Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon March 08, 2021 11:30 pm
Baldwin is a boss4/5 wrote:
Red Mosquito
What are you currently reading?
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Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Thu March 11, 2021 3:07 am
i have a barnes and noble gift card and no clue how i want to spend it...even though it's a gift card i'm not a big fan of spending a good bit on a book i've never read...i think i'll get suttree, but will still have at least $35 or so to spend
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Fri March 12, 2021 1:37 am
My god this is brutal.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon March 15, 2021 5:08 pm
Really wanted to love this...and parts of it were quite excellent. But it didn't quite get there for me. Overwritten and self-consciously SWEEPING WESTERN EPIC. Raced through the first 50 pages then took about 3 weeks trudging through the rest. Still pretty stunning for a first novel so I'll def check out what he does next.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon March 15, 2021 5:19 pm
what sweeping westerns would you recommend? i have cold mountain but haven’t tried it
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon March 15, 2021 5:27 pm
all the pretty horses, lonesome dove, blazing saddles...lennytheweedwhacker wrote:what sweeping westerns would you recommend? i have cold mountain but haven’t tried it
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon March 15, 2021 5:43 pm
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon March 15, 2021 7:11 pm
love all the pretty horses and blazing saddles is a fake nameghost wrote:all the pretty horses, lonesome dove, blazing saddles...lennytheweedwhacker wrote:what sweeping westerns would you recommend? i have cold mountain but haven’t tried it
I should try the dove though
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue March 16, 2021 1:29 am
a little over halfway through fortress of solitude...i'm this far along so i might as well finish it
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue March 16, 2021 2:26 pm
if you read lonesome dove can you tell me about it? i've never finished it.lennytheweedwhacker wrote:love all the pretty horses and blazing saddles is a fake nameghost wrote:all the pretty horses, lonesome dove, blazing saddles...lennytheweedwhacker wrote:what sweeping westerns would you recommend? i have cold mountain but haven’t tried it
I should try the dove though
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon March 22, 2021 7:37 pm
i'm reading some joshua clover poems online for free because most all of my books are gone
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon March 22, 2021 8:12 pm
i will try my bestghost wrote:if you read lonesome dove can you tell me about it? i've never finished it.lennytheweedwhacker wrote:love all the pretty horses and blazing saddles is a fake nameghost wrote:all the pretty horses, lonesome dove, blazing saddles...lennytheweedwhacker wrote:what sweeping westerns would you recommend? i have cold mountain but haven’t tried it
I should try the dove though
that book is long so it may be a few years so i can plan ahead
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon March 29, 2021 1:48 am
This sounds fucked up and weird, am eager to get into it:
Asa’s husband is transferring jobs, and his new office is located near his family’s home in the countryside. During an exceptionally hot summer, the young married couple move in, and Asa does her best to quickly adjust to their new rural lives, to their remoteness, to the constant presence of her in-laws and the incessant buzz of cicadas. While her husband is consumed with his job, Asa is left to explore her surroundings on her own: she makes trips to the supermarket, halfheartedly looks for work, and tries to find interesting ways of killing time.
One day, while running an errand for her mother-in-law, she comes across a strange creature, follows it to the embankment of a river, and ends up falling into a hole—a hole that seems to have been made specifically for her. This is the first in a series of bizarre experiences that drive Asa deeper into the mysteries of this rural landscape filled with eccentric characters and unidentifiable creatures, leading her to question her role in this world, and eventually, her sanity.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Thu April 01, 2021 8:48 pm
swamplandia!
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Thu April 01, 2021 9:00 pm
Love this one.lennytheweedwhacker wrote:swamplandia!
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Thu April 01, 2021 10:15 pm
i've heard mixed over the years, but i'm glad to hear your praiseSimple Torture wrote:Love this one.lennytheweedwhacker wrote:swamplandia!
i'm about 50 pages in...it's not blowing me away so far, but i'm interested
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sat April 03, 2021 5:09 pm
I'm giving Swann's Way a go, finally.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sat April 03, 2021 7:29 pm
Beautiful book. One of my all-time favorites. You have to really commit to "Swann in Love" to get the payoff but it's arguably better than "Combray."epilogue wrote:I'm giving Swann's Way a go, finally.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sat April 03, 2021 7:32 pm
Finished Pola oloixarac's Mona, and its so fucking good....its been edited in the US recently, you guys should get it
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sat April 03, 2021 9:05 pm
Oh yeah, finished this several weeks ago. I happened to coincidentally be teaching MLK's Letter from Birmingham Jail in class as I was reading this which I think was a really excellent way to experience this one. Fascinating to the see the similarities and differences between the two essays. I usually bill LFBJ as the best thing we read in the class and now I'm looking forward to pulling some excerpts from Baldwin and doing some comparative readings in future years.epilogue wrote:Baldwin is a boss4/5 wrote: