Red Mosquito

durdencommatyler wrote:

Harry Lime wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

Harry Lime wrote:Thank you for clarifying that twice.

I got like a hundred pages into this and stopped reading. I don't know why. I wasn't bored, I just stopped.

Another poster asked if people would write the titles because it makes it easier for him to search. I don't know. I'm just trying to be a nice guy about it.

Ain't no thing, joe. Twas being a dick.

What literary classic should I read next? I'm leaning toward maybe Pride and Prejudice. Or Ulysses.

A Death in the Family by James Agee.

It is my favorite novel. I hear no one discuss it.

you should read "history of the peloponnesian war"

Trying to rush through "A Dance With Dragons" before the new year.

Life Before Life
Stories of children remembering past lives.

gift from my 90+ year old granddad (along with 4 others)

A "fiend of a book — an incredible monster." Maybe my all-time favorite description of a book.

durdencommatyler wrote:A "fiend of a book — an incredible monster." Maybe my all-time favorite description of a book.

You cunt fuck. I said, "A Death in the Family". Fucking reading it.

I just got back from a used book store where I picked up Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolano and White Noise by DeLillo.
For Christmas I got some short stories by Hemingway and Average is Over by Tyler Cowen. I'm going to try and finish as much as I can before next semester begins.

Dscans wrote:I just got back from a used book store where I picked up Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolano and White Noise by DeLillo.
For Christmas I got some short stories by Hemingway and Average is Over by Tyler Cowen. I'm going to try and finish as much as I can before next semester begins.

The title story from "Last Evenings" is easily one of my favorite works by Bolaño. "Dance Card" too. Really lovely stuff.

Harry Lime wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:A "fiend of a book — an incredible monster." Maybe my all-time favorite description of a book.

You cunt fuck. I said, "A Death in the Family". Fucking reading it.

I'M STILL READING WUTHERING HEIGHTS

Nothing.

Bought that book from Keith Richards, seems fun.

After a thread on Reddit about best lines in books kept bringing up books by John Green, I decided to start reading them. Finished "Looking for Alaska" and it was pretty well-written. The words were good (lol) but the plot was a little predictable - it could only be one of two things by that point of the story - but the story was well done.

durdencommatyler wrote:

Harry Lime wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:A "fiend of a book — an incredible monster." Maybe my all-time favorite description of a book.

You cunt fuck. I said, "A Death in the Family". Fucking reading it.

I'M STILL READING WUTHERING HEIGHTS

Ok. Good. Sorry.

I really want you to read it. There is one ending to a chapter that is just devastating. It's subtle, but it comes through and punches you in the gut. I want to know if you pick out the one I'm talking about.

Jumping between a bunch of different things right now: The Pale King, Saunders' In Persuasion Nation, criticism, etc.

Malloy wrote:

Haven't read this book, but she rules

Jim Butcher - Storm Front