Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon September 23, 2019 9:59 pm
Just finished
Red Mosquito
What are you currently reading?
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Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon September 23, 2019 9:59 pm
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon September 23, 2019 10:00 pm
I'm surprised it's taking me so long to get around to reading that. What an amazing book
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon September 23, 2019 10:02 pm
Currently reading
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon September 23, 2019 10:02 pm
It's perfect.Rangi Guy wrote:I'm surprised it's taking me so long to get around to reading that. What an amazing book
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon September 23, 2019 10:03 pm
That it isdurdencommatyler wrote:It's perfect.Rangi Guy wrote:I'm surprised it's taking me so long to get around to reading that. What an amazing book
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue October 01, 2019 7:19 pm
Finished Children of Men this weekend. It's a good to decent book but nothing I would tell people they should read. Maybe it was more interesting back when published? Anyway, I applaud the people who read it and brought that movie out of it because it was better in almost every way. I say almost because in the book the men were sterile and in the movie it was women's fault.
It would have been better without the travelogues by the main character that popped up every time a character was introduced and sometimes at random times. Pages and pages of conversation about nothing that really helped propel the story in any direction, forward, sideways, whatever.
It would have been better without the travelogues by the main character that popped up every time a character was introduced and sometimes at random times. Pages and pages of conversation about nothing that really helped propel the story in any direction, forward, sideways, whatever.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue October 01, 2019 7:22 pm
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.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue October 01, 2019 7:22 pm
It really is. I also read it for the first time a couple years ago and it's the best. I need to put it on my son's reading list.Rangi Guy wrote:I'm surprised it's taking me so long to get around to reading that. What an amazing book
His AP English teacher gave them a list of books that they can choose from to read and write a ten-page paper on. Instead of picking something that looked interesting to him he picked one I was talking about a few weeks ago. I mean Ubik is a great book and I hope it's his first foray into the bigger world of sci-fi but at the same time dude look at the fucking list and ask questions. You're going to have to spend a long time reading and analyzing the book you pick, maybe take more than 10 seconds to think about it.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed October 02, 2019 2:05 pm
The sequencing at the end of The Plot Against America was very odd. Won't say much more since I know others are reading it right now.
Picked a more or less random book from my library next:
Picked a more or less random book from my library next:
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed October 02, 2019 4:37 pm
I *love* that book. If I was a Peninsularist I'd put it in my diss. God damn you're in for a treat.Simple Torture wrote:The sequencing at the end of The Plot Against America was very odd. Won't say much more since I know others are reading it right now.
Picked a more or less random book from my library next:
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Fri October 04, 2019 3:34 pm
I think the only VM I've read was Bartleby and Co. I only got a few minutes with this the other night but it has been great so far: funny, sweet, lyrical. It was a jarring shift between Roth's prose and this.Mickey wrote:I *love* that book. If I was a Peninsularist I'd put it in my diss. God damn you're in for a treat.Simple Torture wrote:The sequencing at the end of The Plot Against America was very odd. Won't say much more since I know others are reading it right now.
Picked a more or less random book from my library next:
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sat October 05, 2019 6:21 pm
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed October 09, 2019 4:45 pm
Nobel Prize announcement coming Thursday morning. 2 prizes being awarded.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed October 09, 2019 5:25 pm
Have you read Go Set a Watchman?tragabigzanda wrote:My all time favorite book. Not a very original choice, but there you. Have read it four times. There’s a part of Atticus Finch in my soul.Rangi Guy wrote:That it isdurdencommatyler wrote:It's perfect.Rangi Guy wrote:I'm surprised it's taking me so long to get around to reading that. What an amazing book
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed October 09, 2019 5:28 pm
I'm reading this now.Rangi Guy wrote:Just finished
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed October 09, 2019 5:29 pm
It's an absolute joy!LetMeSleep wrote:I'm reading this now.Rangi Guy wrote:Just finished
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed October 09, 2019 5:32 pm
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.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed October 09, 2019 5:35 pm
I'm out of this thread for a few days now. They've just got inside the courthouse.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed October 09, 2019 5:38 pm
About 25% of the way through Blindness. It's a weird part where there seems to be a narrator, even though the book to this point has not given any indication that there's a 'person' here. It's a strange move.