Red Mosquito

durdencommatyler wrote:Really thinking about diving into this baby at some point this week...

Mickey wrote:I'm not sure yet if they're good books, they seem to be making some kind of claim about history but it's not clear what yet, but fuck they're fun to read.

durdencommatyler wrote:

Mickey wrote:I'm not sure yet if they're good books, they seem to be making some kind of claim about history but it's not clear what yet, but fuck they're fun to read.

Maybe this is too much like the "best" vs "favorite" conversation but it's weird that something that is fun to read isn't also great. Not that something great has to be fun to read. But I feel like fun to read makes it great. It's like the whole square/rectangle thing.

Mickey wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

Mickey wrote:I'm not sure yet if they're good books, they seem to be making some kind of claim about history but it's not clear what yet, but fuck they're fun to read.

Maybe this is too much like the "best" vs "favorite" conversation but it's weird that something that is fun to read isn't also great. Not that something great has to be fun to read. But I feel like fun to read makes it great. It's like the whole square/rectangle thing.

I guess I mean I don't know if it's a capital-I important book. Put it this way: reading this before bed is often the highlight of my day, but I'm not sure yet it'd be worth writing an essay about.

Ghosts is about a construction worker’s family squatting on a building site. They all see large and handsome ghosts around their quarters, but the teenage daughter is the most curious. Her questions about them become more and more heartfelt until the story reaches a critical, chilling moment when the mother realizes that her daughter’s life hangs in the balance.

digster wrote:I bailed on this a few years back, giving it another shot.

Malloy wrote:reread

Anders wrote:

digster wrote:I bailed on this a few years back, giving it another shot.

Good luck