What are you currently reading?

[tragabigzanda]

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.

[tragabigzanda]

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.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Finishing up Oliver Twist.

Considering a One Hundred Years of Solitude re-read next

[BurtReynolds]

Vermis. An instruction manual for some lost and cursed video game. I liked it in concept but think it could have gone further.

[dad]

Erasure. about halfway through.

[Simple Torture]

Not many of the books you post seem interesting to me, Burt, but that sounds very cool. Is ordering from the EU the only option?

[lennytheweedwhacker]

A Confederacy of Dunces

[BurtReynolds]

Not many of the books you post seem interesting to me, Burt, but that sounds very cool. Is ordering from the EU the only option?

Yeah. i forgot how much it was, but I probably wouldn't pay a lot for it.

Gives me ideas though.

[Simple Torture]

Not many of the books you post seem interesting to me, Burt, but that sounds very cool. Is ordering from the EU the only option?

Yeah. i forgot how much it was, but I probably wouldn't pay a lot for it.

Gives me ideas though.

Looks to be about $25 including shipping, so I'm considering it. I guess there's a sequel as well.

[Simple Torture]

Not many of the books you post seem interesting to me, Burt, but that sounds very cool. Is ordering from the EU the only option?

Yeah. i forgot how much it was, but I probably wouldn't pay a lot for it.

Gives me ideas though.

Looks to be about $25 including shipping, so I'm considering it. I guess there's a sequel as well.

Oh, did you know the next Magic: The Gathering expansion is all centered around small rodent warriors and wizards? When does your check arrive?

[BurtReynolds]

Not many of the books you post seem interesting to me, Burt, but that sounds very cool. Is ordering from the EU the only option?

Yeah. i forgot how much it was, but I probably wouldn't pay a lot for it.

Gives me ideas though.

Looks to be about $25 including shipping, so I'm considering it. I guess there's a sequel as well.

Oh, did you know the next Magic: The Gathering expansion is all centered around small rodent warriors and wizards? When does your check arrive?

contacting my lawyer now.

[blueviper]

The Sea-Wolf by Jack London

this is really good.

[BurtReynolds]

This is terrific. A very black satirical comedy. Kind of a fucked up Forrest Gump. And not too long. i approve!

[BurtReynolds]

Nature's God

Great book tracing the American revolution and its deism back through Locke to Spinoza and continues to the way back to Epicurus. The middle chapters get a bit dense, but it's pretty readable.

Wild that some backwoods hicks like Ethan Allan could talk about (and even in some cases reverse engineer) Spinozist thoughts about God and nature, while today, supposedly educated people bicker over whether something has adequately checked off enough DEI boxes, or whether Noah's ark really contained two of every animal.

We have devolved.

[BurtReynolds]

Didn't get a lot out of it, though i kinda sped through it. I suspect Rousseau is greatly responsible for irreparably brain damaging the European mind, but certainly he wasn't the only one responsible.

I would like one of you parents to raise your child according to this book though. let me know how it turns out.

[tragabigzanda]

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.

[dad]

started this last night.

[VinylGuy]

dude i have so many books that ill try to finish:

- Breat Eston Ellis The Shards ( loving it so far)
- Michael Mann Heat 2 (its very good but also gotta be in the right mood, im halfway there)
- Beastie Boys book ( havent started it)
- Flea acid for the child (havent started it)
- Rick Rubin The Creative Act ( havent started it)
- Pola Oloixarac Bad Hombre (So far its interesting)

and then some comic books like Paper Girls vol 4, Lucas Varela´s Le Labo and Peter Bagge´s Reset.

[dad]

I need to read more Brett Easton Ellis. I've only read American Psycho.

[VinylGuy]

One of my favorite writers. I consider Lunar Park a masterpiece.