tragabigzanda wrote:sounds great, will pick it up. thx.
I'm blown away, honestly. It's been a long time (if ever, really) since I've encountered something that's such a perfect balance between philosophy, poetry, and personal essay. Hopefully, you'll get something out of it, too.
When Women Were Birds is immaculate. I will carry the book with me for a long time. And I know I will gift a copy many, many times. This book is essential. God. Damn.
Gonna start Needful Things because the whole time I was watching the Castle Rock pilot last night, I just kept thinking... "man, I really need to read Needful Things."
durdencommatyler wrote:Before the Fall by Noah Hawley is also awesome. But it's over 400 pages...
I've been meaning to check out Noah's books. His tv show's are amazing. I'll have to check it out.
I just started The Expanse series. The first book is a wonderful, light read - especially for the SciFi genre. I'm supplementing the light reading with American Pastoral. I haven't read it in awhile and Roth's themes match up well with the times.
I had a fun idea. I want to throw a party when I read my 1000th book (probably around age 40-45). Not that 1000 is that amazing of a number of books for one to have read, but it is cool nonetheless. I'm going to try to get a copy of each of the books, put them up in bookshelves there, and let people take what they want
The Argonaut wrote:I had a fun idea. I want to throw a party when I read my 1000th book (probably around age 40-45). Not that 1000 is that amazing of a number of books for one to have read, but it is cool nonetheless. I'm going to try to get a copy of each of the books, put them up in bookshelves there, and let people take what they want
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.
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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.
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I'm not on the spectrum, as a matter of fact. And I've been using Goodreads to track the books I read since 2009. For two years before that, I posted in the old board's incarnation of this thread about every book I read. When I started my Goodreads, I went back and input that info. So I have every book I've read going back to mid-2007 listed on my Goodreads. I'm at a little under 420 now. That's my entire adult life.
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.
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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.
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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.
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durdencommatyler wrote:Gonna start Needful Things because the whole time I was watching the Castle Rock pilot last night, I just kept thinking... "man, I really need to read Needful Things."
