What are you currently reading?

[lennytheweedwhacker]

jesus' son

this was so good

it saves lives

what was your username prior to withoutrings? i'm completely blanking

[The Argonaut]

jcurley

[LetMeSleep]

Going through a bit of Paulo Coelho phase. Currently reading Eleven Minutes.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

jcurley

thank you

[tragabigzanda]

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.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

starting Lethem’s Fortress of Solitude soon

[Mickey]

starting Lethem’s Fortress of Solitude soon

I was ultimately pretty underwhelmed by this one, but I remember it being a fun read.

[Mickey]

About 70 pages into the first volume.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

starting Lethem’s Fortress of Solitude soon

I was ultimately pretty underwhelmed by this one, but I remember it being a fun read.

i could live with that

i wasn’t crazy about the other one and a half of his I’ve read

[tragabigzanda]

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.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

That was the only Lethem I thoroughly enjoyed. Tried two others and bailed on both of them

which ones?

[tragabigzanda]

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.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

That was the only Lethem I thoroughly enjoyed. Tried two others and bailed on both of them

which ones?

Motherless Brooklyn and Chronic City. Neither one grabbed me within the first 50-100 pages.

i think i got over a 100 on chronic city

i finished a gambler’s anatomy, but it was meh

[Mickey]

I've heard Gun, With Occasional Music is good but have never gotten around to it.

[tragabigzanda]

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.

[Mickey]

All Jonathans, really.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

i like him oh well

[Stardog Champion]

I've heard Gun, With Occasional Music is good but have never gotten around to it.

I've been meaning to give that one a second read. It was the first book of his that I read, but it was a long time ago. I honestly don't even remember what I really enjoyed about it. It's felt like diminishing returns since then though. It culminated with Dissident Gardens for me. That book was a slog, and I didn't give a shit about a single character in it.

[The Argonaut]

i like him oh well

I like him, too. I think Chronic City is up there with his best stuff

[Mickey]

I think Lenny was talking about Franzen