Red Mosquito

tragabigzanda wrote:Quick and dirty, so a few would probably change if I really thought about it. The top five are definite, the bottom five are off-the-cuff:

To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee
Tortilla Flat John Steinbeck
The Right Stuff Tom Wolfe
Sometimes A Great Notion Ken Kesey
All The Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy
Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy
Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live James A. Miller and Tom Shales
'Salem's Lot Stephen King
Born Standing Up Steve Martin
Silver Screen Fiend Patton Oswalt

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.

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.

durdencommatyler wrote:Do you guys/gals have a top 10 favorite books list?

The Argonaut wrote:Not in any order

1984 by George Orwell
What It Takes: The Way to the White House by Richard Ben Cramer
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Professional by W.C. Heinz
The Universal Baseball Assocation, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. by Robert Coover
Billy Phelan's Greatest Game by William Kennedy
White Noise by Don DeLillo
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

and I could easily sub out any number of alternate Vonnegut, Kennedy, or Steinbeck titles for the one I actually chose for each of them. Only one non-fiction on the list. And all white male authors, and almost totally American

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.

tragabigzanda wrote:Tortilla Flat > Cannery Row.

Simple Torture wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:Tortilla Flat > Cannery Row.

You're all overthinking it: it's Of Mice and Men.

This is like when people try to argue about the best Radiohead album and forget OK Computer exists. The answer is right in front of your face!

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.