A shelf of pure slop. Almost admirable that there isn't a single good book here. nyrb need to pull their thumbs out.
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A shelf of pure slop. Almost admirable that there isn't a single good book here. nyrb need to pull their thumbs out.
You’ve read them all or you just forming opinions about books you’ve never read?
>or you just forming opinions about books you’ve never read?
What's wrong with that? You can always tell if a book is bad or not by the cover, the title, the author, and the fan base.
If you don't do that then you must be picking up the first book you lay eyes on whenever you walk into a bookshop
>You can always tell if a book is bad or not by the cover, the title, the author, and the fan base.
Not always, especially not the "fanbase" (what a reddit term).
>Not always
Give me a single book that its quality cannot be guessed based on its cover, title, author, and fanbase.
>especially not the "fanbase"
That's what you said when you like a shitty book but don't want to be grouped with your fellow subhumans who have the same shitty taste as yours.
>(what a reddit term)
I use popular terms because I'm not a pretentious moron and I recognize that I'm posting on IQfy
This is too true for snowflakes to accept.
>IQfy is the epic shitposting site!
Slit your wrists.
>Give me a single book that its quality cannot be guessed based on its cover, title, author, and fanbase.
Only genre books have "fanbases". Cover? Title? Author? Literally every classic cannot be guessed by those.
>That's what you said when you like a shitty book but don't want to be grouped with your fellow subhumans who have the same shitty taste as yours.
Not really.
>I use popular terms because I'm not a pretentious moron and I recognize that I'm posting on IQfy
IQfy is more elitist than reddit.
OP outted as a superflous pseud. The E.E. Cummings work might be good--even if he's not my tastes most of the time.
I'm not OP
It’s more like you have an idea of your taste and interests and read accordingly, but your taste and interest will change over time and depending on what you read
There is nothing wrong with forming opinions on books you havent read. A discerning man must develop an intuition for these things.
Shalamov and Benedetto are good.
maybe on planet moron
They are good authors on planet Literature. All the others are kind of meh or they downright suck ass (like Bioy Casares)
That looks like a great selection of books. I wish I had access to them. In particular I would like to read the Ackerley, the Casares, the Colette, the Genet, the Gass, the Gide, the Rochelle, the Miaojin, the Musil, the Pasolini, the Radiguet, and the Sorokin
The Casares book sucks.
those first five are:
We Think the World of You
>by the literary editor of the BBC's weekly magazine, where he served for more than two decades.
>Ackerley's only novel; it explores a middle-class intellectual man (based closely on himself)
>won the W. H. Smith Literary Award in 1962
>was made into a 1988 movie of the same name. Roger Ebert gave the film 3/4 stars, writing: "This is a film that rewards attention. It is wise and perceptive about human nature and it sees how all of us long for love and freedom as well as how the undeserved, unrequited love of an animal is sometimes so much more meaningful than the crabbed, grudging, selfish terms that are often laid down by human beings."
Ariane, jeune fille russe (Ariane, A Russian Girl)
>In Vladimir Nabokov's 1930 short novel, The Eye, two of the female characters are reading Ariane, jeune fille russe
>The novel has been adapted into film several times (1931, 1957, 1970)
I Used to Be Charming
>the author's first brush with notoriety came through Julian Wasser's iconic photograph of a nude, 20-year-old Babitz playing chess with the artist Marcel Duchamp on the occasion of his landmark retrospective at the Pasadena Art Museum. The show was curated by Walter Hopps, with whom Babitz was having an affair at the time. The photograph is described by the Smithsonian Archives of American Art as being "among the key documentary images of American modern art
>then she became a critically acclaimed writer known for depicting the cultural scene of Los Angeles during that time, with numerous references to and interactions with the artists, musicians, writers, actors, and sundry other iconic figures that made up the scene in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Novelists Joseph Heller and Bret Easton Ellis were fans of her work, with the latter writing, "In every book she writes, Babitz’s enthusiasm for L.A. and its subcultures is fully displayed."
>much of the press about Babitz emphasized her various romantic associations with famous men. These include Jim Morrison of the Doors, the comedian and writer Steve Martin, the actor Harrison Ford, etc
>In 2019, New York Review of Books published I Used to Be Charming, a previously uncollected selection of her essays.
Die Erzähler (The Storyteller)
>that's be the reknowned philosopher Walter Benjamin
>it his thoughts on the division between stories and storytelling, and novels and writing, etc
Mes amis (My Friends)
>Living in a run-down boardinghouse, Baton spends his days searching Paris for comforts and friendship, but he finds little, yet he remains vain and unsympathetic, a Bovian antihero to the core. Bove himself called My Friends, published in France in 1923, a "novel of impoverished solitude."
Whole lot of seething going on tonight.
It's OK to dislike certain books.
That isnot what has been going on tonight.
I think they may have been traumatized by that IJ thread yesterday, some anons actually discussed literature.
Lit sucks I’m gonna post a rottweiler knotting a young blonde girl tomorrow night to get a vaycay
You could try not being pathetic and exercise some self control instead.
this board is populated by crabz
The Invention of Morel and My Friends are both excellent. I take it you're unfamiliar with most of the titles in the pic.
>The Invention of Morel
Sucks ass big time. One of the worst acclaimed books I have ever read. You have no clue how much I hate it.
Strange, I loved it.
Very strange indeed. I have no clue what people see in it. And I wanted to like it but just couldn't. I do like some of the other NYRB titles, though.
I think it's more a statement of art and interior design on the bottom shelf by your toes. All the books have the same font (see how they all have the NYRB for the NY Review Book Series?)
I think she just got them as a bulk deal and but then their for art
And only book she actually reads is the Crime and Punishment to the right that doesn't match anything
Honestly what the frick do you put on your bottom shelf? It's the "out of sight out of mind" shelf, you don't put anything you actually enjoy on the bottom shelf.
Mine is gamer magazines and DnD books
my bottom shelf has a bunch of nice hardcovers because the bottom shelf is the tallest and it's the only one that fits those books
What's wrong with Emmanuel Bove?
t. only reads "the classics" and has no opinion or thought of his own, books are either "the classics" and thus good or not "the classics" and thus bad, what a shame that this board promotes this framework and its users often fall for it spending their whole lives without ever really engaging with literature on their own terms as their own persons
>Malaparte
Nice, NYRB have good taste.
>Benjamin, Bove, Genet, Gide, Drieu, Malaparte, Musil, Pasolini, Radiguet, Doderer
These're all gud
>monolingual morons defending being monolingual
Kek
>Casares
>Cummings
>Gass
>Gide
>Musil
>Pasolino
>Svevo
These seem pretty good
Casares sucks.
are you just one guy throughout the thread?
what's so bad about him?
He got filtered
He's a mediocre writer. Zero redeeming qualities.
I'm above that moron's mediocre work.
>Why do you dislike him?
>He just sucks and is bad
Lmao
>Notes of a Crocodile
Starting sweating thinking F. Gardner made it to retailers for a second.
Fat City isn’t in there, so I agree.
cummings is good. and there's no way you've read radiguet.
>Zoom in
>First thing I see is Colette
OP confirmed homosexual, nothing to see here
Varlam Shalamov is good, doesn't belong there