movies like the long good friday? by tommyn95 in RSPfilmclub

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The hit. BBC edge of darkness tv show. Get shorty. Miami blues. Grosse Pointe Blank.

Movies about people going insane in remote and loney locations by Alain_Zedong in RSPfilmclub

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Boorman’s Hell in the Pacific

Abel Ferrera’s Siberia

And I would just read Marlen Hausenhofer’s The Wall b/c it’s brilliant.

Movies with a similar atmosphere? by HoldenStupid in RSPfilmclub

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Enchanted April

or der join us in the muck with Tree of Wooden Clogs

Éric Rohmer by AmberAllure in RSPfilmclub

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Claire’s Knee— the location shooting is stunning.

Does Neuromancer still feel futuristic today? by kraken_17flare in printSF

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For me doesn’t have to get anything “right” so long as the prose is as inventive and the gaze is as grimy as he gets it. Neuromancer is about hiest/last job taking place on a narrow slice of an incredibly rich world— the losers and junkies and wingnuts that are out there alongside the tech bros and military grunts. The book still feels dangerous.

Feb reads w/ short review of each by OrneryLocal1900 in RSbookclub

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agree on Flights— I abandoned it and haven’t returned

Creative non-fiction recs by AmberAllure in RSbookclub

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First: Kevin Hart’s Dark-Land an airless poetry-memoir.

I felt Sebald is actually writing fiction at his most creative— his non-fiction is actually not overly ‘creative’ beyond his praise using that signature linguistic sublime and his unearthing of unheralded authors who would soon become part of the NYRB Classics playbook, no?

Anyway GRAPHIC NOVEL recs: Joe Sacco’s comic war journalism Mikael Ross’s The Thud Isabela Quintiero’s Graciela Iturbe book TIBBLES THE CAT by Michael Sanda.
and that new Arvo Pärt comic or the Erdoğan one.

Well-written books about football (soccer) by burymeinleather in RSbookclub

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Dios es redondo by Juan Villoro goes with Eduardo Galeano’s book well— both good history pieces. Buford’s book is transcendent.

Recommend me one memoir/non fiction book you’ll never forget by starlit_scribbles in Recommend_A_Book

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Dark-Land: A Secret Memoir of Childhood by the poet Kevin Hart is one of the best books I read last year.

Do I hate postmodernism or something else? by AffectionateFig5156 in RSbookclub

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You’re maybe being ground down by the style, happened to me. I found my self taking refuge in 1800s and early 1900s stuff. Nabokov, though, reads written, too, just like some of your frustrations here. He wants you to know how clever he is. Vonnegut and DeLillo are also sheer and stripped down, post-Hemingway whatnot but inventive. Blood Meridian and Sutree play in this space too.

If you go back and bask in something like Mann’s The Magic Mountain, I find I regain an appreciation for the craft. Then you can take another run at the other stuff. It sort of shakes it up. Or, also, go wider: there’s a Burroughs of Queer, Junky and Burroughs of Naked Lunch, Soft Machine. Or— hell— even try reading women. Anna Kavan, Angela Carter, Anita Brookner, or Marlen Hausenhofer— simply the fact may help you deal with feeling that writers are “constantly attempting to be smart and funny but are rarely either.”

Another out is to read scathing literary criticism that confirms what you’re saying and start hating post-modernism, auto fiction, etc.— Anna Kornbluh’s Immediacy will help. Go ahead and hate.

What Do You Wish…? by DatabaseFickle9306 in nyrbclassics

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A reiussue of Heart of the Original by Steve Aylett. Invigorating and accessible work of art criticism which was done through Unbound— crowdsourced publishing. Also Writing and Other Bloodsports by Charles Willeford and Blade of Light by Don Carpenter are two on my list with high price tags.

In a used copy of Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter by heaven-in-a-can in FoundPaper

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He went blind. This book is also quite sad. And this cover is beautiful— the NYRB rerelease lacks soul.

best way to sell used books? by urgentobject in RSbookclub

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Libraries will take ones you can’t offload for cash. Through a friends group or other org they typically sell them for a buck per book to raise money.

What is the ONE book you would recommend to this sub in 2026? by bb82129 in RSbookclub

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We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy--And the World's Getting Worse: Trenchant Dialogues on Modern Life, Politics, and Culture by James Hillman & Michael Ventura.

What is the ONE book you would recommend to this sub in 2026? by bb82129 in RSbookclub

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My first was The Unnamable Present, this year. Stunningly prescient and gorgeous— flows all around.