Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed March 29, 2023 2:11 pm
A Memory Called Empire
This is incredibly boring. Steadfastly refuses to be interesting. F.
This is incredibly boring. Steadfastly refuses to be interesting. F.

There are four?tree_ wrote:i ordered all 4 silence lams books 4 wife
she's gunna read them but i'm not
yapepilogue wrote:There are four?tree_ wrote:i ordered all 4 silence lams books 4 wife
she's gunna read them but i'm not

i quitted. Its an impossible book.Birds in Hell wrote:I'm about a third of the way through Inherent Vice, but I don't think I can see it through.

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.
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.
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.
almost finished with this. I liked Winky and End of FIRPO. I also like Sea Oak.tragabigzanda wrote:dad wrote:Pastoralia.
my first time reading Saunders.
actually, that's not true. I read a bit of Liberation Day but didn't finish.The titular story might be a tough point of entry but it is so great.
Winky and The End of FIRPO are two of my favorites of his.
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.