What are you currently reading?

[washing machine]

Picked this up on a whim today. Cover caught my eye, and the slim page count is about all my free time can handle lately.

[bart]

What the hell does that blurb even mean?

[washing machine]

Haha, I didn't even read that.

[bune]

Finished ¨Im thinking about ending things¨...what a ride. Its so well written. Its so fucking scary and moody.

Spoiler: show

I hated waiting for you to finish it because of that ending. What did you think?

[VinylGuy]

Finished ¨Im thinking about ending things¨...what a ride. Its so well written. Its so fucking scary and moody.

Spoiler: show

I hated waiting for you to finish it because of that ending. What did you think?

Spoiler: show

I was really surprised...never saw it coming. It went full weird when she is at the school and i couldnt really understand what she was doing. At the time i thought man, this got super stupid...and then when its explained it makes sense and it changes everything

[bune]

Spoiler: show

Yeah, it was one of those where you're like "Ok, starting over right now".

[VinylGuy]

Spoiler: show

I want to read it backwards like the book suggests.

[run2death]

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[washing machine]

Picked this up on a whim today. Cover caught my eye, and the slim page count is about all my free time can handle lately.

This was a good read. Quick, but it hits hard. 33 chapters meditating on the motif that the world the writer experiences is a skipping record. The prose moves like a scratched record that quickly becomes unstuck and spins towards a weighty climax then starts skipping again.

He looks down at the sea again and drinks straight from the bottle. Behind him, the dirty, beautiful, broken city; in front of him the abyss that suggests defeat…. We win by isolating ourselves, and in isolating ourselves we are defeated, he thinks. The wall is the sea, the screen that protects us and locks us in. There are no borders; those waters are a bulwark and a stockade, a trench and a moat, a barricade and a fence. We resist through isolation. We survive through repetition.

[epilogue]

Got this bad boy packed and ready for the trip!

[jwfocker]

Got this bad boy packed and ready for the trip!

[run2death]

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Orpheus]

Anyone ever read Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe? I am almost done with the last book in the four-book series, and it's done a number on me. If you unfamiliar with the series, it's basically set on Earth millions of years in the future, when the sun has begun to die out. Initially appearing as a pseudo-feudal fantasy novel, you realize that in fact you're reading about technologies that we have no concept of, but are so old to these people that they appear to be natural or magical. It goes beyond typical plotting and has sections about religion, science, philosophy and more, alongside typical stuff like swords and spaceships and aliens. They're written as though they've been translated into our language from a new language far in the future, so there's all sorts of ambiguity and archaic words.

It's hard to read and really entrancing and like nothing I've ever experienced. Anyone ever checked it out?

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Orpheus]

Have picked it up at a book store multiple times but never taken the plunge.

I don't blame you, they're kind of a bitch to read. Very worth it though, these books have really, really cool stuff in them.

[epilogue]

Do you guys/gals have a top 10 favorite books list?

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Simple Torture]

Do you guys/gals have a top 10 favorite books list?

Oh, lordy