What are you currently reading?

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Sorry i'm drunk. Goodnight love u.

[Rangi Guy]

Love u too prince! Sweet dreams

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Love u too prince! Sweet dreams

[The Argonaut]

I've been thinking about Dracula a lot lately, so maybe I should read it?

I stopped about halfway through about six weeks ago. I should continue it. I haven’t even gotten to the Van Helsing stuff yet.

Argo and I took the Moby Dick journey together. This should be our Dick.

Did you end up finishing it?

[lennytheweedwhacker]

I've been thinking about Dracula a lot lately, so maybe I should read it?

I stopped about halfway through about six weeks ago. I should continue it. I haven’t even gotten to the Van Helsing stuff yet.

Argo and I took the Moby Dick journey together. This should be our Dick.

Did you end up finishing it?

Yes sir

[The Argonaut]

proud of you. never again

[lennytheweedwhacker]

proud of you. never again

I just started the prequel.

[dad]

i am once again reading dystopian smut.

[Rangi Guy]

Just finished reading this


There's a really good story in there ruined by wierd spiritual bullshit.

[Ello Sailor]

Found a '93 printing of William Gibson's Burning Chrome. Stoked.

[epilogue]

Reading The Vegetarian.

Kinda love it, so far.

[blueviper]

The Committed - Viet Thanh Nguyen

Holly - Stephen King

[BurtReynolds]

The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch

this is pretty fun. An absolute den of thieves and morons.

[BurtReynolds]

I paid about 120 bucks for this, but it's worth it. It's huge. 410 pages and around 12x8 inches.

[dad]

cute.

[dad]

honestly, it looks pretty cool.

[Anders]

Good looking book.

[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.

[The Argonaut]

This morning, I finished a book I've been making my way through all year: The Bible. Specifically the fifth edition of the New Oxford Annotated Bible, New Revised Standard Version, with the Apocrypha. I read all the books, all the introductory and explanatory essays, all the footnotes.

This seems to be the study bible most commonly used in academic courses in this field, and it certainly was an education all in itself. There's a lot of great info in there, focusing especially on the history of these texts and the context of the times they were written. I've been atheist and anti-spiritual since I was about 14, so this was not a religious exercise for me. It was more a historical and literary exploration.

It's not an especially good or interesting or wise book by itself, a lot of it is stupendously boring and irrelevant. Some of it is briefly interesting. The book of Ecclesiastes is great, struck me as very Epicurean. The book of Jonah is also great, very funny and short. The Gospels are also pretty good, there's some good stuff in there in between the supernatural stories of Jesus curing lepers and whatnot. Revelation was also pretty interesting to read.

But I read the thing, cover to cover. I feel like a more informed person now.

[wease]

Trag has finally snapped