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Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed September 20, 2017 3:14 pm
by bune
Started reading The Big Short. Had this weird sense of deja vu that I'd read something by this guy before but couldn't place it. It was just so smarmy, I'm-the-smartest-guy-in-the-room, that I couldn't shake the feeling. I just checked Goodreads and turns out I read Liar's Poker a couple years ago. Weird.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed September 20, 2017 4:22 pm
by The Argonaut
Iholdthepain wrote:finished The Time Machine today, starting War of the Worlds tomorrow...
I
HG Wells
The Time Machine is absolutely tops. The Island of Dr. Moreau is pretty good also. War of the Worlds and Invisible Man were middling to me, though. But Time Machine is so great
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Thu September 21, 2017 8:11 pm
by dimejinky99
Just finished this. Simply put. One of the best books I've ever read. Bawling happy tears at the end. Can't get over it. Well worth your time. Robbing yourself if you don't read it.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Thu September 21, 2017 10:22 pm
by bune
dime, you on Goodreads?
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Thu September 21, 2017 11:57 pm
by BurtReynolds
Order of the Phoenix. Probably the best one yet. She's a great writer but the endings suck. That and Harry is an annoying emo twat.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Fri September 22, 2017 7:02 am
by dimejinky99
bune wrote:dime, you on Goodreads?
I am but rarely update it. It's awesome for finding out what books your favourite authors are reading though.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon October 02, 2017 11:47 pm
by Simple Torture
Finally:
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue October 03, 2017 12:07 am
by Simple Torture
Nobel Prize will be awarded sometime soon (probably next Monday, the 9th). With two English-language writers in the past four years, chances of that happening again are slim. I could totally see a Middle Eastern winner this year.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed October 04, 2017 8:13 pm
by epilogue
Simple Torture wrote:Finally:
Man, I want to read this so fucking badly.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed October 04, 2017 8:13 pm
by epilogue
Just finished "Disgrace" by J.M. Coetzee. Amazing.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Thu October 05, 2017 12:10 am
by Simple Torture
durdencommatyler wrote:Simple Torture wrote:Finally:
Man, I want to read this so fucking badly.
It's good.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Thu October 05, 2017 12:11 am
by Simple Torture
I've been meaning to get into the LaVar Burton Reads podcast:
http://www.levarburtonpodcast.com/
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Thu October 05, 2017 3:02 am
by wease
Fixing to start the new Dan Brown Langdon novel.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Thu October 05, 2017 3:40 am
by Simple Torture
Nobel Prize reveal is tomorrow morning, usually it's like 6AM EST. Get your popcorn ready, especially if you're a Murakami or Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o fan.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Thu October 05, 2017 12:24 pm
by Simple Torture
Simple Torture wrote:Nobel Prize will be awarded sometime soon (probably next Monday, the 9th). With two English-language writers in the past four years, chances of that happening again are slim. I could totally see a Middle Eastern winner this year.
Color me wrong wrong wrong wrong:
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Thu October 05, 2017 1:49 pm
by guestT
It
Ready Player One
Just reading stuff I see on the teevee I guess.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Thu October 05, 2017 2:22 pm
by The Argonaut
Simple Torture wrote:Simple Torture wrote:Nobel Prize will be awarded sometime soon (probably next Monday, the 9th). With two English-language writers in the past four years, chances of that happening again are slim. I could totally see a Middle Eastern winner this year.
Color me wrong wrong wrong wrong:
English language ftw
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Thu October 05, 2017 7:02 pm
by epilogue
Disgrace was amazing.
Now, I'm on:
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Thu October 05, 2017 8:19 pm
by bune
Reading The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins by Irvine Welsh and it's...wow. It's intense. It's really awkward too because I'm actually listening to it so I get to listen to a female narrator go on and act out all of these sex scenes.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sat October 07, 2017 7:21 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.