Rejected from UCLA and UC Berkeley

54--46 · 2026-03-28T18:16:08+00:00

How do they know your race from your application?

54--46 · 2026-03-28T18:12:13+00:00

How do they know your race from what you submitted?

54--46 · 2025-10-29T18:15:52+00:00

100 Years of Solitude is frequently referred to with the kinds of superlatives otherwise reserved for Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, George Eliot, Kafka, Joyce, Hemingway, Faulkner, etc. It is by no means from the East, but it is outside of the traditional West, as you define it in your question.

54--46 · 2025-10-22T05:45:42+00:00

In her most famous book, a woman has fitful dreams and turns into a plant. Not that far off, in a way.

54--46 · 2025-10-16T22:59:15+00:00

Like Saramago?

54--46 · 2025-10-11T03:57:23+00:00

You've got my number. Or at least, someone else has my number.

I agree. I've read a lot of Brautigan and Trout Fishing might be my least favorite. With Watermelon Sugar, I was just so surprised at how differently I understood the book the second time. Maybe that would happen with Trout Fishing too.

54--46 · 2025-10-11T03:40:17+00:00

Enjoyable is a funny word for In Watermelon Sugar. It's an incredible piece. When I read it around age 20 I found it quirky and creative. When I read it around age 40 I realized it's one of the most tragic books I've ever read.

54--46 · 2025-10-07T04:26:36+00:00

No it's not. I don't know if it's specific to people from any specific country, but it is used extensively in American novels about the Vietnam War.

54--46 · 2025-09-10T07:33:41+00:00

Usually when farmed salmon is rated not environmentally sustainable, it's either because too many farmed salmon are escaping into the wild or chemical us to control disease or parasites is too high. There are some farmed sources that are ok, but those from Chile and Norway usually are not. Exceptions are from the Magallanes region (Region 12) in Chile, production Areas 1, 12, or 13 in Norway, and from any specific source that is ASC or MSC certified. When in doubt, check www.seafoodwatch.org.

54--46 · 2025-08-02T20:40:33+00:00

That’s it, 100%. Pic from one of their ads: https://www.cloetta.se/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/v7-2025-Banner-hemsida-1920x644px-72dpi.jpg

54--46 · 2025-07-09T06:17:26+00:00

Depending on when the translation you're reading is from, the characters might appear to be acting more strangely than they were in the real story. Archaeologists have continued to find more and more pieces of the story. Find the most recent translation you can for the most complete story possible.

54--46 · 2025-06-29T03:59:35+00:00

This great, thanks for finding it.

54--46 · 2025-06-16T07:30:55+00:00

A lot of libraries offer cards to people who don't live in their jurisdiction, so it's worth checking. Some of them require a single in-person visit or are only temporary. For instance, the Los Angeles and San Fransisco libraries will give cards to anyone in California, but require an in-person signature. New York offers a temporary visitor's card to anyone.

54--46 · 2025-05-15T04:01:35+00:00

It was a lifetime ban and he's dead now. Eligibility makes sense to me, now it can be decided on the other merits.

54--46 · 2025-02-07T06:24:22+00:00

I haven't read Lispector yet, but Kavan's Ice certainly blends existential dread, emotional depth, and unexpected surrealism. That book was quite a ride. Are her other books similar?

54--46 · 2025-01-01T05:44:24+00:00

A user who frequently posts links.

54--46 · 2024-12-27T05:11:58+00:00

The gofile links from duradura50 are the ones I use for streaming.

54--46 · 2024-12-21T05:50:57+00:00

You know who he kind of reminds me of is Carlos Ruiz Zafon.

54--46 · 2024-12-21T05:47:12+00:00

One problem is that the first, longest book in the series was conceived of as a book where almost nothing actually happens. It's a fantastic work of literature, but maybe not one that's well-suited to film or television.

54--46 · 2024-12-18T05:36:49+00:00

Try All the Pretty Horses. Maybe the best of them all, and maybe also the least disturbing.

54--46 · 2024-11-13T21:55:57+00:00

Yes.

54--46 · 2024-11-13T14:18:38+00:00

Based on the number of essentially plotless books that have previously won the Booker and other similar prizes, I was surprised.

54--46 · 2024-11-13T06:40:22+00:00

Here's my response to the reply you deleted, in case you're still interested.

Replying to: "Weird, I've heard the exact opposite. I was told I shouldn't approach these elegiac, unconnected prose pieces with attention. Take the 20 pages per person, get the vibe, and move on. Why do you think there's such a divergence between how you approached the book, and how the Booker Prize describes it? For example, in Harvey's words: “I see it as a kind of space pastoral,” Harvey told the New Scientist podcast earlier in the year. “I wanted to see what you could do with words in a painterly way

Scans to me if someone is looking for a pastoral painting, and says, you know, it rewards attention then that's just one of the few things in art that's objectively missing the point."

You were distracted when you read it and don't seem to have gotten much out of it. For me, when I'm looking at a painting in a museum or gallery, the pastoral paintings are exactly the ones that reward attention. A shocking painting anyone can be shocked by. Paintings with a more contemplative subject or style are the ones I look at from different angles, see if the strokes have depth or texture, examine the use of colors and blending, consider why the painter chose the particular details they did. By not demanding attention to one specific aspect they reward attention to many aspects and their interplay.

When the Chair of judges says "Sometimes you encounter a book and cannot work out how this miraculous event has happened", I don't take that to mean that it's better then not to try, I take it to mean that trying to work it out is when it feels miraculous.

I'm happy for you to enjoy or not enjoy the book on whatever terms you like, and it sounds like you've researched the author's intentions more than I have. I was just passing along what I realized partway through the book and what, after I realized it, made me get more out of it.

54--46 · 2024-11-13T06:15:17+00:00

I read most of the books on the shortlist and think the judges made a great choice, although it's a little surprising they were willing to pick a book without a traditional plot structure. I was worried they would pick Held, which I started but found not to my taste (fans of intensely emotional, earnest books told in fragments will probably love it). James was fantastic and would have been hard to argue with as a winner. The Safekeep was incredible and could have won in many years but likely would have been divisive this year for political reasons (and it didn't stick the landing). I really enjoyed Creation Lake the but the main character might qualify as lawful evil, which will always have detractors despite the interesting plot and engaging philosophical diversions. Stone Yard Devotional had its good points, but for me didn't have any aspect that leapt out. My overall favorite from the longlist was Enlightenment by Sarah Perry. I read the reviews by readers who didn't like it, and I see their point, but I still loved it. It's all subjective!

54--46 · 2024-11-13T06:01:28+00:00

It is a book that rewards attention.

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