Weekly "what are you reading" Thread #55 :marseyreading:

To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks and papers.

!bookworms !classics

I'm still haven't finished Père Goriot and I began to re-read Crime and Punishment as It's been almost a decade since I read it and I was gifted a new and pretty hardcover edition. I forgot how neurodivergent the characters acted, I'm not talking about Raskolnikov but Luzhin for instance behaves and talks so strangely in his first meeting with his future brother in law and co., he first comes out as arrogant, then clueless with a "fellow kids" vibe. Marmeladov's rambling at the tavern was longer than I remembered, and what a pathetic and wretched person he is.

>Yeah, I'm a drunk unemployed loser, my wife got beaten up by shark loaners and I did nothing, my kids starve and my eldest daughter whores herself to provide for us, someone gave me a job out of good faith and old trust and instead of working I went to buy booze and get lost for 5 days. But God will have mercy on me because I'm self aware :marseyclueless: :marseysmoothbrain:

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I'm reading A Spy in the House of Love by Anaïs Nin! :marseyangel:

Also lol ij remembered, hey !bookworms bbs! I'm sorry ab the bookclub, :marseysuicide: it looked like interest was lost and I'm terrible at remembering to post things so I forgot about it completely bc I'm a stupid whore :marseypaperbag:

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:marseyc#heerup:

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I didn't like Atomised and gave up. But I lol hard every time he talked about the mother, her whole character was about "being the biggest whore ever", it reached cartoonish levels when it was revealed she had s*x with a 13 year old boy after seducing/grooming him for a few days.

@johannesalthusius did you finish it?

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Houellebecq thoughts on wammin issues and sexuality are always comically on the nose lol :marseydisagree: Christiane being literally fricked into paralysis during an orgy, for example :marseylaughpoundfist: I understand why you didn't like it haha. What are you reading now? :marseysun:

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Christiane being literally fricked into paralysis during an orgy, for example :marseylaughpoundfist:

What? Lmao

What are you reading now? :marseysun:

Le Père Goriot by Balzac (a much finer French author) and re-reading Crime and Punishment.

I also want to re-read ASOIAF after finishing those as I'm high on Winds of Winter hopium.

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I'm being so fricking fr

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17196012598157754.webp

I saved that so I can add it to my list, what's it like? :marseyjump: Also, I loved those books, I read most of them years ago but never got all the way through so I will remind myself to do that when WOW comes out. Is there news about it that gave you hopium? I haven't seen anything :marseyretardnotes:

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Is there news about it that gave you hopium? I haven't seen anything :marseyretardnotes:

GRRM said it was 75% done in 2022, recently he posted "Words of Wisdom" on his blog (WoW got it?), he's been attending editorial meetings, he said there would be no more Dunk and Egg novellas until TWOW got published, and around the world publishers are revamping new editions of previous ASOIAF books.

I'm ready to be disappointed but I want to believe :marseyhope:

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No, I stopped once I had s*x in real life

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Was the bussy good?

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