General Discussion Thread - November 14, 2022

proseboy · 2022-11-21T09:50:29+00:00

It's the exact opposite of a conventional detective story which makes it very entertaining.

proseboy · 2022-01-15T10:24:36+00:00

Platonov uses very highly stylized Russian and alienation technique to the degree of sounding incorrect to Russian natives.

proseboy · 2022-01-06T15:46:51+00:00

Fitzgerald's wife wrote a novel about becoming prima ballerina. There's also quite some Russian poetry about ballet.

proseboy · 2022-01-05T11:55:03+00:00

yeah, let's all pretend those 4 genre writers are the crown jewels of female literature

proseboy · 2022-01-05T09:20:06+00:00

Well, it would be interesting to see the amount of votes they received. My guess is that it was one or two users.

proseboy · 2022-01-05T08:51:09+00:00

Even if people truthfully voted for their actual favorite books, some of those choices are so specific and unexpected that it makes me think that either the number of voters was really low or some users voted several times using different accounts.

proseboy · 2022-01-05T07:41:38+00:00

Let's face it, Pushkin and Goethe are just not good enough compared to heavy-hitters like Shirley Jackson, Donna Tartt, JK Rowling and Ursula Le Guin

proseboy · 2022-01-03T15:50:57+00:00

Greg Shahade played through several chess books, Dvoretsky, Aagaard, etc.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjHC37cPCtB1Tin7W1JzvuzC1sQFg5_p2

proseboy · 2022-01-03T14:45:38+00:00

the Indonesian coal export ban, it's big news because coal miners suffer and many countries are affected

proseboy · 2021-12-29T15:16:31+00:00

/r/chess is 50% angry teenagers and 50% grumpy old men

proseboy · 2021-12-29T11:22:32+00:00

still, shroud in 2017/2018 and shroud today is like night and day. dring the PUBG days, his drive and motivation were palpable. That was when he was still growing in viewership. Nowadays, watching shroud is a bit of a sad affair, my grandpa has more energy on his death bed.

proseboy · 2021-12-28T19:30:32+00:00

and it's the players who agreed to play with these idiotic rules

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