Red Mosquito

Bammer wrote:A 4/5 post about Camus

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.

tragabigzanda wrote:ST, what are your thoughts on Lincoln In The Bardo relative to Saunders’s other works? I’m a humongous fan of his short stories, but I’m scared that the novel length and subject matter will make for something uncharacteristically sloggish.

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.

wease wrote:Just started Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard. Fantastic.

Simple Torture wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:ST, what are your thoughts on Lincoln In The Bardo relative to Saunders’s other works? I’m a humongous fan of his short stories, but I’m scared that the novel length and subject matter will make for something uncharacteristically sloggish.

I think the themes and style are very reminiscent of his short stories, so I don't think that will necessarily be off-putting, but it's certainly not breezy like some of his stories. He plays some games with historical sources, too, and I think that was a nice way to keep things fresh with the form. Give it a try.

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.

epilogue wrote:Finished On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous. It's a tad bloated and uneven in patches but overall lovely and moving.

Now what do I read?

My friend gave me a bag of books. Probably one of those.

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

epilogue wrote:Finished On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous. It's a tad bloated and uneven in patches but overall lovely and moving.

Now what do I read?

My friend gave me a bag of books. Probably one of those.

what in it are you considering?

i kinda want to reread something by cormac next

epilogue wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

epilogue wrote:Finished On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous. It's a tad bloated and uneven in patches but overall lovely and moving.

Now what do I read?

My friend gave me a bag of books. Probably one of those.

what in it are you considering?

i kinda want to reread something by cormac next

I went with His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet.

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

epilogue wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

epilogue wrote:Finished On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous. It's a tad bloated and uneven in patches but overall lovely and moving.

Now what do I read?

My friend gave me a bag of books. Probably one of those.

what in it are you considering?

i kinda want to reread something by cormac next

I went with His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet.

enjoy

epilogue wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

epilogue wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

epilogue wrote:Finished On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous. It's a tad bloated and uneven in patches but overall lovely and moving.

Now what do I read?

My friend gave me a bag of books. Probably one of those.

what in it are you considering?

i kinda want to reread something by cormac next

I went with His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet.

enjoy

Thanks. I wanted something really different from the last book. This is a crime thriller. But was also a finalist for the Booker. Should be fun.

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.