What are you currently reading?

[Malloy]

fuck i can't do audio books. do the readers always do voices? fuck

[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]

maybe it was just this particular audio book. for many years i loved the nyer fiction podcast. think you'd like joshua ferris reading "adams" on there

[BurtReynolds]

I get used to it, but some are a lot better than others.

[bart]

I can’t do fiction audiobooks

[BurtReynolds]

I hate endnotes. Either have enough respect for your footnotes to put them on the same page, or get rid of them.

[BurtReynolds]

Might as well stick with the brain.

This is my porn.



Excited to see where this goes.

Disastrously, humans have constructed a conceptual prison for themselves, but how to get out again? Vibes?

It's frustratingly - though I guess necessarily - vague in the details about how to turn things around. It has too much of a bias I think, but has lots of interesting bits. Some great stuff on why art changed back and forth through history from abstraction and symbolism to realism.



Interestingly, he mentions The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind a couple of times and seems positive about it (it can be read as a sort of prequel to this book.) But he argues that, rather than the mind being split and coming together, it actually was the opposite. I think The Origin... is the better book, but whatever the case, 1000 BC must have been interesting times!

[Higgs]

The only audiobooks I can do for some reason are comedic: Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, George Saunders. Any other genre and I can’t hang.

Do your self a favour and check out Andy Weir's "Project Hail Mary" read by Ray Porter. Perfect example of how an audiobook should be read. Had me interested and engaged from the outset.

Happy. Happy happy happy.

(Happy to upload for you if you want btw)

[Malloy]

come back to terra firma: Come Back, Dr. Caligari

[dad]

The Sun Also Rises.

I recall picking up A Farewell to Arms years ago but never finishing it.

[Bammer]

“Mexico” by James Michener.

The character Leon Ledesma reminds me Jorge Farrah. A lot.

[BurtReynolds]

Blood Meridian reread

[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]

Blood Meridian reread

The scene where they’re making gunpowder out of guano is my favorite

piss, man, piss for your very soul

[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.

[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.

[wease]

Hoping to finish Bossypants while Papa Wease is in surgery

[VinylGuy]

Hoping to finish Bossypants while Papa Wease is in surgery

how is it?

[4/5]

[4/5]

I was thinking of reading Cormac McCarthy for the first time. Should I? Where do people recommend starting?