What are you currently reading?

[LetMeSleep]

[bada]

I've been thinking about reading that Weiland book but I'm assuming it will be filled with mostly half truths or just straight BS.

[LetMeSleep]

It's a really quick read. A mate sent me a dig copy the yesterday and I'm nearly through it. PM me if you want it.

It's like bullet points and glosses over quite a lot. It occasionally gets going then is on to something else. I'm not sure if it's changed my view of him or not but I've enjoyed it.

[BurtReynolds]

Outliers. good stuff

those flight transcripts are painful to read.

[bada]

[lennytheweedwhacker]

now that i'm done with GoT i can get back to the real world of reading

i think i'm wanting something in the "magical realism" realm...any suggestions?

[bune]

Ok. What about Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell? It's a massive tome with copius footnotes but it's brilliant.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is the 2004 debut novel of British writer Susanna Clarke. An alternative history set in 19th-century England around the time of the Napoleonic Wars, it is based on the premise that magic once existed in England and has returned with two men: Gilbert Norrell and Jonathan Strange. Centred on the relationship between these two men, the novel investigates the nature of "Englishness" and the boundaries between reason and unreason, Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Dane, and Northern and Southern English cultural tropes/stereotypes. It has been described as a fantasy novel, an alternative history, and a historical novel. It inverts the Industrial Revolution conception of the North/South divide in England: in this book the North is romantic and magical, rather than rational and concrete. It can be usefully compared and contrasted with Elizabeth Gaskell's attempts at synthesising a unitary English identity in her fiction.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Ok. What about Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell? It's a massive tome with copius footnotes but it's brilliant.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is the 2004 debut novel of British writer Susanna Clarke. An alternative history set in 19th-century England around the time of the Napoleonic Wars, it is based on the premise that magic once existed in England and has returned with two men: Gilbert Norrell and Jonathan Strange. Centred on the relationship between these two men, the novel investigates the nature of "Englishness" and the boundaries between reason and unreason, Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Dane, and Northern and Southern English cultural tropes/stereotypes. It has been described as a fantasy novel, an alternative history, and a historical novel. It inverts the Industrial Revolution conception of the North/South divide in England: in this book the North is romantic and magical, rather than rational and concrete. It can be usefully compared and contrasted with Elizabeth Gaskell's attempts at synthesising a unitary English identity in her fiction.

would my elementary level knowledge of english history hinder me at all?

[bune]

I didn't let it hinder me!

[lennytheweedwhacker]

I didn't let it hinder me!

the library way across town has this...i'll give it a shot in the near future

[lennytheweedwhacker]

s_t (or any other bolano weirdos) - how was the insufferable gaucho?

[Simple Torture]

s_t (or any other bolano weirdos) - how was the insufferable gaucho?

Honestly, I've only read it once, and it didn't make a very strong impression. The Kafka impression was enjoyable, I think, if I remember correctly. When it comes to his short fiction, I still think Last Evenings on Earth is the standard, and I'm a big fan of The Secret of Evil.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

s_t (or any other bolano weirdos) - how was the insufferable gaucho?

Honestly, I've only read it once, and it didn't make a very strong impression. The Kafka impression was enjoyable, I think, if I remember correctly. When it comes to his short fiction, I still think Last Evenings on Earth is the standard, and I'm a big fan of The Secret of Evil.

i was going to pick it up at the library near me, but turns out it's at another one in town

i still haven't read 2666

[Simple Torture]

s_t (or any other bolano weirdos) - how was the insufferable gaucho?

Honestly, I've only read it once, and it didn't make a very strong impression. The Kafka impression was enjoyable, I think, if I remember correctly. When it comes to his short fiction, I still think Last Evenings on Earth is the standard, and I'm a big fan of The Secret of Evil.

i was going to pick it up at the library near me, but turns out it's at another one in town

i still haven't read 2666

On a scale of 1-10: how much do you enjoy descriptions of women getting raped and murdered?

[Simple Torture]

s_t (or any other bolano weirdos) - how was the insufferable gaucho?

Honestly, I've only read it once, and it didn't make a very strong impression. The Kafka impression was enjoyable, I think, if I remember correctly. When it comes to his short fiction, I still think Last Evenings on Earth is the standard, and I'm a big fan of The Secret of Evil.

i was going to pick it up at the library near me, but turns out it's at another one in town

i still haven't read 2666

On a scale of 1-10: how much do you enjoy descriptions of women getting raped and murdered?

And on that scale:
1 = I hate the thought of it and can't stand it
10 = human bass

[lennytheweedwhacker]

s_t (or any other bolano weirdos) - how was the insufferable gaucho?

Honestly, I've only read it once, and it didn't make a very strong impression. The Kafka impression was enjoyable, I think, if I remember correctly. When it comes to his short fiction, I still think Last Evenings on Earth is the standard, and I'm a big fan of The Secret of Evil.

i was going to pick it up at the library near me, but turns out it's at another one in town

i still haven't read 2666

On a scale of 1-10: how much do you enjoy descriptions of women getting raped and murdered?

And on that scale:
1 = I hate the thought of it and can't stand it
10 = human bass

i'm going to pretend like i didn't read this post

[Simple Torture]

s_t (or any other bolano weirdos) - how was the insufferable gaucho?

Honestly, I've only read it once, and it didn't make a very strong impression. The Kafka impression was enjoyable, I think, if I remember correctly. When it comes to his short fiction, I still think Last Evenings on Earth is the standard, and I'm a big fan of The Secret of Evil.

i was going to pick it up at the library near me, but turns out it's at another one in town

i still haven't read 2666

On a scale of 1-10: how much do you enjoy descriptions of women getting raped and murdered?

And on that scale:
1 = I hate the thought of it and can't stand it
10 = human bass

i'm going to pretend like i didn't read this post

So like a 6?

[lennytheweedwhacker]

s_t (or any other bolano weirdos) - how was the insufferable gaucho?

Honestly, I've only read it once, and it didn't make a very strong impression. The Kafka impression was enjoyable, I think, if I remember correctly. When it comes to his short fiction, I still think Last Evenings on Earth is the standard, and I'm a big fan of The Secret of Evil.

i was going to pick it up at the library near me, but turns out it's at another one in town

i still haven't read 2666

On a scale of 1-10: how much do you enjoy descriptions of women getting raped and murdered?

And on that scale:
1 = I hate the thought of it and can't stand it
10 = human bass

i'm going to pretend like i didn't read this post

So like a 6?

yes, exactly like a 6

[lennytheweedwhacker]

desert places by matthew balliro

[The Argonaut]

desert places by matthew balliro

I read that!