What are you currently reading?

[blueviper]

Finally started Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner.

Nice. Let me know what you think about it when you finish.

[blueviper]

Started The Sound and the Fury a week or so ago, but have been too tired to read. Now my hotshot community college professor friend wants me to try Percival Everett's James and see if I think it's worth using in his class.

What are you, his assistant? Tell him to do his own job!

James is a very good book. What is the class your friend would be using it?

[epilogue]

Finally started Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner.

Nice. Let me know what you think about it when you finish.

Will do. I'm low key in love with the first 40 pages.

Excited to see where it's headed.

[LoathedVermin72]

David Mamet's Everywhere an Oink Oink. David Mamet is fucking crazy.

[daft twat]

Started The Sound and the Fury a week or so ago, but have been too tired to read. Now my hotshot community college professor friend wants me to try Percival Everett's James and see if I think it's worth using in his class.

What are you, his assistant? Tell him to do his own job!

James is a very good book. What is the class your friend would be using it?

Just finished this and couldn’t disagree more. Love the idea, but the execution is abysmal.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Started The Sound and the Fury a week or so ago, but have been too tired to read. Now my hotshot community college professor friend wants me to try Percival Everett's James and see if I think it's worth using in his class.

What are you, his assistant? Tell him to do his own job!

No, just a good friend who he trusts.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

I enjoyed it, but felt like it could have been much more. I'm moderately surprised it won the Pulitzer.

[epilogue]

I enjoyed it, but felt like it could have been much more. I'm moderately surprised it won the Pulitzer.

The Sound and the Fury isn't a very good book. It's one of those "medicine" pieces of art. It's time to call it what it is.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

I enjoyed it, but felt like it could have been much more. I'm moderately surprised it won the Pulitzer.

The Sound and the Fury isn't a very good book. It's one of those "medicine" pieces of art. It's time to call it what it is.

I was talking about James.

[wease]

I enjoyed it, but felt like it could have been much more. I'm moderately surprised it won the Pulitzer.

The Sound and the Fury isn't a very good book. It's one of those "medicine" pieces of art. It's time to call it what it is.

I was talking about James.

Joe, you banana

[epilogue]

I enjoyed it, but felt like it could have been much more. I'm moderately surprised it won the Pulitzer.

The Sound and the Fury isn't a very good book. It's one of those "medicine" pieces of art. It's time to call it what it is.

I was talking about James.

Oh

[lvc]

I enjoyed it, but felt like it could have been much more. I'm moderately surprised it won the Pulitzer.

The Sound and the Fury isn't a very good book. It's one of those "medicine" pieces of art. It's time to call it what it is.

I was talking about James.

Oh

I am, however, open to this argument on The Sound and the Fury. I'm halfway through and it's feeling like a long walk for a small drink of water. I don't know anything about it (didn't even know the aggressively obfuscative narrative style) but I'm already feeling like it's a short story's worth of stuff stretched out across a novel's worth of headspace.

However, when Faulkner is just telling a part of the story I really like it. I'd read that whole novel any day.

[daft twat]

I enjoyed it, but felt like it could have been much more. I'm moderately surprised it won the Pulitzer.

It was a chance to see Jim/James interact with his wife and daughter, to witness what his life being owned by Miss Watson was like, to hear his thoughts as he is alone tied up on the raft or at Phelps’ farm. That would be character development.

Instead, we’re given that all slaves actually talk in “proper English” when white people aren’t present. They’re like the cows in Far Side comics. Ridiculous. Then you get the book’s huge twist, which is absurd, and Jim basically

Spoiler: show

tells his son Huck (Christ) to fuck off and live his life while he goes and saves his real family. Then he does that in Django fashion and end of the book saying his name like he is the one who knocks

Jim was the hero of Huck Finn. We don’t teach it anymore because of the language, and I was really hoping this new telling could bring the characters back to my classroom. It’s just too poorly written to be of use.

[Cairn_Away]

My Dog Got Ox-Fucked To Death, by Gordon Gordón

[lennytheweedwhacker]

In the Garden of Beasts - Erik Larson

[Bi_3]

The Devils - Joe Abercrombie

[wease]

The Angels- Frank Fitch

[oasisfan35]

Finished Horns by Joe Hill last evening. Enjoyed it though given how it began:

Approximately a decade ago, Hill wrote an epic fantasy novel entitled The Fear Tree... that involved a character with the ability to divine people's most closely guarded secrets. This concept was reworked for a novel Hill wrote entitled The Surrealist's Glass, wherein the protagonist acquired a magical lens which allowed him to see people's secrets. Hill describes The Surrealist's Glass "as a confused, corrupt, first draft of Horns" to the degree that "several scenes in Horns appeared in a cruder earlier form in [The Surrealist's] Glass." According to Hill, "writers tend to revisit the same themes, tropes, places, and concerns, again and again, until they figure out how to use them in a satisfying way," which is what he did with this premise until he "finally got it right with Horns."

I feel it could have been more polished overall. It was only his second novel, perhaps he picked up some methods and received some advice from dear old dad as his career moved along; looks like mostly short stories with three full novels. I am curious to read his debut Heart-Shaped Box though:

The titles of the novel and its four sections are all those of rock songs: Heart-Shaped Box by Nirvana, Black Dog by Led Zeppelin, Ride On by AC/DC, Hurt by Nine Inch Nails and Alive by Pearl Jam

On the non-fiction side I have been reading Why the Right Went Wrong and may start 11/22/63 given the time frame.

[lvc]

Found out after doing taxes that I spent 1000 bucks on books last year. I'm banned from buying any more until I read the crap I have.

Is it communist to go to the library?

[VinylGuy]

I read Horns back in the day, i cant remember anything really. I did loved Nos4a2. wonderful.