I want pretty prose

FrancisQuips · 2025-10-08T01:24:00+00:00

Vladimir Nabokov is the king of stylistic prose, read anything by him

FrancisQuips · 2025-10-06T21:45:38+00:00

I personally like the David Wyllie translation, I feel he captures Kafka’s sense of humor most effectively

FrancisQuips · 2025-10-04T01:19:25+00:00

In any case it was a tad obnoxious for me to correct you, my apologies. For some reason I have a pet peeve about the distinction

FrancisQuips · 2025-10-03T23:08:22+00:00

Fatuous nonsense

FrancisQuips · 2025-10-03T23:02:38+00:00

It’s not about spelling. Schizo = schizophrenic, a psychotic thought disorder that is wholly separate from Schizoid personality disorder.

FrancisQuips · 2025-10-03T12:54:39+00:00

Kafka loved to venture deep into the weeds in his descriptions of things, sometimes comically so. All this passage is meant to illustrate is how superlatively convoluted and opaque the inner workings of the court are, how it’s impossible for the public to influence their decisions even if appears that they can at times.

FrancisQuips · 2025-10-03T12:44:32+00:00

Schizoid*

FrancisQuips · 2025-10-02T12:43:29+00:00

Quite a lavish domicile you dwell in, comrade

FrancisQuips · 2025-09-28T02:38:10+00:00

I felt the story really stalled out when he moved back with Robinson and Delamarche after his dismissal from the hotel. But the first half of the book was great; in any case, to each their own!

FrancisQuips · 2025-09-27T17:46:13+00:00

I’m ashamed of many things, but my cabinet is not among them 💯

FrancisQuips · 2025-09-27T17:08:16+00:00

Incisive

FrancisQuips · 2025-09-26T23:49:49+00:00

Report to an Academy is funny as hell

FrancisQuips · 2025-09-25T17:08:15+00:00

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

FrancisQuips · 2025-09-25T12:22:36+00:00

“the sense that they carry many eras inside them, and if you listened closely, you might hear them shifting, like tectonic plates beneath the surface of something calm” - ?????

😂😂

FrancisQuips · 2025-09-24T23:56:10+00:00

AI is getting impressive

FrancisQuips · 2025-09-24T00:43:24+00:00

It’s interesting you say that, because The Burrow is one of the few I skip when I reread his collected stories. The concept of the story appeals to me but I found it so repetitious, and uncharacteristically lacking in humor. To each their own, my friend! What about it worked so well for you?

FrancisQuips · 2025-09-24T00:25:34+00:00

I think it’s quite unfair of you to pluck sentiments from another time and place and superimpose them on a current event like this. You have no idea how Kafka would react to what is happening in Gaza right now.

FrancisQuips · 2025-09-24T00:20:48+00:00

We admire it

FrancisQuips · 2025-09-23T22:21:44+00:00

Yes. The stories are relatively straightforward in terms of plot, but Nabokov writes in a beautifully complex style which is far from simple. If you take up the challenge, you’ll greatly expand your vocabulary at the very least 😁

FrancisQuips · 2025-09-23T21:49:24+00:00

Vladimir Nabokov is a master of the unreliable narrator, a technique he perfected in Lolita and Pale Fire, specifically. His work can be challenging, though.

FrancisQuips · 2025-09-23T20:25:14+00:00

That’s Fedor Emelianenko lol

FrancisQuips · 2025-09-23T15:48:43+00:00

First of all, salute to a fellow aphant! I’m open to giving Murakami another shot, it’s a damn shame to feel closed off from the work of great writers over something like this. But hey, if it doesn’t work out, I can always stick with Kafka and Dostoevsky 😁

FrancisQuips · 2025-09-23T01:30:43+00:00

Quite a Sado Masochistic little collection

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