@CidNight#17006
If you had youd probably be either be trans, furry, or both by now so you missed out.
@yeso#17018 I have not read any of M. Manchette! Thatās pretty hard hard-boiled, yowza. Iāll be interested to compare to an English version(s), see how that tone is communicated in both. This'll be cool.
That cover's hot.
@Moon#17042 wtf I read animorphs and I didn't get to be trans OR a furry, can I get a refund?
I'm reading a book called 12 Rules For Life by Jordan Peterson. It was recommended to me by my therapist last year.
It's an OK book, pretty entertaining though I do not take the lessons too seriously, however I later discovered the author is actually some prominent right-wing influencer :(
I'll still read the book. Again, it's fun to see another person's perspective on what they believe to be right, and there is some genuine truth to his arguments, but the therapist I was seeing last year was not very good and I have since bounced out of there lol. Maybe if he actually recommended a better book I wouldnt think he was so bad :p
@yeso#16835 Ho no.
I have to read first this book first: http://www.elumiere.net/asociacion/manikaulescritos.php. It is interesting to see a painter that got into the film industry with success debating some points about art, comunication and cinema and I'm really grounding my perspective as an artist (not because I often agree with him, though).
@p3ters#17051 Yup. He's a big influencer who spread his word into several right-winged Youtubers and such. I don't take him very seriously but I totally understand your idea while reading the book since it's something that seems people do less and less.
@p3ters#17051 yeah Iād definitely get away from any therapist who suggests you read Jordan Peterson real fast.
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@CidNight#17071 yeah Iād definitely get away from any therapist who suggests you read Jordan Peterson real fast.
@p3ters#17051 Inclined to agree with the caveat that, if you find the therapist otherwise helpful and you're personally able to see that peterson is dumb and a waste of time + personally inured against right-wing indoctrination, then I guess they're OK. It's a popular book so if the therapist isn't a weirdo right-winger themselves, it's probably just a lazy and ineffective book recommendation. Not a good sign of clinical judgement though for sure
Throwing out another couple of YA books that are etched into my brain as cool:
Have not read these in 20+ years so may have the details wrong
@thiccnick#17231 you need to surround the text with two of the |'s on each side, not just one
@thiccnick#17231 absolutely furious, i'm just starting book 54
I flagged the post, mods will handle it
@yeso#17242 this place has mods!?
@CidNight#17251 They think they're so great with their stupid scooters! * waxes pompadour *
not to sound rude but please donāt flag posts just for spoilers. itās meant to be used when someone is breaking the rules. you're all able to not read something or politely ask someone to mark something as spoiler!
I did report the post with animorph spoilers, guilty as charged. However, I didn't think the flag button actually worked so in that sense I am totally innocent
I read this review of hurricane season
https://lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n06/adam-mars-jones/muffled-barks-muted-yelps
and found the closing paragraph interesting (disagreed strongly)
"The goal of making the reader as powerless to contest the impact of the narrative as the characters are to resist their circumstances is undesirable as well as impractical. Reading canāt and shouldnāt become an āineluctable modalityā (a phrase in Ulysses derived from Aristotle), something impossible to keep out, like the visual impressions received by an open-sighted eye. In literature readerly freedom is not something for technique to overcome but the medium through which technique operates, however extreme the material."
It's a mostly appreciative review, but ends with this weird (in my opinion) rejection and claim. I don't understand when it's appropriate in sort of a moral sense to withhold sense/experience description from the reader with regard to real world, actually-existing bad stuff. There are definitely questions about taste/effectiveness and exploitation - I don't think "seriousness" is in question in Hurricane Season. And it's less "techincal" than eden eden eden which I suppose would be a point of comparison. Another comparison would be those long descriptive passages in theodore dreiser - there are good reasons to build detail after detail in a text even if the effect is upsetting. Not quite getting why an author should have to be concerned with giving the reader a pressure release valve when they have as eminently a "good reason" to be recounting what's being recounted as melchor does in hurricane season.
Also suspect that the dialed up vulgarity of the english translation might give the impression that the text is less "journalistic" and more "in your face" than the spanish is. So maybe that's part of the "problem" as the reviewer sees it
thought Iād share my with tape edition of always coming home. Wonder if itās hard to find or worth anything. Never going to sell it though
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thinking about getting into young adult fiction again because of this thread. did anyone read āTangerineā by Edward Bloor. check out this choice paragraph from the wikipedia summary
_Shortly afterward, it was found that Antoine Thomas, one of the star players and quarterback on the Lake Windsor team actually lived in Tangerine, causing all of the Football team's records to be nullified, and destroying Erik's football legacy forever._
I ended up the book made by Mani Kaul (it has a bilingual edition both in Spanish and in English) and while there are some parts I canāt agree with the film director, I canāt say the book is completely useless, as it grounded me as a person and as I also enjoyed very much his poems, which made me understand why Kaul was so fascinated with Bressonās filmmaking abilities and also his very sensual approach to cinema -originary from his days in which he hadnāt glasses and was short-sighted, and afterwards when he devoted himself to painting while also loving pretty much Indian folk music).
So, there are some recommendations I wanted to make. Hope you enjoy it:
-Grass on the wayside, by Natsume Soseki: Probably one of my favorite novels. It's a very autobiographical novel and it has a unique tone. It captures pretty well the "mono no aware" tone while also being like both full of life and completely decaying at the same time. It is, to sum everything up, a novel about life fading away from the eyes of someone who gets more and more embittered. I'm wondering how feel would this kind of stories be adapted into film or even into videogame format.
-Bonsai, by Alejandro Zambra: Very short novel by an author who I appreciate him more for his thoughts than for his work so far, and the novel itself is quite good, so imagine the way he debates about literature in general. I've heard him personally and he's quite the witty and funny guy (in a good sense), yet Bonsai seems like a good introductory novel to me since it portrays the sense of driftiness that he usually has. I also read "No leer" and I have his latest work pending (which is called Chilean Poet), but so far it's a good introductory point.
-El Entenado, Juan JosƩ Saer: It's the observation of a cannibalistic community and the experiences a Spanish soldier has around that village. It's a weird novel in which Saer's style makes it so intriguing and conflicting at some parts (in a good way). Some parts are not easy to digest, but they don't pretend to, but it's nice to have something that enigmatic and confusing working out so well as like being the chronical of a very weird situation.
-Hebe Uhart's short stories are also quite nice. I hope they get translated or you can read it in Spanish (for the folks interested in the language) since it's very witty and humurous at some parts, yet she also writes about colonianism and other topics too -she was a Chilean writer and journalist and you can see that, but she doesn't write like lots of journalists do, which is to cut to the chase and be as concise as they could, which I think hurts the medium more than it makes something out of it.
-Stoner, John Williams: Another amazing novel, and one that was 50 years at least ahead of its era. I don't like his ideas about women (but I'd like to make a fanfic about John Stoner's wife one day), but at least he got to the chase and wasn't mysognistic as he was in his first novel -run away from that one, please.
And apart from that, nothing to inform. I can tell you also to read people like Han Kang or Enero by Sara Gallardo, but I haven't gotten there. Now, let me get to Ulysses, since I haven't began the book yet and I'm digging the introduction.
@tapevulture#18327 I went ahead and Abe booked a few of those Ellen raskin and julia Cunningham novels inspired by the discussion here, theyāre like 80 pages long and cost like $2 each - a product of that huge reading rainbow scholastic book club market in the 80s/90s I think
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@xhekros#18342 Bonsai, by Alejandro Zambra
Thanks for the perspective, became interested in this after reading an essay praising it/him as a Lat Am writer finding a way to "escape neoliberalism" along with BolaƱo, so good company there
@xhekros#18342 are you reading ulysses in English?
Yes, Iām reading it English. Itās kind of a challenge but I'm up for it.
How would one even translate Joyce? I'm picturing someone in 1940 whose boss just throws Finnegans Wake on their desk and says I want it translated by Friday.