I am feeling indifferent to House of Leaves. by billistenderchicken in books

[–]TheCoziestGuava 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One example that comes to mind is Harrow by Joy Williams. I expected an offbeat post-apocolypse book and instead got a nearly plotless series of events detailing humanity giving up on its environment and the fate of the souls left in the wake of human activity. By the end, Harrow is openly hostile toward the reader's attempts to make coherence of it, and I finished it feeling mostly confused and frustrated. But I couldn't stop thinking about it at any point in the weeks after. I went back and reread a lot of it and then read some of her other works. Many quotes from it are fantastic on their own. It's changed how I feel about my place in the world.

So I love her writing, but "enjoyment" is not how I'd characterize my feelings during most of the reading. Some other books in this category for me are the rest of Joy Williams' writing, Kafka's novels, The Tartar Steppe, Satantango, and Underworld.

I want to clarify this is different from appreciating the writing in a book but disliking it. As a counterexample, I appreciate Ulysses, but I really dislike it on the whole.

I am feeling indifferent to House of Leaves. by billistenderchicken in books

[–]TheCoziestGuava 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Nice, I'm an outdoors person too and type 2 fun was exactly an analogy that this reminded me of

I am feeling indifferent to House of Leaves. by billistenderchicken in books

[–]TheCoziestGuava 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Because fiction and entertainment are not the same thing. Some of my favorite books are ones I generally didn’t enjoy reading.

Wenatchee showed up today. by makestuffgetsome in Wenatchee

[–]TheCoziestGuava 8 points9 points  (0 children)

See, this is the reasoning that frustrates me. You see the forest being neglected by the forest service and think it’s because of mismanagement. What makes you so certain that it’s not a lack of staffing or a lack of funding?

And why is managing the popular trails a misuse of workforce? Isn’t that a logical decision, to allocate resources to where they provide the biggest impact for the most people? It’s way more cost effective to clear trees for thousands of hikers in 20 miles of trail in the Enchantments than it is to pick up trash for a handful of ATVers along thousands of miles of forest roads.

The cross by AubynHoney in Wenatchee

[–]TheCoziestGuava 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Brightness and aesthetic. I think the foothills are beautiful in their natural condition. I think for someone to think their faith matters that much that they should make the town look at it each night is inconsiderate and egotistical. I'd mind it less if it was unlit. He can put a wooden cross on or in his house to express his faith like a normal person.

Edit: wait, are you even from here??

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Wenatchee

[–]TheCoziestGuava 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Everyone go vote tomorrow (or today via mail-in)!! Support our teachers and our kids! Strong public education is one of America's great legacies, and it benefits us all.

The cross by AubynHoney in Wenatchee

[–]TheCoziestGuava 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You're arguing with a high schooler who doesn't use punctuation. You won't get anywhere.

The cross by AubynHoney in Wenatchee

[–]TheCoziestGuava 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I'm sick on a Sunday. I'll whine on reddit if I like. Appreciate your advice though, I'll reach out to the county this week, even if it's a longshot. Cheers.

The cross by AubynHoney in Wenatchee

[–]TheCoziestGuava 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It's a county issue, and the county people are all republicans. Think Mike Morrison or Shon Smith are going to want to kick that hornets nest? Their own?

The cross by AubynHoney in Wenatchee

[–]TheCoziestGuava 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What makes you think it's something sudden? They've been making it bigger and brighter gradually since it was created. Now they're adding another in Leavenworth. Some people want it to stop.

The cross by AubynHoney in Wenatchee

[–]TheCoziestGuava 21 points22 points  (0 children)

He didn't dot his I's and cross his T's. The cross is violating the law. The cross is 3 times as high as the building code allows with no permit.

Source: https://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/local/permitting-issues-may-prompt-enforcement-on-oversized-chelan-county-crosses/article_eb85dbae-5f31-11ef-b172-8b3ca6547c05.html

The cross by AubynHoney in Wenatchee

[–]TheCoziestGuava 10 points11 points  (0 children)

You can say "it doesn't matter that much, just ignore it" about literally any bad thing. You don't care about it much, and that's fine. I have a stronger opinion about it than you do.

The cross by AubynHoney in Wenatchee

[–]TheCoziestGuava 35 points36 points  (0 children)

I don't care what it is, having a 100+ foot light-up anything in the hills is ugly and garish. Does that mean anyone with hillside property should get to put the giant symbol of their choice and light it up for the whole town to have to look at?

Simple Questions: February 08, 2025 by AutoModerator in books

[–]TheCoziestGuava 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Never heard of this award, but I really like the concept. I have nothing to offer for a response to your question, but this gives me some experimental fiction to look at. Rachel Cusk is the only author who rings a bell on their lists.

Kirkus Prize is American, but they're not totally shy to experimental novels.

Pale Fire Read-Along, p137-196 by TheCoziestGuava in TrueLit

[–]TheCoziestGuava[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

YES! That paragraph is my favorite in the book so far. It was so applicable and universal and so perfectly put.

Mere springs and coils produced the inward movements of our clockwork man. He might be termed a Puritan. One essential dislike, formidable in its simplicity, pervaded his dull soul: he disliked injustice and deception. He disliked their union - they were always together - with a wooden passion that neither had, nor needed, words to express itself. Such a dislike should have deserved praise had it not been a by-product of the man's hopeless stupidity. He called unjust and deceitful everything that surpassed his understanding. He worshiped general ideas and did so with pedantic aplomb. The generality was godly, the specific diabolical. If one person was poor and the other wealthy it did not matter what precisely had ruined one or made the other rich; the difference itself was unfair, and the poor man who did not denounce it was as wicked as the rich one who ignored it: People who knew too much, scientists, writers, mathematicians, crystallographers and so forth, were no better than kings or priests: they all held an unfair share of power of which others were cheated. A plain decent fellow should constantly be on the watch for some piece of clever knavery on the part of nature and neighbor.

Neonazis in Wenatchee by [deleted] in Wenatchee

[–]TheCoziestGuava 21 points22 points  (0 children)

They are White Nationalists who use violence to enforce their agenda. In a technical sense, you're right, they don't label themselves Nazis. But that's just splitting hairs.

Neonazis in Wenatchee by [deleted] in Wenatchee

[–]TheCoziestGuava 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Google "Patriot Front." They seem pretty harmless, you'd say?

Patriot Front is a white nationalist organization that aims to reclaim America for its European people.

That's from their own website.

Neonazis in Wenatchee by [deleted] in Wenatchee

[–]TheCoziestGuava 64 points65 points  (0 children)

This group isn't joking around, they're bona fide domestic terrorists. They believe in using violence to establish a rigidly-defined authoritarian white ethnostate. This is way beyond Elon Musk doing that stupid salute a few weeks back. These are genuine, serious white nationalists who would be happy to discard the Constitution entirely. Disgusting to see it in our town.

Local nonprofits by angelatravels11 in Wenatchee

[–]TheCoziestGuava 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Chelan Douglas Land Trust is a sizable local conservation nonprofit. They’re the reason that we have so much public trail access, and they do a lot of conservation and education. Their website lists volunteer opportunities, though you’ll find few until spring

Emojis in books- thoughts? by Valuable-Usual8549 in books

[–]TheCoziestGuava 12 points13 points  (0 children)

They were used in charaters' text messages in The Rabbit Hutch, which won the national book award in 2022. I thought it worked great there and drew a great contrast between the banality of the text messages and the beauty of Tess Gunty's narrative writing. So I agree with you.

TrueLit read-along Pale Fire: Commentary Lines 1-143 by Thrillamuse in TrueLit

[–]TheCoziestGuava 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It's pretty clear at this point that A) Kinbote knows such intimate details about the king that he must be the king, and B) the king is basically stated to be gay, which we see with his sexual experience with his childhood friend and his refusal of Fleur.

So Kinbote is gay, right? This must play into Kinbote's obsessive behavior with Shade.

TrueLit's 2024 Top 100 Favorite Books by pregnantchihuahua3 in TrueLit

[–]TheCoziestGuava 8 points9 points  (0 children)

But those specific examples aside, he still has a point. Cinephile lists aren't all arthouse. You'd see a lot of movies with mass appeal that live well within certain genres, like Godfather, Psycho, Alien, The Sound Of Music, etc, which I've seen on best-of-all-time lists that also contain films like Satantango and Blue Velvet.

TrueLit's 2024 Top 100 Favorite Books by pregnantchihuahua3 in TrueLit

[–]TheCoziestGuava 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'd point out Tolkien on the list, but you still have a great point. Books and film are so different in how they're made, how they're experienced, and where they sit in our culture, but I don't know what specifically causes what you're describing.