Red Mosquito

durdencommatyler wrote:How many participants of this thread (and all previous incarnations of this thread) just post pictures of books, and not books they're reading?

The two I have done that with are "Gravity's Rainbow" & "Infinite Jest". The latter I have just begun, and I expect to finish it this time.

Hands of Stone

Dscans wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:How many participants of this thread (and all previous incarnations of this thread) just post pictures of books, and not books they're reading?

I know this doesn't answer your question, but I stopped posting pictures of books and I wish others would follow suit because it makes it harder to search. In other words, if I'm interested in a book and want to do a search on here to see if anyone has read it and what they thought, the search does not pickup the image.

Not if the name of the book is in the image's website address.

Dscans wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:How many participants of this thread (and all previous incarnations of this thread) just post pictures of books, and not books they're reading?

I know this doesn't answer your question, but I stopped posting pictures of books and I wish others would follow suit because it makes it harder to search. In other words, if I'm interested in a book and want to do a search on here to see if anyone has read it and what they thought, the search does not pickup the image.

I like posting the pictures, but I'll tell you what, from now on I'll also write the title & author with the picture.

durdencommatyler wrote:

Dscans wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:How many participants of this thread (and all previous incarnations of this thread) just post pictures of books, and not books they're reading?

I know this doesn't answer your question, but I stopped posting pictures of books and I wish others would follow suit because it makes it harder to search. In other words, if I'm interested in a book and want to do a search on here to see if anyone has read it and what they thought, the search does not pickup the image.

I like posting the pictures, but I'll tell you what, from now on I'll also write the title & author with the picture.

I take back every bad thing I ever said about you.

I'm probably wasting my time with this crowd of elite literature devourers, but I think this is kind of nifty anyway and thought I'd share it.

http://www.bookbookgoose.com/

and here's the link that led me to it with a description:

http://www.hilarymason.com/projects/bookbookgoose/

I finished The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt, which was fantastic. Now I am beginning The Art of Fielding.

malice wrote:I'm probably wasting my time with this crowd of elite literature devourers, but I think this is kind of nifty anyway and thought I'd share it.

http://www.bookbookgoose.com/

and here's the link that led me to it with a description:

http://www.hilarymason.com/projects/bookbookgoose/

i love it

Been reading The Boys after hearing about it in a podcast; I can't help but picture Simon Pegg as Wee Hughie and Vinnie Jones as Billy Butcher.

I just read on Wikipedia that there's a movie in the works. That movie is going to be horrible.

Contemplating a retread of Kavalier and Clay.

Just finished Cannery Row.

surface the north wrote:Just finished Cannery Row.

I'm considering Pynchon soon.

Bob Loblaw wrote:

surface the north wrote:Just finished Cannery Row.

indeed

Fernando Vallejo - La Virgen de los Sicarios

The Argonaut wrote:

Bob Loblaw wrote:

surface the north wrote:Just finished Cannery Row.

indeed

This is the book I was really thinking about a few months ago when I asked for more books about living down and out, and someone called me racist for only reading books by white men.

Simple Torture wrote:"Kindred" by Octavia Butler. It's about slavery and time travel--oh my!

so I was just scanning through this thread to see if any of the authors/titles are ones I'd want to look into and came across this post -
I first read all of Butler's books about 10 years ago, including this one - they're all very 'basic' in how they grab the reader - this one more so than any of her other books - by which I mean the impact they have is on your senses rather than your intellect. she was fantastic in her ability to hit deep nerves, usually in some uncomfortable way, and still make the reader want to keep reading.
anyway - i just went through all of her books again recently, except for this one (I gave this book to a friend to read and never got it back :/ - but whatever) and don't think I can make it through it again anyway - it was too disturbing to me I think.

if you found this one at all good I'd suggest the Xenogenesis trilogy: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago - they had a similar effect on me as Kindred

malice wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:"Kindred" by Octavia Butler. It's about slavery and time travel--oh my!

so I was just scanning through this thread to see if any of the authors/titles are ones I'd want to look into and came across this post -
I first read all of Butler's books about 10 years ago, including this one - they're all very 'basic' in how they grab the reader - this one more so than any of her other books - by which I mean the impact they have is on your senses rather than your intellect. she was fantastic in her ability to hit deep nerves, usually in some uncomfortable way, and still make the reader want to keep reading.
anyway - i just went through all of her books again recently, except for this one (I gave this book to a friend to read and never got it back :/ - but whatever) and don't think I can make it through it again anyway - it was too disturbing to me I think.

if you found this one at all good I'd suggest the Xenogenesis trilogy: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago - they had a similar effect on me as Kindred

Cool! Thanks!

I agree, Kindred was very disturbing in parts, mostly where the narrator starts to accept that she's a slave, that she somehow "belongs" in her place on the plantation or that it's "fitting" for her or "fine." GIves me the willies.

Anyways, I was again supposed to move on from Ice and Fire to "serious" school reading, but now I'm 30% into A Feast For Crows. I'll have to get through that before I start anything else...but I will put off the next book for a while, I hope!

Just waiting for that new book, Cormac. It has only been seven years.

I guess he's near completion.