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Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed May 17, 2023 2:48 pm
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: Wed June 07, 2023 5:49 pm
by epilogue
About half way through this fantastic short story collection:
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed June 07, 2023 6:02 pm
by oasisfan35
Half way through and really enjoying it. I had noted in the Ellis thread that it is lengthy but there really is a breeziness to a lot of Ellis' writing that I thoroughly enjoy. The particular locale is an area of LA that I also enjoyed immensely... I'll get back out there one of these days.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sun June 11, 2023 2:04 am
by epilogue
epilogue wrote:About half way through this fantastic short story collection:
This was awesome.
Now I'm reading Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sun June 11, 2023 2:09 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
About to start some Moby Dick.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sun June 11, 2023 2:10 am
by epilogue
I feel like you're always about to start Moby Dick
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sun June 11, 2023 2:14 am
by The Argonaut
right behind you, len. I just want to finish the library books I have stored up on my Kindle. There's a waitlist for a few of them and I've had the poor thing in airplane mode for the last week so I wouldn't lose them. But Moby dick is coming soon
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sun June 11, 2023 2:21 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
epilogue wrote:I feel like you're always about to start Moby Dick
Get bent.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sun June 11, 2023 2:22 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
The Argonaut wrote:right behind you, len. I just want to finish the library books I have stored up on my Kindle. There's a waitlist for a few of them and I've had the poor thing in airplane mode for the last week so I wouldn't lose them. But Moby dick is coming soon
Godspeed. I checked out the digital version from library, as well as ordered a transfer of a physical copy to my library. This will likely take me 4 months to get through.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sun June 11, 2023 2:25 am
by epilogue
I feel like Argo is always right behind Len in reading Moby Dick.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sun June 11, 2023 2:28 am
by dad
epilogue wrote:epilogue wrote:Now I'm reading Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow.
I hope you enjoy it. I read it earlier this year and by the time I’d finished I was a little annoyed with the story.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sun June 11, 2023 2:28 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
Argo is the homosexual one not me. Ladies all day.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sun June 11, 2023 3:28 am
by BurtReynolds
Just skip all the shit about whales.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sun June 11, 2023 3:31 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
I’m really into whales though
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sun June 11, 2023 3:53 am
by epilogue
dad wrote:epilogue wrote:epilogue wrote:Now I'm reading Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow.
I hope you enjoy it. I read it earlier this year and by the time I’d finished I was a little annoyed with the story.
That's literally the first negative thing I've heard about it. Thank you.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sat July 22, 2023 4:58 pm
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: Sat July 22, 2023 7:09 pm
by The Argonaut
I thought it was a fun read. The bit that sticks with me most is that what the kids call "capitalism" today basically used to be what was criticized as "consumerism". Tied in with the obsession of not "selling out", which was ultimately a destructive obsession that he doesn't really recognize in the culture anymore. Something like that
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sun July 23, 2023 12:43 pm
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: Sun July 23, 2023 12:46 pm
by epilogue
Love Chuck. Haven't read the book. But that sounds... cringy and unfortunate. But I need to read what he said and not a one sentence summary before passing judgement. Alarm bells though, you know.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sun July 23, 2023 12:58 pm
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.