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Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon January 22, 2024 2:31 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: Mon January 22, 2024 2:33 am
by Bammer
Seattle by Nard Jones
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon January 22, 2024 1:54 pm
by blueviper
Bammer wrote:Seattle by Nard Jones
I’d read that just for the author’s name
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon January 29, 2024 7:40 pm
by dad
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon January 29, 2024 7:58 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: Mon January 29, 2024 8:01 pm
by dad
why gross? because oprah?
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon January 29, 2024 8:04 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
Finishing up Thank You For Smoking!. No clue what i'm onto next.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon January 29, 2024 8:56 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: Mon January 29, 2024 8:59 pm
by dad
tragabigzanda wrote:dad wrote:why gross? because oprah?
He's a completely talentless white dude who was gifted credibility overnight. His ideas are shit, his writing is shit, his views on the world are often shitty. His success annoys me to no end.
okay.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon January 29, 2024 9:21 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
I very much enjoyed The Corrections!
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon January 29, 2024 9:33 pm
by dad
thank you, lenny.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon January 29, 2024 9:51 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: Mon January 29, 2024 10:21 pm
by dad
trag, how was the book you read (top page)?
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon January 29, 2024 10:32 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
tragabigzanda wrote:Oh what a surprise Lenny takes his cultural cues from
Oprah Winfrey
Guess I’ll stop reading Cormac McCarthy and Toni Morrison

Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue January 30, 2024 12:41 am
by dad
trag, is Franzen the Stanley cup of authors?
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue January 30, 2024 1:43 am
by blueviper
I’m reading Crossroads right now. It’s good.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue January 30, 2024 1:52 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 January 30, 2024 2:27 am
by The Argonaut
I tried to offload my Franzens at the used bookstore for one dollar of store credit each and the guy was uninterested
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue January 30, 2024 2:31 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 January 30, 2024 2:52 am
by dad
how will franzen ever recover from this?