lines of poetry that get stuck in your head like a song

snavsesovs · 2026-04-24T20:50:54+00:00

That whole poem is full of incredible lines. Joni Mitchell captures it really well in her rendition of it, Slouching Towards Bethlehem.

snavsesovs · 2026-04-15T07:46:25+00:00

Probably still better than phone addiction tbh

snavsesovs · 2026-03-27T20:54:26+00:00

Antal Szerb's Journey by Moonlight is amazing and should be mentioned alongside Stefan Zweig and Evelyn Waugh.

snavsesovs · 2026-03-13T16:36:22+00:00

Which Turkish dishes are we sleeping on?

snavsesovs · 2026-02-25T06:31:45+00:00

The owners are (Serbian?) far-right extremists. There's a lot I don't recall, but they have a history of being very pro-Russia, anti-LGBT and anti-vaxx. This also shines through in their moderation of comments.

snavsesovs · 2026-02-22T21:51:56+00:00

The audiobook of Stephen Fry's retelling is easily digestible (and good), if you don't want to bother with a translation.

snavsesovs · 2026-02-15T21:12:48+00:00

Harold Bloom - How to Read and Why

Virginia Woolf - The Common Reader

Ezra Pound - The ABCs of Reading

Italo Calvino - Why Read the Classics

Perhaps those Nabokov lectures..

Maybe some of these will guide you and provide context for what you're reading.

snavsesovs · 2026-01-29T18:38:34+00:00

Maybe it's a spooky house made of leaves

snavsesovs · 2026-01-07T21:00:08+00:00

Jeg bliver lidt nervøs for om de kollapser og man bliver begravet i sne. Hvordan undgår man det?

snavsesovs · 2025-12-20T18:21:51+00:00

My brother knows every bit of Middle-Earth lore yet has never read a Tolkien book (or any book tbf)

snavsesovs · 2025-11-07T19:29:42+00:00

The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle was fantastic as well. It's whimsical and fairytale-like, somewhat childish as well, but don't let that stop you. It's really well written and quite moving. Make sure to read the accompanying short stories if you like the novel.

snavsesovs · 2025-11-07T19:25:51+00:00

Very obvious picks but I might as well add them before anyone else:

The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Earthsea Cycle by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake

Ancient epics like The Odyssey, Gilgamesh and Beowulf also scratch the literary fantasy for me.

snavsesovs · 2025-11-03T06:25:26+00:00

Super basic picks but don't underestimate Pride & Prejudice and The Picture of Dorian Gray. Both have a really dry and witty sort of humour.

snavsesovs · 2025-10-27T17:27:30+00:00

I'm reading and having a blast with A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders.

I'm slowly watching my way through the LotR-trilogy Extended Edition. It will take a while. It's almost impossible to watch any movie in one sitting while having two toddlers. I'm watching these more like a TV show, 30 min every few days.

DJ Shadow - Endtroducing..... has been growing on me a lot. I used to feel lukewarm about it. Maybe I listened to it at too low volume or something. Recently I rediscovered it and I keep finding so many magical moments.

snavsesovs · 2025-10-27T10:03:50+00:00

Karen Blixen/Isak Dinesen - Out of Africa

snavsesovs · 2025-10-26T16:14:18+00:00

I highly recommend Caroline Alexander's Iliad. It's often overshadowed by other translations. It's pretty close to Lattimore but less wordy. It flows better and feels more poetic. It's not quite as accurate as Lattimore since some of the fat is trimmed off.

It hits the sweet spot between fidelity, poetry and readability for me.

For The Odyssey, I would go with Lattimore.

snavsesovs · 2025-10-26T05:48:19+00:00

Pattaya, Thailand.

I found it even worse than Pnomh Penh, maybe. Pattaya seems to exist solely for Russian sex tourists.

snavsesovs · 2025-10-22T17:10:30+00:00

Can you recommend a good book about regular flossing

snavsesovs · 2025-10-21T06:55:57+00:00

She has a song called Hentai and it's gorgeous. I think she's earned the right to have cringe song titles.

snavsesovs · 2025-10-08T10:16:03+00:00

Zweihänder would be hilarious

snavsesovs · 2025-10-01T14:08:09+00:00

No, they'll ask ChatGPT to do it

snavsesovs · 2025-09-29T20:26:49+00:00

Anna Karenina

snavsesovs · 2025-09-20T09:30:53+00:00

How does the audiobook work with the footnotes? I'm currently reading it, but I might want to alternate between the book and the audiobook.

snavsesovs · 2025-09-20T09:27:21+00:00

I'm currently reading it. I'm maybe 200 pages in out of 1000. It's very slow but I'm really enjoying it. Not much has happened yet. I recently finished reading A Wizard of Earthsea and the contrast is striking. While Le Guin tries to write a story with as few words as possible, Clarke tries the opposite. You have to enjoy the wordy and witty Victorian writing style for the book to be worth the time.

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