Red Mosquito

Posted: **Sun February 28, 2016 12:53 pm**

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.

Posted: **Sun February 28, 2016 1:13 pm**

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.

Posted: **Tue March 01, 2016 7:39 am**

Outliers. good stuff

those flight transcripts are painful to read.

Posted: **Sat March 05, 2016 2:56 am**

Posted: **Mon March 07, 2016 4:56 am**

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?

Posted: **Mon March 07, 2016 7:30 pm**

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.

Posted: **Mon March 07, 2016 7:39 pm**

bune wrote: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?

Posted: **Mon March 07, 2016 7:44 pm**

I didn't let it hinder me!

Posted: **Mon March 07, 2016 9:54 pm**

bune wrote:I didn't let it hinder me!

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

Posted: **Mon March 07, 2016 9:54 pm**

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

Posted: **Mon March 07, 2016 11:49 pm**

lennytheweedwhacker wrote: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.

Posted: **Mon March 07, 2016 11:57 pm**

Simple Torture wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote: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

Posted: **Tue March 08, 2016 12:19 am**

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
Simple Torture wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote: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?

Posted: **Tue March 08, 2016 12:20 am**

Simple Torture wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
Simple Torture wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote: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

Posted: **Tue March 08, 2016 1:36 am**

Simple Torture wrote:
Simple Torture wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
Simple Torture wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote: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

Posted: **Tue March 08, 2016 2:03 am**

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
Simple Torture wrote:
Simple Torture wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
Simple Torture wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote: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?

Posted: **Tue March 08, 2016 2:07 am**

Simple Torture wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
Simple Torture wrote:
Simple Torture wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
Simple Torture wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote: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

Posted: **Tue March 08, 2016 5:28 pm**

desert places by matthew balliro

Posted: **Tue March 08, 2016 6:40 pm**

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:desert places by matthew balliro

I read that!

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