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02-14-2020, 08:00 PM | #31 |
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Though, I am in ilp’s camp here, if the aliens for some reason read English, it is a bit of a sad move to offer up translations
But how much of the ‘classic’ U.S. canon have you read reprise? If aliens had read nothing, I would suggest stuff like On the Road - Jack Kerouac The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee But presumably you’ve read that stuff reprise?? |
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02-14-2020, 10:48 PM | #32 | |
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no i have not read most american classic canon because i am a pleb and basically didnt go to high school, too busy moving away with creeps |
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02-14-2020, 10:55 PM | #33 |
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A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway
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02-14-2020, 11:28 PM | #34 | |
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Though one of these years I’m going to do what my Dad did, and sign up for a “read Ulysses in a year” email service and just truck on through it, because he said it was definitely worth it and we have similar tastes when it comes to “classics” Some of my faves The Color Purple - Alice Walker A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe The Kitchen God’s Wife - Amy Tan The Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde The Road to Wigan Pier, also Animal Farm (didn’t get into 1984) - George Orwell If you’ve never tried the genre before, my favourite murder mystery/procedural series is Jonathan Kellerman’s Alex Delaware books (he’s a psychologist turned crime writer so he creates quite satisfying villains), but I also really enjoyed PD James’ Adam Dalgliesh (lots of people find her writing really dated and naff but I like it). |
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02-15-2020, 05:40 PM | #35 |
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mods pls ban vixnix
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02-15-2020, 05:41 PM | #36 |
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i'd rather eat my own ballsack than read Ulysses
for real |
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02-15-2020, 05:59 PM | #37 |
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Yeah I found it very hard going
But I didn’t mind Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and reprise said she was enjoying it So maybe it would be good to Give Joyce a chance |
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02-15-2020, 06:23 PM | #38 |
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I read Portrait! It took (whallah!) me two tries but I did it. And I'm happy I did. Obviously the dude had a megalothonal mind.
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02-15-2020, 06:27 PM | #39 |
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Hi alien, big fan
I recommend A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (please take me with you) |
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02-15-2020, 09:19 PM | #40 |
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Would you consider Portrait to be a fairly difficult read, guys? I mean it's not terribly hard but I can't tell if I'm stupid/rusty or this shit is complex. And his lack of fucking commas, good god. I know eventually he just says fuck punctuation completely but jesus
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02-15-2020, 09:23 PM | #41 |
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02-15-2020, 09:44 PM | #42 | |
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02-15-2020, 10:39 PM | #43 |
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his style is weird, it's not really third person but not quite first, i don't even know what you'd call it. it's third person, but then you go into the character's mind, but the character is not referring to himself in any way and also it's not like "he thought x"
edit: apparently it's this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_indirect_speech |
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