im probably more friendly to continental stuff than most 'analytic' ppl and this is really not about shitting on large groups of ppl. it is just one guy making highly uninformed remarks with sophomoric valor. i am more disappointed than mad.

pedrlz

Brazil5234 Posts

April 15 2015 23:46 GMT

#444

how hard is to find a blog/website dedicate to literature, people?

I just want to find a place to go read reviews, new books, maybe some short stories and interview, etc. Do you guys have any recommendations?

dmnum

Brazil6910 Posts

April 16 2015 00:06 GMT

#445

Since you're from Brazil: O Rascunho is the best thing we have. On an international level, NYRB and Paris Review are both good.

pedrlz

Brazil5234 Posts

April 16 2015 01:26 GMT

#446

On April 16 2015 09:06 dmnum wrote:
Since you're from Brazil: O Rascunho is the best thing we have. On an international level, NYRB and Paris Review are both good.

brasil stronk

have you ever read coivara da miséria? I read good things about it, but I'm not sure if I want to read another book about nordeste (nothing against it, but seems that so many brazilians books are about the red earth and dryness, I'm afraid that is a little much of the same)

dmnum

Brazil6910 Posts

April 16 2015 02:06 GMT

#447

This is the first I have heard of it to be honest. I'm not very familiar with contemporary Brazilian lit, mostly I just read the classics and Dalton Trevisan and Rubem Fonseca. And yes, I believe by now everyone is tired of reading about the fucking Sertão.

babylon

8765 Posts

April 16 2015 03:24 GMT

#448

On April 16 2015 08:46 pedrlz wrote:
how hard is to find a blog/website dedicate to literature, people?

I just want to find a place to go read reviews, new books, maybe some short stories and interview, etc. Do you guys have any recommendations?

The only (public) book blog I read on a regular basis is The Idle Woman. The person who runs the blog reads and writes pretty insightful reviews of historical fiction/fantasy, if you're into that at all.

oneofthem

Cayman Islands24199 Posts

April 16 2015 16:06 GMT

#449

came across this book by recommendation, seems like good fodder.

https://books.google.com/books?id=B4weBwAAQBAJ

a podcast by the author
http://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/MITP_Phillips.mp3

actually she's updating the book in response of the gamergate inferno so i guess it's a premature recommendation.

babylon

8765 Posts

April 18 2015 00:03 GMT

#450

Speaking of the Gamergate inferno, has anyone been following the Hugo drama? (I only today educated myself about what was exactly going on, though I've seen references to the Sad Puppies and all since the whole thing blew up.)

In any case, finished reading The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart. Very pleasantly surprised! Well-written and briskly placed. Style reminded me of Robin Hobb's but less dense. I only have some minor criticisms to level ather characterizations, but otherwise, I love how she worked out Merlin's backstory.

Moving onto The Goblin Emperor, which a couple of my friends have been raving about. (Still not as hyped as Leckie's Ancillary Justice, which I need to pick up later.)

fancyClown

65 Posts

April 18 2015 01:52 GMT

#451

lol, once books are getting written about trolls, the trolls have truly achieved something.
Finally they got the attention they were so desperately seeking.

oneofthem

Cayman Islands24199 Posts

April 18 2015 02:36 GMT

#452

i think she's analyzing the online trolling in relation to real life equivalents etc so as to avoid making it seem less serious or real. so she's trying to hunt soem of these trolls.

Sub40APM

6336 Posts

April 18 2015 03:07 GMT

#453

Kotkin's new Stalin biography is dope.

fancyClown

65 Posts

April 18 2015 08:15 GMT

#454

I'm currently reading:
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babylon

8765 Posts

April 18 2015 16:54 GMT

#455

If anyone happens to pick up "The Grace of Kings," I'd be interested in hearing opinion(s). I've heard a lot about this Liu dude and haven't really found his short stories to live up to his hype. A lot of his appeal seems to lie in the novelty(?) of seeing someone incorporate a fuckton of Chinese culture into a genre (i.e. fantasy, in the case of GoK) that is Western-centric, but what little I've read from GoK so far doesn't seem to match up to, say, the stories by Hughart or GGK.

(That said, I'm really happy that a semi-famous Chinese-American author is finally writing a China-centric fantasy novel. It seems long overdue. Also, I'm aware that Hughart and GGK are both well-established, and Liu is just getting started.)

dmnum

Brazil6910 Posts

April 19 2015 01:19 GMT

#456

For the hundredth time. Getting ready to tackle Ulysses again.

Nyxisto

Germany6287 Posts

April 22 2015 03:40 GMT

#457

anybody care to recommend me some character focused sci-fi?

Surth

Germany456 Posts

April 22 2015 23:07 GMT

#458

Not as gripping as Empire of Liberty, what with the lack of cohesion, but it makes for great 20 minute bus reading, short interesting 10 page chapters.

babylon

8765 Posts

April 23 2015 04:14 GMT

#459

Finished The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison (aka Sarah Monette).

Damn good book. It somehow manages to be a busy court intrigue novel filled with all sorts of understated but powerful scenes. Semi-grimdark, but it is dragged out of the grimdark subgenre by sheer force of the main character's dogged sense of decency. Easily the best fantasy book I've read this year so far (minus my reread of Lions). I can see why it was nominated for best novel for both the Nebula (2014) and Hugo (2015).

Excited to pick up the other hyped books now (Ancillary Justice & Golem and the Jinni). If they're all as good as this one, I'll be ecstatic. :D

I've also been trying to find a copy of Valente's Orphan's Tales duology but haven't had any luck yet.

Surth

Germany456 Posts

April 23 2015 08:57 GMT

#460

Just lost another hundred bucks on

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Keeping in mind that I also still ahve A THousand Plateaus lying around, this will be my last french purchase for the year. I feel like Deleuze, Baudrillard, Derrida and Foucault were all basically mad about the fact that they didnt have much to add to what NIetzsche already said, although to varying degrees. Foucault kind of admits that he's more of a scholar(historian) than a philosopher, I guess, so kudos. Baudrillard just should have stopped writing at some point, his later works are all so sad. Derrida never should have started writing... Which leaves Deleuze, about whom I am still not entirely sure - so Bergsonism to the rescue, I suppose.

I think once I am back in august I will either start with some german stuff again (hegel or benjamin) or just shelve philosophy for the year entirely.