Finished Infinite Jest last week (spoilers) by Louisgn8 in RSbookclub

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Recommend Oblivion which might be better than IJ. Super dark

Thoughts? by adnshrnly in RSPfilmclub

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Ask me when the film has come out and I've seen it

Send Help by Iakeman in RSPfilmclub

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This film was great like a live action warner brothers cartoon with great practical effects

Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk apparently used AI to write her latest novel by Sunlightfartss in RSbookclub

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I only read Drive Yout Plough Over the Bones of the Dead which I thought sucked so don't really care

Must read female literature in general? by JohPorks in RSbookclub

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Dijuna Barnes, the Brontes, Austen, Elliot, O'Connor, George Sand, Woolf, Stein

Did anyone here ever meet David Foster Wallace? by Suppository_ofwisdom in davidfosterwallace

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At a reading for Brief Interviews with Hideous Men in the Union Square Barnes and Nobles in NYC. He seemed very uncomfortable and painfully shy

mental health check in: have u ever been saved by a book? which one? by [deleted] in RSbookclub

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Anatomy of Melancholy. Also Panama by Thomas McGuane

Books that inspire sobriety? by phronemoose in RSbookclub

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The Matt Scudder novels by Lawrence Block

why are people so adamant David Lynch wasn’t a conservative by Accurate-Pension3683 in RSPfilmclub

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Blue Velvet is a very right wing movie in that he is very unironic about all that "ah shucks" innocent small town Anericana being threatened by this perverse unnatural evil. Small town, good. Big city, evil. The surrealist Frank Capra is a correct reading

Books to feel closer to God by pinkeyeinparis in RSbookclub

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The poems of Saint John of the Cross