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On January 15 2015 11:17 Zergneedsfood wrote:Show nested quote +On January 15 2015 11:13 dmnum wrote:On January 15 2015 11:10 bookwyrm wrote:
yeah, i mean, philip dick is probably my number one favorite writer. and that's one of his best books. Have you read Borges? I want to so badly. I saw a copy of his short stories at the bookstore but it was way too expensive. But I read through at least five random ones (forgot their names) but I loved all of them. Borges seemed just like an amazing storyteller.  The only other thing I've read was a critical piece he did on Dante's Divine Comedy, talking about Ulysses's role in Inferno or something like that.
Yeah, Borges is awesome. Have you read The Lottery of Babel? It's my favorite short story of his.
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That's too bad bookwyrm, I personally can't get enough of his books.
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On January 15 2015 11:21 dmnum wrote:Show nested quote +On January 15 2015 11:17 Zergneedsfood wrote:On January 15 2015 11:13 dmnum wrote:On January 15 2015 11:10 bookwyrm wrote:
yeah, i mean, philip dick is probably my number one favorite writer. and that's one of his best books. Have you read Borges? I want to so badly. I saw a copy of his short stories at the bookstore but it was way too expensive. But I read through at least five random ones (forgot their names) but I loved all of them. Borges seemed just like an amazing storyteller. The only other thing I've read was a critical piece he did on Dante's Divine Comedy, talking about Ulysses's role in Inferno or something like that. Yeah, Borges is awesome. Have you read The Lottery of Babel? It's my favorite short story of his. - That's too bad bookwyrm, I personally can't get enough of his books.
Don't think so. When I read it at the bookstore I just flipped to a bunch of random stories in the middle (I think it was his bigass collection of short stories) and see if I liked it.
I fell in love. Then I saw the price and cried. ;;
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Really? it's only 15 bucks in amazon.
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On January 15 2015 11:26 dmnum wrote:
Really? it's only 15 bucks in amazon.
...you're shitting me
....you're not shitting me
I just ordered it LOL
thanks for the heads up
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On January 15 2015 11:21 dmnum wrote:
That's too bad bookwyrm, I personally can't get enough of his books.
i actually do feel sad that I don't like his writing more than I do. perhaps if I were not such a stupid american and could read spanish
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On January 15 2015 11:30 bookwyrm wrote:Show nested quote +On January 15 2015 11:21 dmnum wrote:
That's too bad bookwyrm, I personally can't get enough of his books. i actually do feel sad that I don't like his writing more than I do. perhaps if I were not such a stupid american and could read spanish
There's still time, man. You should also read The Invention of Morel.
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real talk: why doesnt amazon allow me to stagger delivers of books so I can pick them up safely instead of having to worry about someone stealing them after the delivery guy leaves it on the porch.
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Stagger the purchases yourself? That's my only tip.
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Or just tell amazon the books didn't arrive and they will send you more copies.
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On January 15 2015 12:01 IgnE wrote:
Or just tell amazon the books didn't arrive and they will send you more copies.
really? Have you guys tried complaining about a stolen book ?
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Yes of course. The tracking said it was delivered and I didn't receive it. I complained. They sent more books. Then my original books showed up 2 days late. So I had two copies.
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That's generally my experience with Amazon too. They're....pretty good on that customer service front as far as appeasing the customer.
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Yeah they'll send you duplicates no questions asked
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I'm about halfway through Androids and so far I'm loving it. It's pulpy in a good way, very imaginative, and works on a bunch of levels. I particularly like Deckard's obsession with animals. My only "complaint" is that the style is nothing spectacular; but, just like when reading Dostoyevsky, I'm not finding myself too bothered about it.
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Its just... not about style
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That's my point though, the book is so much fun and raises so many interesting questions that the style becomes irrelevant. But don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that the writing is bad; I think it succeeds in conveying a hardboiled-like feel to the novel, which I guess is what Dick wanted to do. Anyway, his description of a diseased sheep behavior is hilarious.
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Finished The Fall of Hyperion and it was pretty good, but I liked the the first one more because it simply was much more personal. I always feel a little bummed out when authors start writing a cool story and then suddenly go all grand and philosophical.
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Read War and Peace, you might feel the contrary :p
Also started :
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Wilhem Meister ! Long time I've meant to read it. So far it's pretty funny.
And yeah Törless was pretty funny as a maths teacher. And I could tell there that Musil is very smart and knows quite enough maths stuff.
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On January 15 2015 20:58 dmnum wrote:
I'm about halfway through Androids and so far I'm loving it. It's pulpy in a good way, very imaginative, and works on a bunch of levels. I particularly like Deckard's obsession with animals. My only "complaint" is that the style is nothing spectacular; but, just like when reading Dostoyevsky, I'm not finding myself too bothered about it.
Finished it. Fucking amazing book. Everything is there for a reason, the ending left me puzzled until I thought a bit about it, after that it made perfect sense. What should I read by Dick next? I was thinking about A Scanner Darkly.
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I say go all out and read Ubik; that's my favorite PKD novel and one I hadn't read until talking with bookwyrm.
Also, Goethe is great.
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