Red Mosquito

bune wrote:is she your great aunt?

digster wrote:

I'm about 60 percent of the way through, and I like it thus far. I guess my only frustration is that it's a really good book so close to being a great one, and I can't really pinpoint why it's falling short as of yet.

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.

dimejinky99 wrote:There’s a book called Second Sleep by Robert Harris

Post apocalyptic world with no internet and no memory of it.

I suggest it to all.

tragabigzanda wrote:I feel ya. Sometimes better to lean in and let it run its course a bit faster.

BurtReynolds wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:I feel ya. Sometimes better to lean in and let it run its course a bit faster.

"the only way out is through." - alanis morissette

digster wrote:

I'm about 60 percent of the way through, and I like it thus far. I guess my only frustration is that it's a really good book so close to being a great one, and I can't really pinpoint why it's falling short as of yet.

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:Wanted to read this one before the HBO adaptation came out. Only just begun and I already love it.

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.

Simple Torture wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:Wanted to read this one before the HBO adaptation came out. Only just begun and I already love it.

I'm reading this right now, too--about 65% in now.