The Argonaut wrote:Take a look at The Professional by W.C. Heinz. Or Heroes of the Frontier by Dave Eggers. (This post is in response to lenny)
i'll look into the professional
i couldn't finish a heartbreaking work of staggering genius, though
Well, I love the Genius book, but it's definitely one of a kind. His novels are typically a bit more chill.
i could have finished it, i just didn't want to...i can't remember how far i got, maybe about 40%?
anybody here read miss lonelyhearts by nathaneal west?
miss lonelyhearts is like reading rm.. you feel terribly burdened and fall into a cycle of deep depression, accompanied by heavy drinking and occasional bar fights.
The Argonaut wrote:Take a look at The Professional by W.C. Heinz. Or Heroes of the Frontier by Dave Eggers. (This post is in response to lenny)
i'll look into the professional
i couldn't finish a heartbreaking work of staggering genius, though
Well, I love the Genius book, but it's definitely one of a kind. His novels are typically a bit more chill.
i could have finished it, i just didn't want to...i can't remember how far i got, maybe about 40%?
anybody here read miss lonelyhearts by nathaneal west?
miss lonelyhearts is like reading rm.. you feel terribly burdened and fall into a cycle of deep depression, accompanied by heavy drinking and occasional bar fights.
did you stop reading at some point in your life?
And they say that a hero could save us
I'm not gonna stand here and wait
The Argonaut wrote:Take a look at The Professional by W.C. Heinz. Or Heroes of the Frontier by Dave Eggers. (This post is in response to lenny)
i'll look into the professional
i couldn't finish a heartbreaking work of staggering genius, though
Well, I love the Genius book, but it's definitely one of a kind. His novels are typically a bit more chill.
i could have finished it, i just didn't want to...i can't remember how far i got, maybe about 40%?
anybody here read miss lonelyhearts by nathaneal west?
miss lonelyhearts is like reading rm.. you feel terribly burdened and fall into a cycle of deep depression, accompanied by heavy drinking and occasional bar fights.
The Argonaut wrote:Take a look at The Professional by W.C. Heinz. Or Heroes of the Frontier by Dave Eggers. (This post is in response to lenny)
i'll look into the professional
i couldn't finish a heartbreaking work of staggering genius, though
Well, I love the Genius book, but it's definitely one of a kind. His novels are typically a bit more chill.
i could have finished it, i just didn't want to...i can't remember how far i got, maybe about 40%?
anybody here read miss lonelyhearts by nathaneal west?
miss lonelyhearts is like reading rm.. you feel terribly burdened and fall into a cycle of deep depression, accompanied by heavy drinking and occasional bar fights.
did you stop reading at some point in your life?
i read
what are the last 3 books you've read?
And they say that a hero could save us
I'm not gonna stand here and wait
The Argonaut wrote:Take a look at The Professional by W.C. Heinz. Or Heroes of the Frontier by Dave Eggers. (This post is in response to lenny)
i'll look into the professional
i couldn't finish a heartbreaking work of staggering genius, though
Well, I love the Genius book, but it's definitely one of a kind. His novels are typically a bit more chill.
i could have finished it, i just didn't want to...i can't remember how far i got, maybe about 40%?
anybody here read miss lonelyhearts by nathaneal west?
miss lonelyhearts is like reading rm.. you feel terribly burdened and fall into a cycle of deep depression, accompanied by heavy drinking and occasional bar fights.
I read The Day of the Locust and it was basically the same experience.
tragabigzanda wrote:Anybody read this? I grabbed it at the library today, it sounds pretty awesome.
That's on my list, it does sound pretty good.
I finished "Brave New World" and it was an odd read. It was like there were four books in there, all trying to come out, but only two actually got any attention. I might have to read it again.
I remembered this morning that I read his next book Undermajordomo Minor because it was available at the library when The Sisters Brothers wasn't. Very funny book.
My current audiobook is What If? and Wil Wheaton narrates it. Man he's got a smarmy way about him. It kind of fits here though, i guess? So far the nerd humor of XKCD works with his voice, whatever that means.
Finished this last night. Couldn't put it down. Great book. You can totally see James Cameron mined this book of a lot of ideas and watered them down for Avatar. This book is far superior than that and really engaging and intriguing. Screaming for a film adaptation. Can't recommend it enough. And it's just the first in a series of 5. Jumped straight into the second one and it's shifted focus to a different part of the military orginisation and the view from there. Really brilliant read if you're at a loose end.
I think I'm going to have to look into scalzi's work. I just spent 20 minutes scrolling through various book descriptions on Amazon for this guy and im baffled how ive missed reading any of them. I almost exclusively read science and speculative fiction yet don't own a thing by him.
Dev wrote:you're delusional. you are a sad sad person. fuck off. you're mentally ill beyond repair. i don't need your shit. dissapear.
This one is a musing on conservation, nature and the history of a land (specifically North Central Texas, but the story could have come from anywhere.) I'd recommend to anyone who is a fan of any of those things.
dimejinky99 wrote:I could destroy any ai chatbot you put in front of me. Easily.
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.
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The prose can be kind of grandiose at times, but the subject matter lends itself to that. I love how he weaves thoughts on his current position floating the Brazos with bloody and haunting stories that have occurred along the banks and in the nearby towns. Kind of like Robert Pirsig meets Larry McMurtry with a few Cormac characters and scenes sprinkled in there.
dimejinky99 wrote:I could destroy any ai chatbot you put in front of me. Easily.
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.
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