What are you currently reading?

[wease]

Gonna start Naked Lunch by William S. Burrows tonight.

[doug rr]

Gonna start Naked Lunch by William S. Burrows tonight.

lee the agent is dpup

[Simple Torture]

Jesus Christ! Huckleberry Finn sure goes off the rails once Tom Sawyer shows up. My Gawd.

Yeah, when I read it in college my professor just had us stop at that point.

[tragabigzanda]

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.

[wease]

Gonna start Naked Lunch by William S. Burrows tonight.

lee the agent is dpup

I’ll keep that in mind!

[Simple Torture]

Jesus Christ! Huckleberry Finn sure goes off the rails once Tom Sawyer shows up. My Gawd.

Yeah, when I read it in college my professor just had us stop at that point.

there's a whole louis ck bit on this

That's a great bit (RIP Louis CK), but it's actually the about almost the opposite, i.e. how Tom Sawyer is harmless but Huck is a dirty little racist.

[The Argonaut]

Louis is wrong. Tom Sawyer is a little shit

[tragabigzanda]

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.

[Simple Torture]

damn louis is an idiot

omg I forgot that bit includes a Cosby impression.

[Simple Torture]

Jesus Christ! Huckleberry Finn sure goes off the rails once Tom Sawyer shows up. My Gawd.

Think about this: what happened to the raft?

[The Argonaut]

Wife. Dinner Party. Thanks.

[Norah]

[Mickey]

Roth fans--is there an essential Roth that's worth reading? I've done American Pastoral and Goodbye Columbus (both just kinda okay) and have started Portnoy's Complaint multiple times to no avail.

[epilogue]

Roth fans--is there an essential Roth that's worth reading? I've done American Pastoral and Goodbye Columbus (both just kinda okay) and have started Portnoy's Complaint multiple times to no avail.

My two favorites are The Plot Against America and The Human Stain. Very different but both outstanding.

FWIW I also thought American Pastoral was just okay.

[Mickey]

Roth fans--is there an essential Roth that's worth reading? I've done American Pastoral and Goodbye Columbus (both just kinda okay) and have started Portnoy's Complaint multiple times to no avail.

My two favorites are The Plot Against America and The Human Stain. Very different but both outstanding.

FWIW I also thought American Pastoral was just okay.

Do you have to read I Married A Communist to get The Human Stain? Isn't it technically part of a trilogy, or is it more a thematic trilogy?

[wease]

Gonna start Naked Lunch by William S. Burrows tonight.

lee the agent is dpup

I’ll keep that in mind!

Jesus Christ this isn’t going very well. I’ve decided that one would have to be higher than bejeezus belt to understand any of what’s going on in this book. It seems to be just character descriptions cobbled together forming no real narrative or plot at all. I’m gonna give it a little longer, but if something doesn’t happen soon, I’m out.

[epilogue]

Roth fans--is there an essential Roth that's worth reading? I've done American Pastoral and Goodbye Columbus (both just kinda okay) and have started Portnoy's Complaint multiple times to no avail.

My two favorites are The Plot Against America and The Human Stain. Very different but both outstanding.

FWIW I also thought American Pastoral was just okay.

Do you have to read I Married A Communist to get The Human Stain? Isn't it technically part of a trilogy, or is it more a thematic trilogy?

It was the first Roth book I ever read and I was fascinated by it. So, I feel like you do not need to read the others to appreciate it.

[Mickey]

Roth fans--is there an essential Roth that's worth reading? I've done American Pastoral and Goodbye Columbus (both just kinda okay) and have started Portnoy's Complaint multiple times to no avail.

My two favorites are The Plot Against America and The Human Stain. Very different but both outstanding.

FWIW I also thought American Pastoral was just okay.

Do you have to read I Married A Communist to get The Human Stain? Isn't it technically part of a trilogy, or is it more a thematic trilogy?

It was the first Roth book I ever read and I was fascinated by it. So, I feel like you do not need to read the others to appreciate it.

Okay awesome, I'll put it on the list. Really interested in Plot Against America too.

[bune]

Read the short story "Laurie" by Stephen King. It's only 32 pages and it's a pretty good read. Got a little worried near the end he would do his usual SK thing but he didn't kill anyone you were close to.

[tragabigzanda]

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.