What are you currently reading?

[lennytheweedwhacker]

There was a line we read last night that made me laugh. Something about going to the river with your girl to spoon and if you were lucky you'd get to fork.

that’s obscene

[BurtReynolds]

I feel like every Lovecraft story is basically "Oh man you should have seen this thing it was crazy I can't even describe it it was so queer you had to be there just trust me".

[bune]

Feel like? Burt, that is every Lovecraft story.

[BurtReynolds]

bored out of my mind.

[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.

[BurtReynolds]

bored out of my mind.

i tried to read it, just didn't grab me

yeah I'm about to give up. I'm not really in to serial killer stuff anyway.

[epilogue]

bored out of my mind.

i tried to read it, just didn't grab me

yeah I'm about to give up. I'm not really in to serial killer stuff anyway.

Y'all are nuts. That book was fantastic.

[washing machine]

Big Lethem fan, but his last few novels haven't interested me too much. I'm excited to dive into this one because A. The detective genre is vintage Lethem, and B. Los Angeles is a nice change of scenery for a guy who seems to forget the world outside of Brooklyn pretty regularly.

[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.

[washing machine]

Fortress of Solitude was the only one i really liked. Tried a couple others but was bored. But yes this sounds promising.

I think we've had this conversation before. Motherless, Brooklyn and Gun, With Occasional Music are also among my favorites (both detective novels. both a Lethem-esque combo of invention and homage.)

His essays are where it's really at for me. The Beards single-handedly opened up my mind to a now favorite genre of music, and it's not even really an essay about music at all.

[epilogue]

I really don't get the love for Motherless Brooklyn. That book was super lost on me. But what do I know? People goddamn love that book. I thought it was totally... fine.

[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.

[washing machine]

I really don't get the love for Motherless Brooklyn. That book was super lost on me. But what do I know? People goddamn love that book. I thought it was totally... fine.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The atmopshere in that one immediately hit me, and I couldn't put it down. It's both hardboiled and cartoony at the same time.

[epilogue]

I really don't get the love for Motherless Brooklyn. That book was super lost on me. But what do I know? People goddamn love that book. I thought it was totally... fine.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The atmopshere in that one immediately hit me, and I couldn't put it down. It's both hardboiled and cartoony at the same time.

Way more people are on your team, friend.

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in which the respective marrows of the malloy and --- accounts are subsumed into an imponderable ontological consonance

[Simple Torture]

[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.

[bune]

Reading twitter today all I can think is "who the hell is Jonathan Franzen?"

[epilogue]

I have a couple of friends who LOVE Franzen. I don't know how to talk to them.

[Simple Torture]

Set in a Mexican prison in the late 1960s, The Hole follows three inmates as they attempt to sneak in drugs under the noses of their ape-like guards. Desperate to secure their next fix, they hatch a plan that involves convincing one of their mothers to bring the drugs into the prison. But everything about their plot is doomed from the beginning, doomed to end in violence …

Unfolding in a single paragraph, The Hole is a verbal torrent, a prison inside a prison, and an ominous parable about deformed and wretched institutions creating even more deformed and wretched individuals.