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Mike Nelson here.
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i read the wizard of earthsea in grade 5 and i loved it but i read it in the bathroom and i accidentally dropped it in the toilet (clean water people) and i brought it to school the next day and was like oooh boy sorry about that teach and she was really frustrated but didn't really know what to do. she thought i hated the book and was mocking her but i really liked it. i swear.
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Kurdt
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getfiscal posted:

i read the wizard of earthsea in grade 5 and i loved it but i read it in the bathroom and i accidentally dropped it in the toilet (clean water people) and i brought it to school the next day and was like oooh boy sorry about that teach and she was really frustrated but didn't really know what to do. she thought i hated the book and was mocking her but i really liked it. i swear.

nice conecposting

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Kurdt
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mieville is rly bad
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i liked "city and the city" in a beach reading sort of way, but the other stuff is definitely pretty awful
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#7607
penitent
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don't read any of these awful books
#7608
penitent
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i'm reading SAINT PAUL: THE FOUNDATION OF UNIVERSALISM by ALAIN BADIOU and it's GOOD
#7609
Mike Nelson here.
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yeah my go-to author for christian theology is a pseudo-maoist.... "not".
#7610
penitent
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only a good marxist can be a good christian
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deadken posted:

don't read any of these awful books

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Online
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roseweird posted:

science fiction is for the most part the only good literature america has produced imo. has australia ever produced anything worth reading

roseweird posted:

otoh melville is cool, idk american fiction is actually pretty cool in general idk what your problem is iwc


wth

#7613
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i'm reading.. Nothing. nothing..
#7614
tardy on these heaters
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deadken posted:

i'm reading SAINT PAUL: THE FOUNDATION OF UNIVERSALISM by ALAIN BADIOU and it's GOOD



no its not

#7615
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that's like a libertarian pretending to interpret marxism lol. fuck off badiou
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#7617
UNUSUALY COOL
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roseweird posted:

science fiction is for the most part the only good literature america has produced imo. has australia ever produced anything worth reading



#7618
UNUSUALY COOL
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i thought saint paul was ok for badiou
#7619
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i finished carter beats the devil, its a cool book about magicians in the 1920s written by a jewish guy i assume
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please dont read literature, all
#7621
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Read my ass
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cleanhands posted:

i finished carter beats the devil, its a cool book about magicians in the 1920s written by a jewish guy i assume



the author's alice sebold's husband, which is a terrifying prospect

#7623
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im reading Atta by jerret kobek and it is Cool, great way to celebrate 9/11
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Hitler posted:

im reading Atta by jerret kobek and it is Cool, great way to celebrate 9/11



not nearly pro-9/11 enough

#7625
Dont Mess With Sucess
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In the credits of this muay thai movie there's a guy named Nopporn Wartin
#7626
UNUSUALY COOL
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*red letters spiral out of keven's mouth* NO *blue letters spiral the other way out of keven's ass* YES
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#7629
mt.real
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gyrofry posted:

mieville is rly bad

i am glad there are other people who agree w/this because i was starting to wonder if i was broken wrt fiction or what

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mt.real
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babyfinland posted:

deadken posted:
i'm reading SAINT PAUL: THE FOUNDATION OF UNIVERSALISM by ALAIN BADIOU and it's GOOD


no its not

did badiou ever not sound like an old man confused by the world & wrong about things, because that's all he sounds like now

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#7632
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melville is cool and everyone should read moby dick, but if you read 'literary' fiction written by americans after 1950 or 60 its all garbage.
#7633
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some german ficition of the 70s/eastern european fiction fo the 80s/90s is ok in my experience, but mostly everything written after 1950 (1930/40 really) is terrible.
#7634
Mike Nelson here.
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mieville is a trotskyist which is why his books don't praise stalin, which is the only real form of literature
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im reading moby dick right now
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#7640
tardy on these heaters
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tpaine posted:

Perdido Street Station is the second published novel by China Miéville and the first of three independent works set in the fictional world of Bas-Lag, a world where both magic (referred to as 'thaumaturgy') and steampunk technology exist. The novel has won several literary awards.

haha



that books ok