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Name of the Wind is a great book! So is the sequel, “The Wise Man’s Fear.” Still waiting for that third one. Nice choice. I bought NOTW based on cover alone around the time it came out, and I was in a really big “literary fantasy” phase, and boy did it hit the spot. |
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very 60s i can’t really connect with the guy, he puts me to sleep, but the movie that was made about his novel was good and hilarious and watch it INHERENT VICE some things are better in translation. especially after some things are lost in it. like 500 pages maybe. |
I found a copy of Inherent Vice at the dollar store once. Had to buy it out of principle tbh. It sits on my shelf unread still
I'm not very well read. It's a rather large chip on my shoulder. Still, I read more than most friends. Will keep an eye out for anything by Chandler, Bukowski, and Selby i can add to my personal library. I'm also going through a "literary fantasy" phase atm, Severian |
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You read any Gene Wolfe? Shit will knock your socks off. Rob couldn’t hack it. Pick up “Shadow of the Torturer” someday. Way different kind of deal than NOTW, but great. Throws you right into a world that feels both antique and post-apocalyptic... Dickensian shit. Asks a lot of the reader, but it’s worth it. |
Definitely slowed down all in all with my reading pace in 2019, though I also started with a larger item. Almost through The Shining, and technically started it at the tail end of 2018.
Pretty sure by this time in 2018, I was already through The Hobbit and the first Lord of the Rings. Alas, this is also intentional :D |
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if you let your tastes guide you, you’ll pile up a large mountain by old age, without even trying but let your tastes guide you! don’t feel obligated to finish a book just because you opened it or because someone said so or because some snob raised an eyebrow by all mean check out interesting suggestions but you don’t owe anything to anyone. know what i mean? (this is why i love the library... no cost to browse) |
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I saw the film and remember enjoying it but it wasn't really my thing. |
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I also find Chandler and Hammett dull. I do not read much crime fiction, or fiction for that matter. Never read Elroy. I find Cormac McCarthy boring too. |
Inherent Vice was the worst fucking thing in the past 2 years I suffered my eyes and mind and ears to sit through before walking out after 30 minutes......and I sat through all 5 hours of Che'.
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Burroughs was great. In the pantheon with Melville and Faulkner.
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that’s a funny comparison i think i sat through che as well, and liked it, with ideological reservations, but it was in parts, no? i remember inherent vice as a hilarious romp. can’t tell you much more about it. but for me it was fun.   and... what happened? cant remember but i’d watch again to find out hahaha |
Inherent Vice, the film (have not read the book) was like a very humorless mashup of Fletch and Big Lebowski. Fucking SLOG
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i saw it more as a fear and loathing thing sorta
what is fletch? nm i’ll google. |
haaa haaaa haaa! just read about fletch. a lot of similarities!
pynchon plagiarized some of it maybe? hahaha. holy fuck.... he ripped off gregory mcdonald... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Mcdonald |
(because i got obsessed now)
The private eye form provides Pynchon with a vehicle for investigating the question of who lost, or stole, or killed, or brainwashed, or denatured the Sixties—never mind that no satisfying answer could conceivably be forthcoming. Pynchon seems to have ingested an entire archive of genre variations, ranging from the classic forms of Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald to every subspecies of pastiche and burlesque: Roger L. Simon’s pot-smoking detective Moses Wine, Gregory MacDonald’s Fletch, the Coen Brothers’ Dude in The Big Lebowski, a hundred TV spinoffs. It’s not a question of homage but of throwing absolutely everything into the mix for processing, every stray particle of a commonly shared culture—every joke good or bad that you ever heard, every commercial you couldn’t escape from, every sex fantasy or tabloid crime story that inhabited your dreams, every tag line dredged up from ancient comic strips or pulp stories. This is a book that derives a good part of its narrative arc from an investigation into the cryptic message: “Beware the Golden Fang.” https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2015/0...inherent-vice/ |
Makes sense.
Shame the film was humorless....and I have sat through The Master!!!! |
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i remember laughing and laughing maybe i dreamed it... |
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It was a shit film. I’m a fan of the book, but the movie was garbage. It didn’t need to be, either. It had all the right parts. They just formed mush when put together. Fucking mush. I turned it off ¾ of the way through and never started it again. |
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Oh great, she's in "the pose". Excuse me while I wank it for an hour. |
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What’s the deal with your Moon Knight avatar? |
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