What are you currently reading?

[ghost]

New George Saunders sounds amazing. Need to get my hands on it.

My brother got me a signed copy of that Lincoln book but I still haven't read it. Should I?

Yes!

I'll add it to the pile. I loved 10th and CivilWarLand, but a novel just seems daunting.

[Simple Torture]

Lincoln in the Bardo was great. I want to revisit it, I may add it to my list.

Trag, are you talking about his new book on Russian fiction?

[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.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

swamplandia!

Love this one.

i've heard mixed over the years, but i'm glad to hear your praise

i'm about 50 pages in...it's not blowing me away so far, but i'm interested

i haven't made much progress on swamplandia! recently...just can't seem to concentrate

i've found kiwi's story the most interesting, weirdly

[dad]

started on this today.

[Simple Torture]

In the quiet suburbs, while Dorothy is doing chores and waiting for her husband to come home from work, not in the least anticipating romance, she hears a strange radio announcement about a monster who has just escaped from the Institute for Oceanographic Research…

[lennytheweedwhacker]

about to start:

[epilogue]

about to start:

[lennytheweedwhacker]

an English/Lit professor friend interviewed some journalists who covered the story his book The Nickel Boys is based on...he sent me the link Tuesday to view it live, but i was sick and forgot

[Simple Torture]

In the quiet suburbs, while Dorothy is doing chores and waiting for her husband to come home from work, not in the least anticipating romance, she hears a strange radio announcement about a monster who has just escaped from the Institute for Oceanographic Research…

This was really good.

[Simple Torture]

In Mexican poet Boullosa's (Texas) second novel, a ghost recounts the hauntings of her childhood in order to conquer fear. When the narrator is a young girl, one of her classmates invites her into the school's hen coop, where the girls begin to hear strange footsteps approaching. These footsteps follow the narrator after the classmate's sudden death and are accompanied by other odd situations: her scissors mysteriously slaughter a turtle, a tree moves away from her to deny her shade, and ink marks on a jacket turns into live spiders. All the while, the narrator has to grapple with the fact that she is growing up in a terrifying world with a family who cannot understand her, providing an altogether fresh take on the coming-of-age story.

[Bi_3]

Anyone have a Kindle Oasis? Looking for opinions...

[ghost]

Totally forgot that I pre-ordered this until it showed up yesterday. Now I just gotta get through the 3 other books ahead of it in line.

I could probably just plow through it this weekend but that's a lot of despair to take in all at once.

This was, not surprisingly, excellent and harrowing and grim and sorta hopeful.

Moving on to:



Oh yeah this too:

[Ello Sailor]

Would anyone care to rank Dumas' novels for me? I loved The Count of Monte Cristo and have been meaning to pick up another of his.

Thanks, fellas.

[BurtReynolds]

Jeez I thought Blindsight was hard to follow. Had to read this one twice to have any idea what I read (I also reread Blindsight and picked up on a lot of things I missed). THere is an appendix in the back that explains some of the concepts he is riffing off of that would have been useful to read first.

It delves into rationality vs. intuition in relation to their usefulness for science, among other things, but not to the deep level that Blindsight delved into consciousness. Still, I liked it a lot. It's a complicated hard sci-fi book, but I think some major plot points were rushed over and barely explained at all, so it's not just hard to follow because of the complexity. The various post-human factions here are nearly too powerful to relate to, but I thought it worked.

[epilogue]

I bought two books yesterday in case I ever finish Swann's Way.



and

[lennytheweedwhacker]

i thought the hurricane season was over

[epilogue]

shows how much you know

[lennytheweedwhacker]

i’m high

[epilogue]

nice