What are you currently reading?

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I picked up The Black Notebook by Patrick Modiano and By Night in Chile by Bolano yesterday at Rizzoli.

Pretty excited about both. This will be my first Modiano and my third Bolano.

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Finally started The Black Notebook by Patrick Modiano



Just barely cracked it but I love it so far. So strange and dreamlike and ... what?... threatening? I don't know but I like it.

[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.

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If this thing ends as strongly as it started, I'm about to become a GIANT Modiano fan. I'll start grabbing everything I can by the guy.

[BurtReynolds]

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The Black Notebook is fucking great. Belongs on your shelf between The Stranger and Distant Star. All the loves!

[bune]

It's on my Goodreads list based on your reaction. How do you feel about the translation? Or is it good enough of a story that that doesn't really matter?

And I'm not even getting into how I read books.

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It's on my Goodreads list based on your reaction. How do you feel about the translation? Or is it good enough of a story that that doesn't really matter?

And I'm not even getting into how I read books.

The translation is solid. I'm a big fan of it. I think the atmosphere and tone and the things between the lines are super important. And the translation is nailing that stuff. If you like those other two books I mentioned, I imagine you'll find quite a lot of value in this one too.

[BurtReynolds]

This book blew my fucking mind when I read it (with some help of course). Reading again. They say people fall out with Nietzsche after a while, but I seem to be falling further under his spell.

[Simple Torture]

Once you strip away all of the baggage that was piled on top of Nietzsche's work after he went bananas (his sister was an anti-Semite and added all sorts of forwards and footnotes about how awful Jews were) his books are totally worth reading; they're incredibly engaging even if you're not a big reader of philosophy. I'm not a Nietzschean but I don't think he was wrong about everything.

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This book blew my fucking mind when I read it (with some help of course). Reading again. They say people fall out with Nietzsche after a while, but I seem to be falling further under his spell.

It seems like you and I have drastically different views on most everything: politics, art, humor, just to name a few. It's unsettling that we can agree so completely on this specific topic. You'd think we would have much more in common and see things in similar light by both being huge Nietzsche fans, and both finding MORE value in his work the older we get.

People are weird.

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The Black Notebook was excellent.

I'll start By Night in Chile later today.

[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.

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It's a really short book. I actually feel like it took me too long because I had to keep putting it down. It's the kind of book that could (and probably should) be read in one sitting.

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Also, I have commutes to and from work every day. And usually I'm able to take two hour lunch breaks at work. So, I have time to read a lot, which helps.

[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.

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Yea, I definitely read a lot more when I lived in NYC, for that very same reason. Gained a lot of knowledge on the F line.

Good title.

[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.

[epilogue]

Yea, I definitely read a lot more when I lived in NYC, for that very same reason. Gained a lot of knowledge on the F line.

Good title.

Let's start a rap group and make that our first album.

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS!

[BurtReynolds]

I feel like the internet has ruined my ability to read books. I can't concentrate anymore. I read pages and pages and have no idea what I just read. So frustrating. I don't think it was this bad five years ago. Does anyone else have this problem?