Red Mosquito

bune wrote: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.

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.

tragabigzanda wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:

bored out of my mind.

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

BurtReynolds wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:

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.

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.

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

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.

durdencommatyler wrote: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.

washing machine wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote: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.

Malloy wrote:

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.

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.