Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue June 13, 2017 12:25 am
wtf
Who is RM's parkaboy?malice wrote:F:F:Fwashing machine wrote:He really took a duck to the face at 250 knots, didn't he?malice wrote:Maybe once he's feeling better about life, right now a strange and vaguely dystopian universe doesn't feel like the best read for him...washing machine wrote:Think we'll ever get lenny into William Gibson, Mary?
depends on who is rm's casewashing machine wrote:Who is RM's parkaboy?malice wrote:F:F:Fwashing machine wrote:He really took a duck to the face at 250 knots, didn't he?malice wrote:Maybe once he's feeling better about life, right now a strange and vaguely dystopian universe doesn't feel like the best read for him...washing machine wrote:Think we'll ever get lenny into William Gibson, Mary?

1. Serious problem!lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
so it's a page turner!Simple Torture wrote:1. Serious problem!lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
2. Panic!
3. Calm down.
4. Come up with ingenious solution.
5. Repeat.
I read it as en ebook so there weren't any pages.lennytheweedwhacker wrote:so it's a page turner!Simple Torture wrote:1. Serious problem!lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
2. Panic!
3. Calm down.
4. Come up with ingenious solution.
5. Repeat.
So it's a kindle tapper!Simple Torture wrote:I read it as en ebook so there weren't any pages.lennytheweedwhacker wrote:so it's a page turner!Simple Torture wrote:1. Serious problem!lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
2. Panic!
3. Calm down.
4. Come up with ingenious solution.
5. Repeat.
ebook for me as well, though i could pick up the physical book at the library if i get into itSimple Torture wrote:I read it as en ebook so there weren't any pages.lennytheweedwhacker wrote:so it's a page turner!Simple Torture wrote:1. Serious problem!lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
2. Panic!
3. Calm down.
4. Come up with ingenious solution.
5. Repeat.

i saw this in the library the other day and briefly wondered what it was about...might check it outdigster wrote:
This book was amazing and all sorts of fucked up. On to...
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.

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.
half a chapter in and you couldn't be any more wrongtragabigzanda wrote:My best guess is that it's story about refugees, possibly on bicycles.lennytheweedwhacker wrote:going with this right now instead of the martian...no clue what it's about
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.
the books isn't over yet...i imagine the bikes make their appearance in the last chaptertragabigzanda wrote:Sue the publisher for false advertising.lennytheweedwhacker wrote:half a chapter in and you couldn't be any more wrongtragabigzanda wrote:My best guess is that it's story about refugees, possibly on bicycles.lennytheweedwhacker wrote:going with this right now instead of the martian...no clue what it's about
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.