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  • Dec 6, 2021

    I read the running man by stephen king in like 5 hours. I couldnt put that s*** down it was fire 🙏🙏

  • Dec 7, 2021
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    kogoyos

    damn OP you beat me to it, was gonna make a "your year in books" thread about how many you read, your top 5, what you want to read more/less of, etc.

    my favorites this year:

    edit: the ones in bold are books that got recommended in this section so shout out to y'all for the recommendations

    fiction

    The Secret History by Donna Tartt
    Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn
    Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
    Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
    Earthlings by Sayaka Murata

    non-fiction

    Go Ahead In the Rain by Hanif Abdurraqib
    Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
    Washington Bullets by Vijay Prashad

    I reread the secret history and the goldfinch once a year and they only get better with every reread

  • Dec 7, 2021
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    KURCOBANE

    I reread the secret history and the goldfinch once a year and they only get better with every reread

    really wanna see a film/TV adaptation that does The Secret History justice

    gonna read The Goldfinch for the first time very soon

  • Dec 7, 2021
    kogoyos

    really wanna see a film/TV adaptation that does The Secret History justice

    gonna read The Goldfinch for the first time very soon

    The goldfinch is just as good imo
    Film adoption would be dope as long as they don’t butcher it like they did with the goldfinch movie

  • Dec 7, 2021
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    Einfinet

    I thought the play with time and ambitious cast of characters was unique- tho I didn’t actually care for many of the relationships tbh. Maybe that was the a big drawback for me. I want to say that both sisters were in relationships that I didn’t care much for, but that’s not necessarily the authors fault.

    Maybe I just didn’t like her prose style. I usually find reasons to love long novels because of the investment but this one left me lukewarm. I COULD read one of her other texts, but this reading experience dropped them down the list. There are other African novels & novelists I’d like to read too. Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Zimbabwean novel Nervous Conditions was another one from the past year that I enjoyed- though less than this (I’d give Adichie’s text a 7/10 for reference, meaning it was disappointing but still good)

    Whatever floats ur boat if i were u id re read it sometime in the future. Theres literally so much more happening. Since ur unsure of why u dont like it, a reread would help. Its an amazing, shocking piece of work

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    felli_varda

    Whatever floats ur boat if i were u id re read it sometime in the future. Theres literally so much more happening. Since ur unsure of why u dont like it, a reread would help. Its an amazing, shocking piece of work

    Can you note some of the threads that stuck out for you? Or are there any I missed below? I don’t think they necessarily passed me by..

    the various subthemes I’m recalling are middle/upper class activism, nationalism vs patriotism (and if there’s a distinction to be made there), ethnic tribalism and nation-making in “post-colonia” Africa most interesting thread, gender hierarchy, and of course the privilege of narrative (with one of the partners who is trying to write about the war- also interesting but I remember getting more disinvested from his character as chapters progressed).

    I don’t think the novel is lacking for themes but I’d be more likely to try Americanah or something by her than reread

  • Dec 7, 2021

    Notes of a Native Son
    Manufacturing Consent
    Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

    I finally read some James Baldwin after runnin SRS to death again and seein his quotes posted around my city last year. Incredible essays and anecdotes. Came away from it feeling like the quotes from him I saw didn't really communicate the impact of a lot of what he had to say. Really impressive stuff.

  • Dec 7, 2021
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    Stoner
    A Clash Of Kings
    A Game Of Thrones
    Notes From The Underground
    The Death Of Ivan Ilyic
    White Nights

  • Dec 10, 2021

    Light in August by William Faulkner

  • Dec 15, 2021

    the medusa and the snail by lewis thomas

  • Dec 19, 2021

    Seneca - Letters from a stoic

    So many gems

  • Dec 20, 2021
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    Blood meridian

  • Dec 24, 2021
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    American Tabloid / Poisoner in Chief

  • Dec 24, 2021
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    I get thotties

    Blood meridian

    The second great american novel

  • Dec 24, 2021

    damn I read so much I cant even remember, I always been terrible with remembering names, titles etc tho

  • I get thotties

    Blood meridian

    just started this a little dry so far do I just need to keep going atmosphere of it feels wild tho

  • Dec 24, 2021
    tyreek

    really fell in love with joan didion this year

    she just passed today </3

    easily one of the greatest to ever do it man. highly recommend her stuff, especially if you’re in ny or cali

  • Dec 24, 2021
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    babylon sherm

    American Tabloid / Poisoner in Chief

    those both sound like my kind of read, gonna add em to my list

  • Dec 24, 2021
    kogoyos

    those both sound like my kind of read, gonna add em to my list

    You won’t be disappointed my man 🤝

  • Dec 24, 2021
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    babylon sherm

    The second great american novel

    What’s the first

  • Dec 24, 2021
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    I get thotties

    What’s the first

    Moby D***, and they’re such opposites

    Moby D*** shows me what it feels to be human and Blood Meridian shows human behavior to be completely alien and animalistic when observed from a distance

  • Too many but just off the top

    Fiction:

    Patricia Lockwood - No One is Talking About This
    Flann O Brien - The Third Policeman
    Max Porter - Grief is the Thing With Feathers
    Margaret Atwood - Alias Grace

    Non-Fiction:
    Mark Fisher - Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures

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    Just finished Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, which is about tied w/ my favorites from the earlier post for favorite book I read this year. Nice way to end things

  • RASIE 🦦
    Dec 24, 2021

    • The Disappearance of Rituals – Byung-Chul Han
    • Toward Freedom – Touré Reed
    • Season of the New World Order – Randy Cunningham
    • Writings – Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet