind. Keep living.
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Old 07.02.2015, 05:32 PM   #4010
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Old 07.02.2015, 05:34 PM   #4011
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You actually liked THE NAMESAKE, so you're hopeless.

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You actually liked THE NAMESAKE, so you're hopeless.

Others, bow down before me!!

can't relate to a brown woman, eh?

get out of your whiteboy ghetto, wasp wannabe
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That book's about a brown boy.

But I do sort of want to be a wasp.

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Old 07.02.2015, 06:43 PM   #4014
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That book's about a brown boy.

you know he's an imaginary creation, right?

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But I do sort of want to be a wasp.

no... really? i if you hadn't told me this i never would have known

namesake is great-- it's a story of degradation through integration
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Old 07.02.2015, 09:48 PM   #4015
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"Interpreter of Maladies" - O. Henry Award 1999, also Best American Short Stories 1999
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See Pony, others give opinions. I give facts. If you had bowed before my vast erudition, you would've come across Lahiri anyway. Past volumes of O. Hen, BASS and Push are all dirt cheap, and you should've gotten a bunch. Imagine the riches. Instead, your life is now in tatters and suicide is the only honorable way out.

On second thought, I don't care what anyone reads. Never mind. Keep living.
Oooh, I will get some of those volumes! was only looking for Push, haven't found anything. at least not on german websites. But one or two BASS volumes is what i'll be getting as soon as I am getting paid!
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Old 07.03.2015, 05:52 AM   #4016
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namesake is great-- it's a story of degradation through integration

I thought Philip Roth wrote that already.
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Old 07.04.2015, 09:20 PM   #4018
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1000? this makes me feel all warm inside and happy. books are great!
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I don't get it. Is that me or you? If it's me, that's the wrong sort of wasp I envy. If that's you, sorry I made you identify with someone who uses the word "spic."

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1000? this makes me feel all warm inside and happy. books are great!

They do furnish a room, but it's a fucking burden after awhile. All day they shout "Why aren't you reading one of us you lousy lazy bastard?" 500 is ideal. 1000 is just dumb gluttony.

My library has a killer book sale every single month, and they have for years. Only recently have I started resisting the urge to go. At least I didn't pay much for this torment.
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