Red Mosquito

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:started Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing. So far it's as lovely as to be expected.

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:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:started Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing. So far it's as lovely as to be expected.

i remember almost nothing about both this and cities on the plain or whatever it’s called

thanks for not spoiling it for me

bune wrote:I'm reading Semiosis by Sue Burke and Wool by Hugh Howey. I realized while reading these books (plus the Wayward Pines trilogy previously) that I don't have the heart for this kind of book any more. I have enough depressing future in the real world right now, I don't need to read about them too.

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.

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.

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:

durdencommatyler wrote:I might die

you definitely will

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:i might reread everything is illuminated

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:i might reread everything is illuminated

i love this book so much

durdencommatyler wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:i might reread everything is illuminated

i love this book so much

It's pretty fucking great. Do you like Extremely Loud?

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:i might reread everything is illuminated

i love this book so much

It's pretty fucking great. Do you like Extremely Loud?

yes but not near as much...i probably liked here i am more also

durdencommatyler wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:i might reread everything is illuminated

i love this book so much

It's pretty fucking great. Do you like Extremely Loud?

yes but not near as much...i probably liked here i am more also

I still haven't tackled Here I Am.

But Extremely Loud was the first JSF that I read and it captured me. I still rank that one above EiI. But both are just outstanding.

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:i might reread everything is illuminated

i love this book so much

It's pretty fucking great. Do you like Extremely Loud?

yes but not near as much...i probably liked here i am more also

I still haven't tackled Here I Am.

But Extremely Loud was the first JSF that I read and it captured me. I still rank that one above EiI. But both are just outstanding.

don’t ask me why but i feel like you won’t like it as much