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Weekly "what are you reading" Thread #55

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

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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Zip Zap/Zop 4d ago #6609091 spent 155 currency on pings

!commenters I've been reading :marseymoreyouknow: White :marseymarcuswave: by Brett Easton :marseybateman: Ellis and it feels :marseyvapecrying: like a direct line to the Gen-Xer id, quite dramapilled in that it's a boomer :marseygrilling2: spilling his spaghetti everywhere but there's a handful of passable insights too

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coned no/no a woman is a lot like a refrigerator. they're about 6 feet tall, 300 pounds, they make ice. Zip 4d ago #6609115

spilling his spaghetti everywhere

what does that even mean

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Zip Zap/Zop coned 4d ago #6609178 Edited 4d ago

He spends at least a quarter of the book ranting about snowflakes and wokeness and how he wasn't ever mad about twitter :marseyelonpaypig: but just posted a lot and extensively detailed :marseycatgirlhomofascist: how he reacted

e: at least half really :marseythinkorino2:

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PatriceOneal e/acc We went to a musical called "Oh Africa, Brave Africa". It was a laugh riot. coned 4d ago #6609133

:marseysmugautist:

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Redactor0 naori/oppa The Rachel Dolezal of Filipinos Zip 4d ago #6609559

Just don't confuse Gen-Xers with the actual boomers who came before, or the one good generation of people who are totally perfect that came just after.

I would say I learned a lot about them from Douglas Coupland's Generation X except that I don't remember a goddarn thing from it. Except for some kid claiming that ackshually :marseyakshually: Fight Club was bad because fat from liposuction was a minor part of the plot and Generation X mentioned fat from liposuction. So it was just a ripoff.