Red Mosquito

Malloy wrote:each time i see rm fighting about Promising Young Woman, which i've not seen and likely never will, i think of this quite good novel. suzanne spent some time here and is cool, and dorothy is one of my favorite presses. anyway, i'm rereading it now.

Bammer wrote:

Malloy wrote:each time i see rm fighting about Promising Young Woman, which i've not seen and likely never will, i think of this quite good novel. suzanne spent some time here and is cool, and dorothy is one of my favorite presses. anyway, i'm rereading it now.

The movie was … OK

surfndestroy wrote: Would love to find a new sci-fi series. Any suggestions?

surfndestroy wrote:Getting back into more reading and less tv. Recent reads.....

Foundations series and a few others by Isaac Asimov - My kid is a huge fan of his and read it just so we could talk about them.

Brave New World - I had read it before but inspired by Bammer to read it again.

Heart of Darkness - Wanted to read the origin of Colonel Kurtz.

Dune - Read this many years ago but wanted to reread it before seeing the new version of the movie coming. Still working on this.

Would love to find a new sci-fi series. Any suggestions?

Malloy wrote:each time i see rm fighting about Promising Young Woman, which i've not seen and likely never will, i think of this quite good novel. suzanne spent some time here and is cool, and dorothy is one of my favorite presses. anyway, i'm rereading it now.

surfndestroy wrote:
Heart of Darkness - Wanted to read the origin of Colonel Kurtz.

Simple Torture wrote:

Malloy wrote:each time i see rm fighting about Promising Young Woman, which i've not seen and likely never will, i think of this quite good novel. suzanne spent some time here and is cool, and dorothy is one of my favorite presses. anyway, i'm rereading it now.

By "here" I thought you meant RM for a minute.

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.

In a shuttered bedroom in ancient Italy, the sleepless Pliny the Elder lies in bed obsessively dictating new chapters of his Natural History to his slave Diocles. Fat, wheezing, imperious, and prone to nosebleeds, Pliny does not believe in spending his evenings in repose: No—to be awake is to be alive. There’s no time to waste if he is to classify every element of the natural world in a single work. By day Pliny the Elder carries out his many civic duties and gives the occasional disastrous public reading. But despite his astonishing ambition to catalog everything from precious metals to the moon, as well as a collection of exotic plants sourced from the farthest reaches of the world, Pliny the Elder still takes immense pleasure in the common rose. After he rushes to an erupting Mount Vesuvius and perishes in the ash, his nephew, Pliny the Younger, becomes custodian of his life’s work. But where Pliny the Elder saw starlight, Pliny the Younger only sees fireflies.

The Argonaut wrote:Holy cow, that little write-up is stupendous

Simple Torture wrote:

The Argonaut wrote:Holy cow, that little write-up is stupendous

That was taken directly from the publisher's website, I don't want to pretend I wrote it.