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But my whole thing involves relentless submersion into evermore deeply detailed topics, which can be framed as a mad-dash to map out higher complexities. All in a sustainable effort, of course.

Books, I'm not so sure about em right now. I like the idea of an attention span endurance challenge, in the interest of exercise. But I just have no interest in the ones I'm reading right now, or perhaps that interest is occluded by brighter things. I've been exercising in terms of focused watchings of a variety of technical videos (courses, tutorials, lectures, etc.), seeing how long I can hold a passionate fixation on them.

Also I've never played Metal Gear Solid, but I certainly wouldn't be too opposed to it.
 
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Nabokov on Dostoyevsky,

Dislike him. A cheap sensationalist, clumsy and vulgar. A prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian. Some of his scenes are extraordinarily amusing. Nobody takes his reactionary journalism seriously.
  • The Double. His best work, though an obvious and shameless imitation of Gogol's "Nose."
  • The Brothers Karamazov. Dislike it intensely.
  • Crime and Punishment. Dislike it intensely. Ghastly rigmarole.
 
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You sound just like him,

Balzac, Honoré de. Mediocre. Fakes realism with easy platitudes.
Brecht, Bertolt. A nonentity, means absolutely nothing to me.
Camus, Albert. Dislike him. Second-rate, ephemeral, puffed-up. A nonentity, means absolutely nothing to me. Awful.
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand. Second-rate. A tense-looking but really very loose type of writing.
Eliot, T. S. Not quite first-rate.
Faulkner, William. Dislike him. Writer of corncobby chronicles. To consider them masterpieces is an absurd delusion. A nonentity, means absolutely nothing to me.
 
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Updike, John. By far one of the finest artists in recent years. Like so many of his stories that it is difficult to choose one.
 
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Joyce, James. Great. A favorite between the ages of 20 and 40, and thereafter. Let people compare me to Joyce by all means, but my English is patball to Joyce's champion game. A genius.
  • Ulysses. A divine work of art. Greatest masterpiece of 20th century prose. Towers above the rest of Joyce's writing. Noble originality, unique lucidity of thought and style. Molly's monologue is the weakest chapter in the book. Love it for its lucidity and precision.
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Never liked it. A feeble and garrulous book.
  • Finnegans Wake. A formless and dull mass of phony folklore, a cold pudding of a book. Conventional and drab, redeemed from utter insipidity only by infrequent snatches of heavenly intonations. Detest it. A cancerous growth of fancy word-tissue hardly redeems the dreadful joviality of the folklore and the easy, too easy, allegory. Indifferent to it, as to all regional literature written in dialect. A tragic failure and a frightful bore.
 
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You sound just like him,

Balzac, Honoré de. Mediocre. Fakes realism with easy platitudes.
Brecht, Bertolt. A nonentity, means absolutely nothing to me.
Camus, Albert. Dislike him. Second-rate, ephemeral, puffed-up. A nonentity, means absolutely nothing to me. Awful.
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand. Second-rate. A tense-looking but really very loose type of writing.
Eliot, T. S. Not quite first-rate.
Faulkner, William. Dislike him. Writer of corncobby chronicles. To consider them masterpieces is an absurd delusion. A nonentity, means absolutely nothing to me.
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So who does he actually rate, then? Jackie Collins and Jeffrey Archer?
 
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Linebaugh said:
Mellville seems to be one of the most universally loved writers ever. Never hear anything but high praise.
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Really? I just see loads of people moaning about there being too much whaling in Moby-Dick and quoting Ron Swanson. If there are any writers I never hear anything but praise for it's Kafka and Borges.
 
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Really? I just see loads of people moaning about there being too much whaling in Moby-Dick and quoting Ron Swanson. If there are any writers I never hear anything but praise for it's Kafka and Borges.
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I always took that to be coming from those who don't really read lit, complaining about the homework.
 
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Mr. Tea said:
So who does he actually rate, then? Jackie Collins and Jeffrey Archer?
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John Barth, Joyce, Melville, Updike, Austen, Kafka, Borges, Robbe-Grillet, Beckett, Bely, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Emerson, Proust, Salinger, Shakespeare, Sterne, Rimbaud and a bunch of others.
 
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Freud, Sigmund. A figure of fun. Loathe him. Vile deceit. Freudian interpretation of dreams is charlatanic, and satanic, nonsense.

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