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Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed September 07, 2022 7:40 pm
by epilogue
Simple Torture wrote:epilogue wrote:Simple Torture wrote:
Boy, did I love that book.
I like it so far. Wolf in the White Van would be hard to top.
I think Wolf is ultimately better. But I prefer Harvester. I'll just leave it there until you've finished it.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sun September 11, 2022 3:57 pm
by Mickey
And for the baby
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sun September 11, 2022 4:00 pm
by Malloy
dig
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sun September 11, 2022 4:16 pm
by The Argonaut
I've read the Fagles translation and the Emily Wilson translation and liked the Wilson a lot. Fagles wins the first line, though:
"Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns"
vs Wilson's:
"Tell me about a complicated man."
There's millennia of commentary on that line, and I really think Wilson swung and missed there in every way. But from there on out, it's a good read.
I'd like to read some of the earlier translations, too, someday.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sat September 17, 2022 2:12 pm
by blueviper
epilogue wrote:Simple Torture wrote:epilogue wrote:Simple Torture wrote:
Boy, did I love that book.
I like it so far. Wolf in the White Van would be hard to top.
I think Wolf is ultimately better. But I prefer Harvester. I'll just leave it there until you've finished it.
I just picked this up from the library the other day and opening to the first page to set my bookmark there is a post-it note that reads: “this is a stupid book that wanders & never goes anywhere. Don’t waste your time”
Now I don’t know what to do.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sat September 17, 2022 2:15 pm
by BurtReynolds
lol
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue September 20, 2022 9:39 pm
by Simple Torture
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed September 21, 2022 12:45 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
I like the idea, but the execution could be better.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sun September 25, 2022 1:12 pm
by BurtReynolds
Should be called Harrogate and be about nothing but the exploits of the biggest and funniest dumb shit in fiction. Great book, though.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon September 26, 2022 7:33 pm
by BurtReynolds
Enhancing my meme wizardry
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon September 26, 2022 10:59 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
BurtReynolds wrote:
Should be called Harrogate and be about nothing but the exploits of the biggest and funniest dumb shit in fiction. Great book, though.
His funniest work
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue September 27, 2022 12:23 am
by BurtReynolds
Have you read all his books?
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue September 27, 2022 12:33 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
BurtReynolds wrote:Have you read all his books?
I haven’t read Child of God, something about Orchard Keeping. maybe one other?
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue September 27, 2022 12:34 am
by tragabigzanda
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.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue September 27, 2022 12:41 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
tragabigzanda wrote:Is Suttree actually funny? I’ll have to check it out
Parts, yes. It’s been too long for me to remember details.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue September 27, 2022 3:49 am
by Mickey
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:BurtReynolds wrote:Have you read all his books?
I haven’t read Child of God, something about Orchard Keeping. maybe one other?
Child of God is a really quick read, you could motor through it in an afternoon. I wouldn't say I enjoyed it, exactly, but it's classic McCarthy if you want to be a completionist.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue September 27, 2022 4:28 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
Mickey wrote:lennytheweedwhacker wrote:BurtReynolds wrote:Have you read all his books?
I haven’t read Child of God, something about Orchard Keeping. maybe one other?
Child of God is a really quick read, you could motor through it in an afternoon. I wouldn't say I enjoyed it, exactly, but it's classic McCarthy if you want to be a completionist.
I can’t read anything in an afternoon, but thank you for your encouragement.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue September 27, 2022 11:21 am
by BurtReynolds
Just audiobook it. I think the is a sale going on.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue September 27, 2022 12:49 pm
by B
... and fuck, it is creepy!
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue September 27, 2022 1:47 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
BurtReynolds wrote:Just audiobook it. I think the is a sale going on.
That is not the point.
