What are you currently reading?

[wease]

Just started Brothers by Alex Van Halen.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Lenny, you’ve inspired me to pick up and start my copy of The Border Trilogy that was gifted to me last Christmas. I’ve only ever read The Road, but it was so long ago.

I’m about 50 pages into All the Pretty Horses, and I’m enjoying things so far.

Nice...All the Pretty Horses is sublime. I wasn't crazy about the next two, but not opposed to re-reading.

[BurtReynolds]

Speaking of, last year I was looking for the book Blood Meridian was inspired by but it wasn't in print. Now it is!

I'll probably thumb through it. Might read it if it's interesting. It's a lot thicker than I thought it would be.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Samuel is my great uncle

[BurtReynolds]

sounds very made up, but interesting read anyway: https://www.vanityfair.com/style/story/ ... -exclusive

Cormac McCarthy’s Secret Muse Breaks Her Silence After Half a Century

[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]

[BurtReynolds]

Speaking of, last year I was looking for the book Blood Meridian was inspired by but it wasn't in print. Now it is!

I'll probably thumb through it. Might read it if it's interesting. It's a lot thicker than I thought it would be.

This turned out to be pretty great, even though the Glanton gang doesn't show up until the last thirty pages or so, and he quit writing soon after. The writer's voice is great.

Most of it is about the Mexican-American War (or mostly the guerrilla/terrorist war behind the front lines.)

Life sure did suck back then!

Now I'm reading:

If human morphology, upright posture, and the possibility of language are the ramified accidents of natural history, then psychic ailments are ultimately afflictions of the spine, which itself is a scale model of biogenetic trauma, a portable map of the catastrophic events that shaped that atrocity exhibition of evolutionary traumata, the sick orthograde talking mammal.

[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]

Blame the Cambrian Explosion.

[Bi_3]

I dont remember why, but this was on my nightstand

[BurtReynolds]

I dont remember why, but this was on my nightstand

I can't remember if it was good.

[BurtReynolds]

There is no There Is No Antimemetics Division

[contamination]

Just finished this


and before that I read the first 3 parts from this, and I'm on a library waiting list for the fourth part. currently there's something like 1500 people in queue before me, so it might take a while.

[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]

Just started Michael McDonald’s memoir, What A Fool Believes. So far so good.

[BurtReynolds]

Just finished this

Listening to this now.Happy that it's narrated by the man himself.

[VinylGuy]

I have a big pile coming ;

- got salem’s lot and needful things from King
- flea and Rick Rubin’s books
- a Mariana Enriquez novel
- beastie boys book

In finishing Heat 2 and I’ll try to follow with Enriquez and Salem’s lot

[epilogue]

Salem's Lot is an incredible book. Super excited for you.

[wease]

Salem's Lot is an incredible book. Super excited for you.

It really is. Scared the shit out of me.