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Re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: Sun August 01, 2021 7:24 pm
by BurtReynolds
Haha

Re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: Sun August 01, 2021 7:26 pm
by VinylGuy
jajaj fuck you terry

Re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: Sun August 01, 2021 7:30 pm
by tragabigzanda
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.

Re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: Mon August 02, 2021 9:06 pm
by epilogue
Three-Body Problem was interesting. I'm definitely check out the next one.

But first, I'm switching gears and reading Gaiman's "The Ocean at the End of the Lane."

Gaiman and I have a complicated relationship. We'll see how this goes.

Re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: Thu August 05, 2021 6:31 pm
by epilogue
epilogue wrote: Gaiman's "The Ocean at the End of the Lane."
This was great.

Now I'm reading "Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination" by Edogawa Ranpo. So far, so good. The first two stories were interesting.

Re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: Sun August 08, 2021 2:47 pm
by Simple Torture
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Re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: Sun August 08, 2021 4:40 pm
by epilogue
I almost picked up a copy of that version of The Divorce a couple weeks ago.

Re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: Thu August 12, 2021 7:18 pm
by epilogue
Finished up

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and

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Re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: Thu August 12, 2021 7:21 pm
by epilogue
Since I'm still mostly at home for another few weeks and not having to travel much, I think I'm going to start a big ol' heavy book. Should be easier not having to lug it on the train every day. Hopefully, I can finish it before I head back to work.

Going with:

City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg
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It's massive. Like 900+ pages. But the story sounds super interesting and I'm excited to do something epic after a few shorter reads.

Re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: Thu August 12, 2021 7:23 pm
by tragabigzanda
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.

Re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: Thu August 12, 2021 7:56 pm
by epilogue
A lot of fun. I'm not sure the stories, specifically their structures, always resonated with me. But that's what's cool about reading books/stories from other cultures (even in translation), not everyone, everywhere structures things or focuses on the same literary values as westerners. Different mythological traditions. Different kinds of stories. Different focal points.

The themes of most of the stories were super interesting, though, and a lot of the imagery stuck with me, even when I thought I wasn't into the story as much. I find myself thinking about them a lot, even now, after having read a novel since.

Re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: Thu August 12, 2021 7:59 pm
by VinylGuy
i really need to read again. I havent been able to put my attention on a book since the great Mona by Pola Oloixarac.

Then its mostly comics these days....but ill try to finish Blade Runner and then maybe dive into American Gods again or Disgrace.

But its been hard.

Re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: Thu August 12, 2021 8:01 pm
by epilogue
Books are the best.

Re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: Thu August 12, 2021 11:46 pm
by wease
epilogue wrote:Books are the best.
Fuck yeah

Re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: Fri August 13, 2021 2:19 am
by digster
Finished Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips last week, and currently in the midst of this;

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Re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: Fri August 13, 2021 3:00 am
by Simple Torture
Revisiting an old friend:

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Re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: Sat August 14, 2021 2:03 am
by Simple Torture
When I used to buy a lot of used books, I used to love to get some with inscriptions. It's been a while, but today I got a book with the owner's name written in the cover along with the day she got it--Christmas Day 1937.

Re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: Sat August 14, 2021 2:34 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
Simple Torture wrote:When I used to buy a lot of used books, I used to love to get some with inscriptions. It's been a while, but today I got a book with the owner's name written in the cover along with the day she got it--Christmas Day 1937.
Anne Frank?

Re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: Sat August 14, 2021 3:55 am
by Simple Torture
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
Simple Torture wrote:When I used to buy a lot of used books, I used to love to get some with inscriptions. It's been a while, but today I got a book with the owner's name written in the cover along with the day she got it--Christmas Day 1937.
Anne Frank?
Christmas.

Re: What are you currently reading?

Posted: Fri August 20, 2021 10:17 pm
by Simple Torture
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