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Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon March 27, 2017 9:18 pm
by bodysnatcher
The Argonaut wrote:I'm really into the first 100 pages of this one:
wow that actually sounds really interesting (reading the description) and could be a good followup to what I'm reading. thanks argo
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon March 27, 2017 10:23 pm
by The Argonaut
Dinner dinner wife wife thank you thank you
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon April 03, 2017 4:16 pm
by bune
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon April 03, 2017 4:58 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
Looking forward to getting my hands on a copy of this to read:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/02/asia/nort ... ended_pool
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Thu April 13, 2017 5:10 pm
by bada
Anyone ever read Mortal Engines (The Hungry City Chronicles #1)? Any good?
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Fri April 14, 2017 6:04 am
by BurtReynolds
so far it's note for note LOTR.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Fri April 14, 2017 9:07 pm
by epilogue
I thought people liked the Wheel of Time books.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Fri April 14, 2017 9:25 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 April 14, 2017 10:26 pm
by BurtReynolds
durdencommatyler wrote:I thought people liked the Wheel of Time books.
I've heard the first one is ok, then the series gets better, then sucks again.
soooooooooo much description in this.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sun April 16, 2017 12:53 pm
by contamination
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon April 17, 2017 1:35 pm
by epilogue
Ahsoka!
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue April 18, 2017 1:19 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
hope to finish it tomorrow, then will begin a reread of all the pretty horses
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue April 18, 2017 1:25 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: Tue April 18, 2017 1:28 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
tragabigzanda wrote:Hi Lenny, I hope you are well. I hated Blindness, but ATPH is a top 5 book for me.
why did you hate blindness?
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue April 18, 2017 1:38 am
by The Argonaut
As I mentioned yesterday in tinychat, I have
Blindness in the pile of to-be-read-books on my bedside table right now. I read and loved his
Cain a few months ago, and have been meaning to get to some of his other stuff. Unfortunately, I'm like 200 out 1000 pages into this beast
and I had to pause this one mid-way through
so that I could get through this 700-pager in the two weeks the library allows me to have it
I hope to have the headspace/read-time to dig into the Saramago soon...
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue April 18, 2017 1:48 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: Tue April 18, 2017 1:55 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
The Argonaut wrote:
so that I could get through this 700-pager in the two weeks the library allows me to have it
I hope to have the headspace/read-time to dig into the Saramago soon...
you can't renew?
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue April 18, 2017 2:01 am
by The Argonaut
it's brand new so there are other people requesting it so they won't let me renew, no. They'll start charging me 25 cents a day!
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue April 18, 2017 3:19 pm
by bune
My library has overdue fees but they disappear as soon as you return the book so why bother having overdue fees?
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue April 18, 2017 3:24 pm
by epilogue
tragabigzanda wrote:lennytheweedwhacker wrote:tragabigzanda wrote:Hi Lenny, I hope you are well. I hated Blindness, but ATPH is a top 5 book for me.
why did you hate blindness?
I found his prose style to be needlessly difficult and obtuse, without any real payoff for the effort. I think McCarthy handles the "run on sentence/constant train of thought" approach so much better.
Interesting, because I'm the exact opposite. I adore Blindness (probably my second favorite book that I've ever read) and have enjoyed a lot of Saramago's other work.
McCarthy is much more difficult for me. The Road was an easy enough read. But everything else I've tried has been a slog. I had to put down Blood Meridian after about 75 pages.
