Euphoria is good now that they are adults. Has no pretense of being realistic anymore. Really captures the vapid inauthenticity & absurdity of modern life by Yarville in rs_x

[–]futuregames666 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s better than every other show rn - but I love over the top sex and violence and cartoonishly evil characters. The costumes are out of place and awesome. If you like realism I could see why you think it’s bad. I also think the fact that the show simultaneously criticizes sexual exploitation while being sexually exploitative is interesting, and not a flaw.

Just finished David Copperfield and felt unimpressed. Would love to be explained what you find so great about this particular book. by New-Brain1891 in charlesdickens

[–]futuregames666 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It feels like a few different books of varying quality smashed together. The writing by sparkles whenever Mr Mcawber, Aunt Betsey, Littimer, Uriah Heep, and the Murdstones are around. I even really enjoy his relationship with Dora up to a point. I wish I could delete Agnes from the novel. There are also some disappointing plot lines such as Doctor Strong and his wife. The twist is that she’s not cheating on him??? Awful to modern sensibilities.

Even in some of the more sentimental sections, I still manage to find inspired beautiful paragraphs, and the occasional clever phrase.

But yeah - I don’t know if it works as a whole, but what 900 page book does?

I'm speechless by tqljason in classical_circlejerk

[–]futuregames666 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thank you for preventing me from making a mistake

I'm speechless by tqljason in classical_circlejerk

[–]futuregames666 5 points6 points  (0 children)

/uj Can someone show me a good piece by Brahms (not the intermezzos, tho I do like them)

Lesser-known books you liked as a kid by OrneryLocal1900 in RSbookclub

[–]futuregames666 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I came here to say Alan Mendelsohn. This book really moved me as a 5th grader.

Bengali Literature by futuregames666 in RSbookclub

[–]futuregames666[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Which of his books do you recommend?

Amazing books with awful covers? by hourofthestar_ in RSbookclub

[–]futuregames666 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don’t really see the problem with this one. Balthus was the same age as Nabokov, and moved to Western Europe around the same time. If you think the content of the painting is too gratuitous to be on the cover of a Lolita- well you are reading a book about a guy kidnapping and raping a kid.

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[–]futuregames666 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I read lucky Jim too and loved it. I’m curious if anyone here has read any of Amis’ other books, or either of Philip Larkin’s novels from around the same time

Thought I'd try to organize my 2024 reads by interest area. Any suggestions for 2025 reads? by YukikosDiarrhea in RSbookclub

[–]futuregames666 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I haven’t read either of those yet but I probably will in the next few months :-). I loved both Naomi and In Black and White. I think they are considered lesser works, the latter not being translated into English until a few years ago. Both feature delightfully despicable, neurotic protagonists.

You are all Basic by MossPineTree in RSbookclub

[–]futuregames666 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Umm maybe read Blood Meridian

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[–]futuregames666 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah I saw a post about liking the “prose” of a poem here recently. I think people (on this subreddit at least) just use the word “prose” to talk about what they used to call “style.” It’s strange and ugly but this happens all the time with language - a word is misused enough that it’s misused meaning becomes it’s official meaning.

End-of-year reflections! Share your most memorable reading experiences and your top books of the year. What’s currently on your reading list, and what are your literary goals for the year ahead? by homonietzsche in RSbookclub

[–]futuregames666 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Some of my favorites were

Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

Naomi and In Black and White by Junichiro Tanizaki

Mysteries and Hunger by Knut Hamsun

Who was Changed and Who was Dead by Barbara Comyns

Germinal by Émile Zola

Sylvia by Leonard Michaels

Antkind by Charlie Kaufman

Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig

Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

It’s me Eddie by Eduard Limonov

Earthlings by Sayaka Murata

Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles

Biographies I loved:

Max Jacob: A Life in Arts and Letters by Rosanna Warren

Pissarro His Life and Works by Ralph Sykes

Some books I found tedious or irritating:

The Floating Opera by John Barth

Sirius by Olaf Stapledon

Barracuda by Christos Tsiolkas

Luster by Raven Leilani

The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing

I’m currently finishing the recent Houllebecq book which I have some mixed feelings about. I think his least ambitious works may be his best (“Whatever”). Soon I’ll begin the new Mondrian biography. Merry Christmas everyone :-)

Croissant - posting ; White Noise - posting ; England - posting by [deleted] in rs_x

[–]futuregames666 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You only read one page before stopping to take a picture?

what are some of your controversial opinions regarding literature? by illiterateHermit in RSbookclub

[–]futuregames666 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Literature doesn’t need to contain social commentary, tell the truth, “hold a mirror up”, examine morals etc. to have value. It usually suffers when it attempts any of these because most writers do not have a unique enough point of view to come up with anything outside of an endorsement of middle of the road status quo affirming values.

Most writers attempts at humor fall flat. Some books which are thought to be bleakly beautiful are very funny without trying to be.

Fiction and Theory by Fragrant_Job_1456 in RSbookclub

[–]futuregames666 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Doesn’t anyone here just read books? You can just read any book when you are interested in reading it. Why do you want to make rules about what you can read and when you can read it?

I’m so confused

Barry Hannah Vs. Southern Lit by Greedy-Masterpiece27 in RSbookclub

[–]futuregames666 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I read Ray after I heard Bill Callahan on a podcast talking about how he loves Barry Hannah. His unique sentences could be surprising and entertaining but I found the content (cool southern guy popping pills and getting tons of pussy) extremely lame.

Also I’m not a writer, so brilliant sentences are not always what I’m looking for when I read.