Wed May 23, 2018 1:48 am
Wed May 23, 2018 1:51 am
wease wrote:Gonna start Naked Lunch by William S. Burrows tonight.
Wed May 23, 2018 2:00 am
bada wrote:Jesus Christ! Huckleberry Finn sure goes off the rails once Tom Sawyer shows up. My Gawd.
Wed May 23, 2018 2:12 am
Simple Torture wrote:bada wrote:Jesus Christ! Huckleberry Finn sure goes off the rails once Tom Sawyer shows up. My Gawd.
Yeah, when I read it in college my professor just had us stop at that point.
Wed May 23, 2018 2:13 am
doug rr wrote:wease wrote:Gonna start Naked Lunch by William S. Burrows tonight.
lee the agent is dpup
Wed May 23, 2018 2:13 am
tragabigzanda wrote:Simple Torture wrote:bada wrote:Jesus Christ! Huckleberry Finn sure goes off the rails once Tom Sawyer shows up. My Gawd.
Yeah, when I read it in college my professor just had us stop at that point.
there's a whole louis ck bit on this
Wed May 23, 2018 2:15 am
Wed May 23, 2018 2:15 am
Wed May 23, 2018 2:16 am
tragabigzanda wrote:damn louis is an idiot
Wed May 23, 2018 2:17 am
bada wrote:Jesus Christ! Huckleberry Finn sure goes off the rails once Tom Sawyer shows up. My Gawd.
Wed May 23, 2018 2:18 am
Thu May 24, 2018 1:00 am
Thu May 24, 2018 11:23 pm
Fri May 25, 2018 1:02 am
Mickey wrote:Roth fans--is there an essential Roth that's worth reading? I've done American Pastoral and Goodbye Columbus (both just kinda okay) and have started Portnoy's Complaint multiple times to no avail.
Fri May 25, 2018 1:24 am
durdencommatyler wrote:Mickey wrote:Roth fans--is there an essential Roth that's worth reading? I've done American Pastoral and Goodbye Columbus (both just kinda okay) and have started Portnoy's Complaint multiple times to no avail.
My two favorites are The Plot Against America and The Human Stain. Very different but both outstanding.
FWIW I also thought American Pastoral was just okay.
Fri May 25, 2018 2:25 am
wease wrote:doug rr wrote:wease wrote:Gonna start Naked Lunch by William S. Burrows tonight.
lee the agent is dpup
I’ll keep that in mind!
Fri May 25, 2018 3:28 am
Mickey wrote:durdencommatyler wrote:Mickey wrote:Roth fans--is there an essential Roth that's worth reading? I've done American Pastoral and Goodbye Columbus (both just kinda okay) and have started Portnoy's Complaint multiple times to no avail.
My two favorites are The Plot Against America and The Human Stain. Very different but both outstanding.
FWIW I also thought American Pastoral was just okay.
Do you have to read I Married A Communist to get The Human Stain? Isn't it technically part of a trilogy, or is it more a thematic trilogy?
Fri May 25, 2018 3:54 am
durdencommatyler wrote:Mickey wrote:durdencommatyler wrote:Mickey wrote:Roth fans--is there an essential Roth that's worth reading? I've done American Pastoral and Goodbye Columbus (both just kinda okay) and have started Portnoy's Complaint multiple times to no avail.
My two favorites are The Plot Against America and The Human Stain. Very different but both outstanding.
FWIW I also thought American Pastoral was just okay.
Do you have to read I Married A Communist to get The Human Stain? Isn't it technically part of a trilogy, or is it more a thematic trilogy?
It was the first Roth book I ever read and I was fascinated by it. So, I feel like you do not need to read the others to appreciate it.
Fri May 25, 2018 5:26 pm
Sun May 27, 2018 4:28 pm
Simple Torture wrote:tragabigzanda wrote:
Gillian Flynn is a horrible writer, but she correctly says in the foreward that McNamara's gift is in finding the humanity in her subjects. It's true. This one is creepy as hell, but it transcends the lurid crime novel tropes by virtue of the victims' lives being so colorfully fleshed out.
You know what was weird about that intro? Her references to the text all happened in like the first 50 pages. It's like she didn't even finish it.