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is she your great aunt?
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bune wrote:is she your great aunt?
Ha!

Man, I wish. That would be amazing.
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I'm about 60 percent of the way through, and I like it thus far. I guess my only frustration is that it's a really good book so close to being a great one, and I can't really pinpoint why it's falling short as of yet.
After you are finished I’d like to know if it still fell short or redeemed itself. I read it a month or so ago.
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There’s a book called Second Sleep by Robert Harris

Post apocalyptic world with no internet and no memory of it.

I suggest it to all.
Calibrate your enthusiasm
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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 getting it all out of my system.
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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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dimejinky99 wrote:There’s a book called Second Sleep by Robert Harris

Post apocalyptic world with no internet and no memory of it.

I suggest it to all.
You should check out The Great Forgetting by James Renner or A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
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tragabigzanda wrote:I feel ya. Sometimes better to lean in and let it run its course a bit faster.
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tragabigzanda wrote:I feel ya. Sometimes better to lean in and let it run its course a bit faster.
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I'm about 60 percent of the way through, and I like it thus far. I guess my only frustration is that it's a really good book so close to being a great one, and I can't really pinpoint why it's falling short as of yet.
started this one the other day, though i'm only 25% in, so hard to form a strong opinion. but apocalyptic stuff is always in my wheelhouse, so i'll see how it goes.
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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:Wanted to read this one before the HBO adaptation came out. Only just begun and I already love it.

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I'm reading this right now, too--about 65% in now.
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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 agree about the pace, it really moves and that helps suck you in. I think it gets more frantic as the narrative goes on, which is a good thing--there's lots of implied dread and worry at the beginning, and (I don't think this is a spoiler) when that actually begins to manifest, the tension shoots up dramatically. I like that I still don't really know where it's going.
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There's a series? Something to watch after Man in the High Castle I guess. I'm going to start the book next.
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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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Simple Torture wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:Wanted to read this one before the HBO adaptation came out. Only just begun and I already love it.

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I'm reading this right now, too--about 65% in now.
Adore this book. So glad you guys are diving in and digging it. :heartbeat:
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