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Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed May 31, 2017 5:19 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: Wed May 31, 2017 5:20 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: Wed May 31, 2017 5:32 pm
by epilogue
Chronic City which I really didn't like. And Motherless Brooklyn which was fine but ultimately underwhelming.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed May 31, 2017 5:40 pm
by washing machine
I'm still under the impression that Chronic City was just some sort of stoned in-joke between Lethem and his friends.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed May 31, 2017 5:43 pm
by washing machine
Both of you should read Gun, with Occasional Music. It's got all the markings of a first novel, so it's definitely not perfect, but it was written by the young Lethem who Older Lethem can't stop exploring in all nearly all of his later fiction and essays, so it has this really pure and genuine thing going for it that is absent in everything else. It's by far the funnest thing he's ever written.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed May 31, 2017 5:49 pm
by epilogue
washing machine wrote:Both of you should read Gun, with Occasional Music. It's got all the markings of a first novel, so it's definitely not perfect, but it was written by the young Lethem who Older Lethem can't stop exploring in all nearly all of his later fiction and essays, so it has this really pure and genuine thing going for it that is absent in everything else. It's by far the funnest thing he's ever written.
I'm happy to give the guy another shot. I want to like him the way so many of my friends do. When I do pick up another of his, I'll make it Gun.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed May 31, 2017 6:10 pm
by washing machine
Nice. I'd love to read your thoughts on him if for no other reason than to hear what a film guy like you has to say about his ideas and influences regarding film and literature, which he obviously loves.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue June 06, 2017 6:06 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Thu June 08, 2017 12:30 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
enjoying this one so far...has a princess bride vibe
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Fri June 09, 2017 2:40 am
by Rangi Guy
Just finished
Found it kind of eerie, given recent events, that at towards the end the 'villain' is plotting to blow himself up at a concert using a suicide vest with ball bearings etc at a concert mainly attended by teenage girls
Now I'm reading
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Fri June 09, 2017 4:19 am
by bune
Hmm, I forgot about that. I hope he doesn't do a "Rage" and pull it from market too.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Fri June 09, 2017 1:18 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Fri June 09, 2017 3:00 pm
by bune
Loved that book, but the library (at the time) only had up to book 2 so I couldn't finish the series. THat was ears ago so I'm going to re-read them all now since I have a new library with interlibrary loans!
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Fri June 09, 2017 3:02 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
bune wrote:
Loved that book, but the library (at the time) only had up to book 2 so I couldn't finish the series. THat was ears ago so I'm going to re-read them all now since I have a new library with interlibrary loans!
We should read them together and start our own book club
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Fri June 09, 2017 3:32 pm
by epilogue
E.H. Ruddock wrote:bune wrote:
Loved that book, but the library (at the time) only had up to book 2 so I couldn't finish the series. THat was ears ago so I'm going to re-read them all now since I have a new library with interlibrary loans!
We should read them together and start our own book club
Oh shit, we were gonna do that last fall weren't we? Sorry, I totally forgot about that.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Fri June 09, 2017 3:35 pm
by Simple Torture
durdencommatyler wrote:E.H. Ruddock wrote:bune wrote:
Loved that book, but the library (at the time) only had up to book 2 so I couldn't finish the series. THat was ears ago so I'm going to re-read them all now since I have a new library with interlibrary loans!
We should read them together and start our own book club
Oh shit, we were gonna do that last fall weren't we? Sorry, I totally forgot about that.
BECAUSE THE FILM CLUB WENT SO WELL
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Fri June 09, 2017 3:37 pm
by epilogue
Simple Torture wrote:durdencommatyler wrote:E.H. Ruddock wrote:bune wrote:
Loved that book, but the library (at the time) only had up to book 2 so I couldn't finish the series. THat was ears ago so I'm going to re-read them all now since I have a new library with interlibrary loans!
We should read them together and start our own book club
Oh shit, we were gonna do that last fall weren't we? Sorry, I totally forgot about that.
BECAUSE THE FILM CLUB WENT SO WELL
match point.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Fri June 09, 2017 3:38 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
AL
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Fri June 09, 2017 3:44 pm
by bune
E.H. Ruddock wrote:bune wrote:
Loved that book, but the library (at the time) only had up to book 2 so I couldn't finish the series. THat was ears ago so I'm going to re-read them all now since I have a new library with interlibrary loans!
We should read them together and start our own book club
*looks at stack of books that is at least a foot and a half tall*
Sure. That's what a queue is for, right?
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Fri June 09, 2017 3:47 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
bune wrote:E.H. Ruddock wrote:bune wrote:
Loved that book, but the library (at the time) only had up to book 2 so I couldn't finish the series. THat was ears ago so I'm going to re-read them all now since I have a new library with interlibrary loans!
We should read them together and start our own book club
*looks at stack of books that is at least a foot and a half tall*
Sure. That's what a queue is for, right?
