Red Mosquito

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.

Simple Torture wrote:bune, there was a really good episode of the In Our Time podcast recently that tackled Animal Farm: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07wgkz4

tragabigzanda wrote:

Brett wrote:Lately I've been reading American Gods out loud to my wife and our yet-to-be-born daughter.

wease wrote:

Brett wrote:Lately I've been reading American Gods out loud to my wife and our yet-to-be-born daughter.

Is that the Neil Gaiman book?

Brett wrote:

wease wrote:

Brett wrote:Lately I've been reading American Gods out loud to my wife and our yet-to-be-born daughter.

Is that the Neil Gaiman book?

It is. I've read two other Gaiman books, Stardust and Anansi Boys. I enjoyed the former, not so much the latter.

Brett wrote:I think it's related to American Gods. Anansi, the god, appears in American Gods, and he dies at the beginning of his titular book to set the plot in motion.

This is the most hilarious book you could read in under two hours. Or you could spread the wealth and read it to your kids. Granted they - and you - have to be OK with (within the first 20 pages) the heroes of the story getting their heads cut off before the story really starts. Once that happens, you're taken through a variety of Grimm stories that are somewhat akimbo to what you remember.

Heck, even the cover lies to you (the book explains why, eventually). The whole thing was a joy. I really wanted to stop reading so I could read it to my son but I couldn't stop. I'd read it again anyway but I talked it up so much he's reading it right now and I can't get it back.

Even if it has YA tags, it's still worth it as it's not your usual YA fare. And as I said - it won't even take that long to read.

durdencommatyler wrote:I'm not sure what to read next.