What are you currently reading?

[lennytheweedwhacker]

dad?

[Malloy]

John Darnielle is the guy from the Mountain Goats. People get emotional about the Mountain Goats

vg —my replies were simply aping the kind of reader/listener asher alludes to here

[dad]

last weekend, i overheard a girl seated at the table next to ours tell her friend/bf about the GoodReads review she wrote about his new book.

i didn't hear any more details than that.

Were they naked

No. I'm sure they had their masks on.

Like, over their dicks?

You'll have to ask dad

the girl who mentioned the book review had a mask over her strap-on.

[Mickey]

last weekend, i overheard a girl seated at the table next to ours tell her friend/bf about the GoodReads review she wrote about his new book.

i didn't hear any more details than that.

I did this for my wife's book. Pretty common.

[epilogue]

last weekend, i overheard a girl seated at the table next to ours tell her friend/bf about the GoodReads review she wrote about his new book.

i didn't hear any more details than that.

I did this for my wife's book. Pretty common.

Wait, a review of her friend/bf's new book? Or of John Darnielle's new book?

[dad]

last weekend, i overheard a girl seated at the table next to ours tell her friend/bf about the GoodReads review she wrote about his new book.

i didn't hear any more details than that.

I did this for my wife's book. Pretty common.

Wait, a review of her friend/bf's new book? Or of John Darnielle's new book?

oops, it was for John Darnielle’s book.

[epilogue]

last weekend, i overheard a girl seated at the table next to ours tell her friend/bf about the GoodReads review she wrote about his new book.

i didn't hear any more details than that.

I did this for my wife's book. Pretty common.

Wait, a review of her friend/bf's new book? Or of John Darnielle's new book?

oops, it was for John Darnielle’s book.

Ok cool. That's what I thought you meant.

[Mickey]

Oh I meant I reviewed my wife's book.

[dad]

yeah, I'm terrible with attribution and tense.

I hope you left your wife a good review.

[Mickey]

I'm in the dedication so "Brandon" left a glowing review

[BurtReynolds]

Leave a rating for the mouse book that some call "predictable and uninspired": https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/348 ... VXr&rank=1

[epilogue]

ST, how's Devil House going for you?

[Simple Torture]

ST, how's Devil House going for you?

I like it so far! I am waiting for the pieces to fall together, but for right now I like "Wolf in the White Van" more. There are definitely through lines through the books, him being interested in things like the occult/RPGs/murders etc, so it doesn't feel samey but has the same feel. I know that sounds like a ridiculous paradox, but it's just what I've taken from it so far.

[epilogue]

ST, how's Devil House going for you?

I like it so far! I am waiting for the pieces to fall together, but for right now I like "Wolf in the White Van" more. There are definitely through lines through the books, him being interested in things like the occult/RPGs/murders etc, so it doesn't feel samey but has the same feel. I know that sounds like a ridiculous paradox, but it's just what I've taken from it so far.

Oh no I get it. I totally agree. I'm only a quarter through.

[Malloy]

mick or anyone else — do you know anything about michael bible or his writing?

[Mickey]

I know he went to my MFA program lmao. A handful of years before me. I know a few folks who liked him and a few folks who thought he was a guy who just jacked his dick all day until the bar opened. I've never read his stuff but it seems very Barry Hannah inflected. There really is a Cowboy Maloney's Electric City in Jackson, which kind of takes the shine off that title.

[Mickey]

Oh and this probably goes without saying but that is not his Christian name.

[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.

[Malloy]

Oh and this probably goes without saying but that is not his Christian name.

i figured

[dad]

Oh and this probably goes without saying but that is not his Christian name.

can't stop laughing at this.