Red Mosquito

Posted: **Fri March 05, 2021 2:44 am**

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:i'll eat one as i read

Then write 4700 words about eating it. How you felt before, how you savored every bite, did you though? Or did you inhale it? How’d you feel after? Satisfied or sad or both.

What time of day? Did you eat in the dining room? The kitchen? The living room? Sitting in a parked car next to the railroad tracks just yards away from a whataburger?

Posted: **Fri March 05, 2021 2:51 am**

dad wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:i'll eat one as i read
Then write 4700 words about eating it. How you felt before, how you savored every bite, did you though? Or did you inhale it? How’d you feel after? Satisfied or sad or both.

What time of day? Did you eat in the dining room? The kitchen? The living room? Sitting in a parked car next to the railroad tracks just yards away from a whataburger?

too long did not read

Posted: **Fri March 05, 2021 2:52 am**

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
dad wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:i'll eat one as i read
Then write 4700 words about eating it. How you felt before, how you savored every bite, did you though? Or did you inhale it? How’d you feel after? Satisfied or sad or both.

What time of day? Did you eat in the dining room? The kitchen? The living room? Sitting in a parked car next to the railroad tracks just yards away from a whataburger?
too long did not read

get bent

Posted: **Fri March 05, 2021 2:53 am**

dad wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
dad wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:i'll eat one as i read
Then write 4700 words about eating it. How you felt before, how you savored every bite, did you though? Or did you inhale it? How’d you feel after? Satisfied or sad or both.

What time of day? Did you eat in the dining room? The kitchen? The living room? Sitting in a parked car next to the railroad tracks just yards away from a whataburger?
too long did not read
get bent

i'll bend your dick

Posted: **Fri March 05, 2021 2:54 am**

tragabigzanda wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:Nah.

Graphic novels > audio novels > regular novels
What are five graphic novels you’d recommend to someone who doesn’t totally move the format? I really enjoyed both Bone and Blankets, but I mostly hate superheroes and completely hate Neil Gaiman.

I'm far from an expert. Mostly I like the more art driven stuff (or stuff that emphasizes visual storytelling.)

Some random ones I have that I like:
Final Incal (Jodorowsky)
a manga called Blame!
Hard Boiled
Hellboy
Sin City
Head Lopper

But speaking of Gaiman: I don't like him that much either but I have copy of Sandman Overture and it's fantastic. I don't like the other Sandman stuff I've read that much, but this one is on another level, mostly thanks to the trippy art.

Posted: **Fri March 05, 2021 2:57 am**

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
dad wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
dad wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:i'll eat one as i read
Then write 4700 words about eating it. How you felt before, how you savored every bite, did you though? Or did you inhale it? How’d you feel after? Satisfied or sad or both.

What time of day? Did you eat in the dining room? The kitchen? The living room? Sitting in a parked car next to the railroad tracks just yards away from a whataburger?
too long did not read
get bent
i'll bend your dick

too stupid did not read.

Posted: **Fri March 05, 2021 2:58 am**

dad wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
dad wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
dad wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:i'll eat one as i read
Then write 4700 words about eating it. How you felt before, how you savored every bite, did you though? Or did you inhale it? How’d you feel after? Satisfied or sad or both.

What time of day? Did you eat in the dining room? The kitchen? The living room? Sitting in a parked car next to the railroad tracks just yards away from a whataburger?
too long did not read
get bent
i'll bend your dick
too stupid did not read.

i'll read your stupid dick

Posted: **Sat March 06, 2021 9:11 pm**

I started this and realized about 30% in that I really don't like it very much. Now 50% in and it feels like it'll be a waste of time to bail.

Posted: **Sat March 06, 2021 9:12 pm**

Knowing when to quit is a life skill.

Posted: **Sat March 06, 2021 9:30 pm**

I honestly don't think I could make it through a novel about MFA students.

Posted: **Sat March 06, 2021 9:38 pm**

Mickey wrote:I honestly don't think I could make it through a novel about MFA students.

I am still trying to figure out if being written in the style of a bland MFA's first draft is some sort of choice since it's about a bland MFA student.

Posted: **Sat March 06, 2021 10:35 pm**

Simple Torture wrote:
Mickey wrote:I honestly don't think I could make it through a novel about MFA students.
I am still trying to figure out if being written in the style of a bland MFA's first draft is some sort of choice since it's about a bland MFA student.

Oh boy

Posted: **Sat March 06, 2021 10:57 pm**

Lmao yikes

Posted: **Sat March 06, 2021 11:08 pm**

The protagonist's best friend is homophobic, and the novel lets us know by:

1. Having him say he would be scared to cover Magic Johnson in a basketball game.
2. He calls a bunch of other guys gay for wanting to get naked for a Halloween prank.
3. In regards to someone's gender reassignment surgery, be utters the phrase, "People can do whatever they want to their bodies, but..."

Posted: **Sat March 06, 2021 11:12 pm**

Simple Torture wrote:The protagonist's best friend is homophobic, and the novel lets us know by:

1. Having him say he would be scared to cover Magic Johnson in a basketball game.
2. He calls a bunch of other guys gay for wanting to get naked for a Halloween prank.
3. In regards to someone's gender reassignment surgery, be utters the phrase, "People can do whatever they want to their bodies, but..."

fwiw I read Loner, and felt the same way you do about this one, that I had to force myself to finish it.

Posted: **Sun March 07, 2021 3:56 am**

This takes place in 1996, and the narrator mentions being searched by the TSA at the airport--the TSA wasn't founded until 2001.

Posted: **Sun March 07, 2021 4:57 am**

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.

Posted: **Sun March 07, 2021 5:27 am**

tragabigzanda wrote:I’m getting angry just reading your posts so please stop reading the book for both our benefits

I just wrapped it up and hope to barely think about it ever again.

There was this seemingly unfinished thread where the narrator would be horrified whenever he saw someone with a prosthetic limb, but not much else was interesting. The last scene is the narrator, now a middle-aged man, watching Trump’s victory speech the night of the 2016 election. That was weird.

Posted: **Sun March 07, 2021 5:31 am**

I blame the Columbia MFA program specifically

Posted: **Mon March 08, 2021 11:30 pm**

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