Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed May 23, 2018 1:48 am
Gonna start Naked Lunch by William S. Burrows tonight.
lee the agent is dpupwease wrote:Gonna start Naked Lunch by William S. Burrows tonight.
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What are you currently reading?
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Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed May 23, 2018 1:51 am
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed May 23, 2018 2:00 am
Yeah, when I read it in college my professor just had us stop at that point.bada wrote:Jesus Christ! Huckleberry Finn sure goes off the rails once Tom Sawyer shows up. My Gawd.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed May 23, 2018 2:12 am
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 23, 2018 2:13 am
I’ll keep that in mind!doug rr wrote:lee the agent is dpupwease wrote:Gonna start Naked Lunch by William S. Burrows tonight.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed May 23, 2018 2:13 am
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.tragabigzanda wrote:there's a whole louis ck bit on thisSimple Torture wrote:Yeah, when I read it in college my professor just had us stop at that point.bada wrote:Jesus Christ! Huckleberry Finn sure goes off the rails once Tom Sawyer shows up. My Gawd.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed May 23, 2018 2:15 am
Louis is wrong. Tom Sawyer is a little shit
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed May 23, 2018 2:15 am
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 23, 2018 2:16 am
omg I forgot that bit includes a Cosby impression.tragabigzanda wrote:damn louis is an idiot
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed May 23, 2018 2:17 am
Think about this: what happened to the raft?bada wrote:Jesus Christ! Huckleberry Finn sure goes off the rails once Tom Sawyer shows up. My Gawd.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed May 23, 2018 2:18 am
Wife. Dinner Party. Thanks.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Thu May 24, 2018 1:00 am
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Thu May 24, 2018 11:23 pm
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.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Fri May 25, 2018 1:02 am
My two favorites are The Plot Against America and The Human Stain. Very different but both outstanding.Mickey wrote: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.
FWIW I also thought American Pastoral was just okay.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Fri May 25, 2018 1:24 am
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?durdencommatyler wrote:My two favorites are The Plot Against America and The Human Stain. Very different but both outstanding.Mickey wrote: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.
FWIW I also thought American Pastoral was just okay.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Fri May 25, 2018 2:25 am
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.wease wrote:I’ll keep that in mind!doug rr wrote:lee the agent is dpupwease wrote:Gonna start Naked Lunch by William S. Burrows tonight.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Fri May 25, 2018 3:28 am
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 wrote: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?durdencommatyler wrote:My two favorites are The Plot Against America and The Human Stain. Very different but both outstanding.Mickey wrote: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.
FWIW I also thought American Pastoral was just okay.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Fri May 25, 2018 3:54 am
Okay awesome, I'll put it on the list. Really interested in Plot Against America too.durdencommatyler wrote: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 wrote: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?durdencommatyler wrote:My two favorites are The Plot Against America and The Human Stain. Very different but both outstanding.Mickey wrote: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.
FWIW I also thought American Pastoral was just okay.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Fri May 25, 2018 5:26 pm
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.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sun May 27, 2018 4:28 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.