What are you currently reading?

[Bammer]

I’m gonna pick up the Mark Lanegan book tomorrow at Easy Street Records.

great pick.

I miss Lanegan.

So this never happened because both kids were sick, but on the plus side I got to stay home from the NYE party and got to bed by like 10:30.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Gilead - Marilynne Robinson

[epilogue]

Gilead - Marilynne Robinson

[BurtReynolds]

quite a mouth full. Should have read this before Will and Idea, but I couldn't be bothered at the time.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Gilead - Marilynne Robinson

Huzzah

[dad]

I've been slacking on my reading. I've not found a book to keep my interest.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

I've been slacking on my reading. I've not found a book to keep my interest.

Catch-22

[dad]

I've been slacking on my reading. I've not found a book to keep my interest.

Catch-22

is that a suggestion or an observation?

[lennytheweedwhacker]

I've been slacking on my reading. I've not found a book to keep my interest.

Catch-22

is that a suggestion or an observation?

Yep

[Simple Torture]

There was discussion recently about "How do I find books to read?" Here's a list with descriptions of 218 books coming out this year (mix of fiction and memoir for the most part, but some other stuff mixed in): https://lithub.com/lit-hubs-most-antici ... ks-of-2023

[blueviper]

There was discussion recently about "How do I find books to read?" Here's a list with descriptions of 218 books coming out this year (mix of fiction and memoir for the most part, but some other stuff mixed in): https://lithub.com/lit-hubs-most-antici ... ks-of-2023

This is a really good resource for new book ideas. Thanks!

[The Argonaut]

How many of those books were written by A.I.? I can only trust books written before Constantine's adoption of Christianity now

[BurtReynolds]

How many of those books were written by A.I.? I can only trust books written before Constantine's adoption of Christianity now

wise choice.

[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.

[BurtReynolds]

Did you know there is a Penguin edition of The Bible? What's up with that?

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Natural selection.

[BurtReynolds]

Cyberpunk time:



I thought this was pretty dumb. There was some interesting stuff about language, but it isn't delved into very deeply. The rest is pretty bland and corny.

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This was a pretty solid book. Probably too complicated for it's own good and I couldn't keep up with all the characters, but I thought it was a fun detective story. Will probably read another one in the series.

[BurtReynolds]

Yeah, I read theory...

[BurtReynolds]

Reread. This book is blowing my brains out lately. One can't overstate just how different we are from people living about 3000 years ago. not even different species. More like people living in entirely different universes.

[The Argonaut]

I'm doubtful of it, Burt. I haven't read the book itself