I love books recommended on here but unless I specify you mfs will recommend theory. You all read anything captivating without overt political themes?

  • mushroom [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    i recently finished the savage detectives. it's a really unique book in terms of how its formatted and i really liked that about it. it's a book about poetry and poets, and it made me want to read some poetry. i've looked around in the small town library and didnt see any poetry that caught my eye, or really much if any at all. i don't think i'm gonna jump on 2666 yet though, think a break from his style for a little bit before starting a massive book like that is a good idea. in a year or so maybe.

    right now im reading suttree by cormac mccarthy. im a big fan of mccarthy's but i havent read any of his books set in the southeast yet. i like it so far, but definitely a very different tone than what im used to from him

    • Wertheimer [any]
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      2 months ago

      "You can win a girl with a poem, but you can't keep a girl with a poem. Not even a poetry movement."

      Even your small town library ought to have Baudelaire, which counts as getting started on 2666 since one of his lines (idiosyncratically translated?) is the epigraph for that one. "An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom." From The Voyage.

      • mushroom [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        thanks for the rec, i will definitely check his stuff out! unfortunately a search of his name on my library's online catalogue does not seem to bring up anything relevant (a bunch of series of unfortunate event books and a history book about paris)