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media and letters deluge from a rando.
Joined December 2023
2025 fiction reading thread (yes, actually doing one of these 😅😆).
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a bit of a japanese literature round. all Akutagawa prize winners here i have read turned to be great short reads. def highly recommend all of these
does anybody have good recommendations for SHORT NOVELS.
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first ones off the top of my head
does anybody have good recommendations for SHORT NOVELS.
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dunno about 3 people but these books def need more shoutouts and i will always do it
i need someone to recommend me extremely underrated novels that are incredible but have probably been read by only you and two other people.
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a bit of a 'cheat' as in some of these have been originally published more than 5 years ago BUT their english translation came out in the last 5 years so i think we good to go. these are off the top of my head-
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2024 reads that made me feel so much
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i don't read that many long novels (wanna change that this year haha) but when i do, they are absolute bangers.
so does anyone have good recommendations for LONG NOVELS.
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What are some good "novellas" for someone who lacks the character, fortitude and moral seriousness to read a normal-sized work of fiction?.
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very tough, assembled this list off the top of my head. 10 favourites from the 21st century so far
10 of my favourite novels from the 21st century so far, each one a marvel and strongly recommended. Certain people like to claim no one is writing great fiction these days — they are, of course, talking through the back of their heads.
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i normally only post about my fiction reads, but these are some other stuff i read through this year and left various marks on me. highly recommend all!
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the category is “i wasn’t the same person i was before i read this book” . will i ever not recommend any of these titles? probably not
the category is “i wasn’t the same person i was before i read this book”
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a tad early but i will get busy this month and i don't think these will change (yes the Solvej Balle made it on and i just picked it up) . favourite reads of the year:
what is your favourite read (or reads) of the year?.
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some books to read to be my friend . (no chunks edition !!) 😆🙏
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some fav translated works. from ecuador, norway, denmark, palestine, argentina, italy, france, rwanda, hungary.
some of my favorite translated books! they’re from madagascar, south korea, tunisia, brazil, morocco, and argentina ⭐️
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still gonna do a list (can't help myself 😔) wholly recommend any of these titles. especially Rodoreda and Lispector, ofc.
What's your favorite novel under 200 pages? No poetry, no short story collections. Novels & novellas only.
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my 2025 priorities 😎
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finished The Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch; the type of lecture that quite literally transforms you. easily cracks my top all-time favs. will need plenty of time to mull over it. not enough space here to fully express my feelings, so just gonna leave a quote
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if u cant handle me at my Last Days, you cant have me at my Mild Vertigo
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read this. DO NOT look up anything about it. just read it. it's only like 639 pages u can download it on audible it's only like 34 hours. do it right now i'm very extremely serious.
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25+1 hopeful reads for 2025 (this was a bad idea, my tbr is literally in the thousands) ((and you are correct, i am not a jester, looking to fix that next year))
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the greatest US novels. for me. (of what i read so far; i have some big gaps to fill soon hopefully 🙏)
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four books i am looking forward to this year. The Deserters by Mathias Enard. Exophony by Yoko Tawada . Theodoros by Mircea Cărtărescu. Schattenfroh by Michael Lentz
Four books I'm looking forward to this year:. The Deserters by Mathias Enard. Killing Stella by Marlen Haushofer. There's No Turning Back by Alba de Céspedes . Wildcat Dome by Yuko Tsushima
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Top 10 of the 21st century, ig (ask me again tomorrow, they will be different)
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The Abduction of the Sun and the Moon (A Nap és a Hold elrablása, 1968) directed by Sándor Reisenbüchler
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had a free afternoon, so decided to put together as many of the movies from @cineronin 's top 50 korean cinema list -
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nothing unusual here. off the top of my head. 40s - The Death of Virgil.50s - Pedro Paramo.60s - Miss MacIntosh My Darling.70s - The Obscene Bird of Night.80s - Blood Meridian.90s - Melancholy of Resistance.00s - 2666.10s - Solenoid.
50s - Beckett’s Trilogy & Pedro Paramo.60s - Miss MacIntosh My Darling & Hopscotch .70s - Correction & JR & Kiss Spider Woman .80s - Wittgenstein’s Mistress & Mezzanine .90s - Melancholy of Resistance .00s - Inquisitors Manual & Austerlitz & Last Samurai.10s - Solenoide & Sellout.
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my recs for spooky season if someone needs an atmospheric read
halloween is coming up & we’re entering fall, so here’s some spooky queer & sapphic books to add to your tbrs
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well then lemme redo this then if we are no longer confined to just 4 😆 my favorite of NYRB fiction
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Books I read in recent times that I enjoyed and still thinking about them
books i read in recent times that i enjoyed and am still thinking about them.(and yes, this is me totally recommending them all)
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Solenoid (Cartarescu).Satantango (Krasznahorkai).2666 (Bolano).Absalom Absalom (Faulkner).Suttree (McCarthy).Dictionary of the Khazars (Pavic).The Obscene Bird of Night (Donoso).Ducks, Newburyport (Ellmann).Complete works (Lutz).The Death of Virgil (Broch).
Jacob's Room (Woolf).Ulysses (Joyce).The Dream of the Red Chamber (Cao Xueqin).The Waste Land (Eliot).The Savage Detectives (Bolaño).Invisible Cities (Calvino).King Lear (Shakespeare).Complete Fictions (Borges).Wuthering Heights (Brontë).One Hundred Years of Solitude (Márquez).
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10 favorite novelists, in no particular order. 1. Bolano.2. Evenson .3. Lispector .4. Krasznahorkai.5. Cartarescu .6. Pynchon .7. Genet .8. Morrison .9. Bernhard .0. Cooper.
Top 10 novelists, no particular order, to nobody’s surprise:. 1. Proust.2. Tolstoy.3. Woolf.4. Melville.5. Zola.6. Duras.7. Modiano.8. Bernhard.9. Raymond Chandler.10. David Peace.
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The iconographic journey: the martyrdom of San Sebastian (1989) directed by Eric Pauwels
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oomfs tell me ur 5 star reads this year i need some GOOD book recs.
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hardest stuff to pick. so many @nyrbclassics i love
Someone should do a thread on the best @nyrbclassics . The only one I have is Marquez 's Clandestine in Chile.
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@exitsenses fearing that realization myself. i am young and just tired of the world, so i choose to avoid and be reclusive; but dunno where that will take me. for now i am at peace, but idk. .
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huge accomplishment on this sunny day. I finished the tremendous . Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann. def belongs in this stack and def one of the greatest feats of 21st century literature so far. cannot recommend it enough
Books I read in recent times that I enjoyed and still thinking about them
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cr: The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk. started it a couple days ago. Flights was a great previous read, so I am invested to tackle this tome.
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here are some examples of writing from works i have read recently (some very recently) and which just embody the sorta prose and style(s) that make my neurons somersault
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OK, it's that time of the year. What's the best book you have read in 2024?
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@CabanaDrives 'moral gatekeeping' more like classist bull . imagine saying someone is immoral and hurting 'the industry' for watching a pirated movie they couldn't afford otherwise. these people just don't others to have access to art. its that simple, lol.
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@dogshit95 Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo .Death in Venice by Thomas Mann .Ghosts by Edith Wharton.Nightwood by Djuna Barnes .Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys.The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers.Kokoro by Natsume Soseki.The Chess Player by Stefan Zweig.
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@regularaugust yt video-'essayism' is the most half-baked, incendiary-prone, derivative stuff. the only good stuff on movies or books on yt are from those under 1k subs channels with grainy ass video quality, fr.
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Too Early / Too Late (1981) directed by Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub. & . The North Calotte (1991) directed by Peter Nestler
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from The Jamaica Kollection of the Shante Dream Arkive by Marcia Douglas. yall really dont know what u missing here. get on this one. i just finished it and all my synapses feel recast. thanks to @thethoughtofth1 for this amazing rec and gem!
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@coletty9 @PunishedTyke @Pundem0nium its not an 'obligation' -> but then you cant go cry wolf if you end up delivering an yikes result.
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Top ten directors (this is based off my personal canon list and just gut feeling). Carl Theodor Dreyer .Rainer Werner Fassbinder.Werner Schroeter.Toshio Matsumoto.Frederick Wiseman.Robert Fulton.Paul Vecchiali.The Dardennes .Pedro Costa.Radu Jude.
My top ten directors!. Billy Wilder.Satoshi Kon.Elia Kazan.Lucrecia Martel.Krzysztof Kieślowski.David Lynch.Orson Welles.Edgar Wright.Terry Gilliam.Wong Kar-wai.
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introduce yourself using… . ✧ one book .✧ one movie .✧ one album .✧ one tv show
introduce yourself using… .✧ one book .✧ one movie .✧ one album .✧ one tv show
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my own 25 for 25, ig. such an off the cuff list.
Surprised there's been almost no acknowledgement that (depending on your definition) we're now a quarter of the way through the 21st century; nothing shocking but here's my current top 10 from 2000-2024, one per director:
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@rarefilmm hoarders and gatekeepers are just nonsensical. if art isn't for the world, then what is? mindblowing stuff lol.
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Favourite first watches of February. Razor in the Flesh (1969) directed by Braz Chediak .When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960) directed by Mikio Naruse.The Pearl (1929) directed by Henri d’Ursel.Day of Wrath (1943) directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer
Favourite first watches of February. A Moment of Innocence (1996).Wanderers of the Desert (1984).Lachrymal (1998) .The Place Which Isn’t Necessarily Wrong (1996)
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u ask the hardest questions. was gonna give you a list. well then. just one. gonna go with Death in Spring by Merce Rodoreda. (just one of many i adore - HotS or AV by Lispector could so easily be here too)
What's your favorite novel under 200 pages? No poetry, no short story collections. Novels & novellas only.
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Books I read as an adult that I wish I had read as a teenager
Books I read as an adult that I wish I had read as a teenager
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12 underseen . Louis Feuillade.Nino Oxilia.Yasujirō Shimazu.Walter Ungerer.Lionel Soukaz.Seijun Suzuki.Andy Milligan.Vittorio De Seta.Mani Kaul.Paul Czinner.R. Bruce Elder.Andrew Noren.
12 underseen favorites suena bien:.- othello vilgard.- mohammadreza farzad.- michelangelo frammartino.- fergus daly.- helke misselwitz.- karpo ačimović-godina.- pablo alvarez-mesa.- @StephenBroomer .- manuela serra.- luther price.- ibrahim shaddad.- peter miller.
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started this one. got swept in from the first pages!. cr: Marshland by Otohiko Kaga
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some of the best books are one-sentence novels - normalize one-sentence works! still obsessed with literary gothic. amazing literature is being done by Ecuadorian writers. i enjoy reading theory more than i tho i would. am warming up to histlit so-so. love my sicko works 😎.
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final read of the year (i swear it is, i will spend the rest of my time watching movies). thank you for this rec, @nichollsm86 !. cr: Blind Owl by Sadeq Hedayat
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@pourfairelevide @CharlieGoldber srsly cannot comprehend how some brag about not reading. how people embrace mainstream slop as some one true quality and upper ceiling. as if reading Ulysses somehow alienates you 'from the world' and so incuriosity is mistaken for standard conformism.
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meanwhile these are some big works i am yet to read but planning to! (yes, i am no jester, yet, unfortunately)
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i think i can get done a couple more short reads before 2025 hits . cr: On the Calculation of Volume (Book II) by Solvej Balle
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@phophing2 genuinely more fucked up than the fact that the white house saw to offer her a fucking medal. for what? for . "i am hopelessly .a lover and.a dreamer and.that will be the.death of me". ???.
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@megannn_lynne NO WAY!!!!!! i ate up every post you made as my sanity spiraled further and further away with each new episode. glad to hear you are doing well now, queen.
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@_ryanruby_ that cover design is enough for me to get it (besides every other thing i heard of it).
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“speak your truth” . my truth:
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and it so happens that 2025 is gonna be the year lots of Akutagawa winners get an english translation as well! mentioning here: . Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa . Sympathy Tower Tokyo by Rie Kudan . May You Have Delicious Meals by Junko Takase . The Place of Shells by Mai Ishizawa.
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@dollshojo amazing amazing thread!! my own humble recs here . Mandarin Gypsy Cat no Roujou.Majo.Ikoku Nikki .Kagome Kagome
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a Solenoid victory, is a personal victory for me.
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Films from the year I was born
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@rarefilmm ubuweb literally gave me a movie education. and u forget that if people see even one drop of cyrillic online they think automatically they will get hacked. it never ceases to amaze me how paranoid some are against any russian social media, lol.
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@attheimax for 1.5 a word i would have wrote an in-depth anatomy of the sweet ichor between the spread thighs of a book.
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forgot to post my cr. almost done with this one. am living it up to the spirit of october. overall, a neat read. a couple stories which shoot up in my personal Enríquez top. although, a tad drab here and there. cr: A Sunny Place for Shady People by Mariana Enríquez
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@judysquirrels me saying this is irrelevant across everything, but i love your work and your writing. movies and literature saved my life and a critic's work is always an opportunity to think more rigorously about a piece and its potentiality.
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@beyondzeropod @LuccaLazaro wonderful selection! gonna humbly add - Claudia Pineiro, Selva Almada, Ana Paula Maia, Ariana Harwicz, Fernanda Trías, Liliana Colanzi, María Fernanda Ampuero, Pilar Quintana, Silvina Ocampo, Alejandra Pizarnik.
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i don't like Kuang's works. left me meh as hell always. so probs wont check out her latest. BUT. if she gets even one tiktok book girlie out there to read Homer and Dante cuz of it, that i can endorse.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN BOOKS TO READ ON PREPARATION FOR KATABASIS???? 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
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@maraganger which is fine. i am into both - also drop your letterboxd, homie, i need some anime in my veins.
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cr: Good Night, Sleep Tight by Brian Evenson. next on my list: Reservoir Bitches by Dahlia de la Cerda. am also steadily wading through Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann (i am committed)
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