So this is where the ILB borad description came from. Who knew?
― The Cosimo Code of the Woosters (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 27 April 2013 14:44 (eleven years ago) link
E5 is now reading notes from underground, and also plans to write a parody entitled notes from underpound by fydo dogstoevsky
― unprepared guitar (Edward III), Saturday, 4 May 2013 20:47 (eleven years ago) link
oh yeah the biting the fingers off! oh man!― send Lawyers (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, December 6, 2012 11:57 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― send Lawyers (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, December 6, 2012 11:57 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
UGH STILL THIS SCENE. it's like the scene in the basement bar in inglourious basterds but with god.
― the white queen and her caustic judgments (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 5 May 2013 01:24 (eleven years ago) link
Lol, just coming to this thread now. I'm ready to go back and belatedly read and re-read Dostoevsky (I had the same post-high school Nabokov induced snobbery noted above).
I was talking with my wife about reading more about the historical context in which he wrote alongside the novels. Has anyone read any of Joseph Frank's books on him? Or the abridged, one-volume version? The consensus seems to be that they're the best - English language, at least - on D and his world.
https://press.princeton.edu/titles/8976.html
― Federico Boswarlos, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 13:31 (five years ago) link
― unprepared guitar (Edward III), Saturday, May 4, 2013 3:47 PM (five years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
underrated update
holy shit this kid must be in high school now
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Tuesday, 9 October 2018 13:44 (five years ago) link
I've read most of the abridged version. It's a combination of biography and literary analysis. The bio stuff is great, he had a wild life. The lit crit stuff is slower going and bogged me down a bit.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 9 October 2018 14:02 (five years ago) link
oh so THIS is where "Dusty Dusty Him Sad" comes from!
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 22:49 (five years ago) link
classic
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 October 2018 01:01 (five years ago) link
Nice, thanks Moodles, think I'll pick it up.
― Federico Boswarlos, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 16:51 (five years ago) link
― Οὖτις
!!!
been wondering for a while ...
― the late great, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 16:54 (five years ago) link
Just started Demons the other day. First time. Majorly important writer to me on the basis of The Bros K alone, but it's been a few years since I've read any FD and I'm very much enjoying it.
― circa1916, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 17:10 (five years ago) link
sad man in him room is now an injoke between me and some of my record collector friends, used to describe a certain style of singer-songwriter music.
― ian, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 23:44 (five years ago) link
omg i did not know either, and now i do. but it so long past, so even now, the remembering is a kind of shame for me
― digital chirping and whirring (Hunt3r), Saturday, 30 December 2023 00:16 (five months ago) link
Anyone read the new Katz Brothers K translation?
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 30 December 2023 08:44 (five months ago) link
Demons an absolutely stunning book
My injoke with friends on singer-songwriters is saying “someone shoulda bought this bloke/lass a diary” halfway through the song. I’d say the same for dusty dusty, but he didn’t even spare us from his diary (diary of a writer, also great, well worth reading if you like dusty)
― H.P, Saturday, 30 December 2023 08:48 (five months ago) link
all time classic thread
― Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 30 December 2023 10:05 (five months ago) link