Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed May 16, 2018 10:15 pm
It was the toughest read of the three, I thought.
Red Mosquito
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Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed May 16, 2018 10:24 pm
I guess I'll read Tortilla Flat soon.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed May 16, 2018 10:25 pm
These are the three best. Cannery Row after that.cutuphalfdead wrote:I've only read Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, and East of Eden.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed May 16, 2018 10:28 pm
I just one click ordered Tortilla Flat from Amazon. Halfway across America, another bookshop clerk just died.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed May 16, 2018 10:29 pm
If you're ever in Providence, go to Tortilla Flats.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed May 16, 2018 10:31 pm
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 16, 2018 10:34 pm
Simple Torture wrote:If you're ever in Providence, go to Tortilla Flats.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed May 16, 2018 11:02 pm
east of eden was my favorite but what do i know
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 2:57 am
I had five contenders for favorite Steinbeck, and it wasn't easy to choose
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 3:35 pm
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: Thu May 17, 2018 4:36 pm
You know what was weird about that intro? Her references to the text all happened in like the first 50 pages. It's like she didn't even finish it.tragabigzanda wrote:
Gillian Flynn is a horrible writer, but she correctly says in the foreward that McNamara's gift is in finding the humanity in her subjects. It's true. This one is creepy as hell, but it transcends the lurid crime novel tropes by virtue of the victims' lives being so colorfully fleshed out.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 4:52 pm
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: Thu May 17, 2018 5:24 pm
One time a girlfriend gave me East of Eden for Christmas but I got about 100 pages into it and sold in on Amazon instead.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 5:41 pm
Anyway, top ten, not necessarily in order:
2666 (Bolaño)
White Noise (DeLillo)
Beloved (Morrison)
Ulysses (Joyce)
The Emigrants (Sebald)
Swann's Way (Proust)
The Awakening (Chopin)
The Sonnets (Berrigan)
Ficciones (Borges)
Suspended Sentences (Modiano)
2666 (Bolaño)
White Noise (DeLillo)
Beloved (Morrison)
Ulysses (Joyce)
The Emigrants (Sebald)
Swann's Way (Proust)
The Awakening (Chopin)
The Sonnets (Berrigan)
Ficciones (Borges)
Suspended Sentences (Modiano)
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 8:33 pm
I'm loving these lists, team. Thank you for posting them.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 8:33 pm
A great friend of mine started reading East of Eden for the first time a few months ago. He carries it with him everywhere now. He fucking loves the hell out of it. I still haven't read it.lennytheweedwhacker wrote:east of eden was my favorite but what do i know
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Fri May 18, 2018 12:22 am
Picked this up today. Been meaning to read it since it came out.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Fri May 18, 2018 12:42 am
What's your margin between 2666 and The Savage Detectives like? Mine is razor-thin and they flip-flop from time-to-time.Mickey wrote:Anyway, top ten, not necessarily in order:
2666 (Bolaño)
White Noise (DeLillo)
Beloved (Morrison)
Ulysses (Joyce)
The Emigrants (Sebald)
Swann's Way (Proust)
The Awakening (Chopin)
The Sonnets (Berrigan)
Ficciones (Borges)
Suspended Sentences (Modiano)
I promised myself that I would re-read all of Bolano's books when I finished my degree. Still not finished.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Fri May 18, 2018 12:54 am
This has remained extremely consistent over the years. I like that about you.Mickey wrote:Anyway, top ten, not necessarily in order:
2666 (Bolaño)
White Noise (DeLillo)
Beloved (Morrison)
Ulysses (Joyce)
The Emigrants (Sebald)
Swann's Way (Proust)
The Awakening (Chopin)
The Sonnets (Berrigan)
Ficciones (Borges)
Suspended Sentences (Modiano)
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Fri May 18, 2018 1:02 am
I go back and forth too but I think at the end of the day, I like TSD better but I think about 2666 more often. Especially the passage about the thieves, the minor works, and the masterpieces. I'm about to start my degree but the nice thing about comp lit is that I don't have to drop Bolaño.Simple Torture wrote:What's your margin between 2666 and The Savage Detectives like? Mine is razor-thin and they flip-flop from time-to-time.Mickey wrote:Anyway, top ten, not necessarily in order:
2666 (Bolaño)
White Noise (DeLillo)
Beloved (Morrison)
Ulysses (Joyce)
The Emigrants (Sebald)
Swann's Way (Proust)
The Awakening (Chopin)
The Sonnets (Berrigan)
Ficciones (Borges)
Suspended Sentences (Modiano)
I promised myself that I would re-read all of Bolano's books when I finished my degree. Still not finished.