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Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue October 18, 2016 4:48 pm
by epilogue
Currently reading
Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood.
My god, she's amazing. This woman just continues to blow my mind. Great book so far. About 100 pages in.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sat October 22, 2016 5:26 pm
by epilogue
If, somehow, on this planet there are those who think maybe Atwood is too old... too dry... close to the end and finished; over her head and ready to rest -- perhaps they read
The Heart Goes Last and saw some sort of foreboding writing on the wall... to those delusional, misguided folks I can only smirk and say... fucking read
Hag-Seed.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sat October 22, 2016 5:49 pm
by bada
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sat October 22, 2016 5:52 pm
by LetMeSleep
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sat October 22, 2016 7:07 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
Is that the whale rider sequel
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sat October 22, 2016 7:13 pm
by LetMeSleep
E.H. Ruddock wrote:Is that the whale rider sequel
I didn't know there was one.
It's a Sth Afican author. Not bad so far but only 1/4 thru.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sat October 22, 2016 7:21 pm
by epilogue
bada wrote:
I want to read this.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sat October 22, 2016 7:39 pm
by bada
durdencommatyler wrote:bada wrote:
I want to read this.
I'm only 100 pages in but its good so far.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon October 24, 2016 12:01 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon October 24, 2016 12:12 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: Mon October 24, 2016 12:18 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
tragabigzanda wrote:lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
Nice. I've never read it, but I do have the Charles Portis Miscellany (collection of newspaper articles, essays, and short stories), and it's excellent. Sort of a pre-cursor to Tom Wolfe.
i've never seen the john wayne film, but thoroughly enjoyed the coens' version...it was available for a free download on the local library's digital media center so i figured i'd give it a read
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon October 24, 2016 3:06 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
I think I want to get into reading some Ursula Le Guin
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon October 24, 2016 3:51 pm
by bune
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:tragabigzanda wrote:lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
Nice. I've never read it, but I do have the Charles Portis Miscellany (collection of newspaper articles, essays, and short stories), and it's excellent. Sort of a pre-cursor to Tom Wolfe.
i've never seen the john wayne film, but thoroughly enjoyed the coens' version...it was available for a free download on the local library's digital media center so i figured i'd give it a read
You answered the question I was about to ask. If you liked No Country For Old Men because of how closely it followed the book, you'll love True Grit.
E.H. Ruddock wrote:I think I want to get into reading some Ursula Le Guin
I read Wizard of Earthsea and enjoyed it. It was weird in that there was almost zero conflict, but also interesting for that reason. I plan on reading most of her books over 2017, we'll see how far I get. Especially since I have also committed myself to starting The Wheel of Time.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon October 24, 2016 8:31 pm
by bart
E.H. Ruddock wrote:I think I want to get into reading some Ursula Le Guin
Which book will you be guin with?
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon October 24, 2016 10:01 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon October 24, 2016 10:05 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
bune wrote:lennytheweedwhacker wrote:tragabigzanda wrote:lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
Nice. I've never read it, but I do have the Charles Portis Miscellany (collection of newspaper articles, essays, and short stories), and it's excellent. Sort of a pre-cursor to Tom Wolfe.
i've never seen the john wayne film, but thoroughly enjoyed the coens' version...it was available for a free download on the local library's digital media center so i figured i'd give it a read
You answered the question I was about to ask. If you liked No Country For Old Men because of how closely it followed the book, you'll love True Grit.
yeah i've heard it follows it really closely...i'm not really the type that feels a film should necessarily follow the book
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue October 25, 2016 1:31 am
by BurtReynolds
Can anyone recommend any good fantasy books? Not dwarves and elves, though.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue October 25, 2016 1:41 am
by bada
BurtReynolds wrote:Can anyone recommend any good fantasy books? Not dwarves and elves, though.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue October 25, 2016 1:48 am
by E.H. Ruddock
BurtReynolds wrote:Can anyone recommend any good fantasy books? Not dwarves and elves, though.
Ursula le Guin, who i mentioned on this page, writes primarily fantasy
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue October 25, 2016 1:54 am
by bart
Left Hand of Darkness can't be topped.
