Red Mosquito

Posted: **Thu December 23, 2021 9:57 pm**

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.

Posted: **Sat December 25, 2021 3:58 pm**

Mickey wrote:Fwiw I found Play to be pretty dull and forgettable, but ymmv. Much prefer the essays, especially Slouching.

Posted: **Sat December 25, 2021 6:00 pm**

Well, there you go.

Posted: **Sun December 26, 2021 2:01 am**

epilogue wrote:Well, there you go.

really meant to emphasize that SLOUCHING is great. i don’t have a strong opinion one way or the other re PLAY.

Posted: **Sun December 26, 2021 7:07 am**

I'd just like to put a word in for a combo of The Year of Magical Thinking -> Blue Nights, a rather devastating one-two punch of books about grief and loss and love

Posted: **Tue December 28, 2021 8:00 pm**

Read this one a few years ago but didn't know enough at the time to fully appreciate. The introduction is worth the price alone, basically spelling out Stirner's thought better than Stirner himself did in 300 pages. Rereading it has been invaluable. My copy is more highlighter than paper at this point.

Posted: **Tue December 28, 2021 8:40 pm**

Biographies about John Wayne and The Beatles (not together, two different books).

Posted: **Tue December 28, 2021 9:05 pm**

I'd love to talk about the new book I'm reading but B will just yell at me and tell me to post about it in the proper forum.

Posted: **Fri December 31, 2021 2:37 am**

Anybody here read The Incendiaries?

Posted: **Fri December 31, 2021 3:45 am**

Have it on the shelf but haven't gotten to it yet.

Posted: **Fri December 31, 2021 4:22 am**

Thank you.

Posted: **Fri December 31, 2021 5:35 am**

What's new in fiction over the last ten years, everyone?

Posted: **Fri December 31, 2021 6:01 am**

Knausgaard?

Posted: **Fri December 31, 2021 6:20 am**

I'm looking for the next Raymond Carver, in particular.

Posted: **Fri December 31, 2021 6:40 am**

Colson Whitehead's newest might appeal to you, then

Posted: **Fri December 31, 2021 7:00 am**

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Posted: **Sat January 01, 2022 8:25 pm**

The Argonaut wrote:Colson Whitehead's newest might appeal to you, then

I did not get the acclaim for Underground Railroad.

Posted: **Sat January 01, 2022 8:25 pm**

Heady start to the year, Len

Posted: **Sat January 01, 2022 8:29 pm**

Mickey wrote:Heady start to the year, Len

Will I flame out at 50 pages?

I ordered 2666 from another branch of the library. Not sure how long it will take to arrive. Not sure i'm ready to start the new year with something so long either, but we'll see.

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