Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Fri July 02, 2021 2:35 pm


4/5 wrote:
let me know how it isMickey wrote:
The Kindle version was 2.99 or something like that, just some light bedtime readingMalloy wrote:let me know how it isMickey wrote:
okay, I've read the intro, and a bit of the first chapter, so I'm going to give the kindle version a go.Mickey wrote:The Kindle version was 2.99 or something like that, just some light bedtime readingMalloy wrote:let me know how it isMickey wrote:
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.
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.

NiceMickey wrote:Diving into the first of these three today
Interesting. How so?Mickey wrote:Burned through 60 pages with coffee and loving it so far. A different kind of Modiano novel than I've been used to, in some ways.
It's almost entirely driven by this manic voice as it moves in and out of these brief scenes--it's a very different feel than the slow, wistful memories of something like Suspended Sentencesepilogue wrote:Interesting. How so?Mickey wrote:Burned through 60 pages with coffee and loving it so far. A different kind of Modiano novel than I've been used to, in some ways.
Up for some tamales?epilogue wrote:Hurricane Season is great.