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Steve Albini wrote: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.
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tragabigzanda wrote:started Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing. So far it's as lovely as to be expected.
i remember almost nothing about both this and cities on the plain or whatever it’s called
And they say that a hero could save us
I'm not gonna stand here and wait
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Steve Albini wrote: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.
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tragabigzanda wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:started Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing. So far it's as lovely as to be expected.
i remember almost nothing about both this and cities on the plain or whatever it’s called
thanks for not spoiling it for me
the judge dies
And they say that a hero could save us
I'm not gonna stand here and wait
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i might reread everything is illuminated
And they say that a hero could save us
I'm not gonna stand here and wait
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I'm reading Semiosis by Sue Burke and Wool by Hugh Howey. I realized while reading these books (plus the Wayward Pines trilogy previously) that I don't have the heart for this kind of book any more. I have enough depressing future in the real world right now, I don't need to read about them too.
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bune wrote:I'm reading Semiosis by Sue Burke and Wool by Hugh Howey. I realized while reading these books (plus the Wayward Pines trilogy previously) that I don't have the heart for this kind of book any more. I have enough depressing future in the real world right now, I don't need to read about them too.
i just want to hug u so hard
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Steve Albini wrote: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.
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I'm. Going. To. Shit. From. Now. Until. September.
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Steve Albini wrote: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.
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Steve Albini wrote: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.
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Sounds like someone is itching to start a The Post Handmaids Tale Money Grab thread.
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tragabigzanda wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:I might die
you definitely will
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lennytheweedwhacker wrote:i might reread everything is illuminated
i love this book so much
And they say that a hero could save us
I'm not gonna stand here and wait
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lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:i might reread everything is illuminated
i love this book so much
It's pretty fucking great. Do you like Extremely Loud?
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durdencommatyler wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:i might reread everything is illuminated
i love this book so much
It's pretty fucking great. Do you like Extremely Loud?
yes but not near as much...i probably liked here i am more also
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lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:i might reread everything is illuminated
i love this book so much
It's pretty fucking great. Do you like Extremely Loud?
yes but not near as much...i probably liked here i am more also
I still haven't tackled Here I Am.

But Extremely Loud was the first JSF that I read and it captured me. I still rank that one above EiI. But both are just outstanding.
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durdencommatyler wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:i might reread everything is illuminated
i love this book so much
It's pretty fucking great. Do you like Extremely Loud?
yes but not near as much...i probably liked here i am more also
I still haven't tackled Here I Am.

But Extremely Loud was the first JSF that I read and it captured me. I still rank that one above EiI. But both are just outstanding.
don’t ask me why but i feel like you won’t like it as much
And they say that a hero could save us
I'm not gonna stand here and wait
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lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:i might reread everything is illuminated
i love this book so much
It's pretty fucking great. Do you like Extremely Loud?
yes but not near as much...i probably liked here i am more also
I still haven't tackled Here I Am.

But Extremely Loud was the first JSF that I read and it captured me. I still rank that one above EiI. But both are just outstanding.
don’t ask me why but i feel like you won’t like it as much
Here I Am? Yeah, I've actually gotten that feeling too. Which is why I haven't jumped on it yet.
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