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Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sat December 10, 2016 2:59 pm
by epilogue
tragabigzanda wrote:lennytheweedwhacker wrote:thanks, trag...have you read house of leaves? admittedly i'm intimidated by it
i read the stranger years ago, and still haven't read anything by dfw
Yes, House of Leaves is fun. I'd call it a successful experiment.
The prose won't leave an impression, but the format is so unique and really does create the story.
Disagree
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sun December 11, 2016 4:19 am
by The Argonaut
First sentence of Chapter One:
Along the clay road, Mike's red truck cuts slowly between tall rows of sugarcane, sassy, silvery tassels waving in the October sun, extending across an alluvial plain as far as the eye can see.
I threw up in my mouth a little bit and put the book down.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon December 12, 2016 11:37 pm
by epilogue
Song of Solomon by Toni Morisson. Goddamn she's good.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon December 12, 2016 11:39 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: Tue December 13, 2016 1:49 am
by Rangi Guy
John's Story: The Last Eyewitness
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue December 13, 2016 2:30 am
by epilogue
tragabigzanda wrote:durdencommatyler wrote:Song of Solomon by Toni Morisson. Goddamn she's good.
Have always wanted to read this. I remember the bible verse, no idea if/how it plays into the story. Beloved was an astounding read.
I've read Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Jazz, and Paradise by Toni Morrison. All have been varying levels of brilliant. But Beloved is on an entirely different level. So far Song of Solomon does not disappoint. She's just a fucking force of nature.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue December 13, 2016 4:50 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue December 13, 2016 4:58 am
by knee tunes
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
what the actual fuck
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue December 13, 2016 5:02 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
knee tunes wrote:lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
what the actual fuck
you're being a real cersei tonight
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue December 13, 2016 5:13 am
by knee tunes
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:knee tunes wrote:lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
what the actual fuck
you're being a real cersei tonight
I'm not even going to look that up.
so call me a stubborn that
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue December 13, 2016 6:40 am
by Norah
Those Dunk and Egg tales are great.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue December 13, 2016 12:18 pm
by LetMeSleep
Enjoyable enough.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue December 13, 2016 2:10 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
cutuphalfdead wrote:Those Dunk and Egg tales are great.
thank you for your support
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue December 13, 2016 2:41 pm
by epilogue
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:cutuphalfdead wrote:Those Dunk and Egg tales are great.
thank you for your support
I hope you enjoy them, Len.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue December 13, 2016 3:03 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
durdencommatyler wrote:lennytheweedwhacker wrote:cutuphalfdead wrote:Those Dunk and Egg tales are great.
thank you for your support
I hope you enjoy them, Len.
thank you...i'm about halfway through the hedge knight and it's enjoyable thus far
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue December 13, 2016 3:15 pm
by epilogue
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:durdencommatyler wrote:lennytheweedwhacker wrote:cutuphalfdead wrote:Those Dunk and Egg tales are great.
thank you for your support
I hope you enjoy them, Len.
thank you...i'm about halfway through the hedge knight and it's enjoyable thus far
Any big revelations? Do you feel it adds a lot to the core epic?
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue December 13, 2016 3:18 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
durdencommatyler wrote:lennytheweedwhacker wrote:durdencommatyler wrote:lennytheweedwhacker wrote:cutuphalfdead wrote:Those Dunk and Egg tales are great.
thank you for your support
I hope you enjoy them, Len.
thank you...i'm about halfway through the hedge knight and it's enjoyable thus far
Any big revelations? Do you feel it adds a lot to the core epic?
no big revelations so far...i'm sure more pertinent connections will come later, but right now i'm just seeing ancestry lines
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue December 13, 2016 4:19 pm
by bune
Reading 1984 to my son. I figure it's better to read it to him so we can talk about it than let him read it himself in school. Right now we're at the part where the windmill has been demolished. He really hates the pigs, and it's hilarious hearing him talk bad about them. We chatted for a bit last night and he asked me if that's what the election was about, if Trump was Napoleon and Hillary was Snowball. So that was a fun conversation.
Up next - eventually - is 1984.
But seriously - everyone should have to read Animal Farm. Squealer is totally Fox news.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue December 13, 2016 4:22 pm
by Simple Torture
bune wrote:Reading 1984 to my son...Up next - eventually - is 1984.
bune has lost his mind, everyone.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue December 13, 2016 4:29 pm
by LetMeSleep
Simple Torture wrote:bune wrote:Reading 1984 to my son...Up next - eventually - is 1984.
bune has lost his mind, everyone.
fortunately we have all developed a dime translator.