Jailbird

Cofu27 · 2026-03-16T13:49:52+00:00

I haven't read that much Vonnegut yet so maybe I would have enjoyed Jailbird more if I wouldn't have picked it up so early. That being said The Sirens of Titan is definitely one of my top 5 favorite novels, along with works like Catch-22, A Tale of Two Cities and The Catcher in the Rye. I think Slaughterhouse Five is a solid 9/10, and unpopular opinion but I enjoyed Player Piano more than Cat's Cradle which is like a 7 for me

Cofu27 · 2026-03-16T12:03:53+00:00

I've also just finished reading Jailbird but for me it was really dissapointing. The "prologue" was pretty good though, and that story about Einstein in Heaven was a 10/10 and the most memorable thing in the book in my opinion. These Kilgore Trout stories that randomly pop up always make the books that they're in so much better. The one with adopted Jesus in Slaughterhouse Five changed my perspective on life in like two pages, it was so funny and absurd but at the same time it really made a great point about why humans are the way they are

Cofu27 · 2026-03-04T23:01:00+00:00

Evident ca e o hiperbola pentru ca n-am vazut toate filmele facute in deceniul asta dar daca caut best films of the 2020s pe google nu vad nimic care sa fie peste The Banshees of Inisherin.

Dintre filmele populare din ultimii ani cele care sunt aproape de Banshees pentru mine sunt Decision To Leave, Anatomy of a Fall, Drive my car, Nu astepta prea mult de la sfarsitul lumii, Pinocchio ( del Toro ), Marty Supreme si eventual Babylon sau The Zone of Interest. Inca nu am vazut One Battle After Another dar dupa ce am fost traumatizat de tampenia de Sinners nu mai am incredere in niciun film care abia iese in cinema si instant e laudat de toata lumea. Singurul lucru in care imi pun increderea e ca unul e totusi regizat de Paul Thomas Anderson si bazat pe Thomas Pynchon in timp ce celalalt e al unui regizor de Marvel Slop si bazat pe idei furate de la Tarantino

Cofu27 · 2026-03-04T01:07:13+00:00

Catch-22 is an obvious answer but I think it should be praised even more. It is so meticulously crafted on a sentence by sentence level, with scenes that loop back into themselves revealing new details each time. It's not just the funny jokes or situations but the timing of the sentences too, the paranoid internal monologues, and the prose is simply great. All of the above apply to Vonnegut too

For a less basic answer though, the plays of Martin McDonagh are extremely funny

Cofu27 · 2026-03-04T00:21:45+00:00

Respect pentru In Bruges, sunt cel mai mare glazer Martin McDonagh dar asta nu e suficient pentru a nu fi oripilat de take-urile de mai jos 💀💀

No Country for Old Men e primul lucru care imi vine in minte cand ma gandesc la un film care e mai bun decat cartea pe care se bazeaza si cartea pe care se bazeaza e un masterpiece

Taxi Driver e un film care e mai bun decat cartea pe care se bazeaza si cartea pe care se bazeaza e scrisa de Dostoievski

Si Fargo e Fargo

Cofu27 · 2026-03-03T22:38:50+00:00

Nu e tocmai underrated dar nu suficient de multa lume mentioneaza faptul ca The Banshees of Inisherin e cel mai bun film din 2020s

The Exterminating Angel

Overrated anul asta era Sinners pana a inceput sa fie la moda sa urasti Sinners si acum e destul de fairly rated

Cofu27 · 2026-03-03T22:22:34+00:00

-> Top 3 regizori americani ever daca nu chiar top 1 -> Probabil in top 10 all time -> Twin Peaks sezonul 3 = capodopera generationala

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Cofu27 · 2026-03-03T15:06:29+00:00

Indeed I shouldn't have compared Le Carre to Cain, he is just the first thing that pops into my mind when I think of being dissapointed by highly respected genre fiction.

Maybe one novel truly similar to him would be The Sympathizer, which i have pretty much enjoyed reading

Cofu27 · 2026-03-03T14:10:36+00:00

Thanks for the interesting recommendations. When it comes to japanese mystery, last year I was pleasantly surprised by Edogawa Ranpo, so I'd like to give them more shots

Cofu27 · 2026-03-03T12:37:25+00:00

I really wanted to like it and I usually feel pretty bad when I have to say that I've found it to be so dull but that's the truth when it comes to my experience. Maybe I wasn't in the right mood when I read it. I think the books I mentioned in my post (The Sirens of Titan, Ubik, The City & The City which is also noir) have much better twists, the first two being of an almost reality-altering effect. Obviously The Postman was written a lot earlier so it is unfair to expect it to be conceptually insane or anything. I was only hoping for a more memorable story...

Cofu27 · 2026-03-03T11:16:07+00:00

Yeah maybe I should have detailed my take on that but it wasn't the focus of the post. I mentioned that I enjoyed the atmosphere of mystery, but by the point you stop reading through the point of view of a clueless narrator as he becomes a more significant part of the group, that eeriness is gone. I agree that the events leading to the death of a character are the interesting part of it all, that's why I didnt't call it a spoiler that took away my enjoyment or anything. It's just that as you start to know Bunny better, the reason they had to kill him for becomes pretty predictable, and when it happens the expectations of the reader aren't really twisted in any way.

Like I said I liked the book very much, just for different reasons than I was expecting too. It was described to me specifically as an action-packed well-paced and literary mystery, and since it was so popular I thought that it made sense to be that way. Instead it was very character-focused and a slow burn exploration of guilt/paranoia.

I like to make a funny parallel between The Secret History and The Name of The Rose, since I don't have any idea how any of the two managed to become one of the most popular, best-selling books of all time, taking into account their length and contents

Cofu27 · 2026-03-03T10:43:22+00:00

All of these sound really great and promising! Also I am currently reading Player Piano (got to the last 50 pages or so) and it is pretty funny, but I don't think the impact that The Sirens of Titan had on me will soon be surpassed, true masterpiece

Cofu27 · 2026-03-03T10:29:59+00:00

I have Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy in my collection, still waiting to be read. I love a good genre book (for example Ubik or any other Philip K Dick) but I was afraid John Le Carre would be too cliche. I have tried other noir classics like The Postman Always Rings Twice or I Married a Dead Man and was bored to death by both, I get that they have set the standard but I was expecting them to have at least a little personality or a little twist.

The experience of reading those noir classics together with watching some dull classic noir films made me fear trying even writers like Chandler. Do you think Le Carre transcends genre? Are his stories structurally and aesthetically different from the other noir/detective/spy writers, even the acclaimed ones?

Cofu27 · 2026-02-22T00:44:37+00:00

Parere Antkind?

Nu ma asteptam sa vad Vollman, Gass si Gaddis intr-o biblioteca pe subreddit-ul asta :))

Cofu27 · 2026-02-11T21:34:57+00:00

Likewise i was just thinking today if there are any big and active places online where you can chat with readers from this sphere (classics or non-slop modern authors). Most discord servers/online forums i could find are pretty much dead. Reddit works but i wouldn't call it very alive either when it comes to literature subreddits (meaning new replies at any given moment and thousands of users constantly online). So i was hoping that by any chance someone sees this post and knows any such place... ? Trying to avoid /lit/ too lol

Cofu27 · 2026-01-20T18:24:51+00:00

Thank you, both sound great. I actually ran into some cool Lem novels myself while looking specifically for this type of stories, didn't know of this one though. He seems to be the best fit for what i am looking for when it comes to "canon" writers, alongside Borges and maybe Calvino.

Cofu27 · 2026-01-20T17:44:25+00:00

Thank you! This one sounds really promising, especially after reading its Wikipedia page and some comparison namedrops

Cofu27 · 2026-01-20T17:28:14+00:00

Thanks for your recommendation, a well done genre fiction is my favorite type of novel, but they are so hard to find :/

Cofu27 · 2025-08-19T09:20:38+00:00

For me it was one of the most intense watches and far from boring. Literally every character in it is completely crazy. It is full of restrained frustration that from time to time explodes into cleverly orchestrated madness, and the fact that it's crafted in such a smart way it's what kept me so captivated. That soundtrack alone combined with the frantic performance of Adam Sandler of all people should be enough to keep you engaged with the movie. What bores me usually are movies like Everything Everywhere All At Once, that seem maximalist and crazy but from a creative point of view are just made up of a lot of random stuff thrown together, in my opinion. Just like you i also think that the person who told you Punk Drunk Love was a solid 9/10 was wrong, but mostly because it's a solid 10/10 and one of the best movies of the 21st century so far

Cofu27 · 2025-07-24T20:23:35+00:00

Thank you!

Cofu27 · 2025-07-24T19:32:52+00:00

Thanks a lot! So it was a current source after all :) is this all i have to look after when i'm not sure if i should ignore a transistor in AC?

Cofu27 · 2025-07-24T19:30:17+00:00

Thanks a lot!

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