What are you currently reading?

[Malloy]

very, very excited to read this

[BurtReynolds]

[Bammer]

Did you guys know that TSIS is referenced multiple times in the PJ20 book???

Page 380

[ghost]

The Overstory. But the fact that the way the first chapter ended made me LMAO doesn't bode well for me finishing it.

[Malloy]

Did you guys know that TSIS is referenced multiple times in the PJ20 book???

Page 380

what's it say?

[epilogue]

Did you guys know that TSIS is referenced multiple times in the PJ20 book???

Page 380

what's it say?

"Up here so high the wind me shakes / up here so high the sky I scrape"

[The Argonaut]

Does it mention lenny?

[BurtReynolds]

The Things

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/

Peter Watts is so great

[Bammer]

I just "read" (if you can call it that) the book 5x1 Pearl Jam through the eye of Lance Mercer

There were a few pretty good quotes ... from Tim Robbins, Michael Stipe, Bruce Springsteen ...

But the quote from Theo Epstein was so fucking lame. Fuck that pompous ass. I hope the Mariners never hire him.

PS - Fantastic quote from Gloria Steinem in what was probably 2005 or 2006 = "For anyone tired of machine-made songs and public images tailored by focus groups, it's this authenticity that makes Pearl Jam unique."

[VinylGuy]

i love that book. That one and Place-Date are really special to me.

[Simple Torture]

I'm almost done with this, but I think I forgot to mention it:

[Simple Torture]

[epilogue]

[ghost]

That's a great one. I should revisit.

[ghost]

[tragabigzanda]

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.

[AndySlash]

last few:

[ghost]

This one fucked me up a little bit. Did not see that coming.

[Malloy]

going back to this well

[epilogue]

Discussions in another thread have me curious about the novel L.A. Confidential. I see that it's part of the "L.A. Quartet." Does that mean I should read them in order? How much do they depend on each other? Can I just read LAC (the 3rd of the quartet) without the others?