cutuphalfdead wrote:Though the final act of the first book is so good, detailing the Easter Rising and the immediate aftermath.
Are any of U2's albums based on these books?
Bloody Sunday is prominent in the fourth book. So, no.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sun April 10, 2016 8:52 pm
by epilogue
cutuphalfdead wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
cutuphalfdead wrote:Though the final act of the first book is so good, detailing the Easter Rising and the immediate aftermath.
Are any of U2's albums based on these books?
Bloody Sunday is prominent in the fourth book. So, no.
Thank god.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon April 11, 2016 5:34 pm
by bune
I read "A Hologram for the King" last fall because the cover looked intriguing. The book was ok but it kind of began and ended. It was kind of like a play in that there aren't really introductions to any of the characters, they just exist fully-formed to themselves if not to you the reader. So imagine my surprise when I saw it's going to be a movie.
Tom Hanks isn't what I had in mind when I read the book, someone more like Alfred Molina I guess.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon April 11, 2016 5:35 pm
by Norah
I was a big fan of You Shall Know Our Velocity.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sat April 16, 2016 9:14 pm
by epilogue
Find Me by Laura van den Berg.
I'm only 40 pages into this thing but I fucking loooooooooooooooooooooove it, so far.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sat April 23, 2016 3:31 am
by Dscans
I've been on a psychology kick.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon April 25, 2016 8:57 am
by ABNorman
I've had this on my shelf for years (as I suspect have many South Africans), but never read it. I'm finding it pretty fascinating so far, but it's a big ol' book.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon April 25, 2016 8:04 pm
by epilogue
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed April 27, 2016 3:04 am
by bada
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed April 27, 2016 5:25 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Thu April 28, 2016 1:07 am
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote: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.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Thu April 28, 2016 1:42 pm
by epilogue
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
I looked at this picture for a solid 45 to 50 seconds trying to figure out how to work the word "zombie" into it somewhere.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Thu April 28, 2016 3:07 pm
by bune
Finished The Time Machine this morning, it's a really well-written book - loved the way the whole story was executed. At one point I was wondering whether these particular evolutions were specific to Britain or if it was the same the world over. I would imagine that it would be "pocketed" given how limited travel seemed to have become, and with Britain being an island even more so. An interesting thought exercise since it seems to have been written about particularly British casts of life; I wonder what the Indian or Chinese or even Russian descendents would be like? Especially given how large and varied those land masses are.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Thu April 28, 2016 3:56 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
durdencommatyler wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
I looked at this picture for a solid 45 to 50 seconds trying to figure out how to work the word "zombie" into it somewhere.
and then you imagined zombies banging?
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Thu April 28, 2016 3:59 pm
by epilogue
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
I looked at this picture for a solid 45 to 50 seconds trying to figure out how to work the word "zombie" into it somewhere.
and then you imagined zombies banging?
I did it again!
For some reason my mind really wants that book to be some kind of hipster zombie book by David Eggers.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Thu May 05, 2016 9:42 pm
by patrick
Windup Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami
I've never read anything by him, and someone told me this was a good place to start. I like it so far for its style, and I'm expecting it to get really weird any chapter now.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Fri May 06, 2016 12:24 am
by bada
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Fri May 06, 2016 2:27 pm
by bune
Wow that's a terrible cover.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Fri May 06, 2016 2:34 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote: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.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Fri May 06, 2016 4:43 pm
by bada
tragabigzanda wrote:
bada wrote:
First time? It's awesome, minus King's typical dialogue style.
Yes first time. I'm nearly finished. I can never really think of a good way to explain those King writing ticks that annoy me...those sort of strange cascades of internal monologue/self referential humor King leans on in every novel. Many of his character end up all thinking in the same way. I think that might be what you might mean by dialogue style. It gets a bit much but its par for the course with him. I really like his stuff but I have to take long breaks between books because of that quirk.
