Red Mosquito

epilogue wrote:I just went to the website for the book and saw he's doing an event in Brooklyn tonight with Books Are Magic. Which I love. I might have to go grab a copy. I love his stuff.

Did you get an advance copy?

I did get my hands on an advance copy, but I won't be starting it until tonight. So not much of a head start.

I'll be finishing my current read today or tomorrow. I have a stack waiting for me on the shelf that I'm excited to get to. But Devil House might just have to jump the line.

Uses game theory and science to show that our senses and mental frameworks were selected for fitness, not truth, and in fact they don't even accidentally give us reality at all. It's very Kantian and Spinozist. He claims it's not, strictly speaking, panpsychism, but I'm not sure why. Very good.

It’s going to take me all year to get through 2666.

epilogue wrote:I'll be finishing my current read today or tomorrow. I have a stack waiting for me on the shelf that I'm excited to get to. But Devil House might just have to jump the line.

just heard about it and it clicked with me...did you read anything form this guy?

VinylGuy wrote:

epilogue wrote:I'll be finishing my current read today or tomorrow. I have a stack waiting for me on the shelf that I'm excited to get to. But Devil House might just have to jump the line.

just heard about it and it clicked with me...did you read anything form this guy?

I've read both of his other novels and I like his band a lot. His other novels are great.

the nerve on this guy!

I just bought it. I'll start tonight probably.

epilogue wrote:I just bought it. I'll start tonight probably.

i meant vg & his rather unmannerly deployment, “this guy”

epilogue wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:

epilogue wrote:I'll be finishing my current read today or tomorrow. I have a stack waiting for me on the shelf that I'm excited to get to. But Devil House might just have to jump the line.

just heard about it and it clicked with me...did you read anything form this guy?

I've read both of his other novels and I like his band a lot. His other novels are great.

planning on maybe reading one of those and then maybe jump into the new one.

Malloy wrote:

epilogue wrote:I just bought it. I'll start tonight probably.

i meant vg & his rather unmannerly deployment, “this guy”

He is a guy right

This whole thing reeks of gender

i am stepping away from this thread to collect my person

please tell me what to say...is author ok? im not being sarcastic.

John Darnielle is the guy from the Mountain Goats. People get emotional about the Mountain Goats

last weekend, i overheard a girl seated at the table next to ours tell her friend/bf about the GoodReads review she wrote about his new book.

i didn't hear any more details than that.

dad wrote:last weekend, i overheard a girl seated at the table next to ours tell her friend/bf about the GoodReads review she wrote about his new book.

i didn't hear any more details than that.

Were they naked

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

dad wrote:last weekend, i overheard a girl seated at the table next to ours tell her friend/bf about the GoodReads review she wrote about his new book.

i didn't hear any more details than that.

Were they naked

No. I'm sure they had their masks on.

epilogue wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

dad wrote:last weekend, i overheard a girl seated at the table next to ours tell her friend/bf about the GoodReads review she wrote about his new book.

i didn't hear any more details than that.

Were they naked

No. I'm sure they had their masks on.

Like, over their dicks?

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

epilogue wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

dad wrote:last weekend, i overheard a girl seated at the table next to ours tell her friend/bf about the GoodReads review she wrote about his new book.

i didn't hear any more details than that.

Were they naked

No. I'm sure they had their masks on.

Like, over their dicks?

You'll have to ask dad