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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
I was an English major at one time and ended up with a degree in linguistics (not that I ever did anything with it lmao). I find the enjoyment of reading Nabokov myself versus listening to Jeremy Irons read Nabokov to me to both be beautiful and fulfilling ways to consume Nabokov's work. They are just different, and ultimately they enhance each other. Maybe my internal narrator just sucks. 😕
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
I guess my question (and probably the source of my apparent insecurity about the concept) is this then: what actually makes it different? What am I losing or missing out on by listening to a novel instead of reading it? I've done both. I've been incredibly touched by both. What is the point of it being a "hill to die on" to quote our conversation stater, if not to striate media consumption? (Yes I know he's not being entirely serious there)
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
The BBC series of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell is also quite good, but not up to the novel's standards imo Fair enough. $4 on Amazon
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
I don't believe I implied that, but there's for sure a tint of smugness around the argument. Barely was released in the States. The ending, as I'm sure you remember it from the book, is not one that American movie audiences usually tend to flock to. Ben Whishaw is Grenouille. Dustin Hoffman is Baldini (probably the weakest performance of the movie but it's not bad or anything). Alan Rickman and Rachel Hurd-Wood round out the principal cast as the father/daughter duo. Tom Tykwer directed it and it's hypnotic to watch.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Actually, the movie of Perfume is fucking great and really underrated/under seen.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Absolutely agree about either one being better than neither! And I definitely won't argue that you can get different things out of the same book by reading versus listening. I just don't think one is inherently better than the other. It's all contextual.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Books that you should listen to that will leave you a huddled sobbing wreck on the floor (complimentary), and that once you finish one you will understand why it's silly to say listening to books can't count as reading them, and frankly in some ways can be superior: Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry Circe, by Madeline Miller Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, by Susanna Clarke The Passage of Power, by Robert Caro (fuckin' dare you to listen to the sections about civil rights and not start weeping now) James, by Percival Everett Perfume - the Story of a Murderer, by Patrick Süskind Grant, by Ron Chernow Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison Matrix, by Lauren Groff Thanks for coming to my TEDTalk.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
I've never been more emotionally wrecked by and connected to a piece of literature than when I listened to Lonesome Dove. And yes, I have read-read it entirely through before as well.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Listening to a podcast versus listening to a book are two very different things and involve very different kinds of listening imo. I don't think every time you listen to a book it's necessarily equivalent to reading it, but I think it can be.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Dag, I can't believe I didn't look at the dictionary definition🙄
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Fuckin' fight me
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Trump’s America
- Government Shutdown 2025: This Time It’s Personal
I mean this has def pushed me to the edge of giving up and not voting, and there's a lot more capitulation to come before the midterms. Coolcoolcool- The Supremes
Goddam it, Twice, I'm fucking grabbing for any piece of hope that can exist right now. C'mon man, let us have this one for like at least 24 hours first.- Trump’s America
From his essay: Oh but I guess that junior judge moving up does create a spot?- Do I get to start the James Talarico thread?
They used to be a lot less right-leaning, iirc- Can we talk about Zuckerberg?
Insane to me to retire at 39 and then go back to work, even if on a spec basis, for a company that I hated or considered harmful to society. But that's why I'm gonna work until I die I guess.- ICE activity/raids
So ICE was taking driveby shots, got it.- Do I get to start the James Talarico thread?
I didn't think I could like Talarico any more than I already do, but here we are. Sex work is work.- Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Elon Musk should have as much nuance applied to his compensation package as he applies to literally any subject he opines on.- Nancy Pelosi is a badass MF and I want her to be Speaker
Respectfully, she's got massive mommy milkers and I, too, wouldn't mind motorboating them. Respectfully.- Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Donkey's specialty.- The Democratic Party
Por qué no los dos?- Can we talk about Zuckerberg?
Keeps going back tho?- I for one welcome our new AI overlords
That fucking sucks. Being a scribe is great experience for future practice, at least from the nurses I know that started as scribes. - Government Shutdown 2025: This Time It’s Personal
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