Litterater Thread

[Dalyn]

Gonna do a spoiler for my question just in case followers of just the show read this.

Spoiler: 

I wonder why they didnt include the bit about Catelyn Stark being alive in the show? Would have been a decent cliffhanger. Maybe thats what they will open with

Spoiler: 

I have no clue why they didn't include it. Would've been an unbelievable scene to close out the season (finding her by the water). By far the biggest disappointment I have had with the show, and a lot of interviews have implied that it is a permanent omission.

[jpx7]

First P.G. Wodehouse I've ever read. Funny stuff. The Monty Python comedians say they grew up reading him.

Wodehouse is the ****ing best. Don't stop at just the Jeeves & Wooster stuff; there are stories about other Drones members, plus sets of unrelated characters that are still fantastic.

[Dalyn]

-"To Kill a Mockingbird" will not be Harper Lee's only published book after all.-

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...MPLATE=DEFAULT

[Dalyn]

Yes!

I've been waiting for this one.

http://www.randomhouse.com/book/2283...y-ernest-cline

[jpx7]

Learning a lot (and eating a lot of the windfall):

[Dalyn]

I'm just going to leave this right here and go punch myself in the face until it comes out.

[The Chosen One]

Borrowed from reddit

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies,” said Jojen. “The man who never reads lives only one.

[Hawk]

[Knucksie]

Reading that one now. Every bit as good as the reviews indicated.

[Dalyn]

http://io9.com/5361050/a-map-of-your...ntent=FaceBook

[Hawk]

Reading that one now. Every bit as good as the reviews indicated.

Yes, I'm really enjoying it so far. Larson is one of my favorite recreators of history; I count In the Garden of Evil as one of my favorite WWII books, and have been meaning to get to Devil in the White City for years now.

[Runnin]

Haven't seen this thread in a while.

Best motivational ever. Same writer.


I loved it, much better than I imagined. Very honest about himself.

[Dalyn]

Let's see...recently finished Armada. It's good. Not Ready Player One good, but definitely worth a read. Now I am reading The Ceremonies by T.E.D. Klein.

[50PoundHead]

Runnin', I got the Martin Short memoir for Christmas and read it in about three sittings. Always loved the guy. I thought the book was a bit on the "show-bizzy" side, but Short is entertaining, it would have been impossible not to enjoy the book. I was given the Maron book last Christmas as well, but I haven't cracked it yet.

[jpx7]

My three most recent reads.

Coetzee's follow-up to Waiting for the Barbarians, Foe is every bit the masterpiece, in my mind, despite its comparatively lukewarm critical reception. Fascinating, dense, deeply problematized little novel, and thoroughly worth reading.

I'm not a big fan of Diaz—I've read a few of his more recent stories in the New Yorker over the past several years (such as the laughably execrable "Miss Lora"), as well as excerpts from Oscar Wao—but I had purchased Drown a few years ago, based on some positive reviews and before I'd read any of his work, and decided to finally read it. I think this earlier work (published 1996) is, somewhat surprisingly, much stronger than his later work—simpler in voice and clearer in vision—but the final story, "Negocios", was the only one I really could say I enjoyed (and it was indeed quite good).

End Zone has been a revelation. I'd never read any of DeLillo's writing before, but this early work of his is intense, darkly ribald, and wonderfully concerned with a specially post-modern semiotics of death and destruction—a kind of jargon-riddled effusion that ultimately aggregates to blank space—while at the same time being an intriguing little season-length sports narrative.

[Hawk]

+1 on DeLillo ... White Noise has always been a personal favorite, and when I do dabble in fiction lit., it's usually of the postmodern/metamodern variety.

[weso1]

Borrowed from reddit

What about the man who plays video games?

[jpx7]

+1 on DeLillo ... White Noise has always been a personal favorite, and when I do dabble in fiction lit., it's usually of the postmodern/metamodern variety.

I'm pretty much the opposite: I almost exclusively read fiction, recreationally, but I'm frequently not a fan of so-called post-modern authors. When it comes to the novel, the high-modernist crowd is really my wheelhouse; but I've been making a concerted push the last couple years to investigate more writers of the previous half-century.

[Hawk]

I'm pretty much the opposite: I almost exclusively read fiction, recreationally, but I'm frequently not a fan of so-called post-modern authors. When it comes to the novel, the high-modernist crowd is really my wheelhouse; but I've been making a concerted push the last couple years to investigate more writers of the previous half-century.

One of my favorite professors in school told me, point blank, that I was wasting my time reading new fiction, because 'it has already all been written.' Coming from a guy who had penned multiple critically acclaimed best-selling folk novels I was a little confused and kind of chalked it up to the idea that perhaps he was struggling with his creative spark, or just had a concept or two rebuffed by his publisher. Nevertheless, the comment stuck with me to some degree, and I think that may be a factor behind why I gravitate toward PoMo authors. I crave the temporal nature of modern literature, finding it the aspect of consumption that resonates with me the most.

[Dalyn]

One of my favorite professors in school told me, point blank, that I was wasting my time reading new fiction, because 'it has already all been written.' Coming from a guy who had penned multiple critically acclaimed best-selling folk novels I was a little confused and kind of chalked it up to the idea that perhaps he was struggling with his creative spark, or just had a concept or two rebuffed by his publisher. Nevertheless, the comment stuck with me to some degree, and I think that may be a factor behind why I gravitate toward PoMo authors. I crave the temporal nature of modern literature, finding it the aspect of consumption that resonates with me the most.

What a **** (and ignorant as ****) thing to say to someone.