Red Mosquito

bada wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

I'm giving this book a spin, literally, just because of this pull quote inside the cover:

“I am glad to have the book as a companion on my own dark quest.” —Tom Waits

durdencommatyler wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

I'm giving this book a spin, literally, just because of this pull quote inside the cover:

“I am glad to have the book as a companion on my own dark quest.” —Tom Waits

This is fucking outstanding by the way.

But What If We’re Wrong? visualizes the contemporary world as it will appear to those who'll perceive it as the distant past. Chuck Klosterman asks questions that are profound in their simplicity: How certain are we about our understanding of gravity? How certain are we about our understanding of time? What will be the defining memory of rock music, five hundred years from today? How seriously should we view the content of our dreams? How seriously should we view the content of television? Are all sports destined for extinction? Is it possible that the greatest artist of our era is currently unknown (or—weirder still—widely known, but entirely disrespected)? Is it possible that we “overrate” democracy? And perhaps most disturbing, is it possible that we’ve reached the end of knowledge?

Kinetically slingshotting through a broad spectrum of objective and subjective problems, But What If We’re Wrong? is built on interviews with a variety of creative thinkers—George Saunders, David Byrne, Jonathan Lethem, Kathryn Schulz, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Brian Greene, Junot Díaz, Amanda Petrusich, Ryan Adams, Nick Bostrom, Dan Carlin, and Richard Linklater, among others—interwoven with the type of high-wire humor and nontraditional analysis only Klosterman would dare to attempt. It’s a seemingly impossible achievement: a book about the things we cannot know, explained as if we did. It’s about how we live now, once “now” has become “then.”

Strat wrote:Joey, you should check into this new Chuck Klosterman book. he spends the first hundred pages or so ruminating on histories greatest authors, why they were considered great, why they werent, were they properly rated, will they be remembered in hundreds of years

But What If We’re Wrong? visualizes the contemporary world as it will appear to those who'll perceive it as the distant past. Chuck Klosterman asks questions that are profound in their simplicity: How certain are we about our understanding of gravity? How certain are we about our understanding of time? What will be the defining memory of rock music, five hundred years from today? How seriously should we view the content of our dreams? How seriously should we view the content of television? Are all sports destined for extinction? Is it possible that the greatest artist of our era is currently unknown (or—weirder still—widely known, but entirely disrespected)? Is it possible that we “overrate” democracy? And perhaps most disturbing, is it possible that we’ve reached the end of knowledge?

Kinetically slingshotting through a broad spectrum of objective and subjective problems, But What If We’re Wrong? is built on interviews with a variety of creative thinkers—George Saunders, David Byrne, Jonathan Lethem, Kathryn Schulz, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Brian Greene, Junot Díaz, Amanda Petrusich, Ryan Adams, Nick Bostrom, Dan Carlin, and Richard Linklater, among others—interwoven with the type of high-wire humor and nontraditional analysis only Klosterman would dare to attempt. It’s a seemingly impossible achievement: a book about the things we cannot know, explained as if we did. It’s about how we live now, once “now” has become “then.”

he spoke at length about some author (and the name is currently lost in my head somewhere) that i want to check out.

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Simple Torture wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:Anyone read Nic Pizzolatto´s Between here and the yellow sea?

Yeah, and I remember liking it more than Galveston. But neither has really stuck with me besides the feeling of, "Oh, these are nice."

DeLima wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:Anyone read Nic Pizzolatto´s Between here and the yellow sea?

Yeah, and I remember liking it more than Galveston. But neither has really stuck with me besides the feeling of, "Oh, these are nice."

I really liked Galveston. Gonna check out Between Here and The Yellow Sea

durdencommatyler wrote:

DeLima wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:Anyone read Nic Pizzolatto´s Between here and the yellow sea?

Yeah, and I remember liking it more than Galveston. But neither has really stuck with me besides the feeling of, "Oh, these are nice."

I really liked Galveston. Gonna check out Between Here and The Yellow Sea

Yeah, I liked Galveston, too.

DeLima wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

DeLima wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:Anyone read Nic Pizzolatto´s Between here and the yellow sea?

Yeah, and I remember liking it more than Galveston. But neither has really stuck with me besides the feeling of, "Oh, these are nice."

I really liked Galveston. Gonna check out Between Here and The Yellow Sea

Yeah, I liked Galveston, too.

You think he should go back to books or stick with a 3rd season of TD/some form of tv?