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Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Sun June 16, 2024 12:49 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 June 24, 2024 3:57 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 June 24, 2024 4:16 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
Finishing up Oliver Twist.
Considering a One Hundred Years of Solitude re-read next
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Fri July 05, 2024 1:59 pm
by BurtReynolds
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon July 08, 2024 7:04 pm
by dad
Erasure. about halfway through.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Mon July 08, 2024 7:21 pm
by 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?
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue July 09, 2024 11:44 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
A Confederacy of Dunces
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed July 10, 2024 12:44 am
by BurtReynolds
Simple Torture wrote: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.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed July 10, 2024 1:01 am
by Simple Torture
BurtReynolds wrote:Simple Torture wrote: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.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed July 10, 2024 1:02 am
by Simple Torture
Simple Torture wrote:BurtReynolds wrote:Simple Torture wrote: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?
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed July 10, 2024 1:06 am
by BurtReynolds
Simple Torture wrote:Simple Torture wrote:BurtReynolds wrote:Simple Torture wrote: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.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Thu July 25, 2024 6:08 pm
by blueviper
The Sea-Wolf by Jack London
this is really good.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Fri July 26, 2024 6:04 pm
by BurtReynolds
This is terrific. A very black satirical comedy. Kind of a fucked up Forrest Gump. And not too long. i approve!
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Tue July 30, 2024 3:36 am
by 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.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed August 07, 2024 2:58 am
by 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.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed August 07, 2024 3:15 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: Wed August 07, 2024 2:00 pm
by dad
started this last night.

Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed August 07, 2024 2:38 pm
by 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.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed August 07, 2024 2:48 pm
by dad
I need to read more Brett Easton Ellis. I've only read American Psycho.
Re: What are you currently reading?
Posted: Wed August 07, 2024 2:54 pm
by VinylGuy
One of my favorite writers. I consider Lunar Park a masterpiece.